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Culture Club 131 131 Culture Club buzz buzz OF BI ITY RMI RS N E GH IV A N M U Special Culture Printed on a recycled grade paper containing 100% post-consumer waste. [email protected] Edition 4 6 12 JU 1 LY 01 /AUGUST 2 Edgbaston, Birmingham, Antiques Pop-Up Heritage Hub Roadshow Performances B15 2TT, United Kingdom www.birmingham.ac.uk 5954 © University of Birmingham 2011. 2 VICE-CHANCELLOR’S VIEW CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT 3 YOUR BUZZ Vice-Chancellor’s View Edited by Kate Pritchard University culture Contact the editor Last year we awarded an honorary visited the Lapworth, savoured the [email protected] doctorate to Barry Everitt, now Professor spectacular architecture, and glimpsed of Behavioural Neuroscience and Master something of our research achievement Professor Ian Grosvenor Your details of Downing College, Cambridge. Barry and academic impact. And that in the Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Cultural Engagement Please let us know if you want extra did his PhD at Birmingham, remembered same week as performances were popping copies of Buzz or if you think we need his time here with great affection, and up around campus, a novel initiative to amend your distribution details. asked if the lunchtime concerts at the which will be repeated. Barber continued. They were, he said, Amidst new ventures, new exhibitions, It has been just over a year since I became This is where the Programming Committee In the opposite direction, images from a Views expressed in the magazine are one of the highpoints of his time here. and new facilities there is much that Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Cultural came into its own and things moved apace collection of photographs taken by Phyllis not necessarily those of the University He would walk across the campus from we perhaps take too easily for granted. Engagement. As I said early on, culture is with the launch of the Blue Plaque trail, Nicklin, a former member of staff at the or a statement of University policy. The his lab to hear Ivor Keys and others talk Does any university have as many fine at the heart of the Birmingham experience. the ‘Arts versus Science’ debate, Court University, are displayed in the current Gas publication of advertisements does not and perform. Yes, I assured him, they did. statues adorning its campus? Lectures, It not only informs the University’s past but on Canvas at the Barber and the very Hall exhibition Home of Metal: 40 years imply any endorsement by the University I also explained that the University was productions, and performances are part is central to shaping its future. So what successful Community Day. June was of Heavy Metal and its Unique Birthplace of the goods or services advertised. making a fresh commitment to promoting of the rhythm of our University life as staff have been the highlights of the last twelve also the month in which we organised a to illustrate 1960s Aston where Ozzy All submissions may be subject to the cultural life on campus. Ian Grosvenor’s and students perform both on campus months? Things started slowly as I spent mini arts festival – Pop-up Performances Obsbourne grew up. editing. The Editor’s decision is final. appointment as Deputy Pro-Vice- and in the city. A highlight this year was the first few months meeting staff and and everyone who attended the Friday So what about the next twelve months? Chancellor for Cultural Engagement has a remarkably committed and moving visiting arts and heritage organisations in night session in the Underground will The big events will be the Children’s been a key part of this, and Ian’s leadership performance of Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius the city. This was followed by Clare Mullett, fondly remember the enthusiasm and Lives exhibition in the spring in the Gas has both galvanized cultural activities at the Town Hall. Deputy University Curator and Alison talent of the Aston Performing Arts Hall (a joint event between the University, Buzz online on campus and led to a new relationship So much is done so well that it merits Darby, Head of Winterbourne joining Academy and especially their rendition Birmingham City Archives and Birmingham www.buzz.bham.ac.uk between the University, the City, still better attendance. Student drama the ‘Culture team’ on a part-time basis. of Thriller, including zombies dancing. Museum and Art Gallery), the Cultural and the wider community. is outstanding, and the Cadbury Theatre For those who like structures we have now One of the elements of the Culture Olympiad in the summer, a music festival Follow us on Twitter Many have contributed to this cultural an intimate and involving venue to enjoy it. put in place two new committees – the strategy is to bring the city into the in the