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2019 Alan Turing Cryptography Competition - registration open

3 December 2018 - 28 January 2019
Do you know anyone in secondary school who likes cracking codes or solving puzzles? Or maybe you just know pupils who want to win some prizes? Registration for the 2019 Alan Turing…

2019 MathsBombe Competition - registration open

3 December 2018 - 30 January 2019
Do you know anyone in sixth form and secondary school who likes cracking codes or solving puzzles? Or maybe you just know pupils who want to win some prizes? Registration for the 2019…

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…

Citizenship Circuits Across The Life Course : The Trans Territorial Journeys Of Mainland Chinese Migrants - Associate Professor Elaine Ho

16:30 - 18:00 24 January 2019
Amid the hype over China’s diaspora strategies, there are areas of neglect and tension that deserve critical scrutiny. Chinese diaspora strategies target the migrant professionals who…

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…

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…

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…

Great Escape: Yoga

08:30 - 09:30 24 January 2019
Great Escape: Yoga Thursdays, 8.30am – 9.45am. £5 No emails, texts, updates or alerts –yoga that takes full advantage of the Whitworth’s peaceful setting. No need to book. When the…

Lives of Letters: READing and Transkribing Handwritten Documents

12:30 - 16:30 24 January 2019
The Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents (READ) project aims to make archival material more accessible by training computers to read handwritten historical manuscripts.…

Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Between East and West

13:00 24 - 15:30 27 January 2019
Recent years have witnessed a dramatic rediscovery of the music of Mieczys?aw Weinberg (1919–1996), the Polish-born composer who twice escaped from Nazi invasions and finally settled…

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…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert - Weinberg Cycle

19:30 - 21:00 24 January 2019
Settled in Moscow from September 1943, Weinberg embarked on an extraordinary series of chamber-music masterpieces, gradually finding his voice in his increasingly ambitious third, fourth…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert (part of the Weinberg Cycle)

13:10 - 14:00 24 January 2019
Weinberg was a young virtuoso pianist, self-taught as a composer, when he composed his first expressive and energetic first string quartet in 1937. Its serenade-like successor followed…

SHORT COURSES: Measurement with the Rasch Model

24 - 25 January 2019
This two-day course aims to introduce participants to measurement theory and the Rasch model for construction and validation of measures. It covers the basic theory behind measurement,…

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…

Weinberg Conference

10:00 24 - 16:30 27 January 2019
Recent years have witnessed a dramatic rediscovery of the music of Mieczys?aw Weinberg (1919–1996), the Polish-born composer the Polish-born composer who twice escaped from Nazi invasions…

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…

Conference: Comics and Social Inequalities in Latin America

09:30 - 17:00 25 January 2019
The event is free but registration is essential. Click here to sign up: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/comics-and-social-inequalities-in-latin-america-tickets-52953286706 0930-1000:…

Expanding our Digital Horizons: Digital Scholarship and Collaboration

10:30 - 13:30 25 January 2019
This skills-sharing workshop seeks to bring together Imaging and Data experts from across the University of Manchester, and researchers working with Special Collections, to investigate…

From screw press to spectral density: re-evaluating the print revolution

13:30 - 15:00 25 January 2019
The principal objective of this pilot project is to explore how the combination of traditional bibliographical research methods with digital and scientific analysis can produce new…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert - Weinberg Cycle

19:30 - 21:00 25 January 2019
Following a gap between 1946 and 1957, Weinberg resumed his quartet cycle with a more restrained lyrical voice, heard at its most touchingly individual in the Eighth Quartet. The surrounding…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert (part of the Weinberg Cycle)

13:00 - 14:00 25 January 2019
The six-movement Sixth Quartet marks the summit of Weinberg’s first flowering as a chamber-music composer. Appearing in 1946, it was blacklisted two years later in the Anti-formalist…

Quatuor Danel Teatime Concert (part of the Weinberg cycle)

16:30 - 17:30 25 January 2019
Weinberg Old Letters, Eight Romances to words by Julian Tuwim, Op. 77 Shostakovich ‘Music’ from Seven Romances to Words by Alexander Blok, Op. 127 Weinberg ‘Dedication’, from…

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