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What’s on in November?

30 Oct 2024

Welcome to November’s edition of ‘What’s on?’. Here you will find everything you can get involved in for free each month, ranging from cultural, extracurricular and celebratory events and activities.

What's on November edition

Events

Festival of science

The festival explores the world of social science, from how society has shaped our local areas to behaviours that help fight climate change. Events will take place across several UK universities (including UoM) up to Saturday, 9 November.

Digital trust seminar

Join Professor Rob Black to discover how we can enhance our cyber security measures, defend our systems and fight our cyber attackers.

Welcome event for new colleagues

Join our Welcome Event to meet new colleagues, hear from guest speakers, and join a campus tour. During November’s event, we will be joined by Head of Marketing, Andrew Simmons, who will be giving a talk on his experience at the University of Manchester.

AHEP Online Event: Building a Professional Services Career in Higher Education

This event will explore how professionals have developed successful careers in higher education, with insights from AHEP members and special guest Patrick Hackett, COO and Registrar.

Houseplant sale at the Students Union

The Houseplant Sale is back for two days only with thousands of plants, pots and accessories on offer.

  • Find the sale Monday, 4 to Tuesday, 5 November 10am to 7pm at the Students Union

Bridging the gap: An introduction to intercultural communication with China

Join the Confucius Institute for a lunchtime public talk given by Catherine Hua Xiang (LSE). Catherine will talk about her new book on 'Bridging the gap: An introduction to intercultural communication with China'. The talk will be followed by a book signing.

Instruments in Chinese music: The violin

The second event in the “Instruments in Chinese music” series hosted by the Confucius Institute will focus on the violin. The guest will be University of Manchester Musicology PhD student Ziluo Huang.

Sustainable Futures Seminar: Sustainable Aviation Fuel | Garment Designing

Join us for our November edition of our seminar series with Dr Doğuşhan Kılıç and Phumza Sokhetye.

Our cultural institutions

Jodrell Bank

Wedding Open Day

Are you dreaming of a wedding that’s out of this world? Tour the grounds at Jodrell Bank and explore the various moving backgrounds for your ceremony under the stars at this special Wedding Open Day.

Relaxed Visits to Jodrell Bank

Explore Jodrell Bank with reduced sound in exhibition spaces and an early showing of the free ‘Introduction to Jodrell Bank’ film.

Manchester Museum

All November: Wild exhibitions

Wednesday, 6, 13, 20 and 27 November (12pm to 12.50pm): Introductory tai chi qigong

Friday, 8 November  (10.30am to 3pm): Finds ID

Saturday, 9 November (1.30pm to 3pm): Wild Walks: Treescapes sensory walk

Wednesday, 13, 20 and 27 November (5.30pm to 7pm): Wild shared reading

Tuesday, 19 November (11am to 2pm): Art of collections

Wednesday, 20 November (6pm to 7.30pm): Critical Conversations

Sunday, 24 November (2.15pm to 2.35pm): Pride Tours

Wednesday, 27 November (4pm to 6pm): Teacher drop-in

Wednesday, 27 November (6pm to 10pm): Werkha presents Saturama

Saturday, 30 November (1pm to 2.30pm): Future Treescapes

Whitworth Art Gallery

All November:

Saturday, 2 November: Feel Good Kids Art Club

Sunday, 17 November: Still Parents project

Thursday, 21 to Saturday, 23 November: The Care Lab

Thursday, 21 to Sunday, 24 November: Exchanges

Saturday, 30 November (11am to 5pm): Bound Art Book Fair 2024

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Thursday, 21 November (1pm to 1:45pm): Revisiting British Humanitarianism: Three Life Stories

Thursday, 28 November (1pm to 1:45pm): Sikh Heritage in Colonial Collections: Conservation, Digitisation and Community Engagement with Contested Collections

Our community

Religious celebrations and traditions

Friday, 1 November: Diwali (Hinduism) 

Friday, 1 November: Bandhi Chorr Divas (Sikhism)

Friday, 15 November: Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ki Gurpurab (Sikhism)

Read more about religious celebrations that our friends and colleagues may be observing throughout November.

Awareness days

Tuesday, 19 November: International Men’s Day

Wednesday, 20 November: Transgender Day of Remembrance

Monday, 25 November: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

Groups and societies

Book Club

Two books this month! Lost Property by Helen Paris and Orbital by Samantha Harvey.

You don't even need to have finished the book (although there will be spoilers!). We will also recap Butter by Asako Yukuki.

Why not head over to our Viva Engage (yammer) group for more reading inspiration! Looking forward to a good discussion!

Want to feature your event next month?

If your event is free and open to all colleagues at the University, you can advertise it here next month!

Submit your suggestion to uninews@manchester.ac.uk by 25 of each month to feature in the following month. Please send us a short description (max 30 words) and any relevant links you may have too.

Please note that we unfortunately cannot guarantee your submission will feature, but we will do our best to feature as many as we can.

The deadline to feature in December’s ‘What’s on?’ is 25 November. Any questions, just drop us an email!