Category Education and learning

Summer Reading Challenge

The summer reading challenge takes place every summer in libraries across Manchester. Read six or more books, collect goodies, and have fun at an event near you. The ‘big friendly…

Wolfson Foundation £250,000 boost for libraries

The Wolfson Foundation has provided a major funding boost to improve the offer for children in six Manchester libraries. The Foundation is providing a grant of £250,000 for a programme…

Bradford Pit Exhibition at Beswick Library

An exhibition at Beswick Library documenting The Bradford Pit Project, a project led by Lauren Murphy to commemorate The Bradford Pit Colliery. The opens on Saturday 4 June and runs all…

Christmas Extravaganza

Manchester Central Library helped residents and visitors get their festive season underway on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 December 2015 with a weekend family extravaganza. Choirs, crafts, reading dens and…

Arcadia Library and Leisure Centre

Arcadia Library and Leisure Centre is now open! We’re a new kind of open-plan, self-serve library sitting on just about the most convenient corner of Stockport Road and Yew Tree Avenue…

Echo Trace Finale

Over the last six months, we’ve been busy in libraries with the Echo Trace, a multi-arts programme of activities. To celebrate the end of the project, we brought five local…