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Inside Out What you Don't See
Seminar entitled: Inside Out What You Don't See to celebrate World Mental Health Day. Panel discussion about 'offender mental health' and Inside Out exhibition displaying art works produced by inmates from HMP Maghaberry
Poverty Research in Ireland: North and South
This conference, which is being organised on a collaborative basis by the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, QUB, the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin and the Geary Institute, UCD, will provide an overview of recent research relating to poverty and social exclusion North and South and provide a platform for researchers and policy makers to discuss the potential for comparative North-South work. Those wishing to attend should contact Eileen Gray at e.gray@qub.ac.uk
World Mental Health Day - Psychological Understandings
The Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) and the Northern Ireland Branch of the British Psychological Society (NIBPS), along with their Divisions of Counselling, Clinical and Health Psychology, are delighted to announce an evening lecture hosted by The School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast to mark World Mental Health Day 2013. Our three speakers will discuss the diverse range of approaches used by Psychologists to understand and work with mental health difficulties. The public will gain an understanding of important topics. This event is free to attend.
Poverty Research in Ireland: North and South
The impact of the great recession, the implementation of budgetary austerity policies and the persistence of extremely high unemployment pose severe challenges for social welfare policy. In this context, it is timely to consider developments in relation to both poverty and inequality North and South. In doing so it is necessary to go beyond consideration of income poverty per se to develop broader multidimensional and dynamic perspectives that encompass living standards, debt and economic vulnerability and the relationship between work/joblessness, social investment and social welfare. This conference, which is being organised on a collaborative basis by the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast, the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin and the Geary Institute, University College Dublin, will provide an overview of recent research relating to poverty and social exclusion North and South and provide a platform for researchers and policy makers to discuss the potential for comparative North-South work. The contributions will draw on the infrastructure for poverty and social exclusion research provided by databases such as the UK Poverty and Social Exclusion survey (PSE) and the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey (SILC). In the context of the profound economic and social changes associated with the Great Recession, the topics covered will include the relationship between, patterns and determinants of deprivation, poverty and household joblessness, multidimensional poverty and deprivation in childhood and trends in economic vulnerability.
QUMS Parents’ and Guardians’ Evening
This event is specifically for students who are considering applying to university for degree programmes beginning in September 2014. The purpose of this event is to give students, parents and guardians an opportunity to speak informally with staff and students within the School, to find out more about the specific degree programmes which we offer, to learn more about Queen’s University Management School and life at Queen’s University in general.
Structural Equation Modelling and Latent Growth Curve Modelling using Mplus
The Centre for Effective Education and the Institute of Child Care Research present a two-day course on Structural Equation Modelling and Latent Growth Curve Modelling using Mplus. The course comprises of short lectures on the basic theory behind the techniques, teaching via examples worked through by the trainer on real data sets which participants can follow, and exercises to practise the skills just learned.
History Postgraduate Seminar Series
History Postgraduate Seminar Series begins on Friday 4 October at 4pm. See our webpage for details: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofHistoryandAnthropology/NewsandEvents/SeminarProgrammes/HistoryStaffPostgraduateSeminarSeries/AutumnSemester2013-14/
CONCERT: PIANORQUESTRA
With Pedro Rebelo, Justin Yang and Franziska Schroeder 16 hands and two pianos...Brazilian music and the piano heard and seen live like never before! The highly acclaimed Brazilian group PianOrquestra makes its first visit to Belfast with composers Pedro Rebelo, Justin Yang and saxophonist Franziska Schroeder who are based at the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen’s. The programme is inspired by the work of John Cage and explores the sonorities of two pianos played by 16 hands using gloves, sticks, picks, nylon, rubber, metal, wood, fabric, plastic and electronics. It also explores Cage’s legacy, including the prepared piano, use of indeterminacy, everyday sound and graphic notation. This artistic collaboration is supported by British Council creating links between Brazil and Northern Ireland through the Transform Festival. In collaboration with the Belfast Festival at Queen’s.
PERFORMANCE: SPOKESONG
Directed by Frankie McCafferty Stewart Parker’s extraorindary first play Spokesong is set in a Belfast bicycle shop, owned by Frank Stock, who dreams of reviving interest in cycling in his native city. The city fathers, however, are not convinced. Spokesong is told with the aid of flashbacks, trick cyclists and juggling.
