Past events
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‘Solstice and Equinox’ Series with Jeanette Winterson CBE
18:00 - 19:30 5 December 2024
Award-winning writer, acclaimed author and Professor of New Writing at The University of Manchester, Jeanette Winterson returns to the John Rylands Research Institute and Library this Christmas. For years, she has written a new story at Christmas time and twelve of these brilliantly imaginative, funny,...
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Teenage Kicks Zine Making Workshop
15:00 - 16:00 4 December 2024
Join us for a zine-making workshop reflecting on experiences of teenage life and young adulthood. This hands-on workshop will allow you to explore your experiences of the highs and lows of teenage life through your own zine. The workshop will respond to the Teenage Kicks - Andrea’s Story Exhibition...
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Research Cafe: Sketching and Illustration as Research Tools
16:00 - 18:00 4 December 2024
Can sketching, graphics and illustration help us to think about research in new ways? How might they transform the ways we think about research data and outputs? Join us for a discussion on sketching, illustration and graphics as tools in academic research. We will invite a panel of artists and researchers...
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A celebration of James Baldwin with David Olusoga and Douglas Field
18:30 - 20:00 27 November 2024
Join us for a very special event celebrating the launch of a new book, Walking in the dark: James Baldwin, my father, and me, and the James Baldwin centenary. Academic and author Douglas Field will be in conversation with British-Nigerian historian and writer David Olusoga. Since James Baldwin’s death...
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BEYOND Conference 2024: Creative Cities
25 - 27 November 2024
Creative Manchester will be a partner of this year's BEYOND 2024 conference, where we will showcase the innovative research taking place with partners from across the city and beyond, in digital and creative technologies. As part of this we will deliver a creative R&D Showcase on one of the conference's...
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Festival of Care
21 - 23 November 2024
Welcome to The Festival of Care, a celebration of different ways of practicing care. What happens when we consider care a craft or an artful practice? Over the three days of practical workshops and discussions, we will showcase different forms of care, each with different kinds of sensory and practical...
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Future Archive and the Biomolecular Humanities - DNA Storage systems and the future of information
12:30 - 14:00 15 November 2024
Join us for an informal networking lunch to discuss the future of data storage. Molecular storage solutions for our incipient data crisis are being developed in haphazard ways. Millions of bytes of information are currently being produced and storage is expensive, expanding, and highly...
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Exhibition - Teenage Kicks: Girls growing up in Britain 1956-1974 – Andrea’s Story
13 November - 20 December 2024
This exhibition shares the stories of eight girls, who were teenagers and young women between 1956 and 1974, a time of huge social, economic and cultural change in Britain, based on the research of Professor Penny Tinkler. We will be showing the story of one girl, Andrea, in the Samuel Alexander Glass...
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John McAuliffe in conversation with Lucy Burns
18:30 - 20:00 11 November 2024
Blackwell’s Bookshop is excited to host the Manchester launch of John McAuliffe’s sixth poetry collection, National Theatre. John will discuss his work in conversation with writer and lecturer Lucy Burns. Doors open at 6:30 pm, with the event starting at 6:45 pm. Tickets are available from £4. About...
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MLF 2024: Richard Powers
19:00 - 20:15 8 November 2024
Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Powers (The Overstory) makes a rare visit to the UK in support of his compelling new novel Playground. The tiny island of Makatea in French Polynesia unites four people: Evie, one of the first female divers, now in her 90s; Ina, an artist who creates large sculptures from...
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