Cultural Events - Cultural Development - University of Ulster

Cultural Events 

February to July 2007

About Us: 

The University of Ulster’s Cultural Development Department 

provides a ‘bridgehead’ between the University and the wider 

world, contributing to the growth and expression of the cultural 

richness of the University for the benefit of its staff, students and 

the region as a whole. 

The events and initiatives included in this brochure showcase 

just some of the creative talent and ability emanating from the 

University of Ulster. We very much hope you enjoy reading this 

brochure and we look forward to the possibility of welcoming you 

to some of our events during the spring and summer period. 

All event details were correct at time of going to print but may be 

subject to change. 

Contact Us: 

For up-to-date information on all our activities please log 

on to our website 

www.culture.ulster.ac.uk 

Maps and directions to each campus are available from 

www.ulster.ac.uk 

Cover Artwork: ‘Wasn’t Born to Follow’ (detail) 

by Michael Brennand-Wood, Research Fellow, 

School of Art & Design. 

Michael is internationally regarded as one of the 

most innovative and inspiring artists working in 

textiles. Over the last twenty years he has explored and developed his 

techniques, inventing many new and imaginative ways of integrating 

textiles with other media. He has exhibited widely all over the world, 

and his work is in several major collections, including the V&A Museum 

in London and the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan. 

For Belfast/Jordanstown campuses For Magee campus For Coleraine campus 

Cultural Development Office Cultural Development Office Cultural Development Office 

81C04D, Belfast campus MC206, Magee campus F129/F131, Coleraine campus 

University of Ulster University of Ulster University of Ulster 

York Street Northland Road Cromore Road 

Belfast Londonderry Coleraine 

BT15 1ED BT48 7JL BT52 1SA 

tel: (028) 9026 7286 tel: (028) 7137 5456 tel: (028) 7032 4449 

t.kerr@ulster.ac.uk n.pearce@ulster.ac.uk j.mackle@ulster.ac.uk

[ART & DESIGN] [ART & DESIGN] [MUSIC] 

Thursday 1st February to Saturday 24th February 

Belfast Print Workshop, 

Cotton Court, 30 - 42 Waring St, Belfast 

UU Student 

Printmaking Show 

For the second year running, printmaking 

students at the University’s School of Art and 

Design will exhibit a selection of their work 

at the Belfast Print Workshop. This is a great 

opportunity to see the work of some of our 

most exciting emerging artists at the outset 

of their careers. Contact gallery for opening 

times. 

Admission: Free 

Information: Belfast Print Workshop on 

(028) 9023 0323 or 

gallery@belfastprintworkshop.org.uk 

Jill Evans, Untitled, Mixed Media Screenprint 

Thursday 1st February 

2.15pm - 3.15pm, Lecture Theatre, 

Belfast campus 

Applied Art Lunchtime Lectures 

John Creed – 

‘Haunted by Metal’ 

This series of public 

lectures by applied 

artists of international 

repute follows on 

from a successful 

pilot programme, 

presented in partnership with the Ulster 

Museum, in Spring 2006. 

The work of sculptor, silversmith and 

instrument maker, John Creed can be seen in 

varied urban and rural settings throughout the 

UK and abroad. He taught in the Department 

of Jewellery and Silversmithing at the Glasgow 

School of Art from 1971 to 1995, and became 

a professional blacksmith in 1988. A sculptor 

in iron and steel, his most recent work has 

been a pair of entrance gates in stainless steel 

for the refurbished Kelvingrove Art Gallery in 

Glasgow and a permanent overhead sculpture 

for Aberdeen Art Gallery. For details of further 

events in the Applied Art Lunchtime Lecture 

series please log on to www.culture.ulster.ac.uk 


Information: Cultural Development Office 

at the Belfast campus on (028) 9026 7286 or 

t.kerr@ulster.ac.uk 

Monday 5th February 

1.15pm, the Octagon, Coleraine campus 

Tuesday 6th February 

1.15pm, the Great Hall, Magee campus 

Lunchtime Concert 

Paul McIntyre (piano) 

and friends 

Paul is a first-year PhD student in jazz 

performance at the University of Ulster. 

He has performed at numerous jazz festivals 

nationally and internationally, and is a regular 

at both the Cork and Derry annual jazz 

festivals. His trio has featured on live BBC 

radio programmes on many occasions, and 

he has accompanied and played alongside 

such world-renowned jazz singers and 

instrumentalists as Jacqui Danqworth, Norma 

Winstone, Gay McIntyre, Louis Stewart and 

Michael Nielsen. For this concert, Paul will be 

joined by Damian Evans on double bass and 

David Lyttle on drums. 

Admission: £3/Free admission for UU students 


at the Coleraine campus on (028) 7032 4449 

and at the Magee campus on (028) 7137 5456 

Cutural Events SPRING 2007

Cutural Events SPRING 2007 

[VISUAL ARTS] 

Monday 5th to Saturday 24th February 

Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart 

Exhibition 

New Light 

Through Old 

Windows 

This exhibition, created by Steve Lowry, 

a microscopist at the University of Ulster, 

centres on images taken from old Victorian 

microscope slides. Victorian microscopists 

were great enthusiasts for creating visually 

stimulating, colourful, abstract microscopic 

preparations for viewing through a 

‘polariscope’. These were largely created as 

art, rather than for their scientific value. 

Using modern photographic technology it is 

now possible to bring this wealth of hidden 

beauty to a wider audience. The micrographs 

in the exhibition are accompanied by 

manipulated images printed on to a range 

of materials using state-of-the-art textile and 

visual art methodologies, which have been 

produced by Interface, the University’s research 

centre in art technologies and design. 

The exhibition will also be on show at the Clotworthy 

Arts Centre, Antrim from 6th to 30th March and will 

then tour to further venues. Check 

www.culture.ulster.ac.uk for updated venue details. 


Information: Cultural Development Office at 

the Coleraine campus on (028) 7032 4449 

or j.mackle@ulster.ac.uk 

[MUSIC] 


1.00pm, Mezzanine level, Jordanstown campus 

Lunchtime Gig 

Ben Glover 

Ben Glover was sixteen 

when he started 

performing in his home 

village of Glenarm. 

Influenced by Tom Waits 

and Bob Dylan, Ben’s 

music is subtle acousticrock, 

coloured by lyrics 

filled with stark poetic imagery. His sound has 

hints of Americana but at the core of the songs 

is Ben’s instantly recognisable voice and the 

natural influence of his Irish roots. 

Ben is fast building a reputation amongst his 

audiences as one of the most intriguing and 

captivating artists emerging from Ireland. His 

recent half hour live session recorded at the 

Opera House for BBC Radio Ulster’s ‘Across 

the Line’ has helped propel him into the front 

line of Ireland’s ‘A List’ artists. 



at the Belfast campus on (028) 9026 7286 

or t.kerr@ulster.ac.uk 

[FILM/MEDIA] 

Wednesday 14th February 

1.00pm, the Link Lounge, Coleraine 

Centre for Media Research 

Documenting Memories: 

The Role of the Documentary Maker in 

Constructing 'Narratives of Trauma’ 

Anne Crilly, Lecturer in the School of Media, 

Film and Journalism and award-winning 

documentary film maker, will screen and 

discuss her documentary film Lifting a Dark 

Cloud: The Kathleen Thompson Case. 

In November 1971, Derry mother Kathleen 

Thompson was killed by the British Army in 

her back garden. Like many other cases at the 

time, there was never a police investigation 

into her death and no one was ever charged 

with her murder. This is the story of the 

forgotten events of that night and the legacy 

it left for a family and a community. 

This continues Crilly's recent work in exploring 

issues of grief and closure in post conflict 

Northern Ireland in the award winning short 

film Limbo and the documentary Witness: the 

Bloody Sunday Inquiry 




or j.mackle@ulster.ac.uk

[LITERATURE] 

Thursday 15th February 

1.15pm - 2.15pm, the Boardroom, 

Jordanstown campus 

Eating Words: Poetry, 

Cookery, and the Art of 

Translation 

Born in Moscow in 1972, Slav Shumov is a 

freelance translator, specializing in TV script 

translations. 

