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CoMA Contemporary Music for all Festival

8 March 2020
CoMAFest: Contemporary Music for All Join players, singers and audience in a day of workshops and rehearsals of exciting new music. These workshops will culminate in an evening concert…

Creative Manchester presents Music on Campus

12:15 11 February - 13:30 24 March 2020
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: In light of the developing situation around COVID-19 and the Government’s latest advice for people to avoid non-essential contact, we have taken the decision…

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…

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…

Enriqueta Rylands tour

12:15 - 12:45 8 March 2020
To celebrate International Women’s Day, join us for a 30 minute tour exploring the life of Mrs Rylands, the founder of The John Rylands Library. Find out how her drive and passion…

Exhibition: The Soul of the Black Earth - 60 years of Contemporary Chinese Printmaking

19 February - 13 March 2020
The Confucius Institute is delighted to bring this fascinating exhibition to Manchester, telling the story of four generations of printmakers from Heilongjiang Province in the north-east…

Girls Night Out

19:00 - 22:00 8 March 2020
Our ever-popular Girls Night Out returns for International Women’s Day with a special celebration of the women of Jodrell Bank! Our speaker for this event will be Laura Wolz, a researcher…

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…

NCHS: Pilates

09:00 - 10:00 8 March 2020
Pilates is an exercise system developed in the 1930's by Joseph Pilates. Pilates believed in striving for a strong healthy body and pushing the mind to the limit of its ability. Through…

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,…

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…

Utopias

31 January - 4 October 2020
Utopia is, at its essence, about creating a perfect world, yet in this way, it is always in opposition with the present. In his seminal book Utopia (1516), Thomas More gave name and…

Collaborate Seminar Series: KTP Focus Session – Case Study: Andrew McBain

12:00 - 13:00 9 March 2020
Andrew McBain, recipient of two KTP awards, will provide insight into his experience of KTPs including the collaborations behind them, the application process, their management and…

DMDS Divisional Seminar Programme - Monday 9 March 2020

13:00 - 14:00 9 March 2020
DMDS Divisional Seminar Programme Date: Monday 9 March 2020 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Rebecca Bennett – “"Medical ethics, genetics and genomics: What are…

Literature Live: Vahni Capildeo, Anthony Caleshu and Peter Gizzi

18:30 - 19:45 9 March 2020
Please be aware this event will run at 6.30pm in the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and will be hosted by Carcanet. It will mark the launch of Carcanet’s edition of Gizzi’s…

Special seminar: Glypicans shield the lipid moiety of Wnts to enable signalling at a distance

11:00 - 12:00 9 March 2020
Abstract: A relatively small number of proteins have been suggested to act as morphogens, signalling molecules that spread within tissues to organize cell fate specification during…

Advances in Biosciences Seminar: Algae, sugars and natural products: from the garden pond to the Norfolk Broads - Rob Field, MIB

15:00 - 16:00 10 March 2020
Advances in Biosciences Seminar: Algae, sugars and natural products: from the garden pond to the Norfolk Broads Rob Field, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology Host: Simon Turner

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