All events

Accomodation Tours

10:30 - 12:00 29 November 2017
Want to have a look at your potential future home? We run accommodation tours of some of our halls of residence on Wednesday mornings between November and March, from 10.30am until…

Art History Masterclass with T. J. Clark: 'Picasso and Misogyny'

14:00 - 16:00 29 November 2017
Visiting Pilkington Professor in Art History, T.J. Clark (Professor Emeritus in Modern Art, University of California, Berkeley) one of the most influential art historians of the past…

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.…

Beyond Dementia

28 July 2017 - 7 January 2018
Beyond Dementia Supporting active citizenship in those living with dementia 28 July – 7 January 2018 Beyond Dementia is a Collection Centre exhibition that explores the lived experience…

Cecily Brown: Shipwreck drawings

17 November 2017 - 15 April 2018
This is an exhibition of a extraordinary series of drawings by Cecily Brown, of wrecked ships and their passengers. Brown’s practice of painterly interrogation of an existing image,…

Celebrating Ganesha

2 September 2017 - 8 January 2018
Manchester Museum is delighted to host the beautiful stone sculpture of Ganesha. Celebrating Ganesha is touring across several venues around the UK as part of the British Museum’s Partnership…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Tristan Burke on Jacques Rancière: 'The Politics of Aesthetics'

14:00 - 16:00 29 November 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Tristan Burke (University of Manchester) will lead a theory intensive for postgraduate…

Cozens and Cozens

16 June 2017 - 24 June 2018
Father and son, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, were influential watercolour painters of the 18th century. Alexander was a drawing master who dedicated his career to teaching young…

Critical Global Politics (CGP) Research Seminar - Dr Elena Barabantseva

16:00 - 17:30 29 November 2017
Critical Global Politics (CGP) Research Seminar Wednesday November 29th 2017 4.00-5.30pm Arthur Lewis Building, Room 2.016/7 (Boardroom) ‘Chasing Borders In China: (Infra)Structures…

Daily Tours at the Whitworth

14:00 20 October 2017 - 15:00 14 February 2018
Daily tours at 2pm, free Each day our public tours are led by our Visitor Team and are an insightful view into our history, collections, exhibition spaces, architecture and park.…

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…

English Corner

10:30 6 October 2017 - 12:00 31 May 2019
Fourth Friday of each month 10.30am–12pm Monthly conversation classes for people who are learning to speak English. Free, no need to book

GDI Lecture: Prof William Ferguson on collective action, inequality and development

17:00 - 18:30 29 November 2017
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to present Prof William Ferguson, Grinnell College to deliver the Adrian Leftwich Annual Lecture. Prof William Ferguson will…

Great Escape: Tai-Chi for Wellbeing (every Wednesday)

08:30 25 October - 09:30 31 December 2017
A traditional Chinese internal art for mind and body. Located in the peaceful setting of our Art Garden, Jian Taiji offer 2 qualified instructors at each class, both with knowledge…

Great Escape: Yoga (every Thursday)

08:30 26 October - 09:45 31 December 2017
No emails, texts, updates or alerts – yoga takes full advantage of the Whitworth’s peaceful setting – and some of its wonderful new spaces. Please note: Participants must arrive at…

Innovative Qualitative Methods for Researching Everyday Life (with SRA North and Midlands Evening Seminar)

18:00 - 19:30 29 November 2017
The SRA has teamed up with Methods@Manchester to co-present an evening of networking, discussion and thought-provoking presentations. Professor Sue Heath (co-director of the Morgan…

Invitation to inaugural lecture with Professor Caroline Bithell

17:00 - 18:00 29 November 2017
You are invited to attend Caroline Bithell's professorial inaugural lecture. The title of the lecture is: "Bridges and Brokers: Musical Renaissance and the Politics of Heritage in…

Maeve Brennan: The Drift

30 September 2017 - 1 February 2018
Maeve Brennan: The Drift 30 September 2017 – February 2018 The Drift, is a major new film commission by contemporary artist Maeve Brennan in her first institutional solo exhibition.…

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

13:00 - 14:00 29 November 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…

Manchester Stammering Support Group meeting

19:00 - 21:00 29 November 2017
This is a support group for people who stammer. Room bookings and other organisational aspects are handled by Max Gattie, an ESRC-funded PhD student researching stammering at the University…

Memories of Partition

15 August 2017 - 31 January 2018
Find out about the experiences and legacies of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 through the memories of members of Manchester’s South Asian communities. The partition of…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 29 November 2017
Paul Widdop, Leeds Beckett University

Mondays: Artbaby – Musicbaby – Family events at the Whitworth

10:15 30 October - 12:30 18 December 2017
Artbaby – Musicbaby – Family events at the Whitworth Designed for babies and their grown ups, and led by artists and musicians, these sensory workshops explore sounds, art and music.…

Mondays: Early Years Atelier – Family events at the Whitworth

11:00 30 October - 15:00 31 December 2017
Early Years Atelier – Family events at the Whitworth. An informal, drop-in laboratory for trying out ideas and playing with materials - a place where young children can get messy,…

Prof. Ludi Simpson (Manchester), ‘Social and Demographic Inequality within Latin America and the Caribbean’

17:00 - 18:30 29 November 2017
Ludi Simpson is Honorary Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research.

Raqs Media Collective: Twilight Language

30 September 2017 - 25 February 2018
Raqs Media Collective: Twilight Language 30 September 2017 – 25 February 2018 The first major UK exhibition by Raqs Media Collective at the Whitworth and throughout Whitworth Park…

Reena Saini Kallat

10:00 30 September 2017 - 17:00 25 February 2018
Acclaimed artist Reena Saini Kallat has delved into Manchester Museum’s natural science and human culture collections for her solo exhibition. Her newly-commissioned sculpture Chorus…

Research Seminar: Will Turner and Katherine Lowe

17:00 - 18:30 29 November 2017
This week we present two 20-minute papers: Will Turner, Lecturer in American studies, will present "Strange Fruit: Chester Himes's Harlem Cycle and the Pitfalls of Canon Formation."…

Royal Economic Society 2017 Annual Public Lecture

15:30 - 18:00 29 November 2017
The Royal Economic Society will be hosting one of the countries’ most inspiring economists, Professor Stephen Machin, to give the next RES Annual Public Lecture this autumn at The University…

Santiago Fouz (Durham University), ‘The Films of Bigas Luna’ (title tbc),

17:00 - 18:30 29 November 2017
Santiago Fouz (Durham University), ‘The Films of Bigas Luna’ (title tbc),

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…

South Asian Modernists 1953-63

30 September 2017 - 15 April 2018
South Asian Modernists 1953-63 30 September – 15 April 2018 South Asian Modernists will explore the works of Pakistani and Indian artists who worked with Victor Musgrave between 1953-63.…

Steve McQueen: Ashes

22 September 2017 - 12 March 2018
Steve McQueen: Ashes 22 September 2017 – March 2019 Ashes (2002-2015), a double video projection, tells the story of a young Caribbean man known by this name. On one screen we see…

Sundays: Artist Sundays – Family events at the Whitworth

11:00 22 October - 16:00 17 December 2017
Family events. Artist Sundays. Extraordinary artists invent offbeat and imaginative ways for you and your family to explore the Whitworth – every Sunday. Sundays, 11am-4pm (drop…

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