Stephen Hicks
@stephenrhicks.bsky.social
Social work academic at University of Manchester, Morgan Centre https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/ and Creativity, Health & Wellbeing Lead for Creative Manchester https://www.creative.manchester.ac.uk 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Look at those disgusting trees, stealing my oxygen. Oh, I can't stand this scenery another minute. All natural forests should be turned into housing developments! I want cement covering every blade of grass in this nation. #criterioncollection #johnwaters
Your ratted hair is preventing yet another student’s geometry education! #criterioncollection #johnwaters
Today we are at Manchester Museum exploring the project “housing with care and creativity with older LGBTQ people” We have art work created from research interviews by Len Grant. Participants from the project and the LGBTQ community in Manchester shared their experiences of housing.
Great to see the 20th anniversary @morgancentre.bsky.social exhibition up in Sam Alex glass corridor, hosted with @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social
In two weeks: Irrepressible – an exhibition celebrating 20 years of the Morgan Centre 📅 Weds 1 July, 4pm - 5:30pm 📍 South Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building 🎟️ Register: https://ow.ly/gZ1C50Z2cbt Faculty of Humanities University of Manchester School of Social Sciences Prof Sophie Woodward
NEW EVENT: Research Café: Housing with care and creativity with older LGBTQ people Join us for research findings from this interdisciplinary pilot research project exploring the experiences, needs, and aspirations of older LGBTQ people. Image credit: Len Grant https://ow.ly/PKkz50ZaoWr
Janus FIlms will re-release the Mary Harron's 'I Shot Andy Warhol' starring Lili Taylor in theaters for its 30th anniversary.
A 4K Restoration Brings Explosive Sundance Winner ‘I Shot Any Warhol’ Back to Theaters
Janus FIlms will re-release the Mary Harron's 'I Shot Andy Warhol' starring Lili Taylor in theaters for its 30th anniversary.
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TICKETS ARE NOW LIVE for the 2026 Queer Data Showcase in Manchester! We’re spotlighting a fantastic group of artists, academics and activists all working with – or interested in – the idea of queer data. 🗓️ Weds 10 June 2026 🌍 HOME, Manchester 👋 All welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-data...
📢Major new UKRI-funded research project: 'Air Spaces: Getting the Measure of Air' involves researchers from across UoM & community partners to explore air pollution inequalities Builds on a great pilot project. So excited to see where this research takes us! www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/m...
Manchester researchers launch major UKRI funded project to understand “air inequalities”
A team of researchers at The University of Manchester has been awarded UKRI funding for a pioneering interdisciplinary project examining how communities experience and understand air pollution in ever...
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***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on June 23rd on #4K and Blu-ray in the US from @criterion.bsky.social: #Hairspray (1988)! After decades of pushing the boundaries of bad taste with his underground provocations, John Waters found surprising mainstream success with this infectiously irreverent
***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on June 23rd on #4K and Blu-ray in the US from @criterion.bsky.social: #DesperateLiviing (1977)! Following the unrepentant outrageousness of Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble, director John Waters brought his notorious trash trilogy to a fittingly twisted close with
Today we're celebrating #IWD2026 with MACFEST, @healthierfutures.bsky.social and a panel from Uncertain Futures. They shared findings from their project using art as research to explore older women's experience of work. We also welcomed performers Filiz Ozum and Gulcin Bulut,
Our @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social event with MACFEST for international women’s day #iwd2026 kicks off at the Whitworth Art Gallery with the Uncertain Futures Team talking about their work
John Waters’s annual list of the best of cinema is finally here. ‘My favorite movie of the year is a disagreeable but highly entertaining tale as exhausting as today’s politics with characters nobody could possibly root for.’
The Best Movies of 2025, According to John Waters
John Waters’s annual list of the best of cinema is finally here. ‘My favorite movie of the year is a disagreeable but highly entertaining tale as exhausting as today’s politics with characters nobody could possibly root for.’
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Creative Manchester are pleased to announce the release of four films celebrating interdisciplinary research projects which received funding through the University of Manchester Research Institute (UMRI) Pump-Priming Call. Find out more: https://ow.ly/YzW650XyEV6
Ensemble Nist-Nah at Ascension in Hulme. Wonderful stuff 🔥
Really looking forward to John Hamilton’s book on Trog for webelongdead.co.uk picked up a signed copy at fantastic-films.uk #FoFF2025
Enjoying #ICRMC25 creative research methods conference lots of ideas to take back to @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social 😀
Less four weeks to go until we welcome Hallsworth Visiting Prof Justin O'Connor, Prof Abi Gilmore @uomsalc.bsky.social and Dave Moutrey OBE for a research café on cultural policy and planning in GM💭 📅16 Sept 📍Samuel Alexander Building 🔗 ow.ly/X94850WCH9Z @uomhums.bsky.social
Cultural infrastructure at a crossroads - Research Café
Join us for a panel and discussion event on devolution, cultural policy and Greater Manchester.
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Creative Manchester@uomcreativemcr.bsky.social · 12mo agoCultural infrastructure at a crossroads📢 📅16 Sept 📍Samuel Alexander Building 10 years on from the Greater Manchester devolution deal this event explores cultural policy & planning in the city-region w/ Prof Abi Gilmore, Hallsworth Visiting Prof Justin O’Connor & Dave Moutrey. 🔗 ow.ly/X94850WCH9Z
