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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…

Ballroom and Latin for Beginners

13:05 28 September - 13:55 23 November 2016
1.05pm, Wednesday 28 September – Wednesday 23 November 2016 (Apart from Wed 2 Nov) This autumn the Martin Harris Centre is going back to basics! Join us for ‘Ballroom and Latin for…

Capturing Science: Images Past and Present

22 September 2016 - 29 January 2017
A picture is worth a thousand words and captures a moment in time. Manchester is European City of Science throughout 2016 and to celebrate this, we are sharing a selection of our science…

Idris Khan

14 October 2016 - 13 March 2017
British contemporary artist Idris Khan's new solo exhibition. Idris Khan draws inspiration from the history of art, music, philosophy and theology, laying and manipulating images and…

Imagining Medicine

14 October - 22 December 2016
Hammers, vacuum cleaners and duck beaks: see how 16th and 17th century surgical procedures have been reimagined through the photography of Dr Sian Bonnell. Bonnell's photographs take…

Lived Brutalism: Portraits at Robin Hood Gardens

3 - 21 October 2016
OPENING NIGHT: Tuesday 4 October, 7pm – 9pm. With a talk by Architects for Social Housing on estate demolition and strategies to resist it, and an introduction to the exhibition by…

Making the modern world: England's first civic university (Heritage Tour)

13:00 15 October 2016
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the beginnings of England’s first civic university to the sites of world changing discoveries. It begins within the fine neo-gothic architecture…

Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael

30 September 2016 - 23 April 2017
This exhibition features the work of one of the radical originators and innovators of the European tradition of printmaking, Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480-c. 1534). Marcantonio was…

Mondays: Toddler Art Club – Family events at the Whitworth

10:30 18 July - 12:30 19 December 2016
Toddler Art Club – Family events at the Whitworth. Try these workshops – led by artists, dancers and musicians – and let your toddler discover, explore, create and play. Each Monday:…

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…

Off Beat: Jeff Nuttall and the International Underground

8 September 2016 - 5 March 2017
Painter, poet, actor and sculptor, a man once described as "the only all-round genius most of us are likely to meet," Jeff Nuttall was one of the few people in the early 1960s to publish…

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 University of Manchester Baroque Orchestra

15:30 - 16:30 16 October 2016
Students from the Manchester University Baroque Orchestra give a historically informed performance of late-seventeenth-century English instrumental music, by Locke, Purcell and the…

Anne Enright

19:00 - 20:30 17 October 2016
Anne Enright is one of the leading novelists at work today. Born in Dublin, her novels include What are You Like?, The Forgotten Waltz and The Gathering (winner of the Man Booker Prize…

Endoplasmic Reticulum Associated Degradation (ERAD) and Protein Conformational Disease: Lessons from Model Organisms and new Therapeutic Opportunities

13:00 17 October 2016
Division of Molecular and Cellular Seminar hosted by Professor Stephen High

Endoplasmic Reticulum Associated Degradation (ERAD) and Protein Conformational Disease: Lessons from Model Organisms and new Therapeutic Opportunities

13:00 - 14:00 17 October 2016
Special Seminar Professor Jeff Brodsky, Avinoff Chair of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Jeff Brodsky has spent over two decades studying the fundamental mechanisms…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Marilyn Strathern - University of Cambridge

16:00 - 18:00 17 October 2016
Marilyn Strathern – University of Cambridge Travelling concepts: portraits and partible persons An invitation to revisit the notion of 'partible person' came the same year (2015)…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor Kai von Fintel (MIT): 'If'

17:00 - 19:00 18 October 2016
This event is part of the CIDRAL programme for Winter 2016, 'Possible Worlds'. Cognition and language revolve around distinguishing between alternative ways the world might be. As…

Explorer tour

14:00 - 15:00 18 October 2016
Ever wondered where some of the Library doors and staircases lead to? Then this is the tour for you.

Inter-Community Feasting in Neolithic Cyprus: recent results from the Prastio Mesorotsos excavation and experimental project

18:00 18 October 2016
Archaeology Research Seminar

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