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After Hours

18:00 - 21:00 25 May 2017
Join Girl Gang Manchester and Manchester Museum for an evening of collections, craft and curiosities. Responding to themes and content within the museum's upcoming exhibition Object…

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…

Beyond Borders

20 May 2017 - 3 June 2018
Beyond Borders, explores South Asian textiles bringing together four artists working on issues around post-colonial identity, ruptured spaces, authenticity, displacement and belonging.…

Bike Registration Event

09:00 - 10:00 25 May 2017
Free Bike Marking session - To qualify for a discounted 'D' lock students and staff must register their bikes on the University scheme. LOCKS MUST BE BOUGHT THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY'S…

Cafe Scientifique - The Dark River? The transformation of the River Irwell

17:30 - 21:30 25 May 2017
Our speaker is Dr Keith White, who is an expert in understanding and managing the water quality and ecology of urban watercourses, including preventing the formation of potentially…

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…

Forgiveness, Apology, and Reconciliation

25 - 26 May 2017
Workshop on Forgiveness, Apology and Reconciliation *Royal Institute of Philosophy Event Attendance is free Please confirm your intention to attend by emailing Noemie Rouault:…

Israel Studies Seminar - Stacey Gutkowski (King's College London), 'Jewish Atheists in Foxholes? Phenomenologies of Violence and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict'.

15:00 - 16:30 25 May 2017
The Centre for Jewish Studies seminar programme has an Israel Studies theme. Our seminar programme is open to all (for free) and there is no need to book. Unpacking and problematizing…

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…

Lovell Lecture: Professor Isobel Hook

19:30 - 22:00 25 May 2017
In 1998 two teams of astronomers discovered that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating, work that was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 2011. The discovery was based on…

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…

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…

Normality: What is it good for? A Performance Dialogue between Brian Lobel and Liz Carr

16:00 - 18:00 25 May 2017
In this performance dialogue, Lobel and Carr will explore how bodies and bodily experiences are conceived, discussed and witnessed by others; they engage us in thinking about how bodies…

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…

Magic Carpet: Under the Sea

10:30 - 11:30 26 May 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…

Magic Carpet: Under the Sea

11:30 - 12:30 26 May 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…

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.…

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

13:00 - 14:00 27 May 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…

Urban Naturalist

14:00 - 15:30 27 May 2017
Friendly, practical, skill building workshops ran by leading naturalists. From wild food-foraging for natural cocktails to learning how to recognise the sounds of the animals that visit…

Urban Wildlife - An Arty Exploration - Wildlife Walk and Sketching Workshop

14:00 - 17:00 27 May 2017
We are kicking things off with a biodiversity walk and sketching workshop. Amanda Bamford, professor of plant science at the University of Manchester and Patrick Osborn, sustainability…

Friends of the Whitworth: Sunday Concerts - Aurea String Quartet

15:00 - 15:45 28 May 2017
Friends of the Whitworth present a series of free Sunday Concerts that are open to all. Performances are held at 3pm on selected Sunday afternoons in the New Arrivals exhibition gallery,…

Half Term Activities: Junk Modelling

11:00 29 May - 16:00 2 June 2017
See our newly opened ‘Object Lessons’ exhibition and the beautiful models on display including a flower meadow, mushrooms, sea anemones and lots more. Get crafty and make some models…

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