In this talk he will discuss the art of translating 

poetry, comparing it to the art of cookery. 

If a recipe requires unavoidable substitution 

of ingredients, omission of ingredients and 

unfamiliar methods of preparation the cook 

must decide if the dish can be presented as 

‘authentic’ in any meaningful sense. The 

translator must also decide; is this dish 

translatable at all? If it is, will it bear sufficient 

resemblance to the original in order to be 

presented as authentic? If the answer to any of 

these is ‘no’, then it is better to leave it alone 

and to turn the page. 





[LITERATURE] 

Tuesday 20th to Saturday 24th February 

Coleraine campus and external venues 

MANY VOICES 

Festival of Literature 

The Many Voices Festival of Literature, now 

in its fourth year, has established itself as an 

annual celebration of the spoken and the 

written word. The Festival is the fruit of a 

partnership between the Cultural Development 

Department and the School of Languages and 

Literature. 

Many Voices showcases great writing in all 

genres through a programme of readings, 

workshops and panel discussions. This 

year one emphasis is on the novel, and we 

are delighted to welcome Colin Bateman, 

John Connolly and Bernard MacLaverty, but 

there are also contributions from leading 

journalists and poets as well as creative writing 

workshops for adults and children. 

[LITERATURE] 


8.00pm, the Link Lounge, Coleraine campus 

A Reading by 

Robert Welch 

Robert Welch is Dean of 

the Faculty of Arts at the 

University of Ulster. A 

novelist and poet as well 

as a critic and editor, he 

is the author of a history 

of the Abbey Theatre and editor of the Oxford 

Companion to Irish Literature. His debut play, 

Protestants, premièred to wide critical acclaim 

in 2004 and has recently been published by 

Lagan Press. He has produced four volumes 

of poetry. His most recent collection, 

The Evergreen Road shares reflections on 

landscape, childhood memories of his native 

Cork City, the perils of love, the exhilarations 

of friendship, mortality and the joys of 

fatherhood. 







[LITERATURE] [LITERATURE] [LITERATURE] 

Wednesday 21st February 

8.00pm, Antrim Arms, Ballycastle 

Readings by 

Cathal Ó Searcaigh 

and Frank Sewell 

Cathal Ó Searcaigh is one of 

the pre-eminent poets in Ireland 

today. Writing mainly in Irish, 

his work has been translated 

into English by many of his 

contemporaries including Nobel Laureate 

Seamus Heaney. Cathal's collections include 

An Bealach 'na Bhaile/Homecoming (1993), 

Out in the Open (1997) and Ag Tnúth leis an 

tSolas (2001), which was awarded an Irish 

Times Literature Prize. His latest publication is 

based on his experiences of Nepal. 

Frank Sewell, Lecturer in Irish Literature and 

Creative Writing at the University of Ulster, 

is a widely published and respected editor, 

translator and writer. He will read some of 

his own work and also from his translations of 

poems by Cathal Ó Searcaigh. 

Admission: £5.00/conc. & students £3.00 




Thursday 22nd February 


Reporting on Politics 

and Conflict 

Conor O’Clery, Malachi O’Doherty and Chris Ryder 

In this open forum discussion three of 

Ireland's leading journalists will talk about 

their careers as journalists and writers. The 

diverse perspectives of Conor O’Clery, Malachi 

O’Doherty and Chris Ryder will enlighten 

the audience on issues such as reporting war 

and peace in Northern Ireland; reporting 

international conflict from a local perspective; 

relations between journalists and politicians; 

the changing media scene in the North and 

South of Ireland and more. The discussion will 

be chaired by Dr Greg McLaughlin, School of 

Media, Film and Journalism, and author of The 

War Correspondent (2002). 

Presented in association with the UU Centre 

for Media Research. 






8.00pm, Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart 

Readings by Conor O’Clery, 

Malachi O’Doherty 

and Chris Ryder 

Three of Ireland's leading journalists return for 

an evening of readings from their own books. 

Conor O'Clery worked for The Irish Times 

for thirty-three years in various international 

positions and was awarded the Journalist of the 

Year award on two occasions. He will read from 

his books Melting Snow: An Irishman in Moscow 

and The Greening of the White House. 

Malachi O'Doherty, one of Northern Ireland's 

leading political and social commentators, will 

read extracts from his memoir, I was a Teenage 

Catholic, and his forthcoming book, The Telling 

Year: Belfast 1972. 

Chris Ryder’s long career in journalism includes 

extensive periods as a reporter for both The 

Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph. 

He now contributes to a wide range of 

publications. Fighting Fitt, his biography of 

Lord Gerry Fitt, has recently been published. 





[LITERATURE] [LITERATURE] [LITERATURE] 

Friday 23rd February 

8.00pm, Ballymoney Town Hall 

Readings by 

Colin Bateman 

and John Connolly 

Join two of Ireland’s best-selling 

authors reading from their 

latest work. 

Colin Bateman is a best selling novelist and 

screenwriter who came to international 

prominence with the publication of Divorcing 

Jack in 1995. Since then, he has written thirteen 

best selling novels, including Empire State, 

Turbulent Priests and Driving Big Davie. He 

created and wrote the hit BBC1 series Murphy's 

Law starring James Nesbitt and has also produced 

a series of Murphy's Law novels. 

John Connolly began his writing career as a 

freelance journalist for The Irish Times, to which 

he continues to contribute. His first novel, 

Every Dead Thing, was published in 1999 and 

introduced the character of Charlie Parker, a 

former policeman hunting the killer of his wife 

and daughter. Other books in the Charlie Parker 

series are Dark Hollow, The Killing Kind, The 

White Road and The Black Angel. John will read 

from The Unquiet, the latest novel in the Parker 

series, due to be published in April 2007. 





Saturday 24th February 

10.00am - 12.30pm, Room L116, Coleraine campus 

Filling The 

White Page 

A Creative Writing 

Workshop with Kate 

Newmann 

This workshop will focus 

on a practical approach 

to writing poetry. It will 

explore what can be achieved in a very short 

time, and the approaches that participants 

can take away from the workshop to develop 

their own writing. Kate says “The workshop 

welcomes everyone, people who are writing 

and those who are only thinking of writing, 

because in the final analysis all of us have 

something important to say which no one else 

can say on our behalf.” Kate Newmann has 

published the Dictionary of Ulster Biography, 

a collection of poetry, The Blind Woman in the 

Blue House and a CD, How Well Did 

You Love? 

Presented in association with the University 

of Ulster Alumni Association. 

Admission: £5.00/conc. & students £3.00. 

Advance booking required (Max 15 participants) 





1.30pm, Room H215, Coleraine campus 

A Lunchtime Reading 

with Kate Newmann 

Musical accompaniment by Bill Campbell 

Kate Newmann will read from her collection 

The Blind Woman in the Blue House and the 

CD How Well Did You Love? as well as some 

new poems. Adding a musical element will be 

guitarist and composer Bill Campbell, who 

will perform his settings to some of the poems 

and also a piece for solo guitar. 

Bill Campbell studied music at the University of 

Ulster and also under Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. 

He has produced a CD, Reed Bed, with the poet 

Dermot Healy and the new music ensemble 

Concorde. In 2005 his Violin Concerto, Swim, 

was premièred by violinist Darragh Morgan with 

the Ulster Orchestra. 

Presented in association with the University of 

Ulster Alumni Association. 







[LITERATURE] [LITERATURE] 

[ART & DESIGN] 


2.00pm - 3.00pm, Flowerfield Arts Centre, 

Portstewart 

A Creative 

Workshop 

for Children 

With illustrator 

Paul Howard 

The illustrator of such 

well-known books 

as The Bravest Ever Bear, Paul Howard has 

worked with a range of well-loved children's 

authors including Martin Waddell. In this 

unique workshop the children will be the 

authors and Paul will illustrate their story. 

