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75th Anniversary Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Manchester Musuem and Manchester City Council

6 August 2020
75th Anniversary Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Manchester Museum and Manchester City Council Manchester remembers the events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years on To commemorate the dropping…

Cancelled: Jodrell Bank: 75 Years of science

20 April - 13 November 2020
-Please note that these events have been cancelled due to the Coronavirus outbreak- 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of Jodrell Bank Observatory. Since 1945, this globally significant…

Cancelled: Stars and Stones

2 May - 7 October 2020
-Please note that these events have been cancelled due to the Coronavirus outbreak- 2nd May, 13th May, 24th June, 11th July, 9th September and 7th October Stars and Stones offers…

Imran Perretta: the destructors

8 May - 4 October 2020
The Whitworth presents a new 2-screen film by London-based artist Imran Perretta. Drawing on the artist’s own experience as a young man of Bangladeshi heritage, the film explores personal…

Instruments of Change

19 March 2019 - 31 December 2020
Instruments of Change is an exhibition that showcases objects from the Beswick Collection at the Museum of Medicine and Health, telling the stories of the people of Manchester whose…

Telescope Walking Tours

2 December 2019 - 2 December 2020
-Please note that Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre is currently closed due to the Coronavirus outbreak- (Weekdays) 2.30pm (Weekends) 11.45am and 2.30pm We’ll be hosting our popular Telescope…

Utopias

31 January - 4 October 2020
Utopia is, at its essence, about creating a perfect world, yet in this way, it is always in opposition with the present. In his seminal book Utopia (1516), Thomas More gave name and…

See, Make and Do at the Museum - Autism-Friendly

09:15 - 11:15 8 August 2020
Sat 8 Aug: 9.15-11.15am See, Make and Do at the Museum - Autism-Friendly Join us for early openings at the Museum aimed at children who have autism and other needs, along with their…

Wordwear! CANCELLED

10:30 - 12:00 11 August 2020
Make your own piece of mood jewellery, inspired by poems to express how you feel. Taking different coloured beads to express different emotions, you’ll create your very own mood jewellery.…

Challenging Colourism and Western Beauty Standards Workshop 2

03:00 - 04:30 12 August 2020
A workshop about colourism and beauty standards within the South Asian community. Session 2 will allow participants to read out poems, creative pieces and conclude with engaging conversation,…

The Carcanet Cat: Printing demo CANCELLED

11:15 - 11:30 12 August 2020
See our Columbian Printing Press in action as we print the purrrfect cat! Paws for a print to learn about Manchester-based Carcanet Press. To celebrate 50 years of poetry publishing,…

ROS for Nuclear Sensing, online workshop

09:30 - 11:30 13 August 2020
This online workshop will focus on designing Robot Operating System (ROS) messages to better integrate radiation sensors onto robot platforms. Agenda TBC. Registration and more details…

Wordwear! CANCELLED

10:30 - 12:00 18 August 2020
Make your own piece of mood jewellery, inspired by poems to express how you feel. Taking different coloured beads to express different emotions, you’ll create your very own mood jewellery.…

Curator Tour: Carcanet CANCELLED

11:00 - 11:30 21 August 2020
Explore the story of Manchester’s Carcanet Press, as we delve into our newest exhibition. Celebrate the enduring power of poetry, discover how the Press continues to promote new poets…

Pandemic-city 3.0

08:00 - 10:30 25 August 2020
The post Covid-19 urban agenda ‘from crisis to transformation’ Hosted by the South African Cities Network and University of Witwatersrand School of Governance In combination with the…

Wordwear! CANCELLED

10:30 - 12:00 25 August 2020
Make your own piece of mood jewellery, inspired by poems to express how you feel. Taking different coloured beads to express different emotions, you’ll create your very own mood jewellery.…

The Carcanet Cat: Printing demo CANCELLED

11:15 - 11:30 26 August 2020
See our Columbian Printing Press in action as we print the purrrfect cat! Paws for a print to learn about Manchester-based Carcanet Press. To celebrate 50 years of poetry publishing,…

Webinar: Social Network Analysis: Fundamental Concepts

15:00 - 16:00 1 September 2020
Vast swathes of our social interactions and personal behaviours are now conducted online and/or captured digitally. Thus, computational methods for collecting, cleaning and analysing…

Coding Demonstrations: Text Mining in Python

16:00 2 - 17:00 30 September 2020
Social scientists may find that working with semi-unstructured data, such as natural language text, is an essential but time consuming and difficult part of a research project. However,…

Foresight 3.0

13:00 - 14:30 4 September 2020
Many cards are up in the air with the pandemic – a ‘hyper-wicked’ problem, with deeper threat multipliers all around. How to manage such transformations, and steer from crisis to opportunity?…

11th International Conference on Environmental Catalysis

6 - 9 September 2020
On behalf of the organizers, I would like to invite you to the 11th International Conference on Environmental Catalysis in Manchester, UK from 6 to 9 September 2020. The ICEC, which…

The Carcanet Cat: Printing demo CANCELLED

11:15 - 11:30 9 September 2020
See our Columbian Printing Press in action as we print the purrrfect cat! Paws for a print to learn about Manchester-based Carcanet Press. To celebrate 50 years of poetry publishing,…

Deeper City-3.0

13:00 - 14:30 11 September 2020
Many cards are up in the air with the pandemic – the future of cities being one. Can we expect enclaves of safety and risk, policed by surveillance cameras and paramilitaries? Or…

See, Make and Do at the Museum - Autism-Friendly

09:15 - 11:15 12 September 2020
Sat 12 Sept: 9.15-11.15am See, Make and Do at the Museum - Autism-Friendly Join us for early openings at the Museum aimed at children who have autism and other needs, along with their…

Sexual Violence on University Campuses

17:00 - 18:30 14 September 2020
Shamus Khan & Jennifer Hirsch, authors of Sexual Citizens, In conversation with Dr Caroline M Parker In SEXUAL CITIZENS: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus, Columbia…

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