Challenging Opinions Changing Perspectives
Festival guide
26 Feb - 2 March 2007
DMU Leicester Campus
Box office: (0116) 250 6229
dmu.ac.uk/culturalexchanges cultural eXchanges has now established a national profile as a major arts event for the midlands region, and so I am delighted to introduce the programme for 2007, and I hope you will find the experience rewarding and exciting. Although we are now very well established, cultural eXchanges is still rooted in some of its important founding principles. This is a programme of events that sets out to open the doors of the University to the citizens of welcome Leicester, to facilitate cultural exchanges of all levels and types. Unlike many arts festivals, this is not an exclusive programme set up for the traditional arts establishment, but a programme designed to reflect the diversity and vibrancy of the arts and creative industries in a range of different contexts.
cultural eXchanges is largely run by our talented and professional students who are in the final year of their Arts Management degree course. This experience is most valuable to them as they complete their degrees and go on to work in a fully professional context, and every year they show themselves equal to the task of running a major event. We are very proud of what they, with the help of a dedicated staff team, are able to achieve.
De Montfort University has a major role to play in the fostering of arts and the creative industries in Leicestershire and beyond. We hope you will take this opportunity to come and see artists, professionals and practitioners who are working right across the range, including major writers, artists, performers, academics, political commentators and journalists. The vast majority of the events are free, but it will pay to book early, for you will notice that this year’s programme is full of high profile names and exciting new prospects.
On behalf of the University, I am very pleased to offer a warm welcome to all who wish to attend cultural eXchanges in 2007.
Professor Philip Martin Pro Vice-Chancellor
1 Robert Richardson: French The Art Trail for 2007 cultural Windows eXchanges 10.00am-5.00pm, See Art Trail 2007 on page 13 for 31 January-25 March, details. De Montfort Hall This photography exhibition presents Glass Body – reflecting on images that range from the rural depths becoming transparent of the Vendée and Poitou-Charentes to Performances – Monday 26 Tuesday 27 the glitz and glamour of the Cote d’Azur. February and Thursday 1 March at Above all, these photographs ‘star’ specific times French people: entering the 21st Campus Centre, Black Box Space century in stylish and surprising ways. £4 (£3 conc) Robert Richardson is a Principal Phone Box Office for details: (0116) Lecturer in Communication at DMU. 250 6229 (Advance booking strongly advised). All week events A rare chance to experience this intimate, multimedia performance installation by Anna Furse (Athletes of the Heart) as part of an Arts Council England funded tour of selected UK venues. This award winning work was Oracle originally commissioned by the Chelsea All week and Westminster Hospital and explores Institute of Creative Technology (IOCT) our abiding fascination with what lies Meet Sibyl, DMU's own Oracle. Sibyl, under our skin and the sheer thrill of powered by a god-like artificial becoming transparent. It includes intelligence knows the answer to opportunities for post-show feedback, everything. If you have a question send it reflection and interactivity. to [email protected] or check the cultural eXchanges website for a SMS number. Sibyl will display her answer on the LED above the entrance to the IOCT building. Sibyl has been created by Kate Pullinger (New Media at DMU) and Steve Grand (IOCT Visiting Fellow). Glass Body
2 David Morley: Poetry reading 12.00pm-12.45pm Nick Kent and Aleks Sierz Clephan Building, room 2.35 4.00pm-5.00pm (see afternoon workshop for details)J Clephan Building, room 3.01 Nick Kent, acclaimed artistic director of the Tricycle Theatre and theatre critic Professor Neil Sinyard Aleks Sierz, author of In-yer-face 1.00pm-2.00pm theatre: British Drama Today, discuss Clephan Building, room 3.01 the changing nature of theatre text Professor Neil Sinyard (Hull University) with Alan Drury (DMU). gives a talk entitled ‘Resemblances: some thoughts on Vertigo and Alan Moore in Conversation intertextuality, and the anxieties of adaptation’. Chairs: Professor Imelda with Iain Sinclair Whelehan and Dr Deborah Cartmell 5.00pm-6.00pm (DMU). Clephan Building, room 3.03 Alan Moore is the creator of some of Fluxus Performance the most legendary comic books of our times, and has played an important role 2.00pm-3.30pm in the genre’s elevation in status to Campus conference centre that of ‘graphic novel.’ He is also a See Art Trail 2007 on page 13 for
Monday 26 februaryMonday novelist. In this rare public appearance, details. the author of V for Vendetta, The Watchmen and the Promethea series David Morley: Poetry talks with fellow novelist Iain Sinclair workshop about the significance of place, and 3.00pm-4.00pm their mutual interest in London Gothic. Clephan Building, room 2.35 Using traditional and experimental Art Auction approaches the multi-award winning 7.00pm-9.00pm poet David Morley leads a workshop Campus Centre suitable for all levels of ability. Author See Art Trail 2007 on page 13 for of The Cambridge Introduction to details. Creative Writing David directs the Writing Programme at Warwick University and writes about poetry for V for Vendetta, Alan Moore The Guardian and Poetry Review. (Booking advisable).
