Events
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Creative Health Research Symposium: Social Care and Creative Practice
12:30 - 16:00 16 June 2026
Creative Manchester’s creative health and social care symposium focuses on arts and creative practices this year related to social care. This year, Creative Manchester’s creative health and social care symposium focuses on arts and creative practices developed by various regional organisations. Come and hear from researchers and practitioners...
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Frederick Douglass: A Global Life (SOLD OUT)
18:30 - 20:00 18 June 2026
Exploring the legacy and continued relevance of this remarkable abolitionist campaigner and advocate for social justice. Join us for the Inaugural Frederick Douglass Lecture, presented in a partnership between the Manchester Lit & Phil, The University of Manchester and CARISMA. Context In 2021, the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society...
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Solstice and Equinox series: Cosmic Titans – in conversation with David Olusoga
19:00 - 22:00 19 June 2026
Join Creative Manchester and Jodrell Bank for an evening that moves between science, art and philosophy to ponder what it means to imagine the universe when what we know is only ever partial. Reflecting on Cosmic Titans – an exhibition of sculpture, installation and photographic work created through collaborations between contemporary artists...
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Creativity and AI: Free and Open-source AI Tools and Platforms
14:30 - 17:00 25 June 2026
This event forms part of a three-part CreaTech Network Series running between February and April 2026, designed to strengthen connections across the CreaTech ecosystem in Greater Manchester and the North West, and to support collaboration between the University and the wider creative and cultural industries community. The third and final event...
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Irrepressible: an exhibition celebrating 20 years of the Morgan Centre
16:00 - 17:30 1 July 2026
Join us to celebrate 20 years of the Morgan Centre with an exhibition private view, poetry and creative activities For the last 20 years, the Morgan Centre has explored the relational nature of social life as it is experienced in the everyday. Fuelled by unruly imagination and curiosity, and an inventive openness to new and different disciplinary...
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