With Paul steering their ideas with his drawings 

they will work as a group to build a new story 

with its own characters. Where it goes only 

the children can decide! Suitable for children 

aged 6-8 years. 

Admission: £5.00. Limited numbers. 

Early booking advised 




Cover illustration © 2003 Paul Howard 

From FULL, FULL, FULL OF LOVE by Trish Cooke 

Illustrated by Paul Howard 

Reproduced by permission of Walker Books Ltd, 

London SE11 5HJ 


8.00pm, Room H215, Coleraine campus 

A Reading by 

Bernard 

MacLaverty 

Bernard MacLaverty was 

born in Belfast but has 

lived in Scotland since 

1975. He has published five collections of 

short stories and four novels and has also 

written versions of his fiction for other media 

- radio plays, television plays and screenplays. 

Over the years his work has won many awards 

and prizes. His novel Grace Notes was 

awarded The Saltire Scottish Book of the Year 

award (1997) and was also shortlisted for The 

Booker Prize. He will read from his latest 

book of stories, Matters of Life and Death. 

“This is a book to cherish, and one to read and 

re-read with pleasure in the skilful craft of its 

composition.” – Irish Independent 





Wednesday 21st February 

(& continuing on Wednesday 

7th March & Wednesday 28th March) 

6.30pm, Lecture Theatre, Belfast campus 

Interaction: 

Public Lectures by 

International 3D 

Designers 

The BDesHons Interior/Product/Furniture 

Design course in the School of Art and Design, 

presents a series of three public lectures by 

international designers working in the areas 

of Interior, Furniture and Product design. 

The series will begin with Product Design 

on Wednesday 21st February, followed by 

Furniture Design on Wednesday 7th March and 

Interior Design on Wednesday 28th March. 

Further information on the visiting designers 

will be available from www.culture.ulster.ac.uk 


Information: Olga Harnett-Makem, School 

of Art and Design, on (028) 9026 7306 or 

om.makem@ulster.ac.uk

[MUSIC] 


1.00pm, Mezzanine level, Jordanstown campus 

Lunchtime Gig 

Oppenhiemer 

Oppenhiemer’s original ‘bliptastic sounds’ 

have been inspiring audiences from Dublin to 

Denver. They play synth-driven electro pop 

and their recent single has seen them hailed 

as “the Simon and Garfunkel of the wired 

generation”. The band plays live as a two 

piece (drums, moogs, guitars, vocals). Their 

new record, which is set for imminent release, 

features guest vocals from Tim Wheeler and the 

lush production of David Holmes. 

”Oppenhiemer are like the Irish Flaming Lips 

or Mates of State. It’s extremely rare for a band 

from Belfast to have that otherworldly sound. 

They’re an incredible new band so look out for 

them!” Gary Lightbody, Snow Patrol. 







10.00am - 1.00pm, Interface, 


Workshop/Demonstration 

Textiles & Colouration: 

Foraging for Fibres 

and Yarns 

This is the first in a series of Specialist 

Workshops backed up with individual resource 

files for participants. They will include a short 

introduction presentation followed by practical 

demonstrations and hands-on interaction, 

across topics such as fibre, yarn and material 

identification, dyeing and coloration methods 

and printing styles. 

‘Foraging for Fibres and Yarns’ will comprise 

a short presentation on the different types 

of fibres and yarns available in the world of 

textiles, their properties and how to identify 

them. This will be followed by a fun hands-on 

workshop identifying a range of natural and 

synthetic fibres. 

Admission: Free (spaces are limited and must 

be booked in advance) 




[MUSIC] 

Saturday 24th February (& continuing on 

Saturday 24th March and Saturday 21st April) 

10.30am - 4.30pm, School of Creative Arts, 

Foyle Arts Building, Magee campus 

Share Music Workshops 

Share Music NI is an inclusive arts organisation 

working with integrated groups of disabled 

and non-disabled participants in music 

and related performing arts. This series of 

workshops, presented in partnership with the 

UU School of Creative Arts, creates training 

opportunities for artists/students who may be 

considering a career in the arts and disability 

sector. The programme will also be of interest 

to arts practitioners who wish to broaden 

their portfolio and to anyone with an interest 

in participating in interdisciplinary creative 

workshops under the guidance of expert tutors. 

Musicians and dancers from ‘Beyond Skin’, 

an international arts organisation working to 

combat racism, will be joined by staff from 

the University’s School of Creative Arts, to 

lead and shape this organic series of creative 

workshops, that will culminate in a final public 

performance. 

Information/Booking: Share Music on 

07880 502216 or jaci@sharemusic.org.uk 




Tuesday 27th February to 

Friday 2nd March 

Crescent Arts Centre, 

2 - 4 University Road, Belfast 

Performance Art Workshops 

Operation 

Ambassadors 

and Boris 

Nieslony 

Bbeyond, an organisation that promotes the 

practice of live art, presents the second in its 

series of ‘Operation Ambassadors’ projects. 

International performance artist and curator 

Boris Nieslony from Köln will host a series of 

performance art workshops in the Crescent Arts 

Centre, culminating in a formal performance 

presentation. Nieslony will also present a 

public lecture in the University of Ulster, 

Belfast campus during the week of the 

5th - 9th March. 

The workshops are free with a maximum 

capacity of fifteen places. Participants must 

be available for a minimum of two full days. 

Admission: Free to Bbeyond members / 

£20 for non-members 

Information: Bbeyond on (028) 9023 4300 

or bbeyond@europe.com 

[MUSIC] 


1.15pm, the Great Hall, 

Magee campus 


MMus Students 

This concert will be presented by students on 

the MMus (Performance) course at the School 

of Creative Arts, Magee campus. Now only in 

its second year, the MMus already boasts some 

of Northern Ireland’s most promising musicians 

among its alumni. 



the Magee campus on (028) 7137 5456 

or n.pearce@ulster.ac.uk 

[FILM/MEDIA] 

Wednesday 28th February 



Children, Humour and TV 

Dr Maya Götz of the International Central 

Institute for Youth and Educational Television, 

Munich, will discuss the findings of an 

international study on children, television and 

humour in which the University of Ulster was 

a partner. The study used a 'funometer' to 

build up a picture of children's reactions to 

comic moments as they watched six different 

humorous shows from the six different 

countries. The study also produced qualitative 

material from discussions with children in 

which their views about gender, national 

identity, cultural differences, the limits of 

comedy, ethical issues around exploitation and 

cruelty, and many others, were revealed. 





[MUSIC] 

Thursday 1st March 

1.00pm, Mezzanine Level, Jordanstown campus 

Lunchtime Gig 

Paul Casey 

Guitarist, singer/ 

songwriter Paul 

Casey displays 

an exceptional 

command of slide 

guitar and a unique 

flair for penning 

striking tunes. He 

unravels modern 

guitar styles with 

upbeat grooves, while never straying from 

rootsy rhythms and sounds. Whether fusing 

infectious riffs with intricate rhythms or 

drawing on musical snapshots of legendary 

guitarists, Casey creates a unique and 

distinctive sound throughout. He has just 

finished his second album in just over a year, 

following hot on the heels of the critically 

acclaimed Songs In Open Tuning. 





[MUSIC] [ART & DESIGN] 

Tuesday 6th March 

1.15pm, the Great Hall, 

Magee campus 


Paul Roe 

(bass clarinet and 

electronics) 

Paul was a member 

of the RTÉ National 

Symphony Orchestra 

from 1987 to 2000, 

leaving to pursue 

his specialist interest 

in performance 

and music education. As a member of the 

contemporary music ensemble Concorde, he 

regularly performs new music both nationally 

and internationally at major contemporary 

music festivals. He has given many national 

and world premières of solo and ensemble 

pieces and has performed with many 

renowned new-music specialists. He has 

recently commissioned five new works for the 

bass clarinet by Irish composers. 



at the Magee campus on (028) 7137 5456 


Wednesday 7th March 

6.00pm, The Junction, Bishop St, Londonderry 

Positively Architecture 

Jochen Gerz 

Cultural Cities? “From art house to our house” 

Are current development processes within our 

cities responding to and reflecting the hopes, 

dreams, fears and needs of their citizens? 

