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Artist Sundays - Family Easter activities at the Whitworth (every Sunday in the school holidays)

11:00 27 March - 16:00 17 April 2016
Join us for special Easter holiday Artist Sundays as we re-launch our Sunday sessions for families. Extraordinary artists invent offbeat and imaginative ways for you and your family…

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…

Derbyshire Youth Wind Band and RNCM Collaborative Concert

18:00 - 20:00 17 April 2016
The culmination of this term’s work following a Shakespeare theme for the Derbyshire City and County Youth Wind Band, having worked alongside staff and students from the RNCM in masterclasses,…

Friends of the Whitworth: RNCM Sunday Concerts

15:00 - 16:00 17 April 2016
Friends of the Whitworth: RNCM Sunday Concerts Students from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester perform in the Grand Hall. Friends of the Whitworth present a series…

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…

New Arrivals

12 March - 20 November 2016
This exhibition brings together a selection of works that have recently been brought into the Whitworth’s collection. Highlighting a contemporary and diverse approach to drawing, they…

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…

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.…

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…

A Stone's Throw

18 April - 17 July 2016
In this photographic exhibition, Manchester photographer John Shinnick has captured the words and voices of people who interact with the centre of Manchester, a metaphorical stone’s…

An Introduction to the Design, Execution and Analysis of Longitudinal Studies

18 - 19 April 2016
The course covers the basic concepts in longitudinal design and analysis. The first day focuses on the strengths and methodological difficulties of the longitudinal approach, and on…

LITERATURE LIVE: Vona Groarke and Adam Thorpe

18:30 - 20:00 18 April 2016
Vona Groarke's first collection was Shale, published in 1994. The most recent was X, a PBS Recommendation for Spring 2014, reviewed by the New Statesman as 'an outstanding collection…

Manchester Pharmacy School Seminar Series 2015/16

12:30 - 14:00 18 April 2016
'''Host:''' Manchester Pharmacy School Presentation title: To be confirmed Speaker: Dr Jon Waterfield The seminar series held in MPS is primarily designed to be of interest to staff…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday the 18th of April 2016 - Dr Angela Torresan (University of Manchester)

16:00 - 18:00 18 April 2016
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 18th of April 2016 Dr Angela Torresan – University of Manchester Title: The views of Vidigal: Commodification and gentrification in a Rio de…

Ehmt methylation of histone 3 lysine 9 represses the cardiac fetal gene programme to maintain the phenotype of adult cardiac myocytes

12:00 - 13:00 19 April 2016
CMD Seminar Series - Joy Wang and Donald Ward. Host: Jason Bruce

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop: Dr Stefan Ambec

12:00 - 13:00 19 April 2016
Title: Decarbonizing electricity generation with intermittent sources of energy Abstract We examine the impact of public policies that aim to decarbonate electricity production by…

Marcello Oreste Fiocco (UC Irvine): Metaphysics and Radical Ontology

15:00 - 17:00 19 April 2016
Abstract: I characterize *metaphysics* as a unified discipline, one that provides the basis for all inquiry. This discipline has a distinctive problem, arising from the needs of a…

Nature and local power: mayors and natural history museums in provincial France, 1800-1860 - Déborah Dubald (European University Institute)

13:00 - 14:00 19 April 2016
This seminar is part of the lunchtime seminar series for the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM). Lunchtime seminars are typically no more than 30 minutes…

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