Conversation will be guided by Amy Etherington, Portico Kitchen staff member and MA in Literature with a specific interest in Gothic and women’s fiction from the 19th century.
🔗 Book your spot here: www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
Enjoy rout cake, cheese boards, spruce beer and more underneath the Portico’s regency period glass dome, immersing yourself in the tastes that defined Austen’s world.
This intimate event will feature a curated selection of dishes enjoyed by Austen’s characters, using food as an entry point to discuss the great novelist’s world, works and legacy...
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✨ Dining with Jane Austen: Tastes of the Regency | Saturday 23rd May
A couple of weeks later, the kitchen team hosts an afternoon of thoughtful conversation and delectable bites centred on the work of Jane Austen...
Ticket price includes a full afternoon tea service, including a selection of sandwiches, cakes, tarts, preserves and more and bottomless Brew Tea Co. loose leaf tea.
Add a glass of prosecco for £7 or a bottle for £25.
🔗 Book your spot here: www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
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For our first Literary Afternoon Tea, we look at Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange. Drawing inspiration from the Korova Milk Bar, this is a unique opportunity to explore one of Manchester’s most famous books in one of its oldest literary institutions...
Supper club event at The Portico
🧵 The wonderful Portico kitchen team has two incredibly exciting events coming up next month!
🍊 Literary Afternoon Tea: A Clockwork Orange | Saturday 9th May
Join us for a unique afternoon tea experience inspired by great works of literature from Manchester & the wider world...
This intimate event will feature a curated selection of dishes enjoyed by Austen’s characters, using food as an entry point to discuss the great novelist’s world, works and legacy...
Dining with Jane Austen: Tastes of the Regency | Saturday 23rd May
A couple of weeks later, the kitchen team hosts an afternoon of thoughtful conversation and delectable bites centred on the work of Jane Austen...
Ticket price includes a full afternoon tea service, including a selection of sandwiches, cakes, tarts, preserves and more and bottomless Brew Tea Co. loose leaf tea.
Add a glass of prosecco for £7 or a bottle for £25.
🔗 Book your spot here: www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
For our first Literary Afternoon Tea, we look at Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange. Drawing inspiration from the Korova Milk Bar, this is a unique opportunity to explore one of Manchester’s most famous books in one of its oldest literary institutions...
Keep an eye on our socials for details of the next Mysterious Book of the Week!
Mysterious Book Club of the Week event at The Portico
Mysterious Book Club of the Week event at The Portico
Mysterious Book Club of the Week event at The Portico
🧵 We had a blast hosting our first-ever Mysterious Book of the Week!
These relaxed drop-in sessions will offer a rare and unique opportunity to delve further into our historic collection, and the success of last week has us incredibly excited about planning the next instalment...
Had a great time today at the @porticolibrary.bsky.social for the Women in Folk Song conference with the Traditional Song Forum! My paper was on transmission of "The Ball o Kirriemuir" among herring gutters in 1880s Banff. Loved all the papers today & seeing Manchester for the first time. 💚
Back in my favourite place in Manchester @porticolibrary.bsky.social for the TSF conference on Women and Folk Song this Saturday 😍
So proud of @clairerakich.bsky.social for a brilliant paper on gendered motifs in the uses of folk songs in movies at today's Traditional Song Forum @porticolibrary.bsky.social - I'll never watch folk song in film the same way again!
We've already had more than 200 responses to our time capsule, too. Next time you're in, we'd love you to share your own memories of The Portico, which we'll be storing in archive to be opened in 2076!
🔗 You can read the full Creative Tourist piece here: www.creativetourist.com/.../everythi...
Everything and Nothing on the Creative Tourist website
A screenshot of Everything and Nothing taken from the Creative Tourist website
Huge thank you to Creative Tourist for the lovely words about our latest exhibition!
One month in, and we're still blown away by the responses to the collection, and it's been wonderful to unearth all of these fascinating stories behind our historic library.
Mats, blocks and blankets will be supplied, but feel free to bring your own too.
Tickets £10 or pay what you can for those on low income, plus a booking fee.
🔗 Book your spot here: www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
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🧵 Next Thursday, join us for an evening of Shakespeare-inspired yoga beneath the historic dome of The Portico!
This experimental yoga flow class, guided by the incredible Polly Anna Steiner, will combine reading sections from Shakespeare (on his birthday) as the light slowly darkens...
Personally I feel working in a heritage building that is also a library often means being a custodian of both the physical architecture and the knowledge housed within.
This is your last chance to have an opportunity to apply for this unique position.
Join us at 🏛️ The Portico Library 📚
📍 Manchester city centre
⏰ 17.5–21 hours per week (0.5–0.6 FTE)
💷 £32,000 pro rata
📄 10-month fixed-term contract
🗓 Application deadline: 5pm, Monday 13 April
This hands-on role will lead on research access, cataloguing, book display, and collections care at an exciting moment for the Library as we progress Portico Reunited, our £11m restoration project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund...
The Portico Library is seeking an Interim Collections Librarian to help care for and share our nationally significant collection of more than 25,000 rare books, archives and manuscripts...
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Last chance to apply!
Passionate about connecting historic books and archives with communities, readers and researchers?..
I'm ashamed to say that I washed in and out of Manchester for four decades before even realising that the @porticolibrary.bsky.social was there. A lovely space that's well worth a visit 📚🫖
No booking is required, and the event is free to join for both members and non-members!
🗓️ Thursday 16th April / 5pm - 6pm
If you have any questions, please email Apapat on engagement@theportico.org.uk
www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
The theme for this edition is ‘Go Big or Go Home’. In the midst of the biggest project the library has ever embarked on — Portico Reunited — we are taking the time to look even closer at the fascinating books on our shelves....And what better way to celebrate than sharing them with our visitors?...
🔗 Next Thursday, we invite you to our first-ever 'Mysterious Book of the Week'...
The relaxed event will offer the rare chance to explore, hold, and dive a little deeper into a selection of mysterious books chosen from our 25,000-strong historic collection...