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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…

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.…

Business Enterprise Exchange Event

12:00 - 13:00 11 April 2018
The Enterprise Exchange will provide more information about a topic relating to Enterprise or Knowledge Exchange, framed around a ‘Question Time’ style panel discussion. The event…

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…

Easter Holiday Activities: Animal Hats

11:00 2 - 16:00 13 April 2018
Explore, discover and create at Manchester Museum this Easter as we celebrate nature and spring. Create your very own animal hat inspired by the Museum’s collections. Families, free, drop in

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

Exchanges

24 March 2018 - 2 February 2020
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention. In this evolving exhibition, art that has recently been…

Families this Easter Holiday: Wild Whitworth

11:00 3 - 15:00 15 April 2018
This Easter holidays, outdoors is the new indoors, with a line up of activities for all the family celebrating and embracing the great outdoors. Muck about outdoors at a gallery where…

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,…

Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves

30 March - 28 August 2018
Ten Thousand Waves is the most recent in a series of major moving image acquisitions by the Whitworth and was supported through Art Fund’s Moving Image Fund. Rooted in the Morecambe…

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…

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

13:00 - 14:00 11 April 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…

Nature Through Roman Eyes

10:00 6 April - 17:00 30 October 2018
Nature Through Roman Eyes is inspired by the work of Roman writer Pliny the Elder. His Natural History – a 37 book encyclopaedia of the ancient world - covers every subject from astronomy…

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.…

UCAS Exhibition Bristol

11 - 12 April 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…

Introduction to Longitudinal Data Analysis (CPD accredited)

12 April 2018
The course covers basic concepts in longitudinal design and analysis. The morning session focuses on the strengths and methodological difficulties of the longitudinal approach such…

Marxism and Religion

10:00 - 16:30 12 April 2018
Marxism is having a mini-revival in the context of the 2008 economic crash. A new generation of radical scholars appear to be inspired by aspects of the Marxist tradition and are theorising…

Raisa Kabir: Build me a loom off your back and your stomach

18:30 - 21:00 12 April 2018
'Build me a loom off your back and your stomach' is a performance of durational dance, distance and diaspora. The artist Raisa Kabir weaves and dances, carrying the lengths of cloth-making…

Shimmer and Shine Window Workshop

14:00 - 16:00 12 April 2018
The John Rylands Library: Red and yellow and pink and green, you name it our amazing stained glass windows have it! Using the most colourful papers and textures make your own version…

Longitudinal Data Analysis (CPD accredited)

13 April 2018
The course covers two of the most useful ways of analysing longitudinal data. In the morning we cover growth curve analysis within a multilevel modelling framework. The theoretical…

Rainbows, Stars and Flying Horses: Printing Press Demonstration

11:15 - 11:45 13 April 2018
The John Rylands Library: See our 19th century printing press come to life. Inspired by the Alchemy of Colour exhibition we will be printing beautiful images with an amazing rainbow…

Autism Friendly Early Opening

09:15 - 11:00 14 April 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…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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