13–19 March 2017 artsandsciencefestival.co.uk Contents Welcome
Welcome to the University of Birmingham’s fifth Arts & Science Festival. This year’s 4 Concerts programme traverses land and water and brings together academics, artists and adventurers for a week-long celebration of research, culture and collaboration.
Festival talks navigate diverse terrains from climate change to immigration, 8 exhibitions & Events seaweeds to tree rings, the cinema of science to the colour blue. An imaginative programme of workshops encourages visitors to dive in and try pastures new. Take part in an artist-led walk in search of water (page 43); travel through time 22 Performances and place with the University’s impressive map collection (page 47); and explore heritage and identity through creative writing (pages 45 and 48). A vibrant exhibitions programme explores the festival theme from above and 27 screenings below water: Ikon Gallery presents the first solo exhibition of work by French marine biologist and cinematic pioneer Jean Painlevé (page 17); and Birmingham Open Media hosts In Future Forests, a new exhibition exploring the creative possibilities of mapping nature into music (page 15). Back on campus, audiences 30 talks & Lectures are invited to submerge in Kelp Road, the culmination of collaboration between visual artist Anne Parouty and sound artist Scott Wilson (page 10). We’re delighted to be working in partnership with cinemas across the city to 42 Workshops, Walks present an eclectic mix of films: Mockingbird Cinema and Kitchen screens Peter Greenaway’s surreal and dark comedy, Drowning by Numbers (page 23); a mini- series at mac birmingham focuses on the afterlife of Homer’s Odyssey (pages and Tours 25–27); and The Electric Cinema is home to Shock & Gore’s hilarious Trash Film Night, an evening of terrible film complete with ill-prepared commentary (page 24) – will the residents of Half Moon Bay survive Birdemic? This year, art and science converge in a raft of collaborative events: Music 52 timetable Makes Waves examines the social and neurological impacts of music (page 18); artists Kaye Winwood and Nuala Clooney present an evening of culinary cocktail experimentation following a residency with the University’s award-winning glass 54 How to find us blower (page 14); and artist-technician Sophie Huckfield invites audiences to hand-make objects using engineering waste (page 50).
Arts and Science Festival 2017 has something for everyone. But don’t take our word for it – read on for the full programme or visit our brand new website: www.artsandsciencefestival.co.uk
Contents – 2 – – 3 – welcome BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY BIG BAND
UNIVERSITY SINGERS Friday 17 March, 19.30 – 21.30 Bramall Music Building, Friday 17 March, 13.10 – 14.00 Elgar Concert Hall R12 Concerts Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Concert £10 on the door / £8 adv. / Hall R14 £3 students & under 18s Free Available at thebramall.co.uk Talented student conductors direct these Jonathan Silk and the University Music university choirs for their spring term Society Big Band welcome internationally concert. renowned American trumpet and flugel horn player, Bobby Shew, as the featured artist Whitacre: Three Flower Songs in their Spring concert. Bobby joins the Big Monteverdi: La giovinetta pianta Band as part of a UK tour. Tavener: Eonia Spiritual arr. Whalum: The Lily of the Valley *Join us from 6.30pm for the pre-gig warm Britten: Five Flower Songs up session from a selection of Jazz Collective small bands in the Bramall foyer.
– 5 – Concerts BEASTdome: KELP ROAD
Sunday 19 March, 18.00 – 19.30 Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre Bramall Music Building, Dome Room, (BEAST) presents a sea-themed concert in 3rd Floor R12 the immersive environment of the Dome £10 on the door / £7 adv. / Room. Drawing from the Kelp Road exhibition £3 students & under 18s by artist Anne Parouty and composer Scott Available at thebramall.co.uk Wilson, this unique musical exploration captures sounds both above and below water’s surface. The concert includes a rare presentation of Toru Takemitsu’s Water Music.
RELATED EVENT: Hugh Le Caine: Dripsody David Berezan: Starboard • Submerge in a bubble of sea sound and Takemitsu: Water Music a cyanotype kelp forest in an exhibition Scott Wilson: Kelp Road by Anne Parouty and Scott Wilson in the Bramall foyer (see page 10 for details) CHAMBER CHOIRS AND UNIVERSITY CAMERATA UNIVERSITY CHORUS Alexander Creamer and Matthew Brady – Camerata conductors & SYMPHONY Bradley Gill and Sidney Brass ORCHESTRA – Chamber Choir conductors Daniele Rosina – Orchestral Director Sunday 19 March, 15.00 – 17.30 Julian Wilkins – Chorus Director Bramall Music Building, Elgar Concert Hall R12 Saturday 18 March, 19.30 – 21.30 £10 on the door / £7 adv. / Town Hall, Victoria Square, £3 students & under 18s Birmingham B3 3DQ Available at thebramall.co.uk £15 / £10 / £5 students + fees Four talented student conductors and their Available at thsh.co.uk choirs take to the stage to present an after- The Music Society’s 200-strong Chorus joins noon of sublime choral music. forces with the Symphony Orchestra to present extracts from Haydn’s masterpiece Mendelssohn: Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich oratorio, The Creation, and nationalist works Bruckner: Ave Maria by Sibelius and Ginestera. Ešenvalds: Only in Sleep Duruflé: Notre Père Monteverdi: Cantate Domino Ola Gjeilo: Ubi caritas Whitacre: Five Hebrew Love Songs Parry: I was glad Tippett: ‘Steal Away’ from Five Negro Spirituals
Concerts – 6 – – 7 – Concerts PECHAKUCHA
Monday 13 March, 18.30 – 20.30 Cherry Reds Birmingham (City Centre), Upstairs Room, 88–92 John Bright Street, Birmingham, B1 1BN Tickets £5/ £3.50 Book online at: ti.to/pkbham/ArtsAndScienceFestival PechaKucha is a simple presentation format whereby you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and you talk along to the images. The format is designed to stop waffling and tedious Seconds PowerPoint and encourage creativity and playfulness. Exhibitions PechaKucha is an international network of events originating at the Klein Dytham architecture firm in Tokyo in 2003. You never know what to expect at a PK night and that’s the beauty of them. For Arts & Science Festival, PechaKucha Birmingham presents a ‘land’ and ‘water’ themed event, and features a mix of speakers including University of Birmingham academics, and indeed anyone who wants to present. If that’s you, please get in touch by emailing [email protected] and Presented by PechaKucha Birmingham in partnership with Arts & Science Festival.
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– 9 – Exhibitions & Events KELP ROAD IMAGES OF RESEARCH
Monday 13 – Friday 17 March, Tuesday 14 – Friday 17 March, How do you sum up your life as a post- Exhibition continues to 5 May 2017 09.00 – 20.00 graduate researcher in a single image? 10.00 – 18.00 daily Staff House, Foyer R24 That’s the challenge that we have set our Bramall Music Building, Ground and Free postgraduate researchers at the University of Birmingham. First Floor Foyer R12 Researchers from across disciplines Free have shared their stories with us and the Kelp Road is the culmination of a collab- resulting images, which demonstrate the oration between sound artist Scott Wilson exciting projects our postgraduates are and visual artist Anne Parouty. Enter the working on, will be on display during the heart of the Bramall Music Building and festival. submerge yourself in a bubble of sea sound. Presented by University Graduate School. Look up and admire a kelp forest, created from a series of suspended cyanotypes. Drawing inspiration from a marine world that was here long before us, and will remain long after we are gone, this multi-sensory exhibition invites you to engage with the stories of kelp – from its importance to the marine ecosystem, to its role as a marker of climate change and our long-term planetary survival. Presented by Research & Cultural Collections.
