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September 2024

Conference

MeCCSA Conference 2024

4 6 Sep 2024

School of Digital Arts (SODA)

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Andrew Ibi

Bunker Talk #141

24 Sep 2024

Salutation Pub (upstairs)

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June 2024

Exhibition

BRASS Art: rock, quiver and bend

1 Jun 1 Sep 2024

HOME

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January 2024

Future Flares Festival 2024

Re-thinking Theatre

24 26 Jan 2024

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October 2023

Conference

Textile and Place Conference 2023

17 18 Oct 2023

Manchester School of Art

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Symposium

ELIA Leadership Symposium 2023

The Beginning of Now

18 20 Oct 2023

Manchester School of Art

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July 2023

Conference

Performing Scores / Scoring Performance

11 12 Jul 2023

HOME

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April 2023

Exhibition

MancDesign

Milan Design Week 2023

17 23 Apr 2023

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March 2023

Exhibition

For Man is Coming Here

Featuring work by Brigitte Jurack

4 Mar 18 May 2023

Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre

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Brass Art

Bunker Talk #114

7 Mar 2023

Salutation Pub

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February 2023

Exhibition

Is there anybody there?

Chris Paul Daniels Exhibition at HOME

17 Feb 4 Jun 2023

HOME

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January 2023

Brigitte Jurack

Bunker Talk #112

10 Jan 2023

HOME

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Future Flares Festival

Four days of contemporary performance

24 27 Jan 2023

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Performance

Matchstalks Remastered (work-in-progress)

Kevin Egan and Michael Pinchbeck

27 Jan 2023

Grosvenor East Building

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December 2022

Dave Moutrey

Bunker Talk #111

6 Dec 2022

The Salutation

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November 2022

Babar Suleman

Bunker Talk #110

1 Nov 2022

The Salutation

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October 2022

Hester Stefan Chillingworth

Bunker Talk #109

4 Oct 2022

The Salutation

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Exhibition

Brigitte Jurack: Fieldnotes

29 Oct 2022 29 Jan 2023

HOME

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September 2022

Reckless Sleepers

Bunker Talk #108

27 Sep 2022

The Salutation

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May 2022

Conference

The Architecture of Borderlands

2022 conference of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain

16 20 May 2022

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In Search of Fathers

By Babel Theatre. Presented by the Performance Research Group

20 May 2022

Manchester School of Theatre

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November 2021

Exhibition

Love Thy Neighbour

Asia Triennial Manchester 2021

12 24 Nov 2021

Manchester Poetry Library

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Exhibition

Mitzi Cunliffe

An American in Manchester

22 Nov 10 Dec 2021

Grosvenor Gallery

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May 2021

Interruptions

Interruptions: The Intersectional Hydra

With Harold Offeh and Michelle Williams Gamaker

28 May 2021

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October 2020

Correspondance / Correspondence

MCR-MTL Online Film Programme

17 Oct 2020

Holden Gallery

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September 2020

Bunker Talks

Artists and researchers talk about who they are and what they do

25 Sep 2020 9 Jul 2021

Published online weekly

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April 2020

Radical Response

15 Apr 30 Jun 2020

Virtual Design Festival

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March 2020

Research Talk

Dr Moa Carlsson

Computer Aided Visions of the British Industrial Landscape (1965-1988)

11 Mar 2020

Manchester Metropolitan University Business School

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February 2020

Public Lecture

Modern Playhouses: An architectural history of Britain's 'new theatres'

Dr Alistair Fair

5 Feb 2020

Manchester School of Art

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January 2020

Public Lecture

Professor Kristina Niedderer Inaugural Lecture

Designing for Mindful Responsibility

13 Jan 2020

Geoffrey Manton Building

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December 2019

Conference

GLAD 2019

Art & Design Education: Where do we go from here?

6 Dec 2019

Manchester School of Art

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November 2019

Symposium

High Streets and Town Centres

ESRC Festival Symposium

7 Nov 2019

Manchester School of Art

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October 2019

Interruptions

Foreign Investment: HAPPY HOUR!

