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Lunchtime calligraphy for wellbeing (EVERY TUESDAY)

13:00 3 - 14:00 24 June 2025
Are you looking for a lunchtime activity to improve your wellbeing? Join the Confucius Institute’s four-week Calligraphy for Wellbeing course and spend your lunch break doing something…

Mandarin Corner - EVERY WEDNESDAY

16:30 30 April - 17:30 2 July 2025
THIS IS A RECURRING EVENT - EVERY WEDNESDAY between 4:30PM – 5:30PM Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more language practice and some cultural…

Spontaneous Memorials: Contemporary perspectives on their sociocultural, psychological and organisational impact

12 - 13 June 2025
International Conference, Manchester, 12-13 June 2025 In-person and Online https://www.spontaneousmemorials.org/conference2025/ Register for Online Attendance: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sponta…

Creativity + AI: Publishing

15:00 - 17:00 16 June 2025
The rapid expansion of AI is impacting and changing the publishing industry. We will be asking a panel of publishers, authors and librarians to reflect on the pace of change in the…

Manchester Literature Festival: Colm Tóibín

19:00 - 20:30 16 June 2025
PLEASE NOTE: Due to popular demand, Colm Tóibín’s event has been moved from Central Library to University Place, 176 Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL. Quaytickets are in the process…

Online Talk: Sewing, Slavery and Social Change: Ruth and its Political Moment

19:00 25 June 2025
In 1853 when Elizabeth Gaskell brought out her novel Ruth about a teenage seamstress, her city of Manchester was at the centre of the global cotton trade and her country was on the…

Creativity + AI: Fashion

14:30 - 16:30 26 June 2025
Presented in partnership by Creative Manchester, Digital Futures and the Turing Innovation Catalyst (TIC) Manchester, the CreaTech 2025 series of events is aimed at supporting the development…

Manchester Literature Festival: Attica Locke

19:00 - 20:30 16 July 2025
‘This is the best kind of thriller: as literate and thoughtful as it is fast-moving. Attica Locke has bags of style, and sings the blues on every page’ - Mick Herron (Slow Horses) …

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