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SUMMARY:Games Workshop Research and Play Convention 2026
DESCRIPTION:Overview\n\n\n\nThe Manchester Game Centre is hosting its third annual Games Workshop event on 19th September. Join for a day of talks and games. \n\n\n\nWe are pleased to announce that our third annual Games Workshop Research and Play Convention is taking place on Saturday 19th September\, 2026 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation\, Manchester. \n\n\n\nGames Workshop has been at the forefront of tabletop gaming for over five decades\, producing some of the most culturally significant games\, miniatures\, and fictional worlds in the hobby’s history. GWRPC brings together researchers\, players\, and designers to explore Games Workshop’s games and their wider legacies\, welcoming contributions from all disciplinary backgrounds. For its third outing\, the event will run all day from 8:20am until 8:00pm.  \n\n\n\nThe morning will be dedicated to talks about Games Workshop’s games\, the afternoon will feature a keynote from the game designer Tuomas Pirinen followed by a social evening of gaming and music at ‘Grimdark after Dark’\, organised in collaboration with the Dark Arts Research Kollective. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open for all members of the public\, staff and students to attend (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult). \n\n\n\nJoin us at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester for a day of talks and gaming. \n\n\n\nImage Credit: Warhammer World Space Marine. Photo by Julie Gibbons (CCBY2.0) \n\n\n\n\nFull Schedule  Saturday 19th September 2026\n\n\n\nClick Here To Book\n\n\n\nOverview of the 2025 Game Centre Day
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/games-workshop-research-and-play-convention-2026/
LOCATION:International Anthony Burgess Foundation\, 3 Cambridge Street\, Manchester\, M1 5BY
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SUMMARY:Society for European Philosophy Public Talks
DESCRIPTION:Alongside the Society for European Philosophy conference The Transdisciplinary Philosophy Research Group (TPRG) presents a series of events open to the public\, which invite audiences to contemplate European philosophical ideas with renowned international speakers. \n\n\n\nThe Society for European Philosophy promotes the teaching\, research and understanding of all areas of European and continental philosophy. It provides an interdisciplinary forum where people working on a broad range of topics can come together and pursue ideas. \n\n\n\nPublic Events\n\n\n\nFree : Likely to sell out – please confirm your booking \n\n\n\n\nBOOK NOW BY CLICKING HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeynote : Dr Rowan Williams – Magdalene College\, Cambridge \n\n\n\nWednesday 2nd September 4:30-6.00pmDr Rowan Williams studied theology at Christ’s College\, Cambridge. A strong interest in Russian Christianity led to research at Oxford in the religious thinkers of the Russian emigration – and later to a book on Dostoevsky. From 2002 until 2012\, he was Archbishop of Canterbury\, continuing to write on theology\, philosophy\, and contemporary issues\, and retired in 2012 to move back to the university as Master of Magdalene College\, Cambridge. \n\n\n\nOver the years\, he has written a number of books\, academic and popular\, on Christian faith\, as well as publishing several collections of poetry and a number of essays on literary themes\, including some studies of Shakespeare and a book on tragedy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature as well as of the British Academy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanel & Book Launch: Dramatizing Distanz: Radio and Modern German Philosophy \n\n\n\nThursday 3rd September 9:30-1:00pm \n\n\n\nThis panel uses the occasion of a shared book launch to explore the theme of radio and modern German philosophy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDas Kapital: The Audio Drama \n\n\n\nThursday 3rd September 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM. \n\n\n\nSarah Woods’s dramatization of Marx’s Das Kapital. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018\, the play is an occasion for us to consider themes of audio dramatization and technology from the book launch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeynote: Professor Judith Butler – University of California\, Berkeley \n\n\n\nThursday 3rd September 4:30-6.00pm \n\n\n\nProfessor Butler is one of the world’s leading scholars and philosophers on issues of gender\, sexuality\, and the cultural phenomena that surround them. They are the author of the landmark 1990 book Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity\, and more recently the 2024 follow-up work Who’s Afraid of Gender? \n\n\n\nJudith has received numerous awards\, including the Adorno Prize from the City of Frankfurt in honour of their contributions to feminist and moral philosophy and the diploma of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Cultural Ministry. Judith is active in several human rights organizations\, having served on the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York and the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Josh Platzky Miller and Dr Lea CantorFriday 4th September 2:15 – 3:45pm \n\n\n\nDr Lea Cantor is the University of Cambridge Blacker Loewe Research Fellow in Philosophy\, and was awarded the 2022 British Journal for the History of Philosophy Beaney Prize for the best contribution to widening the philosophical canon. Lea is also an Associate Editor of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy and founded Philiminality\, a student-run platform for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary philosophy. \n\n\n\nDr Josh Platzky Miller is a Lecturer in Sociology. Josh’s primary research interests are social movements\, African and Latin American politics and political thought\, social epistemology and the imagination\, and the global history and historiography of philosophy. Main research project: The Myth of ‘Western Philosophy’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisers\n\n\n\nThe The Transdisciplinary Philosophy Research Group (TPRG) brings together researchers in philosophy with those from other disciplinary backgrounds and areas with philosophical interests. The group recognises the interdisciplinary nature of much Modern European (or ‘Continental’) Philosophy. \n\n\n\nIt also recognises the productive ways in which researchers in other areas have appropriated and transformed this philosophical history. Our members undertake research in both traditional and non-traditional philosophical forms. \n\n\n\nSupported by AHEAD \n\n\n\nAHEAD is the public engagement programme of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/society-for-european-philosophy-public-talks/
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SUMMARY:Roots of Resistance
DESCRIPTION:This event explores the intersection of feminism\, public green spaces\, and the role of plants in shaping memory and identity. It centres on the legacy of Rosa Grindon—a suffragist\, botanist\, and Shakespearean lecturer—and uses her story as a lens to reflect on women’s lives are remembered . \n\n\n\nRosa Grindon\, initiated the first version of the Shakespeare Garden\, which was established in Whitworth Park in 1916 engaged in radical social and cultural work\, which included campaigning for women’s suffrage; active involvement in various learned societies and clubs; helping working-class people to establish small gardens to improve their lives; drawing attention to the issues such as clean air and fair treatment of domestic servants; as well as popularising grassroots involvement with Shakespeare. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event combines a guided historical walk with a hands-on creative workshop  \n\n\n\nThe walk will take place in the Shakespearean Garden at Platt Fields Park\, created by Rosa Grindon. There\, the participants will learn about Rosa’s life through a talk by Dr Monika Smialkowska (Northumbria University\, Newcastle) and enjoy a tour of the garden led by Kattie Kincaid\, the garden’s lead volunteer. \n\n\n\nThe workshop will be held indoors at a nearby community centre (Birch Community Centre). Using a mixed-media approach that includes sensory mapping and creative writing\, artist Chiara Dellerba will guide participants through a meaningful encounter with plants that have shaped our identities\, sensory memories\, and daily habits. Participants will also collaboratively create a fire cider vinegar. \n\n\n\nEvent Timings: \n\n\n\n10:00am: Arrival & Check in \n\n\n\n10:30am: Walking tour & Talk with Dr Monika Smialkowska \n\n\n\n12: 00pm : Creative Workshop – Lunch Provided \n\n\n\n2:00pm : Event Ends \n\n\n\nThe walk is step free – please let the organisers know when booking if you need access support eg. sound amplification \n\n\n\nOrganisers: \n\n\n\nThe Sylvia Pankhurst Gender and Identity Knowledge Network\, an interdisciplinary centre for critically engaged feminist research.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/roots-of-resistance/
LOCATION:Birch Community Centre\, Brighton Grove\, Manchester\, M14 5JT\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Social Justice Lecture Series : Ecological Harm Reduction: Reimagining Drug Policy with Clemmie James
DESCRIPTION:What if drug policy wasn’t just a health or legal issue\, but a climate issue too? \n\n\n\nIn this powerful and eye-opening talk\, Clemmie reveals how drug prohibition is not only failing to reduce harm\, but is also quietly driving deforestation\, environmental destruction\, and social injustice across some of the most fragile ecosystems on the planet. \n\n\n\nFocusing on the global coca and cocaine economy\, this talk uncovers how prohibition has created a vast\, unregulated market that fuels illegal mining\, land grabbing\, and violence\, particularly in regions like the Amazon. The communities most affected are often Indigenous peoples and smallholder farmers\, who are criminalised for their traditional practices while being pushed off lands that are critical to protecting biodiversity and tackling climate change. \n\n\n\nBut this isn’t just a story of harm\, it’s also about possibility. \n\n\n\nClemmie introduces the concept of “teacher plants” such as coca\, cannabis\, and poppy\, plants that have been used for generations in Indigenous cultures for healing\, spirituality\, and sustaining relationships with the natural world. Rather than recognising their value\, modern drug policies have reduced them to illicit commodities\, breaking vital cultural and ecological connections. \n\n\n\nThe talk also explores an innovative new approach: Ecological Harm Reduction\, developed by the International Coalition for Drug Policy Reform and Environmental Justice. This fresh framework challenges us to rethink drug policy as part of a wider system of environmental and social justice\, one that protects ecosystems\, respects Indigenous knowledge\, and supports sustainable\, community-led economies. \n\n\n\nAt a time of escalating climate crisis\, Clemmie makes a compelling case: without rethinking prohibition\, efforts to protect the planet may continue to fall short. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a thought-provoking discussion that connects drug policy\, climate justice\, and Indigenous rights and invites us to imagine a future rooted in care\, balance\, and sustainability.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/reimagining-drug-policy-clemmie-james/