RELATED EVENTS
• View original watercolours of the giant kelps of the North Pacific and hear how they found their way to Birmingham. See page 40 for details.
• Join BEAST for a sea-themed concert to complement the exhibition. See page 7 for details.
• Bioscientist Juliet Coates and artist Anne Parouty discuss the historical impact and Feeding the world with plant science, Chris Morgan, School of Biosciences. inspirational role of seaweed. See page 35 Winner of 2016 Images of Research competition. for details.
Sugar Kelp (Saccharina latissima), Cyanotype, Anne Parouty, 2015
Exhibitions & Events – 10 – – 11 – Exhibitions & Events ichard Greswell © R ichard
WHERE LAND MEETS SEA FAIRYTALES AND FABLES
Monday 13 – Sunday 19 March, Scientist and photographer, Dr Richard Monday 13 – Sunday 19 March, Fire-breathing dragons, mermaids, flying Mon–Fri, 10.00 – 17.00 & Greswell, presents an exhibition of photo- Exhibition continues to 2 March 2018 horses and earth spirits introduce a weird Sat–Sun, 12.00 – 17.00 graphy exploring our coastline, in which 10.00 – 16.30 daily and wonderful world where anything is the geology of our island nation is uniquely possible. Lapworth Museum of Geology R4 exposed. The relentless interaction between Winterbourne House & Garden G12 Join us for this magical exhibition Free the sea and rock create countless and ever- Admission £7/6. Free for University exploring the elemental themes of earth, air, changing landforms, shapes and textures. staff and students with valid ID card. fire and water in Victorian and Edwardian The work is inspired by the idea that fairytale illustrations by artists including art and science are not opposites, but part Arthur Rackham and Kate Greenaway. of the same continuum of human creativity. A family-friendly trail invites you to In both natural sciences and visual arts, use your imagination while exploring it is careful observation and a quest to Winterbourne’s beautiful gardens. understand the world around us that both Presented by Winterbourne House & inspires and informs. The Fairy Queen by Richard Doyle, 1870, Garden in partnership with Cadbury Presented by Lapworth Museum of Cadbury Research Library Research Library. Geology.
Exhibitions & Events – 12 – – 13 – Exhibitions & Events EXPANDED INTIMACY
Wednesday 15 March, from 19.00 Secret city centre location, details will be sent upon booking £20, booking essential. Book online at billetto.co.uk/en/events/expanded- intimacy Expanded Intimacy is a new collaborative research project by artist Nuala Clooney and Kaye Winwood, Creative Producer and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Birmingham. Working in partnership with Steve Williams, an award-winning glassblower based in the School of Chemistry’s glass- blowing facility, Kaye and Nuala will produce prototypes of glass vessels designed to sensualise the food and drink experience. For Arts & Science Festival they will collaborate with Robert Wood (Smultronstalle /The Wilderness/In Rob We Trust Ltd) for an unforgettable evening of culinary cocktail experimentation. Presented by Kaye Winwood and Nuala Clooney in partnership with University of Birmingham and in collaboration with Robert Wood. IN FUTURE FORESTS
Wednesday 15 – Saturday 18 March In Future Forests is a new exhibition 12.00 – 17.00 daily developed by sound artist and composer Dr Birmingham Open Media, Robin Price and environmental scientist Dr 1 Dudley Street, Birmingham, B5 4EG Francis Pope. The collaboration examines the creative possibilities of mapping nature Free into music, to ask what music might a future forest make? Using data collected from weather, plant and soil sensors located in the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research’s woodland facility in Staffordshire, this interactive audio-visual sound installation maps real data streams into a musical score. Presented by School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences in partnership with Birmingham Open Media.
Exhibitions & Events – 14 – After Dark, 2016. – 15 – Exhibitions & Events Photo by Mark Hancock JEAN PAINLEVÉ
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1 Oozells Square Wednesday 15 – Sunday 19 March, Brindleyplace Exhibition continues to 4 June Birmingham, B1 2HS Tues – Sun, 11.00 – 17.00 Free This is the first UK solo exhibition of work by French filmmaker and photographer Jean Painlevé (1902–1989). His moving imagery of marine life, in particular, commanded the respect of many renowned avant-garde artists working in 1920s Paris (Luis Buñuel, Sergei Eisenstein, Man Ray and Alexander Calder), at the beginning of a life-long career that almost spanned the 20th century. This exhibition presents a number of seminal films alongside a selection of photographs and jewellery, exemplifying Painlevé’s passion for making science accessible. Presented by Ikon in collaboration with the Archives Jean Painlevé.
THE CINEMA OF SCIENCE
Thursday 16 March, 18.00 – 19.30 Free, booking essential. Visit ikon-gallery.org to book online or call Ikon on 0121 248 0708 Dr Kate Ince, Reader in French Film and Gender Studies at the University of Birmingham, will introduce the nature films of Jean Painlevé, providing a historical context for his work. The talk will consider Painlevé’s connections to the Surrealist movement and to contemporaries such as Man Ray and fellow French ‘cinema of science’ enthusiast Georges Franju.
Presented by Ikon in partnership with University of Birmingham Jean Painlevé, Female Seahorse, 1936. © Archives Jean Painlevé, Paris. Image courtesy of Archives Jean Painlevé, Paris.
Exhibitions & Events – 16 – – 17 – Exhibitions & Events MUSIC MAKES WAVES: THE COLLISION SYNSE/NON SYNSE
BETWEEN MUSIC, ART & SCIENCE Thursday 16 March, 14.00 – 16.00 European Research Institute, Digital Wednesday 15 March, 09.30 – 16.00 What makes music a social science and Humanities Hub (Ground Floor) G3 European Research Institute, Digital a tool for therapy? How and why does it Free, booking recommended. Book touch the human spirit, both individually Humanities Hub (Ground Floor) G3 online at synse.eventbrite.co.uk Free, booking recommended. Book and collectively? How do science and technology influence the way we engage Imagine tasting a symphony, seeing Friday online at music-makes-waves. with music and with each other? as a red square, or feeling sound on your eventbrite.co.uk The Music Makes Waves symposium face. These are examples of a neurological will examine the role that music plays in phenomenon called synaesthesia (the our everyday lives, looking at its social and joining of the senses). Nearly everyone neurological impacts and how it contributes experiences some form of crossed senses, to wider culture. and it’s estimated that many more people Join trailblazing speakers from the have some recognisable and consistent worlds of music, art and science, including: form of synaesthesia than was previously James & Balandino from Integra Lab, a imagined. The causes of synaesthesia are research group based at Birmingham not fully understood, but scientists believe Conservatoire who transform creativity by that both nature and nurture play a part. empowering people to explore sound and Join artist and synaesthete Sarah music; and Dr Renee Timmers, Sheffield Walden for this interactive synaesthetic University, whose research projects include workshop, in which she will work with you music perception and the emotional to discover how you perceive words, colours, experiences of music, to discover how sounds, spatiality and touch, and how these music affects us and helps us make sense perceptions were first created in your brain. of the world around us. Sarah’s doctorate research considers See our Eventbrite page for more details the nature of synaesthesia and Autistic on speakers, full programme schedule and to Spectrum Disorder; rather than simply using register. art to recreate or represent the condition, Qawwali Shrine has been supported Sarah aims to lift synaesthesia research through the National Lottery using public from its medical/neurological/psychological funding from Arts Council England (Grants roots, to engage with the generative for the Arts). The project is produced by sensory potential of this phenomenon Harmeet Chagger-Khan (Surfing Light through storytelling and advances in digital Beams) and partners include Sampad technology. South Asian Arts, neuroscientists at the Presented by Sarah Walden, PhD candidate University of Birmingham, Birmingham at Birmingham City University (AHRC ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre (BEAST). Midlands3Cities Doctoral Award) and Yasmeen Baig Clifford, Director at Vivid Projects and Honorary Research Associate at University of Birmingham.
