Past events
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SPACES for young people's wellbeing
16:00 - 17:30 8 October 2024
Join us for an absorbing webinar on creating SPACES (Supporting Participation in Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Sports) to improve young people’s wellbeing. Hear from researchers, artists, allied professionals and young people, and join the discussion about how we can act together for change. With...
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MLF 2024: Humanise with Thomas Heatherwick
18:00 - 19:15 8 October 2024
‘Humanise is a masterwork.’ Alain de Botton One of the world’s most prolific designers, Thomas Heatherwick is fighting ‘an epidemic of boringness’ and demands that we put human emotion back at the heart of building design. With Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World, Thomas draws...
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MIOIR Seminar Series - Kickstarting Industrial Diversification?
14:30 - 15:30 7 October 2024
Kickstarting Industrial Diversification? Dr. Nicola Cortinovis, Assistant Professor of Economic Geography at Utrecht University, will be discussing the potential of crowdfunding (CF) platforms to foster industrial diversification. Since the 2000s, crowdfunding (CF) platforms provide opportunities for...
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Manchester Literature Festival: Lindsey Hilsum
15:30 - 16:45 6 October 2024
‘I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own.’ In the four decades she’s spent as a foreign correspondent, Lindsey Hilsum has always carried a book of poetry with her. Poetry has helped her...
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Manchester Literature Festival: David Peace at HOME
18:00 - 19:15 6 October 2024
Limbs and hearts may be broken, but the spirit remains. Their message is that the club is not dead. Manchester United lives on. In February 1958, BEA Flight 609 crashed on take-off at Munich Airport. On board were the Busby Babes, the young, gifted Manchester United team, along with journalists and...
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