LOCATION:Geoffrey Manton Building\, Rosamond St West\, Manchester\, M15 6EB
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SUMMARY:Human Rights & Resistance : Philosophies of Resistance
DESCRIPTION:The Manchester Metropolitan University Human Sciences Seminar Series is an invited speaker and research seminar organised by the Philosophy section of MMU’s Department of History\, Politics and Philosophy \n\n\n\n\n\nTickets £5 full / £3 concessions \n\n\n\nFree tickets for Manchester Met staff and students – email ahead@mmu.ac.uk for more details \n\n\n\nThe 2026 series\, Philosophies of Resistance\, will explore the philosophical thought that has resisted colonial\, racial and carceral oppression. \n\n\n\nThe series aims is to question the role that philosophical ideas have played – and continue to play – in collective struggles for social justice\, and human emancipation more broadly. \n\n\n\nThe three seminars in the series are: \n\n\n\n\nFrantz Fanon & Stand Up to Racism\n\n\n\nPhilosophy in Prisons\n\n\n\nHuman Rights & Resistance\n\n\n\n\nEach seminar includes an academic talk followed by an ‘in-conversation’ discussion between the speaker(s) and a local political activist\, and questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nA 15-minute refreshment break is included.Suitable for 18+ \n\n\n\nHuman Rights & Resistance seminar \n\n\n\nWednesday 27 May\, 2.00pm – 4.00pm\n\n\n\nIn this seminar\, Barbara Arneil will discuss the evolution of human rights and explore how they have been used as tools of resistance\, as well as tools of marginalisation and oppression. Following her talk\, there will be an in-conversation session with student activist Rishi Milward-Bose where they will consider the relationship between rights and more radical modes of political resistance as well as the advantages and limitations of systems of rights when seeking to overcome oppression. \n\n\n\nContributor biogs \n\n\n\nBarbara Arneil is a Professor of the Global History of Anti-Colonial Thought at the University of British Columbia. She is interested in the areas of identity politics and the history of political thought. As an author she has a specialism in the intersection between liberalism and colonialism. She is also interested in gender and political theory and has done research in the areas of social trust and diversity\, global citizenship and cosmopolitanism\, the role of disability in political theory and domestic colonies. Dr Arneil is Past President of the Canadian Political Science Association (2019-2020)\, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2022) and Member of the Order of Canada (2023). \n\n\n\nRishi Milward-Bose works as Migrant Justice Campaigns and Movement Building Coordinator intern at People & Planet facilitating the Divest Borders campaign\, supporting students who try to force their universities to exclude companies from investments that profit from migrant abuse. Rishi has previously been involved in a range of activist initiatives\, including university-based pro-Palestine divestment campaigns and encampments\, climate justice campaigns and a variety of community-strengthening initiatives.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/human-rights-resistance-philosophies-of-resistance/
LOCATION:People’s History Museum\, Left Bank Spinningfields\, Manchester\, M3 3ER
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SUMMARY:Visual Arts Book Launch : Adam Walker - Textual Actants
DESCRIPTION:Textual Actants is a reflexive exploration of the things which hold things together\, be they lengths of steel\, programming protocols\, recognised authors\, or narratives of self. It pivots from the steel I-beam\, and a pilgrimage to the steelworks in Wallonia that first made them\, to the on-screen ‘I-beam’ cursor by which we navigate digital text. Via the supposed blankness of deserts and the techno-utopian imaginaries of Silicon Valley\, six interweaving texts attend to the slippery shifting relations of textualities and materialities\, and where bodies and subjects (and authors and readers) sit within these. \n\n\n\n‘You won’t read this and Adam Walker hasn’t authored it. Instead\, and together\, you’ll be in this book\, mapping\, systematising and modelling—forming it from the material world’s governances\, its archives and philosophies of such. This is a generous work for thinkers who will notice a baton being passed\, and roll up their sleeves.’Roy Claire Potter \n\n\n\n‘Proceeding by drift and detour\, by breakdown and rearrangement\, in prose at once spare and restless\, Walker takes us through deserts both material and imagined\, through post-industrial ruins and mirrored dreamscapes\, through the infrastructures that hold our texts and the texts that hold our infrastructures. The result is a lucid derangement: a meditation on art\, labour\, history\, and exhaustion\, where nothing stands alone and nothing quite falls.’Frank Wasser \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nAdam Walker is an artist and writer. Their practice is research-led\, critically and reflexively considering structures of inequality\, not least their own complicit position amid these. Text sits at the centre of their practice\, including its extensions into digital terrains as code and data. Interruption and impropriety are sought: subtexts and counter-texts that interrupt dominant textual flows. The works are sometimes written\, other times they spill into performance\, moving-image and digital forms\, and have been exhibited\, performed\, published and commissioned by institutions including the Serpentine\, ICA\, Tate and Tyneside Cinema. Their monograph Art\, Labour\, Text and Radical Care was published by Routledge in 2023. \n\n\n\nSusannah Thompson is an art historian\, writer and critic\, and Professor of Art History and Criticism at Manchester School of Art\, MMU. Her research follows three (often interconnecting) paths: feminist art history; Scottish art; art writing and creative criticism. Recent projects have focussed on Scottish women artists who write\, including Maud Sulter\, Cordelia Oliver and Joan Eardley. Alongside her academic research\, she has worked as a freelance art writer and critic since 2000\, publishing features\, reviews and articles in the specialist press including Artforum\, Art Review\, Burlington Contemporary\, Flash Art\, MAP\, Modern Painters\, Sight and Sound\, Variant and many more\, and for artists\, museums and galleries. Current projects include a catalogue essay on the work of Scottish painter Steven Campbell\, an article on artist-led publishing in Scotland from the 1980s\, and a monograph on the work of Maud Sulter. \n\n\n\nLaura Haynes is a writer\, editor and academic. She was co-director of MAP magazine (2011 – 2024) and at The Glasgow School of Art is leader of the studio-based interdisciplinary MLitt Art Writing programme\, where she also edits The Yellow Paper: Journal for Art Writing. Laura’s writing and research is concerned with autotheory and biomythography as poetics for critique. Publishing internationally\, and across various forms\, her work is published in journals including MuseMedusa: Revue de Littérature et D’Art Modernes and Journal for Writing in Creative Practice\, and magazines and presses including Sternberg\, Freelands Foundation\, Nothing Personal and MAP. With Susannah Thompson\, she was co-editor of ‘Art Writing\, Paraliterature and Intrepid Forms of Practice’\, a special issue of the Journal for Writing in Creative Practice. She is currently working on her first novel\, The Quick. \n\n\n\nNell Osborne is a poet\, novelist and researcher of feminism and experimental writing. From 2018–20\, she co-ran the Manchester-based experimental feminist reading series No Matter\, commissioning new work from writers including Anne Boyer and Lisa Robertson. She completed her doctoral research at The University of Manchester\, focused on writers including Ann Quin and Kathy Acker. She co-edited Gestures: a body of work\, a cross-disciplinary anthology on gesture and feminist practice (2025). In 2024\, she published the poetry pamphlet Thank You For Everything (Monitor Books). In 2025\, she published her debut novel\, Ghost Driver (Moist Books). Daisy LaFarge calls Ghost Driver ‘addictively morbid\, comic and discomfortingly familiar’. \n\n\n\nRefreshments will be available. \n\n\n\nCopies of Textual Actants (Infrastructure) will be available for purchase. \n\n\n\nThis event is hosted by the Visual Culture Research Group\, and made possible with support from AHEAD (Arts and Humanities Engagement and Dialogue). \n\n\n\n\nVisual Cultures Research Group
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/visual-arts-book-launch-adam-walker-textual-actants/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East Building\, Manchester Metropolitan University\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG
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SUMMARY:Philosophy in Prisons : Philosophies of Resistance
DESCRIPTION:The Manchester Metropolitan University Human Sciences Seminar Series is an invited speaker and research seminar organised by the Philosophy section of MMU’s Department of History\, Politics and Philosophy \n\n\n\nTickets £5 full / £3 concessions \n\n\n\nFree tickets for Manchester Met staff and students – email ahead@mmu.ac.uk for more details \n\n\n\n\n\nThe 2026 series\, Philosophies of Resistance\, will explore the philosophical thought that has resisted colonial\, racial and carceral oppression. \n\n\n\nThe series aims is to question the role that philosophical ideas have played – and continue to play – in collective struggles for social justice\, and human emancipation more broadly. \n\n\n\nThe three seminars in the series are: \n\n\n\n\nFrantz Fanon & Stand Up to Racism\n\n\n\nPhilosophy in Prisons\n\n\n\nHuman Rights & Resistance\n\n\n\n\nEach seminar includes an academic talk followed by an ‘in-conversation’ discussion between the speaker(s) and a local political activist\, and questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nA 15-minute refreshment break is included.Suitable for 18+ \n\n\n\nSaturday 25 April\, 2.00pm – 4.00pm\n\n\n\nPhilosophy in Prisons (PiP) charity works to bring philosophical practice and dialogue to prisoners across Britain in an effort to deepen critical thinking skills and build stronger communities between prisoners. Speakers Dr Leonie Smith and Dr Jon Bebb (Chair and Vice Chair of PiP) will deliver a session demonstrating the philosophical work they have been engaging prisoners in. This will be followed by an in-conversation discussion with prison officer Gavin Kelly (HMP Stafford) about the transformative impact philosophy has had on prisoners participating in the programme and\, the potentials of philosophy to fuel resistance and liberation. \n\n\n\nContributor biogs \n\n\n\nDr Leonie Smith is Lecturer in Philosophy at Lancaster University\, where she directs the undergraduate programmes in Philosophy and PPE\, and is co-director of the Ethics\, Values and Policy initiative. Dr Smith has contributed significantly to discussions on pedagogy\, particularly through her programme\, ‘Class in the Classroom’.  She is closely engaged with a range of initiatives that address socioeconomic and structural barriers to education\, helping students from under-resourced backgrounds to thrive at university. \n\n\n\nDr Jon Bebb is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. His research explores how our ideas of what is ‘normal’ shape supposedly neutral areas of life\, influencing how society treats marginalised groups\, including people in poverty or those with mental health conditions. Dr Bebb is active in widening participation in philosophy. He has organised annual undergraduate events for Minorities and Philosophy (MAP)\, and co-developed the Thought Experiments in Schools Project\, sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy. For the past five years\, he has collaborated with Philosophy in Prison\, delivering both introductory and advanced philosophy courses\, and developing materials for remote learning. \n\n\n\nGavin Kelly is the Physical Education Instructor (PEI) at HMP Stafford. Gavin regularly works with external partners and charities to improve prison culture and outcomes\, and brings a practitioner’s perspective to conversations about justice\, responsibility\, and rehabilitation. He has worked with the Philosophy in Prisons charity for the last four years and now works with prison residents in support of their philosophical community. He has a particular interest in education\, ethical leadership\, and the role of reflective practice in supporting positive change for people in custody.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/philosophy-in-prisons-philosophies-of-resistance/