3 Slash 2: The 2nd DMU Karen Ross: Framed – women Sound Bites Fanfiction Study Day politicians and the newsboys 12.00pm-1.00pm 10.00am-6.00pm 12.00pm-1.00pm Campus Centre Clephan Building, room 1.16 Clephan Building, room 3.03 cultural eXchanges offers local Slash 2 offers another slash-friendly This talk argues that despite the role talented musicians from diverse genres forum on the most exciting which women now play in political life, a platform to showcase their work. developments in fanfic. The focus will news media seem stuck in an old be on slash fiction, a category of fan groove which continues to frame them Professor Greg Walker stories, almost exclusively by women, merely as gendered objects of sartorial, 1.00pm-2.00pm about homoerotic affairs between male domestic and personal interest. Karen Clephan Building, room 3.01 characters in popular films and TV Ross is Professor of Mass Professor Greg Walker (Leicester series. Sheenagh Pugh, the Communication at Coventry University University) gives a talk entitled ‘Comic distinguished poet and author, returns and is the author of several books males from Chaucer to Shakespeare as a keynote speaker. including Women, Politics, Media: (and Ronnie Corbett)’. Chairs: Attendance fee (payable on the day): Uneasy Relations in Comparative Professor Imelda Whelehan and Dr £20/£12 concessions, including lunch Perspective. Deborah Cartmell (DMU). and coffee. Please contact Ian Hunter at [email protected] to reserve a Sally Ruane place. 2.00pm-3.00pm Clephan Building, room 0.01 Dr Ruane (DMU) is an active local Tuesday 27 februaryTuesday health campaigner and advisor to the House of Commons Health Select Committee. Her research interests centre upon public private partnerships in health and in her talk she will address some of the cultural considerations of current policy reform within the health sector.
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4 Claire Tomalin: Thomas Hardy Defiance of Tyranny in the War on 3.00pm-4.00pm Terror. Clephan Building, room 3.01 ‘This important, and courageous, book...is Claire Tomalin is considered to be one a clarion call to all those who care about of the foremost biographers of our democracy and human rights.’ Tribune. generation. She is the author of The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, Daljit Nagra which won the Whitbread First Book 6.00pm-7.00pm Prize for 1974 as well as numerous Clephan Building, room 3.01 other books including the highly Daljit Nagra reads from his much acclaimed Jane Austen: A Life, and best awaited debut poetry collection, Look seller The Unequalled Self: Samuel We Have Coming to Dover! His poetry Pepys. Her most recent book is Thomas explores the idealism and reality of a Hardy: The Time-torn Man, on which her multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence talk will be based. and no small sense of mischief. The title poem won the Forward Prize for Best Tony Breslin Individual Poem in 2004. 4.00pm-5.00pm Clephan Building, room 0.01 John Martin: Book Launch Tony Breslin is Chief Executive of the 6.00pm-6.30pm Citizenship Foundation. In his talk he will Clephan Building, room 1.18 Tuesday 27 februaryTuesday argue for the necessity of citizenship This event marks the launch of The education and will suggest that the Frontline of Freedom edited by DMU’s approaches the successful ‘citizenship- John Martin. The book is a collection of rich’ schools are using offer us a essays discussing various topics relating glimpse of the future of schooling itself. to British farming in the Second World He is the co-editor with Barry Dufour War. (DMU) of the widely praised recent book, Developing Citizens.
