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FeaturedKathputli Utsav – A Festival of Traditional Indian Arts’ took place on Wednesday, 23 February 2022 in celebration of UNESCO International Mother Language Day and in partnership with Creative Manchester, the Humanitarian Conflict Response Inst...

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...

This summer, The University of Manchester will be holding virtual celebrations for its graduating students, to celebrate the successful completion of their studies. These will be hosted locally for the majority of programmes in the week beginning Mon...

The past eight years have seen The University of Manchester develop a thriving partnership with Manchester Camerata, otherwise known as “Britain’s most adventurous orchestra” (The Times). Cementing this partnership is an exciting new ESRC CASE Studen...

In December, the society held a relaxed performance with Venture Arts, a charity who work with adults with learning difficulties. The relaxed performance provided Christmas music for the Venture Arts Christmas party with around sixty of their members...

The programme featured exciting new music from staff and alumni from The University of Manchester. This included Distractfold, co-founded by Mauricio Pauly and Sam Salem, both alumnus from the University’s Music Department, and individual pieces by a...

An alumna from The University of Manchester’s Department of Music has recently been awarded a prestigious commission for Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2020 for a piece that centres on urban ecology. Hayley Suviste, who received both her ma...

The University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (SALC) will be hosting a celebration to mark the strength and resilience of its students in a virtual event.The celebration will take place at 3pm on Wednesday 16 December 2020, an...

This year, university life has presented challenges that might have previously been unthinkable. The impact of COVID-19 continues to reverberate, yet in face of this, our staff, students, alumni and external partners have pulled together and achieved...

Exciting new 3D scanning technology is being used to offer students, staff and the wider public virtual tours of museums, galleries and heritage sites in Greater Manchester. ...

"Since returning from the summer break, Chorus has been meeting to rehearse online via Zoom. Our recent recording of 'The Snow' by Sir Edward Elgar was a team effort, produced by a final year student sound engineer. You can hear four student violinis...

We're very excited to announce that third-year Drama and English Literature student Gabriel Clark has been cast in Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks as the new Ollie Morgan, replacing actor Aedan Duckworth.Gabriel will continue to study for his degree a...

On 11 November, The University is hosting a Music, Health & Wellbeing workshop that will serve to answer these questions. Presented in partnership with Creative Manchester, the Music Department and the Division of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work, th...

The School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at The University of Manchester welcomes its audiences to SALC: Connect, Engage, Inspire – a digital repository for its wide-ranging arts and cultural activities. Through this new portal, you can explore the...

With concerts cancelled and venues closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Martin Harris Centre at The University of Manchester is now opening a virtual window allowing audiences to share in the joy of music and connect with The University’s tale...

The University’s arts and cultural organisations have responded with great ingenuity to the unprecedented demands of the COVID-19 lockdown. The ‘new normal’ of exclusively online engagement has necessitated quick shifts towards the digital arena, ...

Dear Patron, We hope you are safe and well. In light of the ongoing and developing situation around COVID-19 and the Government’s latest advice, we have taken the decision to cancel all events at the Martin Harris Centre until Friday 31 July 20...

String quartet Quatuor Danel, artist in residence at The University of Manchester’s Martin Harris Centre, has featured on The Guardian’s pick of the best music to listen to at home. Music lovers are turning to the radio, the TV, their personal col...

Dear Patron In light of the developing situation around COVID-19 and the Government’s latest advice, we have taken the decision to cancel all events at the Martin Harris until Tuesday 30 June 2020. Box office sales (by phone and in person) were...

Read the University's latest information on Coronavirus. In light of the developing situation around COVID-19 and the Government’s latest advice for people to avoid non-essential contact, we have taken the decision to postpone all events at the Ma...

Dr Ian Scott, Senior Lecturer in the American Studies department at the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures was recently an academic consultant on ‘The Californian Century’, an insightful BBC Radio 4 series telling the dramatic history of the stat...

Welcome to the new season of events at the Martin Harris Centre. We have an exciting and diverse programme lined up this season, with a range of events from drama, literature, music and more. The season launches with a free concert as part of the ...

Following the success of previous concerts, The University of Manchester Chorus and Symphony Orchestra returns on 30 November to the Whitworth Hall with a performance of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, edited by Barry Cooper and conducted by Robert Guy. ...

Students of Drama and Electronic Engineering lent their talents to an event at the heart of Manchester International Festival (MIF) in the latest chapter of The University of Manchester’s fruitful partnership with MIF. Shining a light on these pla...

A University of Manchester Drama alumna has been recognised for harnessing her creative talents to benefit the community at the Manchester Culture Awards. Cara Looij, who graduated in 2018, took home the Young Creative of the Year award at the eve...

A pioneering new way to learn about music has been launched for the BBC Philharmonic’s 2019/20 season. The Notes app encourages concert-goers to break convention and leave their smartphones on during performances, sending subscribers timely notifi...

The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing (CNW) is celebrating the success of the 2019 Manchester Literature Festival, which has drawn to a close after over two weeks of exciting events marking the city’s contribution to literature. Th...

More than 150 staff and students from The University of Manchester attended a very special music event on 14 October proving that percussion is for everyone. Celebrating 100 years of Deaf Education, Dame Evelyn Glennie, the pre-eminent solo percus...

The internationally renowned and award-winning Dame Evelyn Glennie will be giving a percussion masterclass at the Martin Harris Centre’s Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall next week (Monday 14 October, 2pm-4pm). The event is part of a series of centenary...

The Martin Harris Centre’s new programme for autumn/winter 2019 is giving fresh talent a platform with some renowned names in the arts. An exciting and diverse programme of events across drama, literature and music awaits every kind of audienc...