April - June 2019 · Manchester Metropolitan University

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	Undoing Exhibition Date: Friday 22nd March - Sunday 26th May 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Rosamond Prize Concert Date: Monday 29th April 2019 Read more about this event
	Games and VR Date: Wednesday 1st May 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Interruptions: Rory Mullen and Karl Astbury Date: Thursday 2nd May 2019 FREE Read more about this event 'Lying doggo', Rory Mullen
	On the interplay of language, hospitality and social justice Date: Thursday 2nd - Friday 3rd May 2019 Read more about this event
	Manchester G.R.E.A.T. Family and Youth Crime Prevention Summit Date: Saturday 4th - Monday 6th May 2019 Read more about this event
	Beyond Babel Multilingual Film Festival Date: Tuesday 7th May - Tuesday 14th May 2019 FREE Read more about the full series of events
	Beyond Babel: Call Me By Your Name Date: Turesday 7th May 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Sonic Waves: Music and Sound Beyond Borders Date: Wednesday 8th May 2019 Read more about this event
	MASS Assembly Date: Wednesday 8th May 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Beyond Babel: Júlia Ist Date: Wednesday 8th May 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Mapping the Midlands: Place, Voice & Class / Lisa Blower & Natalie Burdett Date: Thursday 9th May 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service Insights ‘19 Date: Thursday 9th May - Thursday 30th May 2019 FREE Read more about the full series of events
	Manchester CRIME and JUSTICE Film Festival Date: Thursday 9th May - Thursday 30th May 2019 FREE Read more about the full series of events
	Manchester CRIME and JUSTICE Film Festival: Mona Lisa Date: Thursday 9th May 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Interruptions: Claire Hope Date: Friday 10th May 2019 FREE Read more about this event 'The state of being checked', Claire Hope
	Interruptions: Louise Adkins Date: Friday 10th May 2019 FREE Read more about this event Louise Adkins, Notes for a Performance - (Re) visioning a Smoky Meeting, 2018. Photo: photographer Jonathan Purcell
	Beyond Babel: Unity and Community and No Cow on the Ice Date: Monday 13th May 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Beyond Babel: La Fille de Keltoum Date: Tuesday 14th May 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Manchester Exclusive Film Screening Event: 'The Six Triple Eight' Date: Tuesday 14th May 2019 FREE Read more about this event
‌	Games and Philosophy Date: Wednesday 15th May 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Unbuilding Gender: Trans* Anarchitectures in and Beyond the Work of Gordon Matta Clark Date: Wednesday 15th May 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Manchester CRIME and JUSTICE Film Festival: The Purge Date: Thursday 16th May 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	The Longer Read with Alan Hollinghurst Date: Thursday 16th May 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	The Future of Democracy – Creating a Post-Consumerist Culture Date: Tuesday 21st May FREE Read more about this event Image by Jonathan McIntosh - Own work, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=354160
	Ruskin in Manchester 2019 Date: Summer 2019 Read more about this series of events
	Games and History Date: Wednesday 22nd May 2019 Read more about this event
	Manchester CRIME and JUSTICE Film Festival: The Harder They Come Date: Thursday 23rd May 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Manchester CRIME and JUSTICE Film Festival: Do The Right Thing Date: Thursday 30th May 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Re-Writing the North: Jean Sprackland and Jacob Polley Date: Thursday 30th May 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	*On the History of Being – After the Black Notebooks* Conference Date:** Friday 31st May - Sunday 2nd June 2019 Read more about this event
	John-Paul Burns - Pamphlet Launch Date: Tuesday 4th June 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Sex on Screen Date: Thursday 6th June 2019 £3 Read more about this event
	Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - Manchester Happened Date: Thursday 6th June 2019 £3 Read more about this event
	Funny Peculiar Date: Thursday 6th June 2019 £15 Read more about this event
‌	The Gothic 1980s: The Decade that Scared Us Date: Saturday 8th June 2019 £10 (£5 concessions) Read more about this event
	The Gothic 1980s: The Lost Boys Screening Date: Saturday 8th July 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Workshop with Giocherenda Date: Monday 10th June FREE Read more about this event
‌	Detecting Pessimism: Thomas Ligotti and The Weird in an Age of Post-Truth Date: Wednesday 12th June 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Detecting Pessimism: True Detective Monologues Screening Date: Wednesday 12th June 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	User Experience Design and intuitive interaction: Lifecare Furniture and Complex Devices for Older Users Date: Wednesday 12th June 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	The Rael/Real of Psychogeography: Urban walking as a method of ameliorating castration anxiety in Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Date: Thursday 13th June 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Pandora's Box screening and Panel Discussion Date: Saturday 15th June 2019 £9.50 Read more about this event
	A Band Of Brothers Screening: 'It Works' by Ben Cole Date: Thursday 20th June 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Iris Murdoch at 100 Date: Thursday 20th June 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Here versus There: Beyond Comparison in Queer and Sexuality Politics Date: Thursday 20th June 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Ruskin's Manchester: 'Devil's Darkness' to Beacon City Exhibition Date: Monday 24 June – Friday 23 August 2019 FREE Read more about this event
