ahead mmu

ahead mmu has been a member of Linktree for 2 years and joined in February 2024. The social media accounts linked to from ahead mmu are: • Instagram • LinkedIn • Email Besides social media accounts, aheadmmu has populated their site with: • Downloadable Calendar - October Events • Storytelling for research engagement with Esther Lisk-Carew (Episode 76) • Kevin Egan and Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk: Navigating Participation, Protest and Resistance in Reckless Sleepers' Binary Opposition Project - mmutube • Tackling the increasing censorship of children’s publishing | Manchester Metropolitan University • Future proofing Equality in Children's Publishing Symposium, 14th November 2025 : Keynote David Roberts - mmutube • 16-Days of Activism FIlm: Poetry and Misogyny by Kirstie Henderson • The Cost of Us: Filming for Good • Music and Sonic Studies Manchester (MASSmcr): Sonic Manifesto • Bunker Talks – Manchester School of Art • Tue 6 Oct , 5:30-7:00pm | #169: Campbell Edinborough | SODA • Tue 1 Dec , 5:30-7:00pm | #170: Nicola Dale (Gothic Studies) | The Salutation • Tue 26 Jan 2027, 5:30-7:00pm | #171: Restoke | Venue TBC • Thu 22 Oct, 4:00-5:00pm | Mad as Hell: Talk with Evie Moriarty — Manchester Game Centre | Geoffrey Manton Building • Sun 1 Nov, 10:00am - 1:00pm | Celebrating Multispecies Flourishing - A Community Composting Workshop | Platt Fields Park • Wed 4 Nov, 5:45pm | Polite Society (12A) + Director Q&A - Sarah Illot Book Launch & Film | HOME • Thu 5 Nov, 5:00-7:30pm | Book Launch : Space, Place and Hybridity in Francesca Woodman’s Photography | Grosvenor East Building • Sun 8 Nov, 12:00 & 2:30pm | Being Human: Lives of the Dead | The Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery Rawtenstall • Wed 11 Nov, 5:00-6:00pm | Entangled Light: Creative Reflections from the Garden | Islington Mill • Wed 11 Nov, 6:00 - 7:30pm | Entangled Light Exhibition Tour and Late Opening | Islington Mill • Tue 24 Nov | Private View - Our Inner Worlds: Expressions of Our Lived Experiences | The Holden Gallery • Fri 30 Nov, 5:30- 7:30pm | Research Stories Told Live | | Eventbrite • The Holden Gallery • Manchester Poetry Library • Manchester School of Theatre • Manchester Centre for Public Histories + Heritage • Manchester Game Centre • Modal Gallery – School of Digital Arts (SODA) • North West Film Archive • Special Collections Museum • Call for Participants 18-29 years old : AI Intimacies: Exploring Young Adults' Attitudes to AI Mediated Intimacies • 5th-7th November | 10am-4-pm | Entangled Light: A More-Than-Human Photography Studio Exhibition | Being Human Festival • 15 Apr 2026 — 26 Sep 2026 | Cultural Masterplanning - How Manchester changed the way we make cities | Central Library • 20 Apr - 31 Oct | Elemental: Manchester Poetry Library Summer Exhibition by Jean Sprackland • Thu 8 Oct, 5:30-7:30pm | Launch Event : Witches & Healers. Something that was ours New Work by Rosie Reed Hillman | The Portico Library • Hinterland Festival — Multiple Venues - November • AHEAD Website - Projects and Stories • Arts and Humanities Events Calendar • Arts & Humanities Research Groups • Research culture podcasts • Thu 17 Sep, 10am - 4:00pm | More-Than-Human Photography Studio Portraits | Islington Mill • Spotting misleading images about vaccines and health: community workshops — DRSMARTIN.IO • Events from October 13 – December 1 – Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies • Sat 24 Oct, 6:00-7:30pm | Eliza Chan & Sunyi Dean: Hong Kong Ghost Stories | Manchester Literature Festival • Online Talk: Wed 28 Oct, 7:00-8:00pm | Victorian Gothic – Haunted