Exhibitions, Lecture

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…

Brexit and Citizens Rights Settled Status and Alternative Proposals

18:30 - 20:30 18 December 2017
DESCRIPTION Jointly organised by Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (JMCE), INCA UK, an Italian welfare advice centre (supported by the charity ITACA) and 'The3million' (t3m),…

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…

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…

John Stezaker

1 December 2017 - 24 June 2018
Using vintage photographs, old film stills, postcards and book illustrations, John Stezaker makes collages that subvert their original imagery, creating unique and compelling works…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

Stock Orchard Street: Rationale, Realisation, Reception

17:00 - 18:00 15 January 2018
Public Lecture (Key Note) by Sarah Wigglesworth This lecture is organised as part of the Activism at Home Symposium 15-16 January 2018: the programme can be found here: https://aestheticsofresistance…

Domesticity and the Architect's Home

13:30 - 14:30 16 January 2018
Public lecture (key note) by Hilde Heynen, Leuven University This lecture is organised as part of the Activism at Home Symposium 15-16 January 2018: the programme can be found here:…

Alfredo Brillembourg (U-TT/ETHZ): Urban Think Tank

18:00 - 20:00 17 January 2018
This event is made possible due to the kindness of The Bradshaw Gass Trust. Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) is an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design…

In the Land

27 January - 4 November 2018
Rethinking the form, texture and space of the natural landscape. This exhibition looks back at a period of intense experimentation in British painting and sculpture where artists,…

Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2018

18:00 - 19:30 29 January 2018
We are delighted to announce that the forth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Jan Grabowski (University of Ottawa). The event is open to the public;…

Careers in Audiology

10:00 - 12:00 29 January 2018
Join our Audiology students, staff and employers to find out about the range of rewarding careers in Audiology. Audiology is the healthcare science of hearing and balance disorders.…

Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2018

18:00 - 19:30 30 January 2018
We are delighted to announce that the forth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Jan Grabowski (University of Ottawa). The event is open to the public;…

Economic Convergence in the Eurozone: Coming Together or Drifting Apart?

14:00 - 16:00 31 January 2018
A special JMCE event. ***The event is free and open to all, but registration is essential*** https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/economic-convergence-in-the-eurozone-coming-together-or-drifting-apart-tickets-41946470021

GDI Lecture: Vijay Joshi on 'India: the Long Road to Prosperity'

17:00 - 18:30 31 January 2018
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to present Vijay Joshi, Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and Reader Emeritus in Economics, University of Oxford,…

Lovell Lecture: Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell

19:30 - 21:00 1 February 2018
The Curious Case of the Pulsating Star Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell We’re absolutely thrilled to be welcoming Jocelyn Bell Burnell to Jodrell Bank for our first Lovell Lecture…

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