What’s on in July?
27 Jun 2025
Welcome to July’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.
Events
Parents, Carers and Guardians Network Lunch "n" Connect
Join us for an informal lunchtime meet-up to connect, share experiences and explore how we can support on another being carers or parents to a neurodiverse child.
- Find the event on Wednesday, 9 July 12pm to 2pm in Room 3A.057 in Nancy Rothwell Building
Research Teamwork and Collaboration training session
Collaborative, interdisciplinary team-based ways of working and skills are becoming increasingly important in the fundability and impact assessment of research outputs. This session is for anyone involved in research at the University, whether PS, Technical or Academic colleagues.
- Book your place on Thursday, 10 July 9.45am to 3.45pm in Kilburn building, room IT407
‘Women in Leadership’ AHEP networking event
All colleagues are invited to join us for the latest in our series of AHEP@UoM events. Joining us to share her career pathway and leadership journey is Sarah Featherstone, Director of Operations at Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS).
- Book your place on Thursday, 3 July 10am to 11am on Teams
Our cultural institutions
Jodrell Bank
All July: 80 Years of Jodrell Bank: Get Involved At Home!
Manchester Museum
All July: Anindilyakwa Arts: Stories from our Country
All July: Silent Skies
All July: Khawaab Mahal and Absent Presence
Various dates (2pm to 4pm): Cat Costumes
Wednesday, 2 July (1.15pm to 1.45pm): Collection Bites: A Thousand Years of Chinese Currency
Wednesday, 16 July (6pm to 7pm): Critical Conversations
From Saturday, 19 July: The Cat That Slept for a Thousand Years
From Saturday, 19 July: Find the Kittens: an AR trail
Saturday, 19 July (11am to 1pm): If Objects Could Speak
Saturday, 19 July (11am to 4pm): Cat’s Out of the Bag
Sunday, 20 July (12pm to 4pm): Urban sketching with PangBear x architecture talk
From Tuesday, 22 July: A Purr-fect Summer!
Tuesday, 22 July (11am to 12.30pm): Shared Reading
Wednesday, 30 July (6pm to 9pm): Black Creatives Social hosted by Black Creative Trailblazers
Whitworth Art Gallery
Various dates: PLAYTIME
Various dates: Families
Friday, 4 July (6pm to 8pm): Exhibition Preview | Santiago Yahuarcani: The Beginning of Knowledge
Saturday, 5 July (5pm to 6pm): Artist Talk | Santiago Yahuarcani
Thursday, 17 July (6pm to 8.30pm): The Grey Area Writing Group & Book Club
John Rylands Research Institute and Library
Thursday, 3 July (3pm to 3.30pm): Curator tour: The Secret Public LGBTQ Pop 1955-1985
Our community
Religious celebrations and traditions
Ashura (Islam) Sunday, 6 July
Dharma Day (Buddhism) Thursday, 10 July
Fast of 17 Tammuz (Judaism) Sunday, 13 July
Awareness days
International Non-Binary People’s Day – Monday, 14 July
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 August’s ‘What’s on?’ is 25 July. Any questions, just drop us an email!