LOCATION:People’s History Museum\, Left Bank Spinningfields\, Manchester\, M3 3ER
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SUMMARY:Frantz Omar Fanon & Stand Up to Racism : Philosophies of Resistance
DESCRIPTION:The Manchester Metropolitan University Human Sciences Seminar Series is an invited speaker and research seminar organised by the Philosophy section of MMU’s Department of History\, Politics and Philosophy \n\n\n\nTickets £5 full / £3 concessions \n\n\n\nFree tickets for Manchester Met staff and students – email ahead@mmu.ac.uk for more details \n\n\n\n\n\nThe 2026 series\, Philosophies of Resistance\, will explore the philosophical thought that has resisted colonial\, racial and carceral oppression. \n\n\n\nThe series aims is to question the role that philosophical ideas have played – and continue to play – in collective struggles for social justice\, and human emancipation more broadly. \n\n\n\nThe three seminars in the series are: \n\n\n\n\nFrantz Fanon & Stand Up to Racism\n\n\n\nPhilosophy in Prisons\n\n\n\nHuman Rights & Resistance\n\n\n\n\nEach seminar includes an academic talk followed by an ‘in-conversation’ discussion between the speaker(s) and a local political activist\, and questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nA 15-minute refreshment break is included.Suitable for 18+ \n\n\n\nWednesday 25 March\, 2.00pm – 4.00pm\n\n\n\nFrantz Omar Fanon (1925-1961) is one of the most important anti-colonial thinkers of the twentieth century. Fanon says colonialism is not simply a physical system of inequality and oppression\, it also involves a framework for categorising people\, and relating them to each other in social space. He argues that under colonialism the central system for categorising people is race. \n\n\n\nIn this seminar\, philosopher Komarine Romdenh-Romluc will speak about the life and work of Fanon. This will be followed by an in-conversation discussion between Romdenh-Romluc and Stand up to Racism activist Nahella Ashraf\, exploring the significance of Fanon’s ideas in contemporary anti-racist struggles. \n\n\n\nContributor biogs \n\n\n\nDr Komarine Romdenh-Romluc is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Her fundamental interest is in who we are. She works within the phenomenological tradition in philosophy\, and uses its resources to understand our bodily existence\, and the ways we are shaped by the surrounding world. She is particularly interested in questions of diaspora identity and what it is to belong. \n\n\n\nNahella Ashraf is an anti-racism activist affiliated to Stand Up To Racism\, where she is engaged in grassroots organising and public education aimed at challenging structural and institutional forms of racism. Her activism focuses on opposing Islamophobia\, racial discrimination\, and the normalisation of far right and exclusionary ideologies within public discourse and policy.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/philosophies-of-resistance-stand-up-to-racism/
LOCATION:People’s History Museum\, Left Bank Spinningfields\, Manchester\, M3 3ER
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Event,Talks
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SUMMARY:Animoted 
DESCRIPTION:Animoted brings together a collection of artworks and projects led by Adinda van ’t Klooster investigating how emotion can be tracked and assessed by machines and used aesthetically in mapping decisions in interactive artworks and interfaces.   \n\n\n\nExhibition Opening times : 17 – 27 March\, 10am – 5pm weekdays \n\n\n\nThe immersive interactive VR artwork VRoar (2023) invites you to step into a surreal landscape where your voice reshapes the world around you. Wearing the headset\, visitors navigate by looking in a chosen direction and moving forwards with the controller – and as they travel\, new tree forms grow into the landscape. But it is the voice that truly animates the space. Each sound you make alters the environment in real time. With every burst of sound – whether a whisper\, hum or roar – new blobs appear and blend\, shifting texture as your pitch\, tone and intensity change. Trees pulse and distort. Surreal\, comic clouds dance and warp\, speeding up or slowing down in response to your voice. \n\n\n\nAt the press of a button\, the background transforms and different sound qualities take control of the trunks and branches\, creating unexpected visual consequences. The work encourages playful experimentation and embraces the unpredictable relationship between expression and outcome. Designed and animated by Dr Adinda van ’t Klooster\, with Unity programming by Prof Nick Collins\, the work operates as both art installation and exploratory art game – a space where voice becomes a tool for shaping the environment. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition also offers insight into the Emote VR Voicer project\, a major AHRC-funded research project currently in development. This project aims to go one step further than VRoar (which works with feature detection) and will be able to detect emotion from the voice and use that as an input for the graphics. Video material\, 3D printed sculptural forms and 2D drawings reveal how hand-modelled wax and clay shapes are 3D scanned\, rigged and animated to form the basis of a future voice-responsive VR environment. This project will be shown in full in 2027 and is currently being led from MMU by Adinda van ‘t Klooster with advisers Prof Carlo Harvey and Jason Hockman\, and external collaborators Robyn Dowlen (Edge Hill University) and Nick Collins (Durham University). \n\n\n\nAlongside the VR experience\, Animoted presents documentation of earlier interdisciplinary projects including the interactive sculpture Emotion Light (2009) and performance works In a State (2014) and BioCombat (2015). These works trace Adinda’s long-standing exploration of emotion-sensing systems across live performance\, sculptural and digital contexts. \n\n\n\nDr Adinda van ’t Klooster\, a Senior Lecturer at SODA\, Manchester Metropolitan University\, has worked for over thirty years as a UK-based interdisciplinary artist\, collaborating with programmers\, musicians\, engineers\, poets\, composers\, psychologists and medical professionals. Her practice bridges physical making and digital systems\, continually probing how human feeling and expression are interpreted by machines. \n\n\n\nAnimoted offers both an immersive VR encounter through VRoar and a wider view of the evolving research behind it – inviting audiences to experiment\, vocalise and experience how emotion can become a dynamic artistic force.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/exhibition-animoted/
LOCATION:School of Digital Arts (SODA)\, 14 Higher Chatham St\,\, Manchester\, M15 6ED
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Future Flares Festival 2026
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.theatre.mmu.ac.uk/future-flares-festival/2026 \n\n\n\nEvent TypeShowDate & TimeCostWednesdayPerformanceThe Affective Dramaturgy of Voice\, Patrick CampbellFree no booking requiredWed 21 Jan2pmFreeWorkshopQuarantine – a creative workshop introductionWed 21 Jan3:00-5:30pmFreePerformanceWhat Am I Doing This For? Will DickieWed 21 Jan6:00-7:00pmFreePerformanceThe Ego\, Anemone Valcke and Verona VerbakelWed 21 Jan7.30-8.35pm£7/£4ThursdayWorkshopMovements\, Sounds\, Words\, Feelings & Meanings workshopThu 22 Jan10am—1:00pmFreePerformanceFailure (Terror at Night)\, Brigitte JurackFree no booking requiredThu 22 Jan12—2pmFreePerformanceThe Visibility of Possibility\, Peader KirkThu 22 Jan6pm—6.35pmFreePromenadePerformanceBurning\, Cross PollinationThu 22 Jan7pm—7.15pmFreePerformanceImperceptible\, Jérémie Cyr-CookeThu 22 Jan7.30pm—9:00pm£7/£4FridayPerformanceAn Image is an Act Not a Thing\, Jenny Baines and Brigid McLeerFree no booking requiredFri 23 Jan12pm—2pmFreePerformanceExit Music Remixed\, Pinchbeck and SmithFri 23 Jan12:30—1:00pmFreePerformanceExit Music \, Pinchbeck and SmithFri 23 Jan1:30—2:00pmFreeWorkshopWilL Dickie workshop and performance sharingFri 23 Jan2:00—2:30pmFree\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n3 minute video : Future Flares Festival 2025 Highlights
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/future-flares-festival-2026/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East Building\, Manchester Metropolitan University\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Event,Festival
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SUMMARY:Film Screening Double Bill: Poetry and Misogyny & On Me
DESCRIPTION:Beginning 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence 2025\, with an evening of powerful films and meaningful discussion. \n\n\n\nJoin us on Tuesday 25 November 2025 as we mark the beginning of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence with an evening of powerful films and meaningful discussion on this urgent and ongoing issue. \n\n\n\nBuilding on the momentum of last year’s impactful 16 day festival of poetry and events\, Dr Kim Moore member of the Poetry Research Group will present a short film by filmmaker Kirstie Henderson and creative works that reflect on the 2024 festival. \n\n\n\nShe will be joined by Dr Becky Clarke co-founder of the Manchester Women’s Justice Collective and member of the research group The Justice Project: Sites of Resistance who will present ‘On Me’ by Caroline Lamb. \n\n\n\nThis event honours the individuals and communities working tirelessly to drive change\, improve practice\, and create safe\, informed spaces for those affected by gender-based violence to express themselves and be heard. \n\n\n\nEvent Schedule: \n\n\n\n\n5.30 – 6pm : Refreshments and Welcome\n\n\n\n6pm – 6.30pm Welcome and Film Screening Dr Kim Moore\n\n\n\nReflections on last year’s 16 Days of Activism Festival and show ‘Poetry and Misogyny\n\n\n\n6.30- 7.45 On Us Introduction with filmmaker Caroline Lamb and Dr Becky Clarke\n\n\n\n7:45 – 8pm Discussion and close\n\n\n\n\n\nMISSED IT : CLICK HERE TO WATCH POETRY AND MISOGYNY\n\n\n\n\nOn Me \n\n\n\nPresented by Dangerous To Know Theatre Company and Endeavour \n\n\n\nWritten by Caroline LambDirected by Helen Parry \n\n\n\nRun time : 1hr 2 minutes \n\n\n\nChristian and Shona have been cast in a tacky true crime docudrama as an abusive predator and his victim. As the two actors explore the undeniable attraction forming between them off set\, they stumble into questions of male responsibility\, female safety and the dangers of modern romance – and things get still more complicated once the camera starts rolling.On Me won an Off West End award for its run on the Greater Manchester Fringe in 2022. The play focuses on themes of Gender-Based Violence and comes with the following content warnings: Brief depictions of sexual assault\, scenes of alcohol use\, coarse language\, references to stalking and femicide and instances of sexism. \n\n\n\nOn Me is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund and supported by Endeavour (www.endeavourproject.org.uk) \n\n\n\nThis event is supported by AHEAD – Arts and Humanities Engagement and Dialogue.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/film-screening-double-bill-poetry-and-misogyny-on-me/