Houses and Night-time Terrors | Mcr Centre Gothic Studies • Thu 29 Oct, 6:30-8:00pm | GOTHIC TALES: G. R. Pidgeon & Stephen Howard in conversation | Blackwell's Bookshop • Thu 19 Nov, 6:00 _ 7:30pm | The Gothic History of Manchester - Talks in the Pub Tickets | The Fitzgerald Manchester • Thu 19 Nov, 6:00 - 7:00pm | William Harrison Ainsworth: The Forgotten Manchester Myth Maker | Portico Library • Thu 19 Nov, 8:00- 9:30pm | The History of Gothic Graveyards & Horror - Talks in the Pub | The Fitzgerald • Thu 12 Nov, 4:00-5:00pm | Sustainable Fashion Exhibitions: Shifting to Inclusive and Interactive Tickets | MMU Grosvenor East • Connecting Black Histories Across Manchester Collections • ahead.mmu.ac.uk • Thu 6 Jun | Motherhood and Poetry : a creative multilingual poetry workshop | Grosvenor East Building, MMU • Sat 22 Jun | Poets of Colour Incubator Scratch Special - Contact Theatre • Sat 28 Sep | 11am-9pm | Derek Jarman film day - screenings and conversations -Electric Palace Cinema, Old Town, Hastings. • Tue 17 Sep 8-8:30pm | Liminal MAP Major Project Showcase: Rocking a Sinking Boat| Grosvenor East Theatre, MMU • Tue 3 Dec, 5.30pm | Melanie Wilson – Bunker Talk #144 | The Salutation • Wed 6 Nov | Design for Planet Festival 2024 | Online • Tue 24 Sep 5:30pm | Andrew Ibi - Bunker Talk #141 | The Salutation • Wed 6 Nov· 1 - 2:30pm | Festival of Social Sciences : Inclusive Digital Access: Learning from Lived Experiences | HOME • Thu 10 - Sat 12 Oct, 7:15 - 10:00pm | pool (no water) | Grosvenor East Theatre, MMU • Fri 5- Sun 7 Dec, 2pm A Christmas Carol at Grosvenor East Theatre • Thu 12 Dec, 7 - 9pm | Slamovision 2024, Manchester Poetry Library • Thu 5 Dec, 12-2pm | Exhibition Launch : Singing Graphics in VR: Exhibition and Playtest | Holden Gallery • Tue 28 Jan, 5.30pm | Dan Dubowitz – Bunker Talk #145 | The Salutation • 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence : Manchester Women's Aid Advice • Wed 4 Dec 5-8pm, SODA Creative Excellence: 'Starve Acre' Film Screening and Author Q&A - Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies • Fri 6- Sat 7 December, SODA | Deep Focus - Abandon Normal Devices • 22 – 24 Jan 2025, Various Times, Free - Future Flares Festival – Manchester School of Theatre • Vigil, Wed 22 Jan, 6 – 6.50pm, Grosvenor East Studio • Get Off, Thu 23 Jan, 7.30pm—8.30pm, Grosvenor East Studio • Deluge, Wed 22 Jan, 7.30 – 8.30pm, Grosvenor East Studio Theatre • 30 Minute Set, Thu 23 Jan, 6.30pm—7pm, Grosvenor East Studio • Vermisserin (Eng. the female surveyor), Fri 24 Jan, 1pm—2pmGrosvenor East Studio • A Seventh Man (work-in-progress), Fri 24 Jan 12—12.45pm & 2—2.45pm, Grosvenor East Studio • Journey’s End Working Title (work-in-progress) , Thu 23 Jan,5.30pm—5.50pm, Grosvenor East Studio • 25 Oct 2024 - 07 Jan 2025 | Sound Pressure | Modal gallery Autumn exhibition • Tue 4 Feb, 4.00pm (New Time) | Stephen Scott-Bottoms x Andy Smith – Bunker Talk #146 | The Salutation • Tue 25 Feb, 5.30pm | Lynn Setterington – Bunker Talk #147 | The Salutation • Tue 4 Mar, 5.00pm | Jurriaan Benschop – Bunker Talk #148 | The Salutation • Tue 6 May, 5.30pm | Ray Grewal – Bunker Talk #150 | The Salutation • Tue 1 Jul, 5.30pm | Lena Simic x James Marriott – Bunker Talk #152 | The Salutation • Fri 21 Feb, 6 - 8pm | International Mother Language Day 2025: Poetry Open Mic | Manchester Poetry Library • Wed 6 Aug - Fri 8 Aug | Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health 2025 - SeGAH | Manchester Met Univercity • Tue 21 Jan 2, 7pm - 9pm | Dr An Evening of Folklore with Dr Mark P. Henderson and Dr Kathryn Starnes | Glossop Labour Club, SK13 8AT • Thu 6 