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SUMMARY:Research café and exhibition launch - Encountering Biblical Bodie
 s: Sarah Lightman's Biblical Women
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DESCRIPTION:Join Creative Manchester for an informal research cafe and ex
 hibition viewing of Sarah Lightman’s Biblical Women.\n\nAs part of the C
 entre for Biblical Studies’ CIDRAL-funded programme of events entitled E
 ncountering Biblical Bodies\, we are pleased to host works from artist S
 arah Lightman’s Biblical Domestic and Menstrual Hystery series in the Sa
 muel Alexander Glass Corridor.\n\nIn these paintings\, biblical heroines
  trade halos for housework and divine serenity for the messy reality of 
 ageing bodies\, menopause\, and domestic labour. Working primarily in vi
 brant watercolours\, Lightman reimagines figures like Judith\, Mary\, an
 d Eve battling hot flushes\, cluttered kitchens\, and midlife. Rooted in
  the feminist Jewish tradition of midrash\, these works fill in the bibl
 ical silences: the thoughts\, struggles\, and bodily truths left out of 
 the male-dominated canon. With wit\, irreverence\, and deep empathy\, Li
 ghtman asks what happens when we stop hiding ageing bodies and start pai
 nting the parts we were never told.\n\nThis event is an opportunity to v
 iew the exhibition and to hear Sarah Lightman in conversation with membe
 rs of The University of Manchester’s Centre for Biblical Studies and vis
 iting speaker Dr Dawn Llewellyn (Chester).\n\nAgenda:\n4:30pm - 5:00pm -
  Exhibition viewing and refreshments.\n5:00pm - 6:00pm - Panel discussio
 n - Sarah Lightman in conversation with Dawn Llewellyn (University of Ch
 ester)\, Siobhan Jolley (The University of Manchester)\nand Holly Morse 
 (The University of Manchester).\n6:00pm - 6:30pm - Exhibition viewing an
 d networking.
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LOCATION:Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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