Events
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WCLC: The Lucky Dog Picturehouse – silent movie screening with live musical accompaniment
13:10 - 13:55 3 October 2024
Experience silent comedies from over 100 years ago with era-authentic scores, performed live by the musicians of The Lucky Dog Picturehouse. Presented by Music, Drama & Film departments. "The Lucky Dog Picturehouse mix a lip-smacking cocktail of classic silent movies and zesty new live music, garnished by their own delight in entertaining and...
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Manchester Literature Festival 2024: Caroline Lucas
14:30 - 15:45 5 October 2024
‘Engaging, illuminating and ultimately uplifting, Another England opens the path to a renewed country with real reasons to be proud of itself.’ Fintan O’Toole Caroline Lucas, former leader of the Green Party, looks at the elements that make us English – our beautiful countryside, our literature, our sense of solidarity and fairness. In...
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MLF 2024: Jackie Kay: A Life in Poetry and Protest
19:00 - 20:15 5 October 2024
Festival favourite Jackie Kay (Red Dust Road) returns to celebrate her new poetry collection May Day. From Reclaim the Streets to Pride to Greenham Common to Black Lives Matter, Jackie traces a line in protest. It’s a line that connects her life to that of her beloved parents who were committed socialists and trade unionists, but it’s also...
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Manchester Literature Festival: David Peace at HOME
19:00 - 20:15 6 October 2024
Limbs and hearts may be broken, but the spirit remains. Their message is that the club is not dead. Manchester United lives on. In February 1958, BEA Flight 609 crashed on take-off at Munich Airport. On board were the Busby Babes, the young, gifted Manchester United team, along with journalists and supporters. 23 passengers died, 21 survived....
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Manchester Literature Festival: Lindsey Hilsum
16:30 - 17:45 6 October 2024
‘I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own.’ In the four decades she’s spent as a foreign correspondent, Lindsey Hilsum has always carried a book of poetry with her. Poetry has helped her to make sense of the world and acted ‘as a...
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