Events

Upcoming events in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (SALC).

• Cultural infrastructure at a crossroads - Research Café (16 September 2025 4pm-7pm)
• Joan Brossa. The mental feeling of complete happiness (17 September 2025 4.15pm-6pm)
• Manchester CI Teaching Seminar: AI Empowering Chinese Language Classrooms (20 September 2025 10am-4pm)
• Sounding The Story: Contemporary Music Inspired by Text and Tale (22 September 2025 7.30pm-9.30pm)
• Welcome week show - ADMA Productions Ltd and Ransack Theatre present… Jurassic (26 September 2025 7pm-8pm)
• Confucius Institute Autumn Open Day (27 September 2025 2pm-4.15pm)
• Medieval Quarter Festival (27 September 2025)
• Dangerous Writings -A Symposium on the Ethics, and Practicalities of Working with Risky Texts (30 September 2025 9.30am-6pm)
• THE FUTURE IS BIOLOGICAL! Future Data Storage Solutions Workshop (2 October 2025 12pm-4pm)
• WCLC: Silent Movie and Live Music Accompaniment with Frame ensemble. Presented by the departments of Music, Drama and Film. (2 October 2025 1.10pm)
• AI in Healthcare: Transforming the Future with Large Language Models #2 (6 October 2025 1pm-4pm)
• Guest lecture: Place-making and the role of culture in Manchester (8 October 2025 5.30pm-8pm)
• Lunchtime concert - In Memoriam, Gubaidulina (1931-2025) (9 October 2025 1.10pm-2pm)
• Evening Concert with Richard Whalley (piano) (10 October 2025 7.30pm-9.30pm)
• Sarah Hall and Daisy Johnson (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester) (11 October 2025 3pm)
• Refugees and the UK housing crisis (HCRI public event) (14 October 2025 5pm)
• The Faber Lecture 2025: Gary Younge (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Creative Manchester) (16 October 2025 6.30pm-8pm)
• WCLC: In Focus - Jack Sheen. Manchester Camerata featuring Eleanore Cockerham (16 October 2025 1.10pm)
• Manchester University Music Society: Symphony Orchestra Concert (18 October 2025 6.30pm-8.30pm)
• Sayaka Murata (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester) (18 October 2025 7pm)
• Marcus du Sautoy (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester) (19 October 2025 4.30pm)
• The Poems of Seamus Heaney (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester) (20 October 2025 7.30pm)
• Mimi Khalvati: Rylands Poetry Reading (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester) (23 October 2025 7pm-8.15pm)
• WCLC: Spartimu (Music from Corsica). (23 October 2025 1.10pm-4pm)
• WCLC: Giannis Koutis & Reza Mirjalali: Ottoman classical music. Presented by the departments of Music & Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies (30 October 2025 1.10pm-2pm)
• MANTIS Festival (Concert 1) (1 November 2025 6pm-7pm)
• MANTIS Festival (Concert 2) (1 November 2025 7.30pm-9pm)
• MANTIS Festival (Concert 3) (2 November 2025 2pm-3.30pm)
• Zadie Smith (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester) (4 November 2025 7.30pm)
• Jeanette Winterson (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester) (11 November 2025 7pm)
• Evening concert - Wednesday performance (12 November 2025 7.30pm-9.30pm)
• Lunchtime concert (13 November 2025 1.10pm-2pm)
• WCLC: Guitarrísimo: Isabel Martínez. Presented by the department of Music & The Cervantes Institute (20 November 2025 1.10pm-2pm)
• WCLC: Nishla Smith (27 November 2025 1.10pm)
• UoM Chorus & Symphony Concert (29 November 2025 7.30pm-9.30pm)
• Lunchtime concert - Shostakovich Special (4 December 2025 1.10pm-2pm)
• Evening Concert with Pete Furniss (clarinet), Richard Whalley (piano) (5 December 2025 7.30pm)
• MUMS Festive Ensembles Extravaganza (10 December 2025 7pm-9.30pm)
• MUMS Festive Symphony Orchestra Concert (11 December 2025 6.30pm-8.30pm)
• WCLC: Ensemble Augelletti – Jewels that Brightly Burn (11 December 2025 1.10pm-2pm)
• Baroque Orchestra: Concerto Transalpino (12 December 2025 1.10pm-2pm)
• WCLC: James Clapperton (Piano) - Where the Wild Things Are - Music that makes the Impossible Possible (18 December 2025 1.10pm)
• MUMS: Public Lunchtime Concert – Festive Sing-along (RELAXED PERFORMANCE) (19 December 2025 1.10pm-1.55pm)
• Lunchtime concert with Cheng Yu (pipa). (19 February 2026 1.10pm)
• Lunchtime concert with Gweneth Ann Rand (soprano) and Richard Whalley (piano) (26 March 2026 1.10pm)
• The 9th International Conference on English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices (EPIP) (13 - 15 April 2026)
• WCLC: Quatuor Danel with Noémi Gyori (flute) (7 May 2026 1.10pm-2pm)
• Beat the Rush Hour concert with Petr Prause (cello) - Schubert Special (8 May 2026 6pm-8pm)
• Quatuor Danel Public Workshop with Dr Anne Hyland & The Schubert Institute UK (8 May 2026 2.30pm-4pm)