Creative Manchester

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JUST ANNOUNCED: Responses to Ecological Crises through Creative and Civic Participation

📅 22 April, 12.30–2.30pm
📍 Contact Theatre, Space 0
🎟️ https://ow.ly/crB350Yq244

Join us for a research café exploring how art, research and movement can break down barriers faced by marginalised communities.

Congratulations to the CTIS member Sheena Kalayil whose novel The Others has been longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Find out more about this fascinating work here: www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/news/display...

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Our @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social event with MACFEST for international women’s day #iwd2026 kicks off at the Whitworth Art Gallery with the Uncertain Futures Team talking about their work

Today we're celebrating #IWD2026 with MACFEST, @healthierfutures.bsky.social and a panel from Uncertain Futures. They shared findings from their project using art as research to explore older women's experience of work.

We also welcomed performers Filiz Ozum and Gulcin Bulut,

NEXT WEEK: Activating Archives for Local and Societal Impact

📅 11 March, 12.30–2.30pm, lunch from 12pm
📍 John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate
🎟️ https://ow.ly/Ru1550Yf00N

Join us as we explore how archival collections can be 'activated' through robust, ethical and sustained community partnerships.

Researchers at UoM: join the Platforms teams for ‘Interdisciplinary &: Harnessing Storytelling to Amplify Research’, chaired by Creative Manchester Director John McAuliffe.

📅 18 March, 1.15pm–2.45pm
📍 GA.056 Ronson Blended Theatre, Nancy Rothwell Building
🎟️ https://ow.ly/u9tH50Y5XNT

📢THREE WEEKS: Music & Manchester - The past, present & future of computers in electronic music

🗓️25/03📍Kilburn Building
🎟️ https://ow.ly/ZAVH50Yc9jG

🔊Followed by THE TURING – MACHINE: a sound installation: How do algorithms, AI & digital tech interact with us?

School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

The exhibition is up both in the Glass Corridor and online. Online link in comments.

#InternationalWomensDay2026 #IWD2026
@uomhums.bsky.social @uomsalc.bsky.social @uomreligion.bsky.social

Now exhibiting in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor: Encountering Biblical Bodies – Sarah Lightman’s Biblical Women

📅 Until 26 March 2026
📍 Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor

Join us for a research café with the artist Sarah Lightman on 16 March: https://ow.ly/FFTl50YotOl

Thank you to all attendees and to our speakers: @tengochicle.bsky.social, @tilliequattrone.bsky.social, Hame Sehmi, Dr Ramona Behravan, Damian Cox, Dr Riza Batista-Navarro, @lukaszszulc.bsky.social.

This year’s CreaTech Network series launched on Thursday with ‘Creativity + AI: Entertainment’, presented by Digital Futures with Creative Manchester and TIC Manchester

Join us for the second event, 'Creativity + AI: Cultural Heritage' on Thurs 30 April. More info: https://ow.ly/U3nI50Yo18b

Tomorrow, Manchester hosts The BRIT Awards for the first time 🏆

You can get BRITs-ready and visit the John Rylands Library tomorrow for The BRITs Collection Encounter, celebrating music and popular culture across the decades.

📅 Saturday 28 February, 2–3pm
📍 John Rylands Reading Room, 150 Deansgate

Last chance to view in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor: MossWorlds– Re-Storying Urban Lives

📅 Until 2 March 2026
📍Sam Alex Glass Corridor

The exhibition is based on an interdisciplinary research project undertaken at The University of Manchester during 2024-5, supported by Creative Manchester.

IN TWO WEEKS: Activating Archives for Local and Societal Impact

📅 11 March, 12.30–2.30pm
📍 John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate
🎟️ https://ow.ly/Ru1550Yf00N

Join us as we explore how archival collections can be 'activated' through robust, ethical and sustained community partnerships.

📢ONE MONTH: Music & Manchester - The past, present & future of computers in electronic music

🗓️25/03📍Kilburn Building
🎟️ https://ow.ly/ZAVH50Yc9jG

🔊Followed by THE TURING – MACHINE: a sound installation: How do algorithms, AI & digital tech interact with us?

School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

One week until,
International Women's Day 2026:
Ripple Effect: Co-researching Work, Precarity + Contributions in Later Life

📆Date: Wednesday March 4 , 12pm - 2:30pm
📍 @thewhitworth.bsky.social
🎟️ https://ow.ly/kOOq50XToyp

Image Credit: Andrew Brooks
#IWD2026

📢 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Research Café – Religion, Culture and Community

📅 23 April, 12–2pm
📍Manchester Museum
🎟️ https://ow.ly/TXbc50YkYuY

Join us this St George's Day as we explore how cultural institutions and faith spaces can bring people together in increasingly divided societies.

#GivetoGain #InternationalWomensDay2026 #IWD2026
@uomreligion.bsky.social @uomsalc.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social

IN THREE WEEKS: Encountering Biblical Bodies - Sarah Lightman’s Biblical Women

📅 16 March, 4.30–6.30pm
📍SG.16, Samuel Alexander Building
🎟️ https://ow.ly/f1lT50YkjC4

Join us for a research café discussing an exhibition of artist Sarah Lightman’s Biblical Domestic and Menstrual Hystery series.

Now exhibiting in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor: MossWorlds – Re-Storying Urban Lives

📅 Until 2 March 2026
📍Sam Alex Glass Corridor

The exhibition is based on an interdisciplinary research project undertaken at The University of Manchester during 2024-5, supported by Creative Manchester.

IN THREE WEEKS: Activating Archives for Local and Societal Impact

📅 11 March, 12.30–2.30pm
📍 John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate
🎟️ https://ow.ly/Ru1550Yf00N

Join us as we explore how archival collections can be 'activated' through robust, ethical and sustained community partnerships.

📢FIVE WEEKS: Music & Manchester - The past, present & future of computers in electronic music

🗓️25/03📍Kilburn Building
🎟️ https://ow.ly/ZAVH50Yc9jG

🔊Followed by THE TURING – MACHINE: a sound installation: How do algorithms, AI & digital tech interact with us?

School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Two weeks until - International Women's Day 2026:
Ripple Effect: Co-researching Work, Precarity + Contributions in Later Life

📆Date: Wednesday March 4 , 12pm - 2:30pm
📍 @thewhitworth.bsky.social
🎟️ https://ow.ly/kOOq50XToyp

Image Credit: Andrew Brooks
#IWD2026

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Activating Archives for Local and Societal Impact

📅 11 March, 12.30–2.30pm
📍 John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate
🎟️ https://ow.ly/Ru1550Yf00N

Join us as we explore how archival collections can be 'activated' through robust, ethical and sustained community partnerships.

It was an absolute joy to have been a poet on the MossWorlds project and re-story moss in collaboration with such inspiring folks.
Embrace the mossibilities!

Thank you to all of our speakers for their contributions, and thank you to all who came to listen and view the exhibition!

‘Mossworlds: Re-Storying Urban Lives’ will be on display in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor until 2 March 🌱

This evening we were delighted to host a research café discussing the exhibition ‘MossWorlds: Re-Storying Urban Lives’. A viewing of the exhibition was followed by panel discussion featuring researchers on the project, @researchnt.bsky.social and the Firs environmental research station.

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