Historic Moment for #GreaterManchester 🐝✨ I am incredibly proud to witness my friend, author & broadcaster Mark Llewellin DL, officially installed as the #HighSheriff of #GreaterManchester for 2026/27. 👏🏿👏🏽👏🏻 #CommunitySpirit #YourManchester #VoluntarySector #Tameside #Leadership

Personally I feel working in a heritage building that is also a library often means being a custodian of both the physical architecture and the knowledge housed within. This is your last chance to have an opportunity to apply for this unique position. Join us at 🏛️ The Portico Library 📚

Rules in Life: You should give your camera lens a quick wipe down before taking a photo 📸 #HotBoobMist 🤩 #IYKYK

One for @zebracaz.bsky.social

‘’Dad, what did the 80s sound like?’’ #synthwave #80s #nostalgia

A huge thank you to our speakers Fiona Taylor - BA(HONS), MA, Revd. and Simone Roche MBE for their insightful contributions to today's CMI West Midlands & North West webinar "𝗪𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗘𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗽𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽" 👏 YouTube link www.youtube.com/live/mORu_Xb... #CMICommunity

As Chair of Chartered Management Institute regional board - CMI West Midlands & North West - I invited my fabulous guests Simone Roche MBE and Revd Fiona Taylor - to join me for #WiseWomenRising - Embracing Menopause in Leadership www.youtube.com/live/mORu_Xb... @cmi-managers.bsky.social

We’d also like to share that Heritage Operations Manager and Chair, Portico Public Programme Committee, Carol Ann Whitehead FRSA CMgr CCMI, has made it to the final eight for the 2026 EmpoWErment Champion Finalists...

🧵 The Portico Library are proud to share that our CEO, Dr Thom Keep, has been recognised on the 2026 Advocacy List by the Northern Power Women Awards...

📚 We’re hiring Passionate about connecting historic books and archives with communities, readers and researchers?...

🔗 We'll be holding our free public opening on Thursday 19th March. You can book your spot here: www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...

Still buzzing ✨flying the @porticolibrary.bsky.social & #ZebraTribe flag at the #NorthernPowerWomenAwards being awarded highly commended in the #EmpowermentChampion category - fab being interviewed by #MichelleEagleton & catching up with fab #STEM legend Prof Sue Black 💖

#WhiteheadOnTheWireless 📻 In my 12th year as a contribution and first for 2026 I was back on #BBCRadioManchester with Broadcaster, former Deputy Lieutenant Eamonn O’Neal and radio host & former CITV presenter Danielle Nicholls. Prof Helen Pankhurst CBE & I will be on the radio Fri am 💜🖤🤍💚 #IWD2026

🧵 We're sadly approaching the final week of Stephen Emmerson's wonderful exhibition, How To Read A Book. We've absolutely loved having the collection in the library, and so many of you have had such lovely things to say about the work...

“As we step into #WomensHistoryMonth 2026, we do so with the profound understanding that #genderequality is the bedrock of global #humanrights. In the spirit of #ZeroDiscriminationDay, we commit to #amplifyingmutedvoices” 🟪⬜️🟩 An extract from my quote @5050parliament.bsky.social House of Commons

The sun came out for @porticolibrary.bsky.social Dr Debbie Challis & yours truly for our #HeritageHoliday trip to Liverpool. This knowledge sharing, best practice visit was to #TheReaderUK and the Mansion House at Calderstones. Thanks Jemma & Anton 👏🏿👏🏽👏🏻

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Look at my pressie from him indoors #ThreadsOfDestiny from #StarTrek Deviations ✨ Mahoosive thank you @danwhitehead.net

“STOP WITH THE AI CARICATURES!!! PLEASE! It’s not funny, it’s not a joke, AI steals from artists to then churn out these god awful things… .. Just support the ARTS, it’s just as important as anything else. Art is work.” #MarcJackson Well said that man 👏🏿👏🏽👏🏻 #ArtIsWork #SupportTheArts #Comics

#StockportRaceEqualityPartnership Event: Stockport Race & Culture Awards Host: #CarolAnnWhitehead Date: 6 Feb 2026 Category: Young Person of the Year Presented by: Kofo Kego Oyeleye, Chair of #GMCA #RaceEqualityPanel Winner: ✨Papula Aga ✨ Well done Papula 👏🏿👏🏽👏🏻 #community #youth

About 1,000 endangered sea turtles were rescued in Florida after extreme winter weather left them cold-stunned. This massive rescue effort shows what’s possible when communities act quickly to protect ocean wildlife.

