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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.…

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…

Family Stargazing Night

19 October 2019 - 8 February 2020
6pm – 9pm Calling all budding young stargazers. You are invited to join us for an unmissable opportunity to get started in astronomy. During our fun-packed evening you will enjoy…

Global Harmonies Pop-up Choir

17:30 - 19:00 4 November 2019
As part of our Singing and Wellbeing initiative we invite you to join our new choir! An opportunity to explore thrilling rhythms and uplifting harmonies from around the world – from…

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 Astrophotography

23 October 2019 - 26 February 2020
Introduction to Astrophotography Wednesdays 23rd October, 20th November, 15th January and 26th February, 7.30pm – 10pm Jodrell Bank's popular Introduction to Astrophotography workshops…

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…

One Giant Leap: Talk and Tour

12 October - 17 November 2019
One Giant Leap: Jodrell Bank and the Race to the Moon, 13:30-16:00 NEW DATES ANNOUNCED! 2019 marks 50 years since humans first set foot on another celestial body. And so, in this,…

Pablo Shmerkin -A nonlinear version of Bourgain's projection theorem, with applications

15:00 - 16:00 4 November 2019
Pablo Shmerkin will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: Bourgain's projection theorem is an important extension…

Paul Tar - Quantitative Machine Learning for Bio-images

14:00 - 14:50 4 November 2019
(Room 3.44b Simon Building) Join us for this seminar by Paul Tar (University of Manchester) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. The talk will cover the requirements…

Social Anthropology Seminar - 4th November 2019 - Dr Arran Calvert

16:00 - 18:00 4 November 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 4th of November 2019 Dr Arran Calvert – University of Manchester Cathedral Within a Cathedral : Modelling, Knowing and Narrating with LEGO In…

Tapestries

12 October 2019 - 1 March 2020
A tapestry is a coming together of people or things, usually thread, to make an intricate whole. This exhibition shows the breadth of the textiles at the Whitworth that are made with…

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…

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…

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…

Abracadabra: Printing demo

11:15 - 11:30 5 November 2019
Watch our beautiful Columbian printing press in action and discover the power of ancient words. Shazam! Did you know that people used to think words had the power to ward off illness…

Henry Moss - MUMBO: MUlti-task Max-value Bayesian Optimization

12:00 - 13:00 5 November 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: We propose MUMBO, the…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Rationality problems, degenerations of the diagonal, and prelog Chow rings

14:00 - 15:00 5 November 2019
Speaker: Christian Boehning (University of Warwick) Title: Rationality problems, degenerations of the diagonal, and prelog Chow rings Abstract: The degeneration method due to Voisin-Merkurjev-Collio…

Manchester China Institute book presentation - 'Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia' by Dr Miriam Driessen

12:30 - 13:30 5 November 2019
China’s new globalism plays out as much in the lives of ordinary workers who shoulder the task of implementing infrastructure projects in the world as in the upper echelons of power.…

Teacher CPD: "Understanding Religious Lives Through Story"- New Resources for teaching Christianity and Hinduism

09:00 - 16:30 5 November 2019
Organised by Dr John Zavos, Dr Ketan Alder (University of Manchester) and Dr Hephzibah Israel (University of Edinburgh) Join us at this free event if you are looking for teaching resources…

Webinar: Key data: Business data

15:00 - 16:00 5 November 2019
This webinar is an introduction to Office for National Statistics (ONS) business data available from the UK Data Service, such as the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. The webinar…

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