Craig Murray 5.00pm-6.00pm Clephan Building, room 3.03 Craig Murray, former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan, will discuss his powerful and Craig Murray controversial book Murder in Samarkand – A British Ambassador’s Controversial
5 Arts Council England Debate: Question Time–Sport or art – will 2012 mean we have to choose?’ 7.00pm-8.30pm Clephan Building, room 2.13 Will the London Olympics provide a worldwide platform for the arts or will arts funding be reduced in favour of sport?
Hosted by Arts Council England, the panel are; Jude Kelly, (Artistic Director of the South Bank Centre and chair of culture and education at London 2012), Professor Philip Martin, (Pro-Vice Chancellor DMU), Mike Bettison, (Managing Editor BBC Radio Nottingham), David Fine, (Ashes tour poet in residence), Kully Thiarai, (Artistic Director, Leicester Haymarket Theatre) and Jeff Moore (Chief Executive, EMDA). Chairing will be François Matarasso, (chair of Arts Council England, East Midlands).
Questions to the panel with name and contact details to [email protected] by 16 February 2007.
6 Buddhist Discussion rebellion while Simone Weil remains 12.00pm-1.00pm relatively obscure. This lecture Clephan Building, room 2.32 examines the legacy of these two Spirituality, Drama and Social political activists who, despite the Transformation: Dharmavidya in existence of significant differences, Dialogue. Dharmavidya is an author, emerge as heretics within the leftist psychodramatist and head of the tradition. Dr Stuart Price (DMU) is Engaged Buddhist order based near the author of Discourse Power Leicester. He offers here a brief Address. participatory workshop exploring our thoughts and feelings about war, peace, oppression, and liberation, in the context of personal spiritual awareness.
Professor Jonathan Bate: 21st Century Shakespeare 1.00pm-2.00pm Clephan Building, room 3.01 Stuart Price Distinguished Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate reflects on the state of Dr Victoria Door: John the Bard in the new millennium. From Dewey and F.M. Alexander: the RSC's Complete Works Season to Ends and Consequences a new edition that is about to appear, 2.00pm-3.00pm with film, radio and television versions
Wednesday 28 februaryWednesday Clephan Building, room 0.01 all pending, Shakespeare seems more This talk explores the relationship alive than ever before. What is between eminent philosopher John distinctive about our approach to him? Dewey’s experience in the Alexander Technique and the development of his Stuart Price: From Simone concept of ends and means, which Weil to Che Guevara: Gender, forms a cornerstone of his philosophy. Revolution and Morality Dr Victoria Door is a lecturer in 2.00pm-3.00pm, Clephan Building, Education at Keele University and has room 3.03 been both a teacher and trainer of Che Guevara has been used to teachers of the Alexander Technique for many years. Buddhist discussion symbolize the irrepressible impulse of
7 John Etheridge Talk Louis De Bernières 3.00pm-4.00pm 4:30pm-5.30pm Trinity House Chapel Clephan Building, room 2.13 As well as being a masterful jazz cultural eXchanges is delighted to present guitar-player, John Etheridge is a Louis De Bernières. His best known wonderfully entertaining and eloquent novel, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is a speaker. His anecdotes about his years worldwide bestseller and has been with Soft Machine and (especially) his adapted to film and stage as well as work with Stephane Grappelli expose translated in over 30 languages. Louis will with great humour the pleasures and talk about his work and read from his ennuis of the jazz life. novels including his most recent work, Birds Without Wings. Dirty Pyjamas! 4.00pm-5.00pm Campus Centre, Black Space Dirty Pyjamas is the new theatre company founded by 8 DMU students. The company has now created a new and exciting piece which will raise the question of what theatre is, what theatre can be and how theatre can educate.
