Breaking the News Exhibition and Archive Handling Sessions
Archives+ Ground FloorThe news has the power to make or break elections, to change the course of history or to alter our perspective on the city and country we live in. We […]
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Every Picture Tells a Story
Archives+ Ground FloorHeritage Schools (part of Heritage England), Archives+ and artist Lorraine Rudyard, have created an exhibition working with 12 year-5 classes from Manchester schools. The schools have created figures for scenes […]
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Art Assembly: City as Art School Exhibition
Wolfson Reading RoomFoundation Art and Design Students from The Manchester College have brought the Art School’s ethos of research to the iconic circular reading room with a series of stunning works. Each […]
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Documenting Demolition: A Community Evidencing Project of Manchester’s LGBT+ Centre
Wolfson Reading RoomThe LGBT+ Centre (previously known as The Gay Centre) is located on Sidney Street, off Oxford Road and is the longest continuously running LGBT+ Community Centre in the UK. ‘Documenting […]
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Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan – Workshop and Book Launch
Performance SpaceSuhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a writer, poet, educator and activist, disrupting ideas of history, race, knowledge and violence, co-author of A Fly Girl’s Guide to University (Verve Poetry Press, 2019) and […]
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Holiday Activities for 11-16 years
Join us at Central Library for free summer holidays activities for 11-16 year olds at Manchester Central Library - including a free lunch! 1/8/22 - Media Cubs pop-up TV studio […]
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Who Built Wythenshawe? The Forgotten Story of Ernest & Shena Simon
Ground FloorThis exhibition traces the story of Wythenshawe during the twentieth century. From a humble collection of small villages, Wythenshawe was developed as a garden city to re-house the tens of […]
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Summer Reading Challenge – Steam Punk Crafts
It's rusty, it has cogs and a propellor and it makes a racket...it's a Steampunk time machine. How do Steampunks get around and what do they wear? Make your own […]
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Summer Reading Challenge – Musical Science
Performance SpaceExperimenting with simple upcycled electrical junk, we will build little noisy contraptions, learn how they work and make some lovely noise together. Engineer an old speaker to sound like a […]
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Summer Reading Challenge – Amazing Flying and Flapping Creations
Performance SpaceJoin Jill to make some wonderful flying creatures, butterflies, bats, birds, whatever you wish to create. Why not drop and have a go at making your own. Suitable for families […]
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Summer Reading Challenge – Amazing Flying and Flapping Creations
Join Jill to make some wonderful flying creatures, butterflies, bats, birds, whatever you wish to create. Why not drop and have a go at making your own. Suitable for families […]
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Summer Reading Challenge – Media Cubs
Ground FloorMedia Cubs is a pop-up TV studio and newsroom where we direct creative, digital and media challenges – from photography and filming, comic strip-making and stop motion, TV presenting to […]
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