SEMINAR: GREG MCLAUGHLIN AND STEVE BAKER
SUNDAY AND BLOODY SUNDAY, VERY BRITISH TRAGEDIES
SEMINAR: DAVE O’BRIEN (CITY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)
CULTURAL VALUE In cooperation with the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities 11am - 4pm
SEMINAR: JAIME JONES
RESOUNDING TRADITION: EXPRESSIVITY AND EMBODIMENT IN HINDU DEVOTIONAL SONG
SEMINAR: CHRIS WATSON
LOCATION SOUND TECHNIQUES AND ASSOCIATED FIELDCRAFT 23rd, 24th Oct
SEMINAR: KATE EGAN (ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY)
LOCAL CENSORSHIP, THE BBFC AND THE PYTHONESQUE: THE ROLE OF COMEDY IN THE BRITISH THE LIFE OF BRIAN CONTROVERSY
SEMINAR: TONY DOWMUNT (GOLDSMITH UNIVERSITY)
WILL IT HARM THE SHEEP?: TRADITION, INVENTION AND INTERVENTION IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS MEDIA
SEMINAR: PHD ROUNDTABLE
CREATIVE ARTS PhD students from across the School of Creative Arts present their cutting-edge research. Please see http://phdroundtable. blogspot.co.uk/ for speaker names and abstracts. See also next PhD roundtable on 2nd December 2013.
SEMINAR: CONN HOLOHAN (NUI GALWAY)
IN PRAISE OF ERROR: COSMOPOLITAN SPACE IN THE FILMS OF CLAIRE DENIS
CONFERENCE: CLASS OUT OF THE CLOSET CONFERENCE
In association with the Outburst Queer Arts Festival CHARLOTTE COOPER, ALYSON CAMPBELL, RUTH MCCARTHY, STEVE FARRIER
SEMINAR: GEORGE REVILL
TONY SCHWARTS’ RESPONSIVE CHORD: ENTRAINMENT, CONNECTION AND THE POLITICS OF NETWORKED COMMUNICATION (‘RECOMPOSING THE CITY’ EVENT SERIES)
SEMINAR: PHD ROUNDTABLE
CREATIVE ARTS Please see http://phdroundtable.blogspot.co.uk/ for speaker names and abstracts
SEMINAR: EARFILMS
IMAGINATION IS THE NEW TECHNOLOGY: CREATING FILMS THAT ARE TOLD PURELY THROUGH SOUND
SEMINAR: DR EWAN JEFFREY
BOOK LAUNCH AND SEMINAR: ‘VEX NOT HIS GHOST: SILENCE AND SPEECH IN DRAMA AND PALLIATIVE CARE’
SEMINAR: MARCUS TAN
K-CONTAGION: SOUND, SPEED AND SPACE IN PSY’S ‘GANGNAM STYLE’ (‘RECOMPOSING THE CITY’ EVENT SERIES)
SEMINAR: JUSTIN SMITH (UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH)
CHANNEL 4 AND BRITISH FILM CULTURE MERGING METHODOLOGIES IN FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES
CONCERT: MARY DULLEA (PIANO)
Playing Marlacoo by Simon Mawhinney During the years 2008-11, QUB lecturer Simon Mawhinney wrote a sequence of three works, each of which is intended to fill an entire concert. The final such work is Marlacoo for solo piano. This concert presents not only the world premiere, but serves to launch the CD recording of the work by Altarus Records. As soloist and chamber musician, Irish pianist Mary Dullea has built an impressive reputation as a performer and commissioner of new music, performing internationally and premiering many pieces including Marlacoo. www.marydullea.com
CONCERT: BEN MCATEER (BARITONE) & CATHERINE NORTON (PIANO)
BMS Northern Lights Mini-Fest Programme to include: Schubert - Schwanengesang (selection) Schumann - Liederkreis, op. 39 Quilter - Seven Elizabethan Lyrics Finzi - Let Us Garlands Bring Up to 30 free tickets for QUB music & music technology students This concert is part of the 2013 Northern Lights Mini-Fest, Belfast Music Society’s showcase for young local artists (full details of these, and the other two events in the Mini-Fest, plus ticket booking details available at www.belfastmusicsociety.org).
