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SUMMARY:Being Human Exhibition: Entangled Light: A More-Than-Human Photography Studio
DESCRIPTION:This is a Walk-In Exhibition\, no booking necessary. \n\n\n\nAs part of Being Human Festival 2026\, join artist-researchers Helen McGhie and Anthony Hall from Manchester Metropolitan University’s School of Digital Arts for an evening exploring urban gardens as spaces for creativity\, community connection and sustainable futures.  \n\n\n\nEntangled Light is a pop-up outdoor exhibition of photographs made using light generated by soil. Creating a garden-powered\, or ‘more-than-human’\, photography studio\, communities in Salford built ‘mud batteries’ from recycled materials to imagine new energy systems during lead-in workshops led by Antony Hall and Helen McGhie. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisit Islington Mill and Incredible Edible Salford’s community garden to discover studio photographs displayed in plant pots and hanging from balconies\, including a series of portraits by photographer Helen McGhie and still life images created by Year 5 pupils from St Philip’s CE Primary School\, members of Islington Mill Art Academy and local residents.Visitors can learn how living soil can generate energy\, experiment with a soil-powered light\, and imagine what the future might look like using alternative energy sources. This event is for anyone interested in art\, photography\, creativity\, community projects\, gardening and sustainable living. \n\n\n\nThe event is part of the Entangled Light series. \n\n\n\n\nOther Events Linked to the Exhibition\n\n\n\nWednesday 11 November | 5:00pm – 6:00pm | Creative Reflections from the Garden \n\n\n\nAn engaging roundtable discussion exploring the role of urban gardens as spaces for creative\, community connection and sustainable futures. \n\n\n\nWednesday 11 November | 6:00pm – 7:30pm | Exhibition Tour and Late Opening \n\n\n\nContinue the evening with a guided tour of the Entangled Light exhibition with the project leads. \n\n\n\n\n\nRoundtable : Eventbrite Booking Link\n\n\n\nLate Tour : Eventbrite Booking Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto credit: Helen McGhie \n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.beinghumanfestival.org
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/being-human-exhibition-entangled-light-a-more-than-human-photography-studio/
LOCATION:Islington Mill\, 1 James Street\, Ordsall\, Salford M3 5HW\, Manchester\, Greater Manchester\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:What Time is Now? Being Human - museum takeover
DESCRIPTION:What Time is Now? Being Human ‘museum takeover’ event\,The Whitaker museum: Sunday 8th November 11 – 4pm. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWhat Time is Now? will be a one day ‘museum takeover’ of participatory research events and activities at the Whitaker Museum\, Rawtenstall as part of the UK wide Being Human festival https://www.beinghumanfestival.org \n\n\n\nHosted by the research network ‘What Time is Now?: New Temporalities in an Era of Endings’ this event will facilitate new public responses to the unique collections of the Whitaker Museum and bring to new audiences aspects of the ongoing research of this cross-institutional network. \n\n\n\nWhat Time is Now? is a network of artists\, historians and museum professionals convened by Dr. Brigid McLeer\, Manchester School of Art\, MMU and Prof. Claire Langhamer\, Director\, Institute for Historical Research\, University of London.Our network engages in speculative\, holistic and process-led research\, across the arts and humanities\, to better understand and communicate the complex temporalities of our times. Participants work with ‘time’ as subject\, material and heritage\, and publish and exhibit internationally. Collectively\, we explore new disciplinary encounters and dialogues for this research. The diverse events in our museum takeover will engage the public with research through bespoke\, practice-based activities that speak to and extend these encounters.   \n\n\n\nEvents will take place throughout the day across different spaces in the Whitaker and include phytography and print workshops\, talks\, participatory activities and musical/sound installations*. \n\n\n\n*Some events involve advance engagement or booking ahead. See Whitaker website for details https://www.thewhitaker.org \n\n\n\nEvents through the day\n\n\n\nTime Block – woodblock printmaking project based around the Whitaker clock with live participation producing a large collective ‘print’ in the Barn space. Oran O’Reilly and Brigid McLeer (MMU)Phytography workshop – participatory project the outcomes from which will be on display in microfiche format in the foyer space along with a magic lantern from the museum collection.  Dave Griffiths  (Independent artist based in Manchester)Clatter and Squarks  – new sound compositions made in response to and reinstalled into the Cabinet of Curiosities Paul Archbold + students from Guildhall School of Music and Drama\, London Lives of the Dead  – performance lecture hosted in the taxidermy collections\, Hardman Room (Sign-up beforehand 5/6 participants max)  Brigid McLeer (MMU)Timepieces – video dance work (and possible score) with a participatory element\, alongside a museum-type display of a textile artefact sent from South India. Located in the Training Room space (TBC)  Kiran Kuman (Independent artist/dance scholar from Bangalore\, India)Musical Crossroads  – visitors will nominate a song that is meaningful to them\, and say why on record cards\,  which will be added to a collective playlist playing throughout the day in the Reflect and Respond room.  Claire Langhamer and Hester Barron (IHR and University of Sussex)Time in Dreams and Myth  – interactive storytelling workshop (Reflect and Respond room)     Amber Jacobs (Birkbeck University)\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nIt is part of Being Human Festival\, the UK’s national festival of the humanities\, taking place 5–14 November 2026. Being Human is led by the School of Advanced Study\, University of London\, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. \n\n\n\nbeinghumanfestival.org
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/what-time-is-now/
LOCATION:The Whitaker\, The Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery\, Haslingden Road\, Rossendale\, BB4 6RE\, United Kingdom
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