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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…

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Composers' Forum: Gordon Delap

16:15 - 17:45 7 November 2013
Gordon Delap (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)

Ehrhardt Seminar: Reading 1 Samuel 18:1-4 in the Hellenistic Period - James Harding

14:00 - 16:00 7 November 2013
The Centre for Biblical Studies presents the latest Ehrhardt Seminar, with James Harding from Otago. 90 minutes followed by tea.

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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.…

Guided Visits for Schools and Colleges

13:30 - 15:30 7 November 2013
We run regular campus visits throughout the year for groups of students in Year 10 and upwards. Activities include a welcome presentation, a question-and-answer session with a panel…

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Happy Birthday Alfred Wallace

13:00 - 14:00 7 November 2013
Celebrate the life of Alfred Russel Wallace and see some of the specimens collected by Wallace himself. Alfred Russel Wallace was one of the greatest naturalists of the 19th and early…

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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…

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…

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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…

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Performance workshop

14:30 - 16:00 7 November 2013
A workshop of student compositions for percussion

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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…

Classics and Ancient History (CLAH) frieze in restoration

Plato, Plato's Epistles and Greek Fictional Letters

16:55 - 18:30 7 November 2013
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

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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…

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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…

Research Seminar - The Forgotten Criminalisation of Company Fraud in Victorian Britain - James Taylor

16:00 - 17:30 7 November 2013
Autumn Term Research Seminars The Forgotten Criminalisation of Company Fraud in Victorian Britain James Taylor (Lancaster) All are welcome. Events end around 5:30pm followed by drinks with the speaker.

Secularity and Its Discontents: Religion and Cinema in Israel (CJS Seminar Series) - Yaron Peleg

16:00 - 17:30 7 November 2013
Yaron Peleg (Cambridge) discusses a crucial theme in Israeli cinema. The third in the Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar Series. The lecture looks at the changing nature of Zionism and…

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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…

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University of Manchester Drama Society: Opening Performance

19:00 - 21:00 7 November 2013
Showcasing the best of Manchester's student talent, the drama society kick start the winter season with their first production. Entirely produced by the student body, the production…

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Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series - Joby Burgess Percussion Pioneers

13:10 - 14:00 7 November 2013
Joby Burgess presents two of the most iconic and groundbreaking works for solo percussion - Stockhasuen’s Zyklus and Xenakis’ Psappha. ‘… a prominent figure in the alt-classical…

Digital Humanities at the University of Manchester

08:30 - 21:00 8 November 2013
On November 8th, 2013, the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures will be hosting a conference on Digital Humanities for all those at the University of Manchester with a stake in this…

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Manchester University Music Society (MUMS) - Cosmo Singers

13:10 - 14:00 8 November 2013
Following their first successful lunchtime concert in 2012, 60-strong mixed choir Cosmo Singers perform a variety of stunning choral works, including Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer.

University of Manchester Drama Society: Opening Performance

19:00 - 21:00 8 November 2013
Showcasing the best of Manchester's student talent, the drama society kick start the winter season with their first production. Entirely produced by the student body, the production…

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Enchanting tales

11:00 - 12:00 9 November 2013
Join the Library’s storyteller in one of our beautiful book-lined rooms, for tales of magic, mystery, mayhem and more! The October event is most suitable for families with children…

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Here be Dragons!

12:00 - 13:00 9 November 2013
The walls and ceilings of the Library are full of strange and mysterious creatures – join our tour to seek them out! This tour is most suitable for families with children aged 5-10.

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Woodcut n colour

11:00 - 15:00 9 November 2013
Join us to celebrate the launch of our very own Rylands colouring book – featuring woodcuts from our amazing collections and prints of the building created by our competition winners.

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