11 events found.
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200 Years of Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester Art Gallery Moseley Street, ManchesterPlease join us for a FREE 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.
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40 Years of the Future
Castlefield Gallery 2 Hewitt St, ManchesterPlease 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.
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U Kino Film Festival : Ukrainian Shorts
School of Digital Arts (SODA) 14 Higher Chatham St,, ManchesterU-Kino is a festival of Ukrainian cinema with an aim to raise visibility of Ukrainian film and culture more broadly.
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Book Launch: Design for Dementia, Mental Health and Wellbeing
Our online book launch will bring together the editors and contributors of this exciting volume. We will explore key issues of co-design, design interventions and design policy for enhancing mental health and wellbeing, including advancements, benefits and gaps for discussion by our speakers and panel.
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Our Digital Afterlives at ESRC Festival of Social Science
HOME Manchester 2 Tony Wilson Place, ManchesterHow can grief technology (‘grief tech’) help us to remember someone after they die? What are the real-world implications of this technology? And finally how can immersive theatre help us to ask these questions?.
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19th Century Now!
Part of Manchester Metropolitan University’s 200th celebrations, this 2-day event highlights the continuing relevance of the 19th century today.
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AHEAD In Conversation: Arts and humanities responding to the polycrisis
FeaturedManchester Metropolitan University - Manchester School of Art - Lowry Building Boundary St West, manchesterAHEAD 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.
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16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence
MMU and the Manchester Poetry Library invites you to attend 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, a series of poetry readings, panels, and workshops led by academics in the field. Our events examine how poetry can create transformational social change in partnership with our public and policymakers.
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Ancestral Avant-Gardes
FeaturedThe Holden Gallery Cavendish Street, ManchesterThis 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.
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The Manchester International Crime and Justice Film Festival 2025
FeaturedGrosvenor East Building, Manchester Metropolitan University Cavendish Street, ManchesterWelcome to the 2025 festival sponsored by the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University and curated by the university’s Policy Evaluation and Research Unit.
Since 2019 we’ve had a consistent mission – screening great films which provoke debate and provide an alternative take on crime, justice and punishment in the 21st century -
Ahead of the AI’s misinformation curve: let’s talk visual AI literacy
FeaturedThis 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. Led 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.