Events
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SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents Karen Solie: Rylands Poetry Reading
19:00 - 20:15 22 October 2026
This year’s annual Rylands Poetry Reading is delivered by Karen Solie. Her latest collection Wellwater, exploring the profound impact of economic and environmental crises on human culture alongside vivid childhood memories of growing up in rural Canada, won both the T.S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2025. Don’t miss...
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MUMS Symphony Orchestra
14:00 - 16:00 24 October 2026
The MUMS Symphony Orchestra, one of our premier ensembles, will be performing the world premiere of PhD student, Perinpanathan’s, composition for orchestra, alongside Casken’s Madonna of Silence for Trombone and Orchestra. Finally, the Symphony Orchestra performs Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra, ensuring it to be a concert not to miss!
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SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents An Afternoon with Elif Shafak
15:00 - 16:15 25 October 2026
Join us for a special afternoon with one of today’s most influential and much-loved literary voices. Internationally-acclaimed novelist Elif Shafak returns to celebrate her extraordinary new novel, In One Brief Moment All Eternity. Spanning decades and continents, from revolutionary 19th-century France to Istanbul, Egypt and Beirut, this luminous...
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Data in the spotlight: Large scale social surveys
10:00 - 11:30 27 October 2026
Did you know that data from major social surveys such as the British Social Attitudes survey, the Labour Force Survey and the Health Survey for England can be accessed for research and teaching? These UK surveys provide a rich source of data from representative samples on important social and economic topics including work, family life, health,...
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Why Business Investment Matters for Jobs, Wages and Everyday Life
14:00 - 15:00 27 October 2026
As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2026, this event explores the Festival’s theme of Money, Finance and the Cost of Living through the lens of business investment and economic growth. Hosted by The Productivity Institute at The University of Manchester, the session brings together research, real-world business experience and audience...
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