CONCERT: JACOB KIRKEGAARD
Labyrinthitis ‘Recomposing the City’ event series Based in Berlin, Germany, Jacob Kirkegaard is a graduate of the Academy for Media Arts in Cologne. Since 1995, he has presented his works at galleries, museums, venues & conferences throughout the world. For today’s event, Kirkegaard has turned his ears inwards: Labyrinthitis is an interactive sound piece that consists entirely of sounds generated in the artist’s auditory organs – and will cause audible responses in those of the audience. The Wire selected a recording of Labyrinthitis as one of the ten best releases of 2008. This concert as well as the seminar by Kirkegaard on the 9th October are part of the “Recomposing the City: Sonic Arts & Urban Architecture” Project Research Group based at the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities at Queen’s. It brings together over twenty researchers from Queen’s and beyond, and it is co-lead by staff in Creative Arts and Architecture. Events in the Recomposing the City series will explore the relationship of sound and music to the understanding, design, and development of urban environments. Details of this Group can be found at: www.recomposingthecity.org
WORKSHOP: DAVE O’BRIEN
Cultural Value Workshop Dr O’Brien will present a wide ranging discussion of cultural policy and cultural value, based on his new book “Cultural Policy: Management, Value and Modernity in the Creative Industries” The talk will use a range of case studies, including analysis of work in the creative industries, urban regeneration and cultural consumption. The case studies will be the basis for a consideration of the complexity of understanding the value of culture in modernity. The session will conclude with reflections on the tensions between the government and administration of culture and the need for artistic and cultural practice to have critical distance from both state and market.
CONCERT: LIZ KENNY (Lute)
Would the real ‘il divino’ please step forward? Giants of the lute in the early seventeenth century In their day, both Dowland and Laurencini were given the ultimate accolade, “il divino”. History has judged Dowland to be the greater, but the Knight of the Lute, who lived in Rome, had a bigger influence on friends and colleagues, perhaps because he was better at acquiring them than the notoriously prickly Dowland. From our post-romantic perspective we will always admire the Lone Wolf genius more than a collegial rival, but you can judge for yourself. The programme will include lute music by Laurencini’s heir to the title in Rome, Hieronymus Kapsberger.
CONCERT: ROYAL STRING QUARTET
The renowned Royal String Quartet from Poland launch their second season of concerts in Belfast with a programme which blends old and new music. The concert features the premiere of a new quartet by Belfast-based composer Rob Casey which explores novel ideas of musical space, made possible through the unique 3D sound capabilities of the Sonic Lab at SARC. The programme also includes works by Polish composers Mykietyn and Szymanski and concludes with Haydn’s Opus 76 quartet in Bb major. Rob Casey - ‘I Remember it was Yellow’ (world premiere) Mykietyn - Quartet no 2 Szymanski - Five Pieces for the String Quartet Haydn - op. 76 no 4
CONCERT: SABRINA HU (FLUTE) & CATHAL BRESLIN (PIANO)
BMS Northern Lights Mini-Fest Poulenc - Sonata for Flute and Piano Ravel - Piece en forme de habanera Ravel - Ondine, for solo piano Debussy - Syrinx, for solo flute Messiaen - Le Merle Noir New work (t.b.c.) Brazilian trad.- Choros, arr. for flute and piano Piazzolla - Histoire du Tango, for flute and piano Up to 30 free tickets for QUB music & music technology students This concert is part of the 2013 Northern Lights Mini-Fest, Belfast Music Society’s showcase for young local artists (full details of these, and the other two events in the Mini-Fest, plus ticket booking details available at www.belfastmusicsociety.org).
CONCERT: CHRIS WATSON
Songs from the Silverbanks Live diffusion of the songs of humpback whales recorded on location off the coast of the Dominican Republic earlier this year. Born in 1953 in Sheffield where he attended Rowlinson School and Stannington College, Watson was a founding member of the influential Sheffield based experimental music group Cabaret Voltaire during the 1970’s and early 1980’s. His sound recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees Television. Since then he has developed a particular and passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As a freelance composer and recordist for Film, TV & Radio, Watson specialises in natural history and documentary location sound together with sound design in post production. His television work includes many programmes in the David Attenborough ‘Life’ series including ‘The Life of Birds’ which won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ in 1996. More recently Watson was the location sound recordist with David Attenborough on the BBC’s series ‘Frozen Planet’ which also won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ (2012).
TALK: OWEN McCAFFERTY
Book Launch and Public Reading One of the most important and original playwrights working in Ireland today, Owen McCafferty’s impressive body of work has been produced by every major theatre company in his native Belfast (Lyric, Tinderbox, Kabosh, Prime Cut) as well as Galway’s Druid Theatre Company, Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, and the National Theatre, London. Although all of Owen’s work is characterised by his unique adaptation of Belfast speech, the universalism of his subjects and lyricism of his language transcend its local roots as the global routes of new productions of his work can testify, with his work being translated and performed in Japan, Germany, Chile, France, America and Australia in recent years. QUB Drama are delighted to host an evening to celebrate the publication of an edited collection of Owen’s stage plays that includes: The Waiting List, Shoot the Crow, Mojo Mickybo, Closing Time and Scenes from the Big Picture. Owen will read from a number of these plays and short excerpts from Mojo Mickeybo will also be performed, followed by a reception in the Brian Friel Theatre.
