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Contact is a multi-arts venue that invests in the next generation, so everyone can hear what the future has to say.

MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2024

  1. Humanise with Thomas Heatherwick

    One of the world’s most prolific designers, Thomas Heatherwick is fighting ‘an epidemic of boringness’ and demands that we put human emotion back at the heart of building design. With Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World, Thomas…
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  2. Mapping the Future: The Complete Works Poets

    Join us for a night of electric poetry celebrating the anthology Mapping the Future: The Complete Works Poets. Founded by Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo, Complete Works Poetry was a revolutionary initiative that transformed the UK…
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  3. The Book of Manchester

    Join Manchester Literature Festival and Comma Press for a special event to launch The Book of Manchester. Edited by poet Lemn Sissay and Comma Press editor David Sue, the collection explores the transformation of the city from post-war,…
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