Hardeep Singh Kholi The Future of Language 4.00pm-6.00pm Debate: ‘What is the future of Institute of Creative Technology (IOCT) multiculturalism?’ New technologies have had a major 5.00pm-6.00pm influence on the way we communicate Clephan Building, room 3.01 today. Are emails, instant messages and Recent events and statements have mobile text messages degrading the called into question the validity of language? This question surfaces in multiculturalism. This debate brings discussions among academics, as well as together a panel of leading figures to among parents and their children. The discuss the issue: Claire Fox (Head of panelists include: Kate Pullinger, Jess Institute of Ideas), Darcus Howe Laccetti and Simon Perril (DMU), Hugo (Journalist and social commentator) and Worthy (City Gallery) and Nadine Hardeep Singh Kholi (Comedian). Fleischer (Editor of Wordrobe). Louis de Bernières
8 Distinguished Lecture Series John Etheridge Solo 2007: Rachel Lomax, Deputy Performance Governor, Bank of England 8.00pm-9.30pm 6.00pm, Trinity House Chapel Queens Building, room 1.10 Tickets: £7/ £3 NUS To coincide with the University’s cultural John Etheridge’s career has included eXchanges programme, Rachel Lomax, membership of Soft Machine, work Deputy Governor of the Bank of with Stephane Grappelli and John England, will be delivering a lecture on Williams, and his own band the campus. Places are limited and should Zappatistas. For many his most exciting be booked in advance via The Events work is as a solo guitarist – ‘Few of his Office, Press and PR Department on peers handle an electric instrument (0116) 257 7164 or email: with such delicacy. He combines a [email protected]. jazzman’s sophistication with a folksy More information about the 2007 sense of drama. Distinguished Lecture Series can be found on dmu.ac.uk/events.
University Dance Company: Exit Strategy 7:30pm-8.45pm Campus Centre, Dance Studio Tickets: £4.50 (£3.50 concs)
Wednesday 28 februaryWednesday For the second year in the company’s history, the full evening’s programme titled Exit Strategy is choreographed, performed and managed by final year dance students in collaboration with music technology students. This year’s company performs a diverse range of dance works which have been created especially for this programme.
John Etheridge
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10 Soundbites Hollywood and the Culture 12.00pm-1.00pm Wars Campus Centre 12.30pm-5.30pm cultural eXchanges offers local talented Clephan Building, room 1.16 musicians from diverse genres a Are Hollywood movies an amoral, platform to showcase their work. irreligious force? Are the news channels now spreading liberal, or even Excavate conservative, propaganda to an 12.00pm-1.15.pm otherwise unwitting population? Is Campus Centre Black Space America under Bush really as divided Excavate is a performance that was as we have been led to believe? This created in a collaboration between the seminar brings together a number of Leicester Theatre Trust and DMU. speakers to explore these and other Inspired by stories that may otherwise questions. lay buried the cast have bravely explored their pasts to gain a deeper Godfrey Hodgson: All the understanding of where they have come President’s Men from. 1.00pm-5.30pm
Thursday 1 march Phoenix Arts Centre Roshini Kempadoo The Washington Post's Watergate 12.30pm-1.30pm investigation brought down President Clephan Building, room 3.03 Richard Nixon and was immortalised in Roshini Kempadoo is a digital artist of the book All the President's Men. DMU international repute and has exhibited presents a screening of the seminal in major galleries around the world. Her film based on this book, to be followed talk will examine issues of identity, by a panel discussion featuring special gender and postcolonial discourse guest Godfrey Hodgson, a leading through her innovative media practice. British US correspondent and Philip Davies (DMU). Professor Scott McCracken 1.00pm-2.00pm Theatre and Performance Clephan Building, room 3.01 Professor Scott McCracken (Keele Practice: Women in writing for University) gives a talk entitled the stage ‘Modernism and the moment of defeat’. 