Events
AHCP Research Seminars
Please check the research seminars of the department here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/department-of-art-history-and-cultural-practices-115441163851
Mental Health Photography Exhibition
Exhibition created with people who have lived experience of mental health challenges, plus a live panel and audience discussion. Through striking photography, powerful visual storytelling, and good conversation, the event aims to spark dialogue, challenge stigma and promote greater understanding. The exhibition explores themes relating to men..
Chameleon
Following consecutive 4* runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and London, Chameleon celebrates its finale in Manchester. With dry wit and existential dread, our autistic heroine plunges headfirst into an identity crisis questioning whether her all-consuming relationship is worth losing herself. ???? ‘Chameleon does a great job from the start in hi..
Chameleon
Following consecutive 4* runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and London, Chameleon celebrates its finale in Manchester. With dry wit and existential dread, our autistic heroine plunges headfirst into an identity crisis questioning whether her all-consuming relationship is worth losing herself. ???? ‘Chameleon does a great job from the start in hi..
A Jubilee Overture - 75 years of Philip Sparke
The Martin Harris Centre welcomes The KNDS Fairey Band. Featuring the music of acclaimed composer Philip Sparke and the composers who inspired him, to celebrate his 75th year. Including ‘A Road Less Travelled By’ — the set work for the 2026 National Brass Band Championships
What's next for China's economy?
Join us for a panel discussion and book launch discussing the future of China's economy with two eminent speakers. Accounting for more than a third of the world's population, China and India have the potential to wield enormous economic and political power. China is already vying with the US for the top spot in the global economy, and on some..
Manchester Literature Festival presents Maggie O’Farrell
Maggie O'Farrell makes a welcome return to Manchester Literature Festival with her extraordinary new novel, Land - a sweeping, multi-generational epic inspired by her own family history and the dramatic landscapes of Ireland’s Atlantic coast. Set in 1865, in the shadow of the Great Hunger, the novel follows mapmaker Tomás and his son as..
SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents Sarah Hall: Burning Snowflake – The 2026 Faber Lecture
Award-winning author Sarah Hall delivers the 2026 Faber Lecture: Burning Snowflake. The natural world is burning. Time is running out. You know the story. So what possible role could something as flimsy as fiction play? From the pioneering pen of a continually visionary writer, Burning Snowflake is a fierce and rallying cry – to shr..
Manchester Literature Festival presents Paul Mason: Reds
A decade after PostCapitalism, Paul Mason returns to Manchester Literature Festival to discuss REDS: A Global History of Communism, his provocative new book exploring one of history's most powerful and contested political ideas. In his bold and unsettling re-evaluation of communism, Paul traces the story of communism across centuries and co..
Manchester Literature Festival presents The Observer Book Club with Deborah Frances-White
Author, comedian and host of The Guilty Feminist podcast, Deborah Frances-White joins us for a lively and illuminating conversation about her latest book, Six Conversations We’re Scared to Have, exploring how to navigate polarisation, disagreement and the increasingly heated debates shaping public life. Drawing on her belief in the import..