Events Guide
Ulster Festival of Art and Design
End of Year Show Opening Night
3rd June, 6 – 9pm. 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
Phil Campbell, 7th June 7pm
Belfast Campus, tickets: £6/3
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"Phil Campbell has been an architect, writer, game creator and designer of interactive entertainment for over 20 years. He has created game designs on everything from entire buildings to smart phones with companies such as, Electronic Arts, Sega, Marvel, Paramount, Sony and MTV.
Recent work includes new iterations of EA/Maxis favourites The Sims and Spore; writing dialogue for Marvel's Iron Man and Thor; creating new games based on family favourites Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and Snoopy; and developing a new generation of smart phone and iPad games with Glu Mobile.
Phil started his career as an architect, working for his Dad's firm, Dalzell and Campbell, in Northern Ireland, as well as Rolfe Judd in London. His most notable works include the design of Legoland in Windsor, (as well as concept designs for Legoland California and Disneyland, Paris), the Mezzanine at Tom Bradley International Terminal, LAX and the Ramore Restaurant in Portrush." - Ulster Festival of Art and Design
For more information and to book tickets please visit: www.ulsterfestival.com
Ulster Festival of Art and Design
Russell Mills, 8th June, 7pm
Belfast Campus, tickets: £6/3
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"Russell Mills works across a number of creative disciplines – fine art, multimedia, stage and lighting design and has produced record covers and book covers for a host of distinguished artists. In the 1980's he started to get commissions to design record album covers and packaging.
He has worked with: Brian Eno, Nine Inch Nails, Talking Heads, Michael Nyman, Miles Davis, Japan David Sylvian, Cocteau Twins, Bob Marley, Rain Tree Crow, Buckethead.
As a recording artist he has collaborated with musicians, such as The Edge, David Sylvian, Ian McCulloch and Peter Gabriel and has released 2 CDs with his recording project Undark. He has worked on stage and lighting design with a number of companies including Siobhan Davies Dance Company, London Contemporary Dance Theatre and David Sylvian.
Over the last 20 years his gallery work has evolved to use computer design applications such as PhotoShop. His trademark collage style is still frequently in evidence, but now in a virtual/digital form. He uses hand-drawn or painted imagery, often as part of a collage. He frequently incorporates images of water and sky, and negative space is a rarely to be found in his compositions. Russell's recent gallery work includes shows at Tullie House Art Gallery, Carlisle and Armitt Museum, Ambleside (with collaborator Ian Walton). " - Ulster Festival of Art and Design
For more information and to book tickets please visit: www.ulsterfestival.com
Ulster Festival of Art and Design
Pani Student Awards, 9th June
Belfast Campus. Free Entry!
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"This annual prize-giving event celebrates the best creative work of University of Ulster students working with the advertising industry through PANI – the Publicity Association of Northern Ireland. Small teams of students drawn from the Visual Communication course and Communication, Advertising and Marketing course are mentored by a range of agencies to create a new advertising campaign for a worthy cause.
Last year's winning team created a stunning and highly successful campaign for Action Cancer. This year the client is the Blood Transfusion Service. Come along and see the range of work created for this project and find out who will be behind this year's winning campaign." - Ulster Festival of Art and Design
For more information and to book 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, Free!
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 is free: Register Here
Event hosted by Atto + Winnie as part of Belfast Book Festival.