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EVENTS
AUTUMN 2013
MUSIC DRAMA FILM SONIC ARTS
SCHOOL OF
Creative Arts
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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the Autumn 2013
brochure of events at the School of
Creative Arts.
We have a packed programme
of performances, screenings,
demonstrations and talks on offer,
covering every aspect of the School’s
work in Music, Drama, Film and Sonic
Arts.
The School’s Events Committee
(CATE) has programmed a glittering
line-up of distinguished artists,
scholars and practitioners. This
autumn our Quartet-in- Residence,
the Royal Quartet, will be giving a
recital again and we have several
special highlight events including a
seminar and concert by Chris Watson
whose 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. Also, we will be presenting
EVENTS KEY
a special event by Danish artist
Jacob Kierkgaard who is sponsored
by the “Recomposing the City:
Sonic Arts & Urban Architecture”
Project Research Group based at the
Institute for Collaborative Research
in the Humanities at Queen’s (www.
recomposingthecity.org).
The retrospective of scholar, poet,
playwright, and music critic Stuart
Parker (October 28th - November
3rd) is another of our special highlight
events this autumn.
Many of the events have free
admission, and we warmly encourage
you to drop in during the day for
an informal presentation or to
come along to one of the evening
performances. We look forward to
seeing you.
Professor Michael Alcorn
Head of School
Use the key below to help identify the types of events that appeal to you.
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MA SONIC ARTS SHOWCASE
Showcase of MA student work
Current MA students in the Sonic Arts pathway are
presenting their final MA projects / portfolios in the Sonic
Lab. Join us to see their exciting works, developed at the
unique Sonic Arts Research Centre.
RELEASE
Premier
Everyone has a past; but should they be defined by it?
The legacy of the conflict in Northern Ireland weighs
heavily on many of those who experienced it, pain and loss
is as relevant today as it was 30 years ago.
This film bears witness to the first-hand accounts of 6
remarkable men as they each share their own story publicly
through the performance of the original Theatre of Witness
production ‘Release’.
Told by a former British soldier, RUC detective, prison
governor, ex-prisoners and a man who survived a car bomb
attack as a child.
Their journey is at times heartbreaking, extraordinary,
breathtakingly brave but ultimately transformational.
Tickets are FREE and there will be a light reception
afterwards.
PERFORMANCES, CONCERTS & SCREENINGS
To book a ticket please contact
The Playhouse Box Office - 028 7126 8027.
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4 Sep 4th / 2pm – 4pm / Sonic Lab / Free
Sept 12th / 7pm / Brian Friel Theatre / Free
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MARY DULLEA (PIANO)
Playing Marlacoo by Simon Mawhinney
During the years 2008-11, Queen’s 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
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 Queen’s University Belfast 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).
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
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.
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6 Oct 3rd / 1.10pm / Harty Room / Free
Oct 6th / 3pm / Harty Room / £10 (£5 under 25s)
Oct 10th / 1:10pm / Sonic Lab / Free
Oct 12th / 11.30pm / Old Staff Common Room / Free
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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.
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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
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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 Queen’s University Belfast 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).
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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.
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Oct 20th / 5pm / Sonic Arts Research Centre / £8/£6
8 Oct 17th / 1.10pm / Harty Room / Free
Oct 18th / 7.30pm / Sonic Lab / £10
Oct 20th / 2.30pm / Harty Room / £10 (£5 under 25s)
through Belfast Festival: www.belfastfestival.com
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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).
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. Queen’s 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.
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.
PRATT’S FALL, BY STEWART PARKER.
A REHEARSED READING
Queen’s 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.
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10 Oct 24th / 1pm / Sonic Lab / Free
Oct 24th / 5pm / Brian Friel Theatre / Free
Oct 28th / 5pm / Brian Friel Theatre / Free
Oct 28th / 7.45pm / Brian Friel Theatre / Free
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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, Queen’s 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, Queen’s University Belfast’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.
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
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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.
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Oct 28th - Nov 3rd / Brian Friel Theatre, QFT and BBC
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Oct 29th / 1pm / QFT 1 / Free
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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
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?
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 flusodden
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.
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14 Oct 29th - 30th / 7.30pm / Brian Friel Theatre / Free
Oct 30th / 1pm / QFT 1 / Free
Oct 31st / 1pm / QFT 1 / Free
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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.
