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… a show of small-scale sculptures of the human/humanoid figure
Bankley Studios & Gallery
Bankley Street
Levenshulme
Manchester
M19 3PP
Preview 26th May 6-9pm
Open to the public: 27 May to 4 June Sat-Sun 12-5 pm
“Strange Little Things” show at Bankley Gallery, 26th May – 4th June.
Conceived, organised and curated by Axel Bottenberg
The human figure has fascinated artists since the beginning of mankind. A lump of clay, fashioned into a human shape, a simple carving from wood or stone. The human figure is without doubt the most recognised form of sculpture in the world.
I have chosen a number of artists who have been making small scale human / humanoid figures to contribute to this show. Each artist has their own approach to using the human figure, but an overriding element is their use of a quirky nature or strange narrative.
Some artists are already fairly established, and I knew their work from within the Manchester art scene, others are less known and were recommended to me by friends, some I stumbled across in art events, some are long term friends whose work I respect and value.
Vortrag der britischen Religionssoziologin Linda Woodhead
The British Academy Lecture, 44 min
Britain is one of only a handful of countries in the world which is rapidly moving from having a Christian majority to a ‘no religion’ majority. But we are not becoming secular – only a quarter of us are confident there is no God; fewer than one in ten report being influenced by secularism. The lecture approaches this apparent paradox by excavating the category of ‘no religion’, and showing how and why the categories of the religious and the secular are losing their analytic power in relation to the current cultural situation. Drawing on new research, it traces the emerging outlines of a new, post-Protestant, moral paradigm.
Chethams Library in Manchester wurde 1653 gegründet und ist älteste öffentliche Bibliothek in Großbritannien. Nun hat das Deutsch Centre eine deutschsprachige Führung organisiert.
In the seventeenth century Humphrey Chetham, a prosperous Manchester merchant, bought medieval buildings close to the Collegiate Church (now the Cathedral) to provide not only a school and accommodation for the education of forty poor but gifted boys, but also a free library for the use of scholars.
Today Chetham’s Library is the oldest surviving public library in Britain where, during a visit to this fascinating building includes the reading room where Marx and Engels studied, the baronial hall and the chained library.
17. Mai, 15.00-16.30 Uhr
Entrance to Chethams Library, Long Millgate, M3 1SB (facing the National Football Museum)
Tickets £12.50 bei EventBrite
44 Minuten
The Protestant Reformation has traditionally been regarded as „the triumph of the word“, marking a decisive shift from a visual and sensual culture to a literary one. But for Martin Luther, music, with its power to move emotions, was an „inexpressible miracle“ second only to Theology. When people engage in music, he said, singing in four or five parts, it is like a „square dance in heaven.“
Luther’s ideas about music were to have a decisive influence on the development of music in Germany …
1 hour
Sara Mohr-Pietsch journeys into the reforming world of John Calvin. As part of BBC Radio 3’s ‚Breaking Free – Martin Luther’s Revolution‘ season, The Choir focuses on the Genevan Psalter and its impact upon choral worship including the development of the Anglo-Psalter.…
30 Minuten
As part of Radio 3’s Breaking Free: Martin Luther’s Revolution, The Listening Service asks where the idea of communal singing, especially in religious contexts, came from in modern Europe….
2 1/2 Stunden
For Radio 3’s ‚Breaking Free – Martin Luther’s Revolution‘, a concert from St John’s Smith Square celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, given by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, and Clare Baroque, conducted by Graham Ross.
Presented by Martin Handley …
45 Minuten
Peter Stanford, Ulinka Rublack and Diarmaid MacCulloch join Anne McElvoy to explore the question Martin Luther – Fundamentalist, Reactionary or Enlightened Creator of the Modern World? …
45 Minuten
Rana Mitter looks at new research into the way daily life changed in Britain after the Reformation for Radio 3’s series of programmes exploring Martin Luther’s Revolution. His guests are: …
1 Stunde
For BBC Radio 3’s ‚Breaking Free – Martin Luther’s Revolution‘ season, Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace to explore how church music and worship in England were affected by the Protestant Reformation. …
Heinrich Bedford-Strohm über Rechtspopulismus und den Bundestagswahlkampf
https://www.ekd.de/aktuell/edi_2017_04_20_bedford-strohm_rechtspopulismus.html
Siebeneinhalb Zentimeter misst er, der Kleine. Hebt er die Bibel und die Schreibfeder, steht er ein bisschen unsicher, aber waren nicht auch dem großen Vorbild die Knie weich, auf dem Weg zum Reichstag in Worms, zum Kaiser Karl? …
Artikel vom 3.4.2017 aus der Süddeutschen Zeitung von Matthias Dobrinski.
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Manchester Cathedral’s Stoller Organ to be played for the first time on Easter Day
There has been an organ in Manchester Cathedral since at least the 1680s with different instruments being rebuilt, modified and replaced over time.
The old organ was badly damaged when a bomb exploded on the north east side of the Cathedral in 1940, and stop-gap measures were taken to repair the instrument, re-using old pipework. This organ lasted 75 years.
Sir Norman Stoller and the Trustees of The Stoller Charitable Trust have generously sponsored the new Stoller Organ (the total cost was approximately £2.6m) …
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Weitere Informationen und Bilder des Orgelprojektes auf der Facebook-Seite der Kathedrale.