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17th Annual Rylands Poetry Reading with Kei Miller, Sinéad Morrissey and Matthew Welton (Fully booked)

18:00 - 19:15 21 November 2019
***This event is now fully booked*** This year’s Rylands Reading inaugurates a year-long celebration of the 50th birthday of Manchester independent literary publishers, Carcanet Press.…

Applied Economics Seminar - Joana Naritomi (LSE)

13:00 - 14:15 21 November 2019
Title: TBA

Bike Registration Event

08:30 - 09:30 21 November 2019
Free Bike Marking session - To qualify for a discounted 'D' lock students and staff must register their bikes on the University scheme. LOCKS MUST BE BOUGHT THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY'S…

BRC P4 Medicine Themed Discussion & Networking Event: 'Supporting inclusive translational research'

09:30 - 13:00 21 November 2019
Manchester NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Themed Discussion and Networking Event 'Supporting inclusive translational research' Participation, Engagement & Involvement ‘Supporting…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: Countercultural Legacies: Led by David Wilkinson (Manchester Metropolitan)

14:00 - 16:00 21 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. David Wilkinson (Manchester Metropolitan University) will lead a CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar entitled Countercultural Legacies.…

Collection Encounter: Medicine through Time

15:00 - 16:00 21 November 2019
Join our Collection Encounter to get close up to some of our most fascinating medical materials. Find out more about the fascinating history of medicine and how many cultures contributed…

Creative Writing for Carers

19:00 - 20:30 21 November 2019
Creative Writing Be kind to yourself. Take a break. Caring for someone can be rewarding, but it may also be a challenge. The needs of the person you care for may often come before…

CTIS Seminar: Knowledge Transfer and Technical Translation in Mid-19th Century China: The Work of Scottish Missionary-Scholar Alexander Wylie (1815-1887)

14:00 - 15:30 21 November 2019
Alexander Wylie was one of the leading members of a unique concentration of Missionary-Scholars and who lived and worked in Shanghai in the second half of the 19th Century. He was one…

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…

Discovering Emigrant Children

17:30 - 19:30 21 November 2019
This event offers the unique chance to learn about the 90,000 orphaned British children who forcibly emigrated from the North-West of the UK to Canada between the 1860s and 1920s, as…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. George J. Brooke (University of Chester) “Patterns of Priesthood and Patterns of Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls.”

14:00 - 16:00 21 November 2019
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session. Tea and biscuits…

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…

Gweneth Ann Rand (soprano) and Allyson Devenish (piano)

13:10 - 14:00 21 November 2019
The stunning soprano, Gweneth Ann Rand performs the UK première of rediscovered Lieder of Polish-German composer Paul Kletzki, previously destroyed by the Nazis. Joined by pianist,…

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…

Jonathan Warburton to present at the Northern Growth Forum

21 November 2019
Jonathan Warburton, Chairman of Warburtons, will address business leaders at the Northern Growth Forum on Thursday 21 November, an event at Alliance Manchester Business School for senior…

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…

Music and Migration - Being Human Festival

16 - 23 November 2019
Visit this family-friendly exhibition of musical instruments and be part of a momentous celebration of Bengali folk music in the North West. The exhibition will recall how singing was…

Print a Palimpsest: Printing demo

11:15 - 11:30 21 November 2019
Drop in and peek into the world of palimpsests with our unique printing press demonstration. Using our Columbian printing press we’ll explore how old manuscripts were reused, giving…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Thomas Harvey (Oxford Centre for Mission Studies) “Back to the Future: Xi Jinping, Civil Society and Religious Policy”

16:00 - 17:30 21 November 2019
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session.

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