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A FESTIVAL OF IDEAS, RESEARCH & COLLABORATION EXPLORING LIFE & DEATH

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SCIENCE
FESTIVAL
1623 MARCH 2014

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4 8 13 16 18 20 26 36 38 Concerts Conversation Pieces Exhibitions Performance Screenings Listings Talks & Lectures Workshops Culture Off Campus

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Festival Hub
Say hello to our festival volunteers at the Arts & Science Festival information desk. Based in the Atrium of Muirhead Tower (R21 on the campus map), you can pick up a festival brochure, leave feedback, ask for directions, and speak to the team regarding anything Arts & Science Festival related! Opening hours are Monday 17 to Friday 21 March, 11am6pm daily.
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Were delighted to welcome you to the University of Birminghams Arts Science Festival. Now in its second year, the festival is a weeklong celebration of ideas, research and collaboration across campus. This year event organisers were invited to respond to the theme of Life & Death and we have been overwhelmed with the wide-ranging perspectives from which this theme has been approached from Professor Alice Roberts exhibition and talk exploring The Art of Anatomy (pages 14 and 34) to Professor Carl Chinns lecture inhabiting Life and Death in Back-Street Birmingham (page 35) theres something for everyone. At the heart of the festival programme lies Conversation Pieces (pages 812), an inter-disciplinary series of talks which brings together leading academics, artists and scientists. Working in partnership with Eastside Projects, were delighted to welcome Turner prize winning artist Susan Phillipsz, who will talk about her sound-based works which cross the boundaries between art and science, and Scottish artist Bill Drummond who joins us for a special lecture exploring the Life and Death of an Artist. The UKs Consul General in Chicago has described UoBs record of working in collaboration with cultural organisations and SMEs as the Birmingham model a model that should be emulated by other cities. This year we continue to work in partnership with leading organisations from across the region launching with Mozarts Requiem (page 4) at Birmingham Town Hall on Sunday 16 March and closing with a UK premiere presented by Flatpack Festival at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts on Sunday 23 March. In between are exciting collaborations with Eastside Projects, Ikon Gallery, Newman Brothers Cofn Works and Writing West Midlands. We hope you will enjoy icking through our festival brochure the ambition of the festival is to keep the conversation between arts and science alive. It is our belief that the debate is most lively not in the separation of arts and science, but in the spaces between.

Introduction

Professor Ian Grosvenor

Concerts

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Concerts

Final Year Recitalists

Monday 17 March, 12.30pm Bramall Music Building, The Dome, 3rd Floor (R12 on map) Admission free, no booking required Final year music students perform a selection of works from their end of year recital programmes. Holly Radford voice Ruth Sanderson violin Li Hsing Tan piano Presented by Department of Music

Postgraduate Lecture Recitals

Thursday 20 March, 10am1pm Bramall Music Building, The Dome, 3rd Floor (R12 on map) Admission free, no booking required Masters students give informative lecture recitals as part of their studies at the University. 10am, Lauren Gregory piano 11am, Luying He piano 12pm, Charlotte Rice ute Presented by Department of Music

Launch concert:

Mozarts Requiem

University Chorus & Philharmonic Orchestra

Sunday 16 March, 6pm Town Hall, Birmingham city centre 15/ 10 concession/ 5 students + transaction fee. Tickets may be purchased online: www.thsh.co.uk or by telephone: 0121 345 0603 Launching Arts & Science Festival, Simon Halsey leads the University Chorus in a performance of one of the cornerstones of the chorus and orchestra repertory, Mozarts nal work, the Requiem Mass. In contrast the Philharmonic Orchestra perform Coplands popular Appalachian Spring and Mahlers Blumine, a work originally penned in 1884 and considered by many to be a gesture of love from the composer to Joanna Richter. Presented by Department of Music

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Barber Lunchtime Concert:

