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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,…

Alvar Aalto’s Elective Affinities

14:00 - 15:00 8 March 2018
The lecture "Alvar Aalto’s Elective Affinities" mines how Alvar Aalto’s architecture and its international reception were impacted by the circulation of photographs, publications, and…

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…

BBC Civilisations Event: What is Civilisation today? - Thursday Lates

18:00 - 18:45 8 March 2018
In 1969, standing in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral, Kenneth Clark posed the question: “What is civilisation?” His answer: “I don’t know. I can’t define it. But I think I can recognise…

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,…

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…

CTIS Seminar: David Katan, "Stealth Translation: A Blueprint for More Accessible Translation"

14:00 - 15:30 8 March 2018
The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies seminar series brings researchers from across the UK and Europe to the University of Manchester to present on their work. These…

Deeds not Words: Manchester and Women's Suffrage

14:00 - 16:00 8 March 2018
The John Rylands Library: Discover the history of the women's suffrage movement and be inspired by the Mancunian women (and men!) who encouraged a generation of women to fight for…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Caroline Kaye (MMU), "William Holman Hunt’s The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple (1860): Biblical Interpretation and Protestant Aesthetics"

14:00 - 16:00 8 March 2018
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session. Tea and biscuits…

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…

Girls Night Out

19:30 - 20:00 8 March 2018
Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre's ever-popular Girls Night Out returns for International Womens’ Day 2018. Led by Sue Horne MBE from the UK Space Agency, the evening promises to be a…

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…

MARG Lecture Series: Elective Affinities, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

14:00 - 15:30 8 March 2018
Find out more about this lecture at: http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/mui/marg/events/architecture_of_the_land.pdf

Quatuor Danel Seminar

14:30 - 16:00 8 March 2018
The Quatuor Danel workshops new compositions by postgraduate students of the University.

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…

Thursday Lates: Suffragette - Charity Screening

18:00 - 21:00 8 March 2018
Suffragette: Charity Screening 8 March, 6pm. £21.55. Booking Essential The Pankhurst Trust and The Village Screen presents a special screening of Suffragette and wine tasting reception…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert - Quatuor Danel

13:10 - 14:00 8 March 2018
A concert of contrasts is offered here, ranging from the late-Romantic lyricism of Webern’s Langsamer Satz to a new work by Marseillais composer Régis Campo and the uncompromising collision…

Future Dams Lecture with Michael Hanemann: Why the economics of water are so hard

12:00 - 13:30 9 March 2018
The Future Dams project is pleased to present Professor Michael Hanemann, Arizona State University to discuss why the economics of water are so hard. Economists typically analyse water…

HSRC/CHISTM/UKAHN Joint Seminar with Cynthia Connolly: The Child as Scientific Problem - and Business Opportunity

12:00 - 13:30 9 March 2018
The Child as Scientific Problem—and Business Opportunity: Paediatric Drug Policy in the United States, 1933-1979 The issues embedded in discussions of children and drug safety and…

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