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Running from September to December 2019
View the events programme for September to December:
Additional events will be added continually so please check back for more details or join our mailing list.
Manchester Metropolitan University is committed to disability equality. If you have any access requirements, please let us know by emailing lucy.simpson@mmu.ac.uk before you attend to help us to make sure that your visit to the event is as enjoyable as possible.
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“My Dear Mr Ruskin….” Friendship, Inspiration and ScandalDate: Until Monday 1st June 2020 Included in House admission (£5 /£4) Ruskin in His Sudy at Brantwood. Credit: The Ruskin Museum, Coniston |
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IPM Research Seminar: High Street SpecialDate: Thursday 5th September 2019 FREE |
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The Nineteenth-Century Motorist in the North WestDate: Saturday 7th September 2019 £20/£10 Credit: Goodwin’s Lutzmann Benz, 1896; Science and Industry Museum Archive, YMS 0197.2 |
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In-work poverty: low pay, productivity and genderDate: Monday 9th September 2019 FREE |
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Prof Michelle Fine 'Critical PAR with youth under Siege'Date: Wednesday 11th September 2019 FREE |
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The Non-Transparency of LanguageDate: Thursday 12th September 2019 FREE |
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Day Course: Introduction to the Female GothicDate: Saturday 14th September 2019 £25/£20 |
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Curious Things: A Glimpse into the International Mail Art Archive of Michael Leigh and Hazel JonesDate: 16th September 2019 – 3rd April 2020 FREE |
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Beyond Babel at New Mills Festival: The Pearl ButtonDate: Thursday 19th September 2019 FREE |
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East Asian PerspectivesDate: Wednesday 25th September 2019 FREE |
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Robot Stories and CopyrightDate: Wednesday 25th September 2019 FREE |
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Forward Prizes for Poetry: Northern PreviewDate: Thursday 26th September 2019 FREE |
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Rewriting the North: Jennifer MakumbiDate: Friday 27th September 2019 FREE |
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The Journey of a Book - Industry and Author Panel EventDate: Saturday 28th September 2019 £10/£15 |
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Gothic Manchester Festival 2019Date: 1st October - 1st November 2019 |
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Manchester Gothic Arts Group presents: Gothic TimesDate: 1st November FREE |
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Operation Jurassic: Collaborative PracticeDate: Wednesday 2nd October 2019 FREE
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Get Out Film Screening and IntroductionDate: Wednesday 9th October 2019 FREE |
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Manchester Classical Association Presents: Assassin's Creed, Greece and EgyptDate: Wednesday 9th October 2019 FREE |
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Make Board Games Great AgainDate: Wednesday 9th October 2019 FREE |
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Ruskin, Manchester and the GothicDate: Wednesday 9th October 2019 FREE |
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The People’s Poetry Lectures: Sean Borodale on Sylvia PlathDate: Thursday 10th October 2019 £8/6 |
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INTERRUPTIONS: Foreign InvestmentDate: Thursday 10th October 2019 FREE |
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The 2019 Anthony Burgess Lecture: Margaret DrabbleDate: Thursday 10th October 2019 £8 |
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Manchester Literature Festival presents: Guy Garvey & Simon Armitage in ConversationDate: Sunday 13th October 2019 £20/£18 |
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Writing Manchester Gothic: An Audience with Tania Hershman and Rosie GarlandDate: Tuesday 15th October 2019 FREE |
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Robert Beckford: Babylon Makes the Rules: The Colonial Complex in the Formation of Contemporary Black British Gospel Music in Post-War BritainDate: Tuesday 15th October 2019 FREE |
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Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots on film – allies or enemies?Date: Wednesday 16th October 2019 FREE |
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Why has a state of crisis become the EU norm?Date: Wednesday 16th October 2019 FREE |
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Alison Oram: Circling Around?Date: Thursday 17th October 2019 FREE |
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Gothic Games JamDate: Saturday 19th October 2019 FREE Read more about this event |
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Meet Haunt ManchesterDate: Saturday 19th October 2019 FREE Read more about this event |
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Rural EerieDate: Saturday 19th October 2019 £5 Read more about this event |
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The Portico Prize: Longlist EventDate: Tuesday 22nd October 2019 £8.14 |
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AMBIT 1959-2019 Exhibition & LaunchDate: Thursday 24th October 2019 FREE |
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Dimitrii Tolkavhev: Russia and Anti-LGBT LegalisationDate: Thursday 24th October 2019 FREE |
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Light FallsDate: Thursday 24th October 2019 £7-£38.50 |
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An Evening of Folk Horror with Lucie McKnight Hardy & Andrew Michael HurleyDate: Thursday 24th October 2019 £3 |
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Ian Humphreys, Alison Winch & Jennifer Lee TsaiDate: Friday 25th October 2019 FREE |
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Gothic Manchester Festival Conference - 'Gothic Times'Date: Saturday 26th October 2019 £10 |
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The Witching Way Performance - The Gig SetDate: Saturday 26th October 2019 FREE |
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Writing Gothic Fiction - A Workshop for Young WritersDate: Sunday 27th October 2019 FREE |
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Ghostly Storytelling DayDate: Sunday 27th October 2019 FREE |
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Haunted Spaces at Ordsall HallDate: Tuesday 29th October 2019 £10 |
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Faking Gothic FurnitureDate: Tuesday 29th October 2019 FREE |
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The importance of trauma informed support for people using substancesDate: Tuesday 29th October 2019 FREE |
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Monster Mash: A Gothic Dance SpectacularDate: Wednesday 30th October 2019 £12 (Family tickets available) |
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Rewriting the North: Paul Evans & Anita SethiDate: Thursday 31st October 2019 FREE |
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Haunt Manchester at Rochdale Town Hall - TalksDate: Thursday 31st October 2019 FREE |
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Haunt Manchester at Rochdale Town Hall - TourDate: Thursday 31st October 2019 £7 |
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Halloween Paranormal Study - In Search of the AnomalousDate: Thursday 31st October 2019 £10 |
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National Creative Writing Industry DayDate: Friday 1st November 2019 |
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Halloween Horror Movie Night – Clive Barker Double BillDate: Friday 1st November 2019 FREE |
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Gothic Manchester Walking TourDate: Saturday 2nd November 2019 £11.37 |
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Cities 2050: High Streets and Town Centres: Proposals for 2030 and Beyond : ExhibitionDate: Monday 4th November - Thursday 7th November A connected symposium will take place on Thursday 7th November 2019. Find out more here. FREE Image credit: Group 45 – Manchester School of Architecture |
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Cities 2050: Play Carbon City Zero!Date: Tuesday 5th November 2019 FREE |
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Cities 2050: ESRC Festival of Social ScienceDate: Wednesday 6th November FREE |
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Refugee Tales: Viewing the Belgian Refugee Crisis of WW1 through the Lens of Contemporary ExperienceDate: Thursday 7th November 2019 FREE |
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The People’s Poetry Lectures: Jean Sprackland on Elizabeth BishopDate: Thursday 7th November 2019 £8/6 |
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Cities 2050: High Streets and Town Centres: Proposals for 2030 and Beyond : SymposiumDate: Thursday 7th November 2019 A connected exhibition will run Monday 4th November - Thursday 7th November. FREE Image credit: Group 45 – Manchester School of Architecture |
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The Lady Lies and the Lady Lies: Reading the Femme Fatale in 1970s RockDate: Thursday 7th November 2019 FREE |
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Relationships in Recovery – How ‘you being you’ and me being me’ colours our connectionDate: Friday 8th November 2019 FREE |
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Reimagining LGBTQI+ Wellbeing and Mental HealthDate: Friday 8th November 2019 FREE |
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Mauerstadt 30: Stories From The Berlin WallDate: Saturday 9th November 2019 FREE |
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For the People: the Democratisation of Modernist DesignDate: Saturday 9th November 2019 FREE |
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Let the Artists InDate: Saturday 9th November 2019 FREE ‘The Shell Seekers’ by Su Blackwell, 2015. Photography by Yeshen Venema |
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Labelling ourselves? Fashion, gender and social identityDate: Saturday 9th November 2019 FREE |
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The People’s Poetry Lectures: Moira Egan on Marianne MooreDate: Monday 11th November 2019 £8/6 |
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The limits of ‘Choice’? The utility of the reproductive justice framework in the Northern Ireland contextDate: Wednesday 13th November 2019 FREE |
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Modern Playhouses: An architectural history of Britain’s ‘new theatres’’Date: Wednesday 13th November 2019 FREE |
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Ancient History and Modern Medicine: the Death of Alexander RevisitedDate: Wednesday 13th November 2019 FREE |
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Prof. John Ó Maoilearca: ‘Philosophical Time-Travellers’Date: Thursday 14th November 2019 FREE |
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We'll Never Have ParisDate: Thursday 14th November 2019 FREE |
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Living Design: SymposiumDate: Thursday 14th November 2019 FREE |
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Julian Hoffman - IrreplaceableDate: Tuesday 19th November 2019 FREE |
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Anna Hope (Expectation) and Lara Williams (Supper Club) with Naomi BoothDate: Wednesday 20th November 2019 FREE |
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The Dropouts Are Anticipating Future Economic PolicyDate: Wednesday 20th November 2019 FREE |
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Concert: Conversations with the Anthony Burgess cassette archiveDate: Thursday 21st November 2019 £4 |
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Poetry Emergency ii: a northwest radical poetry festivalDate: Friday 22rd November - Saturday 23th November |
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Macc StoriesDate: Saturday 23rd November 2019 £11 |
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Professor David Tyler Inaugural Lecture: The Circular Economy for Textiles: are we nearly there?Date: Monday 25th November 2019 FREE |
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Peterloo Descendants: The FilmDate: Tuesday 26th November 2019 FREE |
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Reimagining the PhD: Showcasing A Collaborative Doctoral Award Between Manchester Met, RNCM, and the BBC PhilharmonicDate: Tuesday 26th November 2019 FREE |
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Manchester Classical Association Presents: Prostheses in Antiquity: Everything You Never Knew You Wanted to KnowDate: Wednesday 27th November 2019 FREE |
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Emotions, protest, democracy: Collective identities in contemporary SpainDate: Wednesday 27th November 2019 FREE |
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Young Criminal Lives: Experience, Practice and Reform in the North-West, c. 1854- c. 1914Date: Wednesday 27th November 2019 FREE |
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Rewriting the North: Blake Morrison & Helen MortDate: Thursday 28th November 2019 FREE |
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Cinema Paradiso 2019Date: Thursday 28th November 2019 £3 |
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Sam Johnson Memorial Lecture: “South African Jews, Apartheid and Israel’Date: Wednesday 4th December 2019 FREE |
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Book Launch: Maxwell Street: Writing and Thinking Place by Tim CresswellDate: Thursday 6th December 2019 FREE |
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Stonewall 50 years on: Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism in its European ContextDate: Friday 6th December 2019 FREE Download the PDF Programme here: |