10 Oct 2019

Holden Gallery

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Exhibition

binding

Brigitte Jurack, Chris Powell, Kiran Sattar

11 26 Oct 2019

Grosvenor Gallery

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September 2019

Conference

IASDR 2019

International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference

2 5 Sep 2019

Manchester School of Art

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Conference

The Image

5 6 Sep 2019

Manchester School of Art

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Symposium

The Non-Transparency of Language

12 Sep 2019

Manchester School of Art

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Exhibition

Not Photography

14 29 Sep 2019

Bankley Gallery

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June 2019

Symposium

Funny Peculiar

Amy Sillman, Fionna Barber, Robert Garnett, Melissa Gordon

6 Jun 2019

Manchester Metropolitan University

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Public Lecture

The Rael/Real of Psychogeography

Urban walking as a method of ameliorating castration anxiety in Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

13 Jun 2019

Geoffrey Manton Building

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Research Talk

Isabella Indolfi

Digital Immersion Research Talks

17 Jun 2019

Righton Building
First Floor Open Space

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Conference

Graphic Novels and Comics

24 28 Jun 2019

Manchester Metropolitan University

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May 2019

Interruptions

Interruptions: Rory Mullen and Karl Astbury

Lying doggo

2 May 2019

Holden Gallery

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Interruptions

Interruptions: Louise Adkins

Notes for a Performance - (Re) visioning a Smoky Meeting

10 May 2019

Holden Gallery

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April 2019

Public Lecture

Professor Farida Vis

Researching Visual Social Media: Why Images Matter

1 Apr 2019

Geoffrey Manton Building

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Public Lecture

Professor Andrew Hunt

Midnight at the Museum

29 Apr 2019

Geoffrey Manton Building

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March 2019

Lucy Orta

Public Lecture

7 Mar 2019

Benzie Building
Lecture Theatre 403

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Public Lecture

We need to talk about vegetation!

Professor James Hitchmough

7 Mar 2019

Chatham Building

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Symposium

Crafting Futures

18 Mar 2019

Righton Building
First Floor Open Space

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Exhibition

UnDoing

An Exhibition of Architecture and Art

21 Mar 19 May 2019

Castlefield Gallery

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Research Talk

Andrew Kötting

A Storytelling Research Group Talk

26 Mar 2019

Benzie Building

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February 2019

Conference

The Landscape and Architecture of British Post-War Infrastructure

14 16 Feb 2019

Benzie Building
Lecture Theatre 403

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Public Lecture

Metabolic Urbanism

Dr Vincent Walsh

21 Feb 2019

Chatham Building

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January 2019

Interruptions

Interruptions: Chris Paul Daniels

Film screenings

15 Jan 2019

Holden Gallery

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Interruptions

Interruptions: Sam Meech and Raz Ullah

Audio visual performance

17 Jan 2019

Holden Gallery

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Interruptions

Interruptions: K Craig

Installation and A/V performance by K Craig

22 Jan 2019

Holden Gallery

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Interruptions

Interruptions: Jenny Baines

Series of 16mm film installations and a screening by Jenny Baines and invited artists

23 Jan 2019

Holden Gallery

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December 2018

Conference

GLAD 2018

Underneath the metrics: What is really happening to Art and Design education?

7 Dec 2018

Manchester School of Art

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November 2018

Public Lecture

Professor Ola Uduku

Schools, Heritage, Urbanism and Development in Africa: Past Histories and Future Perspectives

19 Nov 2018

Benzie Building
Lecture Theatre 403

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October 2018

Public Lecture

Professor Tim Brennan

Inaugural Lectures Series

29 Oct 2018

Geoffrey Manton Building

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The Life of Buildings

Website and Virtual Reality Experience Launch Event

31 Oct 2018

Manchester Reform Synagogue

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September 2018

Exhibition

Alice Kettle: Thread Bearing Witness

1 Sep 2018 24 Feb 2019

The Whitworth

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Exhibition

Drawing the Modern

The work of Gordon Hodkinson and post-war architectural education in Manchester

10 Sep 2018 5 Apr 2019

Special Collections Gallery

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June 2018

Conference

Teaching Painting: Painting the New

19 20 Jun 2018

Royal Academy of Arts, London

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Exhibition

Outsiders and Insiders

Savoy through the lens of the Michael Butterworth archive

28 Jun 20 Jul 2018

All Saints Library

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May 2018

Symposium

machines will watch us die – the Symposium

11 May 2018

Holden Gallery

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Conference

Pictures of War: The Still Image in Conflict since 1945

23 25 May 2018

Geoffrey Manton Building

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Public Lecture

War & Storytelling After 9/11: A Photojournalist’s Perspective

A public lecture by Louie Palu

23 May 2018

Geoffrey Manton Building

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Masterclass on Pictures and Conflicts