LOCATION:School of Digital Arts (SODA)\, 14 Higher Chatham St\,\, Manchester\, M15 6ED
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Event
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SUMMARY:Information Lives in DIY Culture
DESCRIPTION:Join us at SODA (School of Digital Arts) for Information Lives in DIY Culture. \n\n\n\nThis is a day-long event convened by Dr Kirsty Fife\, explores the relationship between DIY cultures (grassroots and political cultures and practices) and information\, archives\, libraries and heritage. \n\n\n\nExamples of this include (by aren’t limited to!) setting up physical and/or digital grassroots libraries and archives (e.g.\, Salford Zine Library\, Manchester Digital Music Archive)\, collaborations between institutions and DIY cultural organisers (e.g.\, People’s History Museum and Over Here Zine Fest)\, archives of grassroots culture and social movements)\, and people with a background in DIY culture working in information organisations and the information sector. \n\n\n\nThe event will be informal and different to more traditional academic conferences. Anyone is welcome to attend\, including people involved in DIY cultures (for instance musicians\, zine makers\, organisers)\, people who work or volunteer in information organisations (libraries\, archives\, museums and more!) and people doing research (in universities or any other spaces!). This event aims to bring together people in each of these spaces so that we can learn from each other\, share skills and knowledge\, and make connections that help sustain our endeavours in the future. \n\n\n\n\nClick here to view the full programme
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/information-lives-in-diy-culture/
LOCATION:School of Digital Arts (SODA)\, 14 Higher Chatham St\,\, Manchester\, M15 6ED
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Conference
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251114T180000
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SUMMARY:Future-Proofing Equality in Children's Publishing Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Centre For Fiction\, Manchester Metropolitan University \n\n\n\n📅 Friday 14th November 2025 – 9.00am – 6.00pm \n\n\n\n📍 Grosvenor East Theatre\, Manchester Metropolitan University \n\n\n\nIn both historical and contemporary contexts\, from the UK’s Section 28 to Russia’s ‘Law for the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating a Denial of Traditional Family Values’ and Florida’s HB 1467 and HB 1069 laws\, the censorship and banning of children’s literature is traditionally the frontline of wider attempts to censor literature. \n\n\n\nThis Centre For Fiction one-day symposium explores the impact of an accelerating global political resistance to equality\, diversity and inclusion (or\, ‘woke’) in children’s publishing\, and provides an opportunity to listen and learn from the experiences of authors\, publishers and booksellers in the US\, where the full force of executive\, judicial and litigious power is having a chilling effect on minority representation in children’s books. \n\n\n\nBringing together children’s publishers\, writers\, illustrators\, specialists\, academics and students\, this symposium will facilitate urgent conversations and bold ideas around equity in children’s storytelling – by acknowledging the present\, listening to voices from the frontline\, examining how the industry can resist regression\, and considering meaningful action to create an inclusive future for children’s literature. \n\n\n\nFor Full Agenda and information about the research click here
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/future-proofing-equality-in-childrens-publishing/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East Building\, Manchester Metropolitan University\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Conference,Event,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T093000
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SUMMARY:Games Workshop Research Day : Saturday 11th October 2025
DESCRIPTION:The Manchester Game Centre is hosting its second annual Games Workshop Research Day on 11 October 2025!  \n\n\n\nPlease join us for a day of talks and games. \n\n\n\nFor its second outing the event will run all day from 9:30am until 8:30pm and has 3 parts.  \n\n\n\nJoin us at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester for a day of talks and gaming. This event is free and is open to everyone.   \n\n\n\nPlaces are limited. Please book your ticket by clicking the link below: \n\n\n\n\nBook your free ticket\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\n9:30-9:45 Registration \n\n\n\n9:45-11.15 Session 1: MiniaturesSam Tobin: ‘Miniature Matters: Failcast\, Plastic Crack\, and ‘Every Metal’’Tom Railton: ‘Neurodivergent Making: Kitbashed temporalities and weirdly leanings’Adam Edwards: ‘Ancient Dignity: Abstraction\, irreverence and the legacy of the launch rules of Age of Sigmar’Ian Williams: ‘Chapterhouse Revisited: Intellectual Property\, 3D Printing\, and the Platformization of Analog Play’ \n\n\n\n11:15–11:30 Break \n\n\n\n11:30–13:00 Session 2: Worlds and HistoriesIoannis Costas Batlle\, ‘Mythbusters\, icebergs\, and why you learn more from Warhammer than you realise’James Holloway and Gianluca Raccagni\, ‘‘Larger\, wilder\, and far more dangerous’: Medieval and Medievalist Imagery in the Warhammer games’Tomas Rawlings\, ‘Chaos in the Warhammer Setting’Patrick Prax and Ray Whitcher\, ‘‘More more warp death!’ Skaven and Warpstone as Environmental and Economic Critique’ \n\n\n\n13:00-13:45 Lunch break \n\n\n\n13:45-14:45 ‘Games Workshop’s Player Communities’ – roundtable discussion \n\n\n\n15:00-17:30 Playable Exhibition \n\n\n\nJoin us to play and discuss Games Workshop’s games at our playable exhibition.  \n\n\n\n18:00-20:30 – Blood Bowl live! \n\n\n\nIn collaboration with The Waterbowl\, Manchester’s oldest and best Blood Bowl league\, we’ll end the day by watching a Blood Bowl match\, with commentary from RickWreckless and filmed by Geek Pride’s Matt Geary. \n\n\n\nAbout the Manchester Game Centre\n\n\n\nThe Manchester Game Centre promotes game studies across a number of disciplines at local\, national\, and international levels. We deliver knowledge via our public-facing events\, workshops\, and teaching at our home at Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\nThe MGC was established in 2016 as a cross-university research network\, drawing its membership from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities\, Health and Education\, and Science and Engineering at Manchester Met. It is co-led by Professor Paul Wake (English)\, Dr Chloé Germaine (English) and Dr Jennifer Cromwell (History)\, supported by a wider leadership group including Dr Tom Brock (Sociology)\, Dr John Henry (Maths and Computing)\, Dr Frazer Heritage (Linguistics)\, Dr David Jackson (School of Digital Arts)\, Dr Wahida Khandker (Philosophy)\, Dr John Lean (Education)\, Dr Matteo Polato (English)\, and Dr Reuben Martens (English).  \n\n\n\nTogether we develop and promote research on games at Manchester Met\, and we have unique expertise in creative research methods\, game making\, and games for social impact. \n\n\n\n\nManchester Game Centre Events
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/games-workshop-research-day-saturday-11th-october-2025/
LOCATION:International Anthony Burgess Foundation\, 3 Cambridge Street\, Manchester\, M1 5BY
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Event,Talks
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SUMMARY:Bunker Talk #153: Zodwa Nyoni
DESCRIPTION:Zodwa Nyoni \n\n\n\nZodwa Nyoni is a Zimbabwean-born playwright\, librettist\, screenwriter and director. Her debut play\, BOI BOI IS DEAD won the Channel 4 Playwrights’ Scheme in 2014. It was also a finalist for the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2014/15. Since\, her plays have been produced in the UK\, France\, Germany\, USA\, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Her most recent work\, THE DARKEST PART OF THE NIGHT (Kiln Theatre) was shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award and George Devine Award 2021. It was ranked as one of the best plays of 2022 by The Independent (UK). \n\n\n\nZodwa’s plays are published by Bloomsbury. She has lectured in poetry and theatre since 2018. She is currently a Lecturer in Scriptwriting at Manchester Metropolitan University and an associate dramaturg for Tiata Fahodzi and Fifth Word Theatre. She has written two radio plays\, LOVE AGAIN (BBC Radio 3) and A KHOISAN WOMAN (Drama on 3); and three short films: MAHOGANY (National Trust and 24 Design Ltd) and NOTES ON BEING A LADY (New Creatives / BBC Arts) and the award winning\, THE ANCESTORS (BBC Films and BFI Network). \n\n\n\nZodwa was an international fellow on Oxbelly’s inaugural Episodic Program in Greece. She is a BAFTA Connect member and was on the BIFA mentoring programme. She is currently working on Netflix’s spin-off series\, CASTLEVANIA: NOCTURNE; under commission at Manchester Royal Exchange\, Bristol Old Vic and Kiln Theatre; and writing an opera for Buxton International Festival. \n\n\n\nLIBERATION\n\n\n\nHow does a revolution begin and who keeps it going? \n\n\n\nCommissioned by the Royal Exchange Theatre \n\n\n\nProduced by the Royal Exchange Theatre and Factory International\, Manchester \n\n\n\nInspired by true events in Black British history\, LIBERATION is a powerful new play from writer Ntombizodwa Nyoni and director Monique Touko tracing the private lives of activists who fought to liberate Africa. \n\n\n\nIt’s 15 October 1945\, Manchester. Africa’s freedom and future is in the hands of her descendants at the Fifth Pan-African Congress at Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall. \n\n\n\nWith decades of championing change under their belts\, emerging African & Caribbean activists and scholars offer new radical ideas of liberation. However\, the organiser\, Trinidadian activist George Padmore is unsure who to pass the baton to. Kwame Nkrumah is fuelled by an idealistic desire to become the first Black president of the Gold Coast. Young\, resourceful Jamaican social worker Alma La Badie is grappling with the truth behind who must be sacrificed for the cause. And what of the revered Amy Ashwood-Garvey how does she ensure the voices of Black women are heard? \n\n\n\nA story of hope\, friendship and the consequences of a long-denied awakening unravels in the conference halls and bars of Chorlton\, but at what cost? \n\n\n\nThis groundbreaking new play developed 80 years after the Congress introduces the people behind the movement. LIBERATION gets to the heart of how our future is built\, how our leaders are made\, and how dreams are realised. With generational shifts and gender politics added to a swirling mix of power dynamics\, LIBERATION asks timeless questions about revolution\, freedom\, and what it means to be an activist. \n\n\n\nReceiving its World Premiere as part of Manchester International Festival 2025\, LIBERATION includes composition by Ife Ogunjobi from the Brit Award-winning Ezra Collective and was commissioned by the Royal Exchange Theatre. Find out more here: https://www.royalexchange.co.uk/event/liberation/ \n\n\n\n\nResources around the 5th Pan-African Congress\,  held 15-21 October\, 1945 in Manchester\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBunker Talks\n\n\n\nThis event is part of Bunker Talks. Bunker Talks invite artists and researchers to talk about who they are and what they do. 