WHAT S ON YOUR GUIDE TO PUBLIC EVENTS IN AND AROUND BRISTOL TOURS EXHIBITIONS LECTURES COURSES WORKSHOPS MUSIC NOVEMBER 2014
AT A GLANCE - NOVEMBER DATE TIME EVENT VENUE Sat 1 10.30am, 11am, 11.30am, 12pm & 12.30pm TOUR Wills Memorial tower tour WILLS MEMORIAL Sat 1 - Tue 11 Various times FESTIVAL Thinking Futures, University of Bristol Festival of Social Sciences and Law VARIOUS VENUES Tue 4 10am SHORT COURSE Mastering English Literature - registration Tue 4 10am SHORT COURSE Reading English Literature - registration 3/5 WOODLAND ROAD 3/5 WOODLAND ROAD Tue 4 6pm AUTUMN ART LECTURE The graphic experience of war: George Grosz in context WILLS MEMORIAL Wed 5 12.15pm & 12.30pm TOUR Wills Memorial tower tour WILLS MEMORIAL Wed 5 1.15pm MUSIC The Compass Quartet ST PAUL'S CHURCH Wed 5 6pm AMELIA EDWARDS LECTURE The two Tombs of Horemheb WILLS MEMORIAL Fri 7 1.15pm MUSIC Wind Orchestra VICTORIA ROOMS Fri 7 6pm INAUGURAL LECTURE Forever in new genes; discovering the genetic basis of rare diseases and congenital malformations WILLS MEMORIAL Sat 8 10am WORKSHOP Beetles, butterflies and bees BOTANIC GARDEN Sat 8 10.30am DAY COURSE Tools for fiction writing 3/5 WOODLAND ROAD Sat 8 10.30am DAY COURSE 'From Russia with Lovatt' 3/5 WOODLAND ROAD Sat 8 10.30am DAY COURSE Writing about other people s lives 3/5 WOODLAND ROAD Sat 8 10.30am DAY COURSE The poetry of John Clare 3/5 WOODLAND ROAD Sat 8 - Sun 9 2pm WORKSHOP Lab 1: Vocalise to Socialise ARNOLFINI Mon 10 6pm TALK Bristol's Elected Mayor - annual Mayoral address WILLS MEMORIAL Cover image (clockwise from left) Nicholas Wray, Centre for Public Engagement, Nicholas Wray
AT A GLANCE - NOVEMBER DATE TIME EVENT VENUE Mon 10 6pm RICHARD GREGORY MEMORIAL LECTURE The Windows of Visibility: SCHOOL OF limits to human vision and their CHEMISTRY application to visual technology Tue 11 4.30pm PUBLIC LECTURE Postgraduate Composers VICTORIA ROOMS Tue 11 6pm AUTUMN ART LECTURE Paul Nash and Stanley Spencer WILLS MEMORIAL Wed 12 1.15pm MUSIC Bristol University Madrigal Ensemble VICTORIA METHODIST CHURCH Fri 14 - Sun 16 10am EXHIBITION Great British Bioscience Festival MUSEUM GARDENS, BETHNAL GREEN, LONDON Fri 14 1.15pm MUSIC Richard May (cello) VICTORIA ROOMS Fri 14 6pm INAUGURAL LECTURE Homer s Deep WILLS MEMORIAL Sat 15 10.30am DAY COURSE First draft to finish, creative writing BATH ROYAL LITERARY SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION Sun 16 2pm WORKSHOP Lab 2: Beyond the word ARNOLFINI 17 Nov - 27 Mar 12pm (Mon) 10am (Tue - Fri) EXHIBITION Theatre Roundabout THEATRE COLLECTION, 21 PARK ROW Mon 17 6pm CABOT INSTITUTE ANNUAL LECTURE 2014 People, planet and profit - connecting local to global WILLS MEMORIAL Tue 18 4.30pm PUBLIC LECTURE Katherine Williams VICTORIA ROOMS Tue 18 6pm AUTUMN ART LECTURE H G Wells: Mr Britling sees it Through, The Shape of Things to Come, Mind at the End of its Tether WILLS MEMORIAL Wed 19 1.15pm MUSIC University Chamber Choir VICTORIA METHODIST CHURCH Thu 20 7.30pm PUBLIC LECTURE Enjoyment of gardening SCHOOL OF PHYSICS Fri 21 1.15pm MUSIC University Singers VICTORIA ROOMS
AT A GLANCE - NOVEMBER DATE TIME EVENT VENUE Sat 22 10am WORKSHOP Calligraphy BOTANIC GARDEN Sun 23 2pm WORKSHOP Lab 3: Beating Brain ARNOLFINI Tue 25 4.30pm PUBLIC LECTURE Helen Reid (pianist) VICTORIA ROOMS Tue 25 6pm AUTUMN ART LECTURE Lewis Milestone: from All Quiet on the Western Front to A Walk in the Sun WILLS MEMORIAL Wed 26 1.15pm MUSIC University Brass Band ST PAUL'S CHURCH Wed 26 6pm INAUGURAL LECTURE Putting a spin on light: twisting, tangling and topology in waves HH WILLS PHYSICS LABORATORY Wed 26 6pm INAUGURAL ELIZABETH BLACKWELL PUBLIC LECTURE The drugs don t work: the global threat of antibiotic resistance WILLS MEMORIAL Fri 28 1.15pm MUSIC Postcards from Europe VICTORIA ROOMS Sat 29 2pm WORKSHOP Lab 4: Voice for Social Action ARNOLFINI Sat 29 7.30pm MUSIC University Symphony Orchestra VICTORIA ROOMS
