What's On
Award-winning BBC broadcaster Nihal Arthanayake brings a defibrillator to our ailing ability to connect through conversation.
Part of Manchester Literature Festival
Manchester Literature Festival is joined by two award-winning stars of Irish writing, Jan Carson & Louise Kennedy.
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Kit de Waal discusses ‘Without Warning and Only Sometimes’ a memoir of a childhood of opposites and extremes.
Part of Manchester Literature Festival
In his captivating debut novel, ‘The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho’, actor Paterson Joseph tells a story hidden for 300 years.
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Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, Damon Galgut discusses his masterpiece ‘The Promise’, a gripping, beautifully written family saga.
Part of Manchester Literature Festival
The bestselling and much-loved author of ‘Brick Lane’, Monica Ali visits MLF to celebrate her brilliant new novel ‘Love Marriage’, her first book in a decade.
Part of Manchester Literature Festival
Candid, ferocious, funny and loud, Glowing is a show that debunks the myths that pregnant women are having the time of their lives.
Word of Warning and Contact present Emergency ’22, a day out for the curious. The annual platform for Live Art and contemporary performance
Experience the vanguard of music and technology in this exclusive world première from composer and professor George Lewis.
Once or twice in a generation, music fans embrace an artist who totally redefines what is possible in their field. Pekka Kuusisto is one of these artists.
This Christmas, the RNCM are hosting opera’s biggest party, Die Fledermaus, and you’re all invited.
Lava Elastic is the UK’s first openly neurodiverse performance night, known for hilarious line-ups and zero-tolerance on hecklers.
Touchy + Anthology is a double bill of Live Music, Hip Hop, film, and poetry, from Liverpool’s finest 20 Stories High.
The Trauma Show explores the impacts of adverse childhoods, making a show and dance out of it, mourning our little selves, ‘therapise’ culture and how TikTok can heal us all.
An exhilarating gig theatre adventure inspired by the daytime raves of 1990s British Asian culture.