For Postgraduate Research Students and Early Career Researchers

23 May 2018

Righton Building
First Floor Open Space

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April 2018

Conference

Textile and Place

12 Apr 2018

Manchester School of Art and the Whitworth

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March 2018

Exhibition

Archive Mediations

Contemplations on the Home Front

10 Mar 26 May 2018

Bury Art Museum

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Symposium

Writing Painting/ Painting Writing

A symposium exploring aspects of the relationship between painting and writing

22 Mar 2018

Whitworth Gallery

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February 2018

Public Lecture

The Erotic Cloth: Seduction and Fetishism in Textiles

14 Feb 2018

Manchester Metropolitan University

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January 2018

Exhibition

In the Family of the Carbons

Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson

20 Jan 3 Mar 2018

The Turnpike

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The Harmonic Oscillator and Critical Care

With Vic McEwan and Clive Parkinson

23 Jan 2018

HOME

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November 2017

Exhibition

жевательная резинка

A new perfomance by Tim Brennan to mark the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution

7 Nov 2017

Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces

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Symposium

Hyper-Rural

The end of urbanism?

21 22 Nov 2017

Manchester School of Architecture

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October 2017

Exhibition

Gestured

An installation by Brass Art

16 Oct 8 Dec 2017

Chetham's Library

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Lucienne Day - Living Design

Panel Discussion

18 Oct 2017

Benzie Building
Lecture Theatre 403

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August 2017

Exhibition

Foreigners

26 Aug 18 Nov 2017

Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre

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July 2017

Exhibition

Collage and Curiosity

Charlie Holt, Michael Leigh and Hazel Jones

15 Jul 19 Nov 2017

Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse

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June 2017

Conference

Landscape as Infrastructure

Landscape Institute Annual Conference 2017

22 23 Jun 2017

Manchester Metropolitan University Business School

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May 2017

Design Foundations for Early-Stage Design

An Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Network Event

16 May 2017

Manchester School of Art

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Conference

Picture Hooks Conference

20 May 2017

Manchester School of Art

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April 2017

Conference

GLAD 2017

Exploring Territories: The Changing Landscape of Art & Design Higher Education

6 Apr 2017

Manchester School of Art

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Recoverism and the Arts

Driving change through collaborative research

25 Apr 2017

Benzie Building
Lecture Theatre 403

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Exhibition

Made in Translation

Crafts Research Group at The Portico Library: exhibition and book launch

27 Apr 3 Jun 2017

The Portico Library

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March 2017

Symposium

The Way We Live Now

Continuity in Architecture Symposium

9 Mar 2017

Benzie Building
Lecture Theatre 403

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Symposium

Design Routes Symposium

28 Mar 2017

Manchester School of Art

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January 2017

Exhibition

Radicals Assemble! DEMAND Utopia!

An evening of readings, talks, screening and exhibition from the Institute of Urban Dreaming

