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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/
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SUMMARY:The Manchester International Crime and Justice Film Festival 2025
DESCRIPTION:Welcome 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. \n\n\n\nSince 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. \n\n\n\nThis year’s programme brings you free films from three continents\, in an eclectic mix of crime classics and lesser-known gems chosen by crime experts and film enthusiasts.  \n\n\n\nOur experts will be on hand to introduce their movie choices and to answer your questions at Q+A sessions after each screening.  See below for the amazing line up of guests. \n\n\n\nThe Festival is supported by our partners: \n\n\n\n\nNovus\, who provide education in prisons\n\n\n\nHMP/YOI Thorncross\n\n\n\nInstituto Cervantes Manchester\n\n\n\nAlliance Francaise de Manchester (Registered Charity n° 1068084)\n\n\n\nOne Small Thing (Hope Street)\n\n\n\nCriminal Justice Alliance\n\n\n\nNorth West Film Archive\n\n\n\n\nFor the third year running\, we’re partnering internationally with Indonesian creative artists and campaigners. This year we’re working with film-maker Tintin Wulia and historian Gloria Truly Estrelita. Tintin’s film A Thousand and One Martian Nights takes an oblique but powerfully moving approach to the Indonesian massacres of 1965 and their long aftermath. \n\n\n\nScreenings will take place at Grosvenor East Building. East Grosvenor is the university’s Arts and Creative Hub; you can find it on the corner of Oxford Road and Cavendish Street\, just five minutes’ walk from Oxford Rd train station. We also have a joint screening with our partners at Instituto Cervantes Manchester.     \n\n\n\nWe look forward to welcoming old friends and new audiences alike\, from the UK and internationally. \n\n\n\nSee you at the movies! \n\n\n\nYour festival team: \n\n\n\nKevin Wong\, Gavin Bailey\, Anton Roberts\, Katie Hunter and Phil Edwards \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUpcoming Films in the Festival\n\n\n\nALL FILMS ARE FREE – BOOKING ADVISED \n\n\n\nWednesday 7th May\, 5:30pm \n\n\n\nScum (18) \n\n\n\nDirector: Alan Clarke\, 1977\, 78 minutes\, English \n\n\n\nA no-holds-barred dramatisation of conditions in British borstals (pre-1980s young offenders’ institutions)\, Scum was made for the BBC Play for Today strand but banned before broadcast. \n\n\n\nThe film will be introduced by Dr Jamie Bennett from HM Prisons and Probation Service. One of the stars of the film\, MMU alumnus David Threlfall\, will also be in attendance. \n\n\n\nBooking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scum-18-crime-and-justice-film-festival-2025-tickets-1268960768819?aff=oddtdtcreator \n\n\n\n—————————————————————————– \n\n\n\nMonday 12th May\, 5.30pm \n\n\n\nMillion Dollar Baby (12) \n\n\n\nDirector: Clint Eastwood\, Year: 2004\, Duration: 127 minutes\, Languages: English \n\n\n\nHMP/YOI Thorncross Learners’ Choice \n\n\n\nThis sports drama puts the spotlight on aspiring boxer Maggie and her ill-tempered coach\, Frankie\, who bond over combat sports. \n\n\n\nSelected for the Festival by learners at HMP/YOI Thorncross. \n\n\n\nBooking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/million-dollar-baby-12-crime-and-justice-film-festival-2025-tickets-1279639719849?aff=oddtdtcreator \n\n\n\n—————————————————————————– \n\n\n\nSaturday 17th May\, 1.00pm \n\n\n\nA Thousand and One Martian Nights \n\n\n\nDirector: Tintin Wulia\, Year: 2017\, Duration: 39 minutes \n\n\n\nA dense\, multi-faceted short film\, A Thousand and One Martian Nights takes an innovative approach to the buried history of the Indonesian coup of 1965. \n\n\n\nThe film’s maker Tintin Wulia will discuss her work and her personal connection with the Indonesian events of 1965. \n\n\n\nBooking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-thousand-and-one-martian-crime-and-justice-film-festival-2025-tickets-1280647072869?aff=oddtdtcreator \n\n\n\n—————————————————————————– \n\n\n\nWednesday 21st May\, 5:30pm \n\n\n\nHolloway \n\n\n\nDirectors: Sophie Compton\, Daisy-May Hudson\, 2024\, 86 minutes\, English \n\n\n\nIn this documentary\, six women return to the abandoned prison to take part in a women’s circle and recall memories from their time inside. \n\n\n\nSelected for the Festival by Hope Street\, a pioneering residential community for women involved in the justice system and their children \n\n\n\nBooking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/holloway-crime-and-justice-film-festival-2025-tickets-1280698617039?aff=oddtdtcreator \n\n\n\n—————————————————————————– \n\n\n\nTuesday 3rd June\, 5:30pm \n\n\n\nJe verrai toujours vos visages (All your faces) \n\n\n\nDirector: Jeanne Henry\, 2023\, 118 minutes\, French with English Subtitles \n\n\n\nRestorative justice was introduced in the French criminal justice system in 2014. Je verrai toujours vos visages is a fictional account of two very different initiatives. The film follows three individuals who committed theft and burglary being prepared for a group encounter with three victims of the same crimes \, and a young woman requesting a one-to-one meeting with her absuer. \n\n\n\nWith Lucy Jaffé\, Board Member of the European Forum for Restorative Justice. \n\n\n\nBooking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/je-verrai-toujours-vos-visages-crime-and-justice-film-festival-2025-tickets-1280721154449?aff=oddtdtcreator \n\n\n\n—————————————————————————– \n\n\n\nThursday 5th June\, 5:30pm \n\n\n\nThe Old Oak (15) \n\n\n\nDirector: Ken Loach\, 2023\, 113 minutes\, English \n\n\n\nLocal tensions arise in a small town following the arrival of Syrian refugees in this gritty UK drama. \n\n\n\nSelected for the Festival by Chris Parsons and Dr Julie Parsons from the resettlement charity Landworks. \n\n\n\nBooking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-old-oak-crime-and-justice-film-festival-2025-tickets-1280736339869?aff=oddtdtcreator \n\n\n\n—————————————————————————– \n\n\n\nSaturday 7 June\, 1.00pm – 2:00pm \n\n\n\nCommunity Policing: all things to all people? A potted history from the North West Film Archive \n\n\n\n“Community policing – no-one’s going to disagree with it because no-one really knows what it means.” This is the starting point for this event\, which marks a collaboration between the Film Festival team and the North West Film Archive\, with advice and support from Will McTaggart from the Archive and Ian MacDonald\, a former Assistant Chief Constable\, Merseyside Police \n\n\n\nBooking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-policing-all-things-to-all-people-tickets-1280713551709?aff=oddtdtcreator \n\n\n\n—————————————————————————– \n\n\n\nSaturday 7 June\, 2:30pm \n\n\n\nWhistle Down The Wind (PG) \n\n\n\nDirector: Alan Clarke\, 1977\, 78 minutes\, English \n\n\n\n“It isn’t Jesus! It’s just a fella!” \n\n\n\nWhistle Down The Wind tells the story of how a group of children in deepest Lancashire shelter a fugitive from justice in the belief that he is Jesus Christ. \n\n\n\nWith Diane Poole (née Holgate)\, who was one of the children at the centre of the film\, and Neil Brandwood\, author of a study of Whistle Down The Wind. \n\n\n\nBooking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whistle-down-the-wind-pg-crime-and-justice-film-festival-2025-tickets-1280655919329?aff=oddtdtcreator \n\n\n\n—————————————————————————– \n\n\n\nWednesday 11th June\, 5.30pm \n\n\n\nThe Clan (15) \n\n\n\nDirector: Pablo Trapero 2016\, 104 minutes\, Spanish with English Subtitles \n\n\n\nArgentina\, 1980s. Under the deceptively calm gaze of their patriarch Arquimedes\, the Puccio family live together\, work together\, kidnap together and kill together. \n\n\n\nThe Clan will be introduced by Dr Daniela Mardones-Bravo\, Lecturer in Criminology at Manchester Metropolitan University. Daniela will be joined for the post-screening Q&A by Dr Gavin Bailey. \n\n\n\nThis event is hosted and supported by Instituto Cervantes Manchester. \n\n\n\nContent warning: contains strong violence \n\n\n\nBooking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-clan-15-crime-and-justice-film-festival-2025-tickets-1280724524529?aff=oddtdtcreator \n\n\n\n—————————————————————————– \n\n\n\nFriday 27th June\, 5:30pm \n\n\n\nLe Havre (PG) \n\n\n\nDirector: Aki Kaurismaki\, 2011\, 90 minutes\, French with English Subtitles \n\n\n\nPlayful yet tender\, the film recounts the story of Marcel\, a down-at-heel husband with an ad hoc shoeshine business and an ailing wife. Marcel risks all to rally his friends and neighbours to unite and help to protect a young African immigrant struggling to find his mother. \n\n\n\nWith refugee and asylum seeker charity Manchester City of Sanctuary. \n\n\n\nBooking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/le-havre-pg-crime-and-justice-film-festival-2025-tickets-1280776359569?aff=oddtdtcreator \n\n\n\n—————————————————————————–
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/the-manchester-international-crime-and-justice-film-festival-2025/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East Building\, Manchester Metropolitan University\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG
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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
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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
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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/
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SUMMARY:Our Digital Afterlives at ESRC Festival of Social Science
DESCRIPTION:Free Event as part of ESRC Festival of Social Science \n\n\n\n is an immersive performance and research project about technology\, memory and mourning\, which asks what’s good and what’s not-so-good about the ways that technology is changing our ritual lives. This project has involved collaboration with researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University who are working with Big Telly Theatre Company to understand more about what people think about the issues that Granny Jackson’s Dead raises e.g. how 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?. \n\n\n\nResponding to the festival theme ‘Our Digital Lives’\, this event will allow us to showcase our research so far into ‘Our Digital Afterlives’. We will show video and photos from the immersive performance\, as well as an excerpt from the show and a Q&A with the creative team. You will also be invited to experience some of the new technology used in the show and contribute to our ongoing survey about ‘grief tech’. The project is supported by the Centre for Cultural Value as part of its Collaborate Scheme and will tour the UK in 2024/25. \n\n\n\nThis project involves Big Telly Theatre Company in Northern Ireland working in collaboration with colleagues from the Department of Art and Performance and the School of Digital Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. This event is led by the Performance Research Group based at Manchester School of Art. The Performance Research Group nourishes world-leading\, industry-focused and interdisciplinary work in the field of performance. They build practices\, structures and projects that bring performance artists and researchers into productive dialogue with each other.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/our-digital-afterlives-at-esrc-festival-of-social-science/
