Tickets £6

(Over 13s to Adults)

In 1960, Maya Angelou organised Cabaret For Freedom in New York to raise funds for Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s Civil Rights campaign. Now St John’s Church and Young Identity host Cabaret For Freedom to raise funds for refugees and asylum seekers living in Old Trafford
The evening cabaret includes performances from Shirley May, SuAndi, Isaiah Hull, Segun Le-French,
alongside Young Identity writers and special guests.

St John’s Church M16 7GX

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Free but booking is advised

MLF is thrilled to welcome back Arundhathi Subramaniam to share her
sensual and soulful poetry exploring the contradictory nature of living in a Third World megalopolis.

Manchester Central Library M2 5PD

http://www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/arundhathi-subramaniam-37858

Free but booking is advised

For this special co-commission by MLF and The Whitworth, Zaffar Kunial will be writing a series of new poems responding to the work of artist Raqib Shaw, whose paintings of fantastical worlds draw on renaissance and baroque imagery, combined with theatrical extravagance, myth, nature and religion.

Whitworth Art Gallery M15 6ER

http://www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/zaffar-kunial-37873