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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…

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…

Chinese Brush Painting

18:00 - 20:00 2 April 2019
Join us for our Chinese painting drop-in sessions, a new initiative with brush painting artist Stephen Woolley. Whether you would like to learn a new skill or are more experienced but…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Mark Payne (Chicago): 'Occupation and Mentation in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction'

17:00 - 19:00 2 April 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Mark Payne (Professor of Classics, University of Chicago) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Occupation…

Colloquium: Machine learning and big scientific data: What can AI do for the facilities?

15:00 - 17:00 2 April 2019
Professor Tony Hey, the Chief Data Scientist at the Science and Technology Facilities Council at Harwell, presented at the second University of Manchester at Harwell colloquium. There…

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…

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…

Josep Pijoan-Mas (CEMFI)

16:15 - 17:45 2 April 2019
Macro seminar

Joy for Ever: How to use art to change the world and its price in the market

29 March - 9 June 2019
In 1857 John Ruskin (1819-1900) delivered one of his most important public lectures in response to the Great Art Treasures exhibition in Manchester, the largest art exhibition ever…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 17:00 2 April 2019
Danka Jandric, PhD candidate at the University of Manchester will give a talk entitled Functional Connectivity with Resting State fMRI

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…

Research seminar: Dr Patrick Quinn (UCL), Geochemical Warfare: Exploring Elemental Patterning within Emperor Qin Shihuang's Terracotta Army, China

17:00 - 18:00 2 April 2019
Emperor Qin Shihuang’s ‘Terracotta Army’ is a ceramic assemblage of immense scale, importance and world renown. These c. 7,000 ornate life-sized ceramic soldiers and horses were installed…

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 print is mightier than the sword: print demo

11:15 - 11:30 2 April 2019
Watch our beautiful printing press in action, recreating the words penned by superstar poet Shelley in response to the tragic events of Peterloo. No need to book, just turn up.

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…

Webinar: Education in the long run - which data are available?

15:00 - 16:00 2 April 2019
This webinar is jointly organised by the UK Data Service and CeLSIUS as part of the ESRC-funded data resource's collaborative webinar series, ESRC data resources: discovering data and…

CEAS 2019 School seminar - Prof Andrea Cipollina

11:00 - 12:00 3 April 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Prof Andrea Cipollina from Iniversita di Palermo, Italy, on Wednesday…

IChemE Conference - Future of Food and Drinks: Sustainability and Food Processing

3 April 2019
The School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science is hosting an IChemE conference on Wednesday 3 April, with the theme of the conference around "Sustainability, and in particular…

Morgan Centre seminar: “Well, it’ll be quite a worksite” - Young women’s expectations of and solutions towards work-family reconciliation

02:30 - 15:15 3 April 2019
Speaker: Outi Alakärppä, visiting PhD student, Department of Education, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Work intensification, uncertainty about getting a job and non-standard working…

Stars and Stones

3 April - 4 September 2019
Stars and Stones offers a rare opportunity to explore The Blackden Trust and Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre on the same day. You’ll have the chance to discover the science and the stories…

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