Articles tagged with 'arts-languages-cultures' | University of Manchester

UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day is a worldwide annual observance held on 21 February to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and to promote multilingualism.2022 is the fifth year that Manchester has celebrated Internation...

The Practical Publishing Seminar series is practitioner-led and explores the processes of commissioning, editing and marketing, along with design, production and formats. All seminars were hosted by Professor John McAuliffe, Professor of Poetry and D...

Anne Williams, fought for justice for the 97 victims who were unlawfully killed in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster - including her son Kevin. After refusing to accept the coroner's original verdict of accidental death, the real-life drama tells the st...

In June 2022 (Thursday 9 – Sunday 12 June) a festival exploring climate change will take place across Greater Manchester. Led by Manchester Histories, The History of Climate Change will be full of exhibitions, talks, creativity and more. The History ...

Every year, the Centre for New Writing welcomes two Writers in Residence to be part of the programme for the spring term. Since 2017, in partnership with The International Anthony Burgess Foundation and the Manchester Museum, these visiting writer fe...

The Tippett Medal is a new prize for composition which welcomed 54 submissions from a wide variety of compositional practices.  This prestigious honour was awarded for Casken's The Shackled King, a drama for bass, mezzo-soprano and ensemble based on ...

FeaturedCreative Manchester and the Centre for New Writing recently concluded the Novel Voices 2 series. Each of the five online events saw Senior Research Fellow Ellah P Wakatama in conversation with talented debut authors, exploring their craft and...

The latest series of the online Novel Voices events welcomed a host of debut authors in conversation with Centre for New Writing Senior Research Fellow Ellah P Wakatama. Each author discussed their respective debuts, craft, and journeys to becoming p...

Researchers at the School of Arts, Languages and Culture were awarded a small grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Account to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on artists working in community and so...

Dr Jeff Barda was awarded the 2021 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize in the category ‘Literature in languages other than English’ for his monograph entitled Experimentation and the Lyric in Contemporary French Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).In this...

Britain’s most adventurous orchestra,’ Manchester Camerata, have set about telling real-life stories in an up-close and intimate manner. Their latest episode was produced by Rebecca Parnell, Creative Producer at Creative Manchester, alongside an all-...

From Thursday 21 to Saturday 23 October, Manchester Oxford Road will be adorned with a plethora of brand new visual arts commissions, installations, and live entertainment.The 3-day event is an opportunity to discover and celebrate the new ideas, inn...

A new report from The University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, UK-Med and Save the Children is calling for the climate emergency to be treated as a humanitarian crisis. ...

On 10 November, researchers from the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures and Creative Manchester will host a hybrid workshop exploring research and knowledge exchange with the creative and cultural industries.Focused on the creative and cultural i...

Over the course of the next year, Cameron Biles-Liddell, a Music PhD student at the University of Manchester, will collaborate with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to produce two new orchestral works. His first piece for the RSNO is for chamber...

Over five digital episodes, Ellah P Wakatama (Senior Research Fellow, Centre for New Writing) will be in conversation with debut authors about their craft and the journey to shaping their first, published full body of work. These works will span acro...

The 16th BBC National Short Story Award announced its shortlisted candidates on 10 September 2021, with lockdown-influenced themes of kindness, memory, loss and longing at the forefront of the chosen five stories.Dublin-born novelist, playwright and ...

David Olusoga OBE, Professor of Public History at The University of Manchester, is chairing a special panel discussion on the debate around statues and public memorials in Manchester and Bristol as part of Black History Month. ...

The Manchester Literature Festival returns this year for a spectacular series of in-person and online events, showcasing and celebrating some of the best in contemporary writing from around the world.This year, the Manchester Literature Festival will...

Students from the Centre for New Writing have launched the 2021 edition of the Manchester Anthology.The Manchester Anthology 2021 presents the work of talented new writers from the Centre. Despite the challenges this year has brought with it, the stu...

Welcome to the autumn 2021 season at the Martin Harris Centre.We are delighted to welcome you back to the Martin Harris Centre this autumn with a more limited series of events in music and drama.The season launches on 29 and 30 September with Catchin...

A professor from The University of Manchester is launching a new music composition on Saturday to mark the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, the day passenger aircraft were hijacked in the USA and flown into targets including New York's Twin Towers. ...

When Professor of Social and Autoethnographic Composition Kevin Malone joined the University of Manchester's music department in 1999, he could never have envisaged that two years later the events of 9/11 in his home country of America would take him...

This year's Micropoetry competition was themed around the 2021 'Year of Space', and presented by Creative Manchester in collaboration with the Geological Society of London and the Centre for New Writing. Entrants were asked to write a poem in respons...

We are delighted to announce that Larissa Fast, Professor of Humanitarian and Conflict Studies, has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI).Professor Bertrand ...

2021 marks 100 years since the Football Association banned women’s football in England - to mark the anniversary, an expert from The University of Manchester has published work which describes how women fought to earn the right to play before the ban...

Archaeologists from the Universities of Manchester and Cardiff have discovered the origins of Arthur’s Stone, one of the UK’s most famous Stone Age monuments. ...

Students from The University of Manchester have been involved in a project to catalogue and preserve tributes left on the Marcus Rashford mural in Withington, after thousands of people had covered over offensive graffiti with positive messages. ...

This year’s poetry competition took place from 21 March 2021 to 21 June 2021 and was presented by Creative Manchester in collaboration with the Geological Society of London and the Centre for New Writing. Entrants were asked to respond to the theme o...

The Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester’s 2021 Schools Poetry competition took place from 21 March 2021 to 28 May 2021. The theme was space, and entries were received from school pupils across Greater Manchester.The Creative Manchester and...