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.
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.”
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.
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16 Oct 31st / 1.10pm / Harty Room / Free
Oct 31st / 7.45pm / Brian Friel Theatre / Free
Nov 1st / 1pm / QFT 1 / Free
Nov 1st / 7.45pm / Brian Friel Theatre / Free
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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.
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 Queen’s University
Belfast 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.
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
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.
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18 Nov 2nd / 5pm / Brian Friel Theatre / Free
Nov 2nd / 6pm / Brian Friel Theatre / Free
Nov 2nd / 8pm / Brian Friel Theatre / Free
Nov 3rd / 1pm / Brian Friel Theatre / Free
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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.
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.
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
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.
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20 Nov 3rd / 2.45pm / Brian Friel Theatre / Free
Nov 3rd / 4pm / Brian Friel Theatre / Free
Nov 7th / 1pm / Sonic Lab / Free
Nov 13th / 5pm / Sonic Lab / Free
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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.
ROYAL STRING QUARTET
Mozart - KV 465 The Dissonance Quartet
Szymanski - new work (UK premiere)
Beethoven - op. 135
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.
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.
PERFORMANCES, CONCERTS & SCREENINGS
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Nov 23rd / 11am - 4pm / The Old Staff Common Room,
22 Nov 14th / 1.10pm / Harty Room / Free
Nov 20th / 7.30pm / Sonic Lab / Free
Lanyon Building / Free
Nov 23rd / 8pm / Whitla Hall / £15 / £5
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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.
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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 masterbuilder
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
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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
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.
Dec 7th / 11am / St. Brides Hall / £3
24 Nov 28th / 1.10pm / Harty Room / Free
Dec 5th - 6th / 8pm / Brian Friel Theatre / Free
Dec 5th / 1pm / Sonic Lab / Free
(Derryvolgie Avenue, Belfast, BT9 6FP)
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MARTIN WILLIAMS (TENOR SAX)
With the Steve Barnett All Stars
QUEEN’S BIG BAND
with guest Martin Williams (tenor sax)
The popular pre-Christmas concert by Queen’s Big Band
and their director Steve Barnett, who play classics and
seasonal specialities with special guest star from London,
Martin Williams (tenor sax).
PERFORMANCES, CONCERTS & SCREENINGS
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.
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 Queen’s
Big Band tonight for their Christmas Concert.
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26 Dec 7th / 7.30pm / Whitla Hall / £7 (£5)
Dec 12th / 1.10pm / Harty Room / Free
Dec 12th / 7.30pm / Elmwood Hall / £7/£5
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General Enquiries
028 9097 4867
Tickets
Queen’s University Belfast Music Building
028 9097 5337
(tickets for Harty Room, Whitla Hall,
Great Hall, SARC)
www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofCreativeArts
Brian Friel Theatre
028 9097 1382
www.brianfrieltheatre.co.uk
Queens Film Theatre
028 9097 1097
www.queensfilmtheatre.com
TALKS & SEMINARS
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.
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.
Crescent Arts Centre
028 9094 2338
www.crescentarts.org
