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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240806T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240806T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240731T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240731T180000
DTSTAMP:20240724T162922Z
CREATED:20240717T095951Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240730T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240730T180000
DTSTAMP:20240725T130031Z
CREATED:20240715T154532Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240709T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240709T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240702T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240704T173000
DTSTAMP:20250324T153652Z
CREATED:20240619T102656Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240615T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240622T160000
DTSTAMP:20240423T100643Z
CREATED:20240423T100342Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240613T073000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240613T080000
DTSTAMP:20240529T111434Z
CREATED:20240529T111223Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240611T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240611T183000
DTSTAMP:20240415T115418Z
CREATED:20240415T115322Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240608T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240608T223000
DTSTAMP:20240523T150032Z
CREATED:20240503T100915Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240608T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240608T223000
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SUMMARY:Intangible Sounds
DESCRIPTION:A day of workshops talks and performances from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Met present a day of public talks and workshops on music and sound heritages\, followed by a night-time music and performance event. \n\n\n\nBoth the daytime activities and the evening gig will explore how music\, sound and sonic experiences constantly interweave with both time and place: creating emotions\, evoking memories and bonding us into many different kinds of community. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n10:0011:30Session One: Alternative Voices  – Round Table Discussion 11:4513:15Session Two: 40 Years of the Manchester Studies Oral History Collection14:0015:00Session Three: Paranormal Manchester15:4517:15Session Four: Intangible Heritage in Place19:0022:30Evening Event: 7.00pm DⱯRK MASS\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis event is part of  Manchester Histories Festival and will coincide with MMU’s 200 Years celebrations. It focuses on music and sound heritages.  \n\n\n\nThe event brings together several research groups  Contemporary Intimacies\, Genders and Sexualities\, MASS\, Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage \, DⱯRK)  and represents several departments from around the Faculty\, and beyond.  \n\n\n\nIt invites multiple speakers from academia; public and community history; arts and culture practice; lived experience to join in the conversation. \n\n\n\n10.00am – 11.30am – Session One: Alternative Voices (Round Table Discussion) \n\n\n\nPresented by the Contemporary Intimacies\, Genders and Sexualities (CIGS) Research Group: \n\n\n\nHosted by Karen Gabay (broadcaster\, TV producer\, podcast host & producer\, film maker) \n\n\n\nSpeakers : Prof Kirsty Fairclough • Dr Katie Milestone • Dr Susan O’Shea • Dr Kirsty Fife • Maria Ruban and John Lloyd \n\n\n\nTopics discussed will include\, \n\n\n\n\nIntersectional approaches to telling the underrepresented stories of minority gender and women’s contributions to Manchester music and their global impact\,\n\n\n\nGender and Northern Soul\,\n\n\n\nPopular music and DIY archives.\n\n\n\nOverlaps between music\, film and fashion.\n\n\n\n\n11.45am – 1.15pm – Session Two: 40 Years of the Manchester Studies Oral History Collection \n\n\n\nPresented by Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage (MCPHH) \n\n\n\nA panel with the collections founder\, curator and users from Manchester Sound Archive and a phd Student –  with interludes of recorded sound \n\n\n\nSpeakers : Prof Melanie Tebbutt • Rob Hillman\, Tameside Archivist •Dave Govier •Suzie Cloves\, PhD Student \n\n\n\nManchester Studies was initiated by Bill Williams\, the renowned historian of Jewish Manchester\, and developed by a team of other talented individuals. Between the 1970s and 80s hundreds of interviews with working class people were undertaken\, many of them born in the late nineteenth century\, detailing their lives and their experiences working in Manchester’s now lost industries. This remarkable piece of research would develop into what is now known as the Manchester Studies Oral History Collection. This panel brings together those who worked on the creation of the archive\, have used it\, and who now care for it\, in order to stimulate new conversations and research directions around this remarkable resource. We will also be providing a workshop by current oral history practitioners on best practice in oral history research. \n\n\n\n2.00pm – 3.00pm – Session Three: Paranormal Manchester : \n\n\n\nPresented by DⱯRK Research Group \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\n• Ian Waring (Flecky Bennett ghost tour guide) \n\n\n\n•Mark P Henderson (Professional storyteller and folklore expert) \n\n\n\n• Dr. Morag Rose (Psychogeographer and expert on strange Manchester) \n\n\n\n• Emily Oldfield (Poet and writer) \n\n\n\n•Hannah Singleton (Lecturer in the Department of Art and Performance) \n\n\n\nGhosts\, earth mysteries\, UFOs\, cryptids\, occult energies\, and their kin are\, by definition\, intangible – absent presences that cannot always be fully known\, touched\, and rationally explained. Evidence\, where it exists\, is often elusive and indefinable\, and always contested.  