Image from Ariel (2016), photographic installation Exhibitions & Events – 18 – by Sarah Walden and Ollie MacDonald-Brown. – 19 – Exhibitions & Events CLEPSYDRA
Tuesday 14 March, 19.30 – 21.00 Old Joe Clock Tower, Chancellor’s Court Free, no booking required University of Birmingham artist in residence, Lynn Dennison, uses film, installation and collage to explore our relationship with the natural world. Interested in the idea of a fear of the landscape, she creates artworks that evoke the enormity of nature. Many of her installations reference ideas of climate change and consider the possibility of water overwhelming a domestic scene or flooding a building. During her residency, Lynn has record- ed footage of water at the University’s Raymond Priestley Centre on the western shore of Coniston Water in the Lake District. For Arts & Science Festival, Lynn will use this footage to project directly onto Old Joe Clock Tower in an elevated and imposing display.
Join Lynn from 7.30pm for an introduction to her clock tower installation and hear more about her wider practice. Presented by Lynn Dennison in BODIES SAYING WORDS partnership with Arts & Science Festival
Thursday 16 March, 18.30 – 19.30 An evening of poetry readings and Grand Union Gallery, 19 Minerva Works, performances on *embodied* language 158 Fazeley Street, Birmingham, B5 5RS with work by Jesper List Thomsen and Free, booking recommended. Book Hanne Lippard. online at bodiessayingwords. ‘Avoiding The Genius’ by Jesper List Thomsen is a new piece of writing to be eventbrite.co.uk read. To be re-embodied. Using language and a strategy of accumulation to lift eight sculptures from their original landscape in the Villa Giulia, Palermo, Sicily. Hanne Lippard has composed a new performance with some of her existing text- based works that explore language through rhythm, sound and aesthetics of speech. Jesper List Thomsen (born 1978, Denmark) is an artist and writer based in London. He is a part of the artist and curatorial collective Am Nuden Da. Presented by Grand Union in partnership Image courtesy of Jesper List Thomsen with Arts & Science Festival.
Exhibitions & Events – 20 – © Lynn Dennison – 21 – Exhibitions & Events Screenings
ONE MINUTE MOVIE RESULTS & MA DROWNING BY SHOWCASE NUMBERS Tuesday 14 March, 18.30 – 20.30 Aston Webb C Block, Main Lecture [dir. Peter Greenaway, 1988, 111 mins] Theatre R5 Free, booking recommended. Book Tuesday 14 March, 21.30 – 23.30 online at one-minute-movie-2017. The Mockingbird Cinema and Kitchen, eventbrite.co.uk Custard Factory, Gibb St, B9 4AA £7 / £5, booking recommended. Book Join MA Film and Television for a showcase online at mockingbirdcinema.com of short films produced by the most recent cohort of MA Film and Television: Research The curious tale of three women of the same and Production students. name, whose solidarity for one another This is followed by a shortlist of films brings about three copy-cat drownings. Their submitted to the Department of Film and husbands are the victims and the motive is Creative Writing’s annual One Minute Movie dissatisfaction. The women are confident competition. This year’s entrants responded that their crimes will not be punished to the festival theme land and water and because they have in hopeless tow a coroner the competition winner will be announced who is in love with them. Or think he is. on the night. The coroner and his eccentric young son are game-players, persuading everyone Presented by MA Film and Television and – friends, enemies, sheep, dogs and bees – B:Film: The Birmingham Centre for Film to join them in their metaphorical games, Studies. treating sex and death – most especially death – as an elaborate game until they are finally outmanoeuvred by the women who resolve their difficulties in an amoral ending that suggests indeed that a Conspiracy of Women is unbeatable. Presented by Arts & Science Festival in partnership with Mockingbird Cinema and Kitchen.
Still taken from film by Ellen Cobb.
Drowning by Numbers (1988), image courtesy Contemporary Films, London. – 23 – Screenings Homer's Odyssey today
In recent years, with migration, displace- TRASH FILM NIGHT PRESENTS… at mac birmingham ment and exile so prominent in our daily news, the word Odyssey has gained particular BIRDEMIC: SHOCK AND TERROR Cannon Hill Park, resonance as it is so often used to evoke the long and dangerous journeys over land and water in hope of an elusive homecoming, Presenting ill-prepared commentary to [dir. James Nguyen, 2010, 105 mins] B12 9QH and of the reunification of families, that terrible films, Trash Film Night is part of so many are forced on in the aftermath of the year-round programme from Shock & Thursday 16 March, 20.30 – 22.30 £8/6 concession per screening. war and destruction. These journeys have Gore, an annual film festival celebrating the The Electric Cinema, their first literary model in the travels of weird, the wonderful and the fantastic at For Contempt and Ulysses Gaze, 47–49 Station Street, B5 4DY Odysseus after the Trojan war, pursued by The Electric Cinema. a discounted pass for entry to £7 / £5, booking recommended. vengeful gods, in search of Ithaca, his home, For Arts & Science Festival, hosts both films is available for £12/10 and his family. As well as an epic journey Book online at theelectric.co.uk/ Luke and David offer live commentary to if booked together. Book online at and a story of adventure, the Odyssey is programme.php and click on the BIRDEMIC, a low-budget thriller in which a macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema the story of a marriage, interrupted, and ‘Shock and Gore’ tab. horde of mutated birds descends upon the reunited; the story of a son growing up quiet town of Half Moon Bay, California. without a father; the story of the price to With the death toll rising, two citizens be paid for war and conquest. manage to fight back, but will they survive Presented by the Department of Classics, This series of events for Arts & Science Birdemic? Ancient History and Archaeology in Festival focusses on the Odyssey’s afterlife partnership with B-Film, Birmingham from a variety of perspectives, ranging Please note: this event features LIVE Research Institute for History and Cultures from the very local collection of stories, COMMENTARY. If you wish to watch (BRIHC) and mac Birmingham. A Midlands Odyssey, to Godard’s modern Birdemic in silence, you're in the wrong masterpiece, Contempt, set in Rome and place! Capri, and Angelopoulos’s Art House classic Ulysses’ Gaze, to the Coen Brothers’ Presented in association with Shock and cult classic O Brother Where Art Thou?, a Gore and The Electric Cinema. Mississippi Odyssey.