TALK: TEYA SEPINUCK
Reading excerpts from her new book: Theatre of Witness Theatre of Witness chronicles the author’s 26 years of creating and producing theatre with people whose stories have previously gone untold, including prisoners and their families, refugees, survivors and former perpetrators of domestic abuse, ex-combatants and those who have lived through war. With an engaging and heartfelt narrative, it beautifully conveys the key principles of Theatre of Witness and explores the author’s own journey that lead to the conception and growth of this unique model of performance.
PERFORMANCE: PRATT’S FALL, BY STEWART PARKER. A REHEARSED READING
QUB Drama Students, directed by Mark Phelan Pratt’s Fall by Stewart Parker. A Rehearsed Reading. Having found an old map which seems to prove that the Ireland’s St Brenda had discovered America, George Mahoney seduces Map Curator Victoria Pratt with it.
PERFORMANCE: STUART PARKER
Retrospective Saturday 2 November 2013 marks the 25th anniversary of Stewart Parker. A scholar, poet, playwright, and music critic, he was a founding member of the Belfast Group and wrote extensively for stage, radio and screen. Like J. M. Synge, he was cut down at a tragically young age whilst at his height of his powers, but he has bequeathed us all a body of work that establishes him as the most innovative and important playwright to have emerged from Belfast, and one of Ireland’s greatest twentieth century playwrights. To commemorate Stewart’s 25th anniversary by celebrating his work, QUB Drama, with the kind support of BBC NI and Literary Belfast, will host a retrospective of Stewart’s work for stage, radio and screen to demonstrate Stewart’s extraordinary artistic achievement. As part of this retrospective, QUB’s School of Creative Arts is delighted to be introduce the “The Annual Stewart Parker Memorial Lecture”, in honour of Stewart’s artistic achievement, and which will be delivered by the renowned actor for stage and screen, Stephen Rea: a long-time close friend and collaborator of Stewart’s. The ‘Annual Stewart Parker Memorial Lecture’ will be delivered each year by a distinguished artist or intellectual from the field of Theatre, Film, Music and Sonic Arts to reflect both the School of Creative Arts multi-subject composition, and Stewart’s extraordinary eclecticism.
SCREENING: KAMIKAZE GROUND STAFF REUNION DINNER.
Part of the Stewart Parker Retrospective. On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across the Pacific, to crash into American ships. Thirty-five years later, the men who serviced the aeroplanes are still meeting up for their annual dinner. Now settled into civilian jobs - dentist, baker, taxi-driver, insurance salesman - and with children and grandchildren, they bemoan the decay of traditional Japanese values. Hard liquor is imbibed, toasts raised to the memory of the heroic dead, and old rivalries resurface. The survivors’ dissatisfaction with post-war life comes to a head when, in a moment of drunken inspiration, Tokkotai the airline pilot decides on a symbolic gesture to show that the kamikaze spirit lives on
PERFORMANCE: SANCTUARY
The fourth original Playhouse, Theatre of Witness production In co-operation with Holywell Trust illuminates the stories of those in exile, those seeking safe haven, and those who have created oases of peace and healing in Northern Ireland. The performers include refugee and asylum seekers from countries of war, as well as those who have sought or offered refuge following sectarianism and/or violence. Sanctuary also highlights moments of ordinary and humble peace building. Sanctuary is created and directed by Teya Sepinuck, with music by Brian Irvine, puppetry by Aja Marneweck and film by Declan Keeney. To book a tickets contact The Playhouse Box Office on 028 7126 8027 Admission is Free - please book seats to avoid disappointment. Each performance will be followed by a light reception Oct 29th - 30th / 7:30pm
SCREENING: CATCHPENNY TWIST
Dismissed from their teaching jobs, two young Belfast musicians pursue alternative careers in the music industry as songwriters, however, their catchpenny tunes which also involve ballads for fallen volunteers of both loyalist and republican paramilitaries leads to live bullets in the post and death threats, so they set off for Dublin and then London and eventually end up in the final Eurovision Song Contest! Success seems at hand and Belfast seems very far away... but for how long?
SCREENING: IRIS IN THE TRAFFIC, RUBY IN THE RAIN
Parker later referred to the play as ‘a condensed female variant on the Dedalus-Bloom odyssey’. Ruby the Bloom figure, played by Frances Tomelty, is a vigorous if flu- sodden social worker who journeys the city sneezing and assisting others. Iris the Stephen figure, played by Aingeal Grehan, is a rather passive, incurious character who is regularly and haphazardly caught up in others’ activities. A certain restless agitation governs most of the play’s characters, and the aggressive strains of Stiff Little Fingers sets the tone for Ruby’s odyssey through Belfast. By the play’s conclusion, a trio of responses to the conditions of Belfast life has emerged: the loss of sanity; emigration; or staying on and surviving together. Strikingly, it is the female characters that seem most rooted in the city. Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain is an unlikely combination of elements. Yet the discreet Joyce reference, the punk gig, and the soundtrack, lend unexpected nuances to the social problem play structure that was emblematic of Play for Today. Stiff Little Fingers provide the soundtrack, and singer Jake Burns appears as Iris’s friend.
