Martin Harris Centre, The John Rylands Library

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…

Curator's corner – Heavenly wonders

11:30 - 11:45 10 November 2016
This is a great opportunity to hear the curator present a bitesize introduction about the Library's rare and precious science and religion manuscripts collection. People through history…

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…

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…

Rachael Pankhurst (cor anglais) Nick Oliver (piano)

13:10 - 14:00 10 November 2016
University alumna and Principal Cor Anglais of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Rachael Pankhurst accompanied by Nick Oliver will perform a varied programme including works…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 11 November 2016
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. No need to book, just turn up.

Romanticism and Beyond

13:10 - 14:00 11 November 2016
An exciting new concert from Manchester’s Music society, focussing on the Romantic and 20th Century ‘Modern’ period. Come see performers tackle the most passionate and exhilarating…

MUMS Chamber Orchestra

19:30 - 21:15 12 November 2016
MUMS Chamber Orchestra returns for an evening of inspiring music, with soloists Libby Sherwood and Sarah Keirle performing Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante K364, along with Mozart’s Symphony…

University of Manchester Drama Society: Autumn Showcase

19:00 - 20:30 16 November 2016
The first showcase of the academic year offering an opportunity for students to display their work. The festival consists of four contrasting shows performed consecutively in venues…

Off-Beat/On-Screen: Two Beat Films and FLIM NITE Performances

18:30 - 20:30 17 November 2016
We want to celebrate the unexpected and the bizarre with our screening of the two great Beat Poet films, 'Pull My Daisy' and 'Wholly Communion'. Tapping into the free and wild spirit…

Shakespeare Miscellany: ‘Music oft hath such a charm…’

13:10 - 14:00 17 November 2016
In the year that marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, pianist and scholar Michelle Assay presents a programme of music for voice, chorus and instruments, from diverse…

University of Manchester Drama Society: Autumn Showcase

19:00 - 20:30 17 November 2016
The first showcase of the academic year offering an opportunity for students to display their work. The festival consists of four contrasting shows performed consecutively in venues…

Collections Encounter: Experimentations of the Counter-Culture

14:00 - 15:00 18 November 2016
An artistic and social revolution happened in the 1960s, a backlash against the authority of mainstream 'square' culture. Experimentation in art and poetry exploded as artists began…

University of Manchester Drama Society: Autumn Showcase

19:00 - 20:30 18 November 2016
The first showcase of the academic year offering an opportunity for students to display their work. The festival consists of four contrasting shows performed consecutively in venues…

Sines and Squares Festival 2016

18:00 - 19:00 19 November 2016
A unique festival of concerts, presentations and other events celebrating and discussing the recent huge resurgence of interest in analogue and modular synthesizers. On 18-20 November,…

Sines and Squares Festival 2016

19:30 - 20:30 19 November 2016
A unique festival of concerts, presentations and other events celebrating and discussing the recent huge resurgence of interest in analogue and modular synthesizers. On 18-20 November,…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 23 November 2016
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. No need to book, just turn up.

14th Annual Rylands Poetry Reading: Bill Manhire

18:00 - 19:00 24 November 2016
Join us for an evening of poetry at The John Rylands Library. This year's Rylands Poetry Reading will be given by Bill Manhire. Bill Manhire (b. Invercargill, NZ, 1946) was his country's…

Quatuor Danel

13:10 - 14:00 24 November 2016
Two highly compressed quartets in a key ideally suited to dark, oppressive moods: Shostakovich’s cryptic seven-movement Eleventh precedes the most concentrated of Beethoven’s middle-period…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 25 November 2016
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. No need to book, just turn up.

Quatuor Danel with Richard Whalley (piano)

19:30 - 21:30 25 November 2016
Philip Grange’s searing elegy for the victims of the Battle of the Somme (which ended on 18 November 1916) is framed by the sunniest of all string quartets and a lively yet autumnal…

The University of Manchester Baroque Orchestra

13:10 - 14:00 25 November 2016
Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for Oboe and Violin in B flat major, RV 548 Alessandro Scarlatti Concerto for Recorder in D Arcangelo Corelli Concerto Grosso in F major, Op. 6, No. 9 A rare…

Exposing the Off-Beat: A Curator Tour

11:00 - 11:45 26 November 2016
The Beat Poets were influential in the establishment-shattering 1960s counter-culture and in exploding the boundaries of poetry. Our experts on the Beat Poets, Douglas Field and Jay…

Manchester University Wind Orchestra (MUWO)

19:30 - 21:15 26 November 2016
Gold award winning MUWO (National Concert Band Festival 2015) return to the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall to perform a range of works from Malcolm Arnold’s English Dances to Arutiunian’s…

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