Roots of Resistance: A walk through history with forgotten feminist Rosa Grindon
Roots of Resistance - Discover Rosa Grindon—a suffragist, botanist, and Shakespearean lecturer to explore feminism and the role of plants in shaping memory and identity
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Social Justice Lecture Series : Ecological Harm Reduction: Reimagining Drug Policy with Clemmie James
In this powerful and eye-opening talk, expert Clemmie James will reveal how drug prohibition is not only failing to reduce harm, but is also quietly driving deforestation, environmental destruction, and social injustice across some of the most fragile ecosystems on the planet.
Delving Deep Inside the Bunker Talks with Evelyn Pratt
Bunker Talks invite artists and researchers to talk about who they are, what they do, and how they got to where they are now. The series began in 2020, since then there has been 163 talks. But what does it…
Beyond Babel Festival Returns for 2026
Now in its tenth edition, Beyond Babel returns to celebrate multilingual cultures and cinema as a space for connection and exchange.
New Resource : Performance Research Group – Granny Jackson’s Dead
Granny Jackson’s Dead is a pioneering project that demonstrates how immersive theatre can function as an impactful method for public deliberation on emerging technologies.
20th May 2026 : Visual Arts Book Launch : Adam Walker – Textual Actants
Please join us for an event celebrating the publication of Adam Walker’s new book, Textual Actants (Infrastructure) (Ma Bibliothèque). Adam will be joined in conversation by Susannah Thomson, Laura Haynes, and Nell Osborne, who will also give readings of their work.
Celebrate St George’s Day with HEY! Festival as part of The Fete of Britain
The Centre For Fiction presents Hey! a free pop-up literary festival of talks, workshops, song and discussion . Hey! is the writer led wing of a rolling series of events across the UK called The Fete of Britain.
Exhibition: Animoted
Animoted investigates how emotion can be tracked and assessed by machines - and used aesthetically in mapping decisions in interactive artworks and interfaces
New affordable housing exhibition at the Farrell Centre
Manchester School of Architecture, is co-curating an exhibition at the Farrell Centre, to explore how architectural practices and their clients use housing standardisation to achieve quality, affordable housing in the North East of England.
The Manchester International Crime and Justice Film Festival : May- June 2026 – Book Now!
The 2026 Manchester International Crime and Justice Film Festival curated by Manchester Met university’s Policy Evaluation and Research Unit.