2.00pm-3.30pm Paul Dufour Chairs: Professor Imelda Whelehan and Clephan Building, room 0.01 Dr Deborah Cartmell (DMU). This discussion will focus on 11 contemporary approaches to writing and his experience from the early days of the staging the maternal. Panelists include band. This is the inside story of life with Lars Tharp: ‘The China Trail’ Anna Furse (Director, Athletes of the Pete Doherty, Carl Barat, and John 6.00pm-7.00pm Heart), Kaite O’Reilly (Writer, Graeae Hassall including the good times and the Clephan Building, room 2.13 collaborator), and Michelene Wandor bad times. Some rare recordings will be Lars is a well-known Ceramics historian, (playwright and critic). The event played. specializing in the East-West China trade. concludes with the launch of panel While running his own company he also member Jozefina Komporaly’s (DMU) The Peter Davison Lecture: lectures and broadcasts worldwide, book Staging Motherhood: British ‘Textual Scholarship: Past notably on the BBC’s Antiques Women Playwrights, 1955 to the present. indefinite to future perfect’ Roadshow which he joined over 20 years Chair is Professor Imelda Whelehan ago while a director and auctioneer at 4.00pm-5.15pm (DMU). Sothebys. His talk takes us into China’s Clephan Building, room 3.01 Jiangxi province, to its fabled porcelain Peter Davison, OBE, has been preparing New Media Centre Discussion capital Jingdezhen, down rivers, over scholarly editions for over 50 years. 3.00pm-4.00pm lakes and mountain passes to Guangzhou These include the 20 volume complete Clephan Building, room 3.03 (Canton) from where China’s luxury works of George Orwell, several journals, The new technologies have changed goods began the perilous journey by manuscripts, scholarly collections and society, culture and art. Social networking, open sea to Europe. And what happened Elizabethan plays. In his lecture on textual download culture, internet broadcasting when they arrived. scholarship he will survey his experience and the rest mean that cultural products of scholarly editing and discuss and and experiences are more diverse and illustrate some of the obstacles faced by Mark Gwynne-Jones diffuse than ever before. Where, then, to editors. 7.00pm-8.30pm house this culture? The panel features Trinity House Andrew Chetty (The Public), David Artist’s Talk: ‘Island of Treasures’ An engaging and energetic performer, Wortley (Coventry University), Graham Mark Gwynne-Jones has presented his 4.00pm-5.00pm Elston (Low Brow Trash), Professor Sue work on platforms throughout Britain and Clephan building, room 0.01 Thomas and Chair Professor Andrew abroad. His twists and turns of narrative Hugill (DMU). Artists John Lancaster (UK) and Satta make him a favourite in venues where Hashem (Iraq) talk about their most poets can only dream of surviving, Paul Dufour: Life inside the contemporary exhibition of paintings let alone subduing the crowd to an Libertines that draws on influences from early attentive hush. 4.00pm-5.00pm medieval Arabic and Islamic culture. Clephan Building, room 2.13 (See Art Trail 2007 on page 13 for University Dance Company: Exit Paul Dufour, aka ‘Mr Razzcocks’ was the details of the exhibition and other Strategy related events). original drummer with the famous band 7:30pm-8.45pm The Libertines and he will give a talk on Campus Centre, Dance Studio
12 Art Trail 2007 The Leicester Pageant Art Trail 2007 is a series of exhibitions Exhibition highlighting the DMU Art Collection. Kimberlin Library In its second year Art Trail 2007 will The original costume designs from the feature events, talks, exhibitions and the Leicester 1932 Pageant. These images annual fine art auction. were produced by the students from Leicester School of Art and many of Masters of the East them can be seen in the photographs 26 February 2.00pm-5.00pm from the pageant. 27 February 9.00am-12.00pm 1 March 12.00pm-5.00pm Bridget Riley 2nd March 2.00pm-5.00pm Kimberlin Library Trinity House Gallery The newly refurbished Kimberlin Library This exhibition in Trinity House Gallery and DMU are proud to unveil the new Art 2007 Trail is the first showing of the De Montfort hanging of By Night, Bridget Riley. University Collection of 18th and 19th Opening every day through out cultural Century Japanese woodcuts. eXchanges week. This fine collection of images includes Further details of all exhibitions are works by some of the finest Japanese’s available in the exhibition spaces. artists of the day, including the famous Great Wave from the views of Mount Fuji Series. Events Fluxus Collaborative Fluxus Collection 26 February, 2.00pm-3.30pm, Clephan Galleries Campus Conference Centre This series of exhibitions consists of This event will connect differing aspects key works from the permanent of the Faculty of Humanities through collection representing new acquisitions the Fluxus art works by Philip Corner including work Philip Corner, Gustav and Gustav Morgan. The event will Morgan Eugene Gomringer, Robert include happenings and performances Watts, Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins, from Theatre and Music Technology. Henry Chopin and Robert Lax. The Presenting aspects of Fluxus from the work will be hung in association with different perspectives of creative the collaborative event (see under thinking and contextualise the Events for further details) and will university’s important collection. remain on view throughout the cultural eXchanges week.