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. \n\n\n\nOriginally conceived in the pandemic to explore how artists\, writers\, curators and researchers continued to make and share their work\, live Bunker Talks now take place at The Salutation every month. Since 2020\, over 150 talks have been hosted by Art & Performance Researchers and colleagues from across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. All talks are recorded\, edited\, captioned and then archived to create an online catalogue\, capturing how artists\, makers and curators think about the world today. Find previous talks here: https://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/ \n\n\n\nMain Event Contact and URL \n\n\n\nProfessor Michael Pinchbeck: m.pinchbeck@mmu.ac.uk \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent supported by AHEAD – Arts and Humanities Engagement and Dialogue
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/bunker-talks-zodwa-nyoni/
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Event,Talks
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SUMMARY:The Cost of Us Film Screening and Creative Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Event lasts 2 hours 30 minutes\n\n\n\nFree venue parking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a screening of “The Cost of Us” followed by a creative discussion about the impact of the cost of living crisis on women. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a special evening at Stretford Public Hall for a screening of the thought-provoking short film\, “The Cost of Us” created by women from Trafford\, exploring the impact of the cost of living crisis on women of all ages. \n\n\n\nAfter the film\, we’ll be having creative discussions around the themes and topics raised in the film\, plus an opportunity to connect with others and hear more about current projects enJOY arts are delivering in partnership with Emerald LENS and SODA (School of Digital Arts). \n\n\n\nWelcome drinks and light refreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\nThis film and event is made possible by funding from National Lottery Community Fund and Ahead Fund through Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPartners\n\n\n\n\nEmerald CIC\n\n\n\nenJOY Arts\n\n\n\nSchool of Digital Arts – SODA
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/the-cost-of-us/
LOCATION:Stretford Public Hall\, Chester Road\, Manchester\, M32 0LG
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Event,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250530T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250530T143000
DTSTAMP:20250516T150813Z
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SUMMARY:Ahead of the AI’s misinformation curve: let’s talk visual AI literacy
DESCRIPTION:Online Event\n\n\n\nThis exciting and timely initiative addresses the recent advancements in visual generative AI which allow anyone to create highly realistic deepfakes\, leading to misinformation and personal and social harms\, and cementing stereotypes and representational biases.  \n\n\n\nLed by Adi Kuntsman and Jessica Elias from DISC (Digital Society Research Group)\, in collaboration with the AI Artist and researcher\, Dr Sam Martin\, the project explores these issues in dialogue with national and international experts in digital literacy\, misinformation and technological challenges\, and shares AI literacy tools with local communities across Manchester and beyond.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/ahead-of-the-ais-misinformation-curve-lets-talk-visual-ai-literacy/
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Event,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250321T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250321T190000
DTSTAMP:20250217T101121Z
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SUMMARY:Ancestral Avant-Gardes
DESCRIPTION:organised by Claire Bishop\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Grace Ndiritu\, Healing the Museum\, 2023 \n\n\n\nThis one-day event\, organised by art historian and critic Claire Bishop\, will offer a range of artistic approaches to ancestrality in contemporary art and performance. \n\n\n\nSpeakers and participants include: Yinka Esi Graves\, Grace Ndiritu\, Claire Tancons\, and Lucy Wright. \n\n\n\nThe conference addresses the resurgence of interest in ‘ancestralism’ among performance and visual artists\, who hark back to traditional\, pre-modern or indigenous forms of collective knowledge\, often in the form of ceremonies\, rituals\, and invocations. The reasons for an artistic interest of healing and ritual are important\, and perhaps all too obvious: the global climate crisis\, white supremacy’s systematic oppression of Black and indigenous life\, and the failures of Western rationalism. These issues need to be articulated and reiterated. At the same time\, difficult questions arise: whose ancestors are being invoked\, and to what ends? What differences can we observe across historical periods and geographical regions? And how might we develop a critical vocabulary for approaching a body of work that often requires not just participation\, but also an openness to the spiritual? \n\n\n\nFree – Booking highly recommended \n\n\n\nPlease note: Due to the amount of interest in this event\, tickets are limited to one per person. \n\n\n\nThe membership of the Art Research Group consists of internationally recognised artists\, curators and writers active in developing new forms of research within the expanded field of contemporary visual art. In addition to producing world-leading exhibitions\, writing and books\, the group’s key focus is on developing collaborative projects that create dynamic new configurations of knowledge located within the subjects identified by its clusters. \n\n\n\nFor further information please visit: https://artresearch.mmu.ac.uk/
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/ancestral-avant-gardes/
LOCATION:The Holden Gallery\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BR
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Conference,Event,Talks
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SUMMARY:16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence
DESCRIPTION:Poetry and Activism : 16 Day Festival examining how poetry and Language can create transformational social change\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n16-Days of Activism is an international campaign running from 25 November to 10December\, dedicated to raising awareness and combating gender-basedviolence. This year\, Manchester Met is hosting a series of events featuring poets\,activists\, and academics to explore how poetry and the arts can respond togender inequality and bring about social change \n\n\n\n\naAh! is Manchester Metropolitan University’s official arts and culture student magazine. – Festival Coverage\n\n\n\n\n\nClick here to book\n\n\n\nClick here Manchester Women’s Aid :  Domestic Violence Information and Support \n\n\n\n\nThroughout the 16 days\, the university will host readings\, panel discussions andwriting workshops\, including events with Everyday Sexism founder Laura Bates\,author and psychoanalyst Katherine Angel\, and poet and playwright JoelleTaylor. From powerful spoken-word performances to in-depth conversations\, thefestival is designed to amplify voices fighting against gender-based violence andhighlight the critical role of creativity in activism. \n\n\n\nFestival Director\, Dr Kim Moore\, says\, “We have a stunning programme of events featuring writers who believe in the power of poetry and language to make transformational social change. Some of the things we will be exploring include everyday sexism and incel ideology\, the impact of domestic violence\, as well as issues around consent and gaslighting. We hope to become part of an ongoing conversation in society that recognises gender-based violence as a national emergency.” \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nProfessor Andrew McMillan adds\, “We here at Man Met are delighted to be supporting andhosting this unique and much-needed festival which brings together thinkers\, writers andcommunities to do what we all know poetry can – validate experience\, create new methodsof connection\, and articulate in new ways experiences which are sadly common to somany. Projects like this are at the heart of our mission as a modern civic university.” \n\n\n\nThe festival is wheelchair accessible and will take place in person at the Manchester Poetry Library and the Lowry Building at Manchester Metropolitan University. Some events will also beonline or live-streamed. This is a trans-inclusive festival. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE ORGANISERSThe Manchester Writing School is based at Manchester Metropolitan University\, and is one of the biggest and most successful literary centres in the UK. Established in 1998\, the School hosts exciting writing programmes\, a vibrant series of public events\, a city-wide children’s book festival\, and a major international writing competition. \n\n\n\nManchester Poetry Library (MPL) is the North West’s first public poetry library – open to all. Based at Manchester Metropolitan University\, it hosts a collection of over 14\,000 books and recordings profiling 20th and 21st century poets\, a growing children’s collection\, and a languages collection co-curated with bilingual and multilingual poets. MPL has a year-round learning programme for readers and writers\, as well as a free events\, workshops and an exhibition programme. \n\n\n\nFULL PROGRAMME \n\n\n\n25 Nov Reading & Discussion: Dr Kim Moore & Laura BatesAn evening of poetry & engaging discussion about everyday sexism\, how we move through a damaged patriarchal society & how we can resist injustice.26 Nov Reading & Discussion: Clare Shaw & Dr Malika BookerAward-winning poets explore articulations of inherited trauma\, gendered violence & resistance.27 Nov Workshop: Erasure Workshop with Roma Havers & Catherine Davies28 Nov Discussion: Dr Frazer Heritage & Caroline StancerVital discussion on incels\, ideologies & performances of masculinity.29 Nov Performance: Safiya Kamaria KinshasaLive literature show navigating the historical narratives of Barbadian women.30 Nov Workshop: Late Night Writing Hour with Kim Moore1 Dec Discussion: Charlotte Shevchenko Knight\, Naomi Morris & Char HeatherPanel exploring feminist approaches to illness narratives & gender inequality in medicalised spaces.2 Dec Reading & Discussion: Dr Derek Bousfield and Professor Helen MortInterdisciplinary discussion investigating how poetry can illuminate & examine the language of gaslighting.3 DecWorkshop: ‘We Sinful Women’ with Anjum MalikDiscussion\, reading and workshop exploring the 1980s iconic Urdu poetry collective\, We Sinful Women.4 Dec Reading & Discussion: Dr Kim Moore & Prof Khatidja ChantlerPerformance of ‘i-poems’ – drawn from the voices of survivors of domestic abuse & family members of victims of domestic homicide.5 DecReading & Discussion: Anjum Malik & Charlotte Shevchenko KnightMultilingual poetry readings exploring gender hierarchies\, the female body & hunger.6 DecReading & Discussion: Joelle TaylorDeep dive into Joelle’s recent work examining violence against women & butch lesbian counterculture.7 Dec Open Mic8 DecWorkshop: Permission to Speak with Caroline StancerDevelop your creative practice by reading and writing the poems you want to write.9 Dec Reading & Discussion: Nat Raha & Roma HaversExplore the disruptive potential of poetry\, collective action and radical queer joy.10 DecReading & Discussion: Dr Katherine Angel & Professor Helen MortIn celebration of Human Rights Day\, a discussion focussing on issues around female desire\, sexuality\, consent and violence.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/16daysmmu24/
