Tag Championing Creative Excellence

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.

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.

Our Digital Afterlives at ESRC Festival of Social Science

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?.

ESRC Festival of Social Science : Inclusive Digital Access: Learning from Lived Experiences

Manchester 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.