CONCERT: DOIMNIC MAC GHIOLLA BHRIDE
A concert of sean nós singing from Donegal Doimnic Mac Giolla Bhríde, from the northwest Gaeltacht of Donegal, has been immersed in the culture of the area from a young age. This region, which is the last Gaelic speaking area in Ulster, preserves not only the Donegal sean-nós songs but also songs from all over Ulster. As a young singer his main influences were Caitlín Ní Dhomhnaill, Lillis Ó Laoire, Áine Bn. Uí Laoi, Mairead Ní Mhaonaigh and his mother Nellie Nic Giolla Bhríde. He studied music at university and now works as a full-time musician.
PERFORMANCE: NORTHERN STAR
Directed by Frankie McCafferty Northern Star is one of the greatest masterpieces of modern Irish drama, a play in which Parker’s biographer, Marilynn Richtarik, observes, the artist sought to articulate ‘a creative space between unionism and nationalism’ to prove ‘the possibility of a shared culture in Northern Ireland.’ Set in Belfast’s ‘Golden Age’ of the late 18th century, when the city was hailed as the ‘Athens of the North and was a harbinger of radical thought, Northern Star explores the life, death and legacy of Henry Joy McCracken, the leader of the United Irishmen in the 1798 Rising in a play that challenges nationalist and unionist notions of the past, to reveal how the origins of militant republicanism - in one of those ironies of Irish history - lay in the same protestant community that has inveighed against its modern manifestation.
SCREENING: JOYCE IN JUNE
Parker frequently expressed his deep appreciation of James Joyce’s work and with this play he most explicitly pays tribute to his mentor. Joyce in June is a clever concoction of fact andfiction combining a double narrative, citations from Joyce’s biography and work, with a typically incisive comic perspective. The framing storyline follows Joyce and his companions shortly after Joyce began walking out with Nora Barnacle. The embedded storyline is imagined by Joyce while he poses for fellow student, Constantine Curran, who is taking his photograph — an iconic image of the young Joyce. Parker’s “television postscript to Ulysses” features Molly Bloom, Blazes Boylan and an assortment of Dublin singers on a concert tour that begins, fatefully, in Belfast. Northern piety clashes with Southern frivolity resulting in a dramatic breakdown of decorum and raucous laughter at the play’s finale. If the production of Joyce in June is rather low budget and studio-bound, the cast energetically draw out the wit, playfulness and theatricality of Parker’s script. Roles are artfully doubled—Bridget de Courcy plays Nora and Molly with seductive charm; Stephen Rea is both the abstemious Stanislaus Joyce and the inebriated Mick McIntosh; Gabriel Byrne performs the dapper Ted Keogh and the Don Juan figure, Blazes Boylan. Joyce in June is a remarkable tribute to Joyce, though as Parker admits “there’s a tiny motive ofrevenge as well for those invariably unpleasant portraits of Northerners in the Joyce canon, the likes of Mr Alleyne in “Counterparts,” MacAlister of the oblong skull in A Portrait, the headmaster Deasy in Ulysses.”
PERFORMANCE: STEPHEN REA
The Inaugural Stewart Parker Memorial Lecture Saturday 2 November 2013 marks the 25th anniversary of Stewart Parker. A poet and playwright who wrote extensively for stage, radio and screen, Stewart Parker is the most innovative and important playwright to have emerged from Belfast and one of Ireland’s greatest twentieth century playwrights. As Stewart’s work spans Theatre, Film and Music, the School of Creative Arts at QUB is delighted to be introduce the “The Annual Stewart Parker Memorial Lecture”, in honour of Stewart’s artistic achievement. The inaugural lecture will be delivered by the renowned actor for stage and screen, Stephen Rea: a long- time close friend and collaborator of Stewart’s.
SCREENING: INTERVIEW WITH PROF. JAMES MACKAY
Images of the Two Traditions. A poignant and profound interview with Stewart Parker filmed several months before his death whilst he was enjoying the success of his last, and greatest play, Pentecost.
