What's On Today

Art

Please note: our Galleries are closed on Mondays.
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What do you want?
Surekha, Between fire and sky, 2006 (detail)
From Sat 5 April to Sun 1 June
Five female artists who are living in India use photography, performance, objects, video and new media to analyse problems faced by Indian women and those living within traditional family structures. Part of Asia Triennial Manchester 2008.
Jasmeen Patheja
Jasmeen Patheja, Blank Noise in Gariahat Market, Kolkata (detail)
From Fri 4 April to Sun 1 June
Jasmeen Patheja continues her ongoing project Blank Noise, where she addresses the phenomenon of 'eve teasing' - commonplace sexual harassment of women in India's public spaces - and brings it to Manchester for What do you want?. In the Café Bar.

New Books

A Fair to Meddling Story
Nick Mauss Ken Okiishi A Fair to Meddling Story
Ken Okiishi & Nick Mauss
£13.00
Contains drawings and collages by Nick Mauss and stills from videos by Ken Okiishi. The images form a kind of associative narrative through the book, containing subjects as lost places, singled-out figures, book covers, and typographic elements.
Available soon
Bob Nickas
Bob Nickas
Theft is Vision
£11.00
Gathering essays and interviews from 1995 to today, this book offers both an insight into Nickas’ vision on contemporary art and a portrait of the American art scene over the last few decades.
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Film

Still from XXY
XXY
14:00  16:10  18:25  20:40 
Cert 15, 86 mins
In Spanish with English Subtitles 
A thought-provoking coming of age story with a twist: 15-year-old Alex is a hermaphrodite.
Joy Division
Joy Division
13:55  16:05  18:15  20:30 
Cert 15, 97 mins
A richly layered documentary that creates a portrait of the influential post-punk band and the city that spawned it.
My Brother is an Only Child
My Brother is an Only Child
13:50  16:00  18:10  20:20 
Cert 15, 104 mins
In Italian with English Subtitles 
Two brothers come of age in late 60's provincial Italy. One becomes a card carrying fascist, the other a Communist who uses the free love mileu of the left to score with revolutionary women,