Ready, Set, Read! is this year’s sports themed Summer Reading Challenge where you can earn yourself a medal for reading six books or more! We’re delighted that our partners in…
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Author Priscilla Mante with pupils from Acacias Primary School at the Summer Reading Challenge launch.
Play Day Wednesday 2nd August 2023. The theme for this year is ‘Playing on a Shoestring’, making every day an adventure. Playday is the national day for play. It is the…
We have a jam-packed programme of activities this summer for children and young people at Central Library. There’s no need to stay at home when there’s so much free stuff…
Manchester Libraries are excited to announce the following free Holiday Activity Fund sessions this Summer. All these sessions are fun and interactive. The sessions are aimed at 11 to 15…
Child pictured with a Festival of Libraries sign
The Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III and Her Majesty The Queen Consort will take place at Westminster Abbey on Saturday 6 May with celebrations happening nationwide over the…
Jill Furmanovsky : Photographing the Invisible For the last 50 years, Jill Furmanovsky has been photographing music’s greatest icons. Now for the first time, Jill has created a fascinating retrospective…
For the last 50 years, Jill Furmanovsky has been photographing music’s greatest icons. Now, for the first time, Jill is opening a retrospective exhibition ‘Photographing the Invisible’ at Manchester Central…
Bee print craft
In honour of Stephen Lawrence we will be living our best life with creative activities for all at Gorton Library. Everyone is welcome, we come together as a community with…
Authors L.D. Lapinski and A.M. Dassu holding copies of their books outside a tram stop
Manchester Libraries are excited to announce the following free Holiday Activity Fund sessions this December. All these sessions are fun and interactive and were very popular when run in the…
Update Mon 19 December: Thank you to all those who took part in the raffle. The prize winners have been notified and will be collecting Big Shakesbear and Little Shakesbear…
Helping children to love reading is crucial to developing literacy skills, wellbeing and offering an increased range of opportunities through life. The more children enjoy reading, the more they’ll do…
We had a lovely little celebration at Hulme High St Library where 6yr old Elmo was presented with his winnings for being the overall Manchester Libraries Summer Reading Challenge Winner…
Fashion is one thing but style is quite another. Fashion you can buy. Style is priceless. It would be safe to say the Manchester Central Library’s stunningly beautiful Shakespeare Hall played…
Longsight Library was delighted to once again have fun, fun, fun with an actual in the library Fun Palace. As an added extra this year we combined it with Older…
Town Hall Tales is project which gathers together images and stories from people who have had some connection with Manchester Town Hall over the years. Ushiku Crisafulli performed a poem…