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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…

Alan Turing in Manchester: His last years and legacy

11:00 - 12:00 2 November 2012
11am-12pm. 2012 marks the centenary of Alan Turing, the computer visionary who spent his last six years at The University of Manchester. In his final work, Turing moved away from designing…

Boyd Dawkins: Ancient worlds cave hunter

13:00 - 14:00 2 November 2012
1-2pm. Join historian Leucha Veneer in this talk to find out more about William Boyd Dawkins, the Manchester Museum’s first curator. He hunted, found and recorded tools from Neolithic…

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…

Family event | Writers' Skills

13:00 30 October - 15:00 2 November 2012
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS For children of all ages, their families and carers: Writers' Skills On: Tuesday 30 October, Wednesday 31 October, Thursday 1 October & Friday 2 November. All session…

Growers' gallery

10:00 27 October - 17:00 4 November 2012
Saturday 27 October-Sunday 4 November, 10am-5pm. From Manchester to Palestine and from Europe to the USA and South America, 11,000 sunflowers were pledged in 13 countries. This media…

Half term: Ancient Worlds

11:00 29 October - 16:00 2 November 2012
Mon 29 Oct-Fri 2 Nov, 11am-4pm. Explore the newly-opened Ancient Worlds galleries and find out about technology used by the ancient peoples of Greece, Rome and Egypt, as well as discovering…

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…

Mummifying oranges

12:30 - 15:30 2 November 2012
Wednesday 31 October & Friday 2 November, 12.30-1.30pm & 2.30-3.30pm. Don your lab coats and roll up your sleeves for this hands-on workshop, where you will find out more about the…

MUMS Lunchtime Concert Series – The Cosmo Singers

13:00 - 14:00 2 November 2012
The Cosmo Singers and their new conductors start a busy concert season with a programme of inspiring choral works. James Macmillan, Ernst Toch and Arvo Pärt among others will resound this lunchtime.

PANDA Conference: ‘Courage & Collaboration’

10:00 - 20:00 2 November 2012
Call to action for those working in the performing arts. Be ready to be inspired by talks, debates and workshops. Bring an open and participatory spirit, and you’ll take away knowledge,…

Standing on the shoulders of giants

17:30 - 18:30 2 November 2012
5.30-6.30pm. Building upon the knowledge of others over many generations, known as cumulative cultural evolution, is arguably unique to humans and possibly responsible for our success…

The Beast Within - human parasite drawings

27 October - 4 November 2012
Sheffield based artist Paul Evans unveils the results of a collaboration with Prof Matthew Cobb, Prof Kathryn Else and Dr Sheena Cruickshank from the Faculty of Life Sciences at The…

The House that Stank of Death

19:00 - 22:00 2 November 2012
A Halloween multimedia comedy/horror extravaganza by David Isaac (Lunch Monkeys – BBC3) and Peter Slater (Ideal – BBC3). Five short plays and four short films which will make you scream…

Turing text - Postponed

19:00 - 21:00 2 November 2012
Due to delays in the programming of the 'Turing Text' game (an interactive creative writing social media game), this Friday's event 'Turing Texts' has had to be postponed until the…

When Do Demands For Gender Equality Get Government Attention? Researching Gender Policy Change Comparatively

12:00 - 13:00 2 November 2012
A Policy@Manchester Event Governments have packed policy agendas and it is rare that new demands - including measures to promote gender equality – grab the attention of decision makers.…

Alan Turing: Tortured genius of the computer age

12:00 3 November 2012
12-2pm. Enjoy a guided walk celebrating Alan Turing, the brains behind the earliest achievement in the invention of computers, in what is his centenary year. Walk starts at the Manchester…

DNA: Can it predict your future health?

14:00 - 15:30 3 November 2012
2-3.30pm. DNA technologies have the potential to impact on us all and many people expect DNA testing to become routine within medicine. What can your DNA reveal? Will we all become…

MUMS String Orchestra & Brass Ensembles

19:30 - 22:30 3 November 2012
Pärt – Summa Vivaldi – Concerto No. 2, “Summer” Webern – Langsamer Satz Lennox Berkeley – Serenade for Strings Corigliano – Fanfares to Music Ingram Marshall – Fog Tropes…

The Balance of Mind and Heart

09:30 - 16:00 3 November 2012
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Speaker : Laurence Freeman Meditation is the ancient spiritual wisdom that balance the human person and opens us to the ultimate meaning of…

Space lizards ate my sister!

14:00 - 15:30 4 November 2012
2-3.30pm. Children’s author Mark Griffiths talks about writing comedy science fiction for children and reads from his latest book Space Lizards Ate My Sister! Plus there’s a chance…

Gateways - Year 11 Skills for Success Visit

09:45 - 14:30 6 November 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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