25-29 February 2008

festival guide

Box Office T: (0116) 250 6229 W: dmu.ac.uk/culturalexchanges cultural eXchanges is now established as a significant event on the Leicestershire cultural calendar, and it gives me great pleasure to introduce the programme for 2008. When it was launched in 2000 as welcome Clephan Events Week, the festival included 22 events and attracted just 500 visitors. Now, the festival has grown to encompass more than 50 events and we expect around 4000 visitors this year.

cultural eXchanges has retained its important founding principles; it is a festival for Leicester and the surrounding area, which represents and engages with the nature of our interests in the Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University. The programme encompasses performances, panel sessions and presentations from leading figures in the arts and humanities nationally as well as rising stars and our own academic staff.

One of the things that makes cultural eXchanges unique is that it is set up and run by our talented third year Arts Management students, with guidance from the Arts Management team. The students thus gain valuable experience during their degree which they will take into their careers after graduation. Every year they rise to the occasion and offer a fantastic selection of events.

As in previous years, most of the events are free, which represents our desire to maintain a strong connection with both the student body and the wider city community. However, it pays to book early, as the programme is full of high profile names and exciting new ones.

De Montfort University continues to play a major role in the creative industries in Leicester and the surrounding region. On behalf of the university, I am very pleased to extend a warm welcome to everyone who wishes to attend cultural eXchanges in 2008.

Professor Heidi Macpherson Dean, Faculty of Humanities

2 Slash 3: The Final Cut Sound Bites The third and last DMU 2.00-5.00pm Fanfiction study day Campus Centre, Level 1 cultural eXchanges offers talented local 10.00am-6.00pm musicians from diverse genres a Clephan Building, room 3.01 platform to showcase their work. With Slash 3, De Montfort University once again offers a slash-friendly forum for discussion of the most exciting Linton Kwesi Johnson and Jean developments in fan fiction. The main Binta Breeze focus will be on slash fiction, a category 3.00-4.00pm of fan stories, almost exclusively by Clephan Building, room 0.01 women, about homoerotic affairs cultural eXchanges welcomes two iconic Slash 3 between male characters in popular figures from the world of contemporary films and TV series. But there are also poetry. LK Johnson is widely talks on vidding, You Tube mashups and acknowledged to have introduced dub Japanese fandom. All are welcome to poetry to UK audiences. His recordings participate. The attendance fee is are amongst the top-selling reggae £20/£12 concessions, payable on the albums in the world and he is known day, and includes coffee and lunch. and revered as the world's first reggae Please contact Ian Hunter at poet. Jean Binta Breeze was the first [email protected] woman to breach this traditionally 25 februaryMonday to reserve a place. masculine genre and is internationally Festivals and environmental renowned as a poet and performer. sustainability Here, they will be discussing their Jean Binta 1.00-2.00pm creative and political experiences with Breeze Clephan Building, room 0.03 Shirley Burgess (DMU). Climate change is one of the biggest challenges in the world today. Paul Fleming, Professor of Energy Management at De Montfort University, will describe how festival-goers can be engaged in the science and engineering of moving towards a low carbon economy whilst having fun at festivals such as Glastonbury and Leicester's Summer Sundae. Linton Kwesi Johnson

3 John Young Concert Sir Christopher Frayling 4.00-5.00pm ‘Slaying the Sixth Giant’ PACE Building Studio 1 6.00-7.00pm Ricordiamo Forlì Clephan, room 3.03 The true story of love between an 8th This talk will be about the original Army soldier and an Italian woman who foundation of the Arts Council some met in 1944 near Forlì in Central Italy sixty years ago and the dreams and is told in this award winning aspirations of the founders. The lecture soundscape-documentary by DMU will aim to stimulate discussion about Reader John Young. In a surround the nature and purposes of public arts sound ‘cinema for the ear’ experience, funding – and about whether the Arts the work mixes electro-acoustic music, Council has achieved, and whether it oral history and original BBC war continues to achieve, its original aims. correspondent reports to relate an Sir Christopher is Chairman of Arts intimate story set amidst the brutality of Council England and Rector of the Italy in the last years of the Second Royal College of Art. World War. Short Story Writing Taster Ben Okri ‘In Conversation’ 6.00-9.00pm 5.30-6.30pm Clephan Building, room 2.29 Clephan Building, room 2.13 This free writing workshop, led by Tickets £4 (£2 concs) writer-tutor Bead Roberts under the 25 februaryMonday Internationally acclaimed author Ben auspices of Writing School Leicester, is Okri spent his teenage years in war-torn specially designed for those who are Nigeria before returning to England to new to Writing School Leicester study; his experiences of civil war are courses. By the end of the session, reflected in his early writing. The author participants should have the of Flowers and Shadows, The confidence to attempt a story of their Famished Road (for which he won the own and perhaps book a longer course Booker Prize in 1991) and the recently in the writing school. Maximum 16 published Starbook will be discussing participants. Advance booking required his work and reflecting on the African via writingschoolleicester.co.uk literary tradition with Alistair Niven, former Director of Literature at the Art Auction British Council. 7.00-9.00pm Campus Centre An opportunity to purchase original works Ben Okri of art from the new generation of artists.

