📢 Our international Connections Through Culture grants are now open! 🤗 We're inviting applications that look to kickstart collaborations between countries in the UK and Asia-Pacific. 💸 £5,000 to £10,000. 🔗 More info: britishcouncil.org/arts/connectio… #ConnectionsThroughCulture

🎉We're pleased to announce three new Board members this month!🎉 Welcome to Rochelle Saunders, Dr Reshma Ruia and Michelle who bring a wealth of experience and ideas to our team. Congratulations to our katie popperwell who is acting as interim chair going forward. manchestercityofliterature.com/news/three-new…

The incomparable SuAndi, Honorary Fellow & awarded the Benson Medal for her dedication to literature. We study The Story of M on MA and BA and it is an Edexcel A-level literature text. Congratulations! SuAndi Bernardine Evaristo Daljit Nagra FRSL The Poetry Society Words of Colour

📢SuAndi is a new Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature! 🎉 As a Benson Medallist, Mancunian writer, poet and arts practitioner SuAndi's has been honoured for her service to literature across her whole career rsliterature.org/announcement-o…… Manchester City of Literature Royal Society of Literature

Sunshine on the Wythenshawe Culture Hub Pop Up event today! Wythenshawe Town Centre Wythenshawe FM (97.2FM) Counterculture Partnership LLP Thanks to everyone that came to showcase their creativity 🎉

Fabulous work in progress WithingtonWalls Paint Jam Withington Baths

Congratulations to the WithingtonWalls team and Jive Prints for such a lovely family event and for turning a neglected area into a colouful creative haven 🤩 We Are Withington Garry Bridges-Traynor

We are thrilled to announce that we have been awarded full museum accreditation from Arts Council England!!! This a big achievement for a small, independent museum and we couldn't be prouder! 🤩 elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/elizabeth-gask…

Check out the Dialed In festival on Saturday at Niamos. dialled-in.com dialledin_ #McrMusicCity A celebration of South Asian & Global Majority talent with 30+ live acts and DJ's across 3 stages with food stalls. Kids free until 9pm. Balraj Singh Samrai

Congratulations! That's great news 👏 Elizabeth Gaskell's House Manchester City of Literature ACE North

🎺🪘OMF has 55 places for new students to have FREE MUSIC LESSONS 🎼🎷for 6-16 year old to join their instrumental programme from Sept. Come along to an openday. Sat 20 July 10am-12pm & 1pm-3pm Longsight Library. Manchester Music Hub Brighter Sound #McrMusicCity Olympias Music Foundation

At the launch today of 'Memories of My Mother: Unravelling the Sari Stories of Manchester' by CDM UK Manchester with The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Taslima sharing her collection and inspiration for the project.

The vote for the Manchester People’s Culture Award is now open. All the 8 nominations demonstrate the breadth and brilliance of culture in the city. Each one would be a worthy winner, but who is your favourite. Cast your vote now #MCRCultureAwards manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/arts-…

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!. The vote for the Manchester People's Culture Award closes on 8th September. Check out the shortlist and choose your favourite tinyurl.com/4yy7s7mz

The People's Culture Award vote closes on Sunday so get you friends, neighbours, family and anyone else to vote for their favourite from our fantastic shortlist here tinyurl.com/3m6cknrb

🎸👨‍🎤Solo musician or band with a new migrant or refugee asylum seeker background who wants professional development? Apply to CAN & Band on the Wall Spotlight programme Closing date: 30/9 Thanks The National Lottery Heritage Fund #HeritageFund #WorldOfSong Follow the link👇 shorturl.at/AxVfL

Here is a bird's eye view of the beautifully restored clock tower at Manchester Town Hall! The 280ft tower had been covered since June 2021 as part of the #OurTownHall project, with work taken to carefully restore it. Learn more about this restoration at orlo.uk/RhF1K

The stage is set. We are looking forward to welcoming guests to the launch of Always, Everywhere : Manchester's Cultural Ambition. #McrCulturalAmbition

Thanks to the great speakers who welcomed the #AlwaysEverywhere Manchester Cultural Partnership Strategy. Samina Ali, Karen Shannon, Magdalen Bartlett, Cllr Garry Bridges, Neil MacInnes and the stunning artists Princess Arinola Adgibite, WAST Choir & Manchester International Roots Orchestra.