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Age Friendly: Handmade

14:00 12 January - 16:00 13 July 2018
Sociable craft workshops, produced by and for older people in partnership with Age Friendly Manchester Fridays (Except during school holidays), 2pm - 4pm. Booking essential. Free …

Alison Wilding

16 February - 12 August 2018
Turner Prize nominee and Royal Academician Alison Wilding presents works spanning the past 20 years of her career. This new show at the Whitworth will comprise of three major sculptures,…

Apna: Ours Yours Everybody’s

3 February - 13 May 2018
Apna is a word used in many languages across South Asia meaning ‘ours, yours or everybody’s’. This reflects how the Whitworth shares the collection that is housed here. In the Collections…

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.…

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,…

Collection Bites - Meteorites

13:30 - 14:00 26 February 2018
Collection Bites are half an hour talks hosted by our Visitor Team every other Monday. Our Visitor Team members are with our collections every day and so are the perfect people to give…

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…

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

Fairtrade Fortnight 2018

26 February - 12 March 2018
Come on in to Fairtrade Fortnight 2018! It’s Fairtrade Fortnight from 26th February to 12th March so it’s time to step up and stand by the farmers and workers who grow our food. As…

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,…

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…

Literature Live: Mariko Nagai and Richard Lloyd Parry - Japan Now

19:30 - 21:00 26 February 2018
Join us to celebrate UNESCO City of Literature International Mother Language Day (IMLD). How do writers – both natives and ‘outsiders’ - respond to tragedy and recount the lived experience…

MIOIR Seminar: Raquel Ortega-Argiles, University of Birmingham - The Continental Divide? Economic Exposure to Brexit in Regions and Countries on Both Sides of the Channel

12:30 - 14:00 26 February 2018
The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research runs a series of regular seminars given by visiting speakers to Manchester, discussing key issues in science, technology and innovation…

Please note : Postponement of our Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 26th February 2018

16:00 - 18:00 26 February 2018
Hi Everyone Please note, the forthcoming Social Anthropology seminar scheduled for Monday the 26th of February 2018, Has been postponed till further notice. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. Many thanks Val

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…

What's wrong with GDP as a measure of progress, and how do we fix it?

18:30 - 19:45 27 February 2018
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the nation’s headline economic indicator, and often used shorthand as a measure of progress. But GDP has been criticised for many things, such as not…

Accomodation Tours

10:30 - 12:00 28 February 2018
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…

Encoding Mechanical Information through multimolecular structures: Lessons from Directed Cell Migration

10:00 - 11:00 28 February 2018
Interactions between cells and their mechanical environment is a critical regulator of important physiological functions that gets hijacked in diseases such as cancer. One such function…

Making Sense of Brexit – The Political and Policy Implications for the UK’s Devolved Administrations

14:00 - 15:00 28 February 2018
Making Sense of Brexit – The Political and Policy Implications for the UK’s Devolved Administrations

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

13:00 - 14:00 28 February 2018
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…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 28 February 2018
Lukas Norbutas, Utrecht University Trust on the Dark Web. Investigating the emergence of trust in online drug marketplaces. What is the role of trust in illegal online marketplaces…

Sexual violence on campus

15:00 - 16:00 28 February 2018
Join Professor Alison Phipps from the University of Sussex as she discusses sexual violence on campus. The School of Physics and Astronomy and the Faculty of Science and Engineering…

UCAS Exhibition Northern Ireland

28 February - 1 March 2018
UCAS exhibitions are an opportunity for students to explore a variety of options in one setting. They're a chance to get talking with university admissions staff, find out what life's…

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