Art historian and critic Claire Bishop presents Ancestral Avant-Gardes
The Art Research Group at Manchester School of Art invites you to Ancestral Avant-Gardes conference organised by Professor Claire Bishop
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Can digital mixed reality technology offer an engaging sensorial experience for audiences with additional needs?
“Sensorial Dreams,” an immersive VR theatre experience presented at The Royal Exchange Theatre, combined sensory…
Linguistic justice: a summer school for teachers
A body of scholarship has repeatedly demonstrated that schools are places where linguistic injustice is…
SODAs Perpetual Karaoke featured in National Archives Highlights of the 2024
The Perpetual Karaoke project invited audiences to perform karaoke versions of the 1991 Bryan Adams hit, Everything I So, I Do it For You
Bunker Talks 2025
Bunker Talks create space for critical encounters, presentations, and dialogue, interviewing industry guests about practice & research.
Future Flares Festival returns for a 3rd Edition to explore our changing world through art, performance and play
Future Flares Festival returns for the third time, to bring a vibrant programme of performances, talks and workshops
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science October-November 2024
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science is a nationwide event celebrating social science research .
AHEAD In Conversation: Arts and humanities responding to the polycrisis
AHEAD In Conversation: Arts and humanities responding to the polycrisis invites MMU academics and guests to discuss themes of cultural policy
Karen Barbour, ‘Where the Fruits of the Trees Are Jewels’
Karen Barbour’s first solo show in the UK. Comprising twenty-nine paintings on paper that include a new body of work as well as paintings and collages that have been re-visited over the years, it dwells on the California-based artist’s intense concern for the spiritual in painting and how it might serve to alter psychological perspectives on landscape, cityscape or our internal relationship with our environment in general.
Archaeological secrets of heritage artefacts to be uncovered by accessible new £1m hi-tech lab
Heritage organisations of any size will be able to bring their heritage artefacts to a new digital centre based at Manchester Met’s PrintCity