Opening tomorow night at SEESAW, Home Run is an exhibition exploring contemporary youth culture and nostalgia through works by Manchester-based artists Jack Berry, Jasper Cheng and Beth Murray.

📍 SEESAW
📅 until 9 May

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📢CoDE (Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity) seminar

Meet NYT bestselling author @KeithBoykin for a discussion chaired by Prof @GaryYounge of his new book, Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?, which debunks 25 toxic arguments about race💡

📅23 April, 5-6pm
📍University Place 3.212, @officialuom

Join BlackwellsManchester for the Manchester launch of Track Record – the ground-breaking new memoir from acclaimed rapper and podcast host, George The Poet 🇺🇬.

📍 Central Library
📅 24 Apr

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The astonishing JOS CHARLES is in Manchester next week

Reading at Manchester Poetry Library on Thursday evening

FREE event- see you there!

mmu.ac.uk/poetry-library…

Join Pint of Science UK for Sip of Science, where you will hear fascinating flash talks across multiple themes featuring some of Manchester's leading thinkers and researchers.

📍 Henry Royce Institute
📅 15 Apr

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Over 80 of Shirley Craven's bold abstract textiles are now on show together for the first time in over 60 years alongside newly acquired works at the Whitworth.

📍 the Whitworth
📅 until 6 May '25

oxfordroadcorridor.com/events/shirley…

📣 OPEN CALL: Poetry Commission

In partnership with @mcrpoetrylibrary we're commissioning two poets from the North-West or West Yorkshire to produce new creative responses to John Lyons’ paintings & poetry✨

📅Apply by Sunday 21 April

Find out more 🔗
whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/event…

LAST CHANCE. Golden Mummies of Egypt, the one-of-a-kind cultural experience that marked Manchester Museum's reopening, is coming to a close next weekend.

Don't miss out, plan your free visit for the remaining dates.

📍 Manchester Museum
📆 until 14 Apr

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‘One of the most inimitable and distinct voices in contemporary American fiction’ Percival Everett is in conversation with Manchester Literature Festival at Central Library this month.

📍 Central Library
📆 10 Apr

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Clowns and crowdsurfers: Manchester Punk festival 2024 – in pictures.

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Thomas Adès starts the second concert of his residency with The Hallé by reviving Barbirolli’s rarely-performed suite of Purcell’s music taken mainly from his stage works.

📍 The Bridgewater Hall
📆 6 April

oxfordroadcorridor.com/events/the-hal…

40 Years of the Future: Painting welcomes back five artists who exhibited as part of Castlefield Gallery’s 1984 inaugural programme and kicks off the gallery's 40th-anniversary celebrations.

📆 until 23 Jun
📍 Castlefield Gallery

oxfordroadcorridor.com/events/40-year…

Next week, HOME celebrates 30 years of the ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Festival. 🎉 Since '95, it's been a go-to for film buffs, Spanish speakers, and cultural enthusiasts. Tom Grieve digs into its history and this year's line-up.

oxfordroadcorridor.com/viva-the-spani…

April brings us an exciting line-up of gigs, concerts, live literature, theatre, festivals and new exhibitions. We've rounded up some of the best things to do.

Find out what's on and start making plans 👇

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📣Save the Date

5-7 April: Join us for Manchester #ASAPeopleFest : Public Anthropology Festival, hosted by The University of Manchester and asainfo

🎉 Explore exhibitions, performances, films + more showcasing the wonders of social anthropology 🌍 Free entry for all

theasa.org/conferences/pe…

Today we say goodbye to our Director & CEO, Dave Moutrey, after 26 years leading the teams at Cornerhouse & HOME. From the HOME family, we want to thank Dave for his commitment to championing artists, audiences & new initiatives/projects. We wish him all the best for the future!

Throwback Thursday!

Today we’re looking back to 1936 and a concert at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall when we were known as the BBC Northern Orchestra.

Happy 40th Birthday to Castlefield Gallery 🎉

Here's our article looking back at the gallery's history and forward to its future written by Curator and Deputy Director, Matthew Pendergast.

oxfordroadcorridor.com/castlefield-ga…

Trams passing Tonkin Liu's award-winning Tower of Light which captures the energy of the sun and the power of the wind to provide low-carbon energy to the Civic Quarter Heat Network.

Another classic - a reminder of the scale of the Central Library transformation programme (2010-2014) - reopened 10 years ago Manchester Libraries