Events Guide
Ulster Festival of Art and Design
End of Year Show, 3rd - 11th June. Belfast Campus. Free Entry!
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"The End of Year Show is the University's annual large-scale exhibition mounted by the graduating students from the Faculty of Art, Design and the Built Environment. As part of the examining assessment, the culmination of their three years of study, final year students present their work. It is then reconfigured and transformed into a public exhibition covering some nine acres of the Belfast campus in York Street.
It is the country's biggest, most colourful and energetic exhibition space. Over 300 students at undergraduate and post-graduate level exhibit their work, spanning disciplines such as painting, textiles, architecture, interactive multi-media design, ceramics, jewellery, photography...This is an excellent opportunity to get a flavour of today's emerging talent and a hint of new directions and thinking in art and design.
The show is renowned as a showcase for innovation and edgy creativity. It's also the ideal moment to buy work from young up and coming stars." - Ulster Festival of Art and Design
RESERVATION REQUIRED FOR OPENING NIGHT!
For more information and to reserve tickets please visit: www.ulsterfestival.com
Ulster Festival of Art and Design
Creative Capital, 4th - 11th June. Belfast Campus. Free Entry!
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"The Festival commissioned staff from the University's photography course along with students on the Masters course to undertake a project involving new arts buildings which have recently opened or are due to open soon. Their work can be seen in a public exhibition, 'Creative Capital' on the Belfast campus. To add to the mix, we also invited two artists from the highly visual disciplines of painting and dance, to add their perspective to the exhibition.
Painter Colin Davidson and choreographer Nicola Curry took up the challenge to get behind the lens and produce images of their own interpretation. They were given a free rein to come up with shots that intrigued them within the context of their own artistic practice." - Ulster Festival of Art and Design
Saturday 4th June 9am - 5pm
Exhibition continues until Saturday 11th June
(Mon-Sat 9am-5pm, Thursday 9am-9pm)
For more information and to reserve tickets please visit: www.ulsterfestival.com
Ulster Festival of Art and Design
Cennydd Bowles, 10th June 7pm
Belfast Campus. Tickets: £6/3
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"Cennydd is a user experience designer – he tries to make technology useful, usable and enjoyable. He thinks, writes and practices information architecture, interaction design and usability. He currently works with Clearleft (Design Agency of the Year 2009), where he advises clients including Samsung, The Open University, Gumtree and WWF on the benefits of putting users first. He also shapes the design and strategy of Clearleft's pioneering web fonts application, Fontdeck.
Cennydd is co-author of Undercover User Experience Design, acclaimed as "a must have for your bookshelf". It is a pragmatic guide from the front lines, giving frank advice on making UX work in real companies with real problems. It explains how to fit research, generating ideas, prototyping and testing into the daily workflow, and how to design good user experiences under the all-too-common constraints of time, budget and culture.
Clearleft is a world-class team of designers and creative technologists. Their goal is to advance the field of user experience through writing, conferences and the quality of their work. They are considered to be one of the most experienced UX consultancies working today, using their understanding of human behaviour to create digital experiences that are easy and delightful to use. Clients include Channel 4 News, British Film Institute, and the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Cennydd is an exhilarating and very well accomplished speaker – entertaining and eye-opening. He will talk about the world of user experience design and its growing significance to web design." - Ulster Festival of Art and Design
For more information and to book tickets please visit: www.ulsterfestival.com
Pecha Kucha Night Belfast
14th June, The Black Box, £3
Pecha Kucha Night is coming to The Black Box Belfast on the 14th June. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with this format, Pecha Kucha provides the platform for creative's to present their work/ideas via 20 slides/20 seconds per slide. Make sure you register, as this promises to be an exhilarating and inspirational evening, one not to be missed!
The Speakers (a few more to be announced):
Chelley McLear — Poet
Ciaran Murray — Fresh Made Media
Gillian Colhoun — Design Writer
John McDermott — AV Browne
Josephine McCormick — Artist and Printmaker
Rick Monro — Tibus
Rory O'Connor and Anita Murphy — The Creativity Hub
Shelly Wilson — Front
Black Box, Belfast
14th June at 7pm
Admission £3 (all proceeds to Japan): Register Here
Event hosted by Atto + Winnie as part of Belfast Book Festival.