Events
Upcoming events in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (SALC).
- Exhibition: Housing with care and creativity with older LGBTQ people (2 - 30 September 2026)
- Fire and Ice: The Conception, Birth and Infancy of Cybernetics. (24 September 2026 1pm-3pm)
- Welcome Week Show: Chameleon by Jess Telling (25 September 2026 7pm-8pm)
- Autumn Open Day at the Confucius Institute (26 September 2026 2pm-4.15pm)
- A Jubilee Overture - 75 years of Philip Sparke (27 September 2026 3pm-5pm)
- Exhibition launch event: 'grasp, grasp' by Sian Fan (30 September 2026 6.30pm-8.15pm)
- WCLC: Quatuor Danel lunchtime concert with Adam McKenzie (bassoon) (1 October 2026 1.10pm-1.50pm)
- What's next for China's economy? (1 October 2026 6pm-7.30pm)
- Women’s Health Technology Summit 2026 (1 October 2026 12pm-5pm)
- Quatuor Danel Evening concert – Shostakovich 120 years (2 October 2026 7.30pm)
- Re-imagining Innovation: The Value of Creative Practices (7 October 2026 12.30pm-2pm)
- A History of Black Theatre in Manchester 1827-2020: Celebrating presence (8 October 2026 4pm-6.30pm)
- WCLC: Duo Folclore (violins) (8 October 2026 1.10pm-1.50pm)
- SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents Maggie O’Farrell (9 October 2026 7pm-8.15pm)
- SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents Sarah Hall: Burning Snowflake – The 2026 Faber Lecture (10 October 2026 6pm-7.15pm)
- Manchester Literature Festival presents Paul Mason: Reds (11 October 2026 2pm-3.15pm)
- Manchester Literature Festival presents The Observer Book Club with Deborah Frances-White (11 October 2026 4.30pm-5.45pm)
- SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents Patrick Radden Keefe (12 October 2026 7.30pm-8.45pm)
- Manchester Literature Festival presents The Observer Book Club with Yann Martel (14 October 2026 7.30pm-8.45pm)
- WCLC: Tom Hicks (15 October 2026 1.10pm-1.50pm)
- SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents Sufiyaan Salam and Monika Radojevic (18 October 2026 5pm-6.15pm)
- Manchester Literature Festival presents Lady Hale and Lara Feigel (21 October 2026 7pm-8.15pm)
- Manchester Literature Festival presents The Observer Book Club with Min Jin Lee (21 October 2026 7.30pm-8.45pm)
- SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents Karen Solie: Rylands Poetry Reading (22 October 2026 7pm-8.15pm)
- WCLC: Bringing Silent Cinema to Life (22 October 2026 1.10pm-1.50pm)
- MUMS Symphony Orchestra (24 October 2026 2.30pm-4.30pm)
- SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents An Afternoon with Elif Shafak (25 October 2026 3pm-4.15pm)
- Those Serendipitous Mavericks: The Ratio Club and early British Cybernetics (29 October 2026 1pm-3pm)
- WCLC: BAILE/home (29 October 2026 1.10pm-1.50pm)
- MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 1) (31 October 2026 6pm-7pm)
- MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 2) (31 October 2026 7.30pm-9pm)
- MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 3) (1 November 2026 2pm-3.30pm)
- 'The Covenant’ World Premiere - part of?Ghost of the AI Empire, an immersive science-fiction opera trilogy (6 November 2026 7pm-9pm)
- Ghost of the AI Empire | The Sci-Fi Opera Where You Decide the Ending (6 November 2026 7pm-9.30pm)
- Beyond the Ceasefire: The Continuing Crisis in Tigray (11 November 2026 2pm-3.30pm)
- WCLC: A recital for Philip Grange’s seventieth birthday (12 November 2026 1.10pm-1.50pm)
- 'The gender pay gap amongst high educated workers' - Arthur Lewis Lecture (17 November 2026 5pm-7.30pm)
- Care Responders Study Performance (18 November 2026 5pm)
- The Chinese story of bamboo: Sustainability in material and culture (19 November 2026 6pm-7pm)
- WCLC: Leon Bosch & Rebeca Omordia - The South African Double Bass (19 November 2026 1.10pm-1.50pm)
- WCLC: Quatuor Danel with Sir John Tomlinson (bass voice), Pete Furniss (clarinet) and Richard Whalley (piano) (19 November 2026 1.10pm-1.50pm)
- Quatuor Danel Evening Concert – Philip Grange 70 years (20 November 2026 7.30pm)
- Ghost in the Machine: The Battle for the Human Mind (26 November 2026 1pm-3pm)
- University of Manchester Chorus and MUMS Symphony Orchestra Concert (27 November 2026 7.30pm-9.30pm)
- University of Manchester Chorus and MUMS Symphony Orchestra Concert (28 November 2026 3pm-5pm)
- Manchester University Baroque Orchestra: Rejoice Greatly! A Handel Celebration (7 December 2026 1.10pm-1.50pm)
- Festive Symphony Concert (10 December 2026 6.30pm-7.30pm)
- Quatuor Danel Evening Concert with Simon Grange (bass voice) – Philip Grange 70 years (11 December 2026 7.30pm)
- Gamelan Music from West Java (14 December 2026 1.10pm-2pm)
- Festive Ensembles Concert (16 December 2026 6.30pm-8.30pm)
- The Spectre of Automation: Robots in the New Jerusalem (28 January 2027 1pm-3pm)
- Quatuor Danel Evening Concert at Stoller Hall – America 250 Years (3 February 2027 7.30pm)
- “It’s alive!”: Prometheus, Frankenstein, and the Cyborgs (25 February 2027 1pm-3pm)
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Intergalactic Network: The real origins of the Internet (18 March 2027 1pm-3pm)
- Quatuor Danel Beat the Rush Hour concert with Richard Whalley (piano) (16 April 2027 6pm)
- A Tale of Beer, Chile, and Syn: Cybernetics in the service of socialism (20 April 2027 1pm-3pm)
- Algorithms against Neurons: The great schism between AI and cybernetics (27 May 2027 1pm-3pm)
- Transcendence or Termination?: Cybernetics, transhumanism, and the future (24 June 2027 1pm-3pm)