Past events
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Creativity and AI: Cultural Heritage
13:30 - 16:00 30 April 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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Communities of Environmental Knowledge
11:00 - 13:00 29 April 2026
Join us for an informal research café exploring the ways community support and involvement connect to environmental action. Community support and involvement are crucial to the success of environmental action; diversity of both knowledge and experience are central to achieving effective and equitable...
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Plants and Creative Practice 2: Sound
16:00 - 17:15 28 April 2026
The second in the Plants and Creative Practice online event series This second event in the Plants and Creative Practice webinar series brings together Korean composer and eco-sonic artist Younje Cho (IU, Jacobs) and improviser, artist and researcher Henry McPherson (UoM, Music), who will talk about...
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Research Café - Religion, Culture and Community
11:00 - 13:00 23 April 2026
Join Creative Manchester and the Manchester Museum for an informal research café exploring the ways in which cultural institutions and faith spaces bring people together. As societies become increasingly polarised, cultural institutions and faith spaces have a vital role to play in bringing people...
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Solstice and Equinox series: Cottonopolis-The Origins of Global Manchester
17:30 - 18:45 23 April 2026
Join us at the next event in the Solstice and Equinox series as we explore Manchester’s cotton industry and its global connections. Cottonopolis examines how 18th-century Manchester was transformed into a manufacturing centre at the heart of Britain’s expanding cotton trade – a city so closely...
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Responses to Ecological Crises through Creative and Civic Participation
11:00 - 13:00 22 April 2026
Join us for an informal research café exploring the ways in which art, research and movement come together to break down barriers. At this event you will hear about the Manchester Histories ‘This is Us’ project, which celebrates overlooked stories, reflects on complex legacies, and creates spaces...
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Interdisciplinarity &: 2026 Series - Co-Authorship: Rotating Roundtables
13:30 - 15:30 21 April 2026
Co-authoring can offer significant benefits in interdisciplinary research bringing together experts from various fields to produce impactful publications. How can we effectively manage co-authoring processes to ensure equitable contributions and recognition? What best practices can we adopt to enhance...
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Beyond Growth: Cultural & Creative Industry Policies for a New XXI Century
09:00 - 14:30 17 April 2026
Join us for an open Stakeholder Forum to review and reflect on economic development policies for the creative and cultural sectors for the 21st century across the Global North and the Global South. This programme is the second day of a two-day workshop held at the University of Manchester in partnership...
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Co-Creation for Innovation in Creative Industries Symposium
09:00 - 15:00 16 April 2026
Join us for a forward-looking dialogue between academics and practitioners exploring the role of co-creation in innovation across the creative industries. Creative companies are increasingly embracing co-creation that enables deeper engagement with audiences, the development of socially and environmentally...
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Plants and Creative Practice: Poetry
17:00 - 18:15 26 March 2026
What do plants have to do with creative work? The first event in the Plants and Creative Practice webinar series brings together poets John McAuliffe (The University of Manchester) and Cathy Bowman (Indiana University) for a lively exchange of work and conversation about how plant life might enter,...
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