Alexander Panfilov
Friday 21 March, 1.10pm The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Concert Hall (R14 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please call the Barber Box Ofce on 0121 414 7333 to reserve a place Winner of the 2013 Brant International Pianoforte Competition, Alexander Panlov performs a selection from Debussys Estampes, along with the second edition of Rachmaninoffs Sonata No.2. Hailing from Moscow, Alexander studied in his home city before winning a scholarship in 2012 to study at the Royal Northern College of Music. He has won numerous prizes including rst prize at the Arcangelo Speranza competition in Taranto, Italy in 2013. Debussys Estampes: Pagodes, La soiree dans Grenade, Jardins sous la pluie Rachmaninoff: Sonata No. 2 (second edition)

University Symphony Orchestra

Sunday 23 March, 6pm Bramall Music Building, Elgar Concert Hall (R12 on map) 10/ 8 concessions/ 3 students. Tickets may be purchased on the door, or reserved by email: musicboxofce@contacts.bham.ac.uk The University Symphony Orchestra performs the eighth of Vaughan Williams nine symphonies, in which the composer shows a new desire for experimentation with tone and colour. This work includes a marchstyle movement solely for the wind section, followed by a movement for strings, and features a wider variety of percussion instruments than utilized in the previous seven symphonies. We also feature the winner of the annual University Music Society concerto competition, Joshua Rohde, who will perform Elgars Cello Concerto, and the orchestra gives the premiere performance of Simeon Lileys Edgbaston in the Rain. Presented by Department of Music

Binchois Consort, Birmingham University Singers & University Womens Choir

Friday 21 March, 7.30pm Bramall Music Building, Elgar Concert Hall (R12 on map) 10/ 8 concessions/ 3 students. Tickets may be purchased on the door, or reserved by email: musicboxofce@contacts.bham.ac.uk Simon Halsey directs a performance of David Langs The Little Match Girl Passion, a setting of Hans Christian Andersens fable about the dreams and hopes of a dying child, scored for voices and percussion in the format of Bachs St Matthew Passion. Lang elevated the suffering of the little match girl with poignant, evocative music, reecting the comparison between Andersens original fable and the suffering of Jesus. Members of University Singers and the University Womens Choir are joined by the award winning Binchois Consort for a performance of Renaissance motets by composers including Isaac, Mouton, Brumel and Obrecht under the direction of Andrew Kirkman. Presented by Department of Music

Conversation Pieces

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Conversation Pieces

Conversation Pieces
At the heart of the festival programme lies Conversation Pieces; a series of talks and discussions with leading academics, researchers, artists and scientists who cross the boundaries between arts and science and embrace inter-disciplinarity.

Chant on the Wings of Gabriel: Islamic Sound Art

Tuesday 18 March, 56pm Bramall Music Building, The Dome, 3rd Floor (R12 on map) Admission free, booking required* Join academics, researchers, artists and musicians for this interdisciplinary conversation exploring Qawwali, a form of Su devotional music stretching back more than 700 years. Drawing together experts in music, physics, archaeology, digital cultures and theology, the newly established Qawwali Research Unit, led by Tasawar Bashir, will explore the ontology and theology of sound through informal discussion and examples of sound works.

& temporal reflection on the fashions of death & burial

Egyptian Anthropoid Wooden Cofn Lid of Ahmose, painted wood, circa 550B.C.E., Research and Cultural Collections

Dead fashionable: a cultural

Monday 17 March, 5.306.30pm Arts Building,The Archaeology Museum, 3rd Floor (R16 on map) Admission free, booking required* Join Meagan Mangum, Classical Archaeology, and Simon Buteux and Sarah Hayes from Newman Brothers Cofn Works in conversation about graves, cofn ttings and burial practices through the ages; both in ancient cultures and closer to home. This session explores how times of social change are reected in burial artefacts; from the Greek Archaic, Roman and Egyptian cultures through Medieval and Victorian Birmingham, right up to the end of the 1990s. Presented by Research and Cultural Collectionsin partnership with Newman Brothers Cofn Works

