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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…

Autism Friendly Early Opening

09:15 - 10:30 10 March 2018
See, Make and Do at the Museum Join us for our early openings at the Museum aimed at children who have autism and other needs, along with their families and carers, and siblings. Activities…

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,…

Contemporary Floral Art: Art Alive

13:00 - 14:00 10 March 2018
Art Alive This event is the next in a series of demonstrations and talks based on contemporary floral art. Led by international floral designer Craig Bullock, this demonstration will…

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…

Manchester Museum Tour in Italian

10:00 - 11:00 10 March 2018
In order to enhance the experience for our international visitors, from 2018 we are proud to offer free foreign language tours aimed at native speakers and students of any level of…

Manchester Museum Tour in Italian

11:00 - 12:00 10 March 2018
Al fine di migliorare l'esperienza dei nostri visitatori internazionali, dal 2018 siamo orgogliosi di offrire tour gratuiti in lingua straniera rivolti a madrelingua e studenti di qualsiasi…

Manchester University Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:00 10 March 2018
Progamme to Include : Thorvaldsdottir Aeriality Sibelius Violin Concerto Bax Tintagel Sibelius Tapiola Following on from their hugely successful performance of Shostakovich’s…

Marie Stopes Re-assessed

14:00 - 16:00 10 March 2018
Marie Stopes re-assessed: reluctant Mancunian, sexual revolutionary, birth control pioneer. Marie was controversial in her lifetime, but since the Second World she has been maligned…

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…

The rise of a university: industry, engineering and science (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 10 March 2018
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the height of the industrial revolution to the white heat of 1960s scientific and technological innovation. Our guides explain the history…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Pierpaolo Antonello, 'Bruno Munari’s Peritextual Playground'

17:00 - 19:00 12 March 2018
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity Dr Pierpaolo Antonello (Reader in Italian Literature and Culture, St…

EAC Research Seminar: Andrew Leong (Northwestern), 'Race / Money / Literature: Japanese Poetic Forms and the Anglo-American Gold Standard'

17:00 - 18:30 12 March 2018
EAC Research Seminar: Andrew Leong (Northwestern), 'Race / Money / Literature: Japanese Poetic Forms and the Anglo-American Gold Standard.' The lecture will take place on 12 March at 5pm in Sam Alex A7. All welcome!

This Seminar has been postponed untill further notice - Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 12th March 2018 Dr Ammara Maqsood – University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 12 March 2018
This Seminar has been postponed untill further notice - Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 12th March 2018 Dr Ammara Maqsood – University of Manchester

UCAS Exhibition Surrey

12 - 13 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…

Wonder Women: From Petticoats to Microscopes

13:30 - 14:00 12 March 2018
From archaeologists to academics, from the curious to the curators, there is a long history of pioneering women who have shaped Manchester Museum and the University of Manchester. This…

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