All events

'One world or two worlds? Defining Britain's place in the world economy from Bretton Woods to Brexit'.

16:00 28 March 2019
Thursday 28 March - 4.15 pm, Ellen Wilkinson, Graduate School C1.18 Martin Daunton (University of Cambridge) 'One world or two worlds? Defining Britain's place in the world economy from Bretton Woods to Brexit'.

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…

CoDE Seminar: Encounters with the Neighbour in 1970s’ British Multicultural Comedy

12:00 - 13:00 28 March 2019
“If you don’t shut up, I’ll come and move in next door to you!” Such was the frequent response to audience heckles made by Britain’s first well-known black comedian, Charlie Williams.…

CoDE Seminar: Encounters with the Neighbour in 1970s’ British Multicultural Comedy

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: Dr. Gergely Juhasz (Liverpool Hope University) - ‘From 1 Corinthians to Galatians: Unity and Discord as Hermeneutical Key for Protestant Self-Understanding in the Early Reformation’

14:00 - 16:00 28 March 2019
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…

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…

Great Escape: Yoga

08:30 - 09:30 28 March 2019
Great Escape: Yoga Thursdays, 8.30am – 9.30am. £5 No emails, texts, updates or alerts –yoga that takes full advantage of the Whitworth’s peaceful setting. No need to book. When the…

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…

Introduction to Peterloo: Curator tour

11:00 - 11:30 28 March 2019
Book onto this 30 minute tour to explore the story of Peterloo with our expert curator. Hear more about the stories and conflicting opinions that led to the fateful day in Manchester in August 1819. Booking required.

Lovell Lecture: Dr. Tana Joseph

19:30 - 21:00 28 March 2019
Multi-messenger Astronomy Dr. Tana Joseph Light is not the only thing that carries information about the Universe and its contents. Particles, like neutrinos and cosmic rays, can also…

Nicolas Berman (Aix Marseille / Geneva)

13:00 - 14:15 28 March 2019
Applied Economics Seminar

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…

Science co-operation beyond Brexit

17:30 - 20:00 28 March 2019
The 2019 Jevons Lecture in Science Policy given by Robert-Jan Smits, Open Access Envoy of the European Commission. The event will take place on Thursday 28 March 2019, 5.30pm with…

SHORT COURSES: Multiple Linear Regression

28 March 2019
This course provides a thorough grounding in the theory and methods of multiple linear regression including model selection, nonlinear relationships and transformations, dummy variables,…

South Asia Collective - After Hours

18:00 - 21:00 28 March 2019
An evening of art, music and conversation, from the collective at the heart of our new South Asia Gallery. This event is aimed at adults and is free to drop-in. Fossils Gallery 6.30pm-7.15pm:…

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 Bureau

19:00 - 20:00 28 March 2019
The Bureau is Manchester Museum's new space for Citizens Action. As part of our South Asia Collective After Hours event, Saimah Anwar, Public Health Engagement Coordinator (Manchester)…

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…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert with David Fanning (piano)

13:10 - 14:00 28 March 2019
Reeves Still above Ground – Elegy for Cello and Piano Prokofiev Quartet No. 1 in B minor, Op. 50 A new work for cello and piano by Camden Reeves, written in memory of his jazz-loving…

Ancient Textiles from the Andes

29 March - 15 September 2019
This is a rare opportunity to see ancient Andean textiles of this quality and size exhibited in the UK. Through a major loan from the collector Paul Hughes, alongside pieces from the…

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