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Ties That Bind: Reflections on Community and Justice

Across 10 screenings between Wednesday 7th May and Friday 27th June 2025, the Manchester Crime and Justice Film Festival showed films which provoke discussions around 21st century crime, justice and punishment.

Bunker Talks 2025

Bunker Talks create space for critical encounters, presentations, and dialogue, interviewing industry guests about practice & research.

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.