LOCATION:HOME Manchester\, 2 Tony Wilson Place\, Manchester\, M15 4FN
CATEGORIES:Festival,Talks
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Design for Dementia\, Mental Health and Wellbeing
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nIntroduction by the editors: The editors\, Professor Kristina Niedderer\, UK\, Professor Geke Ludden\, Netherlands\, Professor Tom Dening\, UK\, and Professor Vjera Holthoff\, Germany\, will provide an overview of the focus\, aims and context of the book. \n\n\n\nAuthor contributions: A number of our international contributors will introduce their chapters and how they co-design interventions with people to improve various aspects of mental health and wellbeing. Contributors include: Rosa Almeida and Raquel Losada\, Spain; Leigh-Anne Hepburn\, Australia\, Elena Bellini\, Italy\, and others. \n\n\n\nPanel discussion\, including Q&A: Chaired by Dr Anna Bergqvist\, editors and contributors will explore some of the critical points around the role and recognition of design as well as design policy (and the lack thereof) in the health and care context to elicit current issues and future opportunities. \n\n\n\nThe book: \n\n\n\nThis edited volume offers the first overview of how design can contribute to people’s wellbeing and mental health in the context of dementia\, mental illness and neurodiversity. The book explores and promotes holistic\, wellbeing-focused and preventive strategies that recognise and respond to people’s needs\, wants\, wishes and rights to further health\, wellbeing and equality. Being experienced designers and clinicians\, the contributors to the book emphasise how design can be a collaborative\, creative process as well as an outcome of this process. Through its three parts\, the book explores themes of ethics\, citizenship and power relationships in co-design; of the culturally and value sensitive adaptation of design interventions and their applications; and of policy and related standards in and for design and mental health. In this way\, the book demonstrates how design can help to support people\, their care partners and care professionals in promoting mental health and wellbeing. It offers a rich overview and resource on how to create a sustainable future for care in this domain for designers\, researchers\, students\, policy providers and health and care professionals to help support the development and adoption of person-centred design processes and interventions. \n\n\n\nFind out more about our book: 10.4324/9781003318262 \n\n\n\nEditors: \n\n\n\n\nKristina Niedderer is Professor of Design at Manchester Metropolitan University\, UK.\n\n\n\nGeke Ludden is Professor of Interaction Design at the University of Twente\, the Netherlands.\n\n\n\nTom Dening is Professor of Dementia Research in the School of Medicine\, University of Nottingham\, UK.\n\n\n\nVjera Holthoff-Detto is Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus\, Technische Universität Dresden\, Germany.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/design-for-dementia-launch/
CATEGORIES:Event,Talks
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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:200 Years of Manchester Art Gallery
DESCRIPTION:200 Years of Manchester Art Gallery\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease 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. \n\n\n\n______ \n\n\n\nThis first event takes the origins of Manchester Art Gallery as its starting point\, looking at its multiple histories and putting them in conversation with the present. To initiate a conversation about the roles played by this civic art institution and how it relates to similar organisations in the North of England\, we will ask questions about who founded the gallery\, and how that impacted its development. We will also consider the gallery as a site of education (for example\, hosting life drawing classes)\, provoking wider questions about who had access to these events and how the gallery continues to be an educational institution today. Through asking these questions\, we hope to uncover some of the lesser-known voices and hidden histories that have been involved in the story of Manchester’s historic gallery\, drawing parallels with institutions in Manchester such as Castlefield Gallery and Manchester School of Art and further afield in particular Leeds Art Gallery. \n\n\n\nThe event will be chaired by Danielle Child (Manchester School of Art) and will take the form of three talks from Rebecca Wade (Special Collections and Galleries\, University of Leeds)\, Hannah Williamson (Fine Art Curator\, Manchester Art Gallery)\, and Thomas Dukes (Curator and Researcher) followed by Q&A. Peter Davis\, the archivist for Manchester Academy of Fine Arts (MAFA) established in 1858 will also be at the event offering attendees a chance to look through some of MAFA ‘s scrapbooks. \n\n\n\nLearn more and book tickets for the second 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\nhttps://ahead.mmu.ac.uk
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/200-years-of-manchester-art-gallery/
LOCATION:Manchester Art Gallery\, Moseley Street\, Manchester\, M2 3JL
CATEGORIES:AHEAD,Event,Talks
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