Urbis Archive

  • Urbis is leaving the building…

    Urbis is leaving the building…

    It’s a disappointing start to the year for Manchester. As chief executive Vaughan Allen tweeted recently, it’s sad that the Urbis is closing at the end of a decade when it was supposed to be a millenium project. Click here to use social bookmarks Hide Sites $$('div.d241').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });

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  • Homegrown: see it while you still can

    Homegrown: see it while you still can

    Our beloved Urbis is due to incorporate Preston’s Football Museum and will be closing on February 27, 2010. Go and check out its Homegrown exhibition, while it’s still there. This is a fascinating look at the UK hip hop scene, and is interesting regardless of what music you listen to. Click here to use social bookmarks Hide Sites $$('div.d220').each( [...]

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  • Urbis Creatives launched

    Urbis Creatives launched

    Did you know staff at Urbis were such a creative bunch? No, I didn’t either, but a new website has just been launched to showcase the collective creativity of Urbis staff in their outside-work projects. Encouraging creativity and out-of-work interests is a fantastic idea, and of course it promotes Urbis itself because it is supposed to [...]

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  • The Best of Manchester Awards are upon us again

    The Best of Manchester Awards are upon us again

    Do you want to be crowned Best of Manchester? I love that title, what an accolade. To be the king or queen of Manchester, you have to do something worthy in the categories of art, music or fashion. Now, I have already put forward the suggestion that these awards are re-named the Manchester Is Ace [...]

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