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Micah Purnell curates a ten year retrospective exhibition at Chatham Mill with an outrageous global cast of artists.

The first major UK solo exhibition by Omid Asad features new large-scale sculptural work exploring loss, memory and belonging.

Join Professor David Sumpter at Anthony Burgess Foundation for Four Ways of Thinking: Statistical, Interactive, Chaotic and Complex.

Join Sir Richard Leese and discover the future of healthcare in Delivering the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Strategy.

Different Trains is an exhilarating journey through time and memory, weaved together with live score for strings with field recordings and fragments of spoken word.

Manchester Collective present The Unfurrowed Field at RNCM. A joyful fusion of jazz and Scottish folk music.

In this audio-visual live concert, musicians and composers turn to the painter’s immense canvases for inspiration, reimagining them through sound and light.

Join Bez In conversation as he talks about his extraordinary life and career, the story of a bad lad who has turned his life good.

Join RNCM for a one-off, semi-staged performance of Sondheim’s award-winning adventure, Into the Woods.

RNCM round off their celebrations with some of Manchester’s finest DJs taking us through five decades of music.

To mark the end of its 50th year, the Royal Northern College of Music is throwing open its doors to the local community.

RNCM’s Wind Orchestra returns this summer for a riveting evening of new works, including Luis Serrano Alarcón’s Cello Concerto.

The official homecoming launch event for Blue Machine, Dr Helen Czerski’s exploration of the “ocean engine”—the physics behind the ocean’s systems—and why it matters.

Emerging Futures returns for its third year exploring the themes around care in leadership and care towards others.

Join artist Alistair Woods and former director of Castlefield Gallery, Kwong Lee, exploring the histories and archives of artist-led spaces.