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2009

Videogame Nation - 14 May to 19 September

Kendama & Edo Daikagura - 31 August

 2008

Buy Art Fair - Fri 10 to Sun 12 October

Manchester in Fashion - Thurs 2 to Sun 5 October

Manga Makeup - June

UK Rock Explosion Tour: Poster Fair - Sat 14 & Sun 15 June

Meet the Curator - 5 June 2008

OH MY GOD! Present THE HISTORY OF Drum N Bass Part 1! - Sat 24 May

MAPS Festival 2008 - Fri 23 May

Do Museums Matter? - Fri 16 May

QUEER UP NORTH DEBATE - Sat 10 May

Birds Need Trees - Monthly (every 1st sat of the month)

Urban Gardening Family Launch Day - 26 April

A Womans Place - 8 March

2007

Manchester Craft Mafia - 3, 4 Nov & 2, 4 Dec

Friedrich Engels Memorial Lectures - 28 Nov

Talkies - November

A night at the Gallery - fri 2 nov

The First european poster expo - Sat 20 & Sun 21 October 

Talkies - October

Book Launch and Music Event - Friday 12 October

Curious - Sept 2 & Tue 4 Oct

Beck’s Fusions - Sat 22 Sep

Talkies - September

Pre Parade Family BBQ - Sat 25 Aug

Talkies - August

0161 SUMMER FESTIVAL - Sun 12 Aug

PLAY STATION: a project by French Mottershead - 30 July - 3 August.

SITUATIONIST ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND: Crowdmapping with Shaping Systems Corp. - 28 and 29 July

Who Killed Martin Hannett? - Wed 25 July

Tai-Chi in the Gardens Week - Mon 23 – Fri 27 July

Talkies - July

Urban Senses Walk - Friday 29 June

1000 Thank Yous! - Wed 27 June

Anthony Key Artist Talk - Wed 27 June

From the sixth floor: Early Morning Breakfast and Lunchtime Talks - 19 to 23 June

springwatch - Sat 9 June

Cities; imagined, constructed, experienced - Thursday 31st May  

Land Reclamation:  taking back what’s ours: Artists and an Engineer in Conversation about the Public Realm - Wednesday 23rd May 

Queer Question Time - 17 May

Harry and the Potters play at Urbis - Saturday 12 May

Guerrilla Gardening - Thursday 3rd of May

Playing in the City: A lecture by Professor Douglas Crimp - Thursday 19th April

ENDURING LOVE TEA DANCE - Friday 30 March

Who's on Urbis - Until 16 April

Single Shot in Manchester - 1 April

Join us for a day of Play at Urbis - Saturday 31 March

White Britain has a black history:
the hidden history of black people in Britain - Thursday 22 March

Creative writing Workshop for ages 13+ - Saturdays 3 & 10 March

Artist Talk with Gordon Cheung - Thursday 8 March

Two Minutes - Thursday 22 February

2006

Islamophobia - 23 November

What was so good about the Haçienda then? - 14 November

Wild Walk 3: The Oxford Road Biodiversity Corridor - 13 November

The China Show Curator's Tour - 11 November

China: Beijing Culture Shock - 9 November

Vital Arts Festival events - 2 to 5 November

Kern up the Volume: An evening with Erik Spiekermann - 1 November

Wild Walk 2: the Three Canals - 16 October

The Urban Gardener with Bob Flowerdew - 14 October

Viva La Muralists! - 30 September

Political Bloggers and the New Media Landscape - 24 September

Pink Architecture - 6 September

Y'alright - Speaking in Manc - 5 September

Every Cloud Tours - August and September

Inside/Outside Urbis - Saturdays in August

Tattoo Demonstration - 19 August

Subversive Sports in the City - 12 August

Factory Records Book launch and panel discussion - 13 July

Step Up Arts Festival Event - 6 July

Architecture Week 2006 - 16 to 25 June

A People’s Hall for the People’s Music - 8 June

Little Black Dress events - March and April

North Country Futures - 7 April

British Art Show 6 events - February and March

2005

Rock 'n' Roll Icons Events - September to November

Punk Events - July to September

Hoegarden Uban Oasis - 3 to 10 August

Architecture Week 2005 - 17 to 26 June

A Community of Experience: Towards a New Public Realm - 26 April

In Conversation: with Will Alsop & Tom Dyckhoff - 13 April

Sustainability in the SuperCity: a Dialogue for Future Living - 18 March

Building Schools for the Future - 10 March

Masterclass with Will Alsop - 18 February

2004

New Approach Workshops - November and December

Urbis Mis-Guided - 27 and 28 November

The City as Playground - 6 November

Big Urban Challenge - 16 October

Artist Academy: How to Make it in the Music Business - 18 and 19 September

Cow Parade - 14 June to 12 September

Shaping the Future Cities of the North - 26 June

DTroit DJ Workshops - June 2004

An Evening with Elliot Eastwick - 9 June

An Evening with Will Alsop - 5 May

What's the Cover Story? - 7 April

24 Hour Party People Screening - 16 March

Objectivity - 28 February

The Peter Saville Show Events - March

2003

Bookcrossing - 16 August 

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