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...
Flash Fiction Winners announced at Awards Ceremony
The latest edition of the annual SALC Flash Fiction and Non-fiction Competition invited undergraduate students to submit an original and unpublished piece of writing of less than 250 words. The winners were announced at a ceremony on Wednesday 11 December, with prizes...
Teaching Black History: An Introductory Black History Training Programme
This summer witnessed the launch of Teaching Black History, a six-week training programme, open mostly to young people of African and African Caribbean heritage who have an interest in researching and teaching Black history within a community context and/or seeking to...
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...
Musica Festival 2024
This year’s Musica festival featured seven events, held from 3-9 March. Polyphonic: We were delighted to see an audience of students and the public join us to celebrate the programme featuring predominantly women, non binary and gender diverse composers and musicians....
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...
Caring for your voice
In our latest blog Dr Sarah Weston, Lecturer in Theatre Studies, shares her insights into the Vocal Care project – funded by the SALC Social Responsibility Award: “I am sitting in a rehearsal room on a cold afternoon in February when Robert instructs the group to ‘get...
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