Tag ARTS & HUMANITIES

Bunker Talks 2025

Curated by the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art, Bunker Talks create space for critical encounters, presentations, and dialogue, interviewing industry guests about practice & research.

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science October-November 2024

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science is a nationwide event celebrating social science research.
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science is a nationwide event celebrating social science research.

A series of fascinating public events are hosted each autumn by our researchers, offering an insight into some of the country’s leading social science research.

19th Century Now!

Part of Manchester Metropolitan University’s 200th celebrations, this 2-day event highlights the continuing relevance of the 19th century today. 

AHEAD In Conversation: Arts and humanities responding to the polycrisis

AHEAD 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.

Karen Barbour, ‘Where the Fruits of the Trees Are Jewels’

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.

Karen Barbour, ‘Where the Fruits of the Trees Are Jewels’

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.

19th Century Now!

This event celebrates Man Met’s 19th Century roots in art and design education, and the transformative impact 19th Century ideas.