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Talks, Lectures & Author Events in Manchester

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Visitors walk through a modern museum gallery with high ceilings, skylights, and a large golden sculpture suspended overhead.

SAT 10 OCT

Manchester Literature Festival presents Sarah Hall: Burning Snowflake

Manchester Museum

From £10

Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre

SAT 10 OCT

The North in Conversation

Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre

From £16.50

Colourful passenger ferry boat on the River Mersey with Liverpool waterfront and historic buildings in the background.

SUN 11 OCT

11th Oct Enigma Talk

Western Approaches

Free

Wildflower meadow with white, yellow and purple blooms, trees and rolling countryside with distant hills and buildings visible.

MON 12 OCT

Monday Night Talk: The Lady in the Bay Window

Manor Fields Park

Six workers in high-visibility jackets and hard hats stand together on a brick structure overlooking rural countryside.

MON 12 OCT, 19:30

Open Meeting: Marketing the Manchester Ship Canal

Mount Sion Steam Crane

Free

Visitors walk through a modern museum gallery with high ceilings, skylights, and a large golden sculpture suspended overhead.

SAT 17 OCT, 09:30

UKYCC PowerShift

Manchester Museum

Free

Visitors walk through a modern museum gallery with high ceilings, skylights, and a large golden sculpture suspended overhead.

SUN 18 OCT, 17:00

Manchester Literature Festival presents Sufiyaan Salam and Monika Radojevic

Manchester Museum

Free

Visitors walk through a modern museum gallery with high ceilings, skylights, and a large golden sculpture suspended overhead.

TUE 20 OCT, 12:30

Haha! Britain, with The Mothers' Bridge of Love

Manchester Museum

Free

Visitors walk through a modern museum gallery with high ceilings, skylights, and a large golden sculpture suspended overhead.

WED 21 OCT, 17:30

Intergenerational Climate Café

Manchester Museum

Free

Spacious art studio and creative activity space with wooden beams, large windows, art supplies, and colourful materials laid out on the floor for interactive workshops.

THU 22 OCT

Artist Support Network: What Happens After Art School

The Whitaker

An open book displaying ancient Egyptian illustrations of figures in traditional dress and hieroglyphic text.

SAT 24 OCT

Femina Cupla: Poetry Readings

The Portico Library

Manchester Jewish Museum

SUN 25 OCT, 12:00

Meet Jewish Genealogical Society at the museum!

Manchester Jewish Museum

Free

An open book displaying ancient Egyptian illustrations of figures in traditional dress and hieroglyphic text.

THU 29 OCT

Portico Ubuntu: Diaspora Dine and Discussion - 100 years of Black History Month

The Portico Library

Samlesbury Hall

TUE 3 NOV, 14:00

An Audience with John 'Gilly' Gillmore

Samlesbury Hall

Visitors walk through a modern museum gallery with high ceilings, skylights, and a large golden sculpture suspended overhead.

WED 4 NOV, 13:15

Collection Bites: Sperm whales - science, history and deep sea stories

Manchester Museum

Free

An open book displaying ancient Egyptian illustrations of figures in traditional dress and hieroglyphic text.

FRI 6 NOV

Mother Earth | Myths & Realities

The Portico Library

Six workers in high-visibility jackets and hard hats stand together on a brick structure overlooking rural countryside.

MON 9 NOV, 19:30

Open Meeting: The Lancaster Canal in Context

Mount Sion Steam Crane

Free

Samlesbury Hall

WED 11 NOV

IF WALLS COULD SPEAK...

Samlesbury Hall

Young children display yellow chicken artwork at an intergenerational craft activity with adults supervising.

WED 11 NOV

Sculpting Stories, Places and People (Teacher CPD session)

National Coal Mining Museum for England

Colourful passenger ferry boat on the River Mersey with Liverpool waterfront and historic buildings in the background.

WED 11 NOV

11th Nov - Remembrance, Donitz and Nuremberg Talk

Western Approaches

Spacious art studio and creative activity space with wooden beams, large windows, art supplies, and colourful materials laid out on the floor for interactive workshops.

THU 12 NOV

Heritage Talk: Victorian Criminals: Crime, Punishment and the Dark Side of Nineteenth Century

The Whitaker

Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre

THU 19 NOV

Jodcast Live: Parsecs, Planets and Podcasts

Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre

From £10

Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre

THU 26 NOV

Monster Black Holes in the Early Universe

Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre

From £12

Spacious art studio and creative activity space with wooden beams, large windows, art supplies, and colourful materials laid out on the floor for interactive workshops.

THU 10 DEC

Heritage Talk: Christmas Traditions Through the Ages

The Whitaker

Wythenshawe Forum Library

FRI 22 JAN, 19:30

David Traynor - Spirit Medium & Psychic Artist

Wythenshawe Forum Library

From £23.50

Places for talks, lectures & author events

A group of five people participate in a cookery class, with instructors demonstrating food preparation at a kitchen counter surrounded by fresh ingredients.from £95

Food Sorcery Cookery School, Didsbury

Manchester · adults only (18+)

Hands-on cookery classes where adults (or teens paired with a paying adult) cook a full meal under a chef's eye and take the leftovers home.

Allergy awareFree parkingFood on siteToilets+1 more

Manchester Lit & Philfrom £6

Manchester Lit & Phil

Manchester

Talks and lectures on science, history and ideas, open to anyone from 16 up with a ticket, no membership needed.

Booking required

A grand Victorian red-brick building with a prominent clock tower, ornate architectural details and turrets under a clear blue sky.

Stretford Public Hall

Manchester

Drama and choir sessions for kids aged 4 to 16, plus a parent-and-under-5s group with toys and LGBT+ stories.

Accessible toiletBlue badge parkingCaféParking+1 more

The Salafi Centre of ManchesterFree

The Salafi Centre of Manchester

Manchester

Free clubs for kids covering football, a girls' youth group, a baby club and Qur'an school, all run from one community centre.

Toilets

Good to know: talks, lectures & author events in Manchester

Are any of them free?

Yes, The Salafi Centre of Manchester is free to visit.

What does a paid visit cost?

Paid entry starts from £6 at Manchester Lit & Phil. Prices, ages and facilities are listed on every place page, taken from each venue's own published price list.

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