Come along on the third Saturday of the month to enjoy street food, creativity and live music. Make a full day of it, shopping with the brilliant independents in Chorlton's district centre, visiting the lovely local shops, cafes along Wilbraham, Barlow Moor and Manchester Roads along the way! The Market is Manchester Road (the area […]
Celebrate Chorlton Book festival with a full afternoon packed with arts and crafts for the whole family to enjoy. All families welcome! No need to book tickets, but if you do want to reserve a family ticket here it will give the team an idea of families attending.
Author and historian Ed Glinert relates the history of the atomic bomb and how John Dalton and Ernest Rutherford’s work in Manchester was an important part of that history.
A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it ‘What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.’ Long before Manchester gave the world titans of industry, comedy, music and sport, it was the cosmopolitan Roman fort of Mamucium. But it was as the ‘shock city’ of the Industrial Revolution that […]
Andrew Simpson, Chorlton's favourite historian will again lead one of his popular guided history walks. By popular demand this year’s walk will be in the former parish church yard by Chorlton Green. The first place of worship was built here in the early 16th century and continued to serve the needs of its parishioners till 1940 while […]
Have you or a loved one been affected by cancer? Come and boost your immune system and uplift your spirit through the power of song and togetherness. No experience needed and the sessions are open to anyone affected by cancer. Mondays, 7.30-9pm, Term times only
Join us every Tuesday, 12-3 for our social club. Come and meet new people and enjoy a chat. No need to book, just come along.
A lively evening of fun, food and friendly company where we play everything from party games to cutting edge strategy. Free to attend and no need to book; games start throughout the evening so turn up when it's good for you and we'll fit you in somewhere. If you're new to board games: people always […]
Poetry and prose about the sea, from lighthouses and oilrigs to shorebirds and whales Join writers Sarah-Clare Conlon and David Gaffney for a literary celebration of all things aquatic. David Gaffney was writer in residence for The Whale project, an interactive live theatre installation in Whitehaven, Cumbria, that offered a strange real-but-imagined encounter with a […]
Help refugees and Asylum seekers, by dropping off donations - 10am-12noon and 6pm-8pm. Refugee Aid Chorlton is a volunteer-run charity that began when neighbours were moved by the plight of refugees and asylum seekers, especially those in refugee camps. Several years - and many, many, many shipping containers of aid - later, they're still going […]
One overflowing table in a café, eighteen writers, a mix of laptops and notebooks, a weekly churning of thousands of words – that’s the recipe for a unique anthology from Chorlton Writers' Cafe. Stories, poetry and life writing flow through the book, punctuated by original illustrations, tracing themes of identity, place, time passing, people thinking […]
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