Feb, 4pm-7pm | Exploring racial disparity in diversion from the youth justice system | Geoffrey Manton Building - Lecture Theatre 4 (LT4) • Tue 14 Jan, 6-7:30pm | Across Borders: Tales By Sri Lankan Women Poets | Manchester Central Library Performance Space • Thu 10 Apr - Fri 11 Apr 2025 | DVRS Games Festival 2025 | School of Digital Arts (SODA) • Thu 23 Jan 6-8pm | Connecting Threads Book Launch | Whitworth Art Gallery • Fri 7 Feb, 11am | Pay What you Like | Debbie Bandara - Dive In: Crafting Immersive Storytelling Experiences | HOME • Wed 19 Mar, 3:30 - 5pm | DoWell Co-Design Workshop and Lecture Series 2024-2025: Session 4 | Man Met Business School • Thu 6 Feb· 10am - 12pm | Beyond the algorithm: Creative agency in the age of AI | School of Digital Arts • Theatre Show 5: Love and InformationCurrent Productions – Manchester School of Theatre • Thu 6 – Sat 8 March, 7:15 pm & Fri 7 2pm | As You Like It | Manchester School of Theatre • Fri 21 Mar, 9:30am-7pm, Ancestral Avant-Gardes Conference, The Holden Gallery • Thu 6 Mar, 5 - 7pm | Mother Tongue Other Tongue: Teacher networking event | Manchester Poetry Library • Wed 9 Apr, 6pm | You're All Talk: Rob Drummond on the beauty of linguistic diversity | The Portico Library • 28 Feb -11 Apr | Sue and Terry Atkinson ‘Recent Work’ | Moon Grove Gallery • Fri 6 Jun, 6:00-7:30pm | The Roads to Rome with Catherine Fletcher - Festival of Libraries • 18 - 20 Mar, Various times | Manchester Translation Series 2025 | Manchester Poetry Library • Wed 19 Mar, 7:00-7:30pm | Future Flares presents: 30 Minute Set by Lewys Holt at Grosvenor East Performance Studio (GE1.040 • Professor Iain Reid Inaugural Lecture, 27 Mar 2025 • 10 Apr - 6 Sep | Museum for Mothers of Black Bodies Murdered in State Custody, • Mother Tongue Other Tongue - Submission Deadline, 23 May 2025 • Wed 11 Jun | 5.30-7.00 PM | Sub Club with Susie Wilson • Thu 4 Apr 2025, 7:15pm | Love and Information at Grosvenor East Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University • 21 Feb - 29 Mar 2025| the future is: UNDERTOW exhibition | Manchester Poetry Library • Thu 8 May, 11am-5pm | Criminal justice research symposium | Man Met Business Scool • A Thousand and One Martian Nights : Crime and Justice Film Festival 2025 • Le Havre (PG) : Crime and Justice Film Festival 2025 • The Manchester International Crime and Justice Film Festival 2025 - AHEAD (Arts and Humanities Engagement and Dialogue) • 28 Jul – 14 Aug | Jazmin Morris - Sandbox - School of Digital Arts (SODA) • Thu 29 May 1-4pm | BREAK THE SILENCE: Poetry Workshops | Manchester Poetry Library • Thu 1 May - Sat 3 May, 7:15pm | Hedda Gabler | Grosvenor East Building, Manchester Metropolitan University • Thu 15 May, 6:30-8:00pm | Tishani Doshi in conversation | Manchester Poetry Library, Grosvenor East, Cavendish Street, M15 6BG, Manchester • Thu 29 May, 6:30-8:00pm | Roy Macfarlane in conversation with Helen Mort | Manchester Poetry Library, Grosvenor East, Cavendish Street, M15 6BG, Manchester • Tue 29 Apr, 1-5pm: IP Beyond Music | Celebrating Music in Innovation | RNCM (Royal Northern College of Music) • Wed 23 Apr, 7-11pm | DVRK MASS II | Sonic Transformations: Ecosystems | Off The Square, 67 Lever St • Thu 24 Apr, 7pm | The Nello James Centre: A Documentary Screening presented by NWFA | Contact, Manchester • 6-10 May 2025 | Viewpoints Photography Festival 2025 - School of Digital Arts (SODA) • ‘Every slap we got from the screws was real’: Ray Winstone on brutal borstal drama Scum • What's On - Manchester City of Literature • Thu 19-Fri 20 Jun | Conference - Neither Factory Records nor Madchester: Rethinking Manchester’s