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Aftermath: 100 years of creativity from conflict

7 February - 29 June 2014
How remarkable is it that, throughout our shared history, some people have been inspired to answer the worst examples of man’s inhumanity with acts of compassion and creativity? Aftermath…

Bus Stop Stories

20 February - 22 June 2014
At the start of 2013, John Shinnick, a Manchester photographer, set out to document the people using a local, city centre bus stop; a quiet stop were people rarely alight. The people…

Coral: Something Rich and Strange

29 November 2013 - 16 March 2014
Temporary exhibition at Manchester Museum. Explore the enduring fascination with coral as a material, symbol and inspiration for artists, cultures and societies across the centuries.…

DEADLINE for applications to cities@manchester Summer Institute of Urban Studies 2014

28 February 2014
Summer 2014 marks the first cities@manchester Summer Institute of Urban Studies. It will take place at the University of Manchester over the week 29 June to 4 July. Open to just 25…

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.…

Magic Carpet

10:30 - 12:30 28 February 2014
Story making and activity sessions For toddlers up to 5yrs and their families/carers (Young babies welcome with older siblings) Book on 0161 275 2648 (from a week before), free, under 5s and their families/carers

Protein Expression Facility.Manchester Protein Structure Facility

09:30 27 - 16:30 28 February 2014
This is part of the Special Seminars series Thursday 27th Seminar Sessions and Friday 28th February (LG10 – MIB)(Please Register) 9.50 Welcome - Introduction Dr. C. Levy…

QUATUOR DANEL Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:30 28 February 2014
Rachmaninoff Quartet 1 Haydn Quartet in B flat, Op. 71, No. 2 Shostakovich Piano Quintet Op. 57 (with Richard Whalley) You didn’t know Rachmaninoff had composed string quartets?…

The Space Between: exhibition of artworks by Anthony McCarthy

27 February - 3 August 2014
The concept for the exhibition began as artist, Anthony McCarthy, walked along Chapel Street in Salford heading towards Manchester and The John Rylands Library. Armed with pencil,…

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…

VADA LGBTQ Community Theatre presents: Love Notes

19:30 - 21:30 28 February 2014
Love Notes is a collection of new short plays and sketches inspired by the 2014 LGBT History Month theme: music. Written by the talented team that created our last show Journeys which…

Family pop-up planetarium shows!

10:00 - 17:00 1 March 2014
Join us on Saturday 1st March to explore the wonders of the night sky in our pop-up planetarium! Show times: 10.30, 11.15, 12.00(full), 12.45, 1.30, 2.15, 3.00, 3.45 Tickets: bookings…

Gay Self-Expression in the Archives: Gay Politics & Gay Poetry in the later Twentieth Century

12:00 - 13:30 1 March 2014
As part of LGBT History Month, artists, Jez Dolan and Joseph Richardson will be introducing their arts project, the Polari Mission, an attempt to recover and resuse the lost gay language…

MANTIS Spring 2014 Festival: 10 year anniversary season

18:00 - 19:30 1 March 2014
6.00pm and 8.00pm, Saturday 1 March 2014 6.00pm and 8.00pm, Sunday 2 March 2014 Various venues across MHC MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) celebrates its first 10 years…

MANTIS Spring 2014 Festival: 10 year anniversary season

20:00 - 21:30 1 March 2014
6.00pm and 8.00pm, Saturday 1 March 2014 6.00pm and 8.00pm, Sunday 2 March 2014 Various venues across MHC MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) celebrates its first 10 years…

MANTIS Spring 2014 Festival: 10 year anniversary season

18:00 - 19:30 2 March 2014
6.00pm and 8.00pm, Saturday 1 March 2014 6.00pm and 8.00pm, Sunday 2 March 2014 Various venues across MHC MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) celebrates its first 10 years with…

MANTIS Spring 2014 Festival: 10 year anniversary season

20:00 - 21:30 2 March 2014
6.00pm and 8.00pm, Saturday 1 March 2014 6.00pm and 8.00pm, Sunday 2 March 2014 Various venues across MHC MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) celebrates its first 10 years…

RNCM Monday Recital Series

13:15 - 14:00 3 March 2014
Nikolai Kapustin Concert Etude Op 40 No 8 Maurice Ravel Une barque sur l'océan from Miroirs Rachel Fok piano Giovanni Bottesini Grand Duo Concertante…

CIDRAL Open Event: Professor Tom Safley (History, University of Pennsylvania) ‘What Ruin? Of Insolvency and Scandal, Fortunes and Families in Early Modern Economic Life’

17:00 - 19:00 4 March 2014
Can we speak of "ruin" in economic life and activity? Surely, businesses fail, wealth disperses and individuals suffer. In premodern society, the consequences could be dire: debtor's…

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