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Ageing + social eating: developing age-friendly communities through eating with others

14:00 - 16:00 28 April 2017
Social eating or commensality has been associated with range of health and social benefits for older adults in the UK and globally. There is limited information on why older adults…

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…

Daily: Art Hampers – resources for families at the Whitworth

10:00 22 April - 17:00 31 December 2017
Are you hungry to get creative with your family? Pick up an Art Hamper, free and available any time during gallery opening hours. Our Art Hampers are filled with materials for you…

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.…

Family Ties – The Adamah Papers exhibition

7 April - 25 May 2017
A new exhibition from the Black Cultural Archives exploring a collection of papers belonging to the Adamah Family - a Ghanaian family of Kings - which reflect on the family's daily…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 28 April 2017
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. No need to book, just turn up.

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…

Lucienne Day

14 April - 16 July 2017
We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary year of one of Britain’s most influential 20th century designers. Best-known for her textiles, Lucienne Day (1917 – 2010) is recognised…

Nature Discovery Story

10:30 - 11:30 28 April 2017
Magic Carpet is an interactive, creative, story making and activity session that forms connections to the Museum’s collections. Our stories are specially devised to enable our youngest…

Nature Discovery Story

11:30 - 12:30 28 April 2017
Magic Carpet is an interactive, creative, story making and activity session that forms connections to the Museum’s collections. Our stories are specially devised to enable our youngest…

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…

PhilChat Conference: Race, Gender and Class in Philosophy

12:00 - 17:00 28 April 2017
PhilChat is a conference for undergrads, aimed at promoting the voices of underrepresented groups in philosophy. The conference ran last year for the first time, to great success. This…

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…

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…

Translation, Travel and Children's Literature

10:15 - 17:15 28 April 2017
For this Symposium and round table discussion, we are delighted to welcome three guest speakers: Speakers: Kiera Vaclavik, Queen Mary College, London (http://complit.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/complit/people/t…

Vonnegut Collective

13:10 - 14:00 28 April 2017
This year MUMS is privileged to have the Vonnegut Collective perform works from various postgraduate composition students from The University of Manchester. The Vonnegut Collective…

Hidden Object Stories

11:00 - 16:00 29 April 2017
Our Museum objects can reveal many secrets about the natural world. Meet student experts from The University of Manchester who will be sharing the stories they have uncovered. Free, drop in, families

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

13:00 - 14:00 29 April 2017
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…

The Urban Naturalist

29 April 2017
Friendly, practical workshops run by leading naturalists. From wild food-foraging and composting to bird song and insect identification, explore biodiversity on our doorstep. Join…

Friends of the Whitworth: Sunday Concerts - Alla Petrichei

15:00 - 15:45 30 April 2017
Friends of the Whitworth present a series of free Sunday Concerts that are open to all. At 3pm on selected Sunday afternoons, students from the Royal Northern College of Music perform…

'Unlocking the Archive of Anvil Press'

12:00 - 13:00 2 May 2017
Anvil Press was founded in 1968 by Peter Jay, who remained its director until his retirement from publishing in 2015. With a focus on modern poetry in English and poetry in translation…

Development Economics Seminar: Chris Woodruff (University of Oxford)

13:00 - 14:00 2 May 2017
Title: What Are the Headwaters of Formal Savings? Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka. Abstract: When households increase their deposits in formal bank savings accounts, what is the…

English Corner

13:00 - 14:30 2 May 2017
Free English conversation classes using the Museum’s collection as inspiration for discussion. Drop in, free, adult

English Corner

13:00 - 14:30 2 May 2017
Free English conversation classes using the Museum’s collection as inspiration for discussion. Drop in, free, adult

Seminar: Renato Faccini (Queen Mary)

16:15 - 17:45 2 May 2017
Title: TBA

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