Defeat The Librarian: The Manchester Poetry Library Edition

Defeat The Librarian: The Manchester Poetry Library Edition

In the style of TV's 'Taskmaster', you will be challenged to delight our fearsome Taskmistress, Becky Swain in live book-related tasks.

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Date and time

Friday, June 6 · 6:30 - 8pm GMT+1

Location

Manchester Poetry Library at Manchester Metropolitan University

Grosvenor East Building Cavendish Street Manchester M15 6BG United Kingdom

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

After the roaring success of Defeat the Librarian at The Portico Library, we are delighted to welcome its humorous and creative challenges to our very own Poetry Library. Similar to the format of the TV show "Taskmaster", the aim is to have fun, encourage creativity, and delight our fearsome TaskMistress, Becky Swain. The TaskMistress will be aided in her quest for the best team by her Assistant, Esther Lisk-Carew.

Each team of will put forward participants to do live book related tasks, themed around Manchester Poetry Library’s collection.

Participants: Teams of 2-4 people. Please book as a pair or group of 4 if you want to team up together in advance, otherwise we will pair you up / put you in teams on the night.

This event is part of the 2025 Festival of Libraries.

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Manchester Poetry Library
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In 2021, Manchester Metropolitan University will open the North West’s first public poetry library. The mission of Manchester Poetry Library is to widen access to poetry and to support the creation and performance of new writing at every level from primary school to professional publication.

FreeJun 6 · 6:30 PM GMT+1