TOURS COURSES WHAT’S MUSIC SPORT DRAMA ON JAN / FEB 2014 YOUR GUIDE TO PUBLIC EVENTS IN AND AROUND BRISTOL LECTURES AT A GLANCE - JANUARY DATE TIME EVENT VENUE JANUARY Dec - Feb Various times EXHIBITION Faces of Theatre... THEATRE COLLECTION Dec - Feb Various times EXHIBITION The Secret Life of Objects THEATRE COLLECTION Throughout Various times SPORT Pilates classes CENTRE FOR SPORT, January EXERCISE & HEALTH Wed 8 12.15pm & TOUR Wills Memorial tower tours WILLS MEMORIAL 12.30pm BUILDING Sat 11 10.30am, TOUR Wills Memorial tower tours WILLS MEMORIAL 11am, BUILDING 11.30am, 12pm & 12.30pm Tue 14 11am MARKET Farmers’ market TYNDALL AVENUE Wed 15 1.15pm MUSIC Rupert Marshall-Luck: violin and VICTORIA ROOMS Matthew Rickard: piano Sat 18 10am COURSE Calligraphy BOTANIC GARDEN Sun 19 10am DAY COURSE A snapshot of winter BOTANIC GARDEN Wed 22 12.45pm TALK Food addiction... SCHOOL OF SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY MEDICINE Wed 22 1.15pm MUSIC English Piano Trio VICTORIA ROOMS Wed 22 1.30pm COURSE The monthly read: Hidden truths... 3/5 WOODLAND ROAD Wed 22 6pm COURSE Mastering English Literature 3/5 WOODLAND ROAD Wed 22 6pm COURSE Reading English Literature 3/5 WOODLAND ROAD Thu 23 7.30pm LECTURE ...Macaronesian flora SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Tue 28 10.30am COURSE Literature for Life: Lost and found 2 BATH ROYAL LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION Tue 28 1pm FILM EVENT NEW ...findings of the Learning WATERSHED CINEMA Disabilities Confidential Inquiry Tue 28 4.30pm RESEARCH NEW Where is the Holocaust... VICTORIA ROOMS SEMINAR Tue 28 7pm COURSE Growing organic vegetables BOTANIC GARDEN Wed 29 1.15pm MUSIC NEW Gemini VICTORIA ROOMS Fri 31 1.15pm MUSIC NEW Emma Kirkby VICTORIA ROOMS Cover image (clockwise from left) Andy Winfield, Rag Week (University of Bristol), Pretty Ugly Promo AT A GLANCE - FEBRUARY DATE TIME EVENT VENUE FEBRUARY Sat 1 10.30am, TOUR Wills Memorial tower tours WILLS MEMORIAL 11am, BUILDING 11.30am, 12pm & 12.30pm Sat 1 10.30am PUBLIC EVENT Digimakers AT-BRISTOL Sun 2 10am TOUR Garden tour with Curator, BOTANIC GARDEN Nicholas Wray Tue 4 4.30pm RESEARCH NEW The art of curating… VICTORIA ROOMS SEMINAR Wed 5 12.15pm & TOUR Wills Memorial tower tours WILLS MEMORIAL 12.30pm BUILDING Wed 5 1.15pm MUSIC NEW Chamber Choir VICTORIA ROOMS Wed 5 5.30pm LECTURE Smashing images: an English 3/5 WOODLAND ROAD Reformation theme Wed 5 6pm INAUGURAL Brownian motion and WILLS MEMORIAL LECTURE “Brownian motion” BUILDING Wed 5 7.30pm DRAMA Pretty Ugly THE WICKHAM THEATRE Wed 5 Feb - Various EXHIBITION NEW Actors and Artifice ROYAL WEST OF Sun 23 Mar ENGLAND ACADEMY Thu 6 6pm INAUGURAL How cells move and interact with E29, MEDICAL SCIENCES LECTURE their neighbours BUILDING Fri 7 1.15pm MUSIC NEW Bristol University Jazz Orchestra VICTORIA ROOMS Sat 8 7.30pm MUSIC NEW University Chamber and VICTORIA ROOMS Symphony Orchestras Mon 10 5pm LECTURE NEW Labour Migration… WILLS MEMORIAL BUILDING Tue 11 11am MARKET Farmers’ market TYNDALL AVENUE Tue 11 4.30pm RESEARCH NEW Headlong VICTORIA ROOMS SEMINAR Tue 11 6pm INAUGURAL L-functions: arithmetic... WILLS MEMORIAL LECTURE BUILDING Wed 12 1.15pm MUSIC NEW Chamber concert VICTORIA ROOMS Wed 12 6pm INAUGURAL Autism and weapons of mass WILLS MEMORIAL LECTURE destruction... BUILDING Wed 12 6pm ANNE SPENCER ...five poets explore faith 3/5 WOODLAND ROAD MEMORIAL and spirituality LECTURE DATE TIME EVENT VENUE FEBRUARY Wed 12 7.30pm DRAMA NEW Captain Morgan and the WICKHAM THEATRE sands of time Thu 13 6pm INAUGURAL Who cares if you listen? WILLS MEMORIAL LECTURE BUILDING Sat 15 11am PUBLIC EVENT RAG Procession and fair COLLEGE GREEN Tue 18 4.30pm RESEARCH NEW Michael Ellison… VICTORIA ROOMS SEMINAR Tue 18 6.30pm LECTURE NEW Should genes be public? M SHED Wed 19 1.15pm MUSIC NEW Brodowski String Quartet VICTORIA ROOMS Wed 19 7pm DRAMA Queen of Hearts THE WICKHAM THEATRE Thu 20 6pm INAUGURAL Chaos and order in arithmetic problems WILLS MEMORIAL LECTURE BUILDING Thu 20 7.30pm LECTURE Green roofs, rain gardens... SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Fri 21 1.15pm MUSIC NEW Bristol New Music 2014 VICTORIA ROOMS Sat 22 1pm MUSIC NEW Quatuor Bozzini ST GEORGE’S, BS1 5RR Sun 23 12pm MUSIC NEW Quatuor Bozzini and Univeristy VICTORIA ROOMS New Music Ensemble Mon 24 6pm LECTURE NEW Laws of motion in a 17 WOODLAND ROAD cartoon landscape Tue 25 2pm LECTURE NEW Powerful Knowledge, 35 BERKELEY SQUARE Cities and Universities Tue 25 4.30pm RESEARCH NEW The supremacist’s toolbox... VICTORIA ROOMS SEMINAR Tue 25 6pm INAUGURAL From the land to the rivers WILLS MEMORIAL LECTURE to the sea… BUILDING Wed 26 1.15pm MUSIC NEW University Singers VICTORIA ROOMS Wed 26 6pm PUBLIC From atom to aircraft NSQI BUILDING LECTURE Wed 26 7.30pm MUSIC NEW Contemporary Music Venture VICTORIA ROOMS concert 1 Thu 27 6pm