Really ? I am surprised. With such an outstanding moral compass too 🤷🏽‍♀️

Stockport Race And Culture Awards Well!! That was a bit of a blast last night💥 Not only supporting Stockport Race Equality Partnership (S-REP) Directors #AbaGraham & #SolomonOnaolapo but hosting the awards for the 4th year is an absolute tonic. Amazing finalists 👏🏿👏🏽👏🏻 @stockportcouncil.bsky.social

Happy February!! Have a wonderful week everyone My #ZebraTribe week: 🔸Kickstart #RaceEqualityWeek with my University of East London Fellowship 🔸CMI MotherShip Meetings 🔸Back up north for the Stockport Race & Culture Awards Meanwhile Starbucks making me feel special 🤩

January in a nutshell ✨ @5050parliament.bsky.social Ambassador @gmchamber.bsky.social speaker • #ClassCeiling Launch • @porticolibrary.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social visit • #NPWawards finalist• Finalist @cmi-managers.bsky.social Finalist • #GMBTE Lifetime Achievement award Grateful 💫

#PorticoLibrary Volunteers Rock!! Meet the fabulous Ikram. Thanks to the visitors for joining us for our first Saturday opening of 2026. @porticolibrary.bsky.social 📚

Hey UK friends - it would really help me out in my day job if you could take this anonymous survey. Even if you don’t watch Korean drama, that’s still really useful data for us! tally.so/r/81LqBo

"I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition" #Sade #Musician Happy 67th birthday to the forever muse, Sade Adu 🌹who looks amazing. Long before any backlash of the 2023 live action ‘Little Mermaid’, Sade did this back in 1992! 34 years ago! 😲 Going for a lie down 🫣

Live by the Sun ☀️ Love by the Moon 🌙 #TheZebraPartnership (Publishing / Events / Campaigns) #OutOfOffice #Christmas2025 🫶🏿🫶🏽🫶🏻🫶

#ChristmasFeast 🏛️ @porticolibrary.bsky.social 📚 Fab event by Chef #JoeFenn & his team. Hosted by Dr Thom Keep, CEO & yours truly Chair, Public Programme Committee. Exciting times #PorticoReunited is an £11 m capital project that will transform & #futureproof our Grade II* listed building.

#SpreadingTheGospel for #ShirleyMay that @youngidentitymcr.bsky.social are looking for Trustees to join their board. Great opportunity 👏🏿👏🏽👏🏻 Application pack here: static1.squarespace.com/static/5e678...

16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence UNiTE to End Digital Violence against All Women and Girls Women putting the needs women and girls at the forefront of what they do. First Minister & Deputy First Minister of #NorthernIreland #AmplifyingMutedVoices #AmplifyingWomensVoices

Happy Birthday to @porticolibrary.bsky.social Michelle L Hill our Membership, Finance and Admin Administrator but most of all our #MotherOfWeddings

“Hey Queens” ✨💚✨ Here I go again spreading the #AmplifyingMutedVoices gospel this time in #Belfast in the vast #Mandela Hall at Queens University for Women in Business Northern Ireland #VoicesOfLeadership conference. I met my #LeadershipIcon #TinaMcKenzieMBE - and was relatively cool about it 😄

Did a rare repeat cinema visit to see Black Phone 2 a second time, because my daughter is home from uni for half-term and she’s a fellow horror nut. Still an absolute blast.

I love with these stunning photos taken during Bimbo Ponmile's book launch for #WorldMentalHealthDay & #BlackHistoryMonth at @porticolibrary.bsky.social for #PorticoUbuntu - #QueensInPrint 📸 Photos by the fantastic Gideon Okorie #Nigeria 🇳🇬

Ubuntu: Black Creatives with Kevin Dalton Johnson - part one Under @porticolibrary.bsky.social Dome this inspiring masterclass and interview with international artist Kevin hosted by yours truly, Portico Public Programme Committee Chair, Carol Ann Whitehead CMgr CCMI - UK Black History Month 2025

#Portico #Ubuntu Local History, Global Impact exhibition launch. Celebrating the 80th anniversary of the 5th #PanAfricanCongress in #Manchester - A chance to engage with history, learn, contribute to the ongoing conversation & honor the legacy of those who came before us @porticolibrary.bsky.social

#PorticoReunited This once-in-a-lifetime project will reunite all 3 floors of the Portico for the first time in over a century via a lift, creating the UK’s most sustainable historic library – a place for heritage, literature, creativity & community. www.theportico.org.uk/reuniting-po...

For whatever it’s worth:

#FridayFeeling Congratulations to @porticolibrary.bsky.social Apapat Jai-in Glynn 🌟 on being shortlisted for Heritage Volunteer Group (HVG) Volunteer Leader of The Year 2025. Here she supporting the #PorticoKitchen at the lunch for The University of Manchester students visit with an welcome talk ✨

Women Leading in Business – September 2025 🌟 @alliancembs.bsky.social We had the honour of listening to Professor Dawn Edge, Professor of Mental Health & Inclusivity at #TheUniversityofManchester and the institution’s first Black woman professor.

Images at the @porticolibrary.bsky.social by #GideonOkorie Creative Story Teller Through Photography Through the torrential rain Gideon Okorie brought the #Lagos sunshine via not just his smile but his ideas & vision supporting yours truly creating #Ubuntu Events for #BlackHistoryMonth 2025

Just dropped my daughter off at university so if anyone needs me, I’m the sobbing pile of goo in the corner.