Performances

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Oriental Breeze

13:10 - 14:00 27 September 2018
Manchester-based Chinese music ensemble, Oriental Breeze, consists of members from the local Chinese community and is one of the largest of its kind in the UK. Enjoy the charm of traditional…

Summit

19:00 - 20:30 28 September 2018
Written by Andy Smith Co-directed by Andy Smith and Claire Lamont Produced by Fuel "We need to use our imagination. We need to imagine that change might be possible. That change…

Manchester University Music Society: Welcome Concert

17:00 - 19:00 30 September 2018
Join us for the first Music Society concert of the academic year, featuring three contrasting French works. We introduce our newest music students in Poulenc’s eclectic Gloria, followed…

‘She Wrote Her Own Eulogy’: Shirley May book launch

18:00 - 20:00 1 October 2018
The launch of Shirley May's first book of poetry, 'She Wrote Her Own Eulogy', published by Wrecking Ball Press. Shirley will be sharing some of the poems from her book and discussing it with the audience.

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Quatuor Danel with Michelle Assay (piano)

13:10 - 14:00 4 October 2018
In the last years of Stalin’s regime, composers in Russia and the eastern bloc were exhorted to compose music ‘for the people’. In Poland Lutoslawski responded with a folklike series…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert with Richard Whalley (piano)

19:30 - 21:00 5 October 2018
The Danels begin their late-Schubert survey with the bitter-sweet ‘Rosamunde’ named after its slow movement’s variations on incidental music to a play of that name. The Second Piano…

Beth Underdown: Love makes as many

17:30 - 19:00 6 October 2018
1918, and some women in England have gained the right to vote. A few short weeks before the armistice, the shortage of cotton has brought a strange hush to Quarry Bank mill and the…

Sunday Concerts: Levaré String Quartet with works including Stravinsky and Mendelssohn

15:00 - 16:00 7 October 2018
Friends of the Whitworth present a series of free Sunday Concerts that are open to all. Performances are held at 3pm on selected Sunday afternoons in the South Gallery, overlooking…

Ancient Objects - New Writing Libraries Live Performances - A Message of Peace

18:00 - 19:00 8 October 2018
Throughout the week Journeys Festival International and Manchester Museum will be touring the project to 4 libraries where the objects will be on display alongside the new writing.…

Literature Live: Maura Dooley and Finuala Dowling

19:30 - 21:00 8 October 2018
Join us for an evening of witty, compassionate and thought-provoking poetry. South African poet Finuala Dowling, well regarded as an inventive sketcher of the domestic sublime, performs…

A Celebration of Muriel Spark: with Jackie Kay, Alan Taylor and Louise Welsh

19:30 - 20:45 9 October 2018
Muriel Spark chronicled human interaction with a scalpel and razor-sharp insight. Her writing examines the aspects of our lives we try to hide, the affect stories have on the way we…

Mohammed Hanif in Conversation

19:00 - 21:00 10 October 2018
Q: What do an American pilot who’s crashed in the desert, a teenager full of money-making schemes and a dog suffering through a very bad day have in common? A: They all narrate the…

Sarah Perry: Melmoth

19:00 - 21:00 11 October 2018
Melmoth is watching and she’s coming for the guilty. They can choose to live with what they’ve done or follow Melmoth into a life of wandering. Sarah Perry’s third novel is a haunting,…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Jonathan Aasgaard plays Weinberg

13:10 - 14:00 11 October 2018
Weinberg loved the cello - it was clearly a vehicle with which he could express his innermost feelings and thoughts. Jonathan Aasgaard, a longstanding fan of his music, is delighted…

Manchester Literature Festival: Mary Jean Chan, Xi Chuan & Jennifer Lee Tsai

13:00 - 14:00 13 October 2018
MLF and the Confucius Institute are delighted to present an inspiring afternoon of poetry from three exciting voices of Chinese heritage. Xi Chuan is a multi-award-winning poet, essayist,…

Baroque Orchestra The Majesty of Versailles: Court and Theatre Music from Baroque France

15:30 - 17:00 14 October 2018
As the culmination of a two-day intensive workshop on historically informed performance, guided by Peter Holman MBE, co-founder of The Parley of Instruments, together with Baroque strings…

Literature Live: Nick Laird and Sasha Dugdale

19:30 - 20:45 15 October 2018
Poet and novelist Nick Laird has won the Betty Trask Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has recently published a poetry collection, Feel Free…

Beth Underdown: Love makes as many

19:00 - 21:00 16 October 2018
1918, and some women in England have gained the right to vote. A few short weeks before the armistice, the shortage of cotton has brought a strange hush to Quarry Bank mill and the…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: The Art of Touching the Keyboard

13:10 - 14:00 18 October 2018
Touch and movement (encapsulated by Judith Weir’s apt title) characterise this programme of short late twentieth century classics, plus the UK première of Richard Whalley’s recent Kinderszenen.…

Manchester University Music Society: Ensemble Sounds in the Twentieth Century

13:10 - 14:00 19 October 2018
Three works composed between 1922-34 reveal the varied nature of early twentieth-century chamber music, using imaginative forces to evoke new timbres and characters. Contrastingly,…

Manchester University Music Society: Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:00 20 October 2018
Böcklin’s 1884 painting ‘The Isle of the Dead’ inspired Rachmaninoff’s extraordinary work, featuring one of the most sinister openings in any orchestral repertoire. Postgraduate composer,…

Sunday Concerts: Savva Zverev & Jack Bailey

15:00 - 16:00 21 October 2018
Friends of the Whitworth present a series of free Sunday Concerts that are open to all. Performances are held at 3pm on selected Sunday afternoons in the South Gallery, overlooking…

Afro-Cuban percussion demonstration

15:30 - 17:00 24 October 2018
A live demonstration of Afro-Latin percussion with the participation of Christian Weaver, percussionist with La Timbala (see: https://www.globalgrooves.org/team/christian-weaver/).

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Ensemble DENOTE

13:10 - 14:00 25 October 2018
Beethoven only rarely rearranged his works for different instrumental combinations. Acclaimed period-instrument chamber group, Ensemble DENOTE, explores his reimagining of the Septet,…

MANTIS Festival

18:00 - 19:00 27 October 2018
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music, featuring Danny Saul and Brona Martin (commissioned by Trafford's Seed Studios and the Vonnegut…

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