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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.…

Enchanting Tales

11:00 - 12:00 15 March 2014
Join the Library’s storyteller in one of our beautiful book-lined rooms, for tales of magic, mystery, mayhem and more. All welcome, no need to book.

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.…

Here be Dragons!

12:00 - 13:00 15 March 2014
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.

MUMS String Orchestra and Brass Band

19:30 - 21:30 15 March 2014
Programme to include: Vaughan Williams Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus Grieg Holberg Suite Sibelius Romance and Andante Festivo Manchester University String…

Photography workshop: Bus Stop Stories

14:00 - 16:00 15 March 2014
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED. Join photographer John Shinnick and explore how to approach people and take their photos, much as he did for his brilliant exhibition Bus…

Polish AS and A2 Workshops

09:30 - 16:00 15 March 2014
15 March 2014 Polish AS and A2 Workshops PROGRAMME Samuel Alexander Building Arts Theatre, A104, A113, A114, A115, A116 9.45 – 9.55 Registration 10.00 – 10.10 Arts Theatre Welcome…

The Body Experience

11:00 - 16:00 15 March 2014
Come and explore the human body with scientists from Life Sciences and Human & Medical Sciences at The University of Manchester. Collect your ‘passport’ and travel around the human…

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…

Explorer tour

15:00 - 16:00 16 March 2014
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED. We plan to run additional events like this in the near future. Please email or ring us so we can get in touch when these events are arranged.…

Disentangling species impacts on ecosystem functioning in complex microbial communities

15:00 - 16:00 17 March 2014
Ecology, Evolution and Computational Biology Seminar Series

Literature Live: Maureen N. McLane and Glyn Maxwell

18:30 - 20:30 17 March 2014
Maureen N. McLane was educated at Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Chicago. She is the author of World Enough: poems (Farrar, Straus, 2010) and Same Life: poems (FSG, 2008)…

MAHSC Special Guest Lecture: Malaria in The Gambia, Umberto D'Alessandro

17:15 - 18:15 17 March 2014
A special guest lecture presented by the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (www.mahsc.ac.uk). Professor Umberto D’Alessandro, Director of the Medical Research Council (The…

Malaria Research in The Gambia

17:00 - 18:30 17 March 2014
'''Host:''' Manchester Academic Health Science Centre '''About the event:''' Professor Umberto D’Alessandro, Leader of Disease Control and Elimination at the Medical Research Council’s…

RNCM Monday Recital Series

13:15 - 14:00 17 March 2014
Felix Mendelssohn Zweistimmige Lieder Op 63 Sarah Foubert soprano Richard Moore baritone Tim Kennedy piano Franz Schubert Fantasie in F minor D 940 Chiahu Lee, Shaun Motiani piano

The Art of Marcel Duchamp, Nam June Paik and the Modernist Musical Paradigm

17 March 2014
Professor Shaw-Miller is Professor of Art History and Subject Head at Bristol University. He is an expert on relationships with music in modern art.

An Introduction to Text Mining

13:00 - 14:00 18 March 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series …

Democracy from the Bottom-up: the 3C-Model of Grassroots-led Development in Egypt

17:00 - 18:00 18 March 2014
Fourth Seminar in MES Research Seminar Series The recent political turmoil in Egypt has revealed the weak foundations of participatory democracy and grassroots activism in the country.…

That wild and wicked and untameable race: Irish medical student culture, experience and professional identity, c.1850s-1950s

16:00 - 17:00 18 March 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series February-May 2014. …

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