NEW EVENT: CreaTech Connect: Accelerating University–Industry Partnerships 📅 18 May, 4.30pm-6.00pm 📍 SISTER Building, M1 7JR 🎟️ https://ow.ly/HUr250YFIgv Join us to explore how The University of Manchester can help businesses and academics work together for innovative applications of CreaTech.

NEXT WEEK: Research Café – Religion, Culture and Community 📅 23 April, 12–2pm 📍Manchester Museum 🎟️ https://ow.ly/TXbc50YkYuY Join us this St George's Day as we explore how cultural institutions and faith spaces can bring people together in increasingly divided societies.

Future of Opera – Human–AI Improvisation 🎶🌐 🗓️19/05, 4–7pm 📍International Anthony Burgess Foundation 🎟️ https://ow.ly/JSGA50YC96z A workshop by Tuning Into Opera (ENO) with the OperAI: Future of Opera series exploring how live human–AI improvisation can widen participation in opera.

Future of Opera – Human–AI Improvisation 🎶🌐 🗓️19/05, 4–7pm 📍International Anthony Burgess Foundation 🎟️ https://ow.ly/JSGA50YC96z A workshop by Tuning Into Opera (ENO) with the OperAI: Future of Opera series exploring how live human–AI improvisation can widen participation in opera.

IN ONE WEEK: Solstice and Equinox: Cottonopolis - The Origins of Global Manchester Join us to examine how 18th-century Manchester was transformed into a manufacturing centre at the heart of Britain’s cotton trade 📍John Rylands Research Institute and Library 📅 23 April 🎟️ https://ow.ly/opmJ50YETFE

IN ONE WEEK: Responses to Ecological Crises through Creative and Civic Participation 📅 22 April, 12.00–2.00pm 📍 Contact Theatre, Space 0 🎟️ https://ow.ly/crB350Yq244 Join us for a research café exploring how art, research and movement can break down barriers faced by marginalised communities.

In two weeks: Communities of Environmental Knowledge 📅 29 April, 12 – 2pm 📍Contact Theatre, Space 0 🎟️https://ow.ly/xbT850YCaRn... Join us for an informal research café exploring the ways community support and involvement connect to environmental action.

The University of Manchester, through Creative Manchester, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Tokyo University of the Arts and National Center for Art Research, Japan Find out more about the partnership: https://ow.ly/rYJK50YJJU0

In five weeks: Proof of Human - AI, Copyright, and the Fight for Creative Authorship with Andrew Melchior, CTO of Massive Attack and founder of Genotone Ltd. 📅 18 May, 6.00pm-7.30pm 📍 Auditorium, SISTER Building 🎟️ https://ow.ly/nNG550YEPvi

We are hiring: Director of Creative Manchester Research Platform Applications are now being invited from senior academic colleagues (Professorial level) interested in leading the Creative Manchester Research Platform. Deadline to apply: 5 May 2026. Recruitment pack: https://ow.ly/h28e50YCe89

IN TWO WEEKS: Research Café – Religion, Culture and Community 📅 23 April, 12–2pm 📍Manchester Museum 🎟️ https://ow.ly/TXbc50YkYuY Join us this St George's Day as we explore how cultural institutions and faith spaces can bring people together in increasingly divided societies.

Future of Opera – Human–AI Improvisation 🎶🌐 🗓️19/05, 4–7pm 📍International Anthony Burgess Foundation 🎟️ https://ow.ly/JSGA50YC96z A workshop by Tuning Into Opera (ENO) with the OperAI: Future of Opera series exploring how live human–AI improvisation can widen participation in opera.

Join us alongside Digital Futures & TIC Manchester for the next CreaTech Network event on Cultural Heritage, which will explore applications & ethical considerations of AI in digitised collections and heritage data. 🗓️30 April, 2.30pm - 5pm 📍Manchester Art Gallery, M2 3JL 🎟️ https://ow.ly/1xxR50Yr6Ox

IN TWO WEEKS: Responses to Ecological Crises through Creative and Civic Participation 📅 22 April, 12.00–2.00pm 📍 Contact Theatre, Space 0 🎟️ https://ow.ly/crB350Yq244 Join us for a research café exploring how art, research and movement can break down barriers faced by marginalised communities.

In three weeks: Communities of Environmental Knowledge 📅 29 April, 12 – 2pm 📍Contact Theatre, Space 0 🎟️https://ow.ly/xbT850YCaRn... Join us for an informal research café exploring the ways community support and involvement connect to environmental action.

EVENT: Solstice and Equinox: Cottonopolis - The Origins of Global Manchester Join us to examine how 18th-century Manchester was transformed into a manufacturing centre at the heart of Britain’s cotton trade 📍John Rylands Research Institute and Library 📅 23 April 🎟️ FREE https://ow.ly/opmJ50YETFE

IN THREE WEEKS: Research Café – Religion, Culture and Community 📅 23 April, 12–2pm 📍Manchester Museum 🎟️ https://ow.ly/TXbc50YkYuY Join us this St George's Day as we explore how cultural institutions and faith spaces can bring people together in increasingly divided societies.

