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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251114T090000
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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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:Centre for Place Writing Pop Up Day
DESCRIPTION:Agenda\n\n\n\n10:00Tea/Coffee10:30 – 11:00   Keynote by Helen Mort11:00 – 13:00Presentations by Louise Kenward\, Joe Schute\, Anita Slater\, Domenic Suntrapak13:00 – 14:00Lunch & Pop-Up Poetry Library Exhibit14:00 – 15:00Fieldnotes as Place Writing WorkshopDavid Cooper\, Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal\, Kate Pahl\, Helen Mort15:00Group Discussion and Conclusion & Tea/Coffee\n\n\n\n\nFree – Booking Recommended
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/centre-for-place-writing-pop-up-day/
LOCATION:School of Digital Arts (SODA)\, 14 Higher Chatham St\,\, Manchester\, M15 6ED
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250910T090000
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SUMMARY:LUDeC Showcase: Collaborative Research in the Liveable City
DESCRIPTION:The Leverhulme Unit for the Design of Cities of the Future (LUDeC) encompasses 15 interdisciplinary researchers working to transform the way we think about cities.  \n\n\n\nThis two-day conference showcases some of their innovative research traversing disciplinary boundaries to creatively envisage new ways of living and working. \n\n\n\nImage Credit: Erika Conchis \n\n\n\n\nBook Tickets for Day 1 – Wed 10 September Here\n\n\n\nBook Tickets for Day 2  – Thu 11 September Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDAY 1: Wednesday 10th September  2025  \n\n\n\ntime panel / activity 09.00Arrival\, networking coffee 09.30  Welcome & introduction 09.45  – 11.00 Playful Cities and Urban ImprovisationReimagining the city through creativity\, play\, and improvisation to resist homogenisation and encourage spontaneity. Chair: Suzie Cloves Panel participants: Katie Chatburn\, Anita Slater\, Domenic Suntrapak\, Niamh Cusack   11.00Break 11.30  – 12.30 Replaying the city: interactive soundscapesA talk and installation from Katie Chatburn and Suzie Cloves featuring sounds combining their work with LUDeC researchers Joe Shute and Charlie White12.30  –14.00 Lunch 14.00  –15.15 Transdisciplinary and Creative Urban Methods  Pushing the boundaries of disciplinary knowledge and embracing creative methods in collaborative urban research. Chair: Domenic Suntrapak Panel participants: Charlie White\, Suzie Cloves\, Erika Conchis\, Polina Chizhova Wright15.15 Break15.45  – 17.00Creative Workshop HotlinePolina Chizhova Wright and Erika Conchis Location: Room 1.07/main conference space17.00Reflection17.25  – 19.00Drinks Reception\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDAY 2: Thursday 11th September  2025  \n\n\n\ntime panel / activity 09.00Arrival\, networking coffee 09.30Welcome & introduction 09.45  – 11.00 Community Co-Creation\, Difference and the Politics of Change  Chair: Erika Conchis  Panel participants: Katie Chatburn\, Suzie Cloves\, Joe Shute\, Emma Jackson\, Domenic Suntrapak   11.00Break 11.30  – 12.30 Wander\, Wonder\, Workshop   A creative writing workshop led by Anita Slater\, Joe Shute and Domenic Suntrapak  Location: All Saints Square 12.30  –14.00 Lunch 14.00  –15.00   Reimagining the traditional PhD\, implications of interdisciplinary research for supervision teams  Chair: Anita Slater  Panel participants: David Cooper\, Susan O’Shea\, James Cheng\, Ben Bowman   15.00  – 15.30 Closing comments \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nBook Tickets for Day 1 Wed 10 September Here\n\n\n\nBook Tickets for Day 2 Thu 11 September Here
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/ludec-showcase-collaborative-research-in-the-liveable-city/
LOCATION:School of Digital Arts (SODA)\, 14 Higher Chatham St\,\, Manchester\, M15 6ED
CATEGORIES:Conference,Event
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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/
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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
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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:20250507T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250627T170000
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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
CATEGORIES:Event,Festival,Talks
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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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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: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:ESRC Festival of Social Science : Inclusive Digital Access: Learning from Lived Experiences
