Category Championing Creative Excellence

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.

Bunker Talks Winter/Spring 2026

Curated by the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art, Bunker Talks explore geopolitical, ecological or economic concerns. The talks create space for critical encounters, presentations, provocation and dialogue by interviewing industry guests about practice & research.

Future Flares Festival 2026

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.