Musical and Subcultural Histories - School of Digital Arts (SODA) • Thu 26 Jun, 6pm – 8:30pm | The Cost of Us Film Screening & Creative Discussion | Stretford Public Hall • Wed 4 - 6 Jun 2025 | Festival of Libraries at Manchester Poetry Library, • Thu 12 June 4:30-7pm | Legacy of Unity: Archival Insights from the Pan African Congress 1945 | Manchester Central Library • AI Literacies public launch - Digital Society Research Cluster • Digital Politics Summer School - Digital Society Research Cluster • Rethinking Representations: The Politics of Responsible AI Imaging. Keynote by Prof Liv Hausken - Digital Society Research Cluster • Launch of the Visual AI Literacy Toolkit - Digital Society Research Cluster • Online Event : Thu Jun 26, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm | Seeing Through the Machine: Visual AI Tools for Research, Creativity, and Critical Practice- Masterclass with Dr Sam Martin - Digital Society Research Cluster • Wed 25 - Fri 27 Jun | Gothic Crossroads 2025 - Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies | Dalton Building • Sat 11 Oct, 9:30am - 8:30pm | Games Workshop Research Day | International Anthony Burgess Centre • 4 November - 4 December | Asia Triennial Manchester – ATM6: Transvaluation • Thu, 17 Jul, 12:00PM - 4:30PM | Between Worlds: Connecting Organisations and Creative Researchers • Tue 23 Sep, 5.30pmAlex Kelly – Bunker Talk #154 | The Salutation • Wed 20- Fri 22 Aug, Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference | Manchester Metropolitan University • Wed 1 Oct, 7:30 - 9:30pm | A History of Britain in 20 Murders with Professor David Wilson | Manchester Met • Article : Bunker Talks Spotlight : Zodwa Nyoni, July 2025 • Wed 10 Sep 12-30-2:30 PM | Sharing DNA: K-Pop and Poetry | Manchester Poetry Library • Thu 14 Aug, 5.30 - 8pm | Games Night w/ Abandon Normal Devices | SODA, Modal gallery • Wed 10 - Thu 11 Sep, 9am-5pm +reception | LUDeC Showcase: Collaborative Research in the Liveable City | School of Digital Arts (SODAA) • PLANTED NOT BURIED .mov • Tue 16 Sep, 9:30AM -5:30PM | Queer Kinship Studies – International Perspectives | Manchester Met • Thu 25 Sep, 5:00pm - 8:00pm | After Hours - Manchester School of Art MA Show 2025 at Manchester School of Art, Manchester on 25th Sep 2025, Multiple Venues • Fri 19 Sep, 9am-3pm | pro-manchester Creative Conference 2025 "The Art of Creativity" | UA92 • Fri Sep 12, 10am-4pm | Centre for Place Writing Pop Up Day Tickets | SODA • Fri 31 Oct, 4:00-5:00pm | Slow Reading Club: The Vampire with Dr Emma Liggins | The Portico Library • Wed 29 Oct, 6:00-8:00pm | Ghost Stories for Halloween: Haunted Places | Raby Castle • Tue 28 Oct, 6:00-7:30pm | Leon Craig and Andrew Michael Hurley in conversation | Blackwells, Manchester • Wed 22 Oct, 5:30-7:00pm | Gothic Historical Fiction: Essie Fox and Kate Griffin in conversation | Portico Library • Thu 16 Oct, 7:00-9:30 pm | Gothic Angels of Death | Highgate Cemetery - London Month of the Dead • A Road To Pan-Africanism | Oxford Road Corridor • Thu 25 Sep, 5:30pm | The Mancunian Way: Music, Memory and the City Tickets | The Salutation • Professor’s book confronts uncomfortable truth about treatment of people with learning disabilities | Manchester Metropolitan University • Talk : Fri 17 Oct, 7pm | What Peace? Whose Freedom? with Gary Younge • Article: Africa Speaks in Manchester: Pan-Africanism, Manchester and a collection gem - People's History Museum • Fri 17 Oct, 5-7pm - Archives in Solidarity | People's History Museum • Sat 18 Oct, 1:00-5:00pm | SEE MY WORLD: Pac 80th Anniversary | Man Met • Online Event : Thu 20 Nov, 10:00am | Researching with young people, book launch • University celebrates National Poetry Day and Autumn Programme Launch for the Poetry Library • Thu 16 Oct, 6:00pm | PORTICO UBUNTU: LOCAL HISTORY, GLOBAL IMPACT, Portico Library • Wed 29 Oct, 1:30pm | It's Always the Hands Tickets | HOME • Fri 14 Nov, 9am-6pm Future-Proofing Equality in Children's Fiction | Grosvenor East • Sat 15 Nov, 9:30am -5:30pm | Information Lives in DIY Culture, School of DIgital Arts • Wed 5 Nov, 11:00-18:00 | Discover Sustainable Green working lives | Manchester Victoria Station • Screening: Patriotic Women’s Association Tickets, Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM | Eventbrite • Thu, Nov 13, 3:00-5:00pm | GenAI in the Disciplines Tickets, Dr Niall Curry • Tue 2 Dec, 5:30pm | Tony Schumacher Bunker Talks | The Salutation • Tue 3 Feb, 5.30pm | Kelly Jones x Adam Z. Robinson | School of Digital Arts • ATM 6 Convenors - Asia Triennial Manchester (ATM) • Thu 11 Dec, 4:00pm | Transient Consumption: The Future for Meaning, Value & Experience | Dalton Building • Wed Nov 5, 2:00pm - 6:00pm | Yang Ah Ham Workshop | Grosvenor East • Thur 6 November, 10:00am - 3:30pm | ATM Symposium: Transvaluation | SODA Cinema • Tue Nov 18 - Fri Nov 21 | Komachi Project Performances | Holden Gallery • Wed Nov 26, 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Yu Chen Wang Screening and Discussion | Manchester Art Gallery • Online Event | Tue 11 Nov, 6:00pm | Registration webinar (The role of Instagram as a language teaching resource) | Microsoft Teams • Wed Nov 5 - Thur Nov 6 | Durational performances by Dondon Hounwn | Holden Gallery • Thur 6 Nov, 6:00pm 8:00pm | Temporal Landscape Scene 1: Tsai Ming-liang Short Films | HOME Manchester • Fri 7 Nov, 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Temporal Landscape Scene 2: Tsai Ming-Liang Short Films | SODA Cinema • Tue 11 Nov, 6:30pm - 8:00pm | Temporal Landscape Scene 3: Tsai Ming-Liang Short Films | SODA Cinema • Thur 13 Nov, 6:30pm - 8:00pm | Temporal Landscape Scene 4: Tsai Ming-Liang Short Films | SODA Cinema • Sat 15 Nov, 4:00pm - 5:30pm | Temporal Landscape Scene 5: Tsai Ming-liang Short Films | HOME Manchester • Thur 6 Nov - Thur 13 Nov | Between the Winds, Amongst the Roots: Bio-Sensing the City - Digital Society Research Cluster | SODA LED Facade • Wed 12 Nov, 10:00am - 12:00pm | Masterclass on AI Ethics with Dr. Florence M. Chee - Digital Society Research Cluster | Grosvenor East 2.06 • Thur 13 Nov, 2:00pm - 4:00pm | Book Launch: Influencer Creep by Sophie Bishop - Digital Society Research Cluster | Grosvenor East • Fri 14 Nov, 11:00am - 12:00pm | Public Talk on Games with Dr. Florence M. Chee - Digital Society Research Cluster | Geoffrey Manton • 21 – 23 January 2026 | Future Flares Festival | Manchester School of Theatre • HYBRID EVENT Thu 4 Dec, 5:00 PM | Bone Music - Manchester Gothic Centre- Geoffrey Manton Lecture Theatre • Wed 21 Jan, 7.30pm—8.35pm | The Ego | Grosvenor East Building • ONLINE : Wed 10 Dec, 9:00-10:00pm - Imagining Ancient Egypt in Video Games - Manchester Game Centre | ARISE conference • Thur Dec 11th - Sat Dec 13th - Season's Greetings (2025) – Manchester School of Theatre • Thu 11 Dec, 4:00-5:00pm | Talking Through F/fashion Seminar | Manchester Fashion Institute • Thur Dec 11th 6:00pm - 7:30pm - Gothic Presents: 1980s Popular Gothic 2 - Popular Screen Cultures • Mon 19 Jan, 4:00 5:00pm | A Blueprint for Behaviour Change: Value & Sustainable Fashion | • Thu 22 Jan, 7.30pm—8.35pm | Imperceptible | Grosvenor East Theatre • Wed 21 Jan, 2pm | The Affective Dramaturgy of Voice | Grosvenor East Building • Fri 23 Jan, 12pm—2pm | An Image is an Act Not a Thing | Grosvenor East Building • Fri 23 Jan, 12.30-1pm & 1.30- 2pm | Exit Music | Grosvenor East Building • Wed 21 Jan, 6-7pm | What Am I Doing This For? | Grosvenor East Building • Future Flares Festival 2026 | 21 – 23 January | Manchester School of Theatre • Thu 22 Jan, 12-2pm | Failure (Terror at Night) | Grosvenor East Theatre • Thu 22 Jan, 6pm—6.35pm | The Visibility of Possibility | Grosvenor East Theatre • Thu 22 Jan, 7pm—7.15pm | Burning | Grosvenor East Theatre • Gothic Presents: 1980s Popular Gothic 2 - Popular Screen Cultures • Tue 14 Jul, 5:30pm | Tanztheater Adrian Look | The Salutation Pub • Tue 24 Mar, 5:30pm | The Guardians of Living Matter | School of Digital Arts (SODA) • Wed 28 Jan, 4:00-7:00pm | How to film “visual trust”? A practical and methodological approach | School of Digital Arts (SODA) • Tue 27 Jan, 3:00-5:30pm | Visual Trust: An ERC project on ethics, images, and visual experimentation | Brooks Building • Thu 22 Jan, 10am—1:00pm | Movements, Sounds, Words, Feelings & Meanings workshop with WilL Dickie | Grosvenor East Building • Look Back - Future Flares Festival 2025 - 3 minute video • ONLINE EVENT Wed 21 Jan, 4pm | “How do we?....”: a conversation with Sanjana Paul - Digital Society Research Cluster • Wed 25 Feb, 6:00-8:00pm | Reimagining the Archive: Film Screening plus Q&A with Hope Strickland | School of Digital Arts (SODA) • Online Event : Thu 29 Jan, 3:00pm | ASLE-UKI Seminar - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment • DoWell Co-design and Lecture Series 2025-26: Session 1 . Designing for Connection: Co-Designing Everyday Systems of Care - mmutube • Tue 19 May, 5:30pm | Stephen Sutcliffe | The Salutation Pub • Tue 5 May, 5:30 PM | Benedict Phillips | The Salutation Pub • Between the Lines – Writing Nature Through Illness and Disability | SEJ • Online Event | Wed 4 Feb, 4:00-5:00pm | Locating Men’s Underwear • Online Event | Mon 20 April, 4:00-5:00pm | The role of emotions and networks in global fashion production • Online Event | Thu 4 Jun, 4:00- 5:00pm | Fashion as Narrative? - From Pre-history to the Present Day • Thu 30 April , 5:30-7:30pm | Sahjan Kooner and Chris Paul Daniels : Double Agents: Play and Performance in Digital Worlds - Sahjan Kooner and Chris Paul Daniels, 30 Apr 2026 | Manchester Metropolitan UniversityDouble Agents: Play and Performance in Digita • Thu 29 January, 5:30-7:30pm | Nina Davies & Adam Cain, 29 Jan 2026 | Manchester Metropolitan UniversityDouble Agents: Play and Performance in Digital Worlds - Nina Davies & Adam Cain | Manchester Metropolitan UniversityDouble Agents: Play and Performance • Thu 26 Feb, 5:30-7:30pm | Double Agents: Play and Performance in Digital Worlds: Milia Xin Bi, Jan Zuiderveld and David Jackson | Sschool of Digotal Arts • Thu 26 Mar 2026, 5:30-7:30pm | Double Agents: Play and Performance in Digital Worlds - Rachel Maclean and Adinda V’ ant Klooster , School of Digital Arts • Wed 4 Feb - Wed 27 May | 1am-4pm | Weekly Drop In Workshop Series with Manchetser Histories Festival • 2 - 23 Feb 2026 | Kielder: A photographic exhibition by Dr Helen McGhie | Manchester Poetry Library • Mon 2 Feb - Mon 23 Feb | Kielder: A photographic exhibition by Dr Helen McGhie, 02 - 23 Feb 2026 | Manchester Metropolitan UniversityKielder: A photographic exhibition by Dr Helen McGhie | Manchester Metropolitan University • Wed 11 Feb, 1:00-3:00pm | Break The Silence: Poetry Workshop | Manchester Metropolitan University Break The Silence: Poetry Workshop | Manchester Metropolitan University • Thu 12 Feb, 4:30-5:30PM | Poets Who Edit | Manchester Metropolitan UniversityPoets