Screenings – 24 – – 25 – Monday 13 March, 14.00 Wednesday 15 March, 14.00 THE ODYSSEY O BROTHER, [dir. Jerome Salle, 2016, 122 mins] WHERE ART THOU? Featuring a gleaming French cast including [dir: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 2000, Audrey Tautou, director Jerome Salle takes us on a voyage through the life of legendary 103 mins] French oceanographer, environmentalist Set in the depression in Mississippi, O and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau. Brother, Where Art Thou? is an inventive Thursday 16 March, 18.00–22.00 Taking in locations from across the adaptation of Homer's epic, The Odyssey. globe, Salle gives us a flawed Cousteau, a Three shambolic convicts (George Clooney, ULYSSES GAZE visionary who struggled to reconcile his John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson) escape boundless ambition with his roles as a their chain-gang and embark on a quest father and husband. The film’s emotional for treasure and their freedom. Along the [dir: Theo Angelopoulos, 1995, crux is Cousteau’s stormy relationship with way, they meet many colourful Southern 169 mins] his son Philippe, the former’s indomitable characters, and of course learn where their An epic chronicle of 100 years of Balkan sense of adventure and discovery clashing real fortune lies. conflict and a highly personal celebration with the latter’s conservationist stance. The of a century of cinema, Ulysses' Gaze stars two journey together towards Antarctica’s Image courtesy Curzon Artificial Eye Harvey Keitel as a Greek-American filmmaker harsh beauty, finding there the bonds that who journeys across the turbulent Balkan would unite them before tragedy. countries of the 1990s. Winner of the The eternal drama of the father-son Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, dynamic is married to breathtaking scenes RELATED EVENT Tuesday 14 March, 20.00 – 22.00 Ulysses’ Gaze is a hypnotic and sorrowful captured underwater, a glimpse of the world but ultimately rewarding film about both that fired Cousteau’s pioneering passion • Join A Midlands Odyssey authors for a CONTEMPT the absence and presence of the past and spirit. Salle’s biopic never veers from special workshop to mark the relaunch in memory that finds Europe’s heart of Cousteau’s darker elements, yet pays fine of their collection of short stories, (LE MEPRIS) darkness in Sarajevo. Theo Angelopoulous tribute to his undeniable legacy as one of transplanting Homeric epic to the (1935–2012) was a giant of Greek cinema, France’s most enduring cultural icons. contemporary English Midlands. (see page 45 for details) [dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1963, 103mins] whose magisterial style and dreamlike, Preview screening courtesy of Altitude gently unfolding narratives offer subtle and Described in Sight and Sound as ''the Film Distribution. complex political allegories and blur any greatest work of art produced in postwar distinction between film and poetry. Europe.'' Godard’s 1963 film, adapted from This screening is preceded by a panel a novel by Alberto Moravia, is perhaps the discussion exploring the history and current director’s most hauntingly beautiful film. condition of Greek cinema in the context A French writer engaged to adapt of the European Union, the traditions of Homer’s Odyssey at Rome’s famous Cinecitta the European art house, and contemporary studios, finds himself enmeshed in a marital World cinema as a whole. The discussion crisis caused by the conflicting demands is chaired by Professor Rob Stone, Chair of of his American producer and the German European Film and Co-director of B-Film: director (Fritz Lang, playing himself). The Birmingham Centre for Film Studies at Contempt is a film about the Odyssey, about the University of Birmingham. He is joined filmmaking, about marriage, and about the by Dr Lydia Papadimitriou of Liverpool John beautiful landscape of the island of Capri, Moores University, author of The Greek Film where the story of Paul (Michel Piccoli) Musical: A Critical and Cultural History (2006), and Camille (Brigitte Bardot), a modern-day co-editor of Greek Cinema: Texts, Forms Odysseus and Penelope, finally comes to a and Identities (2011) and principal editor head at the extraordinary Villa Malaparte. of the new Journal of Greek Media Culture This screening will be introduced by Dr (Intellect), as well as other experts to be Elena Theodorakopoulos, Senior Lecturer announced nearer the screening. in Classics at the University of Birmingham and will take place in mac birmingham’s Presented by B-Film in partnership Hexagon Theatre. with Arts & Science Festival and mac The Odyssey, image © Coco Van Oppens – 26 – – 27 – birmingham 20,000 LEAGUES mac birmingham UNDER THE SEA presents three [dir: Richard Fleischer, 1954, 118 mins]
films inspired by Saturday 18 March, 14.00 – 16.20 £8 / £6, booking recommended. the Arts & Book online at macbirmingham.co.uk/ event/2LUTS Science Disney's first live action feature sticks closely to Jules Verne's 1869 book, in which Festival theme a warship is sent to investigate a 'creature' that is sinking vessels in the middle of the All three screenings take place at sea. The warship itself is sunk and three survivors end up aboard the 'monster', a mac birmingham, Cannon Hill Park submarine called 'The Nautilus', skippered Birmingham, B12 9QH by the insane but brilliant Captain Nemo (James Mason). The rest of the adventure includes a battle with a giant squid.
HIDDEN FIGURES JOURNEY TO THE [dir. Theodore Melfi, 2016, 127 mins] CENTRE OF THE EARTH
Friday 17 – Sunday 19 March, [dir: Henry Levin, 1959, 129 mins) Fri 17.30 / Sat 17.30 & 20.10 / Sun 20.00 Continues to 23 March, Sunday 19 March, 14.00 – 15.45 see website for times £8 / £6, booking recommended. Book £8 / £6, booking recommended. Book online at macbirmingham.co.uk/event/ online at macbirmingham.co.uk/ JTTCOE event/hidden An exciting adventure based on Jules Verne's The incredible untold story of Katherine classic novel. A clue encased in volcanic rock Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson leads Professor Lindenbrook to believe he – brilliant African-American women working can reach the Earth's centre. He is not the at NASA, who served as the brains behind only one with this goal, however, and his one of the greatest operations in history. expedition is dogged by a murderous rival. The launch of astronaut John Glenn With life-threatening hazards and strange, into orbit was a stunning achievement that subterranean beasts around every corner, restored the nation’s confidence, turned the race to the prize makes for an action- around the Space Race, and galvanized the packed thrill-ride. world. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
Still from Hidden Figures
Screenings – 28 – – 29 – Screenings SAVING LAND AND WATER: SHAPING PERCEPTIONS OF Talks CLIMATE CHANGE
Monday 13 March, 12.30 – 13.30 Aston Webb, C Block, Lecture Theatre G33 R7 Free, booking recommended. To book your place, please visit: saving-land-and-water.eventbrite.co.uk Professor Lisa Bortolotti chairs a session exploring the psychological challenges of and addressing climate change. How can we change our beliefs about land and water and modify our behaviour accordingly?