INAUGURAL The landscapes of Italian colonialism WILLS MEMORIAL LECTURE BUILDING Fri 28 1.15pm MUSIC NEW Hornstars VICTORIA ROOMS PUBLIC EVENTS December 2013 - February 2014 EXHIBITION Faces of Theatre: portrait photographs The Faces of Theatre exhibition showcases a selection of Angus McBean’s finest portrait photographs. Times The exhibition is open Mondays: 12pm - 4pm; Tuesdays - Fridays: 10am - 4pm, and will run until February 2014. Venue University of Bristol Theatre Collection, 21 Park Row, BS1 5LT Admission Free, no booking required. For further information W www.bristol.ac.uk/theatrecollection/events.html E [email protected] T +44 (0)117 331 5086 December 2013 - February 2014 EXHIBITION The Secret Life of Objects Explore some of the hidden histories of the Theatre Collection’s most interesting items in our exhibition, The Secret Life of Objects. Through examining the ‘life stories’ of objects we will look at their changing significance through place, time and the people who owned them. Exhibition Opening Hours Monday: 12pm - 4pm; Tuesday - Friday: 10am - 4pm Venue University of Bristol Theatre Collection, 21 Park Row, BS1 5LT Admission Free, no booking required. For further information W www.bristol.ac.uk/theatrecollection E [email protected] T +44 (0)117 331 5086 January 2014 SPORT Pilates classes Start the New Year positively with Pilates. New classes, beginners to advanced. Highly qualified instructors. Times From week beginning 13 January, various times in the day and evening Venue Centre for Sport, Exercise and Health, Tyndall Avenue, BS8 1TP Admission Prices available on booking, booking required in advance. For further information and to book E [email protected] T +44 (0)117 928 8810 W www.bristol.ac.uk/sport/sportsmedicine/pilates Wed 8 and Sat 11 January TOURS Wills Memorial tower tours Times Wednesday: 12.15pm & 12.30pm; Saturday: 10.30am, 11am, 11.30am, 12pm & 12.30pm; Venue Wills Memorial Building, Queen’s Road, BS8 1RJ Admission £4 (concessions £3); free to children aged 8-11 (no under 8’s). Advance booking recommended. To book, ask inside the Wills Memorial Building for the head porter or contact the email below. E [email protected] T +44 (0)777 026 5108 Supporting Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Appeal - The Bristol Children’s Hospital Charity Tue 14 January 11am - 3pm MARKET Farmers’ market Venue Outside the Centre for Sport, Exercise and Health, Tyndall Avenue, BS8 1TP Wed 22 January 12.45pm - 1.45pm TALK Food addiction - a helpful or unhelpful explanation of overeating? As a theory of overeating and obesity, food addiction has various shortcomings, in particular in a failure to determine clearly what characteristics of food and the eating environment underlie addiction risk. Professor Rogers will explore this complex area; a full description of the talk can be found at the web address listed under further information. Speaker Professor Peter Rogers, School of Experimental Psychology Venue School of Social and Community Medicine, Canynge Hall (room LG08), 39 Whatley Road, BS8 2PS Admission Free, no booking required. For further information W www.bristol.ac.uk/social-community-medicine/seminars/2014/97.html E [email protected] T +44 (0)117 331 4005 Wed 22 January - Wed 19 March 1.30pm - 4pm COURSE The monthly read: Hidden truths, three novels from the 1970s An ideal format for readers who can spare one afternoon each month. We will explore three works published in the 1970s: E.M Forster, Maurice; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust; Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont. Students should read the first novel prior to the first class. Meets monthly. Speaker Sally Coniam, Department of English Venue Department of English, 3/5 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB Admission Course fee £95, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/english/part-time/shorts.html E [email protected] T +44 (0)117 928 8924 Wed 22 January - Wed 11 June 6pm - 8pm COURSE Mastering English Literature This course aims to help students with a first degree (in any discipline) to progress to an MA in English. There will be opportunities to read a wide range of texts, to sharpen your study skills, and to gain a taste of Bristol’s expertise in Shakespeare, Romantic and Victorian literature, and modern and contemporary poetry. Speaker Dr Stephen Derry, Department of English Venue Department of English, 3/5 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB Admission Course fee £550, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/english/part-time/shorts.html E [email protected] T +44 (0)117 928 8924 Wed 22 January - Wed 28 May 6pm - 9pm COURSE Reading English Literature Reading English Literature (REL) is a short course designed to help students of all ages (over 18) progress to a part-time degree or other further study.