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3 . 0 3 Katharine Whitehorn Katharine 5 Mark Clayden Tom Leonard 4.00-5.00pm 5.00-6.00pm Clephan Building, room 3.03 Clephan Building, room 0.01 Tom Leonard ranks as one of our finest Founding member and bass player of contemporary writers and is best known cult band Pitchshifter, Mark has toured for the distinctive voice of his poetry, written in the urban Glaswegian dialect. with artists such as Black Sabbath and Often controversial, always honest and Ozzy Osbourne, created his own record fiercely motivated by social injustice, this label and tour managed groups and innovative, polemical writer will be singers such as Sisters of Mercy and performing a selection of poetry and prose Roland Gift (Fine Young Cannibals). from his considerable volume of work. Here he discusses his experiences with Alastair Gordon (DMU) and provides an Question Time invaluable insight into how to make it in Culture – a catalyst for change? the music industry. 6.30-8.00pm Clephan Building, room 2.13 What opportunities does cultural investment Terry Wrigley offer in the region – and what impact 4.00-5.00pm could this have on communities? As Clephan Building, room 3.01 Leicester’s new Performing Arts Centre Terry Wrigley is an educationalist and nears completion, and a new cultural Senior Lecturer at the University of quarter emerges in the city, come and Edinburgh. His work spans and pose your questions to a panel of guests. Hosted by Arts Council England and 26 februaryTuesday connects diverse fields of interest: Leicester Theatre Trust the panel includes school development, pedagogy, Councillor Ross Wilmott, leader of curriculum studies and social justice. He Leicester City Council; Peter Knott, also edits the journal Improving Schools. Director of Arts and Development, Arts With both the social and transmitting Council England, East Midlands; and knowledge roles of education under the Ruth Eastwood, Chief Executive, Leicester microscope, this timely lecture will Theatre Trust. Chairing the event is Matt introduce ideas from his latest book Youdale, Arts and Education Another School is Possible. Correspondent, BBC Television in the East Midlands. Questions to the panel with name and contact details to Lol Coxhill [email protected] 5.15-6.15pm by 15 February 2008. Trinity House Chapel A talk by this much feted saxophonist Mark Clayden offers an insight into his life as a supreme jazz musician.

6 Jonathan Burrows Performance Speaking Dance 7.00-7.50pm PACE Building Studio 1 £6 (Concs £3) A performance by leading contemporary dancer and former Royal Ballet soloist Jonathan Burrows of the critically acclaimed piece ‘Speaking Dance’. He will be joined in the performance by composer Matteo Fargion, with whom he has gained an international reputation for the intelligence, humour and musicality of their shows. “Captivating, inscrutable, dazzling” The Daily Telegraph

Lol Coxhill Concert 8.00-9.30pm Trinity House Chapel, Newarke St. £7 (£5 NUS/ University members) 26 februaryTuesday Soprano saxophonist Lol Coxhill is often described as a maverick, and profiles often mention his sense of humour. The twists and turns of his saxophone playing may bring a smile to the face of the listener, but make no mistake, the music of Lol Coxhill is serious – as serious as your life. Listen to his CD: 3 Blokes, to hear Lol holding his own in the fast company of Steve Lacy and Evan Parker. “A true national treasure and a top geezer.” John Lewis, Time Out Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion

