Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama

Robin Ireland (viola) and Krysia Osostowicz (violin)

13:10 - 14:00 4 May 2017
Robin Ireland and Krysia Osostowicz perform two of the best loved Duos for violin and viola, and a selection of Bartok's wonderful Duos for two violins. Robin Ireland is the former…

Gamelan Degung with special guest Soufian Saihi

13:10 - 14:00 11 May 2017
Second-year music students from The University of Manchester's 'Ensemble Performance' module take to the stage to demonstrate their newly acquired expertise in Sundanese Gamelan Degung…

Sexuality Summer School Public Performance Lecture: Holly Hughes: Dyke Interrupted

20:00 - 21:30 23 May 2017
Sexuality Summer School (22nd – 26th May 2017): Why Be Normal? Holly Hughes is an internationally acclaimed lesbian performer whose work has been challenging normative ideas about…

The 34th Annual STIMW Symposium (Sanskrit Tradition in the Modern World)

10:45 - 17:00 26 May 2017
STIMW offers a forum for the discussion of papers on varied aspects of Indian religions. Papers have been presented by leading scholars in the field as well as by research students.…

ESTIVAL 2017

6 - 9 June 2017
Join Manchester University Music Society in their unique equivalent to the 'Proms'! MUMS celebrate the end of the academic year by packing nine concerts into four days in an unmissable…

Manchester University Music Society Music & Drama Mashup Showcase – Estival 2017

19:30 - 21:00 6 June 2017
This year the Mashup is back, bigger and better than ever before! With music and drama students coming together to create musical scenes and pantomime dreams, June 6th's evening concert…

Manchester University Music Society Concerto Concert – Estival 2017

19:30 - 21:00 7 June 2017
Programme to include: Higdon Percussion Concerto Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor This evening showcases the striking contrast between the much-loved, romantic Violin Concerto…

Summer Proms Extravaganza Relaxed Performance

11:00 - 12:00 7 June 2017
Join us for a spectacular summer proms concert for everyone to enjoy. From classical favourites to a selection of well-known contemporary songs, come along, sing-along and enjoy! …

Ad Solem and Cosmo Singers Lunchtime Concert – Estival 2017

13:10 - 14:00 8 June 2017
Summer is Icumen in! Ad Solem and The Cosmo Singers come together in concert to bring you choral works by Finzi, Ireland, Delius, Ligeti, Barber, MacMillan and more!

Manchester University Wind Orchestra and Manchester University Brass Band – Estival 2017

19:30 - 21:00 8 June 2017
Programme to Include: Bernstein, arr. Duthoit West Side Story Selection John & Zimmer, arr. Custer The Lion King Tchaikovsky, arr. Godfrey 1812 Overture Simon Dobson Torsion…

Manchester University Music Society Grade-1-athon – Estival 2017

13:10 - 14:00 9 June 2017
Beloved tunes, 50 students, all grade 1 standard - how much better can one concert be? Join us for the ever-popular Manchester University Music Society Grade1athon orchestra, in which…

Manchester University Music Society Symphony Orchestra – Estival 2017

19:30 - 21:00 9 June 2017
Manchester University Music Society Symphony Orchestra returns with an exhilarating programme from Middle Eastern folk tales. Featuring Nielsen’s inventive Aladdin Suite and Rimsky-Korsakov’s…

Public Lecture: Ian Alan Paul: The Conditions of Possibility: Democracy, Security, and Futurity in Post-Coup Cairo

14:00 - 16:00 9 June 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2016/17 Semester 2 programme on Precarity. Ian Alan Paul is a transdisciplinary artist, theorist, and curator. His practice encompasses experimental…

Call for Community Festival 2017 activities

11:00 - 15:30 17 June 2017
This year the University will hold its first University-wide Community Festival. A small pilot event will take place on Saturday 17 June 2017 from 11.00am – 3.30pm at Manchester Museum,…

The University of Manchester Community Festival

11:00 - 15:00 17 June 2017
Come and experience our free Community Festival packed with fun family-friendly interactive activities. We are throwing open our doors for our local neighbours to discover the variety…

FLARE17

5 - 7 July 2017
Flare International Festival of New Theatre returns to the Martin Harris Centre as part of FLARE17. Following the success of FLARE15, we host Future Flares, showcasing new work from…

FUTURE FLARES Double Bill #1 A work of ART by Dead Pig and Civilisation by Emma Gannon

17:00 - 18:00 5 July 2017
A work of ART by DEAD PIG (UK) ‘The next day another turn came, and so it continued always the same...’ An image-based performance - a living breathing art work - trapped for eternity…

FUTURE FLARES Double Bill #2: Katie and Pip by Tin Can People and Boys will be Girls and Girls will be Boys by KASK/Mole Wetherell

17:00 - 18:00 6 July 2017
Katie and Pip by Tin Can People (UK) Katie & Pip celebrates the relationship between Katie, a 15 year old girl with type 1 diabetes, and ‘Pip’ her 5 year old border collie, trained…

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