Manchester Met at the International Mother Language Day

On Thursday 21st February 2019, Manchester will celebrate International Mother Language Day with exciting events taking place across the city.

The International Mother Language Day is one of our major City of Literature activities organised by the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Met in collaboration with The University of Manchester and other partners in the UNESCO City of Literature consortium.

The writers and researchers at Manchester Met, based in the Manchester Writing School, are always exploring two distinct paths within their work; how creative writing might serve as a mode of enquiry into the world and how such research might be disseminated outside of the academy in order for it to have the greatest impact. Our Writers at Manchester Met series allows us to interrogate the very best contemporary writing and continue to explore new ways in which it might reach wider audiences.

One of these events is the Multilingual Mushaira on Thursday 21st February at 7pm - 9pm, at Longsight Library. A mushaira is a lively and interactive poetry performance event, traditionally in Urdu and other South Asian languages; at the Multi-language Mushaira, everyone will be invited to share poetry in any language of their choice, around the theme of food.

Anyone can join in! Even if you can’t make it on the day, you can film yourself reading poetry in any language and upload it to Twitter or Instagram, using our #McrMushaira at any time in the lead up to 21st February. Or do both. We hope to see you at one of our participating libraries.

For more information about the full schedule of International Mother Language Day events, please click here.