Events
WCLC: Bringing Silent Cinema to Life
Using clips from three groundbreaking silent films, renowned composer, writer and broadcaster Neil Brand demonstrates the art of improvised piano accompaniment to picture for today’s audiences, discussing, in the course of the performance, how music influences our response to film. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carr..
MUMS Symphony Orchestra
The MUMS Symphony Orchestra, one of our premier ensembles, will be performing the world premiere of PhD student, Perinpanathan’s, composition for orchestra, alongside Casken’s Madonna of Silence for Trombone and Orchestra. Finally, the Symphony Orchestra performs Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra, ensuring it to be a concert not to miss!
SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents An Afternoon with Elif Shafak
Join us for a special afternoon with one of today’s most influential and much-loved literary voices. Internationally-acclaimed novelist Elif Shafak returns to celebrate her extraordinary new novel, In One Brief Moment All Eternity. Spanning decades and continents, from revolutionary 19th-century France to Istanbul, Egypt and Beirut, this..
Sasha Rasmussen (University of Nottingham) 'Desperate Circumstances: Negotiating Abortion as Crime and Healthcare in the Late Russian Empire'
Sasha Rasmussen (University of Nottingham) 'Desperate Circumstances: Negotiating Abortion as Crime and Healthcare in the Late Russian Empire' History Research Seminar, hosted by Europe and the World Research Group Sam Alex A 201
WCLC: BAILE/home
Renowned harpsichordist Yonit Kosovske, viola da gamba virtuoso Lucia Capellaro and boundary-exploring pianist Xenia Pestova Bennett join forces in music for contemporary and historical instruments, drawing listeners into sounds both old and new, humorous and serious, reflective and progressive. “Bennett created some highly unusual sonori..
MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 1)
Join us this Fall for the MANTIS Festival, featuring electroacoustic works and a programme by special guest composer and guitarist Marc Estibeiro, whose innovative work explores the intersection of acoustic instruments and electronics
MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 2)
Join us this fall for the MANTIS Festival, showcasing innovative audio-visual and electroacoustic works by postgraduate composers at the University of Manchester
MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 3)
Join us this Fall for the MANTIS Festival, showcasing innovative audio-visual and electroacoustic works by postgraduate composers at the University of Manchester.
Ghost of the AI Empire | The Sci-Fi Opera Where You Decide the Ending
Nobody knows how this opera ends. Not even the cast. The audience steers the story live, right up to the final scene. “The beginning of a new operatic form.” British Theatre Guide “I never thought I could be part of an opera. Now I know I can.” Audience member, 2025 For fans of Bandersnatch and immersive theatre. THE WORLD Japan’..
EACW Research Seminar: Trans Visibility
Short paper by Prof. Eagan Dean (Freiburg Center for Advanced Study/College of Wooster (USA)), followed by response and conversation with our own Dr. Gareth Gavin. (Dean will be sharing work from his forthcoming book Inventing American Gender: Nineteenth Century Literary Gender.)