12 Jan 2017

Peoples History Museum

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December 2016

Exhibition

Drawing the Wake

Reading Finnegans Wake through drawing

5 Dec 2016 31 Mar 2017

Special Collections Gallery

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November 2016

Conference

Make:Shift

A Crafts Council event

10 11 Nov 2016

Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester

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October 2016

Symposium

New Generation – Design for Living

17 18 Oct 2016

The Co-op, Angel Square

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Exhibition

Mesh

An exhibition of 3D printed sculpture

24 Oct 4 Nov 2016

Manchester School of Art

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July 2016

Exhibition

Painting into Textile

Inspired by Michael Kidner

5 Jul 2016

Flowers Gallery

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Exhibition

Behind the Sun

Prêmio Marcantônio Vilaça CNI Sesi Senai

23 Jul 25 Sep 2016

HOME

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Symposium

7th International Urban Sketchers Symposium

27 30 Jul 2016

Manchester School of Art

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June 2016

ASK Open Lecture

Professor Alice Kettle

The Wandering Thread

1 Jun 2016

Chatham Building

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Professor Mary Oliver

Welcome to the feelies: empathy cinema a totally theatrical experience

8 Jun 2016

70 Oxford Street

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Exhibition

The Lost Boys

Remembering the boy soldiers of the First World War

13 Jun 26 Aug 2016

Special Collections Gallery

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May 2016

ASK Open Lecture

Professor Martyn Evans

Design Routes: Revitalisation Through Design

18 May 2016

MMU Business School

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Symposium

Landscapes of Identity Symposium 2016

Mapping the Place Identity of Manchester

18 May 2016

National Football Museum

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ASK Open Lecture

Professor Raphael Fonseca (Colégio Pedro II, Brazil)

The line that welcomes the body: the hammock and Brazil

25 May 2016

Geoffrey Manton Building

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April 2016

Conference

Visualizing Chinese Borders in the 21st Century

5 6 Apr 2016

MMU Business School

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Exhibition

Projecting British Design

The Design Council Slide Collection in Focus

18 Apr 28 May 2016

Special Collections Gallery

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ASK Open Lecture

Professor Tom Jefferies

Stealthy Cities: Exploring the limits of contemporary globally informed urban space in the UK

20 Apr 2016

Benzie Building
Lecture Theatre 403

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Talking of Textiles

Professor Janis Jefferies and Dr Jennifer Harris

27 Apr 2016

Cavendish Building Lecture Theatre C.1.01

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March 2016

ASK Open Lecture

Professor Steve Hawley

Manchester as a mythical city; reflections in locative media

2 Mar 2016

Manchester School of Art

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February 2016

ASK Open Lecture

Professor Keith Brown

50 Years in the Making

10 Feb 2016

Manchester Metropolitan University

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Professor David Crow

Graphic Design: Where are we now, and how did we get here? - FULLY BOOKED

17 Feb 2016

Manchester School of Art

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January 2016

ASK Open Lecture

Professor Felicity Colman

A Philosophy of Materialist Film

13 Jan 2016

70 Oxford Street

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Professor Jason Wood

David v Goliath. Independent cinema in a mainstream culture

27 Jan 2016

Manchester School of Art

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December 2015

ASK Open Lecture

Professor Stephen Dixon

RESONANCE: conflict and commemoration in the centenary of the Great War

9 Dec 2015

Manchester School of Art

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November 2015

Conference

8th Annual MMU Postgraduate Research Conference

5 Nov 2015

Manchester Metropolitan University

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Exhibition

The Lost Boys

Remembering the boy soldiers of the First World War

5 11 Nov 2015

Holden Café Space

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Conference

Image Matter: Art and Materiality

AAH New Voices Conference

6 Nov 2015

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ASK Open Lecture

Professor Sarah Perks

Keep bleeding: The future of cross art form curation

11 Nov 2015

Manchester School of Art

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‘The Visceral Tear’ Book Launch

Sue Fox

14 Nov 2015

The Wonder Inn

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Symposium

Art and Geopolitical Borders

Contested sovereignty and art practice

20 Nov 2015

70 Oxford Street

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ASK Open Lecture

Professor John Hyatt

Fist of Grass: can history painting be made in 2015?

25 Nov 2015

Manchester School of Art

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Exhibition

compression culture

What might be lost and gained through compression?

26 Nov 2015 15 Jan 2016

Vertical Gallery

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ASK Open Lecture

Professor Erick Felinto (UERJ, Rio de Janeiro)

Vilém Flusser’s “Philosophical Fiction”: Science, Creativity and the Encounter with Radical Otherness

27 Nov 2015

70 Oxford Street

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October 2015

ASK Open Lecture

Professor Pavel Büchler

What makes art contemporary

21 Oct 2015

Manchester School of Art

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Conference

Teaching Painting: A Conference

29 30 Oct 2015

The Whitworth Art Gallery

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July 2015

New Forms for a Philosophy of Film

Creative and political methodologies

19 20 Jul 2015

HOME and Manchester School of Art

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April 2015

Public Lecture

Trial / Error / Talk

By Dr Steven Gartside

23 Apr 2015

Holden Gallery

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March 2015

Exhibition

Resonance

Reflections on the Great War through artworks inspired by Staffordshire collections

9 Mar 26 Apr 2015

Museum of Cannock Chase

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