Martin Harris Centre

Manchester Pride 2013 - The Other Team EVENT NOW SOLD OUT

19:30 - 22:00 21 August 2013
“They don’t need to know. I just want to play football on a Sunday. It would change things. It shouldn’t, but it would.” Pete loves football and he loves Gary. But when it comes…

Manchester Pride 2013 Chamber Music Concert Series - Tom McKinney (guitar) / Sam Parry (tenor)

13:00 - 15:00 21 August 2013
Poulenc Sarabande for solo guitar Henze Drei Tentos from "Kammermusik" Henze Drei Fragmente nach Holderlin Richard Rodney Bennett 5 Impromptus Sir Peter…

Manchester Pride 2013 Chamber Music Concert Series - RNCM with Pride

13:00 - 15:00 22 August 2013
Saint-Saens Sonata for oboe & piano Saint-Saens Sonata for bassoon & piano Hahn Theme & Variations on the name of Haydn for piano Hahn Première Valses for piano Poulenc Trio…

Manchester Pride Fringe 2013 - VADA Productions presents: Journeys

20:00 - 21:30 22 August 2013
Journeys is a brand new showcase of short plays, sketches and vignettes from new and emerging LGBTQ talent. The promise of holiday romance is explored in vibrant and unexpected…

Manchester Pride 2013 Chamber Music Concert Series - “crowded rooms” – Marc Yeats Recital

13:00 - 15:00 23 August 2013
Marc Yeats playful geometry (piccolo & piano) Marc Yeats pathos (solo cello) Marc Yeats a theft of cold moisture (solo flute) Marc Yeats ENÛMA ELIŠ (solo piano) Marc Yeats …

Please note that this event was due to feature Seamus Heaney. We are very sorry to hear that Seamus Heaney has died: the leading English-language poet of our time and its greatest advocate for poetry.

18:30 - 20:30 14 September 2013
Paul Muldoon & Don Paterson Please note that this event was due to feature Seamus Heaney. 'We are very sorry to hear that Seamus Heaney has died: the leading English-language poet…

Welcome Week Production - Two

19:00 - 21:00 19 September 2013
Jim Cartwright’s Two witnesses laughter, tears and plays host to whole range of clientele, from Early Birds to Last Orders, in your favourite Northern local. Join us as we drink…

Welcome Week Production - Two

19:00 - 21:00 20 September 2013
Jim Cartwright’s Two witnesses laughter, tears and plays host to whole range of clientele, from Early Birds to Last Orders, in your favourite Northern local. Join us as we drink…

Learn to Dance “Strictly Style” – Return to the Ballroom!

13:05 - 14:00 25 September 2013
Due to popular demand we’re bringing Ballroom back to the Martin Harris Centre. Whether you’ve danced with us before or are a complete novice, you’ll love these new routines! You…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series - MANTIS

13:00 - 14:00 26 September 2013
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents a concert of new electroacoustic music from UK-based composers.

Manchester University Music Society (MUMS) - Welcome Concert

19:30 - 21:30 28 September 2013
Wagner Rienzi Overture Bizet Suites from Carmen Poulenc Gloria Manchester University Music Society begins its new season, introducing six student conductors leading the symphony…

Jeanette Winterson “in Conversation” with: Lynne Truss

18:30 - 20:00 30 September 2013
Lynne Truss is a writer and broadcaster best known for her globally bestselling book on punctuation, Eats, Shoots & Leaves (2003). She is a wide-ranging comic author, whose twelve books…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series - Baroque and Roll: Toe Tapping Tunes of the Eighteenth Century

13:10 - 14:00 3 October 2013
Guest artist Frauke Jürgensen joins Northern Baroque for an exploration of Baroque dance forms in a programme of vocal and instrumental dance numbers interspersed with theatrical dances,…

Interactive Schools Poetry Event with Ian McMillan

13:30 - 15:30 4 October 2013
Celebrate National Poetry Day 2013, in this interactive schools poetry event with Ian McMillan. Ian McMillan has been a poet, broadcaster, commentator and programme maker for over…

LITERATURE LIVE: Moniza Alvi and Nadeem Aslam

18:30 - 20:30 7 October 2013
MLF and the Centre for New Writing present two extraordinary writers, who have both drawn on their Pakistani heritage to pen exquisite works of art. Moniza Alvi is the author of…

Poetry in Performance: Being Human

19:30 - 21:30 9 October 2013
Midland Creative Projects in association with the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and Bloodaxe Books are delighted to present the acclaimed poetry in performance production Being Human.…

QUATUOR DANEL Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 14:00 10 October 2013
Haydn Quartet in C, Op. 1, No. 1 in B flat Britten Quartet No. 3 The University’s international star quartet-in-residence opens its ninth season with the modest birth of the string…

Quatuor Danel Seminar: Flavour of the Months

14:30 - 15:30 10 October 2013
A taster session for repertoire in the Quatuor Danel’s 2013-14 concert season, concentrating on Haydn and late Beethoven

Manchester University Music Society (MUMS) - Solo and Chamber Works

13:10 - 14:00 11 October 2013
A great chance to sample the high standards of musical performance from Manchester University Music Society, as students entertain with a selection of chamber and small ensemble works

QUATUOR DANEL Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:30 11 October 2013
Mozart Quartet K458 in B flat, ‘The Hunt’; Weinberg Quartet No. 8, Op. 66; Beethoven Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 A trio of favourite quartets: Mozart at his most genial, Weinberg…

LITERATURE LIVE: Ali Smith

18:00 - 20:00 12 October 2013
In this event, co-sponsored by The University of Manchester and the Manchester Literature Festival, Ali Smith will read from recent work, including Artful (2012), and discuss her…

I Am, I Am, I Am: Reflections on Sylvia Plath - With Ali Smith & Jackie Kay

18:00 - 20:00 13 October 2013
LITERATURE LIVE: Originally published in 1963, The Bell Jar tells the story of Esther Greenwood, a talented young woman with a prestigious internship on a New York magazine. On…

Jeanette Winterson “in Conversation” with: Audrey Niffenegger PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

19:30 - 21:30 13 October 2013
Audrey Niffenegger was born in 1963 in the idyllic hamlet of South Haven, Michigan. Her family moved to Evanston, Illinois and she has lived in or near Chicago for most of her life.…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series - Marcus Farnsworth (Baritone) with James Baillieu (Piano)

13:10 - 14:00 17 October 2013
Schubert Der Schiffer Schubert Auf der Donau Schubert Nachtstück Britten Songs and Proverbs of William Blake Folksongs arr. Britten Sally in our Alley Lord! I married me…

Sing Out and Stand Tall

13:10 - 14:00 18 October 2013
Ethnomusicology lecturer Caroline Bithell and a team of students from Music have been working in partnership with natural voice and community arts practitioner Jules Gibb to deliver…

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