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Sounding The Story: Contemporary Music Inspired by Text and Tale
19:30 - 21:30 22 September 2025
A contemporary music concert featuring new works by postgraduate composers, recent graduates, and staff from the University of Manchester’s Department of Music. Showcasing compositions by Alex Apostolopoulos, Joshua Brown, Philip Grange, Sarah Keirle-Dos Santos, Israel Lai, Adnan Marafi, Camden Reeves, and Richard Whalley. This event is free.
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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 Movie and Live Music Accompaniment with Frame ensemble. Presented by the departments of Music, Drama and Film.
13:10 - 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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Guest lecture: Place-making and the role of culture in Manchester
17:30 - 20:00 8 October 2025
Creative Manchester and the Manchester Urban Institute are delighted to welcome Luthfur Rahman OBE, former Executive Leader for Culture and Leisure and Manchester City Council Deputy Councillor. Luthfur will deliver a guest lecture exploring place-making, planning and the role of culture, followed by an in-conversation with Abi Gilmore, Professor...
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Lunchtime concert - In Memoriam, Gubaidulina (1931-2025)
13:10 - 14:00 9 October 2025
Bach Cello Suite No. 1 Gubaidulina Reflections on the theme B-A-C-H Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7 The Danels pay tribute to Soviet avant-garde composer Sofia Gubaidulina. Followed at 2.30pm by Quatuor Danel public seminar - Hotseat Workshop The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series, which...
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Evening Concert with Richard Whalley (piano)
19:30 - 21:30 10 October 2025
Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5, Marc Danel, violin and Richard Whalley, piano Jim Aitchison Piano Quintet No. 1 with Richard Whalley, piano Shostakovich String Quartet Quartet No. 9 Pianist Richard Whalley joins the Danels for Brahms' Hungarian Dance No.5, which is quoted extensively by Aitchison in the finale of his quintet. The concert closes...
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WCLC: In Focus - Jack Sheen. Manchester Camerata featuring Eleanore Cockerham
13:10 - 16 October 2025
A whisper of Japan, a luminous glimpse into India, and a delicate sound spun from the words of a symbolist poet — this ethereal concert grows from a trio of miniature masterpieces from the dawn of modernism, all premiered together in Paris in 1914. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series, which...
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Manchester University Music Society: Symphony Orchestra Concert
18:30 - 20:30 18 October 2025
This concert features the premiere of PHD student, Tanguy Pocquet Du Haut-Jusse’s new composition for orchestra followed by Jacob Ter Veldhuis’ Tallahatchie Concerto for Saxophone performed by concerto competition winner, Jamie Marriot. In the second half, the orchestra will play Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7.
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The Poems of Seamus Heaney (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)
19:30 - 20:45 20 October 2025
Don’t miss this special evening celebrating the life and work of Seamus Heaney, as five acclaimed poets gather to mark the publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney. The definitive edition of his work, it encompasses all the poems that Seamus published in his lifetime (from Death of a Naturalist (1966) to Human Chain (2010)) alongside a number...
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WCLC: Spartimu - Music from Corsica (concert plus workshop)
13:10 - 16:00 23 October 2025
Concert 1.10pm–1.50pm, followed by workshop 2.30pm–4pm Spartimu are a renowned Corsican group, dedicated to teaching and performing ‘cantu in paghjella’ – the UNESCO listed distinctive, highly ornamented and improvisational traditional polyphony of Corsica. Spartimu has performed internationally, been recorded and documented by the US...
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