The full event listings for Chaos to Order, running at Manchester Central Library 10 – 15 November 2014.

Chaos to Order at Manchester Central Library is just around the corner; tickets for the Chaos to Order finale are now available, and more unannounced events will be going on throughout building during the residency. Here’s a full run-through of the six day residency.

Throughout

Dumblove Encounters presents Folk/Tale: For an hour each day, uniformed Dumblove writers will be manning the library’s lifts. Those who step inside will experience unique, 60 second encounters between floors – from these, Dumblove will piece together a collaborative story, grown organically from the people who visit the library. 11am-12pm daily. Library lifts. Free, but booking is advised.

Company Chameleon: Newly announced. Manchester-based, internationally-renowned dance theatre producers Company Chameleon will be performing a specially devised piece at intervals throughout the programme, which will then be reprised for the finale event. Daily, at selected intervals. Free, no booking necessary.

Emma Jane Unsworth reads Frank O’Hara: Chaos to Order writer-in-residence, Emma Jane Unsworth will be reading from Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems in the library’s café. The poet was the inspiration behind the title for Unsworth’s novel Animals,and wrote this collection whilst on his own lunch break in New York – bring your own favourite poems to read out if you wish, or just sit back and listen to O’Hara’s genius for the mundane. 12.30pm Mon-Fri. Library Café. Free, no booking necessary.

Quarantine presents: Between us, we know everything… Quarantine theatre company invites you into their mobile video studio to contribute to their knowledge database, Between us, we know everything… Now that the internet has finally overtaken the 246 year print run of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Quarantine is asking participants to lend useful and useless information, and their own stories to an online video project. Be part of the new way we access knowledge – and slip something a bit unusual in there. 11am-4pm, Mon-Fri. 12pm-5pm Sat. Free, no booking necessary. Find out more about Quarantine’s project here.

Monday 10 November

Emma Jane Unsworth presents Any Questions: Do you have any burning questions about the writing process? Come along to the library café at 5pm and you’ll have the chance to quiz author Emma Jane Unsworth on her approach, her writing, or simply discuss a project you’re working on. 5pm-6pm, Mon & Thur. Library café. Free, no booking necessary.

Matthew Bourne and Christophe de Bézenac: Inspired by Alan Turing, saxophonist and creative programmer Christophe de Bézenac and analogue synth player Matthew Bourne have created a visual computer programme that responds to its surroundings. Bourne and Bézenac will be creating sounds in conjunction with their invention in the library’s performance space. 7pm. Library Performance Space. Free, but booking is advised.

Tuesday 11 November

Josie Long on Chaos to Order: Writer and comedian Josie Long gives a one-off, specially commissioned performance in response to the residency’s theme of Chaos to Order. 6pm. Library Performance Space. Free, but booking is advised.

Wednesday 12 November

Chaos and Shape: Manchester Fiction Showcase: An evening with some of Manchester’s most talented fiction writers. Zoe Lambert’s first collection of short stories The War Tour was both long and shortlisted for awards. Animals by Chaos to Order writer in residency Emma Jane Unsworth was described by Caitlin Moran as “Withnail, but with girls,” and has been optioned by BAFTA-nominated producer Sarah Brocklehurst. Chris Killen is the author of The Bird Room, published by Canongate, and co-writer of the award winning independent film, Wizard’s Way. UK No.1 Kindle bestseller Kerry Wilkinson is the author of the Jessica Daniel series, which made him Amazon UK’s top-selling author in the final quarter of 2011. Join all four for discussion of their creative processes and readings. 6.30pm. Library Performance Space. Free, but booking is advised.

Thursday 13 November

Josephine presents Celluloid History Songs: Produced by HOME, this live performance sees singer-songwriter Josephine responding to poems written about historical footage drawn from the North West Film Archive. Inspired by scenes of Northerners at leisure, these specially commissioned songs uncover the curious patterns and rituals that emerge during time away from the regimented industrial working environment. Showcasing HOME’s forthcoming Music and Film project, this performance will celebrate a sense of liberation. 7pm. Library Performance Space. Free, but booking is advised.

Emma Jane Unsworth presents Any Questions: Do you have any burning questions about the writing process? Come along to the library café at 5pm and you’ll have the chance to quiz author Emma Jane Unsworth on her approach, her writing, or simply discuss a project you’re working on. 5pm-6pm, Mon & Thur. Library café. Free, no booking necessary.

Friday 14 November

Shaun Keaveny Live: Join BBC 6Music’s Shaun Keaveny for a spot of chaotic, post-work irreverence. 6.30pm-7pm. Library Performance Space. Free, but booking is advised.

Quarantine presents The Reading Room: Breaking the silence in the library’s Reading Room, theatre company Quarantine brings together a “choir” of voices for a mass reading. Constructed from fragments somehow precious to the reader, the text will be a way of exploring Theodor Adorno’s assertion that “the task of art today is to bring chaos into order.” 7pm. The Reading Room. Free, but booking is advised.

Kiran Leonard presents Derevaun Seraun: Performing Derevaun Seraun, an original composition of five movements, is Oldham-born musician Kiran Leonard. The work responds to the theme of Chaos to Order and has been specially commissioned for the residency. 8.30pm. Library Performance Space. Free, but booking is advised.

Saturday 15 November – Finale

Everything Everything finale: Bringing together all of the different elements of the residency, the finale will see appearances from the artists and collaborators who have been involved throughout Chaos to Order. The audience are welcomed by the reverent a-capella sounds of the Melodico Ensemble Choir in the Shakespeare Hall. Next, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Jesca Hoop will perform a specially commissioned, Alan Turing-inspired piece of music in the Henry Wolfson Reading Room. Company Chameleon will present their new, improvisational dance piece, created in collaboration with Everything Everything, in the Archives+ space. Everything Everything will take to the stage in the Performance Space to debut new songs created in response to the iconic, Grade II-listed building. Finally, a selection of young emerging musicians selected from a national call-out will also be performing. 7pm. Throughout the Library. Free, but booking advised.

Chaos to Order is produced by Brighter Sound in partnership with Manchester Central Library and Creative Tourist. Funded by Arts Council England, Manchester City Council, Central Library Development Trust, Zochonis Trust and AGMA.