Performances

An Interactive Schools' Poetry Performance with John Hegley

10:30 - 11:30 4 October 2019
National Poetry Day is the annual mass celebration of poetry and all things poetical. This year’s theme will be Truth. Many a true word is spoken in jest – No Nonsense Poetry! Enjoy…

Literature Live: David Nicholls in Conversation

19:00 - 20:15 4 October 2019
Remember the summer you left school and fell in love for the first time? Charlie Lewis, the protagonist of David Nicholl’s excellent new novel Sweet Sorrow does. But Charlie also has…

Jeanette Winterson: Frankissstein

19:30 - 20:45 5 October 2019
Manchester Literature Festival and the Centre for New Writing are delighted to host one of our most innovative contemporary writers, Jeanette Winterson, performing a unique, one-woman…

Literature Live: Common People

15:00 - 16:15 5 October 2019
Where are all the working-class writers? Right here. In the anthology Common People, editor Kit de Waal, author of My Name Is Leon sets out to convey the diversity of working-class…

Literature Live: Isabel Galleymore & Stephen Sexton

19:00 - 20:15 7 October 2019
We are delighted to welcome two of the most exciting debut poets of 2019, both shortlisted for this year’s Forward Prize. Stephen Sexton’s If All the World and Love Were Young (Penguin…

Literature Live: Jonathan Safran Foer

19:00 - 20:15 8 October 2019
Climate change is the greatest threat the world faces. In his brilliant new book, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Starts at Breakfast, Jonathan Safran Foer demystifies the science…

David Nott: War Doctor

19:00 - 20:15 9 October 2019
David Nott is the most experienced trauma surgeon in the world. In his fascinating book, War Doctor, he recounts learning to perform an emergency caesarean section in Kabul, following…

Chagall Ensemble

13:10 - 14:00 10 October 2019
University string tutors Sarah Brandwood-Spencer and Simon Turner are joined by Manchester University alumnus, Paul Janes, to perform Schubert’s sublime Notturno and the exquisite Ravel…

Literature Live: Elif Shafak

18:30 - 19:45 10 October 2019
Does anyone care about a sex worker, murdered and abandoned in Istanbul? Tequila Leila’s friends do. In her superb new novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, Elif Shafak…

2019 Booker Prize Shortlist

19:00 - 20:15 11 October 2019
Meet some of the authors of the 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction shortlist at this special event at Manchester Literature Festival. The Booker Prize is a byword for the finest literary…

Women's Unity Choir

13:10 - 14:00 11 October 2019
Experience a unique collaboration between The University of Manchester music students, Manchester University Music Society, Olympias Music Foundation’s Women’s Voices Choir and Amani…

Literature Live: Hanif Kureishi in Conversation

19:30 - 20:45 12 October 2019
From The Buddha of Suburbia to The Black Album, Hanif Kureishi has inspired generations of young British writers and readers. In this MLF event, he discusses his award-winning fiction,…

Literature Live: Emilie Pine & Sinéad Gleeson

16:30 - 17:45 13 October 2019
Women’s bodies are the site of continued discussion, speculation and law-making, but in their outstanding essay collections, Notes to Self and Constellations, Irish writers Emilie Pine…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert with Michelle Assay (piano)

13:10 - 14:00 17 October 2019
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet excerpts, transcribed for viola and piano by Vadim Borisovsky Beethoven Quartet in F, Op. 18 No. 1 Vlad Bogdanas is joined by pianist Michelle…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:00 18 October 2019
Shostakovich Quartet No. 1, in C, Op. 49 Beethoven Quartet in F, Op. 135 Jumpei Koyama ‘Who found it?’ (UK premiere) Weinberg Quartet No.2 in A, Op. 3 Beethoven’s profound…

Vocal Showcase

13:10 - 13:55 18 October 2019
Songs by female composers of the 19th Century are overshadowed by those of their canonical male counterparts. The stunning works of Clara Schumann, Cécile Chaminade and Josephine Lang…

The University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra

19:00 - 20:30 19 October 2019
An exciting concert from the Symphony Orchestra, including a new work by PhD student Simon Hellewell. The concert features the rarely performed Piano Concerto No. 5 by Prokofiev, performed…

Literature Live: Ilya Kaminsky, Karen Solie & Vona Groarke

19:30 - 20:45 21 October 2019
Three internationally acclaimed poets read from their latest work. Karen Solie’s extraordinary new collection, The Caiplie Caves, is, says The Irish Times, ‘a great exhilaration of…

OiKuu

13:10 - 14:00 24 October 2019
Described as ‘resolutely refreshing’, Riot Ensemble will present a concert of wild chamber music, featuring their principal Bass Clarinettist (newly appointed Principal Bass Clarinet…

MANTIS FESTIVAL

18:00 - 19:30 26 October 2019
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music, featuring new works by Manchester composers and visiting guest artists. Experience new music and…

MANTIS FESTIVAL

20:00 - 21:00 26 October 2019
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music, featuring new works by Manchester composers and visiting guest artists. Experience new music and…

MANTIS FESTIVAL

14:00 - 15:00 27 October 2019
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music, featuring new works by Manchester composers and visiting guest artists. Experience new music and…

New Sounds: Beyond displacement and pressure in soundwaves

13:10 - 14:00 31 October 2019
Manchester University Music Society present a New Sounds Concert edition featuring newly created compositions by students at the University of Manchester. This concert is organised…

Baroque Orchestra: Cosmopolitan Music from Baroque Germany

15:30 - 17:00 3 November 2019
This concert is a culmination of a two-day intensive workshop on historically informed performance guided by Peter Holman (Parley of Instruments) and Baroque strings specialist, Judy…

Hallé Brass

13:10 - 14:00 7 November 2019
Hallé Brass, one of the foremost brass ensembles in the UK formed primarily from principal members of the internationally renowned Hallé Orchestra, present an eclectic programme of…

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