Performances

MANTIS Festival

18:00 - 19:00 27 October 2018
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music, featuring Danny Saul and Brona Martin (commissioned by Trafford's Seed Studios and the Vonnegut…

MANTIS Festival

20:00 - 21:00 27 October 2018
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music, featuring Danny Saul and Brona Martin (commissioned by Trafford's Seed Studios and the Vonnegut…

MANTIS Festival

14:00 - 15:00 28 October 2018
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music, featuring Danny Saul and Brona Martin (commissioned by Trafford's Seed Studios and the Vonnegut…

Sunday Concerts: Festivo Winds

15:00 - 16:00 4 November 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…

Literature Live: Jim Crace and Jenni Fagan

19:30 - 20:45 5 November 2018
Jenni Fagan is a novelist, poet and screenwriter. Listed as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists after her debut novel, The Panopticon, her second, The Sunlight Pilgrims,…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Citizen of Nowhere: Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919 - 1996) A Sung Life

13:10 - 14:00 8 November 2018
This performance, from Jewish vocal music specialist Mark Glanville and the renowned Israeli pianist Marc Verter, journeys through the extraordinary vocal output of a major twentieth-century…

Manchester University Music Society Vocal Showcase

13:10 - 14:00 9 November 2018
MUMS presents a highly engaging concert celebrating the vocal talent within the society. With a wide range of voices and styles, this promises to be an exciting varied Lunchtime Concert,…

Manchester University Music Society Chamber Orchestra

19:30 - 21:00 10 November 2018
The year 1788 saw Mozart push the boundaries of contemporary composition to unseen heights of contrapuntal mastery and genius, emulated in his Adagio and Fugue and final symphony.…

An Evening with Barbara Kingsolver - SOLD OUT

19:00 - 21:00 14 November 2018
Tickets for this event have now sold out. For more information visit http://ow.ly/k0K230lqyh4 or call 0843 208 0500 ‘We’re living through a scary historical moment when the most basic…

University of Manchester Drama Society Autumn Showcase: ONE MINUTE by SIMON STEPHENS

19:00 - 20:30 14 November 2018
It’s time for the Drama Society’s Autumn Showcase! Every year we put on a fantastic performance in the John Thaw Studio Theatre, so if you want a good night’s entertainment and to…

University of Manchester Drama Society Autumn Showcase: ONE MINUTE by SIMON STEPHENS

19:00 - 20:30 15 November 2018
It’s time for the Drama Society’s Autumn Showcase! Every year we put on a fantastic performance in the John Thaw Studio Theatre, so if you want a good night’s entertainment and to…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Quatuor Danel

13:10 - 14:00 15 November 2018
Vissarion Shebalin was four years Shostakovich’s senior and regarded initially as his Moscow counterpart while Shostakovich dominated the Leningrad scene. Shebalin’s Sonata is a wartime…

'Women of Aktion!' - A play by Mick Martin, performed by Bent Architect

19:30 - 22:00 16 November 2018
7.30pm on 16 November 2018 At Partisan Collective, 19 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester M4 4FY There is a mini-film about the play: https://vimeo.com/293756641 The full tour dates can…

Manchester University Music Society - New Sounds from Manchester

13:10 - 14:00 16 November 2018
In this free Public Lunchtime Concert, you have the opportunity to hear some of Manchester University Music Society’s newest and best student compositions. Comprising of varying forces…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:00 16 November 2018
Two monuments of the quartet repertoire: Beethoven’s seven-movement C sharp minor, with its colossal range of character and correspondingly power of determined integration; and Schubert’s…

University of Manchester Drama Society Autumn Showcase: ONE MINUTE by SIMON STEPHENS

19:00 - 20:30 16 November 2018
It’s time for the Drama Society’s Autumn Showcase! Every year we put on a fantastic performance in the John Thaw Studio Theatre, so if you want a good night’s entertainment and to…

Sunday Concerts: Yanan Xu and Phoebe Kam

15:00 - 16:00 18 November 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…

Poets in the Cities: Rita Ann Higgins, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh

19:00 - 21:00 19 November 2018
Rita Ann Higgins has published eleven books of poetry, including Tongulish (2016), Ireland Is Changing Mother (2011) and Throw in the Vowels: New & Selected Poems (2005), all from Bloodaxe,…

16th Annual Rylands Poetry Reading with Marilyn Hacker

18:00 - 19:30 22 November 2018
Marilyn Hacker is the author of thirteen books of poems, including A Stranger’s Mirror (Norton, 2015), Names (Norton, 2010), and Essays on Departure (Carcanet, 2006), the…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Rosalind Dobson (Soprano) and Michelle Assay (Piano) perform the songs of Shostakovich and Weinberg

13:10 - 14:00 22 November 2018
Songs from the height of the USSR by Weinberg, and one of his main influences, Shostakovich. Shostakovich Satires, Op. 109 Weinberg Old Letters after J. Tuwim Op. 77 Price: FREE

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