Who Edit | Manchester Metropolitan University • Fri 20 Feb, 5:30-7:30pm | Voiced & IMLD26: Opening Event | Voiced & IMLD26: Opening Event • Sat 21 Feb, 11:00am-3:00pm | Voiced Festival Workshop: Writing and Mosaics Workshop with Lydia Hounat | Manchester Metropolitan University Voiced Festival Workshop: Writing and Mosaics Workshop with Lydia Hounat • Sat 21 Feb, 2:00-4:00pm | International Mother Language Day Open Mic | Manchester Metropolitan UniversityInternational Mother Language Day Open Mic • Wed 4 March - Tue 31 March | KFOR and Kosova +25: A Photodocumentary Exhibition, 04 - 31 Mar 2026 | Manchester Metropolitan UniversityKFOR and Kosova +25: A Photodocumentary Exhibition | Manchester Metropolitan University • Critical AI Policy Virtual Fellowship 2026 - Digital Society Research Cluster • Wed 25 Mar, 2.00– 4.00pm | Philosophies of Resistance Frantz Omar Fanon & Stand Up to Racism seminar | People's History Museum • Wed 27 May, 2.00pm - 4.00pm Philosophies of Resistance, - People's History Museum • Sat 25 Apr, 2.00– 4.00pm | Philosophies of Resistance Philosophy in Prisons seminar | People's History Museum • Wed 25 Feb, 6:30– 8:30pm | An Evening with Liam Higginson & Andrew Michael Hurley in Conversation | ebb & flo bookshop, Chorley Theatre - Mcr Centre for Gothic Studies • Wed 18 Feb, 4:15pm | RNCM Research Forum: Imagining Unsung Voices at Erddig | Royal Northern College of Music • 4- 31 Mar : KFOR and Kosova +25: A Photodocumentary Exhibition, | Holden Gallery • Thu 19 Feb, 6:30-7:20pm | Kielder exhibition: An evening with Helen McGhie, Jean Sprackland & Nick Dunn, 19 Feb 2026 | Manchester Metropolitan UniversityKielder exhibition: An evening with Helen McGhie, Jean Sprackland & Nick Dunn | Manchester Poetry Libr • 17 - 27 March, 10am - 5pm weekdays | Animoted - MODAL Gallery, School of Digital Arts (SODA) • Tue 7 Jul , 5.30pm | Deborah Pearson – Bunker Talk | SODA Cinema • Tue 21 Apr, 5.30pm | Be Andr | Salutation Pub • The Manchester International Crime and Justice Film Festival 2026 • Wed 22 Apr, 10:00am- 5:15pm | Ordinary Intimacies One-Day Symposium Tickets,| Geoffrey Manton Building • Wed 20 May, 4:00-7:00pm | Textual Actants Book Launch | Grosvenor East Building • Thu 23 Apr 2:00-7:00pm | Hey! Festival | Cross Street Chapel • 25 - 26 Mar | Manchester Translation Series 2026 | Manchester Poetry Library • Wed 25 Mar, 10:30-12:00pm | Workshop with Kasia Szymanska | Manchester Poetry Library • Wed 25 Mar, 1:00-2:30pm | Lorna Goodison and Colin Bramwell | Manchester Poetry Library • Wed 25 Mar, 3:00-4:30pm | Rahul Soni reading & conversation| Manchester Poetry Library • Wed 25 Mar, 5:00-6:30pm | Editor as Translator | Hybrid • Thu 26 Mar, 10:00-11:30am | Irina Sadovina in conversation | Manchester Poetry Library • Thu 26 Mar, 1:00-2:30pm | Workshop with Jeremy Pak Nelson | Manchester Poetry Library • Thu 26 Mar 3:00-4:30pm | Melissa Tanti in conversation | Manchester Poetry Library • Thu 26 Mar, 5:00-6:30pm | Final Evening Poetry Reading | Hybrid • 8 Minute Watch | Emote VR Voicer in progress • Wed 22 Apr, 4:30 -6:30pm | Sociology in Action: Advancing Anti-Racism Praxis in Sport | Geoffrey Manton Building • Sat 19 Sep, 9:30am – 8:30pm | Games Workshop Research and Play Convention 2026 | Anthony Burgess Foundation • Wed 29 Apr, 9am- 1pm | Reimagining Community Sport for Children and Young People | Institute of Sport Building • Fri 8 May, 12:30-3pm | Searching for Fatness In and Through Digital Technologies | Grosvenor East building • Fri 15 May 2026 | The Poetry of Suicide: J.T. Welsch in conversation with Nikolai Duffy | Mcr Poetry Library • Thu 28 May, 