Past events
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Mimi Khalvati: Rylands Poetry Reading (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)
18:00 - 19:15 23 October 2025
Join us for the annual Rylands Poetry Reading, this year delivered by one of our best-loved poets Mimi Khalvati. Her award-winning lyrical poetry has been inspired by everything from her Persian background to her travels in the Mediterranean. She employs a variety of poetic forms from sonnets to ghazals...
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Active Lives, Natural Spaces: Supporting Children and Young People's Wellbeing and Mental Health
22 October 2025 - 23 April 2026
As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, Sarah MacQuarrie and Alexandra Hennessey from the Manchester Institute of Education are leading a drop-in event to explore how play, physical activity and engaging with green spaces shape the wellbeing and mental health of children and young people. They...
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Computational social science drop-in
12:00 - 13:00 21 October 2025
Do you find yourself: - stuck on a project with no one to ask about it? - not sure what to learn next? - the only person in your team using computational methods? - wanting to meet other computational social scientists? - interested to learn or teach some data skills with like-minded individuals? Join...
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Translation as Activism Workshop with Kasia Szymanska (Manchester Literature Festival)
20 October 2025 - 23 April 2026
Led by Kasia Szymanska, this participatory conversation will ask: how can we use our languages to make the change we want? Should all activists want to translate? Should all translators want to be activist? And are we talking about different things when we talk about translation as activism and translation...
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The Poems of Seamus Heaney (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)
18:30 - 19:45 20 October 2025
Don’t miss this special evening celebrating the life and work of Seamus Heaney, as five acclaimed poets gather to mark the publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney. The definitive edition of his work, it encompasses all the poems that Seamus published in his lifetime (from Death of a Naturalist (1966)...
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