DESCRIPTION:Inclusive Digital Access: Learning from Lived Experiences\n\n\n\nWhat’s on offer? \n\n\n\nManchester is on a mission to establish itself as a global digital leader by 2026. As a globally recognised digital city\, leading researchers in Digital Inequalities from Manchester Metropolitan University\, in collaboration with experts with learning disabilities\, have joined forces to demonstrate how digital strategies across the UK can be co-produced and include the perspectives of people with learning disabilities. \n\n\n\nThis co-produced interactive session will allow attendees to think critically about the importance of inclusive design and policymaking for digital cities. \n\n\n\nWe will hold space to co-develop solutions to achieve the vision of a digitally inclusive and equitable future for all. \n\n\n\nWhat’s it about? \n\n\n\nPublic sector organisations nationwide are looking at how they can ensure the voices of people and communities are at the centre of their work. This event will share best practice research and provide practical examples. \n\n\n\nThese examples will help inform\, empower\, and enable policymakers nationwide who lead digital strategies to ensure the voice of people with learning disabilities is at the centre of their work. \n\n\n\nWho’s leading the event? \n\n\n\nCharlotte Hardacre – Manchester Metropolitan University \n\n\n\nStephen Blake – Manchester People First \n\n\n\nJodie Bradley – Speakup Self Advocacy \n\n\n\nSue Caton – Manchester Metropolitan University \n\n\n\nSally Ferguson-Wormley – Speakup Self Advocacy/Manchester Metropolitan University \n\n\n\nOf particular interest to \n\n\n\nDigital policymakers and strategists \n\n\n\nPublic sector leaders and decision-makers \n\n\n\nDigital designers and design students \n\n\n\nResearchers in digital inequalities and inclusive design \n\n\n\nAdvocates for people with learning disabilities \n\n\n\nCommunity organisers and social workers \n\n\n\nTechnology and UX design professionals
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/inclusive-digital-access-event/
LOCATION:HOME Manchester\, 2 Tony Wilson Place\, Manchester\, M15 4FN
CATEGORIES:Conference,Event
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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: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:MeCCSA 2024 Conference
DESCRIPTION:Location: Manchester Metropolitan University Business School\n\n\n\nEvent Type: In-person\n\n\n\nJoin us at the MeCCSA Conference 2024\, a key gathering for media\, communication and cultural studies scholars and practitioners. MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media\, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education.  \n\n\n\nThis event brings together experts from various fields to discuss and explore cutting-edge research\, developments and insights in the realm of media and communication. \n\n\n\nConference Highlights\n\n\n\n\nKeynote Speakers – Engage with influential figures who are shaping the future of digital arts and media.\n\n\n\nPanel Discussions – Participate in thought-provoking discussions on contemporary issues and trends.\n\n\n\nPaper Presentations – Discover ground-breaking research and projects in the field.\n\n\n\nWorkshops – Gain hands-on experience with the latest digital tools and technologies.\n\n\n\nNetworking Opportunities – Connect with fellow scholars\, artists\, and industry professionals.\n\n\n\n\nKeynotes\n\n\n\nConfronting Catastrophe: Digitalised Capitalism and the Battle for a Common Future hosted by Graham Murdock \n\n\n\nGraham Murdock is Emeritus Professor of Culture and Economy at Loughborough University .He has published widely in the sociology and political economy of culture and communications. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Auckland\, California at San Diego\, Mexico City\, Curtin\, Bergen\, the Free University of Brussels\, and Stockholm and is currently Guest Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. His work has been translated into 21 languages. Recent books include; as co-editor\, Money Talks: Media\, Markets\, Crisis (2015)\, New Media and Metropolitan Life: Connecting\, Consuming\, Creating (in Chinese) (2015) and Carbon Capitalism and Communication: Confronting Climate Change (2017) His latest book News Corp : Empire of Influence \,is published by Routledge in August this year. \n\n\n\nSpeaking on the keynote\, Graham Murdock said: In classical Greek theatre catastrophes occurred when underlying tensions and contradictions came to a head in the final act. We are currently confronting a catastrophe produced by three converging crises: a rapidly worsening climate and environmental emergency; the economic\, social and moral havoc inflicted by market fundamentalist policies; and the destruction of deliberative politics\, opening the way for reactionary populism and authoritarianism. \n\n\n\nThese crisis have deep roots in the organisation of capitalism but their intensification since the 1990s coincides in the West with the corporate capture of digital communication technologies \, the unprecedented concentration of private ownership and control over their development \, and the increasing reorganisation of production\, administration\, consumption\, and sociality around their capacities. \n\n\n\nThe paper has two main aims. Firstly\, taking the climate emergency as a particular focus I want to detail how digitalised capitalism is contributing to the current catastrophe with increasing calls on energy and scarce resources\, installing the aggressive