PUBLIC EVENTS Sat 1 & Wed 5 November TOURS Wills Memorial tower tours Times Sat: 10.30am, 11am, 11.30am, 12pm & 12.30pm; Wed: 12.15pm & 12.30pm Venue Wills Memorial Building, Queen s Road, BS8 1RJ Admission 5 (concessions 3); Children aged 8-11 1 (no under 8 s). Advance booking recommended. To book, ask inside the Wills Memorial Building for the Head Porter or contact E tower-tours@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)7770 265 108 Supporting Wallace and Gromit s Grand Appeal - The Bristol Children s Hospital Charity Tue 4 November 10am - 4pm SHORT COURSE Mastering English Literature - registration 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 Romantic and Victorian literature, and modern and contemporary poetry. For course information and dates please visit the English Part-Time web page. Speaker Sally Coniam, Department of English Venue School of Humanities Student Support Office, 3/5 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB Admission Course fee 565, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/english/study/part-time/rel.html E english-lifelong@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 928 8924 Tue 4 November 10am - 4pm SHORT COURSE Reading English Literature - registration 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. You do not need to have any previous qualifications to apply. The most appropriate thing is to explain in your personal statement (on the application form) why you would like to study on the course. For course information and dates please visit the English Part-Time web page.
Speaker Dr Gareth Griffith, Department of English Venue School of Humanities Student Support Office, 3/5 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB Admission Course fee 360, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/english/study/part-time/rel.html E english-lifelong@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 928 8924 Tue 4 November 6pm - 7pm AUTUMN ART LECTURE The graphic experience of war: George Grosz in context Amongst British audiences George Grosz is largely known as a biting satirist who used his art as a form of political protest against the weaknesses, corruption and injustices he witnessed in Weimar Germany in the immediate aftermath of the First World War. A self-styled German Hogarth, during the 1920s Grosz s scathing visual critique of Weimar politics quickly attracted the attention of the authorities and he was tried three times for defamation, obscenity and blasphemy. A constant thorn in the side of the Weimar authorities, by the early 1930s he left Germany for a new life in the USA. This lecture will explore Grosz s artwork within the contexts of both Europe and America in the aftermath of the First World War and the outbreak of the second. How did Grosz s work compare with that of his contemporaries? Why were his politics increasingly ambivalent and how did America change his attitudes towards war-torn Europe? This lecture will consider these and other questions relating to the theme of war and conflict within the visual arts in Germany across the two world wars. Speaker Dr Dorothy Price, Department of History of Art (Historical Studies) Venue Wills Memorial Building, Queen s Road, BS8 1RJ Admission Free, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/pace/public-events/autumn-art-lectures E laura.bagley@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 928 8515 Wed 5 November 6pm - 7pm AMELIA EDWARDS LECTURE The two Tombs of Horemheb Horemheb began his career as a soldier in the Egyptian army during the fourteenth century BC, before becoming Regent for the young King Tutankhamun and, ultimately, king himself. This lecture describes and discusses the tombs he had built during these two stages of his career, one at Saqqara as a soldier-statesman, and one in the Valley of the Kings as king, in light of the excavations in which Dr van Dijk was a senior member of the teams.
