Voiced & IMLD26: Opening Event

Name: Voiced & IMLD26: Opening Event
Start: 2026-02-20T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-20T20:15:00+00:00
Location: Manchester Poetry Library at Manchester Metropolitan University

Schedule

Fri Feb 20 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:15 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Manchester Poetry Library at Manchester Metropolitan University | Manchester, EN

Voiced, the UK’s first creative festival for endangered languages, comes to Manchester.
Join us for the opening event.
About this Event

Voiced, the UK’s first creative festival for endangered languages, comes to Manchester.

Join us for the opening event to discover writers and poets working to keep their languages alive through their work. Hear from Rachel Lichtenstein, who has been learning her heritage language of Yiddish to inform the book she is writing, a journey she will share at this event. And if you have never been in the presence of an Archdruid, now is your moment as Mererid Hopwood performs her work and talks of her role in activating the Welsh language through poetry. All performers will take part in a Q and A exploring questions at the heart of the Voiced festival: how can creativity help keep a language alive? What is the role of the young in language activation? And how might we think of the relationship between language and landscape?

This event will have British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation available.

About Voiced

This event is part of the Voiced Festival of Endangered Languages. Through poetry, performance, talks, live events and visual art, the festival brings together a remarkable line-up of artists whose work marks the vast impact art has on language and language has on art. Co-Curated by Sam Winston and Chris McCabe, please see the full programme on the pages below.