We are hiring: Director of Creative Manchester Research Platform Applications are now being invited from senior academic colleagues (Professorial level) interested in leading the Creative Manchester Research Platform. Deadline to apply: 5 May 2026. Recruitment pack: https://ow.ly/h28e50YCe89

Join Multifaceted for The Art and Literature of Faces, the fourth workshop of their interdisciplinary research seminars on the Human Face and Facial Reconstruction. 📅 Wednesday, 22 April, 1.30pm - 4.30pm 📍 Booth Street East, Lecture Theatre B (G.03) 🎟️ No advance registration required

📢New Glass Corridor Exhibition: 🖼️From Page to Stage: 20 Years of Manchester Literature Festival 📆Duration: 26 March – 30 April 2026 📍Glass Corridor exhibition space, Samuel Alexander Building, Oxford Road

Future of Opera – Human–AI Improvisation 🎶🌐 🗓️19/05, 4–7pm 📍International Anthony Burgess Foundation 🎟️ https://ow.ly/JSGA50YC96z A workshop by Tuning Into Opera (ENO) with the OperAI: Future of Opera series exploring how live human–AI improvisation can widen participation in opera.

IN THREE WEEKS: Responses to Ecological Crises through Creative and Civic Participation 📅 22 April, 12.00–2.00pm 📍 Contact Theatre, Space 0 🎟️ https://ow.ly/crB350Yq244 Join us for a research café exploring how art, research and movement can break down barriers faced by marginalised communities.

Join us alongside Digital Futures & TIC Manchester for the next CreaTech Network event on Cultural Heritage, which will explore applications & ethical considerations of AI in digitised collections and heritage data. 🗓️30 April, 2.30pm - 5pm 📍Manchester Art Gallery, M2 3JL 🎟️ https://ow.ly/1xxR50Yr6Ox

📢Major new UKRI-funded research project: 'Air Spaces: Getting the Measure of Air' involves researchers from across UoM & community partners to explore air pollution inequalities Builds on a great pilot project. So excited to see where this research takes us! www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/m...

IN FOUR WEEKS: Research Café – Religion, Culture and Community 📅 23 April, 12–2pm 📍Manchester Museum 🎟️ https://ow.ly/TXbc50YkYuY Join us this St George's Day as we explore how cultural institutions and faith spaces can bring people together in increasingly divided societies.

Great to see @karengabay.bsky.social on BBC North West Tonight alongside one of this year's MOBO Awards hosts Eddie Kadi to discuss tonight's awards ceremony taking place in our beautiful city for the first time since its inception 30 years ago🎶 @uomhums.bsky.social

📢Exhibition launch and poetry reading by Lemn Sissay OBE 📆: 30 March, 4-5.30pm 📍: Samuel Alexander Building (South foyer) 🎟️: https://ow.ly/7ew650YyFtq You are invited to join us for the launch event for From Page to Stage Exhibition: 20 Years of Manchester Literature Festival

We were delighted to venture further afield than usual for yesterday's event 'Music and Manchester: The Past, Present and Future of the Computer in Electronic Music', which took place in Kilburn Building in the heart of the Computer Science Department 💾 @uomscieng.bsky.social

Join us alongside Digital Futures & TIC Manchester for the next CreaTech Network event on Cultural Heritage, which will explore applications & ethical considerations of AI in digitised collections and heritage data. 🗓️30 April, 2.30pm - 5pm 📍Manchester Art Gallery, M2 3JL 🎟️ https://ow.ly/1xxR50Yr6Ox

The University of Manchester will become the permanent home of the Infected Blood Inquiry Memorial. Watch back the remarks from Andy Burnham, Sir Brain Langstaff and Nalin Thakkar: https://ow.ly/aH1U50YyL8u More information: https://ow.ly/I0QW50YyL6r

IN FOUR WEEKS: Responses to Ecological Crises through Creative and Civic Participation 📅 22 April, 12.00–2.00pm 📍 Contact Theatre, Space 0 🎟️ https://ow.ly/crB350Yq244 Join us for a research café exploring how art, research and movement can break down barriers faced by marginalised communities.

📅 29 April, 12 – 2pm 📍Contact Theatre, Space 0 🎟️https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/communities-of-environmental-knowledge-tickets-1984382091253?aff=SocialMedia Join us for an informal research café exploring the ways community support and involvement connect to environmental action.