Speaker Dr Jacobus van Dijk, University of Groningen, Netherlands Venue Reception Room, Wills Memorial Building, Queen s Road, BS8 1RJ Admission Free, no booking required. For further information W www.bristol.ac.uk/pace/public-events/amelia-edwards.html E laura.bagley@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 928 8515 Fri 7 November 6pm - 7pm INAUGURAL LECTURE Forever in new genes; discovering the genetic basis of rare diseases and congenital malformations Clinical geneticists and scientists work together using new genetic technologies to understand human genetic disorders. This has led to the discovery of essential genes, novel genetic mechanisms and the genetic basis of normal human development. Professor Newbury-Ecob will discuss her contribution to this field and explain how it helps patients. Speaker Professor Ruth Newbury-Ecob, School of Clinical Sciences Venue Reception Room, Wills Memorial Building, Queen s Road, BS8 1RJ Admission Free, no booking required. For further information W www.bristol.ac.uk/pace/public-events/inaugural E laura.bagley@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 928 8515
Sat 8 - Sun 30 November WORKSHOPS 5Hz labs 5Hz is a collaborative project by artist Emma Smith, psychologist and phonetician Laurence White, cognitive neuroscientist and psycholinguist Nina Kazanina and musicologist Emma Hornby. The project imagines an evolution of voice for the purpose of social bonding, based on biomedical and psychological research into vocal rhythm. Exploring the power of the voice to connect us to one another, 5Hz will evolve a new means of communication that imagines how we might sound had we prioritised human connection over the communication of explicit information in our development. Sat 8 - Sun 9 November 2pm - 5pm Lab 1: Vocalise to Socialise This weekend will focus on the evolution of the voice and its role in social bonding. Day one will explore the bio-medical and socio anthropological suggestions as to the origins of vocalization. Day two will explore the historic adaptations of voice, its uses and the socio historic moments of its adaptation. Sun 16 November 2pm - 5pm Lab 2: Beyond the word This lab will explore the potential of the voice to communicate emotive states and relations beyond explicit content and across social and linguistic boundaries looking at embodied cognition and auditory objects. Sun 23 November 2pm - 5pm Lab 3: Beating Brain This lab will explore the relationship between vocal, musical and neurological frequencies and their potential for synchronisation. Guest speaker Fred Cummins will speak on synchronization. Ian Cross will speak on the relationship between music and cognitive evolution. Sat 29 November 2pm - 5pm Lab 4: Voice for Social Action This lab will explore the use of voice for social solidarity looking at the use of voice and song for persuasion and protest. Venue Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, BS1 QA W www.arnolfini.org.uk/learning/projects/5hz
Sat 8 November 10.30am - 4pm DAY COURSE Tools for fiction writing This course will look at some of the key elements in any fiction writing - such as plot, character, and form - to help you start, improve or develop your stories. Speaker Louise Green, Department of English Venue 3/5 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB Admission Course fee 30, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/english/study/part-time/ E english-lifelong@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 928 8924 Sat 8 November 10.30am - 4pm DAY COURSE From Russia with Lovatt Spend a day in the company of the greatest short story writer of them all. Chekhov is renowned for his unrivalled understanding of the human mind and heart. Discover why Russians rate him even more highly as a prose writer than playwright. Caution! These stories may change your life. Texts: The Lady with the Little Dog and The Black Monk in Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov (Modern Library, 2000) Speaker Steven Lovatt, Department of English Venue 3/5 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB Admission Course fee 30, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/english/study/part-time/ E english-lifelong@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 928 8924 Sat 8 November 10.30am - 4pm DAY COURSE Writing about other people s lives This day will look at practical questions facing fiction and non-fiction writers when they write about others. How do you give a shape to a life? Can we ever really understand another person? Does a life end when a person dies? What can we learn from other people s lives? Speaker Sarah Bakewell, Department of English Venue 3/5 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB
Admission Course fee 30, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/english/study/part-time/ E english-lifelong@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 928 8924 Sat 8 November 10.30am - 4pm DAY COURSE The poetry of John Clare Nineteenth-century poet John Clare died in an asylum and wrote about the natural world. Find out about the huge range of Clare s work, from eighteenth-century landscape poems to experiments in writing down birdsong. We ll look at the natural world through his eyes; we ll feel his sorrow and his anger. Clare s poems shone with his sense of fun, musicality, and romance, and continue to do so today. Texts will be provided. Speaker Sue Edney, Department of English Venue 3/5 Woodland, Road BS8 1TB Admission Course fee 30, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/english/study/part-time/ E english-lifelong@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 928 8924 Mon 10 November 6pm - 8pm TALK Bristol s Elected Mayor - annual Mayoral address The second annual Mayor s lecture sees Mayor George Ferguson talking about the past year of delivery and the current state of the city s economy. He also reflects on Bristol achieving the status of European Green Capital and looks forward to Bristol 2015, talking about the programme and the likely impact this will have. A panel will debate with the mayor following the lecture. Speaker George Ferguson, Mayor of Bristol Venue Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building, Queen s Road, BS8 1RJ Admission Free, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2014/events/festival-of-economics-2014-the-mayors-annual-lecture/ E laura.bagley@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 928 8515
Mon 10 November 6pm - 7pm RICHARD GREGORY MEMORIAL LECTURE The Windows of Visibility: limits to human vision and their application to visual technology If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern. William Blake We do not see the world as it is, but only as fragments provided by our sensory apparatus. In this talk Andrew will explore the many narrow Windows of Visibility though which we view the visual world. Though these limitations, the eye reduces the infinitely complex whirring, buzzing confusion of reality to a finite sample of information that our brain can manage. Remarkably, understanding these limitations is also key to designing better visual display technology. Andrew will illustrate this idea with examples from video compression, display inspection, and high frame-rate movies. Speaker Dr Andrew Watson (NASA), Chief Vision Scientist at NASA Vision Group Venue Lecture Theatre 1, School of Chemistry, Cantock s Close, BS8 1TS Admission Free, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/vision-institute/events/2014working/71.html E j.hawkins@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 331 5759 Tue 11 November 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 11 November 6pm - 7pm AUTUMN ART LECTURE Paul Nash and Stanley Spencer I am no longer an artist interested and curious, I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting to those who want the war to go on for ever. Feeble, inarticulate, will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth, and may it burn their lousy souls. Paul Nash s embittered memories of the Western Front produced some of the most searing paintings of the First World War; his taut renditions introduced a new language of devastation to the genre of landscape. His canvases have become the leitmotifs of the battlefield, rendering visual the indescribable tragedy of war. This lecture will explore the barren, sightless, godless visual language of conflict by contrasting Nash s work with that of Stanley Spencer,
who served first in Bristol as a medical orderly, then on the forgotten front in Salonika. After the war Spencer recreated his memory of war, literally remembering the dis-membered fragments of the fighting on the walls of the Sandham Chapel in Burghclere, a place ranked alongside the poetry of Owen and Sassoon, and Britten s War Requiem, as amongst the most moving monuments to 20th-century war. Speaker Professor Paul Gough, RMIT University, Melbourne Venue Wills Memorial Building, Queen s Road, BS8 1RJ Admission Free, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/pace/public-events/autumn-art-lectures E laura.bagley@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 928 8515 Fri 14 - Sat 15 November 10am - 5pm Sun 16 November 10am - 3pm EXHIBITION Great British Bioscience Festival Professor Daniel Robert, from the School of Biological Sciences, and his team will be bringing their cutting-edge research on how bumble bees and flowers communicate using electric fields to the Great British Bioscience Festival. The Festival will feature more than 20 interactive exhibits from world-leading bioscience research groups to culminate a year-long programme of activities marking BBSRC s 20th Anniversary. Venue Museum Gardens, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA Admission Free, no booking required. For further information W