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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…

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.…

Beyond Faith: Muslim Women Artists Today

14 June - 6 October 2019
This exhibition of five contemporary artists presents their work in conversation with pieces selected from the Whitworth’s art collection. It brings together the artworks and stories…

CoDE Seminar: Conviviality at/from the border

12:00 - 13:00 4 October 2019
Luke de Noronha presents a CoDE seminar on Conviviality at/from the border: Paul Gilroy’s theorisations of ‘conviviality’ have been profoundly generative, leading some sociologists…

Cézanne at the Whitworth

24 August 2019 - 1 March 2020
This exhibition celebrates an extraordinary collection of drawings and prints by Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) that has been gifted and placed on long-term loan to the Whitworth by gallerist,…

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…

Elizabeth Price

25 September 2019 - 1 March 2020
Bringing together many new and acclaimed works - including drawings, sculpture and video - this exhibition engages with Price’s pre-occupations of technology, history, politics and…

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…

Five Minute Talks - Informal Applied Mathematics Seminar

16:00 - 17:00 4 October 2019
We will be resuming the Informal Applied Mathematics seminars for the new academic year with the customary 5-minute talks. Students will be presenting their PhDs (so far) in no more…

Five Minute Talks - Pure Postgraduate Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 4 October 2019
The first pure postgrad seminar of the year will be the traditional 5 minute talks. The event will take place in Frank Adams 1 You’re all welcome to attend, so feel free to join. …

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…

Li Yuan Chia: Unique Photographs

18 May - 15 December 2019
In his lifetime, Li Yuan Chia (1929-1994) travelled from China, to Taiwan, Bologna and London but found his home in a house that he bought in 1972 from Winifred Nicholson in Banks at…

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…

MaRMN Seminar - 04 October 2019, 1pm Michael Smith Lecture Theatre - Professor Martin Lowe

13:00 - 14:00 4 October 2019
Professor Martin Lowe, The University of Manchester - Understanding how defects in the secretory pathway cause skeletal disease

Philosophy Research Seminar: Professor Luke Russell (Sydney)

15:00 - 17:00 4 October 2019
This event is being coorganised with MANCEPT. Please note the earlier than usual start time of 15.00. *Title: Have You Forgiven Me? *Abstract: In this talk I try to answer a series…

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,…

This Garden of Ours

10:00 4 October - 17:00 1 November 2019
This Garden of Ours Fri 4 Oct – Fri 1 Nov A collaborative art project researching global horticulture, This Garden of Ours explores stories and links between the migration of plants…

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…

Unreformed: Wallpaper and Design Diversity

17 August 2019 - 5 July 2020
Unreformed: Wallpaper and Design Diversity In the middle of the nineteenth century wallpaper design suddenly became diverse. English manufacturers began to excel at the quick production…

Valerie Fraser (Essex): 'Gordon Brotherstone's contribution to Latin American Studies'

4 October 2019
Ramsden Gybbon-Monypenny Commemorative Lecture, organised jointly by Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies and the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Young, Rich & Famous

10:00 1 October 2019 - 17:00 1 January 2020
In this digital age of collecting selfies and more on social media, what does immortality mean? Manchester Museum’s latest installation at Manchester’s Central Library, Young, Rich…

CI Cookery Class

14:00 - 17:00 5 October 2019
We are hosting three fun and hands-on cookery classes led by Sam Sin from Koi Kitchen. Each class will have a different focus, allowing you to create a variety of authentic dishes.…

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

13:00 - 14:00 5 October 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…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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