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Event,Festival,Talks
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SUMMARY:AHEAD In Conversation: Arts and humanities responding to the polycrisis
DESCRIPTION:AHEAD In Conversation: Arts and humanities responding to the polycrisis invites MMU academics and guests to discuss themes of cultural policy \n\n\n\n\nOctober 16\, 2024\n\n\n\n\nAHEAD In Conversation: Arts and humanities responding to the polycrisis\n\n\n\nWelcoming guests to meet the team and highlight some of the existing research from the Arts and Humanities Faculty in discussion with policy makers. \n\n\n\nFriday 15 November : 10am – 3pm\, Lowry Building \, MMU \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArts and humanities responding to the polycrisis\n\n\n\nAHEAD at Manchester Met invites you to join regional and national thinkers\, as well as researchers and practitioners working in arts and humanities\, to help us set out a new agenda for how these disciplines can contribute to the policy debate and be a vital force in discourse about national renewal. \n\n\n\nAs a society\, we face multiple challenges including global warming\, social fragmentation\, an ageing population and low productivity. These and other overlapping grand challenges are sometimes called the ‘polycrisis’. A new government has brought with it a renewed focus on addressing the polycrisis with aspirations to improve productivity\, tackle the climate crisis and rebuild trust in public institutions. Arts and humanities have a crucial role to play in helping us all to understand our changing world and in shaping our response to the grand challenges of our time. \n\n\n\nAHEAD is the public engagement programme of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University. Our rolling programme of events and collaborations on a range of topics\, disciplines and research areas from across the faculty and throughout the year.Ahead in Conversation coincides with the university’s 200th anniversary celebrations. For two centuries\, Manchester Met has driven innovation and progress through excellent education and research – where we’ve made a difference and transformed how people live https://www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/200-years \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nManchester Metropolitan University is centrally located with great public transport routes. The event will be fully accessible – if you need further information please email ahead@mmu.ac.uk. \n\n\n\nClick here to see the Agenda and Book your place on this free event
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/ahead-in-conversation-arts-and-humanities-responding-to-the-polycrisis/
LOCATION:Manchester Metropolitan University – Manchester School of Art – Lowry Building\, Boundary St West\, manchester\, M15 6BR
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Conference,Event,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241114T090000
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SUMMARY:19th Century Now!
DESCRIPTION:Part of Manchester Metropolitan University’s 200th celebrations\, this 2-day event highlights the continuing relevance of the 19th century today.   \n\n\n\nWith talks\, films and performances by individuals and groups who – influenced by the 19th century – are doing innovative work to support culture and communities today\, the aim is to encourage conversations and inspire future projects.   A range of international speakers will share their thoughts\, insights and experiences to provide memorable and lively discussions. \n\n\n\nDay one presents a morning session is for archivists\, curators and librarians working with 19th century collections. The afternoon is open to all and focuses on contemporary study of and innovations with collections and a performance of John Ruskin’s The Stormcloud of the Nineteenth Century. \n\n\n\nThe second day will host sessions themed around Community Arts\, Education and Economics and includes a free lunch. \n\n\n\nThis event has been organised by Manchester Metropolitan University’s Special Collections Museum and the English Dept’s Long Nineteenth Century Network\, with generous support of the university’s Arts and Humanities Engagement And Dialogue\, as well as the Arts and Humanities Research Council/Research Libraries UK  and Ruskin’s The Guild of St George. \n\n\n\nFollow @aheadmmu online for upcoming Arts & Humanities Research Events & Engagement \n\n\n\n\nBook for Sessions Here
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/19th-century-now-2/
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Conference,Event,Talks
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SUMMARY:Karen Barbour\, ‘Where the Fruits of the Trees Are Jewels’
DESCRIPTION:curated by Simon Grant and Andrew Hunt \n\n\n\n\n\nMoon Grove Gallery Manchester  \n\n\n\nExhibition : 18 October to 20 December 2024 \n\n\n\nOpen Thursdays and Fridays 12pm to 6pm during exhibitions \n\n\n\nAfter two solo exhibitions in New York at White Columns in 2022 and Jack Hanley Gallery in 2023\, Moon Grove presents 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. \n\n\n\nEssentially\, Barbour’s work can be described as ‘visionary’\, in one respect because her work is imaginative\, direct and raw\, and in another because she is inspired by her infrequent experience of temporal lobe seizures\, a situation she describes as becoming ‘stricken with powerfully intense barrages of very accurate memories from my life’. On a wider cultural level her work is deeply connected and informed by US West Coast grass roots creative moments: the tradition of psychedelic illustration and pattern\, self-taught artistic communities\, and the Bay Area’s pioneering history of supported studios for artists with disabilities. \n\n\n\nLinks between these subjects and those in northern England reside in shared interests in music\, local museum collections\, approaches to painting and equally in artists making work in supported studios. With this connection in mind\, Barbour has drawn reference to her fascination with artworks held in the seminal Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection at Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery\, along with the many relationships that these works share with her own. Motifs and approaches include the depiction of strangely built structures\, included in Dusan Kusmic’s towers\, which communicate directly with Barbour’s own visionary buildings\, Drago Jurak’s paintings of inventive monuments and a picture of a striped house by Frederic Vaudour. Irregular figures are also a concern for Barbour: Shafique Uddin pointillist portraits; Guillaume Pujolle’s dancing people; Aloise Corbaz’s colourful likenesses; as well as others works by Anna Zemankova\, Michel Nedjar\, Madge Gill and Valerie Potter. \n\n\n\nA publication that documents this exhibition\, spread over Moon Grove’s intimate\, domestic gallery spaces\, will follow in 2025. This will contain wider contextual information and biographical images\, alongside an interview between Barbour and the curator and writer Simon Grant. \n\n\n\nKaren Barbour (b. 1956)\, lives and works in Inverness\, CA. She received a BA at UC Davis and an MFA in Film from San Francisco’s Art Institute. Barbour has worked as an author and an illustrator\, and over the past twenty years her work has been included in exhibitions in San Francisco\, Los Angeles\, and New York\, among other places. \n\n\n\n\nI collect my ideas and try to put them into the paintings. Most of them evolve slowly over a long period of time. I work spontaneously and the pictures are constantly changing. \nKaren Barbour interviewed by Simon Grant This conversation took place during June and July 2024 ahead of Karen Barbour’s exhibition at Moon Grove\, Manchester.\n\n\n\n\nClick to read full Interview  with Karen Barbour\n\n\n\n\nMoon Grove would like to acknowledge that ‘Where the Fruits of the Trees Are Jewels’ has been made possible with generous funding from Manchester Metropolitan University’s AHEAD fund. \n\n\n\nMoon Grove\, 7 Moon Grove\, Manchester M14 5HE \n\n\n\nmail@moongrove.org
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/karen-barbour-exhibition/
LOCATION:Moon Grove Gallery\, 7 Moon Grove\, Manchester\, M14 5HE
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Event,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:U-Kino Film Festival: The Babushkas of Chernobyl - Free Event
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the U-Kino Film Festival: U-Kino Film Festival: The Babushkas of Chernobyl  \n\n\n\nU-Kino is a festival of Ukrainian cinema\, with an aim to raise visibility of Ukrainian film and culture more broadly. The intention is to explore possibilities of ‘disagreeing well’\, sophisticated spaces to explore conflict and the role of creative practice. The festival takes place from July – November 2024\, the final screening is to coincide with commemorative events at the National Museum of Holodomor Genocide\, Kyiv. The screenings take place in SODA cinema at the School of Digital Arts\, Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\nJoin us on Mon Aug 12 2024 at 15:00 at SODA (School of Digital Arts) for an exciting cinematic experience. \n\n\n\nDirector: Holly Morris\, Anne BogartYear: 2015 Duration: 70 min \n\n\n\nIn the radioactive Dead Zone surrounding Chernobyl’s Reactor No. 4\, a defiant community of women scratches out an existence on some of the most toxic land on Earth. \n\n\n\nThe screening will be followed by a Q&A The event is free to attend\, all welcome.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/babushkas-of-chernobyl/
LOCATION:School of Digital Arts (SODA)\, 14 Higher Chatham St\,\, Manchester\, M15 6ED
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Event,Festival
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SUMMARY:Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors / Tini zabutykh predkiv / Wild Horses of Fire : Free Event
