Martin Harris Centre

ESTIVAL 2019

4 - 7 June 2019
Join Manchester University Music Society in their unique equivalent to the 'Proms'! MUMS celebrate the end of the academic year by packing eight concerts into four days in an unmissable…

Estival Ensembles Concert

19:00 - 21:00 6 June 2019
Join MUMS for our Ensembles celebration with the Brass Band, Manchester University Wind Orchestra and the Manchester University String Orchestra! Including stunning Brass Band arrangements…

MUMS New Sounds Concert

13:00 - 14:00 6 June 2019
Come along to our third New Sounds Concert of the year where you will get the opportunity to hear some of our newest and best student compositions. Comprising of varying forces and…

MUMS Estival Symphony Orchestra Concert

19:00 - 21:00 7 June 2019
Manchester University Music Society brings you an exhilarating evening of Symphony Orchestra repertoire, conducted by the talented Rob Guy and student conductors. How to book: Please…

Story Book Music - SOLD OUT

12:30 - 14:00 7 June 2019
This event has now SOLD OUT. Join the Manchester University Music Society to hear three of your best loved stories, told in a new and exciting way! Musicians and storytellers come…

Summer Sing-a-long Relaxed Performance

11:30 - 12:30 7 June 2019
Join us for our fun and relaxed summer sing-a-long event filled with your favourite songs from musicals and Disney films. It’s a free event with optional participation and an informal…

Gorton Philharmonic’s fundraising concert in aid of Christie Hospital

19:30 - 21:00 13 July 2019
Conducted by Juan Ortuño, the programme includes Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, with soloist Daniel Ropota, Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances, and Danzon No.2 by Marquez. To book please visit…

Welcome Week Show – Sound Cistem

19:00 - 20:00 20 September 2019
Two transgender performers say 'up yours!' to the gender binary and invite you to their radical dance party! Under disco lights, over pulsing music, a queer celebration takes place.…

Ballroom and Latin for Beginners

13:05 25 September - 13:55 20 November 2019
Back due to popular demand, this autumn the Martin Harris Centre is going back to basics again! Join us for ‘Ballroom and Latin for Beginners’ in a relaxed and friendly environment.…

Mazen Kerbaj (Lebanese Trumpet)

13:10 - 14:00 26 September 2019
Over the last 25 years, Mazen Kerbaj developed a highly personal and unique way to play the trumpet. In his solo performances, he uses daily objects to extend the instrument and make…

Welcome Concert

17:00 - 19:00 29 September 2019
Join us for the first Music Society concert of the academic year. In this opening concert, MUMS Symphony Orchestra are joined by a massed choir of music students to perform exquisite…

Amy Vreeke: The Year My Vagina Tried to Kill Me - Part of Sick! Festival 2019 (THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT)

20:30 - 21:30 2 October 2019
Stand-up comedian and theatre maker, Amy Vreeke, creates multi-genre, autobiographical work that explores social taboos with candour and comedy. Amy was diagnosed with endometriosis…

Amy Vreeke: The Year My Vagina Tried to Kill Me - Part of Sick! Festival 2019 (THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT)

20:30 - 22:00 3 October 2019
Stand-up comedian and theatre maker, Amy Vreeke, creates multi-genre, autobiographical work that explores social taboos with candour and comedy. Amy was diagnosed with endometriosis…

Jonathan Aasgaard (cello)

13:10 - 14:00 3 October 2019
Weinberg 24 Preludes for solo cello Op. 100 The Norwegian cellist Jonathan Aasgaard returns to the Martin Harris Centre to perform Weinberg’s 24 preludes. This is a one-off opportunity…

Literature Live: Paul Muldoon and Alice Oswald

19:30 - 20:45 3 October 2019
Join us for a reading by two of the finest English-language poets at work in the world today. Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951 and, since 1987, has lived in the United…

An Interactive Schools' Poetry Performance with John Hegley

10:30 - 11:30 4 October 2019
National Poetry Day is the annual mass celebration of poetry and all things poetical. This year’s theme will be Truth. Many a true word is spoken in jest – No Nonsense Poetry! Enjoy…

An Interactive Schools' Poetry Performance with John Hegley

10:30 - 11:30 4 October 2019
An Interactive Schools’ Poetry Performance with John Hegley English performance poet, comedian, musician and songwriter National Poetry Day is the annual mass celebration of poetry…

Literature Live: David Nicholls in Conversation

19:00 - 20:15 4 October 2019
Remember the summer you left school and fell in love for the first time? Charlie Lewis, the protagonist of David Nicholl’s excellent new novel Sweet Sorrow does. But Charlie also has…

Jeanette Winterson: Frankissstein

19:30 - 20:45 5 October 2019
Manchester Literature Festival and the Centre for New Writing are delighted to host one of our most innovative contemporary writers, Jeanette Winterson, performing a unique, one-woman…

Literature Live: Common People

15:00 - 16:15 5 October 2019
Where are all the working-class writers? Right here. In the anthology Common People, editor Kit de Waal, author of My Name Is Leon sets out to convey the diversity of working-class…

Literature Live: Isabel Galleymore & Stephen Sexton

19:00 - 20:15 7 October 2019
We are delighted to welcome two of the most exciting debut poets of 2019, both shortlisted for this year’s Forward Prize. Stephen Sexton’s If All the World and Love Were Young (Penguin…

Literature Live: Jonathan Safran Foer

19:00 - 20:15 8 October 2019
Climate change is the greatest threat the world faces. In his brilliant new book, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Starts at Breakfast, Jonathan Safran Foer demystifies the science…

David Nott: War Doctor

19:00 - 20:15 9 October 2019
David Nott is the most experienced trauma surgeon in the world. In his fascinating book, War Doctor, he recounts learning to perform an emergency caesarean section in Kabul, following…

Chagall Ensemble

13:10 - 14:00 10 October 2019
University string tutors Sarah Brandwood-Spencer and Simon Turner are joined by Manchester University alumnus, Paul Janes, to perform Schubert’s sublime Notturno and the exquisite Ravel…

Literature Live: Elif Shafak

18:30 - 19:45 10 October 2019
Does anyone care about a sex worker, murdered and abandoned in Istanbul? Tequila Leila’s friends do. In her superb new novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, Elif Shafak…

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