13 Fine Art Auction Art Trail 2007 is also proud to support Friday 2 March, 4.00pm 26 February, 7.00pm the following events: Shree Jalaram Community Centre Campus Centre Poetry reading by Awad Nasir in Arabic An opportunity to purchase original Art Exhibition, ‘Island of and English works of art from the new generation of Treasures’: John Lancaster artists. The auction, the fund-raising for (DMU) and Satta Hashem Exhibition: Robert Richardson: the degree show, is being held for the 26 February-9 March, 10.00am- French Windows second year in conjunction with cultural 6.00pm, Shree Jalaram Community 31 January-25 March, 10.00am-5.00pm eXchanges. Centre, Narborough Road De Montfort Hall A collaborative project based around a See main brochure for details Dot and the Leicester Pageant contemporary exhibition of paintings 2 March, 3.00pm-5.00pm that draws on influences from early Thanks Clephan Building, room 3.03 medieval Arabic and Islamic culture. The Particular thanks go to all the students Combining a panel discussion, work is presented to celebrate and from the Heritage Industries module of performance by Dot and an exhibition reflect the positive influence of art, the Arts Management degree, who have of art works and archives this event poetry and architecture from the Islamic researched, hung, written, designed and looks at the 1932 Leicester pageant. world. produced Art Trail 2007. The exhibition draws primarily from the archives held at De Montfort University, Events are as follows: The Art trail co-ordinator, Kate Whirrity, including the original costume designs Monday 26 February, 4.00pm Juliet Dale and the third year Fine Art and production, scenes from the Shree Jalaram Community Centre students, Jim Popple, Maurice Maguire, pageant and even the Pageant Song! Poetry reading by Abdulkareem Kased the Arts Management staff, Kathryn in Arabic and English at exhibition Arnold, Linda Butt, Scholarest Catering, Lars Tharp: ‘The China Trail’ venue the estates department, Judy Simons, 1March, 6.00pm-7.00pm Philip Martin and Tim O’Sullivan who Clephan Building, room 2.13 Thursday 1 March, 4.00pm-5.00pm have all provided whole hearted and See main brochure for details Clephan Building, room 0.01 unreserved support. Artists talk by John Lancaster and Satta Hashem. Finally I would also like to thank See main brochure for details. Francesco Conz for his continuing support of the art at De Montfort, the Friday 2 March, 3.00pm foresight and legacy of Nicholas Shree Jalaram Community Centre Zurburgg. Private view and official opening of exhibition by Patricia Hewitt MP
14 Alan Yentob Andy Hamilton 1.00pm-2.00pm 4.00pm-5.00pm Clephan Building, room 3.03 Clephan Building, room 0.01 Alan Yentob has worked as the director Andy Hamilton is the writer of of television as well as controller of legendary TV comedies such as ‘Not BBC One and BBC Two. In 2004 he the 9 O’clock News’ and ‘Drop the was appointed the BBC’s creative Dead Donkey’ He is also a regular director. During this time he became panelist on game shows such as ‘Have the host of BBC One’s new arts strand I Got News for You’. He will be in ‘Imagine’ after he wrote and presented conversation with Chris Walker (DMU) a documentary on Leonardo Da Vinci. about the art of writing political satire. He will answer questions from the audience on art and culture, referring University Dance Company: to his many celebrated TV series. Exit Strategy 6.00pm-7.15pm Friday 2 march Friday Jean-Nicol Chelmiah Campus Centre, Dance Studio 2.00pm-3.00pm Tickets: £4.50 (£3.50 concs) Clephan Building, room 3.01 Jean Nicol-Chelmiah has many years Performance: Mira experience in the record industry as a musician, record producer and Calix/Alexander’s Annexe manager, working alongside artists 7.30pm-8.30pm such as Faithless and managing the Campus Conference Centre band Kubb. Here he talks about the Tickets : £4.00 (£2 concs) music business, in particular the Kubb Alexander’s Annexe was formed when campaign. As a cultural eXchanges three artists, Mira Calix (Warp Records), exclusive he also presents a live David Sheppard (London Sinfonietta) acoustic set from a new act. Not to be and concert pianist Sarah Nicolls came missed. together to fuse traditional instruments with electronics. They are each highly Dot investigates: The case of acclaimed musicians in their own right having worked with world renowned the missing pageant composers such as Reich and Berio. 3.00pm-5.00pm Here they perform ‘Push Door to Exit’, Clephan building, room 3.03 released in 2006 on Warp records, See Art Trail 2007 on page 13 for along with other new works. Alan Yentob details.
