Join Manchester Libraries’ Free Holiday Activity Sessions!
Manchester Libraries are excited to announce the following free Holiday Activity and Food fund sessions this summer! All these sessions are fun and interactive, and are aimed at 10 to…
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Empathy Festival 2025
This month Manchester Libraries spread the message about the power of “jumping into someone else’s story” by taking part in Empathy Lab’s 10 day nationwide Empathy Day Festival. 1056 children…
Summer Reading Challenge, Story Garden
1 July – 13 September Manchester Libraries is inviting you to join 1,000’s of children in this summer’s reading challenge! Can you borrow and read six library books between now…
Libraries Update – May 2025
Digital Spaces VR Headsets are Coming to Manchester Libraries! Get ready to be amazed by our new collection of VR experiences right here in your local library. Supported by the…
Empathy Day Festival – jump into someone else’s story!
“Empathy is something we need every day, not just when a friend or family member is sad.” (Manchester school pupil) From the 2nd – 12th June, Manchester Libraries will be…
Access All Ages at The Bridgewater Hall
Manchester Libraries recently took part in a big event at The Bridgewater Hall. The event ‘Access All Ages’ was put on by Intergenerational Music Making (IMM) alongside Intergenerational England. As…
Stanley Chow on latest Manchester Libraries Podcast
Brought to you by the recently awarded ‘Library of the Year’, Full Volume: The Manchester Libraries Podcast is back for a fantastic fifth episode. Filled with all kinds of facts, features…
Happy 110th Birthday Didsbury Library!
110 years ago, in May 1915 Didsbury library was opened with a golden key, this beautiful library was funded by the generous Scottish-American Andrew Carnegie and designed by city architect…
FESTIVAL OF LIBRARIES LOOK FOR A BOOK, 27-30 May
Manchester Libraries and Read Manchester are thrilled to be part of the Festival of Libraries Look for A Book activity again this year! Five hundred copies of Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock’s…
Manchester Libraries wins Library of the Year Award!
Manchester Libraries has won Library of the Year at the British Book Awards 2025, for its partnership with Blue Peter Book Club. The revival of the Library of the Year…
VR Headsets coming to Wythenshawe Forum & Central Library this June
Get ready to embark on an exciting digital journey with Wallace & Gromit and Vaughan Williams this Summer. For two weeks in June, Manchester Libraries will be hosting state-of-the-art VR…
Libraries Update – April 2025
Official Reopening of Chorlton Library On Saturday 5 April, I was delighted to officially re-open Chorlton Library with the Lord Mayor of Manchester, Councillor Paul Andrews. Hundreds of people came…
See Myself in Books Festival
Read Manchester’s inaugural See Myself in Books Festival to promote representation in children’s books took place this March. Devised to complement our…
Mystery International Film Screening
This event is for individuals aged 15 and over. Welcome to the voting page for the fifth edition of Manchester Central Library’s International Film Club’s Mystery Screening series. Event Details:…
Read Manchester’s festive book gifting campaign
The Read Manchester elves have been busy these last few weeks preparing brand new book parcels for children and families. At Christmas time we always try to focus our book gifting…
Free author visits boost reading for pleasure to start 2024/25 school year.
Amazing start to the 2024/25 term with free author visits for schools across Manchester libraries. We had a bumper offer of author events for schools last half term. Over 1800…
Chorlton Book Festival 2024
20th – 28th September 2024. Chorlton Book Festival returns with another celebration of the joy of reading and storytelling in all their forms! Brian Groom returns to the festival with…
Mapping the Literary City
Manchester is bursting with literature, it’s leaping off the page and onto our streets. You can download or pick up a physical copy of the Manchester City of Literature Map in…
Take 10 To Read 2024
Read Manchester and Manchester Libraries marked World Mental Health Day (on 10th October) with a series of Take 10 events across the week. World Mental Health Day is celebrated every…
Honouring Manchester Boxing Legend Len Johnson
This October kicked off to a fine start with a glittering evening in the Performance Space at Manchester Central Library celebrating the life and achievements of unsung Manchester boxing champion Len…