The University will throw open its doors to tens of thousands of people
The Universally Manchester Festival is set to welcome up to 60,000 people to experience everything from poetry to physics, music to medicine, computing to creative writing and more.
You can enter virtual reality worlds, take part in Squid Game-esque challenges and discover the secrets of the asteroid Bennu and NASA’s special OSIRIS-REx mission. However, many popular ticketed events are sold out, with a limited number of walk up spaces available on the door but there’s no shortage of other free events and activities to get involved in.
The panel, chaired by writer and archivist Karen Gabay, includes Keithly Brandy, singer Charley Henry, singer Sylvia Teller and guitarist Trevor Moffat, and will be followed by a DJ set from renowned Reno Club and Haçienda DJ Hewan Clarke.TALK 200: THE LIMITS TO EQUALITY The panel includes Ed O’Brien, guitarist with rock superstars Radiohead and In Place of War ambassador; the University’s own Professor James Thompson; Ruth Daniel, CEO of In Place of War; Tongai ‘Outspoken’ Makawa of the Magamba Network in Zimbabwe; Selam Mengistu, In Place of War’s Youth Advisory Board; Allan Sudlow of AHRC; and MABE, musician and member of GRRRL from Venezuela.
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