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…
To celebrate the Festival of Libraries and our recently launched See Myself in Books collection, Manchester Libraries and Read Manchester held a special Sunday Funday on June 19th. We also…
The Festival of Libraries is taking place from Wednesday 15 June until Sunday 19 June, in libraries across Greater Manchester. Here are the full details of all events taking place…
Manchester Libraries is excited to be taking part in the brand-new campaign from Manchester UNESCO City of Literature’s Festival of Libraries. All over Greater Manchester, copies of Lenny Henry’s book…
Libraries will be full of bunting, celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee this June, with many activities taking place during bank holiday weekend, including a Sunday Funday at Central Library on…
The Festival of Libraries returns in June 2022, and will take place in libraries across Greater Manchester. After a successful debut last year, this year’s festival will run from Wednesday…
Every year on 21st February Manchester’s Libraries are full of families having fun with language. Nearly 200 languages are spoken in Manchester, and we use this event to celebrate the diversity…
We have an exciting range of free Holiday Activity and Food events for 11 to 16 year olds at Manchester Libraries, over the Easter holidays. Numbers are limited, so please…
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2022, we hosted our very own event that featured a panel of female-led businesses that we work closely with. The event gave guests the chance…
To mark International Women’s Day 2022, Manchester Libraries and Read Manchester are delighted to launch a competition in partnership with The Lowry, celebrating the wonderful women of our city. Up…