Upcoming Events
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MGS Burns' Night
Burns' Night is a popular and successful annual event run by the MGS Parents' Society, consisting of traditional Scottish dinner, dancing and music, complete with a licensed bar. Dress code is black tie (kilts optional).
Saturday 18 January 2020, 7.30pm (with a drinks reception from 6.30pm)
MGS Refectory
Book your place here.
Hugh Oldham Teatime Lecture - Yass Al-Hassani
We are delighted that this lecture is in partnership with MACFEST UK, the Muslim Arts and Culture Festival.
Yass Al-Hassani (OM 1991 – 98) completed an MSc. at the Manchester Business School. He is MD of 105solutions.com, a Management Consultancy specialising in the Business Intelligence industry. He is a Trustee of an educational Charity, the Foundation for Science, Technology & Civilisation, FSTC UK, FSTC.org.uk. The Charity aims to collate & popularise the cultural roots of early inventions which still affect our modern world, in order to highlight the shared cultural & technological inheritance of humanity. It is non-political, non-sectarian & non-religious in approach. His passion for fast cars is driven into RAWautomotive.com, which specialises in upgrading performance cars. Yass is also a professionally trained actor & model featuring in numerous productions, commercials & corporate shoots. You may recognise him from Peaky Blinders.
His talk is entitled: 1001 Years of Amnesia: 1001 Inventions
Thursday 23 January 2020, 4:00pm (refreshments will be served from 3:45pm)
MGS Memorial Hall
Admission free, book your place here.
Charity Concert - Mendelssohn's Elijah
The MGS community join professional and amateur players and singers from the Manchester area in this one off performance of Elijah. All proceeds to CLIC Sargent.
Sunday 2 February 2020, 7.00pm (drinks reception from 6.00pm)
MGS Memorial Hall
Tickets available from here.
Hugh Oldham Teatime Lecture - Louise Karwowski
Dr Louise Karwowski is product owner for Cognassist, a tool that profiles brains and supports thinking and learning. Her previous jobs working with neurodiverse learners and disabled students and completing a doctorate in quantum mechanics have provided a platform to her work for Cognasssist.
Her talk is entitled: The benefits of profiling your brain
Thursday 6 February 2020, 4:00pm (refreshments will be served from 3:45pm)
MGS Memorial Hall
Admission free, book your place here.
Hugh Oldham Teatime Lecture - Sami Hussein & Jonathan Taylor
Sami Hussein, B.Sc. describes himself as a 'defected terrorist and defected politician'. A Muslim, he was born in Iraq, has lived in Jordan and other Middle Eastern countries, and has spent the last 27 years in the UK. His vast knowledge of the Middle East brings to the talks a unique depth and understanding of the conflict and of the mind-sets of those who contribute to it.
Jonathan Taylor B.Sc.(Hons) graduated as a chemical engineer from Imperial College of Science. He has an in-depth knowledge of Israel, its language and its culture. He is an experienced lecturer on the Arab-Israeli conflict, Israeli cultural affairs, and the history of the UK Jewish community.
Title: Peace Through Knowledge: Both Sides of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
Thursday 12 March 2020, 4:00pm (refreshments will be served from 3:45pm)
MGS Memorial Hall
Admission free, book your place here.
ISOC Dinner 2020
Inviting all MGS boys and ex MGS pupils and their families to come and celebrate the fourth annual ISOC dinner. On Saturday 14 March 2020 we will be joined by Ali Qasim (OM 2011 – 13), Yass Al-Hassani (OM 1991 – 98) and Aasim Azizurehman (OM 2003 – 10) who will enlighten us with their tales and journeys through life.
The evening starts at 6:00 pm with prayers followed by dinner at 6:30 pm. The evening ends with prayers at 8:45 pm. The whole family is welcome to attend.
If you would like a short tour prior to the event please meet Mr Ahmed in Reception at 5:30 pm. If you still have tickets from the cancelled dinner in June they are still valid. If you can no longer attend then please contact Jane Graham j.graham@mgs.org to arrange a refund.
Saturday 14 March 2020, 6:00pm
Ticket price: £10.00
Dress code: lounge suits
Book your place here.
Hugh Oldham Teatime Lecture - Ivan Lewis
Ivan Lewis MP was born and grew up in Manchester. He was first elected to parliament in 1997 for Labour. He served under Blair and Brown as the Minister for Care Services, then Minister for International Development, and for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. In December 2018, he resigned from Labour due to the ‘institutionalised anti-Semitism’, himself being Jewish. This year he became the first person in history to speak in parliament wearing a skullcap. He supports LCCC, Manchester City and was involved in trying to save Bury FC. He used to play in the Jewish Cricket League.
His talk is entitled: Politics Today
Thursday 19 March 2020, 4:00pm (refreshments will be served from 3:45pm)
MGS Memorial Hall
Admission free, book your place here.
Hugh Oldham Teatime Lecture - Alan Goodman
Dr Alan Goodman has a BSc in Chemistry from Manchester and an MSc in Meteorology from Reading. He also has a PhD in Cloud observations from Liverpool. He joined the Met Office in 1990 as a forecaster. He is currently the Met Office Advisor for NW England. Alan lives in Manchester and his interests include fell walking, cricket, singing, landscape photography and Cumbrian local ale.
His talk is entitled: "It's all up in the air"
Thursday 26 March 2020, 4:00pm (refreshments will be served from 3:45pm)
MGS Memorial Hall
Admission free, book your place here.
Hugh Oldham Teatime Lecture - Tom Skinner
Tom Skinner grew up in Sale and has been a campaigner and network-builder in Manchester for over 15 years, leading successful student campaigns, being elected General Secretary of the University of Manchester Students' Union, teaching courses on campaigning and politics, and coordinating the Greater Manchester Living Wage Campaign, which has won pay rises for thousands of low-paid workers. For the last three years, he has been Co-Director of Greater Manchester Poverty Action, where he manages projects such as the Food Poverty Alliance to address poverty across the city region.
His talk is entitled: How to change the world when it seems too big
Thursday 23 April 2020, 4:00pm (refreshments will be served from 3:45pm)
MGS Memorial Hall
Admission free, book your place here.
Hugh Oldham Teatime Lecture - Adrian Moore
Professor Adrian Moore (OM 1968 – 75). He is now Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Vice-Principal of St Hugh’s College Oxford. He has published several books, including: The Infinite (third edition, 2019); Points of View (1997); Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty: Themes and Variations in Kant’s Moral and Religious Philosophy (2003); and The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things (2012). In 2016 he wrote and presented the series A History of the Infinite on BBC Radio 4.”
His talk is entitled: “Immortality and Infinity”
Thursday 30 April 2020, 4:00pm (refreshments will be served from 3:45pm)
MGS Memorial Hall
Admission free, book your place here.