Performances

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!

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 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…

Friends of the Whitworth: Sunday Concerts - Carnelian Saxophone Quartet

15:00 - 15:45 18 June 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…

Tabley House Presents The Alteri Chamber Choir

19:00 27 June 2017
The Alteri Chamber Choir return to Tabley once more with a delightful programme for an enchanting summer’s evening. The theme of their concert is ‘Flowers’ and they have selected…

Friends of the Whitworth: Sunday Concerts - Tula Flutes

15:00 - 15:45 2 July 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…

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…

FUTURE FLARES Friday Rise to Vertex by Stitch Theatre

17:00 - 18:00 7 July 2017
Rise to Vertex by Stitch Theatre (UK) “There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.” Willa Cather…

Highbrow/Lowbrow: From Chopin to Fado to Songs of Jewish Thieves and Prostitutes

19:00 - 21:00 13 July 2017
Chopin, fado and songs of the Jewish underworld: music of migrants, vagabonds, prostitutes and criminals will shape this evening summer concert. It will be a musical exploration of…

Tabley House Presents: The Biber Ensemble

19:00 19 July 2017
The Biber Ensemble comprises Louise Latham (violin), Mary Danton (cello and recorder) and Ann Bond (harpsichord). They will provide with a lovely evening of delightful Baroque music…

Friends of the Whitworth: Sunday Concerts

15:00 - 15:45 30 July 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…

Friends of the Whitworth: Sunday Concerts

15:00 - 15:45 6 August 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…

Friends of the Whitworth: Sunday Concerts - Clouds Harp Quartet

Friends of the Whitworth: Sunday Concerts

15:00 - 15:45 20 August 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…

The Sessions of March and Manchester Museum Present

20:00 - 23:00 20 August 2017
The Sessions of March is coming to Manchester Museum for a one off special gig, featuring some of Manchester’s finest Blues & Folk musicians. Performances on the night from: Ben P…

KAVI SAMMELAN | Enjoy Hindi Poetry with Eminent Poets from India

18:30 - 21:30 28 August 2017
KAVI SAMMELAN Enjoy Hindi Poetry with Eminent Poets from India At the Whitworth Bank Holiday Monday, 28 AUGUST 2017 Poets : TUSHA SHARMA (MEERUT), JAGBIR RATHEE (ROHTAK), PAWAN…

The University of Manchester New Writing Anthology Launch Event

18:30 - 21:00 7 September 2017
This event marks the publication of a brand-new collection bringing together the exciting and varied work of new writing talent from the Centre's Master's class of 2016-17. Featuring…

Step 9 of 12 - written by Rob Hayes and directed by Nick Clarke

19:00 - 20:30 22 September 2017
Keith just wants to say he’s sorry. A lifetime of drug and alcohol abuse has given him a lot to apologise for – particularly to the two people who raised him from a child. But as the…

Come Closer – Memories of Partition

11:30 - 12:30 23 September 2017
The Royal Exchange Theatre is bringing together some of Manchester’s most exciting British Asian writers and artists to create exciting new performance pieces which will reveal the…

Come Closer – Memories of Partition

13:30 - 14:30 23 September 2017
The Royal Exchange Theatre is bringing together some of Manchester’s most exciting British Asian writers and artists to create exciting new performance pieces which will reveal the…

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