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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…

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…

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…

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,…

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.

How do we research recovery?

12:00 - 15:30 15 October 2012
Institute of Health Sciences/Addictions Research Network. Speakers : Dr Tim Millar, NDEC, Univ. of Manchester, Oscar D'Agnone, Director of Clinical Services, Crime Reduction Initiative,…

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…

Stories from West Africa – a performance by Usifu Jalloh

13:00 - 15:00 15 October 2012
Usifu Jalloh will take you on a journey to his homeland with voice and drum during this free lunchtime event. With his background in theatre, Usifu is a professional actor, storyteller,…

Gateways - Year 11 Skills for Success Visit

09:45 - 14:30 16 October 2012
The University of Manchester Gateway Programme provides a new opportunity for Year 7-11 learners within Greater Manchester to participate in a coherent series of academic enrichment…

FairWRC Seminar: Institutional Change and Child Labour in India

13:00 - 14:00 17 October 2012
Manchester Business School Speaker : Dr Wendy Olsen 13:00 - 14:00 with tea and biscuits Dr Olsen is based in the School of Social Sciences here at Manchester, and her research focuses…

Finite Element Analysis with Abaqus

13:00 - 14:00 17 October 2012
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences Speaker : Clint Davies-Taylor (of Dassault Systemes) As part of your studies you may be asked to perform a project or research using Finite…

Gateways - Year 11 Skills for Success Visit

09:45 - 14:30 17 October 2012
The University of Manchester Gateway Programme provides a new opportunity for Year 7-11 learners within Greater Manchester to participate in a coherent series of academic enrichment…

The Confucius Institute talks on China: How do China’s leading thinkers view the rest of the world

13:00 - 14:00 17 October 2012
1-2pm. With Astrid Nordin. Featuring speakers with specialist knowledge of China, these talks cover diverse topics from literature to politics, art, recreation and economics with the…

Gateways - Year 11 Skills for Success Visit

09:45 - 14:30 18 October 2012
The University of Manchester Gateway Programme provides a new opportunity for Year 7-11 learners within Greater Manchester to participate in a coherent series of academic enrichment…

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