Join the Co‑Creation for Innovation in Creative Industries Symposium at Alliance Manchester Business School on 16 April. Explore how emerging technologies are reshaping collaboration to deliver creative and impactful innovation. 🔗https://ow.ly/VyyR50Yyuei Manchester Institute of Innovation Research

📢TOMORROW: Music & Manchester - The past, present & future of computers in electronic music 🗓️25/03📍Kilburn Building 🎟️Wait list: https://ow.ly/ZAVH50Yc9jG 🔊Followed by THE TURING – MACHINE: a sound installation School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Last chance to view our exhibition in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor: Encountering Biblical Bodies – Sarah Lightman’s Biblical Women 📅 Until 26 March 2026 📍 Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor

Funding Opportunity: Faculty of Humanities CreativeAI studentships 📅30 March 2026 The CreativeAI studentships will explore the rapidly evolving relationship between creativity and artificial intelligence (AI) as part of 6 supervisor-led interdisciplinary projects. 🔗https://ow.ly/yEXW50YwpCy

🎙 NOW LIVE: Karen Gabay: You Ought to Know - EP 1: Reggae & Dub Poetry with Sylvia Tella, Levi Tafari & J.Chambers 🔗 Watch on Substack (https://ow.ly/llY450XJEs4) & YouTube (https://ow.ly/emIF50Ywq1O) John Rylands Research Institute and Library School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

It's been a busy old week - starting with a wonderful launch of Encountering Biblical Bodies with @uomreligion.bsky.social and celebrating our exhibition of Sarah Lightman's art with @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social, as illustrated by the wonderful Len Grant.

🎙 New podcast series with Karen Gabay: You Ought to Know Episode 1: Reggae & Dub Poetry with Sylvia Tella, Levi Tafari & J.Chambers 📅 23/03 on Substack (https://ow.ly/llY450XJEs4) & YouTube (https://ow.ly/emIF50Ywq1O) John Rylands Research Institute and Library School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Happy #WorldPoetryDay✍️ To mark World Poetry Day, we teamed up with The Great Science Share for Schools on the Great Science Poetry Share to connect science enquiry with creative writing, with video prompts that help pupils turn scientific ideas into poetry. 🔗 https://ow.ly/ePGZ50YwoLA

IN FIVE WEEKS: Research Café – Religion, Culture and Community 📅 23 April, 12–2pm 📍Manchester Museum 🎟️ https://ow.ly/TXbc50YkYuY Join us this St George's Day as we explore how cultural institutions and faith spaces can bring people together in increasingly divided societies.

Researchers at UoM: join the Platforms teams for ‘Interdisciplinary &: Harnessing Storytelling to Amplify Research’, chaired by Creative Manchester Director John McAuliffe. 📅 18 March, 1.15pm–2.45pm 📍 GA.056 Ronson Blended Theatre, Nancy Rothwell Building 🎟️ https://ow.ly/gFP050Y7r6p

Greater Manchester Combined Authority launches new GM Freelancer Network📢 Join a paid advisory group that will bring together creative freelancers from across GM to ensure real lived experience shapes policy, investment & support for creative careers. 📅 28 March, 5pm 🔗 https://ow.ly/IZ7E50YsXmh

Join @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social for a research café discussing an exhibition of artist Sarah Lightman’s Biblical Domestic and Menstrual Hystery series. 📅 Mon 16 Mar ⏰ 4.30-6.30pm 📍SG.16, Samuel Alexander Building 🎟️ Free – Booking required www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/encounteri...

Researchers at UoM: join the Platforms teams for ‘Interdisciplinary &: Harnessing Storytelling to Amplify Research’, chaired by Creative Manchester Director John McAuliffe. 📅 18 March, 1.15pm–2.45pm 📍 GA.056 Ronson Blended Theatre, Nancy Rothwell Building 🎟️ https://ow.ly/gFP050Y7r6p

📢TWO WEEKS: Music & Manchester - The past, present & future of computers in electronic music 🗓️25/03📍Kilburn Building 🎟️Wait list: https://ow.ly/ZAVH50Yc9jG 🔊Followed by THE TURING – MACHINE: a sound installation School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

TODAY: Activating Archives for Local and Societal Impact 📅 11 March, 12.30–2.30pm, lunch from 12pm 📍 John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate 🎟️ https://ow.ly/Ru1550Yf00N Join us as we explore how archival collections can be 'activated' through robust, ethical and sustained community partnerships.

Join us alongside Digital Futures & TIC Manchester for the next CreaTech Network event on Cultural Heritage, which will explore applications & ethical considerations of AI in digitised collections and heritage data. 🗓️30 April, 2.30pm - 5pm 📍Manchester Art Gallery, M2 3JL 🎟️ https://ow.ly/1xxR50Yr6Ox

Now exhibiting in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor: Encountering Biblical Bodies – Sarah Lightman’s Biblical Women 📅 Until 26 March 2026 📍 Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor Join us for a research café with the artist Sarah Lightman on 16 March: https://ow.ly/FFTl50YotOl

🤝 Research impact, #ShapedTogether. From mental health innovators to wildfire responders and community organisers, one truth holds: meaningful impact is built through shared ownership, respect and collaboration. Find out more: www.manchester.ac.uk/research/imp... youtu.be/AN9SeGshLjo?...