5:00-8:00pm | Beyond Babel Film Festival - Embrace of the Serpent (12) | SODA Cinema • Tue 2 Jun, 5:00-8:00pm | Beyond Babel Film Festival - Tomorrow / Demain (CTBA) | SODA Cinema • Festival of Libraries 2026 – Manchester City of Literature • Thu 11 Jun, 4:30- 6:30pm | Ecological Harm Reduction: Reimagining Drug Policy | Geoffrey Manton Building • Sat 6 Jun, 10:am – 4pm | Ann Radcliffe, St Albans Abbey and the Gothic | St Albans Abbey • Sat 13 Jun, 7-8pm | ONLINE Amelia Edwards’s Ghost Stories and Dark Tourism with Emma Liggins • Thu 11 Jun, 6:00-7:30pm | Critical AI Literacies: Roundtable Discussion & Exhibition | Chorlton Library • Fri 5 & Sat 6 Jun, 11 am - 8pm | Manchester Histories Festival 2026 | Films and Talks | Manchester Central Library Eventbrite • Fri 5 Jun, 4.00pm–5.30pm: Down at the Club Revisited with Music and Sonic Studies | Central Library • Thu 9 Jul, 4 – 5:30pm | Grimlaw: Warhammer 40k and Constitutional Systems | Geoffrey Manton Building • Tue 7 Jul, 10am – 2pm | Roots of Resistance: Rosa Grindon & memoirs from the Shakespearean Garden • Wed 8 - Thu 9 Jul, 9:30am - 4pm || Storytellers + Machines 2026, School of Digital Arts • Sat 18 Jul, 10am-3:30pm | ONLINE EVENT : Anubis in Contemporary Popular Culture • Thu 9 Jul, 5:00-6:00pm | Falmouth Horror and Gaming Conference • Wed 22 & Fri 24 Jul 12:00- 5:00pm : Call for Volunteers Emote VR Voicer – Recording Sessions | SODA • Tue 22 Sep , 5:30-7:00pm | #168: Natalie Reckert | Manchester Poetry Library • Wed 23 Sep , 5:00-7:00pm | Inaugural lecture: Professor Rob Drummond | Grosvenor East Building • Thu 3 - Fri 4 Sep, 7pm | Olympus Has But Snow - £10/£5 | Grosvenor East Theatre • Sat 12 Sep, 10am - 4:00pm | More-Than-Human Photography Studio Portraits | Islington Mill • Thu 3 Sep 9:30am / 11:30am | Radio and Modern German philosophy: Double Book Launch & Audio Drama • Fri 4 Sep : Dr Josh Platzky Miller and Dr Lea Cantor - Society for European Philosophy • Sat 5 Sep, 10am - 12:30pm | Living Light Lab: Explore the Creative Power of Soil | Islington Mill • Thu 10 & Fri 11 Sep, 9:30am-4:30pm | Occulture as Method Symposium | School of Digital Arts (SODA) • Tue 25 Aug, 5:00 - 7:00pm | Fashion Police: Exhibition Launch | SODA • 24 Aug - 14 Sep, Mon-Fri 10am-5pm | Fashion Police: Changing Perceptions via Uniform Heritage | SODA • Tue 15 Sep, 9:00am - 6:00pm | Decolonised Narratives? Unravelling cultural nuance and navigating identity | Grosvenor East Building • Wed 16 Sep, 2:00- 3:00pm | Ludolinguistics: Past, present, and future | Grosvenor East Building • Thu 24 Sep, 5:00-7:30pm | Sociology & Criminology Seminar Series - Jimmy Saville: A British Horror Story • fashionnarratives.mmu.ac.uk • Tue 20 Oct, 3:00-4:00pm | Enduring Fashion: Care, Connection & Creativity in Fashion Sustainability | Dalton Building • Entangled Light: Creative Reflections from the Garden Tickets, Wednesday, November 11 • 5 PM - 6 PM | Eventbrite • STWOScreening — The Portico Library • Tue 13 Oct, 6:30-8:00pm | Ghost Month: Simon Wroe in conversation with Susan Barker | Serenity Booksellers • Thu 15 Oct, 6:30-7:30pm | Heritage Talk: The Gothic Landscape of the Pendle Witches | Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery • Tue 20 Oct, 4:00-5:00pm | Enduring Fashion: Care, Connection & Creativity in Fashion Sustainability | MMU John Dalton Building • Tue 20 Oct, 5:30-7:30pm | You Have Been Summoned: A Jury Service Experience | Festival of Social Science | Manchester Police Musuem • Stories, Stigma and Strength | Events | Festival of Social Science • Wed 14 Oct, 5:30pm | Film Screening: We Were Here › Q & A with Director Fred Kudjo Kuwornu.