Community
MBC Readers Festival
Once a year the whole community gathers. The Readers Festival is the flagship moment of the MBC calendar.
The Readers Festival closes and opens the MBC year. It is where the reading of twelve months becomes a room full of people, and where the club decides out loud what comes next.
The festival is deliberately called a festival, not a fair or a fest. It belongs to readers.
Dates, format and location for the next festival will be announced to members first. Festival infrastructure — ticketing, exhibitor management, programme scheduling — is being built after the core member experience, so nothing here is claimed as live yet.
Awards and recognition
The year's recognitions, celebrated in person.
Public reading
Readers reading, out loud, to each other.
Exhibitions
Books, ideas and the work members have made.
Launches and publications
New work from the community and its guests.
Talks
Guests worth travelling for, in conversation with the club.
Networking
The people you have been reading beside all year.
Community building
The work of belonging, done face to face.
Future conversations
What the club reads and does next.
Be there
Members hear first
Festival announcements, invitations and participation opportunities go to members before anyone else.