Events
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Using QGIS to map 2021/22 census data from the UK Data Service
10:00 - 12:30 21 October 2026
A table of numbers is not always the best way to present census data, often we want to visualise the information as a map to help people see patterns quickly. This free online workshop will focus on the use of the free and open-source cross-platform QGIS GIS application to create maps and other geographical visualisations from 2021/22 census data...
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SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents Karen Solie: Rylands Poetry Reading
19:00 - 20:15 22 October 2026
This year’s annual Rylands Poetry Reading is delivered by Karen Solie. Her latest collection Wellwater, exploring the profound impact of economic and environmental crises on human culture alongside vivid childhood memories of growing up in rural Canada, won both the T.S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2025. Don’t miss...
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MUMS Symphony Orchestra
14:30 - 16:30 24 October 2026
The MUMS Symphony Orchestra, one of our premier ensembles will perform a variety of Repertoire including pieces by Britten and Rachmaninoff. One of the winners of our Concerto Competition will be performing in this concert, so it isn’t to be missed.
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SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents An Afternoon with Elif Shafak
15:00 - 16:15 25 October 2026
Join us for a special afternoon with one of today’s most influential and much-loved literary voices. Internationally-acclaimed novelist Elif Shafak returns to celebrate her extraordinary new novel, In One Brief Moment All Eternity. Spanning decades and continents, from revolutionary 19th-century France to Istanbul, Egypt and Beirut, this luminous...
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Those Serendipitous Mavericks: The Ratio Club and early British Cybernetics
13:00 - 15:00 29 October 2026
A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this hitherto occluded history for our shared socio-technical futures. All events will run from 13:00 to 15:00 and will be hosted at the University of Manchester. Event...
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