Presentations include: – Don’t you get it? Understanding responses to climate communication by Dr Ulrike Hahn, Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London – Creating sustainable behaviour change by Anna Bright, Chief Executive, Sustainability West Midlands
The talks will be followed by an opportunity for the audience to ask questions. Presented by Department of Philosophy with sponsorship from project PERFECT – www.projectperfect.eu
Lectures CONSERVING CHAMBERLAIN’S ORCHIDS THE HISTORY OF THE
Monday 13 March & Sunday 19 March, Drawing inspiration from Joseph MOON 13.00 – 14.00 Chamberlain’s passion for orchid growing, artist Matt Westbrook and world orchid Winterbourne House & Garden, Monday 13 March, 17.00 – 18.00 authority Philip Seaton, lead an illustrated Aston Webb, Lecture Theatre WG5 Old Tool Shed G12 talk and demonstration exploring the bio- Free, booking recommended. (Ground Floor) R4 diversity and conservation of native and To book your place, please visit: imported orchids. Free, no booking required. conserving-orchids.eventbrite.co.uk Over the last thirty years, Philip has Join Dr Katherine Joy, University of become an internationally renowned figure Manchester, as she discusses the geological on the conservation and sustainable cul- history of the moon as part of the Lapworth tivation of orchids. He will discuss the Lecture Series. issues surrounding the importation of Analysing lunar samples returned by tropical orchids and give a demonstration Apollo astronauts, and lunar meteorites that of the seed sowing process he has been we find here on Earth, Katherine conducts developing to restore native species to investigations into their chemistry, miner- the wild. alogy and age. Combined with data that Matt has been researching themes of has been collected by satellites orbiting simulacra and display, exploring connec- the moon, the information reveals the tions between Joseph Chamberlain’s love geological evolution of the Moon and of orchids and his business and political provides insights to the wider history of career. Guided by a broader interest in sim- the Solar System. ulated environments Matt’s artistic practice Presented by the Lapworth Museum of has involved looking at engineering and Geology. botanical illustrations, breaking down imag- es into components, which he reassembles into new narratives. The event will be followed by a visit to Winterbourne’s own Orchid house. THE COLOUR BLUE: ORIGINS AND SYMBOLISM
Tuesday 14 March, 13.15 – 13.45 The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, meet in the foyer R14 Free, booking essential. To book your place, please contact: 0121 414 2261 or email [email protected] Travel through the fascinating story of the colour blue in this lunchtime gallery talk at The Barber Institute of Fine Arts. Journey from precious lapis lazuli in the Renaissance, to the explosion of synthetic blues used by the Pre-Raphaelites and the Impressionists, and find out about the colour blue’s many symbolic and emotional meanings over time. Presented by The Barber Institute of Winterbourne orchid house. Image courtesy Winterbourne House & Garden Fine Arts.
Talks & Lectures – 32 – – 33 – Talks & Lectures SECRETS OF TREES
Tuesday 14 March, 12.30 – 13.30 Jeremy Pritchard and Alice Roberts explore Chemical Engineering, Main Lecture the biology, ecology and archaeology of Theatre (124) Y11 trees and wood. Free, booking recommended. To Jeremy asks – Why do trees have rings? Why are some rings bigger than other rings? book your place, please visit – and looks at how experiments at the secrets-of-trees.eventbrite.co.uk University's Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) are setting out to find answers as to how trees will respond to climate change. Alice looks at two archaeological sites with exceptional preservation of wood. At Must Farm, relics include entire Bronze Age roundhouses, down to the handles of axes and wooden buckets. At Bettelbuhl in Germany, archaeologists have been able to determine the precise year in which an Iron Age princess was buried – thanks to SEAWEEDS, DEEP UNIVERSITY OF tree rings. TIME AND THE TREE BIRMINGHAM GREAT OF LIFE: A VIEW FROM WAR CENTENARY SCIENCE AND THE LECTURE
ARTS Tuesday 14 March, 17.30 – 19.00 Arts Building, Lecture Theatre 1 Tuesday 14 March, 14.00 – 15.00 (First Floor) R16 Lapworth Museum of Geology R4 Free, no booking required Free, booking recommended. To Professor Adrian Gregory from the University book your place, please visit of Oxford is a leading historian of Great seaweed-deep-time.eventbrite.co.uk Britain during the First World War and Bioscientist Juliet Coates examines the author of The Last Great War: British Society ancient place held by seaweeds in the Tree and the First World War (CUP, 2008). of Life – a metaphor used to describe the As part of this prestigious lecture relationships between organisms, both series commemorating the anniversary of living and extinct – and discusses how the First World War, he will be discussing recent pre-Cambrian fossil finds in China some of the latest research on an often add to our knowledge. overlooked aspect of the conflict: the Artist Anne Parouty describes how impact of religion. she works with the chemical composition Presented by the Centre for War Studies, of seaweeds in creating her cyanotype Department of History. impressions of them. She will also discuss the inspirational and important part seaweeds have played in the earliest human migrations. Presented by Anne Parouty in partnership with the School of Biosciences and Lapworth Museum of Geology.
Talks & Lectures – 34 – – 35 – Talks & Lectures BETWEEN THE DEVIL FROM THE OCEAN AND THE DEEP BLUE DEEP
SEA: IDENTITY, Wednesday 15 March, 13.00 – 14.00 Lapworth Museum of Geology, R4 INCLUSION AND Free, booking recommended. To book your place, please visit THE POLITICS OF ocean-deep.eventbrite.co.uk IMMIGRATION Join academics from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Tuesday 14 March, 18.30 – 20.30 Sciences as they lead a session exploring Watson Building, Lecture Theatre A how they investigate big questions relating (Ground Floor) R15 to earth history, processes and climate. Free, booking recommended. To Our speakers – Dr Seb Watt, Dr Tom Dunkley-Jones and Dr Matt Falder – have book your place, please visit politics- recently returned from ocean research of-immigration.eventbrite.co.uk cruises and come armed with images and Across the world, immigration and identity anecdotes fresh from the ocean floor. are at the centre of urgent and dramatic Presented by Lapworth Museum political struggles and debates. In Europe, of Geology. the refugee crisis, the rise of far right parties and Brexit reveal mounting tensions, highlighted by the contradiction between the objective processes of mass migration and an anti-immigration ideological consensus. This event will discuss not only how we should think about these issues, but also how we should act upon them. Is it time to DIVIDING LINES: rethink our identities as more inclusive or to transcend them altogether? How should A BRAIN SCIENCE VIEW OF LANDSCAPE ART we approach mental and, especially, physical borders, defining national and supra- Tuesday 14 March, 17.30 – 20.00 Ever wondered what really happens to national polities in today’s world? Can we The Barber Institute of Fine Arts R14 your brain when you look at art? Join Jane imagine and then implement new forms of Free, booking essential. To book Raymond, Professor of Visual Cognition at citizenship, which will abolish the divisions your place, please contact: the University of Birmingham’s School of between ‘natives’ and ‘immigrants’? 0121 414 2261 or email Psychology to find out. At the round table, academics, The brain thrives on contrasts, categories, journalists and activists, will tackle these [email protected] and divisions. Artworks that juxtapose sea, and other questions in an open, interactive land, and sky, that contrast wild with tamed, discussion with members of the public. calm with frenzied, or near with far, bring Presented by Birmingham Research exciting dividing lines to the brain. Institute for History and Cultures (BRIHC) This illustrated talk and interactive gallery session will explore how dramatic landscapes excite the brain and why we find them so enduringly compelling. Presented by The Barber Institute of Fine Image courtesy of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Arts in partnership with the School of University of Birmingham. Psychology.
