Events
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A Jubilee Overture - 75 years of Philip Sparke
15:00 - 17:00 27 September 2026
The Martin Harris Centre welcomes The KNDS Fairey Band. Featuring the music of acclaimed composer Philip Sparke and the composers who inspired him, to celebrate his 75th year. Including ‘A Road Less Travelled By’ — the set work for the 2026 National Brass Band Championships
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Women’s Health Technology Summit 2026
12:00 - 17:00 1 October 2026
The Women’s Health Technology Summit 2026 will bring together leaders from healthcare, research, technology, investment, academia, policy, and industry to examine the persistent inequality in women’s health outcomes as one of the defining healthcare and social justice challenges of our time, and the role of digital technology in tackling it. The...
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Manchester Literature Festival presents Maggie O’Farrell
19:00 - 9 October 2026
Maggie O'Farrell makes a welcome return to Manchester Literature Festival with her extraordinary new novel, Land - a sweeping, multi-generational epic inspired by her own family history and the dramatic landscapes of Ireland’s Atlantic coast. Set in 1865, in the shadow of the Great Hunger, the novel follows mapmaker Tomás and his son as they...
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SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents Sarah Hall: Burning Snowflake – The 2026 Faber Lecture
18:00 - 10 October 2026
Award-winning author Sarah Hall delivers the 2026 Faber Lecture: Burning Snowflake. The natural world is burning. Time is running out. You know the story. So what possible role could something as flimsy as fiction play? From the pioneering pen of a continually visionary writer, Burning Snowflake is a fierce and rallying cry – to shrug...
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Manchester Literature Festival presents Paul Mason: Reds
14:00 - 11 October 2026
A decade after PostCapitalism, Paul Mason returns to Manchester Literature Festival to discuss REDS: A Global History of Communism, his provocative new book exploring one of history's most powerful and contested political ideas. In his bold and unsettling re-evaluation of communism, Paul traces the story of communism across centuries and continents,...
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