Post 16, Secondary schools

Creepy-Crawly Chronicles Children’s Story Competition

7 December 2019 - 9 March 2020
From ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and ‘Charlotte’s Web’ to 'Spiderman’, insects have inspired countless much-loved stories and comics. Enter your ideas into our story competition to…

Exhibition: Shared Sky

21 December 2019 - 5 January 2020
10am - 5pm (Please note that the Discovery Centre is closed for Christmas and New Year on 23rd – 26th December and 31st December – 1st January.) Visit Jodrell Bank this holiday and…

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…

Getting to Know Your Camera: Photography Workshop

24 November 2019 - 12 January 2020
10am – 1pm Ever wanted to take your camera off the auto setting and see how you can be in more control of the images you make and be able to explore more creative options? In our introduction…

Installation: Celestial Sound Cloud

21 December 2019 - 5 January 2020
10am-5pm Celestial Sound Cloud 21st December – 5th January (Please note that the Discovery Centre is closed for the New Year from 31st December – 1st January.) Visit Jodrell Bank…

Shared Sky Arts and Crafts

21 December 2019 - 5 January 2020
11am-4pm Come along and create your own artwork inspired by the Shared Sky exhibition. Whether you enjoy creating pictures of stars or other celestial objects there will be the opportunity…

Stargazing Night

15 November 2019 - 20 March 2020
7pm – 10pm Join us at Jodrell Bank for an unmissable opportunity to get started in astronomy. You’ll learn how to navigate the skies and locate the stars in our inflatable Planetarium,…

Manchester Rheumatology Afternoon meeting: January 2020 - Ms Jessy Choi 'Ophthalmological manifestations in rheumatological conditions

14:30 - 16:45 10 January 2020
The MRA meetings are monthly educational rheumatology meetings, which will be of interest for anyone working in clinical or research fields related to rheumatology or musculoskeletal…

A literary evening with Maryam Hessavi and Usma Malik (part of MACFEST 2020)

18:30 - 19:30 13 January 2020
Join us for an exciting literary evening of readings from new work by two Muslim writers, Maryam Hessavi and Usma Malik. Maryam Hessavi is a British, Manchester-based poet and critic,…

Highlights Tour

14:00 - 14:30 14 January 2020
2pm, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday each week Join one of our Visitor Team Assistants for an insightful view into our history and collections and learn more about some of the fascinating…

Remembering Biafra: Public History for Community Empowerment

10:00 - 16:30 25 January 2020
January 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Nigeria-Biafra war (1967-1970). The Nigerian civil war invites profound questions on issues like the legacies of British colonialism,…

Science show: The science of a world heritage site

25 - 26 January 2020
Show Times: 11am, 12pm, 2pm Jodrell Bank became a World Heritage site in July 2019. In this show find out about some of the important moments in this site’s history which make it such an important place.

GDI Lecture with Dr Nick Jepson: In China's Wake: How the commodity boom transformed development strategies in the global south

17:00 29 January 2020
In the early years of the 21st century, breakneck economic growth in China stimulated a boom of unprecedented duration and extent in world markets for metals and fuels. In China’s Wake…

Runway - No Door Theatre

20:00 - 21:45 30 January 2020
Written and Directed by Georgia Affonso If you could leave, would you? Skid and Bean sit in the park, smoking fags and playing Buzzfeed quizzes. Nyla, Muslim and Mancunian, is moving…

WCLC: Tom Hewson (jazz piano) Essence

13:10 - 14:00 30 January 2020
Join jazz pianist Tom Hewson as he performs original music from Essence, his latest album made inside the Bösendorfer piano factory in Vienna, drawing both on the colours of the contemporary…

Runway - No Door Theatre

20:00 - 21:45 31 January 2020
Written and Directed by Georgia Affonso If you could leave, would you? Skid and Bean sit in the park, smoking fags and playing Buzzfeed quizzes. Nyla, Muslim and Mancunian, is moving…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Christian Fuchs (Westminster): Capitalism and Communication: Critical Theory in the Age of the Internet and Communicative/Digital Capitalism

17:30 - 19:00 4 February 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Christian Fuchs, professor of media and communication studies and Director of the Communication…

Lovell Lecture: Dr Ian Heywood

19:30 6 February 2020
Lovell Lecture How a MeerKAT sees the Universe Dr. Ian Heywood Thursday 6th Feburary, 7:30pm MeerKAT is a new South African radio telescope situated in the arid Karoo region of the…

Our beastly past: vertebrate responses to abrupt climate change during the last 60,000 years in Britain

18:00 - 19:00 6 February 2020
The 2020 William Boyd Dawkins Lecture Our beastly past: vertebrate responses to abrupt climate change during the last 60,000 years in Britain. Move, adapt or die? The extreme impacts…

Literature Live: Luke Brown and Emma Jane Unsworth

18:30 - 19:45 10 February 2020
Luke Brown grew up in Fleetwood, Lancashire, and now lives in London, although he is frequently in Manchester to teach at the Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester.…

Fully Booked Literature Live: Isabel Allende in Conversation with Jeanette Winterson

19:00 - 20:15 11 February 2020
***This event is now fully booked*** Manchester Literature Festival and the Centre for New Writing are thrilled to welcome one of Latin America’s greatest authors to the UK for her…

GDI Lecture with Dr Jelmer Kamstra and Zoe Abrahamson: Civil society aid as balancing act - Navigating between managerial and social transformative principles

17:00 - 18:30 12 February 2020
The civil society policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands saw big shifts in 2015/2016, with its budget halved and its focus shifted from service delivery to lobby…

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