Concert: Glitch Garden, new music for instruments and electronics Experience a concert that grows from the acoustic soundscape, gradually consumed by electronica. Featuring new compositions for instruments and electronics from the composers at the Royal Northern College of Music and beyond; presenting by RNCM musicians. Door opens at 19:30; concert starts at 20:00 This event […]
A string quartet by Anthony Burgess will be performed for the first time on 1 December. The quartet has been discovered among uncatalogued papers in the archive of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. The music is part of a large collection of manuscripts donated by the late Liana Burgess. To mark the 30th anniversary of […]
The winner of two Magnesia Litera Awards Marek Šindelka, the book´s co-editor Jan Zikmund and writer Veronika Bendová will launch an anthology of short stories by the ten of city´s most famous writers, including the illustrious Bohumil Hrabal, that present Prague in a completely new light. Away from the Old Town Square, these stories take […]
You are invited to explore our new exhibition, ‘Anthony Burgess in America’, through a series of open days which will cast new light on Anthony Burgess’s complex relationship with the United States. Burgess and his family made regular visits to the United States between 1966 and 1993. He lived there for extended periods in the […]
You are invited to explore our new exhibition, ‘Anthony Burgess in America’, through a series of open days which will cast new light on Anthony Burgess’s complex relationship with the United States. Burgess and his family made regular visits to the United States between 1966 and 1993. He lived there for extended periods in the […]
Tickets are now on sale for MLF Get Closer Members. Tickets go on general sale on Thursday 17 August 2023. MLF Get Closer Membership starts at £20 pa. Buy an MLF Get Closer Membership and book advance tickets here ‘Ólafsdóttir’s specialty is the small journeys we take to save ourselves and the ones we […]
Comma Press is thrilled to announce a partnership with The Publishers Association to present an exclusive series of translation and subsidiary rights workshops. These workshops are specially curated for Northern Fiction Alliance members and open to publishers beyond the alliance as well. The shared goal is to promote sustainable practices at the core of our […]
Since 2016, award-winning Improbotics has brought robots to stages worldwide! In this brand new science comedy show, improvisers must keep up as state-of-the-art artificial intelligence takes over! Improvisers are controlled by AI chatbots: the result is an unpredictable work of human-machine hilarity. ‘Groundbreaking work’, ‘high quality comedy theatre’, ‘raises important philosophical questions’ (FringeReview.co.uk, 2022). ★★★★ […]
We are pleased to invite you to a summer party to celebrate the publication of The Clockwork Testament. This is the latest volume in the Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess, published by Manchester University Press. In this comic novel, the poet Enderby, writer in residence at the fictional University of Manhattan, takes […]
Join us for a special insight into Anthony Burgess’s youth in the silent cinemas of 1920s Manchester. Burgess’s father was a pianoplayer (not a pianist) who played along with silent films in the picture-houses of his home city, improvising accompaniment to classics such as Metropolis and the Charlie Chaplin comedies. Burgess’s experiences were fictionalised in […]