Performances

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…

MANTIS Festival

20:00 - 21:00 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…

MANTIS Festival

14:00 - 15:00 28 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…

Sunday Concerts: Festivo Winds

15:00 - 16:00 4 November 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…

Literature Live: Jim Crace and Jenni Fagan

19:30 - 20:45 5 November 2018
Jenni Fagan is a novelist, poet and screenwriter. Listed as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists after her debut novel, The Panopticon, her second, The Sunlight Pilgrims,…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Citizen of Nowhere: Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919 - 1996) A Sung Life

13:10 - 14:00 8 November 2018
This performance, from Jewish vocal music specialist Mark Glanville and the renowned Israeli pianist Marc Verter, journeys through the extraordinary vocal output of a major twentieth-century…

Manchester University Music Society Vocal Showcase

13:10 - 14:00 9 November 2018
MUMS presents a highly engaging concert celebrating the vocal talent within the society. With a wide range of voices and styles, this promises to be an exciting varied Lunchtime Concert,…

Manchester University Music Society Chamber Orchestra

19:30 - 21:00 10 November 2018
The year 1788 saw Mozart push the boundaries of contemporary composition to unseen heights of contrapuntal mastery and genius, emulated in his Adagio and Fugue and final symphony.…

An Evening with Barbara Kingsolver - SOLD OUT

19:00 - 21:00 14 November 2018
Tickets for this event have now sold out. For more information visit http://ow.ly/k0K230lqyh4 or call 0843 208 0500 ‘We’re living through a scary historical moment when the most basic…

University of Manchester Drama Society Autumn Showcase: ONE MINUTE by SIMON STEPHENS

19:00 - 20:30 14 November 2018
It’s time for the Drama Society’s Autumn Showcase! Every year we put on a fantastic performance in the John Thaw Studio Theatre, so if you want a good night’s entertainment and to…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Quatuor Danel

13:10 - 14:00 15 November 2018
Vissarion Shebalin was four years Shostakovich’s senior and regarded initially as his Moscow counterpart while Shostakovich dominated the Leningrad scene. Shebalin’s Sonata is a wartime…

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