Performances

ESTIVAL 2018

4 - 8 June 2018
Join Manchester University Music Society in their unique equivalent to the 'Proms'! MUMS celebrate the end of the academic year by packing nine concerts into five days in an unmissable…

Manchester University Music Society - Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:00 8 June 2018
Elgar Dream Children Elizabeth Maconchy Nocturne Vaughan Williams Symphony No.5 Manchester University Music Society finishes Estival in style with an inspiring final concert from…

The Magic of Musicals relaxed performance

13:10 - 14:00 8 June 2018
Join us on a magical journey filled with your favourite songs from musicals and Disney films. This event is a wonderful opportunity to hear live music in our beautiful concert hall…

Sunday Concerts: Duo Antipodes

15:00 17 June 2018
Friends of the Whitworth present a series of free Sunday Concerts that are open to all. Performances are held at 3pm on selected Sunday afternoons in the New Arrivals exhibition gallery,…

The European Art-Science-Technology Network Week

25 - 30 June 2018
The European Art-Science-Technology Network (EASTN-DC) is a forerunner of the next digital revolution, bringing together 17 partners, from the European Union, Brazil, USA and Canada.…

The European Art-Science-Technology Network Week

18:00 - 19:30 27 June 2018
The European Art-Science-Technology Network (EASTN-DC) is a forerunner of the next digital revolution, bringing together 17 partners, from the European Union, Brazil, USA and Canada.…

The European Art-Science-Technology Network Week

20:00 - 21:30 27 June 2018
The European Art-Science-Technology Network (EASTN-DC) is a forerunner of the next digital revolution, bringing together 17 partners, from the European Union, Brazil, USA and Canada.…

The European Art-Science-Technology Network Week

14:00 - 15:30 28 June 2018
The European Art-Science-Technology Network (EASTN-DC) is a forerunner of the next digital revolution, bringing together 17 partners, from the European Union, Brazil, USA and Canada.…

Sunday Concerts: Lutes and Voices

15:00 - 16:00 1 July 2018
Friends of the Whitworth present a series of free Sunday Concerts that are open to all. Performances are held at 3pm on selected Sunday afternoons in the New Arrivals exhibition gallery,…

Singing in the City and NHS 70

11:00 - 16:30 8 July 2018
On Sunday 8 July our gallery will be filled with choirs and a free singing extravaganza to celebrate the NHS's 70th anniversary, in the city where the first National Health Service…

Music at the Museum

17:30 - 19:00 12 July 2018
Music at the Museum Experience the magical setting of the Living Worlds Gallery at this intimate after-hours gig featuring experimental folk rock band Firefly Burning, and 17 of the…

Cusp Editions presents Clive Bell and David Ross at The John Rylands Library

19:30 - 20:30 16 August 2018
Listen to the delicate sounds of East Asian wind instruments coupled with bizarre rhythmic electronics performed by Clive Bell and David Ross. As a duo they tenderly explore the points…

Ten Thousand Waves Closing Celebration

11:00 - 15:00 25 August 2018
Saturday 25 August, 11am – 3pm. Free, no booking necessary A day of music, poetry and film in response to our exhibition Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves. Throughout the day we’ll…

The Lovenotes; Women’s A Capella Quartet

18:15 - 19:00 20 September 2018
What better way to celebrate our Women Who Shaped Manchester Exhibition than to invite Manchester’s The Lovenotes to perform at the Library. This local group have selected a range of…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Oriental Breeze

13:10 - 14:00 27 September 2018
Manchester-based Chinese music ensemble, Oriental Breeze, consists of members from the local Chinese community and is one of the largest of its kind in the UK. Enjoy the charm of traditional…

Summit

19:00 - 20:30 28 September 2018
Written by Andy Smith Co-directed by Andy Smith and Claire Lamont Produced by Fuel "We need to use our imagination. We need to imagine that change might be possible. That change…

Manchester University Music Society: Welcome Concert

17:00 - 19:00 30 September 2018
Join us for the first Music Society concert of the academic year, featuring three contrasting French works. We introduce our newest music students in Poulenc’s eclectic Gloria, followed…

‘She Wrote Her Own Eulogy’: Shirley May book launch

18:00 - 20:00 1 October 2018
The launch of Shirley May's first book of poetry, 'She Wrote Her Own Eulogy', published by Wrecking Ball Press. Shirley will be sharing some of the poems from her book and discussing it with the audience.

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Quatuor Danel with Michelle Assay (piano)

13:10 - 14:00 4 October 2018
In the last years of Stalin’s regime, composers in Russia and the eastern bloc were exhorted to compose music ‘for the people’. In Poland Lutoslawski responded with a folklike series…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert with Richard Whalley (piano)

19:30 - 21:00 5 October 2018
The Danels begin their late-Schubert survey with the bitter-sweet ‘Rosamunde’ named after its slow movement’s variations on incidental music to a play of that name. The Second Piano…

Beth Underdown: Love makes as many

17:30 - 19:00 6 October 2018
1918, and some women in England have gained the right to vote. A few short weeks before the armistice, the shortage of cotton has brought a strange hush to Quarry Bank mill and the…

Sunday Concerts: Levaré String Quartet with works including Stravinsky and Mendelssohn

15:00 - 16:00 7 October 2018
Friends of the Whitworth present a series of free Sunday Concerts that are open to all. Performances are held at 3pm on selected Sunday afternoons in the South Gallery, overlooking…

Ancient Objects - New Writing Libraries Live Performances - A Message of Peace

18:00 - 19:00 8 October 2018
Throughout the week Journeys Festival International and Manchester Museum will be touring the project to 4 libraries where the objects will be on display alongside the new writing.…

Literature Live: Maura Dooley and Finuala Dowling

19:30 - 21:00 8 October 2018
Join us for an evening of witty, compassionate and thought-provoking poetry. South African poet Finuala Dowling, well regarded as an inventive sketcher of the domestic sublime, performs…

A Celebration of Muriel Spark: with Jackie Kay, Alan Taylor and Louise Welsh

19:30 - 20:45 9 October 2018
Muriel Spark chronicled human interaction with a scalpel and razor-sharp insight. Her writing examines the aspects of our lives we try to hide, the affect stories have on the way we…

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