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28 Dec 14th / 11am / Elmwood Hall / £3
Dec 18th / 7.30pm / Whitla Hall / £7 (£5)
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PHD ROUNDTABLE
CREATIVE ARTS
Please see http://phdroundtable.blogspot.co.uk/ for speaker
names and abstracts
Dec 2nd / 5pm / Old McMordie Hall / Free
EARFILMS
IMAGINATION IS THE NEW TECHNOLOGY:
CREATING FILMS THAT ARE TOLD PURELY
THROUGH SOUND
JUSTIN SMITH
(UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH)
CHANNEL 4 AND BRITISH FILM CULTURE
MERGING METHODOLOGIES IN FILM AND
TELEVISION STUDIES
Dec 11th / 4.30pm / Film & Drama Centre, Screen 2 / Free
Dec 4th / 1pm / Sonic Lab / Free
DR EWAN JEFFREY
BOOK LAUNCH AND SEMINAR:
‘VEX NOT HIS GHOST: SILENCE AND SPEECH IN
DRAMA AND PALLIATIVE CARE’
Dec 5th / 4pm / Seminar Room, 21 University Square / Free
MARCUS TAN
K-CONTAGION: SOUND, SPEED AND SPACE IN
PSY’S ‘GANGNAM STYLE’
(‘RECOMPOSING THE CITY’ EVENT SERIES)
Dec 11th / 1pm / Old McMordie Hall / Free
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CHRIS WATSON
LOCATION SOUND TECHNIQUES AND
ASSOCIATED FIELDCRAFT
Oct 23rd, 24th / 1pm / Sonic Lab / Free
KATE EGAN (ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY)
LOCAL CENSORSHIP, THE BBFC AND THE
PYTHONESQUE: THE ROLE OF COMEDY IN THE
BRITISH THE LIFE OF BRIAN CONTROVERSY
Oct 23rd / 4.30pm / Film & Drama Centre / Free
ORFHLAITH NÍ BHRIAIN
FRAMING THE HISTORY OF IRISH DANCE
CHARLES VERRON
ENVIRONMENTAL SOUND SYNTHESIS
Nov 6th / 1pm / Sonic Lab / Free
TONY DOWMUNT (GOLDSMITH UNIVERSITY)
WILL IT HARM THE SHEEP?: TRADITION,
INVENTION AND INTERVENTION IN CENTRAL
AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS MEDIA
Nov 6th / 4.30pm / Film & Drama Centre, Screen 2 / Free
ADRIAN DUNBAR
IN CONVERSATION
DR IAIN McCURDY
INDETERMINACY, POSSIBILITY
Nov 13th / 1pm / Sonic Lab / Free
DONALD BURROWS
THE HANDEL DOCUMENTS PROJECT
Nov 20th / 1pm / Old McMordie Hall / Free
CONN HOLOHAN
(NUI GALWAY)
IN PRAISE OF ERROR: COSMOPOLITAN SPACE IN
THE FILMS OF CLAIRE DENIS
CLASS OUT OF THE CLOSET CONFERENCE
In association with the Outburst Queer Arts Festival
CHARLOTTE COOPER, ALYSON CAMPBELL,
RUTH MCCARTHY, STEVE FARRIER
Nov 22nd - 23rd / Brian Friel Theatre / Free
Nov 7th / 1pm / Brian Friel Theatre / Free
Nov 20th / 4.30pm / Film & Drama Centre, Screen 2 / Free
Oct 30th / 1pm / Old McMordie Hall / Free
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.
DR PAUL MURPHY
NEOLIBERAL PRACTICES
Nov 21st / 4pm / Seminar Room, 21 University Square / Free
GEORGE REVILL
TONY SCHWARTS’ RESPONSIVE CHORD:
ENTRAINMENT, CONNECTION AND THE
POLITICS OF NETWORKED COMMUNICATION
(‘RECOMPOSING THE CITY’ EVENT SERIES)
Nov 27th / 1pm / Old McMordie Hall / Free
Nov 11th / 5pm / Old McMordie Hall / Free
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SIMON MAWHINNEY
CIRCULARITY IN MARLACOO
Oct 2nd / 1pm / Old McMordie Hall / Free
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DR TRISH MCTIGHE
THE HAPTIC AESTHETIC IN SAMUEL BECKETT’S
DRAMA
Oct 3rd / 4pm / Seminar Room, 21 University Square / Free
GREG MCLAUGHLIN AND STEVE BAKER
SUNDAY AND BLOODY SUNDAY, VERY BRITISH
TRAGEDIES
Oct 9th / 4.30pm / Screen 2, Film & Drama Centre / Free
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JACOB KIRKEGAARD
‘A MATTER OF SOUND’
(‘RECOMPOSING THE CITY’ EVENT SERIES)
Oct 9th / 1pm / Sonic Lab / Free
DAVE O’BRIEN
(CITY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)
CULTURAL VALUE
In cooperation with the Institute for Collaborative Research in
the Humanities
Oct 12th 11am - 4pm / Old Staff Common Room, Lanyon /
Free
JAIME JONES
RESOUNDING TRADITION: EXPRESSIVITY AND
EMBODIMENT IN HINDU DEVOTIONAL SONG
Oct 16th / 1pm / Old McMordie Hall / Free
SHARING HOPE AND EXPERIENCE
A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Oct 17th / 6pm / Brian Friel Rehearsal Space / Free

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AUTUMN 2013
TALKS WORKSHOPS PRESENTATIONS
SCHOOL OF
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