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Astrophotograhy Night at Jodrell Bank

19:30 18 January 2016 - 21:00 18 January 2017
Come along to Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre for an informal and fun evening of Astrophotography. You'll enjoy an Introduction to Astrophotography workshop (co-presented by Dr. Ant Holloway…

Ben Rivers

25 February - 22 May 2016
Ben Rivers presents his most ambitious work to date. The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers is Ben Rivers’ most ambitious work to date. Migrating between documentary, fantasy and fable, and…

Gifts for the Gods: Animal Mummies Revealed

8 October 2015 - 17 April 2016
A groundbreaking exhibition of over 60 animal mummies showing how modern science can help explain this ancient practice. Mummies of jackals, crocodiles, cats and birds are displayed…

Magic, Witches and Devils in the Early Modern World

21 January - 21 August 2016
Ghosts, witches, sorcerers and demons: our fascination with the supernatural stretches back centuries. Experience how supernatural forces shaped the lives of everyone from kings and…

Nico Vascellari

25 February - 18 September 2016
Nico Vascellari’s major work, Bus de la Lum draws on the ancient powers of the forest. Light, video and sound explore the legend of a natural cavity located within the woodland of the…

RNCM Gina Miller Concert: Castello Duo - at the Whitworth

15:00 - 16:00 28 February 2016
Sunday 28 February 2016 3pm Castello Duo James Woodrow - Baroque violin Mattia Corda - Theorbo The Castello Duo was formed at the Royal Northern College of Music to explore 17th…

Saving a Century

8 January - 24 March 2016
'Saving a Century', curated by leading architectural historian Gavin Stamp, uses archive photographs and material from over 50 years of the The Victorian Society's fight to save historic…

The Phantoms of Congo River: Photographs by Nyaba Ouedraogo : Manchester Museum

11 September 2015 - 10 April 2016
Nyaba L. Ouedraogo is a self-taught photographer born in Burkina Faso, and now working and living between Paris and West Africa. The Phantoms of the Congo River is a photography exhibition…

The Study at Manchester Museum

11 September 2015 - 31 December 2016
Big ideas. Singular collaborations. Strange and wonderful things. Exhibitions and events with some of the most interesting people we know. And somewhere that brings them all together.…

The Urban Naturalist

14:00 28 February 2016
Friendly, practical workshops run by leading naturalists. From wild food-foraging and composting to bird song and insect identification, explore biodiversity on our doorstep. This…

They Said, We Said

11 January - 29 April 2016
?'They Said, We Said' is a collection of artwork produced by members of Pure Studio, an arts facility based in Stockport that helps its members, all of whom have a learning disability,…

Tibor Reich

29 January - 29 August 2016
A celebration of post-war design alongside an exhibition of Wallpaper from the Whitworth's collection

Wallpaper

29 January - 4 September 2016
Continuing the celebration of post-war design this show features highlights from the Whitworth’s collection of 1950s and 60s wallpapers. At the heart of the exhibition are papers from…

LITERATURE LIVE: Jeanette Winterson “In Conversation” with Helen MacDonald

18:30 - 20:00 29 February 2016
The Centre for New Writing and MLF are delighted to present Jeanette Winterson in conversation with writer, poet, illustrator and naturalist Helen MacDonald about writing, hawks, Englishness,…

Reversing the international flow of innovation: the Chinese market as a source of global innovation

15:30 - 16:30 29 February 2016
Stepping aside from the International Product Life Cycle Theory (Vernon, 1966) that considered advanced economies as the only loci of innovation, scholars are now looking at the growing…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Victor Cova (University of St Andrews)

16:00 - 18:00 29 February 2016
Title: Back from the Future. In this paper I ask how it is that humans can experience the future in the present, even though the future, by definition, can never be made present. I…

Webinar: Data Citation

12:00 - 13:00 29 February 2016
The UK Data Service is exploring ways of citing data ranging from study level, to subsets of data, to paragraphs of text. The UK Data Service produces citations for each of our data…

[61] Harmonica Alley, Yokohama

29 February - 10 March 2016
This exhibition explores Miyakobashi Yokocho in drawings, photographs and text. It reveals previously concealed glimpses into Japan’s changing urban culture. Miyakobashi Yokocho (Yokohama,…

English Corner

13:00 1 March 2016
Drop-in, free, adults Free English conversation classes using the Museum’s collection as inspiration for discussion. The Study Adults Current University students General public Post 16 University staff

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar by Katrin Millock CANCELLED

12:00 - 13:00 1 March 2016
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar Speaker: Katrin Millock (Paris School of Economics) CANCELLED

Extended Project Qualification Visit

09:45 - 15:00 1 March 2016
The Extended Project is a single piece of work of a student's choosing that requires evidence of planning, preparation, research and independent learning. It is available as a stand-alone…

Obesity: from genes to behaviour

12:00 - 13:00 1 March 2016
CMD Seminar Series - Joy Wang and Donald Ward Host: Anne White

The development and response to injury of the cardiac lymphatics

13:00 - 14:00 1 March 2016
The lymphatic vasculature is a blind-ended network crucial for tissue fluid homeostasis, immune surveillance and lipid absorption from the gut. Recent evidence has proposed an entirely…

Tuesday Talks – at the Whitworth - On Tuesdays from 26 January - 1 March 2016

11:00 - 12:30 1 March 2016
Tuesday Talks return to the Whitworth Tuesday Talks invites leading artists, thinkers and curators to explore the driving forces, influences and sources of inspiration within contemporary…

“Prayers that loosen charms”, Ethiopian magic scrolls.

12:00 - 13:00 1 March 2016
The use of amulets as an aid and support to traversing the trials and tribulations that accompany one in their life-time is common to every age. The so called “Semitic” branch of what…

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