Manchester Histories Celebration Day at Manchester Central Library

Creative Tourist
Contact Young Company: She Bangs The Drums
Image courtesy Contact / She Bangs The Drums

Manchester Histories Celebration Day at Manchester Central Library, Manchester 10 June 2018 Entrance is free

Manchester never needs a reason to celebrate its role in influencing history. 2018 however is particularly significant with the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Representation of the People Act, the 150th anniversary of the formation of the TUC (Trades Union Congress) and the centenary of the end of the First World War.

Never doing things by halves, Manchester Histories Festival has programmed a full day of creative pursuits for families themed to protest, democracy and freedom of speech. Over 60 rich historical and heritage happenings will reveal and celebrate Manchester’s amazing radical past.

Contact Young Company will be performing excerpts from their critically acclaimed sell-out show She Bangs The Drums. Take part in some protest printing with Hot Bed Press and make your own suffragette sash or protest loudspeaker with artist Lydia Melling.

Manchester Histories Festival 2018
Manchester Histories Festival 2018

Hear protest songs echo around the building from the Hallé choirs and Manchester Community Choir. Find out more from independent historians on Manchester’s Forgotten Reformers and step into Impossible Arts’ Rogue Gallery.

Read up on The John Rylands Library collection, discover the wonders of the universe with Manchester Astronomical Society and try out a new style with Stockport Hat Works Museum.

The iconic reading room will host musicians and soundscapes from the sellout performance of Manchester Hill Remembered produced by Brighter Sound, Manchester Histories and Manchester City Council. The work commemorates the lives lost during this often forgotten battle of the First World War.

More recently meanwhile, Spinning Dreams: Happiness in a Lancashire Cotton Town in the 1930’s is a programme of talks and dramatic performances staged by Bolton University, drawing on Bolton’s identity as a Mass Observation Worktown.

We love that this welcoming day allows for both planned and informal learning alike.

 

 

 

 

Manchester Histories Celebration Day at Manchester Central Library, Manchester 10 June 2018 Entrance is free

LiteratureManchester
Crime Central at Central Library

There’s murder and mayhem in the library! Manchester Libraries’ monthly event Crime Central welcomes new guests every month at Central Library, hosted by Rob Parker.

from £2.00
Poet Mike Garry. Photo Paul Wolfgang Webster
Until
LiteratureManchester
Word Central at Central Library

Word Central is a long-standing live literature favourite at Central Library and features open mic performers and a special guest, brought to you by Manchester Libraries and Flapjack Press.

free entry

Where to go near Manchester Histories Celebration Day at Manchester Central Library

St Peters Square Manchester
City Centre
St Peter’s Square

St Peter’s Square is a public space in Manchester – home to the city’s iconic library, town hall, Pankhurst statue, art gallery and famous Midland Hotel.

Manchester Art Gallery. Photo by Andrew Brooks
City Centre
Gallery
Manchester Art Gallery

The Charles Barry-designed, Grade I-listed Manchester Art Gallery is one of the city’s leading galleries and is back open for visitors once more.

Chinatown
Hotel
The Alan

This high-end city-centre restaurant has an excellent afternoon tea option that more than matches up to the superb main menu.

Salut Wines
Chinatown
Bar or Pub
Salut Wines

Salut wines pride themselves in offering “wider horizons beyond the safe choices.” With 42 wines by the glass and a regularly changing selection of bottles in their Enomatic wine preservation machines (or  “wine jukebox,” as they’re colloquially known), this is one of be best bars in Manchester for exploring new vintages.

Manchester
Restaurant
Friska

Latest branch of Friska, the independent healthy fast food chain.

Manchester
Restaurant
Don Giovanni

Traditional Italian restaurant, serving everything from pizza to steak. All this in a large modern venue with floor-to-ceiling windows.

Chinatown
Restaurant
Manchester Art Gallery Cafe

Summery bakes, seasonal salads and fresh light meals at Manchester Art Gallery’s in-house café, courtesy of highly-regarded Head Chef Matthew Taylor.

City Centre
Tourist Attraction
Manchester Town Hall

Re-opening in 2024, Manchester Town Hall is a monument to Victorian Manchester’s ambition, and one of the city’s most-loved landmarks.

City Centre
Tourist Attraction
Albert Square

A public square in the heart of Manchester which plays hosts to festivals and major events. Home to the Albert Memorial and statues of Bishop James Fraser, John Bright, Oliver Heywood and William Ewart Gladstone.

Contemporary Six, art gallery in Manchester
City Centre
Gallery
Contemporary Six

Contemporary Six is an independent commercial art gallery in Manchester city centre, set up by Alex Reuben in 2010.

What's on: Festivals

Visit Blackpool.
Until
FestivalsBlackpool
Showzam!

A festival of Circus, Magic and Variety, set to take place during the February half-term holidays. There will be a blend of live performances, illusions, street acts and more.

from £14.00
Keswick Town
CinemaCumbria
Keswick Film Festival

Keswick Film Festival marks 25 years with a programme featuring some of the best of contemporary independent cinema, alongside select classics, and work from some choice Cumbrian talent.

from £5.00

Culture Guides

Good Fridaze Family Social at Freight Island
Family things to do in the North

As we edge towards spring we take a look at the best events and activities for families, from theatre to festivals, dinosaur adventures to family raves.

Poet Evan Jones
Literature Events in the North

Some of our favourite leftfield live literature regulars are back with their first events of the year – we’ve picked a weird and wonderful heap we think you’ll love.

NEXT: A Primer on Urban Painting production still
Cinema in the North

Street art, LGBTQ+ History Month, and the first film festivals of the year are amongst our cinema highlights this month.

A painting of a young child being bathed in a sink of a 197s style kitchen. Around the sink are a rubber duck, a bottle of  washing up liquid, a jug, a kettle and a mug.
Exhibitions in the North

Galleries are racing to announce new exhibitions so check out our top picks, from art films and nostalgic paintings to Hockney's collages.

Theatre in Manchester and the North
Theatre in the North

Feminist farce, a magical circus show and Oldham Coliseum return with a brand-new off-site show. All in our latest theatre guide.

FKA TWIGS
Music in the North

Masters of minimalism, leftfield electronica and cutting edge pop. We bring you the lot in our latest live music round up.