Events List
People's Emergency Briefing, hosted by Better Business Network
Join us for a film featuring highlights from the National Emergency Briefing (NEB), which brought leading UK experts together to explore what the climate crisis means for our health, food, national security and economy.
Caribbean Nights: Windrush film screening
FREE | BOOK ONLINE
KANARIS THEATRE
Join us for an evening of remembering, honouring and sharing stories from the Windrush generation. A screening of Milestone: Streets Paved With Gold will be followed by a Q&A discussion with Victor Richards who stars in, wrote and directed the film, alongside local guests.
Refugee Week film screening
FREE | BOOK ONLINE
LOCATION TBC
Join us for a film screening, as part of the Refugee Week Film Festival. Each year, Refugee Week curates a selection of short and feature-length films exploring themes of displacement, migration, belonging and community. The films invite reflection, conversation, and connection.
Waving Kites: Flowing Stories
FREE | Book online
KANARIS THEATRE, FLOOR 2
Enjoy stories of the Hongkonger diasporic experience across different moments and places, through two film screenings as part of the Waving Kites: Hong Kong Diasporic Cinema UK Tour.
Waving Kites: Reunification
FREE | Book online
KANARIS THEATRE, FLOOR 2
Enjoy stories of the Hongkonger diasporic experience across different moments and places, through two film screenings as part of the Waving Kites: Hong Kong Diasporic Cinema UK Tour.
Khartoum
FREE | Book online
KANARIS THEATRE, FLOOR 2
Join us for a panel discussion and a screening of a documentary exploring how the war in Sudan has impacted life in Khartoum. Khartoum is a film that looks at five lives, one city and a nation at war.
Sauvages screening with Friends of the Earth
FREE | Book online
KANARIS THEATRE, FLOOR 2
Join Manchester Friends of the Earth for a special screening of ‘Sauvages’ - an animated film about a family fleeing conflict in Borneo’s rainforest.
South Asian Film Club: The Queen of My Dreams
£6.13 | Book online
SOUTH ASIA GALLERY, FLOOR 1
The 2025 South Asian Film Club screens The Queen of My Dreams, following Pakistani-Canadian Azra on a Bollywood-inspired journey through memory, family and identity. Set in 1999 with flashbacks to 1969, the film explores generational and cultural contrasts.
Film runtime: 97 minutes.