www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/events/1411-gb-bioscience-festival-london.aspx E rebecca.kerby@bbsrc.ac.uk T +44 (0)179 341 3394 Fri 14 November 6pm - 7pm INAUGURAL LECTURE Homer s Deep Achilles, in his anguish, stares out from the Trojan shore. What does he see in the wine-dark sea? For an answer, we embark on an unexpected journey to Victorian Bristol, where John Addington Symonds looked back to Ancient Greece in order to look forward to the liberation of unspeakable love. Speaker Professor Shane Butler, Department of Classics and Ancient History Venue Reception Room, Wills Memorial Building, Queen s Road, BS8 1RJ Admission Free. No booking required. For further information W www.bristol.ac.uk/pace/public-events/inaugural E laura.bagley@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 928 8515
Sat 15 November 10.30am - 4pm DAY COURSE First draft to finish, creative writing Phew! You ve written a novel! Now the hard work begins. This course is for those who have completed a first draft of a novel and now need to turn all those words into something that others will want to read until three in the morning. The course will focus on elements such as conflict, suspense, engaging characters and compelling story lines to stop the reader s eyes from glazing over. Speaker Sarah Duncan, Department of English Venue Bath Royal Literary Scientific Institution, 16/18 Queen s Square, Bath, BA1 2HN Admission Course fee 30, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/english/study/part-time/shorts.html E english-lifelong@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 928 8924 Mon 17 November 2014-27 March 2015 Times Mon: 12pm - 4pm; Tuesday Friday: 10am - 4pm EXHIBITION Theatre Roundabout Showcasing the archive of a company with a unique touring history in the UK and overseas from 1960 to 2008. Venue Theatre Collection 21 Park Row, BS1 5LT Admission Free (please note Under 18s may be permitted by prior arrangement only), no booking required W www.bristol.ac.uk/theatrecollection/ E theatre-collection@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 331 5086 Mon 17 November 6pm - 7.30pm CABOT INSTITUTE ANNUAL LECTURE 2014 People, planet and profit - connecting local to global This prestigious event in the Great Hall will see Dr Peter Head CBE FREng FRSA describe his ground breaking work in integrating global and local economic, human and ecological information in a systems model and how this can be used to create the inclusive, resilient, sustainable development of a city or a whole region, including agriculture, forestry and marine management.
Speaker Dr Peter Head CBE FREng FRSA, The Ecological Sequestration Trust Venue Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building, Queen s Road, BS8 1RJ Admission Free, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/events/2014/505.html E cabot-enquiries@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 954 6339 Tue 18 November 6pm - 7pm AUTUMN ART LECTURE H G Wells: Mr Britling sees it Through, The Shape of Things to Come, Mind at the End of its Tether Maxim Gorky described H G Wells novel Mr Britling Sees it Through (1916) as the finest, most courageous, truthful, and humane book written in Europe in the course of this accursed war. It tells the story of an ordinary, easy-going man whose response to the war changes as he comes to realise that those he loves are in danger. Wells The Shape of Things to Come (1933) has come to be seen as a prophecy of the horrors of the Second World War and its aftermath, while Mind at the End of Its Tether (1945) was written in the wake of that conflict and is imbued with a spirit of despair. Christopher Frayling examines these works - with special reference to the film version of Things to Come (1936) made between the two conflicts - which explore the devastating impact of war upon humanity, and Wells vision for the future. Speaker Sir Christopher Frayling Venue Wills Memorial Building, Queen s Road, BS8 1RJ Admission Free, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/pace/public-events/autumn-art-lectures/ E laura.bagley@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 928 8515 Tue 25 November 6pm - 7pm AUTUMN ART LECTURE Lewis Milestone: from All Quiet on the Western Front to A Walk in the Sun Lewis Milestone made the greatest film about the First World War, All Quiet on the Western Front, and the greatest film about World War Two, A Walk in the Sun. One is a pacifist classic; the other a celebration of the American infantry in the Salerno landings. Milestone is one of Hollywood s finest if perhaps least known directors (he also made many other films about the Second World War including Edge of Darkness, The North Star, Our Russian Front and The Purple Heart). Andrew Kelly, author of books on Milestone s work as well as books on how cinema has covered the First World War, will look at how Lewis Milestone - and the wider Hollywood community - approached both world wars.