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the U-Kino Film Festival:  \n\n\n\nShadows of Forgotten Ancestors / Tini zabutykh predkiv / Wild Horses of Fire \n\n\n\nU-Kino is a festival of Ukrainian cinema\, with an aim to raise visibility of Ukrainian film and culture more broadly. The intention is to explore possibilities of ‘disagreeing well’\, sophisticated spaces to explore conflict and the role of creative practice. The festival takes place from July – November 2024\, the final screening is to coincide with commemorative events at the National Museum of Holodomor Genocide\, Kyiv. The screenings take place in SODA cinema at the School of Digital Arts\, Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\nJoin us on Wednesday 7 August at 15:00 at SODA (School of Digital Arts) for an exciting cinematic experience. \n\n\n\nDirector: Sergei ParajanovYear: 1964 Duration: 98 minTwo Hutsul families have been feuding for many years. Against this backdrop of animosity and a lust for revenge\, a pure and bright love is born between Ivan and Marichka\, members of the feuding families.Followed by a Q&A with Larysa Bolton from kazky.The event is free to attend\, all welcome. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n—- \n\n\n\nOther events in this series: All events are free to attend\, all welcome. \n\n\n\nThe Babushkas of Chernobyl\n\n\n\nMonday 12 August 3.00–6.00pm \n\n\n\nDirector: Holly Morris\, Anne BogartYear: 2015 Duration: 70 min \n\n\n\nIn the radioactive Dead Zone surrounding Chernobyl’s Reactor No. 4\, a defiant community of women scratches out an existence on some of the most toxic land on Earth. \n\n\n\nThe screening will be followed by a Q&A \n\n\n\n— \n\n\n\nU-Kino Film Festival: u-kino.cargo.site \n\n\n\nThis event is supported by AHEAD – Arts & Humanities Engagement and Dialogue\, Manchester Met’s Engagement Programme for making a positive impact through research
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/shadows-of-forgotten-ancestors/
LOCATION:School of Digital Arts (SODA)\, 14 Higher Chatham St\,\, Manchester\, M15 6ED
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Event,Festival
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SUMMARY:U-Kino Film Festival: Shorts on Architecture - Free Event
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the U-Kino Film Festival: Shorts on Architecture \n\n\n\nU-Kino is a festival of Ukrainian cinema\, with an aim to raise visibility of Ukrainian film and culture more broadly. The intention is to explore possibilities of ‘disagreeing well’\, sophisticated spaces to explore conflict and the role of creative practice. The festival takes place from July – November 2024\, the final screening is to coincide with commemorative events at the National Museum of Holodomor Genocide\, Kyiv. The screenings take place in SODA cinema at the School of Digital Arts\, Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\nJoin us on Tue Aug 6 2024 at 15:00 at SODA (School of Digital Arts) for an exciting cinematic experience. \n\n\n\nFive architecture and urbanism films directed by Roman Blazhan\, 2018–2020. Total running time 42 minutes.  \n\n\n\nThe screening will be followed by a Q&A with Eddy Rhead from The Modernist.The event is free to attend\, all welcome.— \n\n\n\nOther events in this series: All events are free to attend\, all welcome. \n\n\n\nShadows of Forgotten Ancestors / Tini zabutykh predkiv / Wild Horses of Fire\n\n\n\nWednesday 7 August 3.00–6.00pmDirector: Sergei ParajanovYear: 1964 Duration: 98 minTwo Hutsul families have been feuding for many years. Against this backdrop of animosity and a lust for revenge\, a pure and bright love is born between Ivan and Marichka\, members of the feuding families.Followed by a Q&A with Larysa Bolton from kazky. \n\n\n\nThe Babushkas of Chernobyl \n\n\n\nMonday 12 August 3.00–6.00pm \n\n\n\nDirector: Holly Morris\, Anne BogartYear: 2015 Duration: 70 min \n\n\n\nIn the radioactive Dead Zone surrounding Chernobyl’s Reactor No. 4\, a defiant community of women scratches out an existence on some of the most toxic land on Earth. \n\n\n\nThe screening will be followed by a Q&A  \n\n\n\n— \n\n\n\nU-Kino Film Festival: u-kino.cargo.site \n\n\n\nThis event is supported by AHEAD – Arts & Humanities Engagement and Dialogue\, Manchester Met’s Engagement Programme for making a positive impact through research
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/shorts-on-architecture/
LOCATION:School of Digital Arts (SODA)\, 14 Higher Chatham St\,\, Manchester\, M15 6ED
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Event,Festival
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SUMMARY:U-Kino Film Festival : Victor Robot
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the U-Kino Film Festival: Viktor Robot \n\n\n\nU-Kino is a festival of Ukrainian cinema\, with an aim to raise visibility of Ukrainian film and culture more broadly. The intention is to explore possibilities of ‘disagreeing well’\, sophisticated spaces to explore conflict and the role of creative practice. The festival takes place from July – November 2024\, the final screening is to coincide with commemorative events at the National Museum of Holodomor Genocide\, Kyiv. The screenings take place in SODA cinema at the School of Digital Arts\, Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\nJoin us on Wed Jul 31 2024 at 15:00 at SODA (School of Digital Arts) for an exciting cinematic experience. \n\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE THIS IS A CHANGE TOTHE PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED EVENT \n\n\n\nThe event is free to attend\, all welcome.Wednesday 31 July 3.00–6.00pmDirector: Anatoliy LavrenishynYear: 2022 Duration 71 minThe distant future. The artificial star\, which is supposed to provide energy to the planets around it\, is not working. The only one who can fix it\, is Vika’s grandfather\, who created this star. However\, he mysteriously disappeared. The girl\, together with her assistant – a tiny robot Viktor – decides to find him. And such begins the exciting adventures for these two unlikely friends. \n\n\n\nFollowed by a Q&A with Oleksandra Derevianko\, author and director of The Insomnia of Humpty Dumpty. \n\n\n\n—- \n\n\n\nOther events in this series: All events are free to attend\, all welcome. \n\n\n\nShorts on Architecture\n\n\n\nTuesday 6 August 3.00–6.00pmFive architecture and urbanism films directed by Roman Blazhan\, 2018–2020. Total running time 42 minutes. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Eddy Rhead from The Modernist. \n\n\n\nShadows of Forgotten Ancestors / Tini zabutykh predkiv / Wild Horses of Fire\n\n\n\nWednesday 7 August 3.00–6.00pmDirector: Sergei ParajanovYear: 1964 Duration: 98 minTwo Hutsul families have been feuding for many years. Against this backdrop of animosity and a lust for revenge\, a pure and bright love is born between Ivan and Marichka\, members of the feuding families.Followed by a Q&A with Larysa Bolton from kazky.The event is free to attend\, all welcome. \n\n\n\nFamily Album\n\n\n\nWednesday 6 November 3.00–6.00pmFollowed by a Q&A with the filmmakers in collaboration with the National Museum of Holodomor Genocide\, Kyiv. \n\n\n\n— \n\n\n\nU-Kino Film Festival: u-kino.cargo.site \n\n\n\nThis event is supported by AHEAD – Arts & Humanities Engagement and Dialogue\, Manchester Met’s Engagement Programme for making a positive impact through research
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/ukino-family-friendly-film2/
LOCATION:School of Digital Arts (SODA)\, 14 Higher Chatham St\,\, Manchester\, M15 6ED
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Event,Festival
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SUMMARY:U-Kino Film Festival : Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes : Free Event
DESCRIPTION:PROGRAMME UPDATE : PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A CHANGE TOTHE PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED EVENT\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nWelcome to the U-Kino Film Festival: Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes \n\n\n\nU-Kino is a festival of Ukrainian cinema\, with an aim to raise visibility of Ukrainian film and culture more broadly. The intention is to explore possibilities of ‘disagreeing well’\, sophisticated spaces to explore conflict and the role of creative practice. The festival takes place from July – November 2024\, the final screening is to coincide with commemorative events at the National Museum of Holodomor Genocide\, Kyiv. The screenings take place in SODA cinema at the School of Digital Arts\, Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\nJoin us on Tue Jul 30 2024 at 15:00 at SODA (School of Digital Arts) for an exciting cinematic experience. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDirector: James JonesYear: 2022 Duration: 92 minThe story of Chernobyl told through a newly discovered hoard of dramatic footage filmed at the nuclear plant during the disaster and newly-recorded\, deeply personal interviews of those who were there\, directed by Emmy Award-winner and Russian-speaker James Jones.Followed by an online Q&A with director James Jones.The event is free to attend\, all welcome.This film contains graphic content \n\n\n\n—- \n\n\n\nOther events in this series: All events are free to attend\, all welcome. \n\n\n\nVictor Robot\n\n\n\nWednesday 31 July 3.00–6.00pmDirector: Anatoliy LavrenishynYear: 2022 Duration 71 minThe distant future. The artificial star\, which is supposed to provide energy to the planets around it\, is not working. The only one who can fix it\, is Vika’s grandfather\, who created this star. However\, he mysteriously disappeared. The girl\, together with her assistant – a tiny robot Viktor – decides to find him. And such begins the exciting adventures for these two unlikely friends. \n\n\n\nFollowed by a Q&A with Oleksandra Derevianko\, author and director of The Insomnia of Humpty Dumpty. \n\n\n\nShorts on Architecture\n\n\n\nTuesday 6 August 3.00–6.00pmFive architecture and urbanism films directed by Roman Blazhan\, 2018–2020. Total running time 42 minutes. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Eddy Rhead from The Modernist. \n\n\n\nShadows of Forgotten Ancestors / Tini zabutykh predkiv / Wild Horses of Fire\n\n\n\nWednesday 7 August 3.00–6.00pmDirector: Sergei ParajanovYear: 1964 Duration: 98 minTwo Hutsul families have been feuding for many years. Against this backdrop of animosity and a lust for revenge\, a pure and bright love is born between Ivan and Marichka\, members of the feuding families.Followed by a Q&A with Larysa Bolton from kazky.The event is free to attend\, all welcome. \n\n\n\nFamily Album\n\n\n\nWednesday 6 November 3.00–6.00pmFollowed by a Q&A with the filmmakers in collaboration with the National Museum of Holodomor Genocide\, Kyiv. \n\n\n\n— \n\n\n\nU-Kino Film Festival: u-kino.cargo.site \n\n\n\nThis event is supported by AHEAD – Arts & Humanities Engagement and Dialogue\, Manchester Met’s Engagement Programme for making a positive impact through research
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/ukino-family-friendly-film1/
LOCATION:School of Digital Arts (SODA)\, 14 Higher Chatham St\,\, Manchester\, M15 6ED
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Event,Festival
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SUMMARY:U Kino Film Festival : Ukrainian Shorts
