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Collecting Trees

22 June - 6 October 2013
Trees are important to all of us. People plant trees to commemorate loved ones, climb them as children (and sometimes as adults) and worry about them being cut down. Collecting Trees…

Locating Boccaccio in 2013

11 July - 20 December 2013
On the 700th anniversary of his birth, this exhibition celebrates the enduring popularity of the works of the Italian medieval author Giovanni Boccaccio. Taking a wide-ranging overview…

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…

Picturing Stories exhibition tour

12:00 - 13:00 28 September 2013
Join the curators of this exhibition for a tour of the exhibition, and take the opportunity to see related items from our collections.

Picturing Stories: British and French Romantic Illustrations

9 August 2013 - 9 January 2014
This exhibition explores the development of French and British Romantic illustration during the period 1770-1860. In contrast to earlier allegorical images, Romantic pictures are full…

Polari Mission exhibition tour

13:00 - 14:00 28 September 2013
Join the artists for a bona bijou troll through the fantabulosa history of Polari, learn the basics, and get involved with saving a language!

Polari Mission: Bona Eek

16 August 2013 - 2 February 2014
Polari's history is as diverse as the people who have used it. For the Polari Mission project artists Jez Dolan and Joseph Richardson have created a series of innovative visual artworks…

Roman Manchester

11:00 28 - 16:00 29 September 2013
Saturday 28 September and Sunday 29 September Roman Manchester 11am-4pm Pop along to our Family Drawing Den and make a Roman shield or sword. In association with #BeingRoman from the British Museum

The Whitworth closure for major development work

2 September 2013 - 14 February 2015
The Whitworth reopens on Saturday 14 February 2015. The gallery is currently closed in order to carry out major development work, transforming the Gallery into a new 21st century Gallery…

Urban Naturalist: Moss

14:00 - 16:00 28 September 2013
Urban Naturalist: Moss Saturday 28 September, 2-4pm Book on 0161 275 2648 or museum@manchester.ac.uk, £3 Urban Naturalist is a series of friendly, practical workshops run by leading…

Warriors of the Plains: 200 years of Native North American honour and ritual

25 May - 3 November 2013
Ceremonial shirts, moccasins and tomahawks, alongside photographs of these objects in use, bring to life the world of Native North American warfare and ritual from 1800 to the present…

Wildlife recording

18:00 - 20:00 28 September 2013
Building up a picture of which species occur where in Greater Manchester is vital to ensure species protection and to enable changes in distribution to be monitored. This six week course…

Manchester Museum sings

14:00 - 16:00 29 September 2013
Fancy an afternoon of singing songs from around the world inspired by the Manchester Museum's collections? Join Caroline Bithell, ethnomusicologist from the University of Manchester…

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…

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 13:45 1 October 2013
Sensory play and interactive story sessions for babies who aren’t walking yet. Tuesdays 1 & 15 October (every other Tuesday, except school hols), 10.30-11.15am, 11.30am-12.15pm & 1-1.45pm…

MAP Personal Statement Drop In

1 October 2013
An informal drop in session which will enable MAP students to have their personal statement checked by a member of University staff. The Manchester Access Programme (MAP) is a structured…

Collection Bites

13:00 - 14:00 2 October 2013
Flint: Hewn through Nature Join Dr Nick Merriman, Director of the Manchester Museum for a unique insight into prehistoric Britain. View Palaeolithic hand axes half a million years…

Louise D'Arcens speaking on "Comic Medievalism: How and Why We Laugh at the Middle Ages"

17:00 - 18:30 2 October 2013
This is the first in the English department's series of public seminars on literature-related topics. Louise D'Arcens of the University of Wollongong is our first speaker. All welcome.

MAP Personal Statement Drop In

2 October 2013
An informal drop in session which will enable MAP students to have their personal statement checked by a member of University staff. The Manchester Access Programme (MAP) is a structured…

The symbiosis of art and medicine | Artefacts from the Museum of Medicine and Health

16:30 - 18:00 2 October 2013
'''Host:''' Museum of Medicine and Health '''About the event:''' The Museum is delighted to be hosting a talk by the renowned medical artist Richard Neave. Richard’s career has…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Social (Dis)Order among NT Authors - Gerald Downing

14:00 - 16:00 3 October 2013
The Centre for Biblical Studies Ehrhardt Seminar for staff and postgraduates.

MAP Personal Statement Drop In

3 October 2013
An informal drop in session which will enable MAP students to have their personal statement checked by a member of University staff. The Manchester Access Programme (MAP) is a structured…

Performance workshop: Northern Baroque

14:30 - 16:00 3 October 2013
Northern Baroque. A performance workshop for Manchester Music students performing on period instruments.

Portrait of a Living Archive

3 October 2013 - 13 January 2014
When people think about libraries they tend to think of them as the ancestral home of written rather than visual culture. The John Rylands Library houses a significant collection of…

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,…

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