What is the role of the arts in development 

processes within a global market economy? 

This presentation and discussion will question 

the role of the arts in informing or even 

defining the processes of regeneration, giving 

voice to those who would not normally have 

a platform for expression. 

Positively Architecture is a joint initiative 

between the architecture courses at University 

of Ulster and Queen's University Belfast that 

seeks to stimulate public discussion about 

the role and value of architecture in Northern 

Ireland. The fourth and final presentation will 

be by international artist Jochen Gerz. 

Gerz has built an international reputation for 

his artworks in public spaces, questioning not 

only the role of the artist or art, but also the 

historical role of the public in art. 





This series is supported by the National Lottery through the 

Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s Architecture Special Initiative 



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[MUSIC] 

Thursday 8th March 


Lunchtime Gig 

Mark 

McKnight 

Trio 

Guitarist Mark 

McKnight is one 

of the hottest 

names on the Irish jazz scene. Through the 

Skidmore Jazz Studentship in 2002 Mark had 

the opportunity to study with musicians such 

as Dick Oatts, Bob Sheppard, Curtis Fuller and 

Ed Shaughnessy. This was followed by three 

fruitful years on scholarship at Berklee College 

of Music, Boston, where he studied with such 

notable musicians as Hal Crook, Jon Damien, 

Tim Miller and Ed Tomassi. 

Now back in Ireland, his recent engagements 

include performances with the RTÉ Concert 

Orchestra/Big Band, Konrad Wiszniewski, 

David Lyttle, Carlo DeRosa (NYC), David Smith 

(NYC), Colm O’Sullivan and Foy Vance. 








Design Talk 

Andy Altmann of 

Why Not Associates 

Andy Altmann is founder of the multi 

disciplinary design group Why Not Associates. 

In this presentation, Andy will describe how 

Why Not Associates gained an international 

reputation based on a creative and 

experimental approach. He will shed light on 

his 19 years of experience working on projects 

ranging from exhibition design to postage 

stamps via advertising, publishing, television 

titles, commercials and corporate identity. He 

still strives to push the boundaries of graphic 

design, and more recent projects collaborating 

with artist Gordon Young have moved the 

company into the world of public art. 

Clients include the Royal Academy of Arts, 

Malcolm McClaren, The Royal Mail, Nike, 

Paul Smith, Virgin Records and Channel 4. 






Thursday 8th and Friday 9th March 




Advanced Textile 

Patterning Techniques: 

Indigo 

This is the first in the series of specialist 

workshops/demonstrations in Advanced Textile 

Patterning Techniques. ‘Indigo’ will entail 

an introduction to the history, chemistry and 

methods of patterning and hands-on dyeing 

with indigo; involving patterning produced 

through the use of mechanical and physical 

resists. 





t.kerr@ulster.ac.uk

[MUSIC] 

Monday 12th March 





Atsushi Tamura (piano) 

Atsushi studied piano at the Tokyo College of 

Music and in 2001 was a finalist in the Piano 

Teachers’ Association competition in Japan; he 

went on to be a finalist in the prestigious Berga 

Piano Competition in Spain the following 

year. He has a Master’s degree from the Royal 

Welsh College of Music and Drama and is 

now studying at the Magee campus on the 

PhD in Performance programme, focusing 

on the music of Rachmaninoff. Over the last 

two years he has delighted audiences with his 

recital and concerto performances. 





[FILM/MEDIA] [ART & DESIGN] 




TV Aesthetics 

Dr Karen Lury, University of Glasgow, will 

demonstrate how the formal analysis of 

television may work to ‘open up’ the texts of 

television in interesting ways. Focusing on the 

formal organisation of sound in the American 

crime drama, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, 

the presentation will address the various 

aspects of ‘sound’ – voice, sound effects, 

ambient sound and music – orchestrated 

within the programme. This formal analysis 

will then be linked to the spiritual or religious 

associations of ‘sound’ and hearing, which 

could suggest that the lead investigator's 

increasing deafness over seasons one to 

three of the programme acts not only as a 

mechanical problem in relation to solving 

crime but as a spiritual or religious crisis for 

the character and for the series itself. 






10.00am - 5.00pm, 

School of Art & Design, 





Metamorphosis of 

Materials 

This is the second in a series of specialist 


Patterning Techniques. The workshops are 

backed up with individual resource files for 

participants, practical demonstrations and 

hands-on interaction. They will be looking at 

dyeing, manipulating and printing of fabrics. 

‘Metamorphosis of Material’ will examine 

the manipulation and texturing of materials 

by the application of chemicals and heat, 

using Shibori and alternative resist patterning 

techniques. 









Monday 19th March 

8.00pm, Baby Grand, 

Grand Opera House, Belfast 

Belfast Fashion Week 

Eleven 2nd year fashion students from the 

School of Art and Design will show their latest 

capsule collection with the theme of ‘Urban 

Siren’. The linen-based collection will be 

directed at Spring/Summer 07 and will also 

include fabrics and knitted garments. The 

show, which is presented as part of Belfast 

Fashion Week, will illustrate the diversity and 

creativity of a new generation of emerging 

designers. The students’ work will be shown 

alongside other trend conscious brands such as 

Replay, Miss Sixty, Hilfiger Denim, Ted Baker, 

and Clockwork Orange. 

Admission/Information: 

From www.goh.co.uk 

[DRAMA ] 

Wednesday 21st March 

8.00pm, School of Creative Arts, 


Bank of Ireland ‘Centre Stage’ Series 

Come Good Rain (George Seremba) 

“Seremba rivets our attention with an extraordinary story of personal survival [and] political dissidence.” 

Michael Billington, The Guardian 

Actor George Seremba brings his powerful and widely-acclaimed solo play Come Good Rain to the Magee 

campus, as part of the ongoing Bank of Ireland ‘Centre Stage’ series. The play is a moving and inspirational 

autobiographical account of Seremba's terrifying experiences in 1970s Uganda. He takes the audience on 

his journey from survival to triumph over the oppressive political regimes of Milton Obote and Idi Amin. 

Integrating African song and folklore as well as live percussion, performed by Daudi Kutta, Seremba depicts 

the vibrancy and wonder of youth, his deep love for Africa, but also the horror of the political climate of 

Uganda and his own near escape from execution. Come Good Rain is a lyrical celebration of life - a story of 

love and courage when facing what seems like insurmountable obstacles. 

Seremba was nominated for Best Male Performer in the Dublin Fringe Festival 2004 and in the Best Actor 

category of The Irish Times Theatre Awards (2005). He is also known from his time in Fair City in the role 

of Gabriel. 

The Bank of Ireland ‘Centre Stage’ Series brings leading drama practitioners to the Magee campus to work 

with students and to share their expertise with a wider audience. Since February 2006 the Series has 

included visits by Nicolas Kent, Conall Morrison, Stephen Rea, Martin Lynch and Donal O’ Kelly. 

Information/Booking: 

Cultural Development Office at the 

Magee campus on (028) 7137 5456 


Supported by:


Thursday 22nd March 





Finding and Identifying 

Fabrics 

This is the second in the series of specialist 

workshops backed up with individual resource 

files for participants. ‘Finding and Identifying 

Fabrics’ will consist of a short presentation 

on the different types of fabrics and textile 

materials available in the world of textiles. 

It will look at their methods of production, 

their properties and how to identify them. 

This will be followed by a fun hands-on 

workshop identifying a range of woven, 

knitted, non-woven and composite materials. 






