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90 Degree Citizen

10 October - 17 November 2013
How do museums create our understandings of cultural identities, and does migrant art generate alternative connections which cut across such boundaries? A rare exhibition of work by…

Colourful Chemistry

11:30 - 13:15 2 November 2013
Join us in Brainy and Brawny’s lab for this yucky hands-on workshop making slime, bubbles and rockets. This is a deaf-led event with BSL voiceover, suitable for deaf and hearing family…

Distractfold

17:15 - 19:30 2 November 2013
Sam Salem Dérive Mauricio Pauly Another celibate machine Vitalija Glovakyte New work (world première) Martin Iddon Danaë Rodrigo Constanzo New work (world première) …

Fragmentary Ancestors: Figurines from Koma Land, Ghana

25 October 2013 - 4 May 2014
This exhibition at Manchester Museum is the first ever officially approved showing of clay figurines made by a previously little understood people in Koma Land in Ghana in West Africa.…

Late Night Concert

22:00 - 23:30 2 November 2013
A late night electrifying music theatre ‘short’ by Tim Benjamin and Andrew Liles closes the festival. This event forms part of the New Music North West Festival, the fourth and largest…

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…

Look Inside Space

10:30 - 17:00 2 November 2013
Make sure your half term goes out with a bang! This exciting family event explores the world of rockets and space. Come and explore the night sky and learn how you can stargaze at…

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.

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…

NEW! Children’s Birthday Parties

1 - 30 November 2013
For a truly unique birthday experience, celebrate your birthday with Stan, the T-Rex & friends at Manchester Museum. The museum offers birthday parties that are full of hands-on activities…

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…

Psappha

19:30 - 21:30 2 November 2013
The University of Manchester’s Contemporary Ensemble in Residence Psappha is Manchester’s pre-eminent new music ensemble specialising in the performance of music by living composers…

Religion and Doctor Who Day

10:00 - 17:00 2 November 2013
Join scholars from the UK, US and Scandinavia as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who with a wide-ranging examination of the way it has dealt with (and been used by) religion…

Science Spectacular

11:00 - 16:00 2 November 2013
Join us on a whistle-stop tour of research at The University of Manchester and take part in some great science challenges. Go on a journey through the hidden body, take a closer look…

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…

Vaganza Composers’ Showcase Concert

13:15 - 14:30 2 November 2013
The extraordinary diversity and ingenuity of works by The University of Manchester composers. This event forms part of the New Music North West Festival, the fourth and largest ever…

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…

A festival of light for Diwali

18:30 - 21:30 3 November 2013
In celebration of Diwali, the Hindu festival of light, play with LED light cubes to transform the Library into a place of wonder! During the evening you will be entertained by Dohl…

Film screening of Thunderheart

14:00 - 16:00 3 November 2013
Our screening of Thunderheart 3.11.13 has unfortunately now been CANCELLED. Apologies for any inconvenience. #WarriorsOfThePlains closes Sunday. Loosely based on events surrounding…

How Small Can You Get? Entering and Defining the Nano World

17:00 - 18:00 3 November 2013
Professor Paul O’Brien explores all things nano, revealing the origins of nanoscience and nanotechnology, and discussing the potential importance of technologies based on nanodimensional…

Manchester Science Festival - Black and White and Read All Over

13:00 - 16:00 3 November 2013
What did people write on before paper? Come and find out about some different materials involved in writing and bookmaking – learn how they are made, and make your own.

Embracing the links between development and environment - A Greenpeace view

16:00 - 18:00 4 November 2013
The Environment and Development Research Group of the Institute of Development Policy and Management hosts a visit from Daniel Mittler, Political Director / Head of Political and Business…

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