20 events in Deansgate this week. Discover gigs, comedy, workshops, markets, and more with TownSpot.

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Picture books come to life through songs, drama, dance, play and craft in the Children’s Library. This Manchester Literature Festival session is best for ages 2-6, with the rest of the family welcome too. Free and drop-in; no booking needed.

Mike Gyi

Little Reads

Manchester Central Library, St Peter's Square, Manchester M2 5PD, UK

Watch Cup Fever (1965), with its footage of Manchester streets and a youth team playing against the odds, then explore archive material about northern childhoods. The RACE Centre remembers Ahmed Iqbal Ullah’s life and love of football, 40 years after his murder. Archives open at 17:15; film 18:00-19:00. Lower ground floor, Manchester Central Library. Free; booking required.

Football and Northern Childhoods: Cup Fever screening

In Carole Nash Hall at Chetham's, Lancashire soprano Grace O'Malley sings opera, operetta and musical theatre, including Mozart, Handel, Verdi, Puccini and Sondheim. This hour-long Rush Hour Concert is part of the Stoller Hall Emerging Artists programme.

Grace O'Malley: Rush Hour Concert

The Stoller Hall, Hunts Bank, Manchester M3 1DA

Free guided walks explore the history and nature under and around Castlefield Viaduct. Each listed day has bookable walks at 11:00-12:00 and 14:00-15:00, meeting beside the stairs at Duke Street and Beaufort Street.

Heritage Open Day: Underneath Castlefield Viaduct Heritage Walks

Castlefield Viaduct meeting point, Duke Street and Beaufort Street, Manchester M3 4RU

Chetham's jazz students and local musicians play a relaxed early-evening set in the Stoller Hall atrium as the free Friday series returns.

Free Friday Night Jazz

Young people aged 11 and over can swap comics, make a zine or comic strip, meet other fans, and explore the library collection. Bring comics to swap or simply join the creative session.

Comic Book Swap

Artist Lawrence Lek discusses his work, where non-human protagonists often take centre stage, and places AI within a longer history of automation. The conversation explores how changing software, from game engines to AI, reshapes what an individual artist or small studio can create. Suitable for ages 14+; free tickets must be pre-booked.

Artists in Times of Upheaval: Life Before Automation

Aviva Studios, Water Street, Manchester M3 4JQ

Fingerstyle guitarist Mike Dawes performs simultaneous guitar parts, virtuosic original work and arrangements that have earned a worldwide audience.

Mike Dawes: The Progressive Acoustic Tour

A free city-centre walking tour exploring how brick, sandstone, river water, air pollution and flooding have shaped Manchester's built environment. The route runs just over half a mile from Parsonage Gardens to Shudehill.

Highlights Tour: The Material City - Water, Air and Stone

Parsonage Gardens, St Mary's Parsonage, Manchester M3 2LF

Gothic romantasy author Rachel Gillig discusses The Knave and the Moon, the sequel to The Knight and the Moth, with Eliza Chan.

An Evening with Rachel Gillig

Waterstones Deansgate, 91 Deansgate, Manchester M3 2BW, UK

A landmark one-night concert celebrating 30 years of The Bridgewater Hall. Untold Orchestra leads the debut of a new Greater Manchester Youth Orchestra, joined by NIA Choir and hip-hop-rooted poet and recording artist SAF-S2E, with new arrangements spanning Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Laufey and more.

The Bridgewater Hall 30th Anniversary Concert

The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3WS

Jon Ronson turns his first book in 11 years into a darkly comic live investigation of unmoored men, lost purpose and a mysterious New England castle, with unseen footage and audience questions.

Enter The Castle with Jon Ronson

Free live blues and soul from 20:00 at the Blues Kitchen. Come for the band; food and drinks are available if you want to make an evening of it.

Live Blues & Soul

The Blues Kitchen Manchester, 13 Quay St, Manchester M3 3HN, UK

Take a lunch break in Carole Nash Hall for a free recital by Chetham’s School of Music students, aged 8-18. Donations are welcome, and tea, coffee and a hot-soup lunch are available to buy.

Chetham's Lunchtime Concerts

Bring a team of up to five for the Tuesday quiz in the Blues Kitchen’s concert hall. It starts at 19:00, costs £3 per person and the winning team gets a £500 bar tab. Book a table ahead.

The Blues Kitchen Pub Quiz

Deansgate

Abbeyhill & Meadowbank

Abbey Wood

Achiltibuie & Summer Isles

Acton

Addiscombe

Aldborough Hatch

Aldgate

Alexandra Park

Alperton

Ancoats & New Islington

Angel

Applecross & Shieldaig

Archway

Ardwick

Arnos Grove

Audenshaw

Aultbea & Laide

Balham

Bank & Monument

Barbican

Barking

Barkingside

Barnehurst

Barnes

Barnet

Barnton & Cramond

Barton & Winton

Battersea

Bayswater

Beam Park

Beckenham

Beckton

Becontree

Beddington

Bedfont

Belgravia

Bellingham

Belmont

Belsize Park

Belvedere

Bermondsey

Beswick

Bethnal Green

Bexley

Bexleyheath

Bickley

Biggin Hill

Blackheath

Blackley

Blackwall

Bloomsbury

Borough & London Bridge

Bounds Green

Bowes

Brentford

Brimsdown

Brinnington

Brixton

Brockley

Bromley

Bromley-by-Bow

Brondesbury Park

Brook Green

Broughton

Broughton & Drumelzier

Brunswick Park

Bruntsfield

Burnage

Burnt Oak

Bush Hill Park

Caledonian Road

Camberwell

Camden Town

Cameron Toll

Canada Water

Canal Street & Gay Village

Canary Wharf

Canning Town

Cannon Hill

Canonmills & Broughton

Canons

Cardrona & Glentress

Carlops

Carshalton

Catford

Chadwell Heath

Charlestown

Charlton

Cheam

Cheetham Hill

Chelsea

Chelsfield

Chessington

Childs Hill

Chinatown

Chingford

Chislehurst

Chiswick

Chorlton

Deansgate 中发生了什么

📖 Little Reads

🎬 Football and Northern Childhoods: Cup Fever screening

🎼 Grace O'Malley: Rush Hour Concert

🚂 Heritage Open Day: Underneath Castlefield Viaduct Heritage Walks

🚂 Heritage Open Day: Underneath Castlefield Viaduct Heritage Walks

🎷 Free Friday Night Jazz

🚂 Heritage Open Day: Underneath Castlefield Viaduct Heritage Walks

💥 Comic Book Swap

🚂 Heritage Open Day: Underneath Castlefield Viaduct Heritage Walks

🤖 Artists in Times of Upheaval: Life Before Automation

🎸 Mike Dawes: The Progressive Acoustic Tour

🧱 Highlights Tour: The Material City - Water, Air and Stone

🚂 Heritage Open Day: Underneath Castlefield Viaduct Heritage Walks

🚂 Heritage Open Day: Underneath Castlefield Viaduct Heritage Walks

🌙 An Evening with Rachel Gillig

🎶 The Bridgewater Hall 30th Anniversary Concert

🏰 Enter The Castle with Jon Ronson

🎙️ Live Blues & Soul

🎼 Chetham's Lunchtime Concerts

❓ The Blues Kitchen Pub Quiz

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