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Black Theatre History Month: Day 3 – Princess and the Hustler
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Black Theatre History Month: Day 2 – Fix Up
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Black Theatre History Month: Day 1 – The Wind of Change
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What is Black Theatre History Month?
Black Theatre History Month is a pilot project focussing on theatre and performance during Black History Month. It is designed to promote and celebrate the long history of Black excellence in the performing arts in England. The idea emerged from conversations that...
Musica Festival 2025
This year's Musica festival began with the Composition Workshop on Tuesday 25 February. Led by Laura Bowler, the session began with a short presentation about how to write for voice, discussing ideas about space, consent, and visuals, with examples of her own works...
Citizens Assemble!
What are we doing about the climate emergency? What are we not doing? What more could we be doing? What more should we be doing? These questions (and others) are addressed in A Citizens’ Assembly, a new play written by me, Andy Smith (part-time Lecturer in Theatre...
Manchester’s American Connections: A Public History Project
The American Connections project, which received support from the SALC Social Responsibility Fund, highlights how Manchester’s growth and development has been inextricably connected to the wider world, and in particular to transatlantic exchange. It does this by...
Whose past is it, and who gets to tell it? (Part 2)
This is the second of our University of Manchester Social Responsibility projects exploring the largely ignored working class history of Greenheys, an area behind the university now housing the Science Park. Building upon previous work, this project again brought...
Vestiges: Crafting Connections through the Heritage of the Peak District
Written by Dr Melanie GilesVestiges worked with Sheffield Museum Trust’s Weston Park Museum to help enrich the cultural and creative content of their exhibition celebrating the life and work of Peak District antiquarian, Thomas Bateman. Collaborative discussion...