Future Flares Festival returns in 2026 with more innovative and impactful performances, presentations, discussions and workshops. Bringing some of the most important new voices in contemporary European performance making together in Manchester, Future Flares encourages creative discourse about just how the art-form is responding to our changing world.
Reflecting on the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence Poetry and Misogyny Festival in 2024
This is a day-long event convened by Dr Kirsty Fife, explores the relationship between DIY cultures (grassroots and political cultures and practices) and information, archives, libraries and heritage.
Bringing together children’s publishers, writers, illustrators, specialists, academics and students, this symposium will facilitate urgent conversations and bold ideas around equity in children’s storytelling
The Manchester Game Centre is hosting its second annual Games Workshop Research Day on 11 October 2025!
Please join us for a day of talks and games.
For its second outing the event will run all day from 9:30am until 8:30pm and has 3 parts.
Join us at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester for a day of talks and gaming. This event is free and is open to everyone.
Information Lives in DIY Culture is a day-long event about the relationship between DIY cultures (grassroots and political cultures and practices) and information, archives, libraries and heritage.
As part of the Gothic Crossroads conference, an international event exploring and celebrating the multi and interdisciplinary crossings of Gothic and Horror studies, the Gothic Heritage fair brings together objects, collections and curators in a shared accessible space
"Moving Images: Audiovisual Representations of Migration and Migrants", brought together academics, artists, community members, and practitioners from across the UK and beyond, fostering rich cross-sector dialogue around migration and representation.
Led by Dr Ian Cushing, Reader in Critical Applied Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University, this summer school brought together educators from a variety of schools, for an intensive, two-day summer school on linguistic justice. Teachers were given cutting-edge research resources to read, discuss, and apply in their own classrooms.
The Cost of Us”, a thought-provoking short film, created by women from Trafford, exploring the impact of the cost of living crisis on women of all ages. Screenings were held in Partington, Stretford and Whalley Range in July 2025.