promotion of unsustainable levels of hyper consumption as the basis of the dominant platforms’ business models\, hollowing out public space \, and attenuating solidarities respectful of difference. Secondly\, I want to ask if we have now reached the point no return or if it still possible to construct a public culture hospitable to diversity and principled disagreement\, securely rooted in a recognition of shared fate and commitment to social justice\, and underpinned by an ethos and care and custodianship of the natural world. \n\n\n\nKeynote 1: Feminist Futurism: transcending technocratic mediocrity hosted by Sarah Atkinson \n\n\n\nSarah Atkinson is Professor of Screen Media at King’s College London\, Editor of Routledge Resources Online: Screen Studies\, and co-editor of Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. Sarah has published widely on the film\, cinema\, screen\, and immersive technology industries. She is currently an Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Fellow and curator of GLOW: Illuminating Innovation\, a new exhibition which showcases ground-breaking creativity by women in technology at various locations on Strand Aldwych\, London. The exhibition stems from her forthcoming book with Vicki Callahan: Mixed Realities: Gender & Emergent Media (Wayne State University Press\, 2025). \n\n\n\nThe creative technology industry faces a deepening crisis\, where progress has been hindered by economic conditions and systemic exclusion of women and marginalised groups\, with women remaining significantly underrepresented. The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2023 reveals that women comprise a mere 29.2% of all STEM workers. \n\n\n\nThis talk presents outcomes from research into the experiences of women\, non-binary\, and trans individuals in creative production using emerging digital technologies. These include the ground-breaking exhibition “GLOW: ILLUMINATING INNOVATION” which showcased the transformative artistic contributions of women spanning five decades. These creative trailblazers propelled technological advancements into the mainstream\, despite inequities and funding disparities that previously led to the neglect and oversight of their significant innovations. \n\n\n\nTo transcend the current crisis of technocratic mediocrity – characterised by the unexceptional and socially unaware systems that perpetuate inequity\, and which yet again threatens to undermine and obscure those at the heart of genuine creative innovation – this talk proposes a Feminist Futurism. \n\n\n\nFeminist Futurism is shaped by creative risk-taking and artistic experimentation\, breaking free from the caution and stagnation that characterize the present state of technological development. It is an urgent call to transcend the limitations of existing technology-driven systems and to create a future that is equitable\, innovative\, and socially conscious. \n\n\n\nKeynote 2: Nu-Metal\, Old Politics: The Soundtracks and Stylings of a Subculture in Crisis hosted by Francesca Sobande  \n\n\n\nSubcultures have been identified as spaces and scenes that emerge in response and resistance to societal conditions and crises. Often associated with ideas of “alternativeness” and “underground” activity\, subcultures have been positioned as challenging a status quo. In other words\, subcultures have been framed as a crisis in themselves. Still\, as extensive media and cultural studies research has highlighted\, subcultures can and do become “mainstream”. What’s old is new again. Focusing on analysis of recent iterations and imaginings of nu-metal across media\, music\, and fashion\, this talk will consider key components of the soundtracks and stylings of a subculture in crisis. Addressing the racial\, gender\, (inter)national\, and class politics of a scene known for blending the grammars and aesthetics of rap with metal\, this session will tackle the old politics and contemporary mediation of nu-metal\, while foregrounding the distinct role of Black cool\, creativity\, and culture in this. \n\n\n\nDigital Inclusion Roundtable\n\n\n\nDigitisation is a key feature of contemporary urban development\, yet many citizens still lack the devices\, connectivity and skills to enjoy the benefits that being digitally included can offer – financial\, but also social and cultural. According to the Good Things Foundation\, 6.9 million people in the UK are digitally excluded and therefore unable to access services that are increasingly moving online – from booking a GP appointment to paying for parking. This is a problem that was brought to light in the Covid 19 pandemic and that continues to persist in the post-pandemic era of economic perma-crisis. At a time when some people need to make a choice between bread and data\, how can digital cities become fully inclusive? How can we stop the digital divide from widening the inequality gap? And how can we measure the impact of any interventions? This roundtable discussion will examine the roles of educators\, policy makers\, non-profit organisations and technology companies in closing the digital gap\, with a focus on examples of good practice and their impact. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\nDr Evie Lucas\, Manchester Metropolitan University \n\n\n\nProf Simeon Yates\, University of Liverpool\n\n\n\nDave Carter\, University of Manchester\n\n\n\nZoe Gould\, Manchester Digital Studio Director at Deloitte Digital\n\n\n\nHelen Milner OBE\, Good Things Foundation\n\n\n\nBeena Puri\, Greater Manchester Combined Authority \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to Attend\n\n\n\nTo attend the MECCSA Conference\, please click to book your ticket below. The event will be open to both members and non-members\, with members receiving a discount. \n\n\n\nEarly Bird Rate – 3 Day MeCCSA Member£315.00Early Bird Rate – 3 Day MeCCSA  Non Member£425.00Early Bird Rate – 3 Day MeCCSA Student / Unwaged£150.001 Day MeCCSA Member£150.001 Day MeCCSA Non Member£225.001 Day MeCCSA Student / Unwaged£50.00Standard – 3 Day MeCCSA Member – After 17 June£375.00Standard – 3 Day MeCCSA Non Member – After 17 June£450.00Standard – 3 Day Student / Unwaged – After 17 June£200.00\n\n\n\nIf you would like to attend the MeCCSA conference dinner\, please click here to buy a ticket. \n\n\n\nNeed accommodation? We have a brilliant package deal at Archway Halls. To find out more\, please click here. \n\n\n\nFor any queries\, please contact the organising committee: MeCCSA2024@mmu.ac.uk
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/meccsa-2024-conference/
LOCATION:Manchester Metropolitan University Business School\, Lyceum Place\, Manchester\, M15 6BY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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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:STORYTELLERS + MACHINES CONFERENCE 2024
DESCRIPTION:CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE: AGENCY\, INTERACTION AND INFLUENCE IN GENERATIVE AI STORYTELLING AND ART\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStorytellers + Machines 2024 is a two-day transdisciplinary conference on creative AI at the School of Digital Arts (SODA)\, championing the contributions of artists\, creative practitioners and technologists\, alongside other voices from academia\, industry and cultural sectors in the lively and contested creative AI space.  \n\n\n\nFollowing a peer-reviewed selection process for all open call proposals\, we’ll host talks\, panel discussions\, artist presentations and performances from over 70 speakers. These will include academics from 20 universities\, alongside independent researchers\, filmmakers\, musicians\, artists and creative industry professionals from the UK and around the world – speaking \, debating\, exhibiting and performing. \n\n\n\nWe’ll also present a pop-up exhibition of AI creative works alongside the conference and a night of AI-related performances at Manchester venue The Deaf Institute. These events will celebrate the important contribution the practitioner community make to creative AI research\, testing and also challenging our ideas of what is possible with these new technologies.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConference Themes:\n\n\n\nTheme 1: Agency \n\n\n\nAI generative systems are possibly the first tools depicted as having their own creative agency. Yet\, the philosophical distinctions between creators and their tools\, audiences and their media are often blurred. What kind of agency do audiences\, authors and developers have when using generative and AI tools? Should we think in terms of control at all in these relationships and instead consider notions of collaboration\, borderless synthesis of human and machine or something else?   \n\n\n\nTheme 2: Interaction \n\n\n\nNew forms of interaction and immersion for audiences are being invented through generative and AI controlled narratives\, artworks and experiences. What are the emerging creative systems\, aesthetics and relationships between audience and producers of these forms?   \n\n\n\nTheme 3: Influence \n\n\n\nThe influence that algorithmic systems exert on society\, communities and identities\, for example through algorithmic bias and corporate ownership\, is increasingly well understood and documented in the media\, academia and the software industry. What are the socio-cultural and economic implications of such these influences on artistic and creative media producers and their audiences? And are there emerging strategies and tools that can be used to avoid\, mitigate or otherwise challenge types of harmful influence and bias\, particularly as they pertain to our narratives and media? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\nTuesday 2 July \n\n\n\n\n5:00pm – Opening Event – networking and viewing.\n\n\n\n\nWednesday 3 July \n\n\n\n\n9:30am – Conference begins – keynotes and panel discussions.\n\n\n\nLate evening – Conference ends at The Deaf Institute nearby with an AI performance event.\n\n\n\n\nThursday 4 July \n\n\n\n\n9:30am – Conference begins – keynotes and panel discussions.\n\n\n\n5pm – Conference ends\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\nEarly Bird Rate – Academic and Industry (before 15 May 2024)£169.00Standard Rate – Academic & Industry Full Rate (2 days)£199.00SME discounted Rate£99.00Independent Artist discounted rate£49.00Subsidised – Postgraduate (core conference only)£49.00Subsidised – Unwaged£25.00\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet in touch\n\n\n\nIf you have any questions related to the conference\, please contact the team at aistorytellers@mmu.ac.uk
