Research Spotlight : Manchester Voices
Manchester Voices is a large-scale sociolinguistics research project which explores the rich tapestry of accents, dialects, and identities that make up Greater Manchester.
Category Championing Creative Excellence
AI Literacy Lab and Manchester Festival of Libraries – 11 June 2026
This project joins researchers, artists and organisations involved in promoting awareness around generative AI, and promoting AI literacy.
Event: 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
Delving Deep Inside the Bunker Talks with Evelyn Pratt
Bunker Talks invite artists and researchers to talk about who they are, what they do,…
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.