Events
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Colours in the Field: Cotton, Empire and alternative futures in India
16:30 - 18:00 3 November 2026
Join us for an exhibition launch and panel discussion on the colonial legacies of India’s extractive cotton monocultures. Exhibition Overview: Combining archival research with natural pigments screen printed on cotton, Colours in the Field unearths the colonial legacies of India’s extractive cotton monocultures and their connections to Manchester....
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Research Café: Muslim creativity, resistance and community wellbeing
12:00 - 14:30 12 November 2026
How can creativity be mobilised to build solidarities, create community care networks, and offer healing? We ask how creativity can be mobilised to build solidarities, create community care networks, and offer healing from the violent systems within which many Muslim artists and creatives exist. While creative health is evidenced as offering...
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BEYOND Conference 2026
23 - 25 November 2026
BEYOND Festival and Conference is back in Media City for 2026! The event brings together creative industry leaders, researchers, policymakers, technologists and funders to explore how new thinking moves from research into practice. This year, we are proud to be one of the conference’s partners and will showcase our platform’s work as well...
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Celebrating older people’s lives and communities in North Manchester: An exhibition and celebration event
25 November 2026
This event celebrates the lives of older people living in North Manchester and their contribution to their communities. At this pop-up exhibition, creative work produced by older residents and community groups across North Manchester will be shown including photographs, a zine, embroideries and calligraphy. These creative pieces were created during...
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