Martin Harris Centre, The John Rylands Library

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 Science Festival - All About Bugs

13:00 - 16:00 26 October 2013
Come along and take part in our bug-tastic activity day. Make bug badges, and enjoy other craft activities, while learning all about the naughty bugs that damage books and libraries.

Manchester Science Festival - The Bug Hunt

24 October - 3 November 2013
Can you find all the bugs in the library? Follow the trail to find the Library’s hidden bugs – find out what they are and why they are bad for books.

MANTIS Fall Festival 2013

18:00 - 19:30 26 October 2013
MANTIS Fall Festival 2013 6pm, Saturday 26 October 2013 8pm, Saturday 26 October 2013 2pm, Sunday 27 October 2013 MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents a weekend of…

MANTIS Fall Festival 2013

20:00 - 22:00 26 October 2013
MANTIS Fall Festival 2013 6pm, Saturday 26 October 2013 8pm, Saturday 26 October 2013 2pm, Sunday 27 October 2013 MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents a weekend of…

Morbid Micellany

14 October 2013 - 31 January 2014
Behold bizarre bindings! Delight in death! Gaze in awe at aged autographs! Our Morbid Miscellany embraces the darker side of our collections. This selection of individual items, many…

New Music North West Festival

26 October - 2 November 2013
New Music North West Festival Saturday 26 October – Saturday 2 November 2013 Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama The RNCM and The University of Manchester are delighted to…

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: 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…

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…

A pomander a day keeps the plague away...

13:00 - 16:00 27 October 2013
Learn how to make a pomander to keep awayt those filthy plague germs. An essential perfumed accessory in the 1600s!

MANTIS Fall Festival 2013

14:00 - 16:00 27 October 2013
MANTIS Fall Festival 2013 6pm, Saturday 26 October 2013 8pm, Saturday 26 October 2013 2pm, Sunday 27 October 2013 MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents a weekend of…

Exploring the North West with David Horne

14:30 - 16:30 28 October 2013
David Horne presents a video of short messages from each composer represented in the festival, including audio snippets, personal messages and much more besides. This event forms…

Lunchtime Concert

13:00 - 14:30 28 October 2013
Edwin Roxburgh, Cantilena; Gary Carpenter, Dioscuri; Edwin Roxburgh, Homage to Debussy; Paul Goodey, La Seis Cuerdas. This event forms part of the New Music North West Festival,…

Manchester Science Festival - Manuscript Menagerie

14:00 - 15:00 28 October 2013
Did you know that sometimes books were written on animal skin? Conservators and scientists showcase new cutting-edge techniques to sample and test the DNA of these skins.

Manchester Science Festival - The Compatibility Gene

12:00 - 13:00 28 October 2013
Join Daniel M Davis, author of The Compatibility Gene, for a discussion of the crucial genes that hold the key to who we are as individuals and our relationship to the world, how our…

The Rosenhan Experiment

17:15 - 19:30 28 October 2013
Robert Ogden countertenor RNCM alumnus Tim Benjamin brings a gripping psychological drama recounting David Rosenhan's landmark 1970s experiment: ‘On Being Sane In Insane Places’…

Vaganza and RNCM New Ensemble

19:30 - 21:30 28 October 2013
Edwin Roxburgh, Refractions; Tim Jackson, Be Not Afeard; Simon Parkin, Three Pieces for Mixed Sextet; David Curington, New work (world première); Edwin Roxburgh, Convolutions; James…

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Psappha

19:30 - 21:30 29 October 2013
Programme to include: Philip Grange Focus and Fade * David Horne New work (world première) * Camden Reeves Random Keys (world première) ** Peter Maxwell Davies …

Manchester Science Festival - The Body Stripped Bare

12:00 - 13:00 29 October 2013
A rare chance to see one Andreas Vesalius’ works on the human body. This unique collection encounter will use the second edition of Vesalius’ groundbreaking work, printed in the 1500s.

Open Forum with Edwin Roxburgh

14:30 - 15:30 29 October 2013
Clark Rundell talks to New Music North West’s featured composer, Edwin Roxburgh. This event forms part of the New Music North West Festival, the fourth and largest ever festival…

Trio Atem

18:00 - 20:00 29 October 2013
Programme to include: Nina Whiteman The modifications of clouds Ian Vine Moon Phase Richard Whalley Problems Arising from Sympathy Fabrice Fitch Per Serafino Calbarsi II: Le…

Vaganza and Musicians from RNCM

13:15 - 14:30 29 October 2013
Programme to include: Edwin Roxburgh Dreamtime Helen Seddon-Gray New work (world première) Edwin Roxburgh Soliloquy 4 John Simon New work This event forms part of the…

Lunchtime Concert: Trio Aporia

13:15 - 14:30 30 October 2013
Fabrice Fitch New work (world première) Gillian Menichino New work (world première) Alan Williams New work (world première) Kevin Malone New work (world…

The Science of Colour

14:00 - 15:00 30 October 2013
Find out what illuminated manuscripts were painted with in medieval times. How do conservators today look after these manuscripts and keep their colours safe?

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