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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…

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…

Explorer Tour

14:00 - 15:00 19 March 2019
This event is now SOLD OUT. Ever wondered where some of the Library doors and staircases lead to? Then this is the tour for you. Join us as we take a look behind the scenes at The…

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…

Instruments of Change

19 March 2019 - 31 December 2020
Instruments of Change is an exhibition that showcases objects from the Beswick Collection at the Museum of Medicine and Health, telling the stories of the people of Manchester whose…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series 2019

15:30 - 17:00 19 March 2019
Dr Karin Shmueli, Associate Professor at University College London will give a talk entitled MRI Susceptibility Mapping: What, Why and How? Applications mainly in the Brain

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…

SPLAS CINE CLUB: Cronos

18:00 - 20:00 19 March 2019
Next Tuesday (19th of March) at 18.00 at Samuel Alexander A112, we will show “Cronos”, a film by Guillermo del Toro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy1CSVv_i7c&t=3s which Valentino will briefly introduce.

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,…

The Reno at the Whitworth

15 March 2019 - 1 March 2020
For a period of one year Linda Brogan and a group of local residents, who went to the Reno nightclub in the 1970s and 80s, will occupy the Whitworth. The Reno, located in Moss Side,…

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…

Vania Stavrakeva (LBS)

16:15 - 17:45 19 March 2019
Macro seminar

CGP Research Cluster with Jess Gifkins: The practice of legitimacy in the UN Security Council: Debating Darfur

13:30 - 15:00 20 March 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for a seminar with Dr Jess Gifkins (University of Manchester). Dr Jess Gifkins' researches global governance in relation to questions of peace…

EMPOW(HER) - Women Breaking Barriers Manchester

13:00 - 18:00 20 March 2019
The Women Breaking Barriers Network is proud to host its 2019 event Empowering Women in the Workplace. We are delighted to host a series of discussions about women, diversity and inclusion…

Great Escape: Tai Chi for Wellbeing

08:30 - 09:30 20 March 2019
Great Escape: Tai-Chi for Wellbeing Wednesdays, 8.30am – 9.30am. £5 A traditional Chinese internal art for mind and body. Located in the peaceful setting of our Art Garden, Jian…

Greater Manchester SMEs : Engage with Graphene

08:00 - 10:30 20 March 2019
Are you a Greater Manchester based SME who: • Wants to find out more about the 2D material graphene? • Wishes to explore the possibilities of a new innovative venture? • Is interested…

Ruskin Matters

13:00 - 16:30 20 March 2019
A free workshop of talks on the art critic and social reformer John Ruskin (1819-1900) demonstrating why Ruskin matters today. In partnership with Art History and English Studies at…

SHORT COURSES: Structural Equation Modelling Using Mplus

20 - 22 March 2019
Structural Equation Models (SEM) amalgamate regression analysis, path/mediation analysis and factor analysis, allowing for more richly detailed statistical models to be specified and…

The rise of a university: industry, engineering and science (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 20 March 2019
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the height of the industrial revolution to the white heat of 1960s scientific and technological innovation. Our guides explain the history…

University Accommodation Tours

09:30 - 13:00 20 March 2019
Want to have a look at your potential future home? We run accommodation tours* of some of our halls of residence on most Wednesday mornings from November until the end of March, between…

Valid and reliable assessment and feedback (Teaching Online Workshop Series)

10:00 - 11:00 20 March 2019
Valid and reliable assessment and feedback

Women and Wikipedia

12:00 - 14:00 20 March 2019
The School of Health Sciences is hosting a workshop on 'Women and Wikipedia' as part of the Faculty's International Women's Day celebrations. Come and join us for a couple of hours…

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