Top 4: Chaos to Order at Central Library ft. fiction, music & more

We recently posted about Manchester’s home-grown band Everything Everything (pictured) curating a week-long schedule of events and experiments at Central Library, named Chaos to Order. Its presence has proved popular as tickets for one event after the other have been snapped up, but here’s how you can still get involved…

Chaos and Shape: Manchester Fiction Showcase
Visitors are treated to an evening of the city’s hottest new fiction writers talking about their creative processes, along with a sneak peek into their latest works. The bill features Emma Jane Unsworth, Kerry Wilkinson, Chris Killen and Zoe Lambert – who have collectively won a Betty Trask Award, outsold Dan Brown, won the Best Comedy Feature award at the London Independent Film Festival and been shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize (and those only scratches the surface).
Wed 12 Nov, 6.30pm, FREE, www.librarylive.co.uk

Chaos to Order: Dumblove Encounters presents Folk/tale
This will be a story born of brief encounters as Uniformed Dumblove writers collect the tales of visitors as they exit the library’s elevators; creating a collaborative storytelling piece that is a snapshot of the library during this period in time.
Mon 10, Tue 11, Thu 13 & Sat 15 Nov, Each Folk/tale begins every 5 minutes, between 11.00am and 11.55am in the ground floor lifts, FREE, www.librarylive.co.uk

Chaos to Order: Emerging Musicians in Residence
Musicians Sara Lowes and Liam Frost are to work with emerging musicians exploring the library and the theme ‘Chaos to Order’; an opportunity for everyone to learn, discover, explore and create, culminating to a lunchtime performance in the Henry Watson Music Library at 1.30pm on Saturday 15 November.
Mon 10 – Fri 14 Nov, 10am – 6pm, FREE, www.librarylive.co.uk

Chaos to Order: Between Us, We Know Everything…
Quarantine is a mobile video studio that invites visitors to film something they want to share with the world, to be published on www.betweenusweknoweverything.com. It seeks to capture what we know – creating a huge online map of knowledge.
Mon 10 – Fri 14 Nov, Outside the library, 12pm – 7pm, FREE, www.librarylive.co.uk

Mon 10 – Sat 15 Nov, Central Library, St Peters Square, M2 5PD. Tel: 0161 234 1983, www.librarylive.co.uk