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Aisha Khalid: Larger Than Life

6 October 2012 - 27 January 2013
EXHIBITION Aisha Khalid: Larger Than Life. Exhibition runs until 27 January 2013. Lahore-based Aisha Khalid is one of Pakistan’s leading contemporary artists. She is part of a generation…

Alan Turing and Life’s Enigma

24 March - 18 November 2012
Inspired by 1950s design and combining Alan Turing’s notes with museum objects, this exhibition documents Turing’s investigation into one of the great mysteries of nature: how complex…

Breed: The British & their Dogs

6 October 2012 - 14 April 2013
6 October 2012-14 April 2013 The history of the British Isles and its inhabitants, both human and canine, has long been entwined. Breed reveals the enduring and affectionate relationship…

Building on Things: images of ruin and renewal

6 October 2012 - 6 January 2013
No encounter or engagement with ruins is ever just about the past. Ruins are vehicles for time travel in the imagination. A ruined building is a reminder to the viewer of the passage…

Hockney to Hogarth: A Rake’s Progress

6 October 2012 - 27 January 2013
EXHIBITION Hockney to Hogarth: A Rake’s Progress. Exhibition runs until 3 February 2013. The Whitworth has been presented with David Hockney’s entire print series A Rake’s Progress…

Jane and Louise Wilson

6 October 2012 - 27 January 2013
EXHIBITION Jane and Louise Wilson. Exhibition runs until 27 January 2013. Bringing together recent works by the acclaimed British artists Jane and Louise Wilson, this exhibition…

Manchester Literature Festival at the Whitworth

7 - 19 October 2012
Manchester Literature Festival at the Whitworth. Dates: 7, 10, 12, 13, 14 & 19 October 2012. Manchester Literature Festival events showcasing work by established and emerging authors,…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert & Seminar

13:00 - 15:30 8 October 2012
Fauré Quartet in E minor Op. 121 Delius Quartet (1916) Grieg Quartet in G minor, Op. 27 Like Debussy and Ravel, Fauré and Delius composed just one string quartet apiece: the…

Surgery Complications and Death

18:30 - 20:00 9 October 2012
Manchester Medical Society (Surgery) : There is a charge of £10 for non members of the Manchester Medical Society to attend this meeting. Medical students can attend for free. To…

Future First 2012

10:00 10 - 15:00 11 October 2012
IAG event for schools in Rochdale

Lessons Learnt from the Greater Manchester Pathology Network

17:00 - 18:30 10 October 2012
Manchester Medical Society (Pathology) : There is a charge for non members of the Manchester Medical Society to attend this meeting. Medical / Biomedical Students can attend for free.…

Literature Live: Carcanet Poets (Manchester Literature Festival)

13:00 - 15:00 10 October 2012
William Letford, Judith Jedamus & Evan Jones Contributors to Carcanet’s bestselling anthology, New Poetries V, launch their debut collections at this showcase event celebrating some…

Romano-Ward Syndrome

16:30 - 20:00 11 October 2012
Manchster Medical Society (Anaesthesia) : There is a charge for non members of the Manchester Medical Society to attend this meeting. Medical Students can attend for free. To register…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert - MANTIS

13:00 - 14:00 11 October 2012
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents a lunchtime concert ahead of its forthcoming weekend festival (Sat 27 + Sun 28 October) of electro-acoustic concerts.

Literature Live: Richard Ford (Manchester Literature Festival)

18:30 - 21:30 12 October 2012
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford discusses his eagerly awaited new novel Canada. A visionary novel of vast landscapes, complex identities and fragile humanity, Canada tells…

After Hours: Bunford & Kashiwagi...

19:30 - 22:30 13 October 2012
Bunford & Kashiwagi... In the mix & friends. FREE. Musician, Huw Bunford (Super Furry Animals) and artist, Naomi Kashiwagi perform new soundscapes that tune into and crank up the volume…

Big Saturday: Dogs on Show

11:00 - 16:00 13 October 2012
11am-4pm. With live dogs in our courtyard and activities for all the family. You can meet a Bloodhound, Bulldog, Borzoi, Collie, Pekinese and Irish Wolfhound and their breeders. There’s…

Manchester Weekender: Bunford & Kashiwagi...in the mix

14:00 - 15:00 13 October 2012
2-3pm. Huw Bunford (Super Furry Animals) and artist, Naomi Kashiwagi perform new soundscapes that tune into and crank up the volume of found sounds in the Museum. The performance will…

Manchester Weekender: Manchester Dogs

13:30 - 14:30 13 October 2012
1.30-2.30pm. The story of three types of canine associated with Manchester and its region: street dogs, Manchester terriers and the Lyme Hall mastiffs. In the nineteenth century…

Manchester Weekender: Speed Chess

12:00 - 14:00 13 October 2012
12-2pm. Alan Turing is known to many as a celebrated Manchester genius – you may know him better for building the world’s first programmable computer, code breaking at Bletchley or…

The Orchestra that Fell to Earth

20:00 - 22:30 13 October 2012
The Penguin Cafe Orchestra first appeared in 1976 and went on to tour and record extensively throughout the eighties and nineties; pieces such as ‘Music for a Found Harmonium’ and ‘Telephone…

Tony White, Dicky Star and the Garden Rule

20:00 13 October 2012
Tony White, Dicky Star and the Garden Rule. Saturday 13 October, 8pm. Free. Dicky Star and the Garden Rule follows a young couple through the turbulent days at the end of April 1986…

Comic Creations

13:30 - 15:30 14 October 2012
Free for children of all ages, their families and carers. Love comics and want to learn how to draw cartoons? Join artists and learn illustration techniques, make your own comics and create floor art characters.

Hockney to Hogarth: A Rake’s Progress | Poetry

14:00 - 16:00 14 October 2012
A Rake’s Progress: Poetry Poet Kei Miller performs newly commissioned work responding to Hockney to Hogarth: A Rake’s Progress.

Literature Live: Paul Farley and Deryn Rees-Jones (Manchester Literature Festival)

15 October 2012
Manchester Literature Festival and the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester present two of the UK’s most acclaimed poets. Paul Farley has published four poetry collections…

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