Free things to do in Manchester this week ft. Women of Weird Fiction + more

Call Me By Your Name Screening at MMU
Manchester Metropolitan University’s Geoffrey Manton building hosts a screening of the 2017 Academy Award-winning drama Call Me By Your Name as part of this year’s Beyond Babel bilingual film festival. Over this month, the University will be hosting a number of screenings of bilingual films with special introductions by an academic. In this case the languages are Italian and English (with English subtitles) and the Italian lecturer Nicoletta DiCiolla will be providing the introduction.
Tue 7 May, Manchester Metropolitan University, LT3, Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond Street West, Manchester, M15 6EB, 6pm – 8.30pm, www.eventbrite.com

Women of Weird Fiction at Blackwells (pictured)
Live Literature night Bad Language have organised this one-off reading event at University bookshop Blackwells on Wednesday evening. Presented as part of the Feminist Book Fortnight, this event marks the launch of new all-female weird fiction collection Disturbing The Beast. A number of contributors to the volume will be reading excerpts from their feminist fables on the night, and copies will be available to purchase.
Wed 8 May, Blackwell’s Bookshop, University Green, 146 Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9GP, 7pm – 8.30pm, www.eventbrite.co.uk

Melodies of Life Exhibition Launch at Chuck Gallery
Longsight gallery Chuck launches its latest exhibition on Thursday night: The first solo exhibition from Nigerian figurative painter and sculptor Ovie Kings Iruru. Melodies of Life explores femininity and shared experience, told through a series of pictures created by the artist – employing his signature technique of using straight lines to make personal portraits that come to resemble an urban landscape.
Thu 9 May, Chuck Gallery, 166 Plymouth Grove, Manchester, M13 0AF, 6pm – 9pm, www.eventbrite.co.uk

Mona Lisa Screening at 70 Oxford Street
Also on Thursday night, 70 Oxford Street presents a screening of the 1986 Bob Hoskins film Mona Lisa, as part of the ongoing Manchester Crime and Justice Film Festival run by MMU’s Department of Sociology. The film tells the story of a down on his luck gangster who is charged with looking after a high-class call girl. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with MMU lecturer and criminal rehabilitation policy advisor Kevin Wong. If you’re feeling peckish, you will also be able to pick up pasties made by H.M. Pasties, a company set up to provide catering employment for ex-convicts.
Thu 9 May, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH, 6pm – 8.30pm, www.eventbrite.com