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.
Category Championing Creative Excellence
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
The 2026 Manchester International Crime and Justice Film Festival curated by Manchester Met university’s Policy Evaluation and Research Unit.
Philosophies of Resistance Talks Series at People’s History Museum- March – May 2026
The Manchester Metropolitan University Human Sciences Seminar Series invites speakers and researchers - organised by the Department of History, Politics and Philosophy
Film Screening and Q&A: We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher
‘We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher’ is an artwork made by Sophie Mellor and Simon Poulter, working as Close and Remote, who developed the film between 2024-2025.
Research Spotlight : Digital Society Research Group
DISC launched an exciting new public engagement initiative, led by Adi Kuntsman and Jessica Elias, in collaboration with the AI Artist and researcher, Dr Sam Martin.