Cultural Events - Cultural Development - University of Ulster

[FILM/MEDIA]
Wednesday 16th May
1.00pm, the Link Lounge,
Coleraine campus
Centre for Media Research
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.
Admission: Free
Information: Cultural Development Office at
the Coleraine campus on (028) 7032 4449
or j.mackle@ulster.ac.uk
[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.
Admission: Free
(but advance booking is essential)
Information: The Academy for Irish
Cultural Heritages on (028) 7137 5785
or g.thornton@ulster.ac.uk
[ART & DESIGN]
Friday 31st May
10.00am - 4.30pm, Belfast campus
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.
Admission: Free
Information: Doris Rohr, Interface,
on (028) 9026 7266 or d.rohr@ulster.ac.uk
Cutural Events SPRING 2007