SCREENING: PENTECOST
BBC Film Version Set in East Belfast at the height of the 1974 Ulster Workers’ Strike, Pentecost tells the story of four ‘refugees’, gathered together in a working-class parlour-house where, against the background of political strife, they work out their personal relationships with each other, the world outside, and their past. Only Marian is aware of a fifth presence - the ghost of Lily Matthews, who returns to haunt the house. This BBC television version of Stewart’s final play was adapted by his partner Lesley Bruce
PERFORMANCE: I’M A DREAMER MONTREAL
By Stewart Parker (Radio Play) Parker’s play “I’m a Dreamer, Montreal” won the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. It was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 in April 1975 and televised for ITV Playhouse in March 1979. Set in Belfast, it tells the tale of music librarian, Nelson Gloverby, who lives in a dream world. A Showband singer by night, he is unconcerned with audience irritation at his inability to stick to the proper lyrics and is innocently drawn into the brutality of the Troubles when he meets siren Sandra Carse.
PERFORMANCE: ICEBERG
By Stewart Parker (Radio Play) Iceberg relates the purgatorial plight of two shipyard workers, Danny and Hugh, a Catholic and a Protestant, killed in the construction of the Titanic - Belfast’s ‘ proudest offering to the Empire - and to the world!”, and whose ghosts wander the fateful ship’s decks on her maiden voyage.
PERFORMANCE: THE TRAVELLER
By Stewart Parker (Radio Play) Stewart’s last and darkest radio play, featuring Donal McCann in the lead role as (mad) Sweeney, a frustrated travel writer on the cusp on a nervous breakdown, is a beautifully crafted work that’s described as a ‘secular travesty of Dante’s inferno’. First broadcast in 1984, it also features a young Ian McElhinney.
CONCERT: ESTHER LAMNECK
Music for Clarinet and Computer The New York Times calls Esther Lamneck “an astonishing virtuoso”. Winner of the prestigious Pro Musicis Award, she has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras, with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, and with renowned chamber music and improvised music artists throughout the world. A versatile performer and an advocate of contemporary music, she is known for her work with electronic media including interactive arts, movement, dance and improvisation. Program: Robert Rowe - Cigar Smoke Paul Wilson - It Had to Be You Lawrence Fritts - Musicometry I Izzi Ramkissoon - Domesticated Animalia Paola Lopreiato - Inner Voices
CONCERT: DR IAIN MCCURDY
This concert will include a number of Iain’s recent pieces for fixed medium - both diffused stereo and multichannel - and will also feature the premiere of a new piece for bass trombone and live electronics, commissioned and performed by Paul Wilson. Iain McCurdy is a composer whose output includes electroacoustic music for fixed medium, music for conventional instrumentation and sound installation. Recent work has also included instrument building and the use of electronic sensors to facilitate audience interaction. Iain is currently based in Berlin but is originally from Belfast where he studied composition at SARC.
CONCERT: ISMAEL FLORIT (PIANO) DERMOT CLENAGHAN (CELLO) Recital
Pianist Ismael Florit and Cellist Dermot Clenaghan will be performing a selection of works for their respective instruments. These young musicians won this opportunity to perform for this event after receiving top marks in their final performance recitals in June 2013. We are proud to have them back in the capacity of showcasing our musical talents at the School of Creative Arts.
CONCERT: ROYAL STRING QUARTET
Mozart - KV 465 The Dissonance Quartet Szymanski - new work (UK premiere) Beethoven - op. 135
CONCERT: THE CORY BAND
In Concert The 2013 world champions, The Cory Band and musical director Philip Harper, form the high point of this year’s Festival of Brass at Queen’s. Presented in association with the Universtiy Brass Band and the Northern Ireland Brass Band League.
CONCERT: SARAH RICHMOND (SOPRANO) & RYAN MOLLOY (PIANO)
Moods & Fancies of the Late Romantics This concert unites two acclaimed young professionals (both Queen’s graduates) in a performance of Gustav Mahler’s 1896 song cycle, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (‘Songs of a Wayfarer’), where the composer set his own lyrics to mark the unhappy conclusion to a love affair. This programme will also feature a selection from Richard Strauss’ Stimmungsbilder (Moods and Fancies for piano) as well as some of his lieder.
