Workshops | Talks | Films
CIÚNAS lecture | Bernadette Divilly
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Illustrated lecture on the creation and development of CIÚNAS, exploring power, presence and place. Bernadette will give some background to this project and discuss the creative process, the challenges and playful investigations involved. The project evolved in collaboration with the NUI Galway Arts Office and Múscailt Arts Festival.
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Tuesday, March 7, 12pm, Bank of Ireland Theatre
Tuning your instrument by ear. A workshop for beginners with Michael Shields
Most if not all music is based on tuning. If you can tune by ear, listening to overtones and octaves instead of by app, it makes you hear and play the music better, as well as being therapeutic. Interested participants will have a chance to try out their tuning skills. No tuning experience is needed - just ears.
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Tuesday, March 7, 1pm, Bank of Ireland Theatre
Altered States: Film Presentation and talk
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Katherine Waugh will give a talk with a selection of film clips on the subject of how the history of cinema is a history of perceptual transformation – transforming and subverting conventional ideas on time and space, the human and non-human, and life itself. Her talk will be illustrated with examples from many underrated Hollywood classics, B-Movies with a penchant for philosophy, and experimental film.
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Thursday, March 9, 5pm, Bank of Ireland Theatre
Exploring the colours and decorative motifs of
medieval glass beads | Dr Mags Mannion
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Glass beads have been a popular and important aspect of body ornament from earliest times. Human engagement with beads however extends far beyond their use as jewelry. Beads are known to have been used as amulets to ward off danger, to convey unspoken complex social messages, as mnemonic devices in traditional Scandinavian storytelling, as non-verbal communicators among native North Americans, and as symbolically charged objects among enslaved Americans. The study of body ornament therefore allows an insight into the social and cultural structures and beliefs of society and provides a means of exploring the ways in which individuals and societies engaged with each other. This presentation will explore the variety of colours and decorative motifs medieval artisans employed to produce an astonishing variety of uniquely individual glass beads.
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Dr Mags Mannion is a glass bead specialist. Mags completed a PhD with the Archaeology Department in NUI Galway, developing a classification of early medieval beads from Ireland. She teaches graduate and postgraduate modules with the Archaeology Department and has presented her research in publications and at both Irish and international conferences, most recently at the 8th International Congress of the AFAV on Medieval glass in Western Europe in Besancon France.
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As a glass bead artist, Mags has given bead making demonstrations and classes to undergraduates and MA students, and also at public events such as Nuig Aisiri, heritage week in Athenry, Shorelines Festival Portumna, Loughrea Medieval Festival and Claregalway Castle Christmas Market among others.
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Thursday, March 9, 8pm, Bank of Ireland Theatre
Intro and Screening of Jacques Tati's Mr Hulot's Holiday
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Katherine Waugh will introduce a screening of Jacques Tati’s Mr Hulot’s Holiday, a film widely regarded as a comic masterpiece, yet behind the comic brilliance lies a sharp critique of rampant consumerism and behavioural and social standardisation. Tati was a master of the art of transforming what appear to be merely slapstick misadventures into resistant if charming acts of non-conformism.
Loved and admired by most great directors, Tati was as innovative as he was mischievous – inventing new cinematic techniques to facilitate his unique Tatiesque vision of the world.
Both David Lynch and Wes Anderson have written on his pioneering use of sound in film, and Jean-Luc Godard commented “What interests Tati is: Everything and Nothing. Blades of grass, a kite, children, a little old man, everything which is at once real, bizarre and charming”.
Katherine Waugh is a writer , curator and filmmaker based in Galway.
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Friday, March 10, 1pm, The Cube, Áras na Mac Léinn