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/storytellers-machines-conference-2024/
LOCATION:School of Digital Arts (SODA)\, 14 Higher Chatham St\,\, Manchester\, M15 6ED
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Manchester School of Art Degree Show
DESCRIPTION:15-22 June 2024\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Degree show celebrates the achievements of this year’s final-year students with a showcase of work from across Art\, Design\, Fashion\, Digital Arts\, Performance and Architecture. \n\n\n\nThe Private View will take place on Friday 14 June\, from 5.30pm. \n\n\n\nOpen to the public from Saturday 15 June until Saturday 22 June. \n\n\n\nOpening TimesSaturday/Sunday 10am–4pmMonday–Friday 10am–6pm \n\n\n\nThe Show will take place across Benzie\, Chatham\, Grosvenor\, Righton and SODA buildings on the Manchester Metropolitan University All Saints Campus. Click our Visiting Us page for directions. \n\n\n\nJoin our mailing list to keep up to date with latest creative and culture events.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/manchester-school-of-art-degree-show/
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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:Writing\, Place and the Creative City
DESCRIPTION:This inaugural lecture presents insights and case studies from a career-long preoccupation with the relationship between writing and place\, beginning with early colonial America\, and arriving most recently at a Manchester hospital community in the 75th anniversary year of the NHS. A common thread in this work is an insistence that writing never reflects or captures a ‘sense of place’; it generates one. Place is always polyvocal\, always experienced and spoken of in a multitude of ways\, and place writing\, even when supposedly ‘critical’\, creates place by choosing which past and present voices to amplify\, which experiences to represent. The lecture will consider the implications of this argument for the literary heritage of Manchester -what we think we know\, what we might discover\, and what we might create- and for the UNESCO City of Literature partnership’s vision of a city where ‘where reading and writing help build a fairer society’. \n\n\n\nJess Edwards is Professor of Place Writing and Head of the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University. A founding member of the Department’s Centre for Place Writing\, his research has dealt consistently over two decades with the relationship between writing and place in a range of contexts and historical periods. His most recent work has focused on the contemporary uses of literature and creative writing to reinforce or challenge established ideas of place-based identity in contexts from rural landscapes to hyperdiverse cities. \n\n\n\nJohn McCauliffe Professor of Poetry at the University of Manchester and Associate Publisher at Carcanet. He directs the University of Manchester’s Creative Manchester research platform\, which convenes and develops interdisciplinary research and civic partnerships in the areas of creative industries\, creative health and civic futures. His books include versions of Bosnian poet Igor Klikovac\, Stockholm Syndrome (Smith Doorstop\, 2018)\, The Kabul Olympics (Gallery\, 2020) and Selected Poems (Gallery 2021; Wake Forest 2022). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooking Link for Writing\, Place and the Creative City
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/writing-place-and-the-creative-city/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East Building\, Manchester Metropolitan University\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG
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SUMMARY:Intangible Sounds : DARK MASS
DESCRIPTION:Following a series of talks and workshops at SODA the school of Digital Arts we welcome you to join us 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’. Bringing together field recordings\, manipulated sounds and electronic interpretations of Pankhurst’s famous first independent speech \n\n\n\nIntangible Sounds : Manchester Histories \n\n\n\nResearchers 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 nighttime music and performance event. Both 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\nThis event is supported by AHEAD – Arts & Humanities Engagement and Dialogue\, Manchester Met’s Engagement Programme for making a positive impact through research \n\n\n\nahead.mmu.ac.uk/ \n\n\n\nFor further information on the Manchester Histories Festival 2024. Please visit www.manchesterstoriesfesival.co.uk \n\n\n\nOr follow on socials: \n\n\n\nfacebook.com/manchesterhistories \n\n\n\ninstagram.com/manchesterhistories \n\n\n\ntwitter.com/mcrhistfest \n\n\n\n#MHF2024
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/dark-mass/
LOCATION:HOME Manchester\, 2 Tony Wilson Place\, Manchester\, M15 4FN
CATEGORIES:Event,Festival
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