July 2025 Events at the Burgess Foundation
All the events for July 2025 at the Burgess Foundation.
Events for July 2025
Talk: Manchester Lit & Phil presents Mrs Dalloway at 100 | Wednesday 9 July, 6:30pm, £15 | One hundred years after the publication of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, join experts Mark Hussey and Kaye Mitchell in discussion (more information).
Comedy: Mitch Benn – the Lehrer Effect | Thursday 10 July, 6:30pm/8:30pm, £10 | Greater Manchester Fringe presents comedian Mitch Benn’s musical tribute to the comic songwriting legend Tom Lehrer. Please note, there are two performances on 10 July. (more information).
Talk: Manchester Lit & Phil presents How They Built the Atomic Bomb | Thursday 17 July, 6:30pm, £15 | Ed Glinert explores Manchester’s surprising connection to the development of the Atomic Bomb (more information).
Concert: Joseph Dawson and Tim Toft Violins present An Evening of Chamber Music | Friday 18 July, 7:30pm, £10 | Manchester-based cellist Joseph Dawson and fine instrument shop Tim Toft Violins present a delightful evening of chamber works (more information).
Theatre: Delusions of Grandeur | Saturday 19 July, 3:00pm/7:30pm, Sunday 20 July, 2:00pm, £17 | Greater Manchester Fringe presents a prize-winning blend of classical music and theatre from Karen Hall. Please note, there are two performances on 19 July and one performance on 20 July (more information).
Theatre: When You Die | Wednesday 23 July, 7:30pm, £12 | Greater Manchester Fringe presents When You Die, a Gothic horror meets slice-of-life comedy that bridges the gap between rib-rattling laughs and side-splitting horror (more information).
Theatre: Leeches | Saturday 26 July, 7:30pm, £8 | Greater Manchester Fringe presents Leeches, a story that weaves together the lives of three inherently insecure characters who capitalise on an alleged act of violence at a protest (more information).
Concert: distant parochial laughter… | Sunday 27 July, 3:00pm, £8 | Experimental collective Luskherow Taran perform an interactive set of new compositions (more information).
The Anthony Burgess Foundation Online
Visit the Burgess Foundation’s website to find out more about Anthony Burgess’s work, online exhibitions, reading resources, and articles about the Foundation’s archive.
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The Burgess Foundation’s YouTube channel contains a variety of content about Anthony Burgess, including recordings of Burgess talking about A Clockwork Orange, examples of his music, and his readings of work by other writers. Last month we released a new recording of a song from Blooms of Dublin, Burgess’s musical based on James Joyce’s novel Ulysses.
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