7 Future of Adaptation Studies Grayson Perry and Lars Tharp: 10.00-11.00am In Conversation Clephan Building, room 1.19 1.00-2.00pm De Montfort University has become a Clephan Building, room 2.13 well known centre of Adaptation When Grayson Perry won the 2003 Studies. Staff have organised Turner Prize, the first time a potter has conferences in Leicester, Atlanta, New participated, let alone won this York, and Amsterdam. The event prestigious UK prize he commented consists of a round table discussion on “It’s about time a transvestite potter the future of adaptation studies and won the Turner!” Lars Tharp, the well- what kind of articles will feature in our known Ceramics historian and new journal Adaptation (ed, Deborah broadcaster from the BBC’s Antiques Cartmell and Imelda Whelehan). Roadshow, converses with Perry in a lively and illustrated discussion on a David and Caroline Brazier wide range of cultural issues, including Writing about Spirituality in a crossing boundaries between craft and art, class and gender, old and new. Secular Age 12.00-1.00pm Stuart Price Clephan Building, room 2.29 In addition to being published authors, TERROR CAPITAL T the Braziers both are qualified capital lower case c psychotherapists as well as ordained News, Nomination and members of a Pureland Buddhist Narrative religious order. In this presentation they 27 februaryWednesday 2.00-3.00pm will talk about the skills, challenges, Clephan Building, room 3.03 satisfactions and risks involved in This lecture examines the mediated putting your personal convictions into representation of the British ‘social your public work. order’. What kind of public discourses are animated by executive authorities, Sound Bites and reproduced by media forms, in the 2.00-5.00pm name of democracy? Is ‘terror’ Campus Centre, Level 1 misnamed and ‘capital’ partly hidden (See Monday for details) from view? Dr Stuart Price is Principal Lecturer in Media and Cultural Production and the author of Discourse Power Grayson Perry Address (2007).

8 Howard Skempton and Women in the Music Industry Richard Orton 5.00-6.00pm 2.00-3.30pm Clephan Building, room 3.03 Institute of Creative Technology (IOCT) Is the music industry sexist? A panel of Howard Skempton is one of the great successful women will explore some of originals of the English experimental the issues around inequality in the sector music scene which burst onto the stage and drawing on their experience, will in the late 60s and 70s. Richard Orton is debate how the current culture might one of the pioneers of the electronic need to change. The discussion will be music renaissance in Britain and is an chaired by Jacqui Norton, (DMU) who innovative composer and teacher of a has 18 years experience in the music generation of leaders in the field. Here industry with Warner Chappell Music Ltd, (after 40 years) is a platform to let them Zomba Production Music and her own explore, challenge, and maybe rewrite, music services company. some of the accepted historical clichés. Simon Emmerson (DMU) will chair. Music Technology Concert 7.00-8.30pm David Dunkley-Gyimah PACE Building Studio 1 Montréal composer Robert Normandeau The Outernet has been one of the world’s most 3.00-4.00pm outstandingly successful musicians Clephan Building, room 0.01 working with electro-acoustic media over Award winning journalist David Dunkley- the last two decades. He creates rich, Gyimah posits a personal vision of the immersive aural environments using evolving News net and skill set of sounds drawn from the natural world. 27 februaryWednesday This concert celebrates Normandeau’s multimedia journalists based around his close link with DMU as a visiting interpretation of what he calls the Professor with Music, Technology and ‘Outernet’. David, a DMU alumnus, has Innovation since 2003. The programme twenty years experience in the media, will include works for piano and electro- working for the likes of Newsnight, acoustic sounds, performed with leading Channel 4 News and ABC News South UK pianist Sarah Nicolls. Africa. During his talk he'll be showing a short film about multimedia along with examples of his work.