[MUSIC] 




Darragh Morgan (violin) and Mary Dullea (piano) 

UU Musicians-in-Residence 

Violinist Darragh Morgan and pianist Mary Dullea have been the University of Ulster’s Musiciansin-Residence 

since October 2005 and this will be their fourth visit to the Magee campus. During 

their week-long visits the two acclaimed young musicians present a range of performances, 

masterclasses and workshops, both on and off campus, supporting the development of quality 

performance and composition work of UU music students and other aspiring musicians in the 

region. 

For this lunchtime concert Darragh and Mary will 

perform an inspiring programme of rarely performed 

American contemporary music: 

George Crumb Four Nocturnes (Night Music II) 

John Cage Six Melodies for violin and piano 

Morton Feldman Spring of Chosroes 

Conlon Nancarrow Toccata 

Born in Belfast in 1974, Darragh has already established himself across Europe as one of the 

foremost new-music soloists. He has given numerous recitals and festival performances, worked 

with many of the world’s leading contemporary music groups and broadcasts regularly for BBC 

Radio 3 and RTÉ Lyric FM. Mary, originally from County Cork, studied at the Royal College of 

Music, London. Much in demand as a chamber musician, recent engagements have included 

prestigious festivals and broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and French Television. She is a member of 

the Fidelio Trio, with whom she has performed all over the world, and is also an increasingly 

sought-after interpreter of new music. Darragh and Mary work regularly together and their latest 

CD, Opera, was released in June 2006 to great critical acclaim. 


Information: Cultural Development Office at the Magee campus on (028) 7137 5456 




[FILM/MEDIA] 




‘Here to Stay’: 

The Expression of 

Migrant Subjectivity 

Dr Alan Grossman and Dr Áine O’Brien, 

Centre for Transcultural Research and Media 

Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology, will 

introduce and screen their documentary film, 

Here To Stay. The film narrates the story of a 

Filipino nurse and the collectivised expression 

of his migrant labour activism, in dialogue 

with civil society representatives, probing and 

challenging the inadequacies and marketdriven 

characteristics of immigration policy 

in Ireland. 





[LITERATURE] 


7.30pm, the Verbal Arts Centre, Londonderry 

Alan Sillitoe and Ruth Fainlight 

A rare opportunity to hear the acclaimed writer 

Alan Sillitoe speak about his life and work. Sillitoe 

is generally grouped among the ‘angry young 

men’ of the 1950s, with John Osborne, John Wain, 

Arnold Wesker, and Kingsley Amis. Two of his early 

works, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) 

and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner 

(1959), were made into seminal films starring Albert 

Finney and Tom Courtenay respectively. Alan will 

be interviewed by Richard Bradford, Professor of 

Literary History and Theory at UU who is writing 

the official biography of Sillitoe, which is due to be 

published later this year. 

The relaxed and intimate evening will also feature 

a reading by the acclaimed writer Ruth Fainlight, 

married to Sillitoe since 1959. Her many books 

include poetry, short stories, translations, drama and 

opera libretti. Her most recent poetry collection, 

Moonwheels, contains new poems as well as 

translations of work by leading modern Latin 

American poets. 

This event is presented by the UU Humanities Research 

Institute in partnership with the Verbal Arts Centre. Sillitoe is 

a Visiting Professor at the UU Humanities Research Institute. 





[MUSIC] 



Lunchtime Gig 

Eilidh 

Patterson 

Eilidh Patterson is a 

24 year old singer/ 

songwriter from 

Derry, whose style 

is influenced by a 

combination of folk, 

country, gospel and 

bluegrass music. 

She is a unique talent, both as writer and 

singer. Technically accomplished, Eilidh’s early 

immersion in music and formal training has, in 

recent years, been further finessed by tuition in 

Nashville. Her self-accompaniment on guitar 

is clean and precise, the music moulded to the 

mood of each individual song. 

“Her sweet voice never fails to amaze me. 

Definitely a star of the future.” Ralph McLean, 

BBC Radio Ulster. 




or t.kerr@ulster.ac.uk

[MUSIC] 



Joanna MacGregor (piano) and 

Andy Sheppard (saxophones) 

This not to be missed concert will feature music from Deep River, MacGregor’s first new recording in 

four years and her first duo recording with her long-time collaborator Andy Sheppard. The concert 

will highlight the exhilarating talent of both performers and the innate sense of partnership that has 

developed from years of working together. 

Inspired by her many trips to the American Deep South, the music of Deep River has deeply personal 

connotations, going right back to Joanna’s childhood and a father who was a lay preacher in an 

Evangelical church. The audience will be taken on a journey through a wealth of repertoire; from the 

much covered traditional ‘Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child’, through early twentieth century 

songs by husband and wife duo William and Versey Smith, to original interpretations of contemporary 

songs by Tom Waits, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. 

Deep River offers further proof of MacGregor’s 

effortless ability to move freely between music 

of different traditions and positions her as an artist 

truly at the forefront of contemporary music. 

Admission: £10/conc. £7/students £5 

Information/Bookings: Cultural Development 

Office at the Magee campus on 

(028) 7137 5456 

[MUSIC] 

Tuesday 17th April 


The Fidelio Trio 

The Fidelio Trio - Darragh 

Morgan (violin), Robin 

Michael (cello) and Mary 

Dullea (piano) - has 

appeared throughout 

Europe, South Africa 

and Asia and frequently 

broadcasts for BBC Radio 3. Equally at home 

playing the standard piano repertoire as well 

as new music, they frequently commission 

works from the most exciting composers of 

our time and will be recording a CD this year 

of trios by Kevin Volans, Deirdre Gribbin, 

Ed Bennett and Donnacha Dennehy. The 

programme opens with Mozart’s wonderfully 

mature Trio in B flat major, followed by bulb, a 

a Fidelio Trio commission by Dublin composer, 

Donnacha Dennehy. The centrepiece of the 

programme is Ravel's towering Piano Trio in 

A Minor. The concert concludes with a work 

from the trio’s ‘pop archive’ initiative – works 

by contemporary composers based on the 

most inspiring pop classics of our time. In this 

case it is Led Zeppelin’s thrashing ’Kashmir,’ 

as interpreted by Northern Irish composer/ 

guitarist, Bill Campbell. 

Admission: £6/conc. £4/students £3 

Information/Bookings: Cultural Development 

Office at the Coleraine campus on 

(028) 7032 4449 or j.mackle@ulster.ac.uk 



[FILM /MEDIA] 

Wednesday 18th April 



Language, Identity and 

the Construction of a 

“Singaporean” Cinema 

& 

Great Transformations and the 

Public Sphere in Ireland 

Felicia Chan, Research Associate in the 

CMR, will discuss the use of language in 

contemporary Singapore films in relation to 

the wider politics of language operating in the 

city state. 

Ken Murphy, CMR Research Associate, will 

evaluate the recent transformation in material 

conditions that constitute challenging political, 

cultural and economic contexts for the 

realisation of public sphere(s) in the Republic 

of Ireland. 





[DRAMA] [ART & DESIGN] 

Thursday 19th April 

2.00pm - 5.00pm, Aberfoyle House, Magee campus 

Northen Ireland Theatre Association 

10 Steps to Starting 

Your Own Performing 

Arts Company 

This seminar, presented as part of NITA’s 

‘Behind the Scenes’ Training Programme, 

will provide an introduction to the legal and 

business issues involved in setting up and 

running a new performing arts organisation. 

Participants will be introduced to basic 

principles of planning; formally setting 

up a company and running it properly; 

responsibilities to workers and employment 

law; financial management and accounts; 

contract law; fundraising and marketing. 

Facilitator Jackie Elliman is the Legal & 

Industrial Relations Manager with the 

Independent Theatre Council and has also 

worked for, amongst others, Equity and the 

Theatrical Management Association. 

