Cultural Events - Cultural Development - University of Ulster

Cutural Events SPRING 2007
[FILM/MEDIA]
Wednesday 28th March
1.00pm, the Link Lounge, Coleraine
Centre for Media Research
‘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.
Admission: Free
Information: Cultural Development Office
at the Coleraine campus on (028) 7032 4683
or j.mackle@ulster.ac.uk
[LITERATURE]
Wednesday 28th March
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.
Admission: Free
Information: Cultural Development Office
at the Magee campus on (028) 7137 5658
or n.pearce@ulster.ac.uk
[MUSIC]
Thursday 29th March
1.00pm, Mezzanine Level, Jordanstown campus
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.
Admission: Free
Information: Cultural Development Office
at the Belfast campus on (028) 9026 7286
or t.kerr@ulster.ac.uk