‌	Drugs: North West Date: Monday 24th June 2019 Read more about this event
	International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference Including Public and Practitioner Day on the Wednesday 26th June Date: Monday 24th June - Friday 28th June 2019 Read more about this event
	‘There’s No Bus Map for Dementia’ Comic Launch and Workshop Part of the International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference Public and Practitioner Day Date: Wednesday 26th June 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Laydeez do Comics Workshop: Your Life Stories as Comics Part of the International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference Public and Practitioner Day Date: Wednesday 26th June 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Paul Gravett Keynote: The ‘Outside’ World: Isolationism and Interconnectedness in Comics Cultures Part of the International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference Public and Practitioner Day Date: Wednesday 26th June 2019 £5 Read more about this event
‌	Laydeez Do Comics Manchester Pop-Up Part of the International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference Public and Practitioner Day Date: Wednesday 26th June 2019 FREE Read more about this event
‌	Collaboration, creativity and complexities: developing networks and practices of co-production with young people Date: Wednesday 26th June - Thursday 27th June 2019 Full delegate £250, subsidised and day rates available Read more about this event
	Rewriting the North: Manchester, Fiction & Rewriting the Past Date: Thursday 27th June 2019 FREE Read more about this event
‌	New Approaches to Transmedia and Language Pedagogy International Conference Date: Thursday 27th June - Friday 28th June 2019 Full delegate fee £150, subsidised rates available Read more about this event
	Absent Presences: Shifting the Core and Peripheries of the Gothic Mode Date: Thursday 27th – Friday 28th June 2019 Read more about this event
	Organising Queer Film Festivals and Screenings – A Workshop on the Practical Challenges in Organising Queer Film Events Date: Saturday 29th June 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Ruskin Reviews: Date: Wednesday 3rd July 2019 FREE Read more about this event Image: Autumn Leaves, JE Milais, (c) Manchester Art Gallery
	A Night of Treason with Special Guests Date: Thursday 4th July 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	The Ruskin Lectures Re-Enacted: The Discovery and Application of Art Date: Monday 8th July 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Twilight Walk and Gawk Sketchcrawl: Gothic to Art Deco Architecture Date: Wednesday 10th July 2019 £12.50 Read more about this event
‌	The John Ruskin Prize 2019: Agent of Change \| Private View & Prize Giving Date: Thursday 11th July 2019 FREE Exhibition runs 12 July - 24 August 2019 All welcome Read more about this event
	Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence Date: Thursday 11th July 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Triumph of the Dead: American World War II Cemeteries, Monuments, and Diplomacy in France Date: Thursday 11th July 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Contemporary Chinese Poetry: Yu Yoyo with AK Blakemore and Dave Haysom Date: Friday 12th July 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Contemporary Chinese Poetry: Translation Workshop with Yu Yoyo & Dave Haysom Date: Saturday 13th July 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Re-enactment of Ruskin's famous Lecture - "The Accumulation and Distribution of Art" Date: Saturday 13th July 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Substance use policy - where are we now? Date: Monday 15th July FREE Read more about this event
	Multicultural Philosophy Date: Monday 15th July – Tuesday 16th July 2019 £15.50 Read more about this event
	“My Dear Mr Ruskin….” Friendship, Inspiration and Scandal Date: Wednesday 17th July - Monday 1st June 2020 Included in House admission (£5 /£4) Read more about this event
	Manchester: Ruskin-Free City Date: Wednesday 17th July FREE Read more about this event
	Drawing Democracy: The Art of Observation and its Power to affect Change Date: Thursday 18th July £5/FREE Read more about this event Image: Ken Clarke Father of the House Drawing Democracy Robin Sukatorn
	Mysteries of the Manchester Art World Date: Saturday 20th July 2019 £10 Read more about this event
	Family Crafts: Cloud Observation Date: Wednesday 24th July 2019 £1 per child Read more about this event
	Rewriting the North: Fiona Mozley and Andrew Michael Hurley Date: Thursday 25th July 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Curator's Tour: Ruskin's Manchester Date: Thursday 25th July 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	Five Dials Issue Launch: The Body Date: Thursday 25th July 2019 FREE Read more about this event
	FaxFiction Date: Saturday 27th July 2019 £8/£6 Read more about this event
	Family Crafts: Weaving Date: Wednesday 31st July 2019 £1 per child Read more about this event
	Family Crafts: Drawing Nature Date: Wednesday 7th August 2019 £1 per child Read more about this event
‌	Sketching Elizabeth Gaskell's House Date: Friday 9th August 2019 £55 Read more about this event
	Europe and Beyond: Boundaries, Barriers and Belonging Including an evening event on Wednesday 21st August 2019 which will be open to all Date: Tuesday 20th August – Friday 23rd August 2019 Conference fee applies Read more about this event

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Jessica Holland / www.jessicahollandcreative.co.uk

Manchester Metropolitan University is committed to disability equality. If you have any access requirements, please let us know via 0161 247 6710 or email us at lucy.simpson@mmu.ac.uk before you arrive to help us to make sure that your visit to the event is as enjoyable as possible.

April - June 2019 (Term 3)

Undoing Exhibition

Rosamond Prize Concert

Games and VR

Interruptions: Rory Mullen and Karl Astbury

On the interplay of language, hospitality and social justice

Manchester G.R.E.A.T. Family and Youth Crime Prevention Summit

Beyond Babel Multilingual Film Festival

Beyond Babel: Call Me By Your Name

Sonic Waves: Music and Sound Beyond Borders

MASS Assembly

Beyond Babel: Júlia Ist

Mapping the Midlands: Place, Voice & Class / Lisa Blower & Natalie Burdett

Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service Insights ‘19

Manchester CRIME and JUSTICE Film Festival

Manchester CRIME and JUSTICE Film Festival: Mona Lisa

Interruptions: Claire Hope

Interruptions: Louise Adkins

Beyond Babel: Unity and Community and No Cow on the Ice

Beyond Babel: La Fille de Keltoum

Manchester Exclusive Film Screening Event: 'The Six Triple Eight'

Games and Philosophy

Unbuilding Gender: Trans* Anarchitectures in and Beyond the Work of Gordon Matta Clark

Manchester CRIME and JUSTICE Film Festival: The Purge

The Longer Read with Alan Hollinghurst

The Future of Democracy – Creating a Post-Consumerist Culture

Ruskin in Manchester 2019

Games and History

Manchester CRIME and JUSTICE Film Festival: The Harder They Come

Manchester CRIME and JUSTICE Film Festival: Do The Right Thing

Re-Writing the North: Jean Sprackland and Jacob Polley

On the History of Being – After the Black Notebooks Conference

John-Paul Burns - Pamphlet Launch

Sex on Screen

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - Manchester Happened

Funny Peculiar

The Gothic 1980s: The Decade that Scared Us

The Gothic 1980s: The Lost Boys Screening

Workshop with Giocherenda

Detecting Pessimism: Thomas Ligotti and The Weird in an Age of Post-Truth

Detecting Pessimism: True Detective Monologues Screening

User Experience Design and intuitive interaction: Lifecare Furniture and Complex Devices for Older Users

The Rael/Real of Psychogeography: Urban walking as a method of ameliorating castration anxiety in Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Pandora's Box screening and Panel Discussion

A Band Of Brothers Screening: 'It Works' by Ben Cole

Iris Murdoch at 100

Here versus There: Beyond Comparison in Queer and Sexuality Politics

Ruskin's Manchester: 'Devil's Darkness' to Beacon City Exhibition

Drugs: North West

International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference

Including Public and Practitioner Day on the Wednesday 26th June

‘There’s No Bus Map for Dementia’ Comic Launch and Workshop

Laydeez do Comics Workshop: Your Life Stories as Comics

Paul Gravett Keynote: The ‘Outside’ World: Isolationism and Interconnectedness in Comics Cultures

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Laydeez Do Comics Manchester Pop-Up

Collaboration, creativity and complexities: developing networks and practices of co-production with young people

Rewriting the North: Manchester, Fiction & Rewriting the Past

New Approaches to Transmedia and Language Pedagogy International Conference

Absent Presences: Shifting the Core and Peripheries of the Gothic Mode

Organising Queer Film Festivals and Screenings – A Workshop on the Practical Challenges in Organising Queer Film Events

Ruskin Reviews:

A Night of Treason with Special Guests

The Ruskin Lectures Re-Enacted: The Discovery and Application of Art

Twilight Walk and Gawk Sketchcrawl: Gothic to Art Deco Architecture

The John Ruskin Prize 2019: Agent of Change | Private View & Prize Giving

Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence

Triumph of the Dead: American World War II Cemeteries, Monuments, and Diplomacy in France

Contemporary Chinese Poetry: Yu Yoyo with AK Blakemore and Dave Haysom

Contemporary Chinese Poetry: Translation Workshop with Yu Yoyo & Dave Haysom

Re-enactment of Ruskin's famous Lecture - "The Accumulation and Distribution of Art"

Substance use policy - where are we now?

Multicultural Philosophy

“My Dear Mr Ruskin….” Friendship, Inspiration and Scandal

Manchester: Ruskin-Free City

Drawing Democracy: The Art of Observation and its Power to affect Change

Mysteries of the Manchester Art World

Family Crafts: Cloud Observation

Rewriting the North: Fiona Mozley and Andrew Michael Hurley

Curator's Tour: Ruskin's Manchester

**On the History of Being – After the Black Notebooks Conference**