9 Andrew Motion Art Trails 2008 An Evening with the Poet Ceramics Laureate Kimberlin Library Staircase Showcase A select exhibition of contemporary 7.00-8.00pm ceramics drawn from graduates and Tickets £5 (£3 Concs) current students in the Faculty of Art Clephan Building, room 2.13 and Design at De Montfort University. “Compelling, simple and mysterious” Sean O'Brian Sunday Times “A beautiful lyricist unpretentiously and Henri Chopin precisely describing those things worth Zurbrugg Exhibition Space, 2nd Floor, having as he casts unsettling shadows Clephan Building across them” Henri Chopin who died on 3 January Robert Potts The Guardian 2008 was an important concrete and sound poet. He had strong links with Andrew Motion was appointed Poet the Faculty of Humanities through the Laureate in 1999. “I see myself as a late Professor Nicholas Zurbrugg and town crier, can-opener and flag-waver colleagues in English, Media and Music for poetry”. His work has received the Technology and Innovation. Arvin/Observer Prize, the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize and the Dylan This exhibition which celebrates his life Thomas Prize. Tonight he introduces his and work through highlights of the acclaimed autobiography In The Blood De Montfort University Art Collection, A Memoir of my Childhood (Faber), continues the developing tradition of poems old and new and his work as showing key works of concrete poetry 27 februaryWednesday Laureate. This is followed by a Q&A and allows access to the public to this session. important 20th Century artistic group. andrewmotion.co.uk Chopin is significant above all for his diverse spread of creative achievement, as well as for his position as a focal point of contact for the international arts. As poet, painter, graphic artist and designer, typographer, independent publisher, film-maker, broadcaster, and arts promoter, Chopin was a key figure in 20th century avant garde art. Andrew Motion

10 Sue Townssend Dr Victoria Door Dickinson College, Pennsylvania and the 12.00-1.00pm author of The New Imperial Presidency: Clephan Building, room 0.01 Renewing Presidential Power After This talk is entitled '”Reflection as a lived Watergate, gives his expert view on the experience? How the Alexander American Presidential elections. Technique made it real for John Dewey”. Reflection is now a demand across most Green Candle Dance Company disciplines in HE. What does it really ‘Falling About’ mean and how do you really do it? How Performance and Workshop did the man who coined the phrase find 1.30-4.00pm out how to live reflectively? Dr Victoria PACE Building, Studio 1 (for Door is a lecturer in Education at Keele performance) and Level 3 (for workshop) University and has been both a teacher Falling About is Green Candle Dance and trainer of teachers of the Alexander Company’s latest dance theatre Technique for many years. production specially designed for older people. The Company, under artistic Sue Townsend director Fergus Early, has a long history of 1.00-2.00pm dance with elderly people. This event Clephan Building, room 3.03 consists of a 45 minute dance Sue Townsend, the phenomenally performance followed by a one hour successful and much loved author of the workshop working on general mobility. It is Diaries of Adrian Mole, and more aimed at the elderly in particular, though all

Thursday 28 february recently responsible for relocating the are welcome (booking for the workshop is royal family to a council estate, makes a advisable). welcome appearance in this year’s festival. She will be in conversation about Sound Bites her life and writing, and there will be a 2.00-5.00pm unique opportunity for the audience to Campus Centre, Level 1 put their questions to her. (See Monday for details). Professor Andrew Rudalevige 1.00-2.00pm Clephan Building, room 0.01 Professor Rudalevige, Associate Professor of Political Science at

11 Zai Bennett Tony Platt 2.00-3.00pm 3.00-4.00pm Clephan Building, room 3.01 Clephan Building, room 0.01 Zai Bennett, head of ITV2, is one of the A sound engineer and record producer youngest controllers of a TV channel in of many years standing, Tony Platt has the UK today. His talk will provide an worked with legendary artists such as insight into how he rose to this position Bob Marley, AC/DC and more recently and explain the decision making process Soweto Kinch and The Bad Plus. His involved in commissioning shows and talk will address the changes in the selecting content. This is an opportunity music industry due to the impact of to hear someone at the heart of this new technologies and business models rapidly evolving industry share their and how the role of the sound thoughts on the future of commercial engineer and record producer is television. evolving in response to such change.

Tony Garnett From Physical to Digital I am a producer. 4.00-5.00pm Do I work for you? Clephan Building, room 0.01 ‘burntprogress’ hosts a discussion 3.00-4.00pm exploring the possibilities of music in Clephan Building, room 3.03 an internet age and the potential for P roducer, writer and director Tony Garnett setting up internet-based labels. Guest has been described as ‘one of the

Thursday 28 february Speakers: Danny Ryan – MD Kudos major shaping intelligences of British Record Distribution. Michael Cassidy – television drama’. Series credits include Head of Development Ithinkmusic. This Life, Law and Order, Between the Followed by a CDR session 9.00pm- Lines, Attachments and Cops. A 2.00am at Sumo, Braunstone Gate; a longstanding collaboration with Ken night of ideas and tracks in the making. Loach has produced such seminal Come along and have your track played dramas as Kes and Cathy Come Home. out loud amongst a like-minded audience. This talk will in part be a consideration Visit burntprogr ess.com or of his acclaimed TV series Cops which myspace.com/burntprogress for he will discuss and show clips from, as more details. well as a broader space for members of the audience to ask him questions Tom Stapley about his illustrious life in television “A place below” Fabric, London 2001 and film.