15 Party: Bambu 9.00pm-6.00am Welford Road Tickets £3/£2.50(adv) Come and party at Bambu – one of Leicester's best kept secrets with top local DJ's playing the best in house classics, breaks and drum n bass. (Limited availability).
Mira Calix/Alexander’s Annexe
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Monday 26 February Robert Richardson exhibition De Montfort Hall All day Diary Oracle IOCT All day David Morley: Poetry reading Clephan Building, room 2.35 12.00pm-12.45pm Professor Neil Sinyard Clephan Building, room 3.01 1.00pm-2.00pm Fluxus Campus Conference Centre 2.00pm-3.30pm David Morley: Poetry workshop Clephan Building, room 2.35 3.00pm-4.00pm Nick Kent/Alex Sierz Clephan Building, room 3.01 4.00pm-5.00pm Alan Moore/Iain Sinclair Clephan Building, room 3.03 5.00pm-6.00pm Glass Body Campus Centre, Black Box 7.00pm-8.00pm Art Auction Campus Centre 7.00pm-9.00pm
Tuesday 27th February Robert Richardson exhibition De Montfort Hall All day Oracle IOCT All day Glass Body Campus Centre, Black Box 1.00pm, 3.30pm and 6.00pm Slash 2 Clephan Building, room 1.16 10.00am-6.00pm Karen Ross Clephan Building, room 3.03 12.00pm-1.00pm Sound Bites Campus Centre 12.00pm-1.00pm Professor Greg Walker Clephan Building, room 3.01 1.00pm-2.00pm Sally Ruane Clephan Building, room 0.01 2.00pm-3.00pm Claire Tomalin Clephan Building, room 3.01 3.00pm-4.00pm Tony Breslin Clephan Building, room 0.01 4.00pm-5.00pm Craig Murray Clephan Building, room 3.03 5.00pm-6.00pm Daljit Nagra Clephan Building, room 3.01 6.00pm-7.00pm John Martin: Book Launch Clephan Building, room 1.18 6.00pm-6.30pm
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Arts Council England Debate Clephan Building, room 2.13 7.00pm-8.30pm
Wednesday 28th February Robert Richardson exhibition De Montfort Hall All day Oracle IOCT 12.00pm-1.00pm Buddhist discussion Clephan Building, room 2.32 12.00pm-1.00pm Jonathan Bate Clephan Building, room 3.01 1.00pm-2.00pm Stuart Price Clephan Building, room 3.03 2.00pm-3.00pm Victoria Door Clephan Building, room 0.01 2.00pm-3.00pm John Etheridge: Jazz workshop Trinity House Chapel 3.00pm-4.00pm Future of Language IOCT 4.00pm-6.00pm Dirty Pyjamas Campus Centre Black Space 4.00pm-5.00pm Louis De Bernieres Clephan Building, room 2.13 4:30pm-5.30 Multicultural Debate: Darcus Howe, Clephan Building, room 3.01 5.00pm-6.00pm H Kholi, C. Fox Rachel Lomax Queens Building, room 1.10 6.00pm University Dance Company Campus Dance Studio 7:30pm-8.45 Jazz: John Etheridge Trinity House Chapel 8.00pm-9.30
Thursday 1st March Robert Richardson exhibition De Montfort Hall All day Oracle IOCT All day Sound Bites Campus Centre 12.00pm-1.00pm Excavate Campus Centre, Black Space 12.00pm-1.00pm Roshini Kempadoo Clephan Building, room 3.03 12:30pm-1.30pm