Admission: £50 (free to NITA members 

– membership rates start at £15) 

Information/Bookings: Northern Ireland 

Theatre Association on (028) 6772 3766 or 

bryony@greenhat.org 



In-Fluence: Water, 

Art and Public Spaces 

Manfred Schneckenburger, Director of the 

Kunstakademie (Academy of Fine Art) Münster 

and twice head of the Documenta, Kassel, 

will give a public lecture on the relationship 

between art, water and public spaces. 

This lecture is presented as part of ‘In-Fluence’, 

a project in the water, around the water and 

about water, organised by Ralf Sander and 

Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes from the School of 

Art and Design. Through an exhibition and 

ancillary workshop and lecture programme, 

In-Fluence will explore the influence of water 

on human activities and will question water as 

an environment, an element and a material. 




or t.kerr@ulster.ac.uk

[DANCE] 

Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd April 

School of Creative Arts, 


Dance Forum 

Frameworks for Creativity 

This event, presented by the UU Dance 

Division and the Cultural Development 

Department, aims to bring together members 

of the dance community from Ireland and 

further afield to take part in focused discussion, 

debate and practical activity exploring current 

issues relevant to professional dance practice. 

The forum will focus on issues concerning an 

infrastructure for making and viewing dance 

and will be of interest to choreographers, 

dance artists, teachers, dance students, funders, 

venue programmers etc. 

The forum is planned to take place from 

11.00am on Saturday 21st to 4.30pm on 

Sunday 22nd and will include a varied mix 

of presentations, discussion/panels, practical 

workshops and performances, plus lots of 

scope for informal networking over the 

course of the weekend. A number of visiting 

guest artists/speakers will be invited to give 

presentations, participate in themed panel 

debates and lead practical workshop sessions. 

Please check confirmed date and programme 

details on www.culture.ulster.ac.uk 

Information/Booking: Cultural Development 

Office at the Magee campus on 

(028) 7137 5456 or n.pearce@ulster.ac.uk 

[MUSIC] 

Monday 23rd April 


Tuesday 24th April 



Paul Cassidy 

(viola) and 

Atsushi Tamura 

(piano) 

Born in Derry, Paul moved 

to London at the age of 16 

to further his studies. He 

entered the Royal College 

of Music a year later on a scholarship to study 

viola with Brian Hawkins and Orrea Pernel, 

winning many prizes along the way. His 

studies continued with various scholarships to 

work with Gerard Causse in London, Donald 

MacInnes in America and Bruno Giuranna 

in Germany. He has been a member of the 

Brodsky Quartet since 1981 and has recorded 

more than 60 CDs and played in over 50 

countries. Paul, who plays a viola formerly 

owned by Frank Bridge and Benjamin Britten, 

will be joined by pianist Atsushi Tamura for a 

programme of music by Beethoven, Brahms, 

Bach and Schubert. 











Colouration Techniques 

This is the third in the series of Specialist 

Workshops backed up with individual resource 

files for participants. ‘Colouration Techniques’ 

will include two short presentations on the 

different methods of coloration, dyes and 

colorants as well as printing methods and 

styles available in the world of textiles. It will 

also take a look at the range of properties and 

spectrum of applications followed by a fun 

hands-on workshop identifying a range of dyes 

and different printing methods and styles. 

Admission: Free (spaces are limited and 

must be booked in advance) 






[MUSIC] 

Tuesday 1st May 



BMus Students 

This concert will be presented by second- and 

third-year students on the BMus course at 

the School of Creative Arts as part of the long 

build-up to the final degree concerts at the end 

of the academic year. Performance is a major 

strand within the BMus programme and these 

performances will reflect the wide range of 

styles covered on the course. 





[MUSIC] 

Tuesday 1st May 

8.00pm, St Peter’s Cathedral, Belfast 

Wednesday 2nd May 

8.00pm, Christ Church, Infirmary Road, Londonderry 

Concert of Organ 

and Choral Music 

These concerts will feature the organ (the 

stunning new instrument by Ken Jones in 

St Peter’s Cathedral, Belfast and the Wells- 

Kennedy organ in Christ Church, Derry) and 

the University’s highly-acclaimed choirs. The 

Missa brevis by Laurence Roman, recently 

appointed to a Lectureship in Composition 

in the School of Creative Arts, will receive its 

first performance in the Belfast concert. The 

work is based on several Gregorian chants 

and its performance will involve the chamber 

choir and, intriguingly, three pianists at one 

piano. Desmond Hunter, who has achieved 

international distinction as an organist, will 

perform Franck’s celebrated Chorale in A minor 

alongside works by Couperin and Messiaen. 

Aoife Miskelly, who is well-known for her work 

with the National Chamber Choir, will be the 

soloist in Poulenc’s stirring Gloria, conducted/ 

directed by Shaun Ryan 

Admission: Donations to Retiring Collection 


the Magee campus on (028) 7137 5456 


[FILM /MEDIA] 

Wednesday 2nd May 



The recipe for creating a 

world-beating indigenous 

digital media industry 

Colm Murphy, Lecturer in the School of 

Media, Film and Journalism, will outline the 

measures used in the Republic of Ireland to 

create a world-leading digital media industry. 

The republic has become one of the world's 

leading exporters of digital media and services 

over the past 10 years with companies like 

Google, Yahoo and e-Bay basing some of their 

operations there. 

Murphy writes regularly for The Sunday 

Times, London and Penguin books, mainly on 

business and economics. 

This new PhD research, facilitated through 

unique access to Irish policymakers and 

companies, has been used in World Bank 

seminars and other international forums. 






Thursday 3rd May 






Digital Directions 

This is the third in the series of specialist 


Patterning Techniques. ‘Digital Directions’ 

will consist of a short presentation on ‘Digital 

directions of the Textile and Fashion Industry’ 

by a specialist working in the field of digital 

textiles. This will be followed by a workshop/ 

demonstration on the different digital printing 

and patterning techniques available within the 

Fabric Forward Workshop. 

Admission: Free (spaces are limited and 

must be booked in advance) 




[MUSIC] 

Thursday 3rd May 

1.00pm, the Students’ Union, Magee campus 

CITY OF DERRY JAZZ FESTIVAL 

UU Jazz Big Band 

Under the direction of Frank Lyons, Lecturer 

in Music at the University, the 25-piece UU 

Jazz Big Band has established a considerable 

reputation since its formation in 2004. 

Frequently working with local jazz hero Gay 

McIntyre, the ensemble’s repertoire is an 

eclectic and up-beat mix of jazz standards, 

famous funk tracks and contemporary pieces. 





[MUSIC] 

Friday 4th May 


CITY OF DERRY JAZZ FESTIVAL 

Faye Patton 

(jazz voice/piano) 

Jazz singer/songwriter 

Faye Patton is a 

formidable new talent 

with a wealth of 

original material. 

Her songs are lush, complex landscapes of 

love, loss, passion and inspiration and her 

pioneering sound owes much to the likes of 

Ray Charles, Junior Mance, Diamanda Galas 

and Rachelle Ferrell. Though equipped with 

an extensive repertoire of jazz standards, she 

chooses to focus on her own original music for 

voice and piano. 







0 

[MUSIC] 


11.00am, the Diamond, Coleraine campus 

Around the World with 

the Ulster Orchestra - 

Concert for Schools 

The Ulster Orchestra 

is offering a great 

assortment of 

exciting orchestral 

music, particularly 

selected to appeal to 

a wide range of children and young people. 

The concert, which lasts one hour, will 

introduce children to music from around the 

world and has been chosen to compliment the 

Northern Ireland curriculum for music. There 

will also be opportunities for the children to 

join in with simple prepared percussion parts. 

Prior to the concert, workshops will be held 

in the participating schools to prepare the 

children for attendance at the concert. 

Admission: All tickets £3.00 (with one free 

seat for accompanying teachers for each 

party of fifteen or one teacher per party if the 

school party is less than fifteen) 




[MUSIC] 


7.30pm, Belfast campus 

Peace and 

Reconciliation: 

how the money 

was spent – 

(the Opera!) 