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29 februaryFriday as Squarepusher and Aphex Twin. In Kaufman is a Reader in English and demand around the world as a DJ, Ned American Studies at the University of has gone on to found his own live Central Lancashire. He has published music agency ‘littlebig’. His talk will widely on many aspects of American address the independent music culture and has been a folk singer and industry and provide an up to date musician for over thirty years. focus on developments in live music. Sound Bites Matthew Bourne 2.00-5.00pm 1.00-2.00pm Campus Centre, Level 1 Clephan Building, room 3.01 (See Monday for details) cultural eXchanges is pleased to welcome the highly acclaimed choreographer Matthew Bourne. This is a unique opportunity to gain a rare insight into the work of this internationally-recognised artist. The Matthew Bourne

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Monday 25 February Slash Fiction Clephan Building, room 3.01 10.00am-6.00pm Diary Sustainable Festivals Clephan Building, room 0.03 1.00-2.00pm Sound Bites Campus Centre Level 1 2.00-5.00pm LK Johnson and Jean Binta Breeze Clephan Building, room 0.01 3.00-4.00pm John Young Concert PACE Studio 1 4.00-5.00pm Ben Okri Clephan Building, room 2.13 5.30-6.30pm Sir Christopher Frayling Clephan Building, room 3.03 6.00-7.00pm Short Story Writing Taster Clephan Building, room 2.29 6.00-9.00pm Art Auction Campus Centre 7.00-9.00pm

Tuesday 26 February Claire Jennings and Paul Wells Clephan Building, room 3.03 1.00-2.00pm Kamilla Elliott Lecture Clephan Building, room 3.01 2.00-3.00pm Sound Bites Campus Centre Level 1 2.00-5.00pm Katharine Whitehorn Clephan Building, room 3.03 3.00-4.00pm Mark Clayden Clephan Building, room 0.01 4.00-5.00pm Terry Wrigley Clephan Building, room 3.01 4.00-5.00pm Tom Leonard Clephan Building, room 3.03 5.00-6.00pm Lol Coxhill – Jazz Workshop Trinity House 5.15-6.15pm Arts Council England/PAC Question Time Clephan Building, room 2.13 6.30-8.00pm Jonathan Burrows PACE Studio 1 7.00-7.50pm Lol Coxhill Concert Trinity House 8.00-9.30pm

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Wednesday 27 February Future of Adaptation Studies Clephan Building, room 1.19 10.00-11.00am Diary David and Caroline Brazier Clephan Building, room 2.29 12.00-1.00pm Grayson Perry/Lars Tharp Clephan Building, room 2.13 1.00-2.00pm Sound Bites Campus Centre Level 1 2.00-5.00pm Stuart Price Clephan Building, room 3.03 2.00-3.00pm Howard Skempton/Richard Orton IOCT 2.00-3.30pm David Dunkley Gyimah Clephan Building, room 0.01 3.00-4.00pm Women in Music Clephan Building, room 3.03 5.00-6.00pm Andrew Motion Concert Clephan Building, room 2.13 7.00-8.00pm Music Technology Concert PACE Studio 1 7.00-8.30pm

Thursday 28 February Dr Victoria Door Clephan Building, room 0.01 12.00-1.00pm Sue Townsend Clephan Building, room 3.03 1.00-2.00pm Professor Andrew Rudalevige Clephan Building, room 0.01 1.00-2.00pm Green Candle Performance/Workshop PACE Studio 1 and Level 3 1.30-4.00pm Zai Bennett Clephan Building, room 3.01 2.00-3.00pm Sound Bites Campus Centre Level 1 2.00-5.00pm Tony Garnett Clephan Building, room 3.03 3.00-4.00pm Tony Platt Clephan Building, room 0.01 3.00-4.00pm burnt progress Clephan Building, room 0.01 4.00-5.00pm