DESCRIPTION:U-Kino is a festival of Ukrainian cinema with an aim to raise visibility of Ukrainian film and culture more broadly.  \n\n\n\nThe intention is to explore possibilities of ‘disagreeing well’\, sophisticated spaces to explore conflict and the role of creative practice. The festival takes place on 9\, 30 and 31 July\, 6 and 7 August and 6 November\, to coincide with commemorative events at the National Museum of Holodomor Genocide\, Kyiv. \n\n\n\nThe first of a series of film events shows contemporary shorts exploring war\, Ukraine\, space and place. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Valeriia Lukianets\, director of Heading Home. The event is free to attend\, all welcome.The Land of Aliens  | Director Olya Chernykh\, 19 minsKachalka  | Director Gar O’Rourke\, 10 minsDear Vladimir  | Director Jeremiah Quinn\, 7 minsHeading Home | Director Valeriia Lukianets\, 24 mins
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/u-kino-ukrainian-shorts/
LOCATION:School of Digital Arts (SODA)\, 14 Higher Chatham St\,\, Manchester\, M15 6ED
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Event,Festival,Talks
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SUMMARY:40 Years of the Future
DESCRIPTION:40 Years of the Future\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us for a two-part series of conversations that bring together three historic Manchester-based institutions in their anniversary years to discuss the histories and future of the arts in Manchester and surrounding regions. \n\n\n\n______ \n\n\n\nThe second event in the series will take the form of a chaired conversation between artists\, curators and researchers with connections to organisers within Manchester and neighbouring cities. The histories of marginalised artists in the first event will serve as a prompt for discussing the emergence of current and future initiatives in the city region and regions that aim to amplify less visible or peripheral voices in the art world today\, including artist-led groups and organisations. \n\n\n\nThe event will invite us to consider the continued need for these kinds of groups and spaces in our contemporary social\, economic and political context. We ask: What has changed since the founding of Manchester Art Gallery and Castlefield Gallery\, respectively? How have artists looking for spaces that fulfil their needs shaped the city? What role do art institutions play within Manchester’s art ecology today? And what the future for artists in our city and surrounding regions could or should look like? \n\n\n\nSpeakers:– Thomas Griffiths: Artist and co-director and curator of GLOAM\, Sheffield.– Jo McGonigal: Artist and Fine Art lecturer in the School of Fine Art\, History of Art & Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. Jo McGonigal will be exhibiting at Castlefield Gallery with Frank Bowling later this year as part of the gallery’s 40th anniversary programme. \n\n\n\n– Rachel Goodyear: Artist and co-director of Islington Mill\, Salford.– Yuen Fong Ling: Artist and curator based at Bloc Studios Sheffield\, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and Post Graduate Research Tutor at Sheffield Hallam University. Former director of exhibitions at Castlefield Gallery (1999-2005).– Kay Shah: Artist and member of DMZ studios. He was recently awarded the Castlefield Gallery Artist Professional Development Award at HOME as part of the Manchester Open 2023. \n\n\n\nLearn more and book tickets for the first part here \n\n\n\n______ \n\n\n\nThese events are supported by AHEAD (Arts and Humanities Engagement And Dialogue)\, the public engagement programme of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\nLOCATION\n\n\n\nCastlefield Gallery\, M15 4GB
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/40-years-of-the-future/
LOCATION:Castlefield Gallery\, 2 Hewitt St\, Manchester\, M15 4GB
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Event,Talks
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SUMMARY:Intangible Sounds
DESCRIPTION:A day of workshops talks and performances from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Met present a day of public talks and workshops on music and sound heritages\, followed by a night-time music and performance event. \n\n\n\nBoth the daytime activities and the evening gig will explore how music\, sound and sonic experiences constantly interweave with both time and place: creating emotions\, evoking memories and bonding us into many different kinds of community. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n10:0011:30Session One: Alternative Voices  – Round Table Discussion 11:4513:15Session Two: 40 Years of the Manchester Studies Oral History Collection14:0015:00Session Three: Paranormal Manchester15:4517:15Session Four: Intangible Heritage in Place19:0022:30Evening Event: 7.00pm DⱯRK MASS\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis event is part of  Manchester Histories Festival and will coincide with MMU’s 200 Years celebrations. It focuses on music and sound heritages.  \n\n\n\nThe event brings together several research groups  Contemporary Intimacies\, Genders and Sexualities\, MASS\, Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage \, DⱯRK)  and represents several departments from around the Faculty\, and beyond.  \n\n\n\nIt invites multiple speakers from academia; public and community history; arts and culture practice; lived experience to join in the conversation. \n\n\n\n10.00am – 11.30am – Session One: Alternative Voices (Round Table Discussion) \n\n\n\nPresented by the Contemporary Intimacies\, Genders and Sexualities (CIGS) Research Group: \n\n\n\nHosted by Karen Gabay (broadcaster\, TV producer\, podcast host & producer\, film maker) \n\n\n\nSpeakers : Prof Kirsty Fairclough • Dr Katie Milestone • Dr Susan O’Shea • Dr Kirsty Fife • Maria Ruban and John Lloyd \n\n\n\nTopics discussed will include\, \n\n\n\n\nIntersectional approaches to telling the underrepresented stories of minority gender and women’s contributions to Manchester music and their global impact\,\n\n\n\nGender and Northern Soul\,\n\n\n\nPopular music and DIY archives.\n\n\n\nOverlaps between music\, film and fashion.\n\n\n\n\n11.45am – 1.15pm – Session Two: 40 Years of the Manchester Studies Oral History Collection \n\n\n\nPresented by Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage (MCPHH) \n\n\n\nA panel with the collections founder\, curator and users from Manchester Sound Archive and a phd Student –  with interludes of recorded sound \n\n\n\nSpeakers : Prof Melanie Tebbutt • Rob Hillman\, Tameside Archivist •Dave Govier •Suzie Cloves\, PhD Student \n\n\n\nManchester Studies was initiated by Bill Williams\, the renowned historian of Jewish Manchester\, and developed by a team of other talented individuals. Between the 1970s and 80s hundreds of interviews with working class people were undertaken\, many of them born in the late nineteenth century\, detailing their lives and their experiences working in Manchester’s now lost industries. This remarkable piece of research would develop into what is now known as the Manchester Studies Oral History Collection. This panel brings together those who worked on the creation of the archive\, have used it\, and who now care for it\, in order to stimulate new conversations and research directions around this remarkable resource. We will also be providing a workshop by current oral history practitioners on best practice in oral history research. \n\n\n\n2.00pm – 3.00pm – Session Three: Paranormal Manchester : \n\n\n\nPresented by DⱯRK Research Group \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\n• Ian Waring (Flecky Bennett ghost tour guide) \n\n\n\n•Mark P Henderson (Professional storyteller and folklore expert) \n\n\n\n• Dr. Morag Rose (Psychogeographer and expert on strange Manchester) \n\n\n\n• Emily Oldfield (Poet and writer) \n\n\n\n•Hannah Singleton (Lecturer in the Department of Art and Performance) \n\n\n\nGhosts\, earth mysteries\, UFOs\, cryptids\, occult energies\, and their kin are\, by definition\, intangible – absent presences that cannot always be fully known\, touched\, and rationally explained. Evidence\, where it exists\, is often elusive and indefinable\, and always contested.  Manchester’s strange heritage encompasses many strands of the paranormal from hauntings to occult practitioners\, hairy cryptids to canal monsters. This session seeks to explore these phenomena and allow members of the public to experience this hidden and strange side to Manchester. \n\n\n\n3.45pm – 5.15pm – Session Four: Intangible Heritage in Place \n\n\n\nPresented by the Dr Johnathan Djabarouti of the Heritage Impact Network (HIN) \n\n\n\n\nBernadette Bone\, Conservation Architect and Tutor at the Manchester School of Architecture\, Owner BB Heritage Studio\n\n\n\nJenna Johnston\, Senior Heritage Consultant\, Buttress\n\n\n\nKatie Wray\, Director\, Deloitte\n\n\n\n\nThe Manchester School of Architecture’s Dr Johnathan Djabarouti will host a ‘Long Table’ panel of invited industry guests and members of the newly created Heritage Impact Network (HIN)\, with encouragement for public participation from the audience. \n\n\n\nThe newly formed ‘Heritage Impact Network’ at Manchester Met brings together contemporary heritage researchers who have a specific interest in understanding ephemeral\, intangible\, social\, and non-physical manifestations of heritage and culture. At this Long Table event the network’s interests will respond to the UK’s recent ratification of the UNESCO (2003) Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage\, by shifting their attention to historic places. How do immaterial manifestations of culture – such as cultural practices\, storytelling\, memories\, rituals\, and events – relate to physical heritage buildings\, sites\, and places? Experienced industry heritage practitioners from various disciplinary perspectives and heritage remits will join network members\, along with empty chairs at the table for audience participation in the conversation. \n\n\n\n7.00pm – 10.30 pm Evening Event DⱯRK MASS –  \n\n\n\nAt HOME\, Events Space\,  2 Tony Wilson Pl\, Manchester M15 4FN – Separate Booking page \n\n\n\nFollowing the day sessions at MMU\, please join us in the events space at HOME for an evening of performance linked to our themes. \n\n\n\nPresented by the DⱯRK Research Group and the Music and Sonic Studies Research group (MASS) at Manchester Metropolitan University \n\n\n\nThis evening performance will showcase the soundscapes and research-influenced music being created by PhD students and staff. \n\n\n\nFeaturing: \n\n\n\nKatie Chatburn: ‘The Shape of Sounds’. Using data from her research around how people draw and perceive sound bringing graphic scores to life through a semi-improvised piece with synths and amplified strings. \n\n\n\nMarkus Hetheier: In his soundscape performance\, Markus Hetheier will investigate queer sonic geographies of Manchester. \n\n\n\nChris Gladwin: ‘Runic Acid (V.2)’ A conjunction of the city’s musical past and Pennines occult heritage from witchcraft to chaos magic. \n\n\n\nSusan O’Shea & Julian Holloway  ‘Monstrous Women: Sounding Space at Boggart Hole Clough’.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/intangible-sounds-manchester-histories-festival/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East Building\, Manchester Metropolitan University\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG
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