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A Rubbish Night at the Museum

10:00 19 April - 17:00 5 May 2018
If you care about the rubbish in the streets of Greater Manchester, come along and see an exhibition of nearly 100 displays by artists, photographers, researchers, companies, community…

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.…

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Connecting The World

15:00 - 18:00 20 April 2018
The Society for Anglo Chinese Understanding invites to a panel discussion on China’s Belt and Road - or 21st Century Silk Road - Initiative, which has been hailed as “the greatest economic…

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

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…

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…

Manchester University Music Society - Cosmo Singers and Ad Solem

19:30 - 21:00 20 April 2018
The University’s two leading chamber choirs tackle choral works old and new, which include Herbert Howells’ celestial Requiem, which remained unperformed for almost fifty years after…

Manchester University Music Society - World Music

13:10 - 14:00 20 April 2018
Expect music-making originating from anywhere around the globe in this world music concert! Students will have the opportunity a chance to perform music in exotic styles, as soloists…

Methodist Studies Seminar

09:30 - 17:00 20 April 2018
The Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University, and the Manchester Wesley Research Centre have worked in partnership for several years. In 2012, the centres…

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…

The Art of Collage

10:30 - 13:00 20 April 2018
WEA are running a course, which will take place at the Whitworth, for adults interested in learning about the medium of collage in modern and contemporary art. Friday, 10:30am, £35…

Tours at Two

14:00 20 April 2018 - 14:45 31 December 2019
Each day our public tours are led by our Visitor Team and are an insightful view into our history, collections, exhibition spaces, architecture and park. Daily tours are designed for…

Artist Sundays

11:00 - 15:00 21 April 2018
Artists have created quirky activities and creative challenges to do together with your family. Call into the learning studio and collect a specially made family bag and head off to…

Big Sat: Earth Day

11:00 - 16:00 21 April 2018
Join us as we celebrate International Earth Day which falls on the 22nd April every year. Celebrate what’s wonderful about our world and find out more about how we can care for it.…

Collections by Candlelight: Collection Encounter

14:00 - 15:00 21 April 2018
The John Rylands Library: Enjoy some of our most exquisite gold decorated pieces displayed in the manner in which they would have originally been seen - illuminated by candlelight.…

Manchester University Music Society - Brass Band

19:30 - 21:00 21 April 2018
Recently returning from a tour of Edinburgh and competing at Unibrass, Brass Band will showcase a mixture of traditional repertoire and more modern compositions. Having won Unibrass…

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

13:00 - 14:00 21 April 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…

Toddler Outdoor Art Club

10:00 - 12:00 21 April 2018
Workshops that bring art, nature and creativity together that take place come rain or shine. or children under 5 and their grown ups. Free, drop-in, every Saturday 10am-12pm Sessions…

Brexit and the North West

13:00 - 14:00 22 April 2018
Wajid Khan became Labour’s newest North West Member of European Parliament in June 2017. In European Parliament Wajid sits on the Committee on Foreign Affairs; the Subcommittee on Human…

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