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Friday 29 February Installation #1 PACE Studio 1 10.00am-1.00pm Ned Beckett Clephan Building, room 2.13 11.00am-12.00pm Matthew Bourne Clephan Building, room 3.01 1.00pm-2.00pm Will Kaufman Clephan Building, room 3.03 2.00pm-3.00pm Sound Bites Campus Centre Level 1 2.00pm-5.00pm Alibhai-Brown, Fanshawe and Young – Debate Clephan Building, room 3.03 4.00pm-5.00pm ‘Writing About Parents’ Clephan Building, room 0.01 5.00pm-6.30pm Sioned Huws Dance Performance Campus Centre Dance Studio 7.00pm-8.00pm

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ARD Y 13 Forensic Science Facility concerning access and we will do our best to ST A59 IOCT REE 14 Gateway House, Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineeringaccommodate you. 4 T DEACON ST 15 Gosling Court (private hall of residence) GRASMERE STREET ET TRE 16 IOCT (Institute of Creative Technologies) Hearing loops are available at some events. TERN BOULEV

River Soar ULLS 17 Leicester Business, School Graduate Centre Please contact the Box office. D WES

AR W JARROM S 2 A Leicester Royal 18 Grange Court (hall of residence) TER STREET Y Infirmary A 19 Grosvenor House (private hall of residence) R H 19 YDAL A W VEL

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REE LOO 21 Innovation Centre TERN BOULEV 35 G ST T R T A S REE 22 John Sandford Sports Centre EAS TER M A E REET T 23 Kimberlin Library R W T E

EE S WEL T D 24 Kingfisher Court (private hall of residence) JARROM STREE R T E 1 EE E T OA 25 Liberty Park (private hall of residence) A594 STR FOR DERMERE STR 26 Newarke Point (private hall of residence) WIN NE R D ROAD 27 New Wharf (hall of residence) THIRLMERE H 28 PACE Building (Perfrmace Arts Centre for Excellence) STO WALNUT STREE Y 29 Portland Building T A YLE W A Leicester 30 Queens Building, Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering RUFC RS TIGE 31 Southgate House 32 Student Health Centre

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35 Waterway Gardens (hall of residence) A42 G 99 36 William Baker Building 37 Visitor car park (advance booking only) Acknowledgement Humanities’ Promotion and cultural eXchanges is in its seventh Recruitment Department and all our year, and is funded by colleagues in the Faculty of Humanities. De Montfort University to promote a closer relationship between the In addition Maggie Shutt and the University and the city of Leicester. It is Leicester City Council Festivals and co-ordinated by staff and students Events Unit, Geoff Rowe at Leicester from the Events Management module Comedy Festival, David Storer at Arts of the Arts Management degree Council East Midlands and Mr Chawla course. Under the supervision of the of Vinola Knitwear. teaching team, the students engage in an intensive planning process, Special thanks to: administer and market the festival, and The Marketing Team – Lavinia undertake the practical running of Batchelor, Louise Cooke, Sam Coombs, events. Without their hard work and Stacey Lucas, Stefanie Kraus, Nicola commitment, cultural eXchanges would Reid and Julia Sherwood. not be possible. The Administration Team – Helen Thank You Dawson, Katie-Louise Holden, Daniel Jones, Mara Sandres and Abbie Wilde. acknowlegdements Professor Judy Simons, Professor Philip Martin, Professor Heidi The Operations Team – Hayley Macpherson, Professor Tim O’Sullivan, Constable, Amanda Fairclough, Richard Clark Summers, Rob Brannen, Jitesh Fletcher, Nicole Griffiths, Sam Pandya, Simon Atkinson, Stuart Price, Lockwood-Lee, and Rebecca Martin. Franco Bianchini, Helen Wilson, Sandra Henry, Louise Smith, Jim Popple, Festival Director – Tony Graves Chrissie Dean, Carole Weeks, Arts Management staff – Emma Watts, Mohammed Takolia, Rachael Walters, Maurice Maguire, Jennie Jordan, Ryan Ward, Lyndsay Allen, David Alder, Chris Maughan, Jacqui Norton, Paola Jo Crozier, Lyndsay Short, Kathy Bell, Merli and Chris Newbold and special Simon Perril, Bob Richardson, Heather thanks to Rakesh Parmar. Conboy, Jane Dowson, The PACE and Campus Centre Technicians, Stewards, Timetabling staff, AV Services, Cassie Bailey, Mohammed Bhimani, Marketing Manager, Jo Hart and the Faculty of

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