Events
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MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 1)
18:00 - 19:00 31 October 2026
Join us this Fall for the MANTIS Festival, featuring electroacoustic works and a programme by special guest composer and guitarist Marc Estibeiro, whose innovative work explores the intersection of acoustic instruments and electronics
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MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 2)
19:30 - 21:00 31 October 2026
Join us this fall for the MANTIS Festival, showcasing innovative audio-visual and electroacoustic works by postgraduate composers at the University of Manchester
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MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 3)
14:00 - 15:30 1 November 2026
Join us this Fall for the MANTIS Festival, showcasing innovative audio-visual and electroacoustic works by postgraduate composers at the University of Manchester.
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'The Covenant’ World Premiere - part of?Ghost of the AI Empire, an immersive science-fiction opera trilogy
19:00 - 21:00 6 November 2026
Set in 2100 A.D., amid AI arms race between UK’s Commonwealth AI and Japan’s Shogun AI, The Covenant follows disgraced British CEO Jacob Dreadmore. Exiled after breaking environmental laws for profit, he sails east with his secretary carrying secret code. Operactive Arts Production Directed by Alexandra Huang-Kokina Music scores and soundscape...
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'The gender pay gap amongst high educated workers' - Arthur Lewis Lecture
17:00 - 19:30 17 November 2026
Join us for the Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture as our guest speaker Dame Rachel Griffith, Professor of Economics, reflects on the gender pay gap, and why it is still so prevalent in highly skilled work. The extent to which males are paid more than females (the gender pay gap) has declined considerably over the past several decades, but much more...
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