Talks & Lectures – 36 – – 37 – Talks & Lectures THE NUREMBERG A JOURNEY THROUGH CHRONICLE DEEP TIME: plants, – DR ELAINE FULTON rocks and carbon Thursday 16 March, 13.00 – 14.00 dioxide Bramall Music Building, Elgar Concert Hall R12 Thursday 16 March, 13.00 – 14.00 Free, booking essential. Lapworth Museum of Geology R4 To book your place please visit Free, booking recommended. thebramall.co.uk To book your place, please visit deep-time.eventbrite.co.uk As we move towards the 500th anniversary of the start of the Lutheran Reformation The natural world, its biodiversity, and in October 2017, what better time than to its constituent ecosystems are critically look at a notable example of the early print important to our wellbeing and economic culture at the heart of that movement? prosperity. Trees and forests are a key link This lecture is the third in a series relating in the ecological chain that permits life to to the new University Library’s Inspiring flourish on Earth. Knowledge exhibition and will focus on the World-leading ‘big science’ has come Book of Chronicles, more popularly known to the Birmingham Institute of Forest as the Nuremberg Chronicle, first published Research (BIFoR) in the form of a Free- in 1493 in the German city from which it Air Carbon Enrichment (FACE) facility, took its name. built into established English woodland The Chronicle was a late fifteenth in Staffordshire. BIFoR aims to provide century attempt to produce an illustrated fundamental science, social science and history of the world, covering the Creation cultural research of direct relevance to through to the life of Christ and ending with forested landscapes anywhere in the world. reflections on the likely end of time. It holds Drawing from the Lapworth Museum of a place of deep significance in the history Geology’s rich archive of geological speci- of print for its sheer scope, integration of mens and maps, the Earth and Environmental text with hundreds of lavish illustrations, Sciences team explore the geology of the and for its representation of the vibrancy BIFoR site, a journey marked by periods of of northern European humanism and the major climatic change, which have shaped apocalypticism of the age. our planet over Deep Time. The Nuremberg Chronicle is one of Professor Rob MacKenzie, Director of the treasures of the University’s Cadbury Birmingham Institute of Forest Research Research Library: this lecture will throw (BIFoR), will also discuss BIFoR’s scientific light on its significance, both in its own day mission to understand and respond to the and as the valuable artefact that it is today. climatic changes unfolding before our eyes and its quest to answer the question: how Presented by Cadbury Research Library in will our forests respond to the atmosphere partnership with Arts & Science Festival. that will surround them in the year 2100? Presented by Birmingham Institute of Forest Research in partnership with ibrary, University of Birmingham. of University L ibrary, esearch Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Lapworth Museum of Geology.
Talks & Lectures – 38 – R Image courtesy Cadbury – 39 – Talks & Lectures VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD: ALEXANDRO POSTELS AND THE KELPS OF THE NORTH PACIFIC
Friday 17 March, 13.00 – 13.50 Muirhead Tower, Cadbury Research Library, Seminar Room R21 Free, booking recommended. To book your place, please visit postels-kelps.eventbrite.co.uk In 1826 the corvette Séniavine left St Petersburg on a four year voyage around the world, now regarded as one of the great scientific expeditions of the 19th century. In the course of this voyage, artist and scientist Alexandro Postels, painted over 750 watercolours. His images of the giant kelps of the North Pacific were the first ever recorded and on his return to St Petersburg formed the basis of the monumental work Illustrationes Algarum (1840) written with F. Ruprecht. Postel's original watercolours are held by the Cadbury Research Library. Join artist Anne Parouty, and Martin Killeen, Rare Books Librarian, for a chance to view this beautiful and important work of marine science first hand, while hearing the story of how it found its way to Birmingham. Presented by Cadbury Research Library
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• Artists Anne Parouty and Scott Wilson present a multi-sensory and immersive exhibition. See page 10 for further details.
Iridaea Ornata, Aleksandr Postels, c.1826–29, Cadbury Research Library
Talks & Lectures – 40 – – 41 – Talks & Lectures EARTH AND OCEANS IN SEARCH OF WATER
Monday 13 March, 12.00 – 13.00 & Tuesday 14 March, 12.00 – 13.00 13.00 – 14.00 Meet at Aston Webb Reception R6 Lapworth Museum of Geology R4 Free, booking essential. Book online Workshops, Free, booking recommended. To at search-of-water.eventbrite.co.uk book your place, please visit This participatory indoor and outdoor walk, earth-and-oceans.eventbrite.co.uk led by a guide, invites participants to wear The University’s newly renovated Lapworth Pointy Hat costumes on a walking journey Museum of Geology opens up its stores in search of water on campus. for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour Costumes act as ‘portals of perception’ focusing on earth and oceans. – bringing awareness to how we experience Don’t miss your chance to see some ourselves, others and the environment. How of the unique items in the museum’s vast does a Pointy hat make you walk, talk, think stores! and interact differently? How do others perceive you? Participants will be on the Presented by the Lapworth Museum lookout for water at all times and when of Geology. sighted, will gently ‘ring’ their Pointy Hat bells located at the top of their hats. The walk ends with a short discussion on how the hat affected our experiences and perceptions, as well as the need for water. Presented by Sally E. Dean in partnership Walks with Arts & Science Festival.
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Video still from You’re Not Supposed to Be Here 2, filmed and edited by Sergio M. Villar, directed by Sally E. Dean
– 43 – Workshops A MIDLANDS ODYSSEY – WRITING WORKSHOP
Wednesday 15 March, 10.30 – 12.30 Join A Midlands Odyssey authors for a special mac Birmingham, Cannon Hill Park, workshop to mark the relaunch of their Birmingham, B12 9QH collection of short stories, transplanting Tickets £10 incl fees. Book online Homeric epic to the contemporary English Midlands. With a range of settings – from at writing-workshop.eventbrite.co.uk smart canal-side apartments to late-night launderettes – these stories are wonderfully inventive and offer a down-to-earth take on one of the world’s greatest pieces of storytelling. Channel your inner Odysseus in a series of creative writing activities designed to reflect on the practice of storytelling and to explore how existing narratives are forever renewed in their retelling. Participants will be given the opportunity to share and discuss the work that they produce during the course of the workshop RELATED EVENT in a supportive and informal environment, with prior knowledge of Homer’s Odyssey • This workshop is part of a series of events by no means a prerequisite. focussed on the Odyssey’s afterlife from a variety of perspectives (see page 25 for Presented by the Department of Classics, details). Ancient History and Archaeology.
TIME AND PLACE: ART AND WRITING WORKSHOP
Thursday 16 March, 10.00 – 13.00 The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Free, booking essential. To book your place, please contact 0121 414 2261 or email [email protected] Visual artist Tom Jones and writer Jacqui Rowe invite you to this cross-disciplinary workshop combining drawing and writing. Explore landscapes in the Barber galleries and combine images and text to create your own original piece in response. Open to writers and artists of all levels of experience and ability.
Workshops – 44 – – 45 – Workshops EXPLORING LAND AND WATER WITH THE GEOGRAPHY MAP COLLECTION
Wednesday 15 March, 12.00 – 13.00 School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Room 311 R26 Free, booking recommended. To book your place, please visit map-collection.eventbrite.co.uk The Map Collection at the University of Birmingham is one of the finest in the UK. Established in 1924 with donations from the Cadbury family it has since grown to comprise over 300,000 maps and 600 Atlases. Join Map Curator Jamie Peart as he shares his unique insights into the collection and gives participants the opportunity to handle items from the archive. There will also be a chance to explore the key elements of the collection through an interactive touchtable.
