Past events
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The British Academy Lecture Series: Peter Sellars - How to End a War: The Living and the Dead Working Together in Baroque Opera
18:00 - 19:30 4 February 2025
Join us for an extraordinary evening with one of the most influential theatre directors of our time, Peter Sellars. Hosted at The University of Manchester, this event promises to explore the power of art in fostering social change and moral expression. We welcome you to the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and...
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On Me
19:00 - 20:45 5 March 2025
Presented by Dangerous To Know theatre company Directed by Helen Parry Christian and Shona have been cast in a tacky true crime docudrama as an abusive predator and his victim. As the two actors explore the undeniable attraction forming between them off set, they stumble into questions of male responsibility, female safety and the dangers of modern...
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Environmental Humanities Annual Event: Living Proof – A Climate Story
14:00 - 17:45 30 April 2025
Please join us for this inaugural event, the first in a series to showcase and celebrate some of the diverse work on environmental questions and challenges undertaken by colleagues, alumni and students from across the Faculty of Humanities. We begin with the first screening in England of Dr Emily Munro’s 2021 documentary film, Living Proof:...
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Playing with Cruelty: Pop Culture, Performativity, and the Stanford Prison Experiment
16:00 - 18:00 4 June 2025
Professor Stephen Reicher (University of St. Andrews) in conversation with Professor Stephen Scott-Bottoms (University of Manchester) This special event marks the UK launch of a new 3-part documentary series, The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth, which premiers on the National Geographic channel on Sunday 15 June. Social psychologist...
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Welcome week show - ADMA Productions Ltd and Ransack Theatre present… Jurassic
19:00 - 20:00 26 September 2025
A new comedy about disinformation and dinosaurs, written by Bruntwood Prize-winning Tim Foley. A late-night screening of a Steven Spielberg classic causes carnage on a university campus. What starts as a misunderstanding about the film quickly spirals into mass redundancies and bizarre conspiracies. The fight for academic survival is on! This...
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WCLC: Silent Film and Live Music Accompaniment with Frame Ensemble. Presented by the departments of Music, Drama and Film.
13:10 - 13:50 2 October 2025
Enjoy a silent movie with live accompaniment from Frame Ensemble – a group who creates music on the spur of the moment, as they watch the film with the audience. Their soundtrack is extremely responsive to the film, closely following the flow of images. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series,...
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Inundated: A Climate Conversation in Performance
17:30 - 19:30 28 October 2025
Join us for a unique interactive theatre event exploring how our working lives must adapt to the climate crisis. Set in a mock networking meeting, this performance invites business professionals, climate practitioners, and curious minds to reflect, connect, and act.
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Inundated: A Climate Conversation in Performance
17:30 - 19:30 4 November 2025
Join us for a unique interactive theatre event exploring how our working lives must adapt to the climate crisis. Set in a mock networking meeting, this performance invites business professionals, climate practitioners, and curious minds to reflect, connect, and act.
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