TOURS MUSIC WHAT’S FESTIVALS MARKETS WORKSHOPS ON / JUNE 2014 MAY YOUR GUIDE TO PUBLIC EVENTS IN AND AROUND BRISTOL LECTURES AT A GLANCE - MAY DATE TIME EVENT VENUE MAY Fri 2 1.15pm MUSIC University Madrigal Ensemble VICTORIA ROOMS Fri 2, Sat 3, Fri 5pm MASS The ‘beer goggles’ effect DAWKINS ALES PUBS 9 & Sat 10 PARTICIPATION EXPERIMENT Sat 3 10.30am, TOUR Wills Memorial tower tours WILLS MEMORIAL 11am, BUILDING 11.30am, 12pm & 12.30pm Sat 3 1pm EVENT Local food HAMILTON HOUSE Tue 6 11am MARKET Farmers’ market TYNDALL AVENUE Tue 6 5.15pm LECTURE The virtues of history 3-5 WOODLAND ROAD Wed 7 12.15pm & TOUR Wills Memorial tower tours WILLS MEMORIAL 12.30pm BUILDING Wed 7 1.15pm MUSIC University Singers VICTORIA ROOMS Wed 7 5pm LECTURE ‘Ability’: contemporary schoolings… 35 BERKELEY SQUARE Wed 7 5.15pm LECTURE Words and deeds 3-5 WOODLAND ROAD Wed 7 5.30pm LECTURE Placing Peyton Place: the godfather DEPT OF FILM AND of US serial drama TELEVISION Wed 7 6.30pm TALK Molecular cuisine… VICTORIA ROOMS Thu 8 12.45pm TALK Prescribing safety in a world of CANYNGE HALL multimorbidity… Fri 9 1.15pm MUSIC University String Orchestra VICTORIA ROOMS Fri 9 6pm TALK Animals in the food chain THE STATION Sun 11 10am WORKSHOP A snapshot of spring BOTANIC GARDEN Sun 11 10.30am, TOUR Goldney historic garden tour GOLDNEY HALL 2pm Tue 13 11am MARKET Farmers’ market TYNDALL AVENUE Tue 13 5.15pm LECTURE Jugurtha's tragic history 3-5 WOODLAND ROAD Wed 14 4pm LECTURE The role of economics in public life QUEENS BUILDING Wed 14 5.15pm LECTURE Brevitatis Artifex: Sallust as Text 3-5 WOODLAND ROAD Thu 15 12.45pm TALK Potentially inappropriate prescribing CANYNGE HALL Thu 15 6pm TALK Merchants and monopolies WILLS MEMORIAL BUILDING Fri 16 9am PUBLIC What counts as powerful knowledge? 35 BERKELEY SQUARE SYMPOSIUM Sun 18 10am EXHIBITION Fascination of plants day BOTANIC GARDEN Mon 19 6pm TALK The Urban Pollinator Project M SHED Cover image (clockwise from left) Nick Smith, Farmers’ Market, Nick Wray DATE TIME EVENT VENUE MAY Tue 20 6pm TALK Why history matters in the age of SCHOOL OF climate change CHEMISTRY Wed 21 5pm LECTURE Getting ideas into action 35 BERKELEY SQUARE Wed 21 6.30pm TALK Humanitarian photography and the M SHED atomic age Thu 22 12.45pm TALK Can we help anxious parents to raise CANYNGE HALL confident children? Wed 28 6.30pm TALK ...How to end the Great War... WATERSHED Wed 28 7pm TALK Bristol - walking city THE ARCHITECTURE CENTRE Thu 29 6.30pm TALK Holocaust tourism WATERSHED Thu 29 7.30pm MUSIC White Denim ANSON ROOMS Sat 31 2pm PUBLIC EVENT NEW Know your Bristol – History Day DAME EMILY PARK AT A GLANCE - JUNE DATE TIME EVENT VENUE JUNE Mon 2 5pm TALK NEW …neglected multimodality GRADUATE SCHOOL with digital opportunities OF EDUCATION Wed 4 12.15pm & TOUR Wills Memorial tower tours WILLS MEMORIAL 12.30pm BUILDING Thu 5 11am PUBLIC EVENT NEW Ballast Seed Garden planting CASTLE PARK event Thu 5 5pm PUBLIC NEW Is ‘modern’ human behaviour SCHOOL OF LECTURE older than we think? Archaeological GEOGRAPHICAL excavations… SCIENCE Thu 5 6.30pm TALK Quantum computing HAMILTON HOUSE Thu 5 7.15pm PUBLIC NEW Meeting through the vegetal SCHOOL OF LECTURE world GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES Sat 7 10am EXHIBITION Get growing garden trail BOTANIC GARDEN Sat 7 10.30am, TOUR Wills Memorial tower tours WILLS MEMORIAL 11am, BUILDING 11.30am, 12pm & 12.30pm Mon 9 - Various FESTIVAL Festival of Education 2014 35 BERKELEY SQUARE Thu 19 Tue 10 11am MARKET Farmers’ market TYNDALL AVENUE Tue 10 12pm & WORKSHOP Revealing roles THEATRE COLLECTION 1.15pm Tue 10 5pm TALK NEW …how journalists and academics GRADUATE SCHOOL can be friends OF EDUCATION Tue 10 6.30pm PUBLIC EVENT NEW Enjoy the Botanic Garden BOTANIC GARDEN on a summer’s evening Wed 11 7.30pm MUSIC Summer concert VICTORIA ROOMS Thu 12 10am WORKSHOP Crossing the line: ritual and superstition SS GREAT BRITAIN at sea Thu 12 10.30am MUSIC Final year performance students VICTORIA ROOMS Thu 12 8pm MUSIC Late into the night BE IN BRISTOL Fri 13 1.15pm MUSIC World War One themed charity concert VICTORIA ROOMS DATE TIME EVENT VENUE JUNE Fri 13 7pm MUSIC University music department students ST PAULS CHURCH Sat 14 - 10am FESTIVAL Festival of Nature BRISTOL HARBOURSIDE Sun 15 Sun 15 10.30am & TOUR Goldney historic garden tour GOLDNEY HALL 2pm Wed 18 6.30pm TOUR Enjoy the botanical pleasures of June BOTANIC GARDEN Thu 19 12.45pm TALK A machine that does the work of CANYNGE HALL two men Thu 19 5.30pm BOAT TOUR NEW An introduction to Bristol’s ARNOLFINI Historic Floating Harbour and the Ballast Seed Garden Thu 19 6pm TWILIGHT TALK …How decisions are made about WATERSHED treating very sick children Fri 20 & Sat 21 9.30am OPEN DAY Undergraduate open day VARIOUS Tue 24 6.30pm PUBLIC EVENT NEW Enjoy the Botanic Garden BOTANIC GARDEN on a summer’s evening Thu 26 12pm EXHIBITION South West Crucible exhibition WATERSHED Thu 26 5pm LECTURE Education’s aims or school subjects? 