Performances

Manchester Literature Festival Spring 2021 Online Events- Caleb Femi Hosted by Vanessa Kisuule

19:30 8 - 12:00 30 April 2021
This event will be first broadcast at 7.30pm on Thursday 8 April 2021 and be available to watch until 30 April. The event will be pre-recorded and captioned. A rising star on the British…

Manchester Literature Festival Spring 2021 Online Events- Roger Robinson Hosted by Malika Booker

19:30 25 March - 12:00 30 April 2021
This event will be first broadcast at 7.30pm on Thursday 25 March 2021 and be available to watch until 30 April. The event will be pre-recorded and captioned. One of the most prominent…

Novel Voices -Cherie Jones and Nekesa Afia in conversation with Ellah Wakatama

19:00 - 20:00 12 April 2021
Cherie Jones is the author of How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House. She is a lawyer based in Barbados. She won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 1999. She then studied Creative…

Manchester Literature Festival Spring 2021 Online Events- Kazuo Ishiguro & Jackie Kay in Conversation

19:30 19 April - 12:00 17 May 2021
This event will be first broadcast at 7.30pm on Mon 19 April 2021 and available to watch until 17 May. The event will be pre-recorded and captioned. ‘Do you believe in the human heart?’…

Horatio Clare in Conversation with Beth Underdown

19:00 - 20:00 20 April 2021
Join Horatio Clare and Beth Underdown as they discuss Horatio's latest book, Heavy Light, which tells the story of Horatio’s journey through mania, psychosis and treatment in a psychiatric…

Natalie Diaz NEW COMMISSION Hosted by Mary Jean Chan

22 April - 21 May 2021
This event will be first broadcast at 7.30pm on Thursday 22 April 2021 and available to watch until 21 May. The event will be pre-recorded and captioned. ‘Natalie Diaz is a poet who…

Novel Voices- Natasha Brown and Jarred McGinnis in Conversation with Ellah Wakatama

19:00 - 20:00 26 April 2021
Taking place between February and April 2021, Novel Voices is a five- part, online series featuring Ellah P. Wakatama in conversation with 10 debut authors who are helping to shape…

Jhumpa Lahiri & Kamila Shamsie in Conversation

20 - 27 May 2021
This event will be first broadcast at 7.30pm on Thursday 20 May 2021 and available to watch for 7 days. The event will be pre-recorded and captioned. ‘I’m both ablaze with energy and…

Research and Libraries (Part of Festival of Libraries 2021)

17:00 - 18:00 9 June 2021
Hear from a distinguished panel about how archives are created, collated and used within research. Speaking in the historic reading room of the Rylands, publisher Michael Schmidt and…

Ashton’s Radical Poets (Part of Festival of Libraries 2021)

14:00 - 14:45 11 June 2021
Presented by Jennifer Reid and Mike Sanders, this event focuses on two working-class poets, John Stafford and Joseph Chapman, who were active radicals and poets in Ashton-under-Lyne…

An Evening with the Family Gorgeous

18:00 - 19:30 26 August 2021
The weekend gets underway in fabulous style, as you are invited to an Evening with the Family Gorgeous. Enjoy our extended opening hours with an opportunity to explore our collections,…

An Evening with the Family Gorgeous

19:30 - 21:00 26 August 2021
The weekend gets underway in fabulous style, as you are invited to an Evening with the Family Gorgeous. Enjoy our extended opening hours with an opportunity to explore our collections,…

“The Abstainer”: Ian McGuire discusses his latest novel

18:45 - 20:30 28 September 2021
Acclaimed author Ian McGuire will be discussing his latest novel The Abstainer - an epic story of revenge and obsession. Join for us an evening with acclaimed author Ian McGuire as…

Catching Comets

19:30 - 20:45 30 September 2021
After discovering a comet hurtling towards Earth, Toby snaps and turns into the action hero in his own movie on a mission to save the world from impending doom. Flashback a year: Toby…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 14:00 7 October 2021
Wolf: Italian Serenade Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 Two of the most tuneful classics of the string quartet repertoire open the Danels’ season in sunny mood. Hugo…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:00 8 October 2021
Rott: String Quartet in C minor Wolf: Intermezzo Wolf: String Quartet in D minor A rare chance to hear two ambitious Austrian string quartets from the orbit of Wagner: the five-movement,…

Jeanette Winterson & Mark O’Connell (Manchester Literature Festival)

18:00 - 19:30 9 October 2021
‘How did we get here? Where might we go?’ Is the future ‘a screen onto which we project our fantasies and terrors’? What can the past tell us about the future? Are we all doomed? And…

An Evening with Alan Johnson (Manchester Literature Festival)

19:30 - 21:00 10 October 2021
Much-loved former Labour MP Alan Johnson makes a welcome return to MLF. Following his series of successful memoirs – This Boy, In My Life, The Long and Winding Road and Please, Mr Postman,…

Elif Shafak in Conversation (Manchester Literature Festival)

16:30 - 18:00 10 October 2021
A fig tree with a tale to tell; a grieving teenage girl who wants to know her family’s story; two sets of lovers hiding from society. In her enchanting new novel, The Island of Missing…

An Evening with Colm Tóibín (Manchester Literature Festival)

20:00 - 21:30 14 October 2021
‘I can make no sense of the present. It is all confusion. I know nothing about the future.’ In his extraordinary new novel, The Magician, Colm Tóibín conjures up the past and the life…

Leo Boix, Kayo Chingonyi & Andrew McMillan (Manchester Literature Festival)

18:30 - 20:00 15 October 2021
Three brilliant contemporary Vintage poets showcase work from their excellent new collections which all explore themes of grief, lineage, and love. Latinx poet Leo Boix’s Ballad of…

Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel with Rachel Holmes & Lemn Sissay (Manchester Literature Festival)

19:00 - 21:30 15 October 2021
What does a life in resistance look like? Acclaimed biographer Rachel Holmes (Eleanor Marx) brings Sylvia Pankhurst out of the shadows of her family and shows us her lifelong commitment…

Journeys International Festival - Reckoning

19:00 - 20:30 16 October 2021
Reckoning blends contemporary dance, spoken word and digital animation to depict the stories of generations of displaced people. About this event: Created by choreographer and storyteller…

Vona Groarke, John McAuliffe & Victoria Kennefick (Manchester Literature Festival)

16:00 - 17:30 17 October 2021
Three superb Irish poets showcase their latest collections. In Vona Groarke’s stunning Link, the world is personified, entering a conversation with the narrator, Irish, about what…

Novel Voices: Heba Hayek in Conversation with Ellah P. Wakatama (ONLINE)

19:00 - 20:00 25 October 2021
The Novel Voices series features Ellah P Wakatama (Senior Research Fellow) in conversation with debut authors about their craft and the journey to shaping their first, published full…

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