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Culture Wars Clephan Building, room 1.16 12.30pm-5.30pm Godfrey Hodgson Phoenix Arts Centre 1.00pm-5.30pm Diary Professor Scott McCracken Clephan Building, room 3.01 1.00pm-2.00pm Theatre and performance practice Clephan Building, room 0.01 2.00pm-3.30pm NMC discussion Clephan Building, room 3.03 3.00pm-4.00pm Paul Dufour/Libertines Clephan Building, room 2.13 4.00pm-5.00pm John Lancaster/Satta Hashem Clephan Building, room 0.01 4.00pm-5.00pm Peter Davison Lecture Clephan Building, room 3.01 4.00pm-5.15pm Glass Body Campus Centre, Black Box 5.00pm and 8.00pm Lars Tharp Clephan Building, room 2.13 6.00pm-7.00pm Mark Gwynne-Jones Trinity House Chapel 7.00pm-8.30pm University Dance Company Campus Dance Studio 7:30pm-8.45 pm
Friday 2nd March Robert Richardson exhibition De Montfort Hall All day Oracle IOCT All day Alan Yentob Clephan Building, room 3.03 1.00pm-2.00pm Jean-Nicol Chelmiah Clephan Building, room 3.01 2.00pm-3.00pm Dot Clephan Building, room 3.03 3.00pm-5.00pm Andy Hamilton Clephan Building, room 0.01 4.00pm-5.00pm University Dance Company Campus Dance Studio 6.00pm-7.15pm Mira Calix Campus Conference Centre 7.30pm-8.30pm Party Sumo 9.00pm-late
19 Booking Booking It is expected that there will be a high level of interest in the programme. Although most of the events are free, the only way to ensure a place is to book in advance. To do so, please ring (0116) 250 6229 (cultural eXchanges Student Marketing Team) leaving a note of your name, address, a contact telephone number, the event you wish to attend and the number of places required.
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20 Acknowledgement Special thanks to: Cultural eXchanges is in its sixth year, The Marketing Team – Holly Appleton, and is funded by De Montfort Beth Dunant, Kristle Harrison, Kelly University to promote a closer Jordan, Kate Whirrity, Lauren Yates relationship between the University and the city of Leicester. It is The Administration Team – Molly co-coordinated by staff and students Foster, Frankie Holah, Abi Hoskyn, from the Events Management module Natasha Seeney, Hannah Sturman of the Arts Management degree course. Under the supervision of the The Operations Team – Naomi teaching team, the students engage in Blanche, Juliet Dale, Sam Hawes, Antje an intensive planning process, Hildebrandt, Heather Medlock, Katie administer and market the festival, and Smyth undertake the practical running of events. Without their hard work and Festival Director – Tony Graves commitment, cultural eXchanges would not be possible. Project Managers – Jane Longthorn, Jasmine Smith Thank you to: Professor Judy Simons, Arts Management staff – Emma Watts, acknowlegdements Professor Philip Martin, Professor Tim O’Sullivan, Franco Bianchini, Helen Maurice Maguire, Cara MacMahon and Wilson, Sandra Henry, Louise Smith, Chris Maughan. Jim Popple, Carole Weeks, Rebecca Hampson, David Alder, Jo Crozier, Kathy Bell, Nikki Slawson, Heather Conboy, Jane Dowson, Stewards, Timetabling staff, AV Services, Phil Riley, Melissa Bellis, Jade Cerff, Jo Hart and the Faculty of Humanities’ Promotion and Recruitment Department and our colleagues in the Faculty of Humanities.
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