Speaker Andrew Kelly, Bristol Festival of Ideas and Visiting Professor at the University of the West of England Venue Wills Memorial Building, Queen s Road, BS8 1RJ Admission Free, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/pace/public-events/autumn-art-lectures/ E laura.bagley@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 928 8515 Wed 26 November 6pm - 7pm INAUGURAL LECTURE Putting a spin on light: twisting, tangling and topology in waves The flow of light or other waves is similar to water flowing in a river. Although it tends to travel in a particular direction, it can also flow in whirls and eddies. Professor Dennis will describe some examples of tangled waves, some application to optical imaging, and how to tie laser beams in knots. Speaker Professor Mark Dennis, School of Physics Venue Powell Lecture Theatre, HH Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, BS8 1TL Admission Free, no booking required. For further information W www.bristol.ac.uk/pace/public-events/inaugural E laura.bagley@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 928 8515 Christopher Frayling Andrew Kelly
Wed 26 November 6pm - 7pm INAUGURAL ELIZABETH BLACKWELL PUBLIC LECTURE The drugs don t work: the global threat of antibiotic resistance Dame Sally Davies has played a major role in the formation of the National Institute for Health Research and has spoken out on many topics of major importance in public health, including the threat of antibiotic resistance and the normalisation of being overweight. This Public Lecture is named after Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the USA and to be placed on the UK s medical register. Elizabeth was born in Bristol in 1821 and returned to the UK in 1859 to lecture at a social sciences congress held on the site now occupied by the Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building. Elizabeth Blackwell worked tirelessly throughout her life to improve public health. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception. Speaker Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department of Health Venue Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building, Queen s Road, BS8 1RJ Admission Free, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.dame-sally-davies.eventbrite.co.uk E ebih-admin@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 331 8293 Dame Sally Davies
THINKING FUTURES FESTIVAL Sat 1 - Tue 11 November FESTIVAL Thinking Futures, University of Bristol Festival of Social Sciences and Law This year s Thinking Futures invites the public to join us in an exciting programme of debates, performances, exhibitions and workshops that offer an insight into the innovative and collaborative social science and legal research undertaken at the University of Bristol. The Festival will open up discussions on national issues such as defence, care systems for an ageing population and the bedroom tax while at the same time examining how these and other concerns relate to a local perspective: what Bristol women want from the general election, how we can build Bristol as a future city and the health of our young children. Also up for discussion... Do musicians need to become entrepreneurs to survive the digital age? How does marketing cleverly shape our health? What is the future of sex and intimacy? How is violence portrayed on film and does it reflect reality? How can people with disabilities make unique contributions to resilient communities? How can poetry help us process climate change? What are promises and perils of new nuclear power plants? How do the women doing patchwork and quilting act as social glue? How can we understand the inside of the human body from social, artistic and scientific perspectives? Venues Various across the city Admission Free, booking may be required in advance. To view the full programme and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/thinking-futures E thinking-futures@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 331 8313 Hannah Hickman Andrew Morris, Crown Hannah Hickman
MUSIC Wed 5 November 1.15pm - 2pm MUSIC The Compass Quartet Piazzolla Oblivion ; Gershwin The Man I Love Performers The Compass Quartet Venue St Paul s Church, BS8 1LR Admission Free, no booking required. For further information W www.bris.ac.uk/music E music-resources@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 331 4044 Fri 7 November 1.15pm - 2pm MUSIC Wind Orchestra The Wind Orchestra will be playing a selection of classic wind orchestra repertoire along with some fantastic arrangements of orchestral pieces Performer Rosa Attree (conductor) Tue 11 November 4.30pm - 6pm PUBLIC LECTURE Postgraduate Composers Speakers Postgraduate Composers Wed 12 November 1.15pm - 2pm MUSIC Bristol University Madrigal Ensemble Join BUME in their first concert of the academic year in an exploration of British choral repertoire spanning five hundred years. Performer Elinor Cooper (conductor) Venue Victoria Methodist Church, Clifton, BS8 1NU
