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'Drawing from Experience: The Surrealist Image in Theory and Practice' - Gregory Williams

17:00 - 18:30 8 May 2019
As part of the Art History Research Seminar series, Gregory Williams (PhD Candidate in Art History and Cultural Practices) will be delivering a paper entitled: 'Drawing from Experience:…

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…

CGP Research Cluster with Olivia Rutazibwa: On the Ruins of Epistemicide. Decolonising International Solidarity through Blackness

14:30 - 16:00 8 May 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for Olivia Rutazibwa's "On the Ruins of Epistemicide. Decolonising International Solidarity through Blackness". Dr Olivia Rutazibwa is a Senior…

CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: Led by Dominique Rogers (Antilles)

13:00 - 15:00 8 May 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Dominique Rogers (University of the Antilles) will lead a Key Ideas seminar. Preparatory readings for…

CPPI Research Seminar with Dayo Eseonu: The Politics of Presence: Reconciling Deliberation and Interest Group Politics

15:30 - 17:00 8 May 2019
Dayo Eseonu is a Doctoral Researcher at the University Manchester. Dayo seeks to examine the extent to which Black and Minority Ethnic youth are included in the co-production of employment…

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…

Dance for Parkinson's

10:00 - 12:00 8 May 2019
Dance for Parkinson’s Wednesdays, 10am – 12pm 8, 15, 22 May and 5 12, 19 June. £4 per session. Booking Essential. Brought to the Whitworth from the English National Ballet, Dance…

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…

GDI Lecture Series: Ambitious and ambiguous public investments in African cities with Edgar Pieterse

16:30 - 18:00 8 May 2019
The Global Development Institute is pleased to host Edgar Pieterse as part of the GDI Lecture Series, talking about: Ambitious and ambiguous public investments in African cities Urban…

Hiroki Shin (Birkbeck, London) The Culture of Charcoal: The Environment and Household Energy in Japan, 1945–1974.

16:00 8 May 2019
Wednesday 8 May, 4.15pm, Samuel Alexander A112. Hiroki Shin (Birkbeck, London) The Culture of Charcoal: The Environment and Household Energy in Japan, 1945–1974.

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…

Jallianwala Bagh 1919: Punjab Under Siege

11 April - 2 October 2019
Jallianwala Bagh 1919: Punjab Under Siege exhibition, developed in collaboration with The Partition Museum in India. This commemorative exhibit gives voice to the untold stories of…

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…

Making the modern world: England's first civic university (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 8 May 2019
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the beginnings of England’s first civic university to the sites of world changing discoveries. It begins within the fine neo-gothic architecture…

MANCEPT Research Cluster with Peter Vallentyne: Full Self-Ownership: Interpersonal, not Comprehensive

16:00 - 17:30 8 May 2019
Please join the MANCEPT Research Cluster for Peter Vallentyne's "Full Self-Ownership: Interpersonal, not Comprehensive". Peter Vallentyne is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy…

Master's Open Day at the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

13:45 - 17:30 8 May 2019
Join us from 1:45pm to 5:30pm on Wednesday 8 May 2019 to find out more about master's study at the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at The University of Manchester. Whether you've…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 8 May 2019
Filip Agneessens, University of Surrey Key players for signed networks: optimal solutions when dealing with both positive and negative tie Social network analysis provides a useful…

MRC Come & See - Angela Saini on Science Journalism

16:00 - 17:00 8 May 2019
MRC Come & See are proud to introduce Angela Saini, award-winning journalist and author of highly acclaimed book Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's…

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…

Schuster Colloquium - Professor Timothy Spiller - Quantum Technologies

15:00 - 16:30 8 May 2019
Professor Timothy Spiller (University of York) Quantum technologies are new disruptive technologies in which fundamental aspects of quantum physics are instrumental in providing advantages…

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…

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,…

The What, Why, Where and How of Mine Tailings: An Environmental Perspective

13:00 - 14:00 8 May 2019
Tailings are wastes comprising mixtures of crushed rock and processing fluids from mills, washeries, or concentrators that remain after the extraction of economic metals, minerals,…

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…

Who Cares? - 'A growing collection of stories about people caring for nature across Greater Manchester.'

2 May - 31 July 2019
A growing collection of stories about people caring for nature across Greater Manchester. A Heritage Futures Studio Residency at Manchester Museum 29th April - 31st July 2019 In…

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