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Alice Kettle: Thread Bearing Witness

1 September 2018 - 24 February 2019
From the Barberini Tapestries to the Bayeux Tapestry, monumental textiles in the form of large-scale narrative embroideries, weaving and tapestries have been used to illustrate contemporary…

Bodies of Colour: Breaking With Stereotypes in the Wallpaper Collection

4 May 2018 - 28 April 2019
This latest exhibition uses the Whitworth’s extensive and significant wallpaper collection to focus on how Imperial attitudes to people are reflected in wallpaper. The wallpapers in…

CTIS Seminar: Shared Texts - The Role of Literal Theatre Translations in the Performance Process

14:00 - 15:30 29 November 2018
‘Literal translation’ is a problematic term that tends to be associated with word-for-word translation and regarded as a lower level of translation activity. In English-speaking theatre,…

Daily: Art Hampers – resources for families at the Whitworth

10:00 31 August 2018 - 10:00 31 May 2020
Are you and your family hungry to get creative? Pick up a picnic hamper with a difference. Come to our Oxford Road or Parkside entrance and pick up one of our special hampers - free…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof Philip Alexander (Manchester), "The Problem of Philo and the Epistle to the Hebrews Revisited"

14:00 - 16:00 29 November 2018
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session. Tea and biscuits…

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…

Exploring Lost Property

11:00 - 16:00 29 November 2018
Are you a serial loser of keys? Do you always leave your umbrella on the train? Perhaps you once lost something really important to you and have never forgotten about it? Whatever…

Exploring Lost Property!

Four Corners of One Cloth: Textiles from the Islamic World

23 June 2018 - 3 November 2019
A section of a Kiswa will form the heart of the exhibition. The Kiswa cloth covers the Ka’bah and is replaced each year during Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). Positioned in the direction…

GAME-A-THON: Can YOU care for a hospital?

16:00 28 - 17:00 29 November 2018
Fancy becoming a heart surgeon for the day? Develop and test your leadership and management skills in our newly developed ‘Megagame’. This one day immersive learning simulation will…

Manchester Museum After Hours - Joking Aside

18:00 - 22:00 29 November 2018
Following on from our #FunnyStuff campaign with the Comedy Store, discover the fascinating world of taxidermy from a different angle. Expect a stand up evening exploring the weird…

Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil

7 July 2018 - 4 August 2019
Francesco José de Goya Lucientes (1746-1828) and William Hogarth (1647-1764) were the most remarkable artists of their times. Both were famous painters, but their most compelling works…

Professor Richard Riley: Sample size requirements for developing a multivariable clinical prediction model

14:00 - 15:00 29 November 2018
The next HeRC seminar will be on Thursday 29th November at 2pm. The speaker will be Professor Richard Riley from the Centre for Prognosis Research at Keele University; the title and…

SHORT COURSES: Introduction to STATA

29 November 2018
The course provides an introductory training in Stata, a statistical package increasingly used for social research data analysis which has powerful data manipulation procedures and…

Sébastien Houde (ETH Zurich)

13:00 - 14:15 29 November 2018
Applied Economics Seminar

Thursday Lates: PERSPECTIVES in Contemporary Art

18:00 - 21:00 29 November 2018
Free, no need to book PERSPECTIVES in Contemporary Art is presented by Venture Arts and seeks to open up conversations about the visibility of learning disabled artists within contemporary…

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…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Kevin Malone 60th Birthday Concert

13:10 - 14:00 29 November 2018
Kevin Malone celebrates his 60th birthday and 19 years at The University of Manchester’s Music Department throughout the concert season, with this concert featuring one of his earliest…

We are 11: Stanley Grove Primary Academy

6 October 2018 - 5 January 2019
This exhibition has been boldly curated by the children of Stanley Grove Primary Academy. Over the past year, 11 lead curators have selected works from the Whitworth’s collection that…

Webinar: Finding and accessing data in the UK Data Service

15:00 - 16:00 29 November 2018
This introductory webinar is intended for anyone who wants to hear about finding data from the UK Data Service. Participants will be given a practical overview of the tools that the…

William Kentridge: Thick Time

21 September 2018 - 3 March 2019
South African artist William Kentridge weaves together global histories of revolution, exile and utopian aspirations, exploring how they are shaped by the creative forces of memory…

ACS on Campus

09:00 - 16:00 30 November 2018
ACS on Campus is bringing their best programming to the University of Manchester! Join us on November 30 for a day of scientific lectures, publishing talks, career panels and more!…

CI Cookery Classes - Chinese Dim Sum

14:00 - 17:00 30 November 2018
The second of 3 fun and hands-on cookery classes hosted by the Confucius Institute and led by Cracking Good Food open to anyone that would love the chance to make their own authentic…

SHORT COURSES: Introduction to Event History Analysis with STATA

30 November 2018
This course is designed for people who are familiar with the Stata software and want to use it for analysing survival/event history data. Introduction to the theory of the event-history…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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