autumn to mark the opening of the www.twitter.com/ renaissance around our campus. In June music students produced Purcell’s Cultural Engagement Committee and the University and vice-versa. Painted by stunning new Bramall concert hall and Winterbourne thrives, the Barber’s visitor Dido and Aeneas. Not an easy opera to Cultural Programming Committee. The Rust, in the Aston Webb Rotunda until in December, the launch of the Barber buzzunibham numbers are buoyant and its exhibitions stage, but their setting in Second World former addresses issues of governance the end of August, is an exhibition by Institute of Fine Arts’ 80th anniversary make national headlines. Our state-of-the- War London was inspired. Never have and the latter is really a discussion forum Birmingham photographer Brigitte Winsor. celebrations. There will also be a lot of Find us on Facebook art home for Special Collections was the witches – here as enemy agents – for planning future events that highlight the At first sight it appears to be a collection smaller events, so keep a regular eye on www.facebook.com/ formally opened this year, and many been as menacing, and Dido’s suicide breadth of our cultural assets on campus. of abstract art, but look closely and what the ‘On Campus’ page and if you have an see the fascinating displays in the foyer was as affecting and tragic as I have seen Having structures and people in place, you see is rusting ironwork in vivid close- idea for a cultural event please write to us buzzunibham of the Muirhead. it. Like many in the audience, I was moved we then started on a series of projects up. But the exhibition is more than this – at [email protected] and we We now have our own Blue Plaque to tears. It was a pity that the Barber including designing new web pages to it is also a collaborative venture with the can discuss it at the next Programming Browse Buzz images trail which combines a celebration of Concert Hall wasn’t sold out. Perhaps better promote our cultural collections School of Metallurgy and Materials. City Committee. www.flickr.com/ the remarkable academic history of our next year it will be. and sharing information about cultural and academy brought into a conversation university with its remarkable architecture. As Barry Everitt remembered long events on campus. With regards to the through a common interest in the beauty photos/buzzunibham A wonderful booklet has been produced, after he had moved on, the cultural life ‘On campus’ events page, which went live of corrosion and seeming imperfection. and I live in hope that all our students of the University is as profound as in June, it is one thing to have a page, but (and staff) will walk the trail at least once. it is memorable. it is totally another to regularly populate it. Much of this was on display at the Front and back cover: L–R above, Clare Community Day, when a staggering Vice-Chancellor, Mullett and Alison Darby, see pages 8–9. 12,000 visited the University, had fun, Professor David Eastwood 4 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW BLUE PLAQUE 5 OF BI ITY RMI RS NG Joseph Chamberlain’s vision for the University was ‘A school of universal E H IV A instruction, not confined to any particular branch of knowledge but N M taking all knowledge in its province.’ The University’s Blue Plaque Trail, U launched in May, by Research and Commercial Collections, demonstrates how Chamberlain’s vision has been realised. It celebrates those who Antiques have helped shape our heritage as a research university and showcases TheThe BlueBlue the University’s broad cultural offer and its range of unique museum artefacts and archives. PlaquePlaque The blue plaques around campus serve as reminders of the immense Roadshow accomplishments of men and women who have worked here in the past. It is hoped they will inspire those who pass by and will encourage C During April we welcomed BBC’s Antiques Roadshow to campus. Among E TrailTrail T yet greater achievement in the future. Among the 23 blue plaques that L N the diverse array of objects that day were three presented by University staff. E E celebrate Birmingham’s achievement are: B M RA VE TING ACHIE YMCA Album The Wheatstone Wave Machine 'Miss Clara' Special Collections University Collection of Historic Barber Institute of Fine Arts 3 Sir Norman Haworth (1883–1950) 3 18 ‘Paul Atterbury invited Special Collections Physics Instruments ‘Staff at the Barber Institute knew they had to showcase an album from our YMCA ‘For the Antiques Roadshow we produced uncovered a star in the making when they Norman Haworth, Mason Professor of Chemistry at archive when the Antiques Roadshow an object called the Wheatstone Wave were researching the gallery’s statuary for Birmingham from 1925 to 1948 made his life’s work the visited the campus in April.
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