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Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Saw Manchester Camerata perform Eno’s Music for Airports at Manchester Airport 🔥🔥🔥

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Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media @disc-connected.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on December 7th on #4K/Blu-ray dual format in the UK from @filmsradiance.bsky.social as part of their #Transmission line: #Across110thStreet (1972)! Three crooks hold-up a Mob bank in Harlem - they come away with $300,000, but the heist goes awry and results in the d

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Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Roman villa at Piazza Armerina…

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Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Touring Sicily. Gorgeous Agrigento…

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Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Some lovely tat and a Russell Collins jug

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Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The shell grotto, Margate, an eerie subterranean marvel…

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Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Anyone else obsessed with this, like I was? 🤣 picked it up today in a second hand bookstore

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Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

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

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Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Your ratted hair is preventing yet another student’s geometry education! #criterioncollection #johnwaters

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Creative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

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.

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Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Great to see the 20th anniversary @morgancentre.bsky.social exhibition up in Sam Alex glass corridor, hosted with @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social

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Creative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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: ow.ly/gZ1C50Z2cbt Faculty of Humanities University of Manchester School of Social Sciences Prof Sophie Woodward

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Creative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

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 ow.ly/PKkz50ZaoWr

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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...

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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

📢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...

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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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Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media @disc-connected.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

***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

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Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media @disc-connected.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

***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

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Creative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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,

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Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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

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Vulture @vulture.com · 03/12/2025

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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The Best Movies of 2025, According to John Waters

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Creative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

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: ow.ly/YzW650XyEV6

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Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Ensemble Nist-Nah at Ascension in Hulme. Wonderful stuff 🔥

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Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Really looking forward to John Hamilton’s book on Trog for webelongdead.co.uk picked up a signed copy at fantastic-films.uk #FoFF2025

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Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Alexandre O. Philippe’s new film is out @darkskyfilms.bsky.social wonderful stuff.

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Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Enjoying #ICRMC25 creative research methods conference lots of ideas to take back to @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social 😀

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Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Petticoat Lane Emporium, Ramsgate

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Creative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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

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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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