Past events
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Creativity and AI: Entertainment
14:30 - 17:00 26 February 2026
This event forms part of a three-part CreaTech Network Series running between February and June 2026, designed to strengthen connections across the CreaTech ecosystem in Greater Manchester and the Northwest, and to support collaboration between the University and the wider creative and cultural industries...
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Linguistic Landscapes in Manchester and Beyond – EVENT CANCELLED
11:00 - 12:00 21 February 2026
EVENT CANCELLED Join the Linguistic Diversity Collective for a talk by Dr Serge Sagna, Prof. Tine Breban and Dr Simone de Cia to mark International Mother Language Day 2026. This talk centres around the multilingual public signs found across towns and cities, and what they tell us about language...
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Looking for Languages – Family-friendly trail at Manchester Museum – EVENT CANCELLED
13:00 - 16:00 21 February 2026
EVENT CANCELLED Free, family-friendly language themed trail around Manchester Museum to celebrate International Mother Language Day 2026. The Linguistic Diversity Collective invites you to join us for some half-term fun to celebrate International Mother Language Day at Manchester Museum. Grab your activity...
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Exhibition: MossWorlds - Re-Storying Urban Lives
12 February - 2 March 2026
Now exhibiting in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor: MossWorlds – Re-Storying Urban Lives Until 2 March 2026 Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor The exhibition showcases the mosses of Manchester from the 19th Century to the present, tracing their shared artistic, political and botanical stories....
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MossWorlds: Re-storying Urban Lives
17:30 - 19:15 12 February 2026
Join us for the launch of the 'MossWorlds: Re-storying Urban Lives' exhibition, followed by a panel discussion. This exhibition showcases the mosses of Manchester, from the 19th century to the present, tracing some of their interconnected artistic, political and botanical stories to imagine (mossy)...
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Interdisciplinarity &: 2026 Series - Leadership & Team Building: Challenge-Led Hackathon
14:00 - 16:00 11 February 2026
In a vast university setting, bringing together interdisciplinary researchers to tackle complex challenges is essential. These teams combine expertise from various fields, focusing on problems that cannot be solved through a single research lens. But how do you find colleagues with similar interests?...
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Research Cafe: Unlocking Historical Archives with AI - Opportunities and Challenges
12:30 - 15:30 20 January 2026
Join us for an informal research café exploring how AI can shape and affect historical archives. Recent advances in AI have made it feasible to automatically analyse unstructured content at scale, including large collections of cultural heritage data that come in the form of texts and/or images. At...
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AI at Manchester Exhibition
14 January - 11 February 2026
This academic year, the University of Manchester is celebrating 75 years since Alan Turing established the Turing Test by spotlighting the work of early career researchers on the future of AI. As part of this, Creative Manchester are delighted to host an exhibition celebrating the work of academics researching...
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Follow the White Rabbit: In defence of conspiracy theories
18:00 - 19:30 3 December 2025
A reporter’s perspective on conspiracy theories with Gabriel Gatehouse, journalist and creator of 'The Coming Storm' podcast. Gabriel Gatehouse has spent many years investigating conspiracy theories, particularly in the United States. In this lecture he argues that conspiracy theories contain valuable...
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BEYOND Conference 2025
24 - 26 November 2025
Creative Manchester are delighted to be a partner of BEYOND 2025 conference again, where we will share some of the innovative research by early career researchers in digital and creative technologies. We will also provide insights into projects that are shaping the future of the creative and cultural...
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