All events

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…

Breath: The Vonnegut Collective

12:30 - 16:30 11 March 2019
Monday 11 March, 12.30-4.30pm Free, no need to book, drop-in This open workshop and informal performance is the culmination of a collaboration between The Vonnegut Collective, Animikii…

British Science Week: Telescope Walking Tour

9 - 15 March 2019
Telescope Walking Tour Saturday 9th March – Friday 15th March 11:45AM (weekend only) & 3:15PM (everyday) Join one of Jodrell Bank’s popular Telescope Walking Tour as our friendly…

CEAS 2019 School seminar - Prof Paolo Fornasiero

11:00 - 12:00 11 March 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Prof Paolo Fornasiero from Università degli studi di Trieste, with a talk…

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…

Facing Out: Life after treatment for facial cancer

22 February - 2 June 2019
An exhibition of portraits of people who have experienced facial cancers together with their choice of artworks from The Whitworth collections. The portraits have been created in…

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…

In Search of Climate Politics

12:00 - 15:00 11 March 2019
This invite-only workshop is focused on developing a book manuscript with the above title. It involves 12 participants including the book’s author (Matthew Paterson) in a focused discussion…

LITERATURE LIVE: Max Porter in conversation with Luke Brown

19:30 - 21:00 11 March 2019
One of the rising stars of British literature, Max Porter’s debut novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers won the Sunday Times / Peters, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, the…

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…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Patrick O'Hare (University of Manchester)

16:00 - 18:00 11 March 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 11th March 2019 Dr Patrick O’Hare – University of Manchester Manchester Seminar Abstract “Rubbish belongs to the poor”: Hygienic Enclosure and…

Statistics Careers Event

13:30 6 March - 16:00 6 May 2019
This year's annual Statistics Careers Event (kindly sponsored by the RSS Manchester Local Group) will take place on Wednesday, 6th March 2019, 1.30-4.00 pm in the Alan Turing Building,…

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…

Border People - A documentary by Dr Elena Barabantseva

12:00 - 14:00 12 March 2019
How does the border enter and shape a family life? What does it mean to the people who cross the border for marriage? This film juxtaposes a personal story of Meihua, a Vietnamese Yao…

Entrepreneurs@Manchester - Piers Linney

17:00 - 19:00 12 March 2019
This event welcomes Piers Linney, who is well known for his television appearances as an investor on ‘Dragons’ Den’ and ‘The Secret Millionaire’, also has a professional background…

Fabiola Creed - ‘The Body Programme for the Positive Woman’: Sunbed Consumers and Affluence (Liverpool, 1978-1980)'

13:00 - 14:00 12 March 2019
As individuals in the twenty-first century, we often assume that current stereotypes of the sunbed user (i.e., working class young women and homosexual men) match the same demographics…

Facing Out: Audio Described Exhibition Tour

10:30 - 11:30 12 March 2019
Part of a programme of events to coincide with Facing Out: Life after treatment for facial cancer, an exhibition of portraits of people who have experienced facial cancers together…

HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI, Sophie Roborgh and Nat O'Grady

16:00 - 18:00 12 March 2019
HCRI celebrates its 10 year anniversary with a rich programme of events. Join us for our research seminar series featuring current and alumni colleagues, and current and alumni postgraduate…

Leo Kaas (Goethe University Frankfurt)

16:15 - 17:45 12 March 2019
Macro seminar

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 12 March 2019
Dr Paul Mullins will give a talk entitled Towards a theory of fMRS: Theoretical and practical issues.

Prof Andrew Jones (University of Southampton) Making a Mark: Image and Process in Neolithic Britain and Ireland

17:00 - 18:00 12 March 2019
Using digital imaging techniques the Making a Markproject examined Neolithic decorated portable artefacts from three key regions (Southern England/East Anglia; the Irish Sea region;…

Tuesday Talks: Emma Hart

11:00 - 12:30 12 March 2019
Tuesday Talks invites leading artists, thinkers and curators to explore the driving forces, influences and sources of inspiration within contemporary art. The series is a collaboration…

Webinar: Journey to work data in the UK - what data are available?

15:00 - 16:00 12 March 2019
This webinar is jointly organised by CeLSIUS and the UK Data Service as part of the ESRC-funded data resource's collaborative webinar series, ESRC data resources: discovering data and…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum