Events
Cultural infrastructure at a crossroads - Research Café
Join Creative Manchester for a panel and discussion event on devolution, cultural policy and Greater Manchester. Nearly ten years on from the Greater Manchester devolution deal and following a pandemic, ongoing local authority austerity and cost of living crisis, this hybrid event explores cultural policy and planning in the city-region. Join..
Manchester CI Teaching Seminar: AI Empowering Chinese Language Classrooms
Join us for this year's Manchester Confucius Institute Chinese Language Teaching Seminar on 'Al Empowering Chinese Language Classrooms: Case Studies, Methods, and Tool Applications'. Date & Time: 10:00 – 16:00 on 20 September 2025 Venue: University Place Room 5.206, The University of Manchester, 176 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL Attenda..
Sounding The Story: Contemporary Music Inspired by Text and Tale
A contemporary music concert featuring new works by postgraduate composers, recent graduates, and staff from the University of Manchester’s Department of Music. Showcasing compositions by Alex Apostolopoulos, Joshua Brown, Philip Grange, Sarah Keirle-Dos Santos, Israel Lai, Adnan Marafi, Camden Reeves, and Richard Whalley.
Welcome week show - ADMA Productions Ltd and Ransack Theatre present… Jurassic
A new comedy about disinformation and dinosaurs, written by Bruntwood Prize-winning Tim Foley. A late-night screening of a Steven Spielberg classic causes carnage on a university campus. What starts as a misunderstanding about the film quickly spirals into mass redundancies and bizarre conspiracies. The fight for academic survival is on! Thi..
Confucius Institute Autumn Open Day
Always fancied learning a new language and curious to find out what learning Mandarin would be like? Want to improve your wellbeing and try your hand at Chinese calligraphy? Come along to our Autumn Open Day on 27 September and take part in some fun cultural activities, language tasters, sample some Chinese tea and snacks and enter our prize d..
Medieval Quarter Festival
CMEMS sponsors and co-organises the Medieval Quarter Festival with Manchester City Council. Activities include: Saturday Scriptorium – members of the public can write like a scribe with quills, ink, and parchment in the candlelit setting of the Baronial Hall at Chetham’s. Tours of Chetham’s Library, with medieval manuscripts availabl..
WCLC: Silent Movie and Live Music Accompaniment with Frame ensemble. Presented by the departments of Music, Drama and Film.
Enjoy a silent movie with live accompaniment from Frame Ensemble – a group who creates music on the spur of the moment, as they watch the film with the audience. Their soundtrack is extremely responsive to the film, closely following the flow of images. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series,..
Guest lecture: Place-making and the role of culture in Manchester
Creative Manchester and the Manchester Urban Institute are delighted to welcome Luthfur Rahman OBE, former Executive Leader for Culture and Leisure and Manchester City Council Deputy Councillor. Luthfur will deliver a guest lecture exploring place-making, planning and the role of culture, followed by an in-conversation with Abi Gilmore, Prof..
Nuno Palma, UoM: African Slavery and the Reckoning of Brazil
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 8 Oct 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building, room A214. It can be followed online here: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 Abstract: More enslaved Africans disembarked in Brazil than in any other country in..
Lunchtime concert - In Memoriam, Gubaidulina (1931-2025)
Bach Cello Suite No. 1 Gubaidulina Reflections on the theme B-A-C-H Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7 The Danels pay tribute to Soviet avant-garde composer Sofia Gubaidulina. Followed at 2.30pm by Quatuor Danel public seminar - Hotseat Workshop The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series, w..