Manchester’s strange heritage encompasses many strands of the paranormal from hauntings to occult practitioners\, hairy cryptids to canal monsters. This session seeks to explore these phenomena and allow members of the public to experience this hidden and strange side to Manchester. \n\n\n\n3.45pm – 5.15pm – Session Four: Intangible Heritage in Place \n\n\n\nPresented by the Dr Johnathan Djabarouti of the Heritage Impact Network (HIN) \n\n\n\n\nBernadette Bone\, Conservation Architect and Tutor at the Manchester School of Architecture\, Owner BB Heritage Studio\n\n\n\nJenna Johnston\, Senior Heritage Consultant\, Buttress\n\n\n\nKatie Wray\, Director\, Deloitte\n\n\n\n\nThe Manchester School of Architecture’s Dr Johnathan Djabarouti will host a ‘Long Table’ panel of invited industry guests and members of the newly created Heritage Impact Network (HIN)\, with encouragement for public participation from the audience. \n\n\n\nThe newly formed ‘Heritage Impact Network’ at Manchester Met brings together contemporary heritage researchers who have a specific interest in understanding ephemeral\, intangible\, social\, and non-physical manifestations of heritage and culture. At this Long Table event the network’s interests will respond to the UK’s recent ratification of the UNESCO (2003) Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage\, by shifting their attention to historic places. How do immaterial manifestations of culture – such as cultural practices\, storytelling\, memories\, rituals\, and events – relate to physical heritage buildings\, sites\, and places? Experienced industry heritage practitioners from various disciplinary perspectives and heritage remits will join network members\, along with empty chairs at the table for audience participation in the conversation. \n\n\n\n7.00pm – 10.30 pm Evening Event DⱯRK MASS –  \n\n\n\nAt HOME\, Events Space\,  2 Tony Wilson Pl\, Manchester M15 4FN – Separate Booking page \n\n\n\nFollowing the day sessions at MMU\, please join us in the events space at HOME for an evening of performance linked to our themes. \n\n\n\nPresented by the DⱯRK Research Group and the Music and Sonic Studies Research group (MASS) at Manchester Metropolitan University \n\n\n\nThis evening performance will showcase the soundscapes and research-influenced music being created by PhD students and staff. \n\n\n\nFeaturing: \n\n\n\nKatie Chatburn: ‘The Shape of Sounds’. Using data from her research around how people draw and perceive sound bringing graphic scores to life through a semi-improvised piece with synths and amplified strings. \n\n\n\nMarkus Hetheier: In his soundscape performance\, Markus Hetheier will investigate queer sonic geographies of Manchester. \n\n\n\nChris Gladwin: ‘Runic Acid (V.2)’ A conjunction of the city’s musical past and Pennines occult heritage from witchcraft to chaos magic. \n\n\n\nSusan O’Shea & Julian Holloway  ‘Monstrous Women: Sounding Space at Boggart Hole Clough’.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/intangible-sounds-manchester-histories-festival/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East Building\, Manchester Metropolitan University\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG
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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
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SUMMARY:Bunker Talks : Talk #134: Chris Thorpe In Conversation with Prof. Simon Stephens
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 7 May 2024\, 5.30pmSalutation Pub (upstairs)  \n\n\n\nChris Thorpe is an Associate Artist at the Royal Exchange\, Manchester – work for them includes There Has Possibly Been An Incident and The Mysteries. Chris’s performance work tours internationally\, and is also regularly produced for stage and radio throughout Europe and in the US. \n\n\n\nBunker talks are interviews with amazing performers and researchers hosted by the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art\, Bunker Talks explore geopolitical\, ecological or economic concerns and invite artists and researchers to talk about who they are and what they do. The talks create space for critical encounters\, presentations\, provocation and dialogue. \n\n\n\nA recording of this talk will be available from 7 June. \n\n\n\nFind all previous talks here: www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/bunker-talks-chris-thorpe/
LOCATION:The Salutation Pub\, 12 Higher Chatham St\, Manchester\, M15 6ED
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:Symposium - Cultural Action and The Performing Arts: Equitable Models of Economic Growth
DESCRIPTION:Exploring theatre\, dance and performance as a means of effecting social change and promoting more equitable avenues for economic growth
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/symposium-cultural-action-and-the-performing-arts-equitable-models-of-economic-growth/
LOCATION:Brooks Building\, Manchester Metropolitan University\, 53 Bonsall Street\, Manchester\, M15 6GX\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Art\, Labour\, Text and Radical Care
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 4pm on 8th March to celebrate the launch of the new book Art\, Labour Text and Radical Care by Dr Adam Walker\, published by Routledge. \n\n\n\nThrough developing an ethical-methodological approach of ‘radical care’\, Art\, Labour Text and Radical Care explores how critical artistic practice might contribute to the materialisation of more equal\, more collectively fulfilling\, possibilities of being. The chapters trace a set of interweaving lineages perpetuating inequalities: through labour\, the body\, and onto-epistemology. Art’s all too frequent a-criticality\, cooption\, or even complicity amidst these lineages is observed\, and radical care and the disruptive arttext are developed as twin aspects of an alternative\, resistant framework. \n\n\n\nAlongside a presentation by Adam sharing some of the book’s core arguments\, Dr Danielle Child and Drs Pil and Galia Kollectiv will share some of their research\, after which there will be a panel discussion focussed on art’s present position and alternative possibilities within structures of labour. \n\n\n\nThe presentations and discussion will be followed by drinks and light refreshments. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis Event Is Free
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/book-launch-art-labour-text-and-radical-care-2/
LOCATION:Manchester Metropolitan University\, Geoffrey Manton Building\, Oxford Road\, Manchester\, M15 6EB
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