Levenshulme Old Library

Woohoo!! Such great news, being part of this project was a total highlight of last year 👏✨️

We’re absolutely delighted to share that Levenshulme Old Library is a finalist at this year's Manchester Culture Awards!

We're shortlisted in the 'best event' category for last year's Ghosts at the Old Library, our homegrown winter storytelling project.

Huge thanks to all involved.

Wish us luck!

Tell us your story!

Our Carnegie counterpart in Manchester the @levyoldlibrary.bsky.social boasts Sir Norman Foster as a child borrower - who passed through our doors?

Let us know how it affected you! Memories? Change…

We’re transforming our outdoor space, and you’re invited to be part of it

Join us for two Tuesday morning gardening sessions as we get to work on the green space which surrounds Levenshulme Old Library.

No experience needed - just drop in, dig in and help us shape something new.

Weave a Little Monday Magic at Levenshulme Old Library tonight with Collage Club.

📅 7pm-9pm, Monday 7 October
✂️ Bring your own scraps if you fancy, but otherwise all materials supplied
🧑 Adults only - no experience needed
🎟 FREE but booking essential:

www.tickettailor.com/events/leven...

Write, mortals!

This month we're joined by Gaynor Jones for very special one-off workshop exploring the role of vampires in fiction - from folklore figures through to Dracula and Nosferatu, right through to Buffy, Edward Cullen and Nandor the Relentless.

🎟 Tickets: buff.ly/iZfquqS

Tomorrow Scratch Night returns to Levenshulme Old Library - a one-off evening of brand-new, unfinished and experimental performance.

🗓 Friday 3rd October
⏰ 8pm
📍 Levenshulme Old Library
🎟 Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/bonjo...

Next month, as part of our mini-season of Halloween goings-on, we're bringing you Harvest Horror, a folk horror writing workshop, exploring haunted landscapes, uncanny traditions and the strange rituals of the season.

📍 Levenshulme Old Library, M19 3QE
🎟 Tickets: buytickets.at/levenshulmeo...

Next month Levenshulme Old Library will be taken over by the Levy Spooky Family Silent Disco. Two channels of music – one for the kids, one for the grown-ups – so everyone can get their groove on under the same haunted roof.

📅 Saturday 25th October, 6:30pm
🎟 £5 per person

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This Halloween we’re filling the building with a mini-season of activities that lean into the playful and the uncanny.

There’s a family silent disco where your little ghosts can whirl and spin, writing workshops delving into horror genres and a seasonal Blether.

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Snip, stick, layer, create - and most importantly, yap while you do it.

We’re hosting Scrap Yap: a Scrapbooking Workshop from on Friday 4th October

📍 Levenshulme Old Library, Cromwell Grove
🎟 Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scrap-yap-...

Blether returns!

Halloween is on the horizon and we're thrilled that this year we'll be hosting Blether’s Spooky Samhain soirée - a night of storytelling, drag, dancing and ritual mischief in celebration of the Celtic roots of our spooky season.

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Levenshulme Old Library will be full of rhythm, energy and movement this autumn, with Barefoot Beats returning for its third ecstatic dance night on Friday 10th October,

📅 8pm, Friday 10 October 2025
📍 Levenshulme Old Library
🎟️ Tickets available now: buytickets.at/barefootbeat...

Levenshulme Repair Café is back this weekend.

Our volunteer fixers will be on hand to tackle clothes, bikes, small electricals, toys and more.

📅 Saturday 20th September
🕙 10:30am-12:30pm
📍 Levenshulme Old Library

Do the environment a favour, make all your electronic goods last as long as this vacuum cleaner did😂

RIP old, clunky hoover, 2000(ish)-2025.

Welcome to its shiny young successor - eager to face the crumbs, glitter and dust of Levenshulme Old Library.

Want to hear more tales of us replacing outdated everyday resources? Donate to make it happen: levenshulmeoldlibrary.org.uk/support-us/

Levenshulme Old Library is a much-loved historic building that’s become a home for arts, heritage and community. Our board of trustees are the people who help steer that journey - and we’d love some new faces and fresh energy around the table.

Drop us a line - hello@levenshulmeoldlibrary.org.uk

Zine Club is back tonight at Levenshulme Old Library!

Once a month we turn the tables into a playground of paper, glue and imagination. Come cut, collage, doodle, scribble, write or just mess about with materials - no rules, no experience needed, no pressure.

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Step inside The Filing Cabinet of Fear, a night of live storytelling unearthing tales of an alternate synth-drenched Britain riddled with conspiracies, hauntings and forgotten folklore.

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Growing Together Levenshulme invite you into their space where community, gardening and creative expression meet. It’s art grown from soil, seasons and stories.

Free and open to all - join us and see how much can bloom when people have space to root, share and flourish.

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It’s been a while, but our favourite early-evening, family-friendly, community-supporting musical gathering is finally returning to the Old Library.

We’re so happy to welcome back the Teatowel Collective back for an evening of live music and community spirit.

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LOL Art Club Special - Calligraphy!

Ever wanted to turn words into artwork? Later this month you can!

On Monday 29th September we’re very excited to welcome Calli by Steph to Levenshulme Old Library for a hands-on journey into the flowing, meditative world of brush lettering.

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Growing Together Levenshulme is community project where local refugees & people seeking asylum come together to grow food & learn skills on an allotment in Levy.

This exhibition brings that spirit indoors, with works shaped by seasons, stories & the friendships that grow alongside the fruit & veg.

Stitch Club returns tomorrow!

Think fabric, thread, needles and a room full of people ready to mend, embroider, patch, stitch and generally poke commune with fabrics and textiles in the name of creativity.

It’s free, it’s friendly and it’s tomorrow at 7:00pm.

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Join artist Hex Coles this Sunday for an afternoon of designing and making your own pin badges.

Pick your own designs, press them into shape, and walk away with a lapel's worth of unique badges to keep, gift or trade.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/badge-maki...

Try out Levenshulme Community Choir with a free taster session on Sunday 21st September from 6pm at Levenshulme Old Library.

No auditions, just big voices, pop, gospel, musicals, folk and a good laugh.

Come sing, breathe and belong. All welcome. Email levychoir@gmail.com to book.

Some good news!

We’ve been awarded funding from @sport-england-se.bsky.social to grow our Active Wellness programme - offering free, inclusive movement sessions that support women’s health and wellbeing in Levenshulme, particularly those who struggle to access more mainstream activities.

Writing Club returns tomorrow.

This week’s session will be led by Fia Harrington on the theme “the last days of summer”. Bring along a small item that reminds you of that time - it could be a pebble, a bus ticket, a flip flop - anything at all.

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Did you know we run a free monthly Zine Club at Levenshulme Old Library - and it’s fully masked so more people can take part safely?

A space for adults to cut, collage, doodle, scribble, write or just experiment. No rules, no pressure, no experience needed.

Tickets: buff.ly/olLlnQf

Got something broken? Don’t bin it, bring it!

Levenshulme Repair Café is back this Saturday.

Wobbly chair, glitchy toaster, jumper with a hole? Our volunteer fixers will help you mend it, for free. Tea and chat included.

📅 Sat 16 Aug | 🕙 10am-12pm | 📍 Levenshulme Old Library