35 BERKELEY SQUARE Thu 26 6.30pm PUBLIC NEW Slavery: legacies WILLS MEMORIAL LECTURE and remembrance BUILDING Sun 29 1pm TOUR NEW Stoke Bishop open gardens trail BOTANIC GARDEN PUBLIC EVENTS Fri 2, Sat 3, Fri 9 & Sat 10 May 5pm - 11pm MASS PARTICIPATION EXPERIMENT The ‘beer goggles’ effect As part of the Bristol Food Connections Festival, The Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group (TARG) at the University of Bristol will be setting up shop at three Dawkins Ales pubs across Bristol (The Green Man, Kingsdown; The Portcullis and The Victoria, Clifton) investigating whether drinking alcohol changes people’s perceptions of attractiveness; otherwise known as the ‘beer goggles’ effect. Join them in the name of a (responsible) pint and science! Venue The Green Man, 21 Alfred Place, BS2 8HD; The Portcullis, 3 Wellington Terrace, BS8 4LE; The Victoria, 2 Southleigh Road, BS8 2BH Admission Free, no booking required. For further information W www.bristol.ac.uk/targ E [email protected] T +44 (0)117 331 8315 Sat 3 & Wed 7 May TOURS Wills Memorial tower tours Times Saturday: 10.30am, 11am, 11.30am, 12pm & 12.30pm; Wednesday: 12.15pm & 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 E [email protected] T +44 (0)777 026 5108 Supporting Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Appeal - The Bristol Children’s Hospital Charity Sat 3 May 1pm - 4pm EVENT Local food: Pollyanna or Panacea? The new hub of scientists, artists, activists, social scientists and community practitioners ‘Soil, Seeds, and Social Change’ presents a series of provocations from a panel of diverse experts in response to the question: is local food the future of ecologically and economically sustainable food production? This will lead to a series of roundtable discussions and activities where they consider the practicalities of, and alternatives to, local food as a political agenda. Lunch will be provided by Bristol Hospitality Network, a charity which supports destitute asylum- seekers, in partnership with the Simms Hill Community Supported Agriculture Project. This event is part of the Bristol Food Connections Festival 2014. Venue Event Space, Third Floor, Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, BS1 3QY Admission Free, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/public-engagement/projects/other-projects/food-connections/ E [email protected] T +44 (0)117 331 8315 Tue 6 May 11am - 3pm MARKET Farmers’ market Eat well with a wide range of fresh, seasonal, local produce available to try and buy at the monthly farmers’ market. Venue Outside the Centre for Sport, Exercise and Health, Tyndall Avenue, BS8 1TP Tue 6 May 5.15pm - 7.30pm LECTURE The virtues of history First of the four-part Bristol Blackwell lecture series ‘After the past: Sallust on history and writing history’. The aim of these lectures will be to connect the histories Sallust tells with the history he writes. How do the models and anti-models for representing events offered within his narratives allow us to imagine the place of his own writing in the history of his times? Speaker Professor Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University Venue Lecture Theatre 3, Arts Complex, 3-5 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB Admission Free, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.blackwell-bristol.eventbrite.co.uk E [email protected] T +44 (0)117 331 8460 Wed 7 May 5pm - 6.30pm LECTURE ‘Ability’: contemporary schooling’s most over-rated concept? In this presentation, Dr Barry Hymer will provide research evidence that what a person believes about their ability is far more important than their ability itself. Speaker Dr Barry Hymer, University of Cumbria Venue Graduate School of Education, 35 Berkeley Square, BS8 1JA Admission Free, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/education/events/2014/1029.html E [email protected] T +44 (0)117 331 4291 Wed 7 May 5.15pm - 7.30pm LECTURE Words and deeds: the social history of historiography in the ‘Catiline’ Second of the four-part Bristol Blackwell lecture series ‘After the past: Sallust on history and writing history’. The aim of these lectures will be to connect the histories Sallust tells with the history he writes.