Fri 14 November 1.15pm - 2pm MUSIC Richard May (cello) Schnittke Suite in the Old Style, arr. Daniil Shafran (1972) Villa-Lobos (after JS Bach BWV 883): Preludio No.14 (1931) Shostakovich Sonata in D minor Op.40 (1934) Performers Richard May (cello), Olena Shvetsova (piano) Tue 18 November 4.30pm - 6pm PUBLIC LECTURE Katherine Williams Duke Ellington s Newport Up!: On Collecting, Liveness, and the Seductive Menace of Jazz Recordings Speaker Katherine Williams, University of Plymouth Wed 19 November 1.15pm - 2pm MUSIC University Chamber Choir The Chamber Choir presents its first concert of the academic year, with a programme featuring music from some of the 20th Century s most well-known British composers, as well as pieces by Tomkins and Poulenc. Performer Douglas Watts (conductor) Venue Victoria Methodist Church, 1A Whiteladies Road, BS8 1NU Fri 21 November 1.15pm - 2pm MUSIC University Singers A programme of music for Remembrance, including works to mark the Centenary of the outbreak of World War I. Composers to include Victoria and Vaughan Williams. Performer David Bednall (conductor) Tue 25 November 4.30pm - 6pm PUBLIC LECTURE Helen Reid (pianist) Communication in Music performance and its teaching and learning. Performer Helen Reid
Wed 26 November 1.15pm - 2pm MUSIC University Brass Band The Brass Band presents a varied programme, featuring arrangements of orchestral works and original brass band compositions, plus the winner of our soloist competition. Performer William Whiting (conductor) Venue St Paul s Church, St Paul s Road, Bristol, BS8 1LR Fri 28 November 1.15pm - 2pm MUSIC Postcards from Europe Postcards from Europe specialise in researching and playing virtuoso gypsy music and works by composers, all of whose lives were affected by the Rise of the Third Reich: those who became émigrés, such as Hans Gal and Alexander Zemlinsky, and those who perished in concentration camps, such as Erwin Schulhoff and Robert Dauber. A narrated recital tells their stories, gives them a voice and honours their lives. Performers Marianne Olyver (violin); Nigel Yandell (piano) Sat 29 November 7.30pm - 9.30pm MUSIC University Symphony Orchestra Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 4; Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Neal Farwell and the University Symphony Orchestra present two richly dramatic works, from opposite ends of the twentieth century. Performer Neal Farwell (conductor) Admission balcony 15 ( 10 concessions); stalls: 10 ( 7 concessions). Booking required in advance. Venue Victoria Rooms, Queen s Road, BS8 1SA unless otherwise stated Admission Free, no booking required unless otherwise stated. Some lunchtime concerts take place in the Recital Room of the Victoria Rooms with limited seating. For further information and to book (for bookable events) contact Concerts and Music Resources Office W www.bristol.ac.uk/music/events E music-resources@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 331 4044
BOTANIC GARDEN Sat 8 November 10am - 4pm WORKSHOP Beetles, butterflies and bees This watercolour painting workshop is for those who love insects and is designed to celebrate their hidden world. Participants will use high powered microscopes to produce beautiful, unique and detailed artwork. Speaker Cath Hodsman, a widely acknowledged wildlife artist Admission 50, booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/botanic-garden/events/2014/170.html E botanic-gardens@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 331 4906 Thu 20 November 7.30pm - 9pm PUBLIC LECTURE Enjoyment of gardening A former President of the Royal Horticultural Society and internationally renowned landscape architect, Elizabeth Banks s talk will range across her career including her RHS work and management of Hergest Croft Gardens, a 70 acre private collection of trees and shrubs Speaker Elizabeth Banks, President Emeritus, Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Venue Frank Lecture Theatre, School of Physics, Tyndall Avenue, BS8 1TL Admission Visitors will be asked to make a donation. Free for Friends of the Botanic Garden on production of membership card. No booking required. For further information W www.bristol.ac.uk/botanic-garden E botanic-gardens@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 331 4906 Cath Hodsman. Credit: Paul Hodsman (left) Botanic Garden. Credit: Nicholas Wray (right)
Sat 22 November 10am - 4pm WORKSHOP Calligraphy A one day workshop to learn about lettering and alphabets. These new skills will be applied to enhance greeting cards and bookmarks and develop knowledge of layout and presentation. Speaker Roma Widger Admission 35. Booking required in advance. For further information and to book W www.bristol.ac.uk/botanic-garden/events/2014/169.html E botanic-gardens@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 331 4906 Venue University of Bristol Botanic Garden, Stoke Park Road, BS9 1JG unless otherwise stated Admission Adults 3.50; children, Friends of the Botanic Garden, University staff and students free and no booking required unless otherwise stated. November opening hours Open Monday to Friday, from 10am until 4pm, or dusk if earlier W www.bristol.ac.uk/botanic-garden E botanic-gardens@bristol.ac.uk T +44 (0)117 331 4906
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