PERFORMANCE: A BETTER BOY: A DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
by John Wilson Foster performed by Ian McElhinney. Lord Pirrie – one of the most successful businessman of his era – has condescended to grant an interview to a young journalist eager to hear his memories of Tommie Andrews, the “better boy” of the title. Andrews was the great man’s nephew and co-designer of the lost Titanic and who shared the fate of his creation. It is 1917, before Pirrie is called upon to take charge of British merchant shipping during the Great War while still firmly at the tiller of Harland & Wolff, the world’s biggest shipyard. It is still his heyday and the interview is conducted in his lavish Surrey mansion in a saloon underneath the mansion’s man-made lake, an irony that like the lost ship goes unremarked. A celebrated public speaker, Pirrie soon takes charge of the interview to give his own side of the Titanic story. Pirrie is no shamed Bruce Ismay, however, this master- builder and irresistible salesman, famous for his prodigious memory and eye for detail, finds himself on a journey of self-discovery that finally admits doubt, resentment and even sorrow. The dramatic monologue has a performance time of roughly 50 minutes
CONCERT: 60X60
60 works by 60 artists, 60x60 offers something different every minute 60x60 is a project containing 60 works each 60 seconds in length presented continuously in an hour performance synchronized with an analog clock. 60x60 presents a slice of what is happening in the contemporary music scene by representing 60 works that are diverse in aesthetic and style. Works are selected from an international pool of emerging and established composers and sequenced in order. The resulting mix is presented, without interruption, as a continuous one-hour performance synchronized to an on-stage analog clock. The 60x60 (2012) UK Mix is the second ever 60x60 mix comprised of composers, musicians and sound artists from the United Kingdom. Elainie Lillios is the audio coordinator for the 60x60 (2012) UK Mix. http://www.60x60.com/2012_UK_Mix.htm
CONCERT: JAM CHRISTMAS CONCERT PART 1
Students of Junior Academy of Music The concert will involve children who are attending Junior Academy of Music programmes. It will include some of the following: JAM Youngest Choir, Junior Choir, Senior Choir, Brass Band, JAM Four Creative Music Technology.
CONCERT: CHRISTMAS BRASS AND VOICES
University Brass Band and Chamber Choir The University Choir and Brass Band join forces to present an end of year programme of classics and seasonal works.
CONCERT: MARTIN WILLIAMS (TENOR SAX)
With the Steve Barnett All Stars A seasonal favourite, this concert unites a jazz star from the London firmament with local virtuosi under the direction of Steve Barnett (piano). Today we are delighted to welcome back Martin Williams (tenor sax), lead tenorist from the BBC Big Band; Martin is one of the most celebrated reed voices in jazz, having played with luminaries such as Ray Charles and George Shearing. Martin will also be joining QUB Big Band tonight for their Christmas Concert.
CONCERT: QUB BIG BAND
with guest Martin Williams (tenor sax) The popular pre-Christmas concert by QUB Big Band and their director Steve Barnett, who play classics and seasonal specialities with special guest star from London, Martin Williams (tenor sax).
CONCERT: JAM CHRISTMAS CONCERT PART 2
Students of Junior Academy of Music The concert will involve children who are attending Junior Academy of Music programmes. It will include some of the following: JAM Youngest Choir, Junior Choir, Senior Choir, Brass Band, JAM Four Creative Music Technology.
CONCERT: QUSO CHRISTMAS CONCERT
Queen’s University Symphony Orchestra & Music Society Choir Seasonal favourites and popular classics brought to you by the Queen’s University Symphony Orchestra and Music Society Choir.
WORKSHOP - RUTH LEARY (THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK)
Developing the Cultural Entrepreneur What does it mean to be a cultural entrepreneur? What skills, attitudes and behaviours does it involve? What is the nature of entrepreneurship in the creative sector? How do the answers to these questions relate to your personal ambitions to become a cultural entrepreneur? In this two part workshop participants will explore these questions through a combination of practical work and reflection and will develop understanding of the role of identity, narrative and the entrepreneurial thinking involved in cultural entrepreneurship. 11am - 4pm
ILinC 2013 - Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference
Queen’s University Belfast is pleased to announce its Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference 2013 (ILinC 2013), a student-led venture co-organised by the Schools of English, Education and Modern Languages. This one-day conference will give researchers studying language in all academic disciplines the opportunity to exchange information about their research practice in the presence of distinguished and esteemed academics in the field of linguistics. In addition, the event aims to bring together researchers from different academic divisions carrying out language studies in order to foster cross-disciplinary contact. For more information and updates, please check our website (http://blogs.qub.ac.uk/ilinc/).
Colin Davidson, Between the Words
Continuing his exploration of large heads as landscapes which represent the inner self of the sitter, Colin Davidson’s Between The Words is the artist’s first solo exhibition of large-scale portraits and drawings in Northern Ireland. The subjects portrayed are recognisable public figures such as Irish poet Seamus Heaney, actor and theatre director Simon Callow, and musician and songwriter Gary Lightbody amongst others. Almost carving the paint, the artist adds a topographical aspect to his paintings, revealing the tension of the sitters whilst they are lost in thought. With their overwhelming presence and sense of grandeur, Davidson's portraits create a sense of uneasiness in the viewer, with their subjects simultaneously close to us but just out of reach. President of the Royal Ulster Academy, Colin Davidson (b. Belfast 1968) is a contemporary award-winning artist living and working near Belfast, Northern Ireland. Since graduating from the University of Ulster in 1991 with a first class honours degree in Art and Design, he has exhibited extensively not only throughout the UK and Ireland, but also internationally. His work has been shown regularly at the Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition and the Royal Ulster Academy. Davidson’s work is held in public and corporate collections, such as in the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Collection, the BBC, the National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland (Limerick), the National Gallery of Ireland, the Ulster Museum and Queen’s University Belfast.
