What’s on in August?
28 Jul 2026
Welcome to August’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.
Our cultural institutions
Manchester Museum
Billie Be Story Time
- Monday, 3 August (11.30am to 1.30pm)
- Monday, 10 August (11.30am to 1.30pm)
Wednesday, 5 August (12pm to 4pm): Play Day
Wednesday, 5 August (1.15pm to 1.45pm): Family Collection Bites: Gotta Match ‘Em All
Wednesday, 5 August (3pm to 7pm): Young People Moving Through Manchester
Wednesday, 5 August (4.15pm to 4.45pm): Collection Bites: Indo-Greek numismatics and colonial imagination
Wednesday, 5 August (5pm to 8.30pm): Made in South Asia Games Night
Thursday, 6 August (11am to 1pm): Hiroshima Commemoration
Saturday, 8 August (12pm to 3pm): Meet the Manchester Library of Things
Tuesday, 11 August (12pm to 1pm): Shared Reading
Wednesday, 12 August (1.15pm to 1.45pm): Family Collection Bites: Egg Detectives
Whitworth Art Gallery
Sunday, 2 August (2pm to 4.30pm): Manchester Sacred Harp
Saturday, 8 August (11am to 1pm): Embroidery Workshops with Ibukun Baldwin
Saturday, 22 August (2pm to 3pm): British Sign Language tour of Entangled and Woven
John Rylands Research Institute and Library
Wednesday, 5 August (1.30pm to 2pm): Curator Tour: The Forgotten Library
Friday, 14 August (2.10pm to 3.30pm): Collections Encounter: Peterloo
Our community
Religious celebrations and traditions
Lammas (Wheel of the Year) Saturday, 1 August
Rohini Vrat (Jain) Saturday, 8 August
Obon (Buddhism) Thursday, 13 to Saturday, 15 August
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Christianity) Saturday, 15 August
Ullambana / Sangha Day (Buddhism) Thursday, 27 August
Raksha Bandhan (Hinduism) Friday, 28 August
Awareness days
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition – Sunday, 23 August
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 September’s ‘What’s on?’ is 25 August. Any questions, just drop us an email!