Cultural Events - Cultural Development - University of Ulster

Cutural Events SPRING 2007
[FILM /MEDIA]
Wednesday 18th April
1.00pm, the Link Lounge, Coleraine
Centre for Media Research
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.
Admission: Free
Information: Cultural Development Office at
the Coleraine campus on (028) 7032 4449
or j.mackle@ulster.ac.uk
[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
Thursday 19th April
5.30pm, Lecture Theatre, Belfast campus
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.
Admission: Free
Information: Cultural Development Office
at the Belfast campus on (028) 9026 7286
or t.kerr@ulster.ac.uk