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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…

Art History Seminar: Dr Bernard Vere "Body Politics: Sport and the Avant-Garde Between the Wars"

17:30 - 20:00 25 April 2018
Dr Bernard Vere (Program Director, MA Fine and Decorative Art and Design, Sotheby's Institute of Art) specializes in art from the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. His work…

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.…

Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice

13:00 - 14:00 25 April 2018
1. Coping with the aftermath of mass violence. The refugee experience 2. Exploring the financing of modern slavery Chaired by Naomi-Ellen Speehley

Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice

13:00 - 14:00 25 April 2018
1. Coping with the aftermath of mass violence. The refugee experience 2. Exploring the financing of modern slavery Chaired by Naomi-Ellen Speehley

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Sarah Roddy on Max Weber: ‘Money and Religion: Revisiting the Protestant Ethic’

10:00 - 12:00 25 April 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Sarah Roddy (University of Manchester) will lead a theory intensive for postgraduate…

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…

Dr Karoline Cook (Royal Holloway): 'Recreating “Reconquista” in Family Histories in Seventeenth-Century New Spain'

17:00 - 18:30 25 April 2018
Location: Arthur Lewis Boardroom (2nd Floor)

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…

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

13:00 - 14:00 25 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…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 25 April 2018
Pietro Panzarasa, Queen Mary University, London Interdisciplinarity and specialisation: Network perspectives on scientific success As the increasing complexity of large-scale research…

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…

Peter Knight Inaugural Professorial Lecture - "Everything is Connected"

17:00 - 18:00 25 April 2018
Peter Knight Professor of American Studies ‘Everything is Connected’ One of the central assumptions of conspiracy theories is that ‘everything is connected’. Conspiracy narratives…

Seminar: Where is British History Now?

17:00 - 19:30 25 April 2018
Where is British History Now? A Seminar Organized by the Modern British History Network with CIDRAL Over the past twenty years intellectual debate, politics and culture have questioned…

The Politics Department - GPE Seminar - Macroprudential Regimes and the Politics of Social Purpose

15:30 - 17:00 25 April 2018
Dear all The next GPE seminar will be on the 25th April. Here are the details. Andrew Baker University of Sheffield Macroprudential Regimes and the Politics of Social Purpose …

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…

UCAS Exhibition Tyneside

25 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…

CIDRAL Workshop: Stefania Sini: '1924, “Lenin’s Language”: Russian Formalism at a crossroads between self-defence, delimitation and extension of research territory'

10:00 - 12:00 26 April 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, 'The Constraints of Creativity'. Stefania Sini (Università del Piemonte Orientale) will lead a workshop entitled, '1924, “Lenin’s…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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