Past events
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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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Creative Health: Supporting older adults to live well in Greater Manchester
14:00 - 17:00 19 November 2025
Creative Health: Supporting older adults to live well in Greater Manchester Join us for an afternoon exploring creative health approaches to supporting older adults to live well in Greater Manchester, with a particular focus on the link between creative health and brain health. The event is co-convened...
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Reflecting on Manchester Criminal Prosecutions: A panel event
17:00 - 19:00 17 November 2025
Participants Jade Akoum, sister of Yousef Makki, campaigner David Conn, The Guardian Professor Eithne Quinn, The University of Manchester Pete Weatherby KC, Garden Court North Dr Patrick Williams, Harm to Healing Coalition About the event This panel centres the...
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Jeanette Winterson (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)
19:00 - 20:15 11 November 2025
Forty years after her era-defining debut Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson returns with One Aladdin Two Lamps - a bold, brilliant celebration of the transformative power of storytelling and a radical look at the future. Written in Jeanette’s unique style, One Aladdin Two Lamps, cracks...
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Building Futures, Thinking Long-Term: Insights on Collaborating with Those Impacted by Long-Term Imprisonment to Shape Policies That Affect Them
09:00 - 17:00 6 November 2025
The Prison Reform Trust (PRT) is an independent UK charity working to create a just, humane and effective penal system. Building Futures – PRT’s six-year programme funded by the National Lottery Community Fund – has explored the experiences of people serving long prison sentences. The programme...
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You Ought To Know – Reclaiming Black British Music His and Herstories
18:00 - 19:30 6 November 2025
Join us as we share the findings from a recent research project, “You Ought To Know – Reclaiming Black British music His and Herstories”. You will learn more about the stories of artists underrepresented in the history of the Manchester music and cultural scene, through an in-conversation with...
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Zadie Smith (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)
19:30 - 20:45 4 November 2025
Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved writers of her generation, joins us to discuss her illuminating and keenly-awaited new essay collection Dead and Alive. Written with her usual wit and insight, Zadie takes us from an exploration of artists – including Kara Walker and Celia Paul – to Glastonbury...
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