Highlights include: – Military maps from the North Africa campaign of the 1940s – Goad fire insurance maps from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – The finest collection of historic Japanese town plans in western Europe – An historic map series charting the development of the West Midlands from the seventeenth century to the present Presented by School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
The Greenwood map of the country of Warwickshire, extract showing Birmingham, c. 1820
Workshops – 46 – – 47 – Workshops Thursday 16 March 15.00 – 17.00 WHAT'S WHAT WITH JAMES WATT! HISTORY AND CULTURE AT Free, booking recommended. Book online at james-watt.eventbrite.co.uk SOHO HOUSE Who was James Watt? Why was he import- ant? Is he still relevant today? All three events take place at Soho House, Soho Avenue (off Soho Road), 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of Handsworth, Birmingham, B18 5LB the death in Handsworth of James Watt the inventor, industrialist, engineer and artist. This is one of several events over the next few years which explore the man In partnership with Birmingham Museums 11.00 – 13.00 and his legacy. Trust, the Birmingham Research Institute THIS IS WHO I AM: CREATIVE WRITING Using a range of visual media, Dr for History and Cultures (BRIHC) presents IN RESPONSE TO IDENTITY, HERITAGE Kate Croft and Dr Malcolm Dick from the a day of free activities at Soho House, the AND PLACE University of Birmingham’s Centre for West Handsworth home of the industrialist and Midlands History, explore the ways in which entrepreneur Matthew Boulton from 1766 Free, booking recommended. Book Watt's life, work and significance have been to 1809. represented and provide opportunities BRIHC aims to bring the University online at who-i-am.eventbrite.co.uk for those participating in the event to of Birmingham’s world class research in Dr Joanna Skelt, Teaching Fellow in African understand the man and his times and History and Cultures to the widest possible Studies and Anthropology and Birmingham engage critically with his impact. Harmonograph, © Bobby Bird audience. Uniting researchers from the Poet Laureate 2013-14, explores the links Department of History, the Department of between place, heritage, identity and Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, culture in this creative writing workshop. the Department of African Studies and Joanna will share poems from a new Anthropology and the Ironbridge Institute writing commission exploring identity for Cultural Heritage, BRIHC is committed before and after taking a DNA test and to a mixed and creative approach to discuss research on culture and identity research. birmingham.ac.uk/brihc using writing with migrant communities. Soho House has been beautifully Participants will then have a go at restored and reflects the fashions and writing about their own experience of iden- tastes of the late Georgian period. There’s tity and their imagined and real heritage and the chance to see some of the products connections to place. Everyone welcome of Boulton’s nearby factory, where he including those new to writing! developed the steam engine in partnership with James Watt. Soho House was also a favourite meeting place of the Lunar Society, 13.30 – 15.00 a leading Enlightenment group. Members of the society included Erasmus Darwin, James HARMONOGRAPH: SEEING SOUND Watt and Joseph Priestley who all gathered around the Lunar Room table and engaged Free, no booking recommended. in a lively exchange of ideas which inspired Suitable for all ages. many new discoveries and inventions. Sound artist Bobby Bird demonstrates birminghammuseums.org.uk/soho his hand-built Harmonograph, a scientific Presented by Birmingham Research instrument invented in the Victorian era Institute for History and Cultures in which uses pendulums to visualise the partnership with Birmingham Museums invisible forces of maths and science. Be in- Trust. volved in creating your own harmonograph image, and see how, from the past to the present, the work of scientists and artists have been linked by curiosity, ingenuity and experimentalism. Wellcome Library, London. The Soho Manufactory, near Birmingham. Etching.
Workshops – 48 – – 49 – Workshops WORLDS COLLIDE: PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WITH RESEARCH
"Public engagement describes the myriad of The University of Birmingham is increasingly ways in which the activity and benefits of committed to supporting a culture change higher education and research can be shared so that public engagement is embedded with the public. Engagement is by definition alongside research. a two-way process, involving interaction and With the support of the Research listening, with the goal of generating mutual Councils UK, the Public Engagement with benefit." Research Committee (PERC) has teamed – National Coordination Centre for up with Arts & Science Festival to pilot a Public Engagement (NCCPE) novel workshop and mentoring scheme. The scheme has supported a small cohort of postgraduates to explore their research creatively and to work collectively to devise imaginative public engagement activities related directly to their research.
Sophie Huckfield ELEGANTLY WASTED James Walker IN THE CHEMISTS’ KITCHEN
Wednesday 15 March, 17.15 – 18.15 Join artist and technician Sophie Huckfield Thursday 16 March, 18.30 To many people, ‘chemistry’ conjures stereo- Research & Cultural Collections, for a craft-based workshop exploring Chemical Engineering, Atrium Y11 types of a wild-haired, lab coat-wearing, mad 32 Pritchatts Road G1 sustainability and materials research. Free, booking essential. Book online scientist, or perhaps evokes memories of a £4, booking essential. Book online at Participants are invited to cast objects at chemists-kitchen.eventbrite.co.uk stern teacher and baffling calculations. The including drink coasters and brooches, truth is probably somewhere between the elegantly-wasted.eventbrite.co.uk using engineering waste or ‘swarf’. two, and we’re inviting you to find out what Waste is prevalent in engineering. Due some of our researchers in the Centre for to techniques and processes within produc- Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research actually do. tion, much of the waste material is thrown In this hands-on workshop, keen cook away. Particularly in smaller workshops, and PhD student James Walker invites which do not have the resources of larger participants to explore the parallels companies to recycle. between his mum's hallowed soup recipe In a bid to reduce waste, Sophie has and his research developing nanoparticle been collecting it and experimenting with catalysts for hydrogen fuel cells. reuse and upcycling. Through collage of Please note, participants will be working You are cordially invited to this three materials, Sophie has created beautiful, with chemicals to explore the parallels course lab-based demonstration and work- unique and meaningful uses for waste in between cooking and chemistry. Please shop, which includes ‘molecular mixology’ the form of furniture and objects. bear this in mind when planning for your and opportunity for informal discussion appetite! over digestifs.
