What’s it going to be then, eh?

OPENING TIMES

Bar Open for events

Reading Room Available for pre-booked appointments 10.00am - 3.00pm weekdays

Office Hours By appointment: info@anthonyburgess.org

HOW TO FIND US

Engine House
Chorlton Mill
3 Cambridge Street
Manchester
M1 5BY

Nearest train station Oxford Road More information

Next event

Concert: Songs of Love and Separation – A Journey of Courtly Love Sun 11 May 2025 6:45 pm £10.00 More information

What's it going to be then, eh?

Exhibitions. New writing. Concert commissions. Academic research. Public events, in venues and online. And at the core of everything, preserving and promoting our extensive Anthony Burgess archive.

Your donation to the Burgess Foundation supports our mission to promote the life and work of Anthony Burgess in so many ways.

what's on

Concert: No Dice Collective – Snapshot

BUY TICKETS

Can music evoke the household chaos of the morning school run? What about the uncomfortable feeling of walking home alone at midnight?

Snapshot presents 10 moments in music, ready to evoke a time and a place straight from your seat.

Thomas Adès’ brilliant The Four Quarters grounds this project, with four new commissions from Aaron Breeze, Will Frampton, Benjamin Marrington-Reeve, and Sophie Sully responding to each ‘quarter’ of the day Adès portrays: Nightfall, Morning Dew, Days, and The Twenty-Fifth Hour.

As if hearing The Four Quarters live wasn’t enough, our national call-for-score winners, Angela Slater and Anna Disley-Simpson, take us to the Shetland Islands with a fiery string quartet and a deep woodland cocoon of multitracked clarinet and voice.

Every No Dice Collective project is a one-off, and our previous project, Last Christmas, was completely sold out. Buy your ticket in advance to avoid missing out – plus find some mates and get 10% off when you buy 2 or more tickets. See you there!

Time and place, captured in sound