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Art Picnics - Easter school holidays: 1-8 April

12:00 1 - 14:00 8 April 2017
Art Picnics - Easter school holidays Saturdays, 1 and 8 April, 12pm-2pm Eat… Chat… Make…Together. Picnics with a difference… Bring your food, meet artists and new friends as we explore…

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…

Black Holes Science Show!

3 - 17 April 2017
Bring all the family to Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre this Easter and enjoy out new Science Show all about Black Holes! 3rd - 17th April (weekdays only, including Good Friday and Easter…

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.…

Easter Holiday Activities: Springtime Flowerpot Labels

11:00 3 - 16:00 14 April 2017
We're celebrating Springtime at Manchester Museum. Spring is here, flowers are blooming and it's time to welcome a variety of visitors back to our gardens, such as butterflies, bees,…

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…

Make a Quasar! Drop in Activity

3 - 13 April 2017
Bring all the family to Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre this Easter and join in with our fun drop-in activity: Make a Quasar! 3rd - 13th April weekdays only, 10:30 - 12:30 and 1:30 -…

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…

Meet the Expert

3 - 13 April 2017
Bring all the family to Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre this Easter and enjoy our popular Meet the Expert Q&A sessions. 3rd - 13th April weekdays only, 13:30 Here’s your chance to meet…

MIE Seminar: Ability Grouping in Mathematics

16:30 - 18:30 3 April 2017
David Pomeroy from the Victoria University of Wellington, NZ will be giving a seminar on setting and ability grouping in New Zealand. David was formerly Diane Reay’s PhD student at…

Monday Lunchtime Talk: The Melbourne Controversy; Jai Zhangke and the Melbourne International Film Festival, 2009

13:00 - 14:00 3 April 2017
In 2009, the famous independent Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke withdrew his films from the Melbourne International Film Festival in protest at the invitation to Rebiya Kadeer, the leader…

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…

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…

Spring Studio – Easter school holidays: 3-14 April

11:00 3 - 16:00 14 April 2017
Spring Studio – Easter school holidays Mondays – Fridays, 3-14 April. 11am-4pm Drop in In the spirit of our monthly Outdoor Art Club sessions, this Spring Studio brings art, nature…

The Tabley House Collection

13:00 1 April - 13:00 29 October 2017
As a university of Manchester country house collection, The Tabley House Collection showcases a permanent exhibition of early British modern masters alongside interchanging displays…

English Corner

13:00 - 14:30 4 April 2017
Free English conversation classes using the Museum’s collection as inspiration for discussion. Drop in, free, adult

Short Course: Bayesian Analysis using WinBUGS / OpenBUGS (intermediate)

4 - 5 April 2017
Use of Bayesian methods is becoming increasingly widespread within quantitative social and health sciences, particularly for analysing data with complex structure, such as hierarchical…

The Progressive Verse of Dawson Jackson and ASJ Tessimond

12:00 - 13:00 4 April 2017
John Tessimond and Dawson Jackson are poets whose work complicates the popular understanding of the 1930s and 1940s as a nadir for British poetry. Research of key source material in…

Webinar: Putting data on maps

15:00 - 16:00 4 April 2017
This free webinar will provide you with an introduction to using mapping libraries in R to create simple geographical visualisations of your data. The data can be represented on the…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 5 April 2017
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. No need to book, just turn up.

Research and Teaching Matters - FRIENDS for Life is a primary school based cognitive-behavioural preventative programme

12:00 - 13:00 5 April 2017
Presented by Michael Wigelsworth.

The rise of a university: industry, engineering and science (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 5 April 2017
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the height of the industrial revolution to the white heat of 1960s scientific and technological innovation. Our guides explain the history…

Webinar: Key data: Business data

15:00 - 16:00 5 April 2017
This webinar is an introduction to Office for National Statistics (ONS) business data available from the UK Data Service, such as the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. The webinar…

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