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After the Bees - A Fable for Tomorrow

18:00 - 21:00 30 March 2017
Join artist Megan Powell for a Thursday Late at Manchester Museum that celebrates the culmination of her two-year-long Arts Council England funded project, After the Bees. The evening’s…

Art History Study Afternoon: Magic + Art

30 March 2017
Study Afternoon: Magic + Art (Whitworth Teaching Suite)

ARTIST ROOMS: Andy Warhol

19 November 2016 - 16 April 2017
ARTIST ROOMS: Andy Warhol shows the sharp critical opinions of an artist known to many primarily as art salesman, purveyor of product and celebrant of capitalism. Supported by Arts…

Barbara Brown

17 March 2017 - 15 March 2018
Barbara Brown was the golden girl of Heal Fabrics in the 1960s and early 1970s. Talent-spotted as a student, her designs for furnishing fabrics are some of the most striking and unusual…

Children's Lives in Wartime Japan

1 February - 31 March 2017
This exhibition displays 50 entries from picture diaries made by Japanese primary school children in 1944-1945. It gives a vivid insight into the school lives of Japanese children…

Dalton Seminar Series: Small Modular Nuclear Reactors: Energy Justice for the 21st Century?

12:45 - 13:45 30 March 2017
Social acceptability remains a critical challenge for nuclear energy and, especially, for new technologies such as small modular reactors (SMRs). While significant efforts are being…

Deanna Petherbridge

2 December 2016 - 4 June 2017
A solo show of pen and ink drawings from across a 45-year career. Since the 1960s, Deanna Petherbridge has pioneered critical thinking on drawing and its place in art and architecture.…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dwight Swanson (Nazarene Theological College), Exegesis of Scripture in the Gospel of Matthew: A Close-up

14:00 - 16:00 30 March 2017
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free and open to the public, with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute…

Francesco Bravo (University of York)

16:15 - 17:45 30 March 2017
Title: Semiparametric quantile regression with missing data. Abstract: In this talk I discuss a general methodology to deal with missing data in semiparametric quantile regression…

John Akomfrah

24 March - 23 July 2017
John Akomfrah's acclaimed video installation Vertigo Sea. Vertigo Sea, a three-screen film, first seen at the 56th Venice Biennale as part of Okwui Enwezor's All the World's Futures…

John Rylands Research Institute Annual Lecture 2017

18:15 - 19:30 30 March 2017
The Anglo-Saxons and the making of England The Institute's Annual Lecture for 2017 is to be given by Professor Michael Wood, Professor of Public History, University of Manchester.…

Manchester University Big Band (MUBB)

19:30 - 21:00 30 March 2017
The Manchester University Big Band is an ensemble that plays an eclectic mix of modern jazz to a consistently high standard. They perform three times a year, including a vocal showcase…

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…

Meeting with Juanma Carrillo

17:00 - 18:30 30 March 2017
Spanish film director, videoartist and photographer Juanma Carrillo will deliver an audiovisual presentation on his experience as an independent artist and co-founder of the audiovisual…

NEW SCULPTURE

22 October 2016 - 12 June 2017
This exhibition presents a dynamic selection of contemporary sculpture recently acquired by the Whitworth. Spanning the last 25 years, the exhibition offers an eclectic journey through…

Quatuor Danel

13:10 - 14:00 30 March 2017
The most adventurous of Beethoven’s early quartets is famous for its finale introduction, entitled ‘La Malinconia’; what better pairing, then, than Guillaume Lekeu’s 1887 quartet movement…

Revolutionary Textiles 1910-1939

2 January - 23 April 2017
In the early decades of the 20th century textile design took off in new directions throughout the Western world. Invigorated by experimental techniques, art styles such as Fauvism,…

Sooni Taraporevala: Home in the City, Bombay 1976-Mumbai 2016

4 March 2017 - 1 January 2018
The first UK solo exhibition of photographer Sooni Taraporevala. Photographer, screenwriter, filmmaker Sooni Taraporevala will present a series of black and white photographs depicting…

Stargazing Night at Jodrell Bank

19:00 - 22:00 30 March 2017
Get into astronomy and join us for an evening of stargazing at Jodrell Bank, home to the world-famous Lovell Telescope. As well as our own astronomers, Macclesfield Astronomical Society…

Sustainability Seminar Series – Commuter Travel: The impact of the Oxford Road corridor travel changes With David Budd and Julia Durkan

12:00 - 14:00 30 March 2017
Sustainability Seminar Series – Energy, Well-Being, Biodiversity, Food, Travel & More Launching in January 2017, the Sustainability Seminar Series seeks to present opportunities for…

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