Workshops – 50 – – 51 – Workshops Timetable
Event Category Venue Time Price Page Event Category Venue Time Price Page
Monday 13 March Earth and Oceans Workshop Lapworth Museum of Geology 12.00–13.00 Free 43 The Cinema of Science Talk Ikon Gallery, B1 2HS 18.00–19.30 Free 17 13.00–14.00 Ulysses Gaze Screening mac birmingham, B12 9QH 18.00–22.00 £8/£6* 27 Shaping Perceptions of Talk Aston Webb, G33 12.30–13.30 Free 31 Climate Change Bodies Saying Words Event Grand Union, B5 5RS 18.30–19.30 Free 20 Conserving Chamberlain’s Orchids Talk Winterbourne House & Garden 13.00–14.00 Free 32 In the Chemists' Kitchen Workshop Chemical Engineering, Atrium 18.30–20.30 Free 51 The Odyssey Screening mac birmingham, B12 9QH 14.00 £8/£6 26 Birdemic Screening The Electric Cinema, B5 4DY 20.30–22.30 £7/£5 24 The History of the Moon Talk Aston Webb, WG5 17.00–18.00 Free 33 Friday 17 March Alexandro Postels and the Kelps of Talk Muirhead Tower, Cadbury 13.00–13.50 Free 40 PechaKucha Event Cherry Reds, Bham City Centre 18.30–20.30 £5/£3.50 9 Research Library, Chamberlain the North Pacific Seminar Room Tuesday 14 March In Search of Water Workshop Aston Webb, Reception 12.00–13.00 Free 43 Birmingham University Singers Concert Barber Institute of Fine Arts 13.10–14.00 Free 5 Talk Chemical Engineering, LT 124 12.30–13.30 Free 34 Secrets of Trees University Big Band Concert Bramall, Concert Hall 19.30–21.30 £10/£8/ 5 £3 The Colour Blue: Origins and Talk Barber Institute of Fine Arts 13.15–13.45 Free 33 Symbolism Saturday 18 March 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Screening mac birmingham, B12 9QH 14.00–16.20 £8/£6 29
Seaweeds, Deep Time and Talk Lapworth Museum of Geology 14.00–15.00 Free 35 Concert Town Hall, B3 3DQ 19.30–21.30 £15/£10/ 6 The Tree of Life The Creation (Haydn) £5
Great War Centenary Lecture Talk Arts Building, LT 1 17.30–19.00 Free 35 Sunday 19 March Conserving Chamberlain’s Orchids Talk Winterbourne House & Garden 13.00–14.00 Free 32 Dividing Lines: A Brain Science View Talk Barber Institute of Fine Arts 17.30–20.00 Free 36 Journey to the Centre of the Earth Screening mac birmingham, B12 9QH 14.00–15.45 £8/£6 29 of Landscape Art Chamber Choirs and Concert Bramall, Concert Hall 15.00–17.30 £10/£7/ 6 One Minute Movie Results & MA Screening Aston Webb, Main Lecture 18.30–20.30 Free 23 University Camerata £3 Showcase Theatre Concert Bramall, Dome 18.00–19.30 £10/£7/ 7 Between the Devil and the Deep Talk Watson Building, LT A 18.30–20.30 Free 37 BEASTdome: Kelp Road £3 Blue Sea
Exhibition Old Joe Clock Tower, 19.30–21.00 Free 21 Clepsydra Chancellor's Court
Contempt (Le Mepris) Screening mac birmingham, B12 9QH 20.00–22.00 £8/£6* 27
Drowning by Numbers Screening The Mockingbird Cinema and 21.30–23.30 £7/£5 23 Kitchen, B9 4AA Events oveR Multiple days Wednesday 15 March Music Makes Waves Event ERI, Digital Hub 09.30–16.00 Free 18
A Midlands Odyssey: Workshop mac birmingham, B12 9QH 10.30–12.30 £10 45 Event Category Venue Time Price Page Writing Workshop Mon 13 to Fri 17 March Exhibition Bramall Music Building 10.00–18.00 Free 10 Kelp Road Geography Map Collection Workshop School of Geography, Room 311 12.00–13.00 Free 47 daily Mon 13 to Sun 19 March From the Ocean Deep Talk Lapworth Museum of Geology 13.00–14.00 Free 37 Exhibition Winterbourne House & Garden 10.00–16.30 See 13 Fables and Fairytales daily listing O Brother, Where Art Thou? Screening mac birmingham, B12 9QH 14.00–16.00 £8/£6 26 Where Land Meets Sea Exhibition Lapworth Museum of Geology Mon–Fri: Free 12 10.00–17.00 Workshop 32 Pritchatts Road 17.15–18.15 £4 50 Elegantly Wasted Sat–Sun: 12.00–17.00 Expanded Intimacy Event Secret location From 19.00 £20 14 Tues 14 to Fri 17 March Images of Research Exhibition Staff House, Foyer 9.00–20.00 Free 11 Thursday 16 March Time and Place: Art and Writing Workshop Barber Institute of Fine Arts 10.00–13.00 Free 45 Wed 15 to Sat 18 March In Future Forests Exhibition BOM, B5 4EG 12.00–17.00 Free 15 This is Who I am Workshop Soho House, B18 5LB 11.00–13.00 Free 48 Wed 15 to Sun 19 March Jean Painlevé Exhibition Ikon, 1 Oozells Square, 11.00–17.00 Free 17 A Journey Through Deep Time Talk Lapworth Museum of Geology 13.00–14.00 Free 39 Brindleyplace, B1 2HS Fri 17 to Sun 19 March Screening mac birmingham, B12 9QH Fri: 17.30 £8/£6* 28 Talk Bramall, Concert Hall 13.00–14.00 Free 38 Hidden Figures The Nuremberg Chronicle Sat: 17.30 & 20.10 Workshop Soho House, B18 5LB 13.30–15.00 Free 48 Harmonograph Sun: 20.00 Synse/ Non Synse Event ERI, Digital Hub 14.00–16.00 Free 19
What's What with James Watt! Workshop Soho House, B18 5LB 15.00–17.00 Free 49
– 52 – – 53 – LET THE BRAMALL Thursday 27 - How to Credits ENTERTAIN YOU! Saturday 29 April
Arts & Science Festival is developed and BEAST FEaST 2017 find us delivered by the Cultural Engagement team at the University of Birmingham. Figure/Landscape/ The University of Birmingham is located in south-west Birmingham, approximately 3 We would like to thank all involved in the Seascape/Sky miles from the city centre. For maps and planning, promotion and delivery of festival Comedy Classical information about getting to the University events. Special thanks to Laura Milner, Three days of electronic music ranging in scale please visit www.birmingham.ac.uk/maps Rachael Yardley, Ian Grosvenor, Jo Sweet, Hal Cruttenden Sacconi Quartet from the personal to the incomprehensibly huge. Jen Ridding, Jon Clatworthy, Chloe Lund, 16 March, 8.00pm 4 May, 7.30pm Featuring composers Paula Matthusen, P.A. By train Caroline Gillett, Robin Kirkham, Harry We are excited The award-winning, Tremblay, and Sarah Farmer, the Pestova/Rees/ Local trains operated by London Midlands Blackett, Helen Stallard and Liz Bell. to welcome Hal world renowned Roche Trio, and a keynote talk by Simon Emmerson. run from Birmingham New Street to Cruttenden, for a Sacconi Quartet Tickets/details: beast.bham.ac.uk University Station. Check train times at We would also like to thank our festival one-off show. Hal has will perform pieces performed on the including Mozart and londonmidland.com partners: Birmingham Museums Trust, John Bishop Show, Schubert. Birmingham Open Media, The Electric The Royal Variety Parking Cinema, Grand Union, Ikon, mac Performance, Would I Pay and Display Birmingham, Mockingbird Cinema and Lie to You? and Have I North East Car Park, Kitchen, PechaKucha Birmingham, Sampad, Got News For You. 52 Pritchatts Road Shock and Gore, Vivid Projects. Satnav: B15 2SA BOOK YOUR Design: An Endless Supply TICKETS TODAY Blue Badge holders www.thebramall.co.uk Parking is available on campus 0121 414 4414 beyond the security barriers. Contact BEAST FEaST 2017 Ad 105x74.indd 1 16/01/2017 11:24 [email protected] artsandsciencefestival.co.uk facebook.com/CultureUoB ArtsScienceFest ArtsScienceFest @bhamfestivals Cultural Engagement University of Birmingham 32 Pritchatt’s Road Edgbaston, B15 2TT Birmingham is a festival city. From Digbeth arches to world-class concert halls, there’s something for everyone…
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