Open Learning short part-time courses
From Spanish to Wine Tasting, Creative Writing to Travel, World Literature to Visual Arts, there is a course for everyone in the Queen's University Open Learning Programme. These part-time courses are open to all adults regardless of qualifications or experience and are offered during the day, evenings and weekends.
The Crystal Ball
The Pretty ‘n’ Pink Gala Ball is back with a bang! The Gala Ball is the key fundraising event of the Pretty ‘n’ Pink calendar year, taking place during breast cancer awareness month annually. Hosted by Citybeat’s Stephen Clements, The 2013 Crystal Ball will take place on Saturday 12th October... and Pretty ‘n’ Pink invite you to join them for a Magical Evening of Fantasy and Fun. Guests at the black tie event will enjoy a delicious Swedish natural fruit cider by drinks reception sponsor älska cider in the opulent surroundings of The Great Hall before feasting on a sumptuous three course meal in the famous Sir William Whitla Hall, Queens University Belfast. Guests are sure to be amazed by the line up of live entertainment on offer, including close up magician Rodd Hogg, and live music by the Jukebox Jurors. Tickets to this event cost £60 per person, £600 for a table of 10 and are limited. It is advisable to book asap to secure a place as previous years have completely sold out extremely quickly. Funds raised from the gala event will be used to provide small grants to breast cancer patients and their families across Northern Ireland to help with practical requirements such as mortgage payments, travel expenses, home heating, much needed respite breaks, and any specific requests that an individual patient may have.
Challenging the Oppression of Lawyers in Times of Conflict
On Wednesday 13 November 2013 the Human Rights Centre, School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast are hosting a one day conference entitled ‘Challenging the Oppression of Lawyers in Times of Conflict’. The conference will host ten speakers from jurisdictions in different stages of conflict/post-conflict across the globe: Keynote Speaker: Richard Harvey (ICTY) Basque Country: Iratxe Urizar (Basque Lawyer with Behatokia) China: Dr Ting Xu (QUB) and Dr Wei Gong (Judge) Columbia: Professor Sara Chandler (Columbian Caravana UK Lawyers) Northern Ireland: Professor Kieran McEvoy (QUB) Palestine: Andrea Becker (Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights UK) Russia: Professor Philip Leach (Middlesex University London) South Africa: Judge Essa Moosa (Judge) Turkey: Deniz Arbet Nejbir (Kurdish Lawyer) Over the course of the day the speakers will tackle five questions: 1) How are lawyers oppressed? What is the driving force behind the oppression? 2) What support are oppressed lawyers provided with, if any? Do Law Societies and other official bodies provide assistance? 3) What role can domestic/regional domestic judicial bodies play in protecting lawyers in these countries? Have they taken action? Has this action been successful? 4) How could lawyers be better protected? Are there things that could be improved within the current system? Or does the current system require a radical change? 5) Are the changes suggested specific to a particular jurisdiction? Or are there common issues that lawyers in conflict are facing globally, which could be addressed with similar improvements? Ample opportunity will also be given for questions to be posed by the audience. This conference will be of interest to anyone interested in conflict studies, politics, international relations, human rights, international law, justice and transitional justice. The conference is free to attend, but registration is required. TO REGISTER please email your NAME and AFFILIATION to queenshrconference@gmail.com (Note that registration is viewed as a commitment to attend)
Doctoral Research Centre Show Case: Poster Session
School of Education doctoral students will be presenting their research to fellow students and staff in a relaxed and informative atmosphere. This event will show case the extensive range of research being conducted by doctoral students taking place within the School.
School of Education Doctoral Research Centre - Annual Guest Lecture
Race, Lies & Education: the myth of White victims and the reality of racist policy by Professor Dave Gillborn. Applying a critical race theory (CRT) perspective to current debates and reforms in the US and England, the lecture critiques the operation of colour-blind policies, supposedly meant to ‘raise standards’ and ensure fairness, that systematically disadvantage minoritized groups and appeal to White racist self-interest. David Gillborn is Professor of Critical Race Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Race & Education (CRRE) at the University of Birmingham.
