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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: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: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
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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: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
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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/
LOCATION:Greater Manchester
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