6 events in Oxford Road this week. Discover gigs, comedy, workshops, markets, and more with TownSpot.

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A Cantonese-language dialogue session exploring migration through lived experience, presented with Readfirst Bookshop. The programme focuses on martial arts, body awareness and internal strength through opening stories, small-group conversations and collective reflection.

The Plural World of Migrants

Manchester Museum, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PL, UK

Poet, performer and cultural activist SuAndi OBE launches the annual Sarah Parker Remond Lecture with a work that is part performance and part public address. It honours Global Majority women whose creativity, leadership, activism, care and resistance have shaped Manchester, alongside the 81st anniversary of the Fifth Pan-African Congress and the bicentenary of Remond's birth. Doors open at 18:30.

Sarah's Sistahs by SuAndi OBE

Grosvenor East theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M15 6BR, UK

A welcoming discussion group sharing stories, poems and non-fiction aloud. Listen, chat and make your own connections; there is no pressure to read and no prior reading experience is needed.

Shared Reading

A relaxed drop-in workshop combining an Autumn Equinox poster craft with traditional Chinese seasonal practice. Senior tai chi qigong teacher Feixia Yu demonstrates autumn movements from 5.30-7pm; craft materials are supplied throughout.

Wellbeing Wednesdays: Autumn Equinox

A social evening exploring the South Asian roots of familiar games including Ludo, Snakes and Ladders and Carrom. Hands-on play and light-touch interpretation trace their links to Pachisi and Moksha Patam.

Made in South Asia Games Night

Maggie O’Farrell discusses Land, her multi-generational novel set in Ireland in 1865. A mapmaker and his son discover an uncharted woodland, opening a story about buried history, landscape, longing and survival. Hosted by Alex Clark.

Maggie O’Farrell

RNCM (Royal Northern College of Music), 124 Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9RD, UK

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Qué Hacer en Oxford Road

🎙️ Sarah's Sistahs by SuAndi OBE

📖 Shared Reading

🍂 Wellbeing Wednesdays: Autumn Equinox

🎲 Made in South Asia Games Night

📚 Maggie O’Farrell

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