“A very timely piece of political satire.... 

very funny” The Guardian 

A satire for our times. This thrilling new work 

asks potent questions about the vast amounts of 

public money which flows into Northern Ireland, 

not just the Peace and Reconciliation funds. This 

is not an opera for the traditionalist. Donizetti’s 

music from The Elixir of Love has been cut and 

pasted, the old story stripped away and a new 

one written to create a contemporary, comic, 

examination of our times. 

Presented in association with the 

Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival 

Admission: £8/conc. £6, 

from www.cqaf.com and Belfast 

Welcome Centre on (028) 9024 6609 





Tuesday 8th May to Saturday 12th May 

Brooke Park, Derry 

Art in Brooke Park 

Brooke Park is a large green space on Derry’s 

Cityside. A once widely-used public amenity, 

in recent decades the Park has gone into 

decline. ‘Art in Brooke Park’ is part of a wider 

initiative coordinated by the Friends of Brooke 

Park, which aims to reclaim the park as a 

vibrant public amenity, green space and site of 

cultural expression. 

The project will involve approximately thirty 

14-15 year old participants from schools 

in the Brooke Park area. Through parallel 

workshops in a variety of media, participants 

will develop their skills and creativity, inspired 

by the park themes. Workshop leaders from 

the community and the University of Ulster 

will facilitate participants to conceptualise 

and express their own visions of Brooke Park 

through photography, wood carving, waste 

art, mural painting and performance. The 

four days of workshops will culminate in an 

exhibition day and celebration of participants’ 

work in the park. 



or n.pearce@ulster.ac.uk

[FILM/MEDIA] 

Wednesday 16th May 

1.00pm, the Link Lounge, 

Coleraine campus 


From Langham Group to 

Ken Loach: Experimental 

Television Drama in the 

1950s and 1960s 

John Hill is Professor of Media at Royal 

Holloway, London and author of numerous 

books including Sex, Class and Realism: 

British Cinema 1956-63, British Cinema in 

the 1980s and Cinema and Northern Ireland. 

The paper will look at how the ‘experimental’ 

emerged in TV drama of the late 1950s and 

1960s, considering the work of the Langham 

Group in productions such as The Torrents of 

Spring (1959) and moving on to examine Troy 

Kennedy Martin’s efforts to align TV experiment 

with ‘mass audience viewing’ in the groundbreaking 

series, Diary of a Young Man (1964). 

Concentrating on episodes directed by Ken 

Loach, the presentation will conclude with 

an assessment of the influence of these early 

experiments on subsequent TV drama. 





[HERITAGE] 

Thursday 24th May 

10.00am - 4.00pm, Belfast campus 

AHRC Workshop Series 

The representation of 

place by collectors 

and through collections 

This series of workshops, presented by the 

University of Ulster and colleagues in the 

museum sector, has been developed with 

support from the AHRC Museums and 

Galleries Research Programme, an initiative 

that seeks to develop research partnerships 

between museums, galleries and universities. 

The first workshop in the series - Collecting 

and the Representation of Place - will evaluate 

the ideological motivations underpinning 

the definition and creation of cultural 

institutions in Northern Ireland. Through 

discussions this will be related to motivations 

behind collecting, focussing particularly on 

those which relate to the construction and 

representation of place. 


(but advance booking is essential) 

Information: The Academy for Irish 

Cultural Heritages on (028) 7137 5785 

or g.thornton@ulster.ac.uk 


Friday 31st May 


Making Visible, 

Giving Voices – 

Creative Strategies 

in a Social Context 

A day-long workshop hosted by Interface, 

offering an opportunity for community 

initiatives to present the findings from recently 

completed projects. 

The subject matter is centred on giving 

a voice to strategies of empowerment of 

marginalized individuals and groups within 

communities and the role of creative practices 

as core methods in enabling this process. 

Specific project initiatives will be discussed to 

disseminate best practice within the voluntary, 

charitable and community sector and to 

allow experts in these sectors to research 

and evaluate new models of community 

engagement. 


Information: Doris Rohr, Interface, 

on (028) 9026 7266 or d.rohr@ulster.ac.uk 



[ART & DESIGN/FILM AND NEW MEDIA] 

Friday 1st, Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th June 

School of Creative Arts, Foyle Arts Building, 

Magee campus 

End of Year Show 

(Magee and Coleraine) 

This exhibition will 

feature a diverse range 

of work by graduating 

students from three 

courses based at 

Magee and Coleraine; 

the BDes Design and 

Communication course, 

the BA Hons Media Studies course and the BSc 

Multimedia and Design course. 

Showcasing a diverse range of work from 

emerging areas of new media such as 

animation, graphic design, illustration, 

interactive design, moving image, product 

design, photography and sound, the exhibition 

provides members of the public and 

prospective employers with an opportunity to 

spot up-and-coming talent. 


Information: To check opening times please 

contact the Cultural Development Office at 

the Magee campus on (028) 7137 5658 or 

n.pearce@ulster.ac.uk 

[HERITAGE] 

Tuesday 5th June 


AHRC Research Workshop Series 

Constructing Northern 

Ireland through 

our collections 

This workshop will consider the inheritance 

of established collections in Northern Ireland 

and the meanings associated with them. Most 

importantly, the workshop will address the role 

and potential of such collections today and 

how we can revisit past meanings and present 

collections and museums anew. 







Tuesday 5th June to Saturday 9th June 

School of Art and Design, Belfast campus 

End of Year Show 

(Belfast) 

This is the annual 

showcase for 

students work from 

across the School 

of Art and Design 

– undergraduate 

and postgraduate. 

It spans disciplines 

from Fashion and 

Architecture to Fine 

and Applied Art. 

Stephen Dillon, Ceramic Works, 

End of Year Show 2005 

This is a great opportunity to see and buy the 

work of fresh, emerging artists and designers in 

the dawn of their careers. 




the Belfast campus on (028) 9026 7286 or 

t.kerr@ulster.ac.uk

[FILM/MEDIA] 

Tuesday 5th to Friday 8th June 

School of Art and Design, Belfast campus 

Silent Voice 

Silent Voice is a series of workshops and 

related design forums running alongside 

the End of Year Shows at the School of Art 

and Design. The activities will be led by 

a leading international typographer and 

invited international graphic designers and 

will also mark the opening of the new Visual 

Communication studios at the Belfast campus. 

Typography is the ‘silent voice’ of 

Communication Design and a subject that has 

been developing at the University of Ulster. 

Current students and the professional design 

community will be invited to take part in this 

celebration of type and typography. 




the Belfast campus on (028) 9026 7286 or 


[HERITAGE] 

Tuesday 19th June 


AHRC Research Workshop Series 

Representation of 

contemporary Northern 

Ireland through museums 

and collections 

Given the ideological foundations of museum 

display, and the contested nature of Northern 

Ireland identity, this workshop will offer an 

opportunity to debate how the museum sector 

should plan for the future of museums and 

collecting in Northern Ireland. 






[MULTI-MEDIA] 

Ongoing 

Magee campus 

Computer Games 

Masterclass Programme 

The University’s School of Computing and 

Intelligent Systems and School of Creative Arts 

have teamed up with Instinct Technologies, 

a leading games development company, to 

present an extra-curricular training programme 

for UU students and staff. The masterclasses 

will focus on all aspects of the computer 

games industry, from level design, to multimedia 

creation and programming and will 

provide training on the use of cutting-edge 

games development technologies. The 

initiative profiles the work of both Schools in 

developing new and innovative programmes 

of studies in the creative industries area, 

supported by key industrial partners. 

Computer game development is a highly 

creative and fast-moving sector and this 

project will equip both staff and students with 

the industry-relevant skills and knowledge 

required to create next generation multi-media 

applications. 

The project is supported by the Higher 

Education Innovation Fund (HEIF 8). 

Information: Michael Callaghan, School 

of Computing and Intelligent Systems, on 

(028) 7137 5771 or mj.callaghan@ulster.ac.uk 



SUMMER PREVIEW 

Sunday 1st July to Sunday 15th July 

Magee campus 

The North West 

Academy of the Arts 

The Magee campus will be one of the host 

venues for this summer’s North West Academy 

of the Arts. The Academy will bring together 

200 talented young people, aged 16-18, from 

the border counties of the North West of Ireland 

to develop and enhance their artistic and creative 

talents through an intensive residential training 

and coaching programme in July 2007. 

A partnership between the North West Institute 

of Further and Higher Education (NWIFHE), the 

University of Ulster, the Western Education and 

Library Board and Donegal VEC, the Academy 

follows on the success of previous programmes 

in 2004 and 2005. 

Participants on the two-week residential 

programme must have a passionate interest in 

the visual and performing arts. Applicants will 

be auditioned and interviewed to determine 

their suitability for the programme and 

those lucky enough to be selected will each 

receive a full scholarship to cover all fees and 

residential costs, estimated to be worth in the 

region of £1,500 per student. 

The NWAA is funded under the Peace and 

Reconciliation Programme, measure 5.2. 




Monday 16th July to Friday 10th August 

Coleraine campus 

Talks and Tours 

The University of Ulster’s Talks and Tours 

programme of short courses, day trips, 

residentials and evening talks has been offering 

an introduction to a wide variety of topics to 

all members of the community for 36 years 

and is supported by Coleraine, Limavady and 

Ballymoney Councils. The 2007 programme 

will include trips to Tory and Rathlin Islands 

and short courses on a variety of subjects, 

including drama, dance and creative writing. 

There will also be a range of entertaining 

and informative talks on a wide variety of 

fascinating topics and unique day trips to 

explore some of the places of interest around 

the region. 

Talks and Tours provides an enjoyable and 

leisurely way for participants to learn more 

about subjects that interest them by offering 

access to expert tutors, guides and speakers 

in a relaxed, informal atmosphere. To find 

out more about what this programme of 

events and activities has to offer please visit 

www.culture.ulster.ac.uk and click on Archives 

for programmes from previous years. 




Thursday 23rd August to Sunday 26th August 

Magee campus 

City of Derry 

Guitar Festival 

This annual festival of guitar and new music, 

now in its sixth year, is a great opportunity 

for guitarists and composers of all levels, 

irrespective of age. Participants will have the 

opportunity to participate in masterclasses, 

workshops, ensembles, solo performances 

and much more, in a relaxed atmosphere. 

The festival is renowned for the accessibility 

of its tutors and the informality of its learning 

environment. Tutors for 2007 include 

internationally renowned guitarists Carlos 

Bonell (making his fourth return visit), Clive 

Caroll, Graham Devine and Asya Choskin, as 

well as the composer Nikita Coshkin, whose 

work will be celebrated during the festival. 

Information/Bookings: City of Derry 

Guitar Festival on (028) 7137 5550 

or info@cityofderryguitarfestival.com

DATE EVENT LOCATION PAGE DATE EVENT LOCATION PAGE 

1st to 24th February UU Student Printmaking Show Belfast 1 

1st February Applied Art Lunchtime Lecture – John Creed Belfast 1 

5th & 6th February LTC – Paul McIntyre Jazz Trio Coleraine/Magee 1 

5th to 24th February Exhibition – New Light Through 

Old Windows Portstewart 2 

13th February Lunchtime Gig – Ben Glover Jordanstown 2 

14th February CMR Seminar – Anne Crilly Coleraine 2 

15th February Eating Words: Poetry, Cookery, 

and the Art of Translation Jordanstown 3 

20th February Many Voices – Robert Welch Coleraine 3 

21st February Many Voices – Cathal Ó Searcaigh 

& Frank Sewell Coleraine 4 

21st February Interaction: 3D Design Lectures Belfast 6 

22nd February Lunchtime Gig – Oppenhiemer Jordanstown 7 

22nd February Textiles & Colouration Workshop Belfast 7 

22nd February Many Voices – Reporting on Politics 

and Conflict Coleraine 4 

22nd February Many Voices – Conor O’Clery, 

Malachi O’Doherty & Chris Ryder Portstewart 4 

23rd February Many Voices – 

Colin Bateman & John Connolly Ballymoney 5 

24th February Many Voices – Kate Newman Workshop Coleraine 5 

24th February Many Voices – Kate Newman 

and Bill Campbell Coleraine 5 

24th February Many Voices – Paul Howard, 

Workshop for Children Portstewart 6 

24th February Many Voices – Bernard MacLaverty Coleraine 6 

24th February Share Music Workshop Magee 7 

27th February to Performance Art Workshops 

2nd March with Boris Nieslony Belfast 8 

27th February LTC – MMus Students Magee 8 

28th February CMR Seminar – Maya Götz Coleraine 8 

1st March Lunchtime Gig – Paul Casey Jordanstown 9 

6th March LTC – Paul Roe Magee 9 

7th March Positively Architecture – Jochen Gerz L’Derry 9 

8th March Lunchtime Gig – Mark McKnight Trio Jordanstown 10 

8th March Design Lecture – Andy Altmann Belfast 10 

8th & 9th March Advanced Textile Patterning 

Techniques Workshop Belfast 10 

12th & 13th March LTC – Atsushi Tamura Coleraine/Magee 11 

14th March CMR Seminar – Karen Lury Coleraine 11 

14th March Advanced Textile Patterning 


19th March Belfast Fashion Week Belfast 12 

21st March ‘Come Good Rain’ (George Seremba) Magee 12 

22nd March Textiles & Colouration Workshop Belfast 13 

24th March Share Music Workshop Magee 7 

27th March LTC – Darragh Morgan & Mary Dullea Magee 13 

28th March CMR Seminar – Alan Grossman 

& Áine O Brien Coleraine 14 

28th March Alan Sillitoe & Ruth Fainlight L’Derry 14 

29th March Lunchtime Gig – Eilidh Patterson Jordanstown 14 

29th March Joanna MacGregor (piano) & 

Andy Sheppard (sax) Magee 15 

17th April Fidelio Trio Coleraine 15 

18th April CMR Seminar – Felicia Chan & Ken Murphy Coleraine 16 

19th April 10 Steps to Starting Your Own 

Performing Arts Co. Magee 16 

19th April In-Fluence: Water, Art and Public Spaces Belfast 16 

21st April Share Music Workshop Magee 7 

21st & 22nd April Dance Forum – Frameworks for Creativity Magee 17 

23rd & 24th April LTC – Paul Cassidy & Atsushi Tamura Coleraine/Magee 17 

26th April Textiles & Colouration Workshop Belfast 17 

1st May LTC – BMus Students Magee 18 

1st & 2nd May Concert of Organ and Choral Music Belfast/L’Derry 18 

2nd May CMR Seminar – Colm Murphy Coleraine 18 

3rd May Advanced Textile Patterning 


3rd May LTC – UU Jazz Big Band Magee 19 

4th May LTC – Faye Patton Magee 19 

4th May Ulster Orchestra, Concert for Schools Coleraine 20 

4th May Peace & Reconciliation: how the money 

was spent (the Opera!) Belfast 20 

8th to 12th May Art in Brooke Park L’Derry 20 

16th May CMR Seminar – John Hill Coleraine 21 

24th May Collecting & the Representation of Place Belfast 21 

31st May Creative Strategies in a Social Context Belfast 21 

1st to 5th June End of Year Show (Magee) Magee 22 

5th June Constructing NI Through Collections Belfast 22 

5th to 9th June End of Year Show (Belfast) Belfast 22 

5th to 9th June Silent Voice – Typography Presentations Belfast 23 

19th June Representing Contemporary NI 

through Museums & Collections Belfast 23 

LTC = Lunchtime Concert CMR = Centre for Media Research

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