Life and Death in Chekhov

Tuesday 18 March, 121pm The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Lecture Theatre (R14 on map) Admission free, booking advised* In this conversation, Rose Whyman and Michael Toolan will discuss the theme of life and death in Anton Chekhov's major plays and stories and Chekhov's own life and death, the circumstances of which have been inspirational for a number of other authors. Presented by Cultural Engagement in partnership with EDACS

Presented by Qawwali Research Unit and the Department of Music

* For booking please email artsandscience@contacts.bham.ac.uk

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Bill Drummond, Head Painting 13 (Red & Blue), 2013. Image courtesy Eastside Projects

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Susan Philipsz: Study for Strings and other Scores

Tuesday 18 March, 6.307.30pm The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Concert Hall (R14 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please email artsandscience@contacts.bham.ac.uk Join us for this very special guest lecture by 2010 Turner Prize winning artist Susan Philipsz, who will discuss her practice, which sits primarily with the medium of sound. Berlin based, Philipsz investigates musical and literary sources and specic historical constellations, frequently using familiar tunes and pop songs, performed in her own voice and recorded. She creates acoustic environments that relate to the particularities of carefully selected locations. Recently in Documenta 13, Kassel, and Hamburger Bahnof, Berlin she has made increasing use of instrumental compositions,reconstructingworks through multi-channel sound installations. Philipsz is developing a solo exhibition for Eastside Projects in Birmingham for September later this year. Presented by Cultural Engagement in partnership with Eastside Projects www.eastsideprojects.org

Bill Drummond: Life and Death of an Artist

Wednesday 19 March, 7.158.15pm Bramall Music Building, Elgar Concert Hall (R12 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please email artsandscience@contacts.bham.ac.uk Scottish artist Bill Drummond has infamously used various media in his practice including actions, music and words. His actions far too numerous to list, but range from creating record labels to making Oak Rings; his music from the multi-million selling KLF to the choral music of The17; the words have accumulated into a pile of books. Drummonds work of the last twelve years is catalogued at www.penkilnburn.com and his current exhibition The 25 Paintings is at Eastside Projects in Birmingham 15 March 14 June 2014 and is the start of his 20142025 World Tour.
Susan Philipsz, Study for Strings, Kassel Hauptbahnhof, Kassel, 2012

Presented by Cultural Engagement in partnership with Eastside Projects www.eastsideprojects.org

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Exhibitions
The Handsworth Scroll: Radical Politics on the High Street
Friday 21 March, 1.302.30pm Arts Building, The Danford Room, 2nd Floor (R16 on map) Admission free, booking required. Please email artsandscience@contacts.bham.ac.uk Join Artists in Residence louie+jesse and Historian Dr Kieran Connell for the rst chance to view this nine-metre public artwork, a street newspaper made in Handsworth in the 1970s. Participate in a round-table discussion about collaboration, archives and community politics then and now. This talk is presented as part of the CCCS at 50 project. Presented by Cultural Engagement in partnership with CCCS at 50 www.cccs50.co.uk

1960s Art & Architecture Tour

Saturday 22 March, 12.30pm The tour starts at at the Paolozzi statue, Westgate, at the entrance to University of Birmingham, B15 2FG Admission free, booking required. To book please visit ikon-gallery.org or telephone 0121 248 0708 Join university curator Clare Mullett and staff from Birminghams Ikon Gallery for a unique walking tour of the University of Birminghams Fine Art collection and the 1960s architecture of its campus. Highlights include work by Peter Lanyon, Eduardo Paolozzi and Ikon founder David Prentice. Presented by Research and Cultural Collectionsin partnership with Ikon Gallery

Cancer: Up Close & Personal

Wednesday 19 March, 10am5pm The Barber Institute of Fine Arts (R14 on map) Admission free, no booking required Cancer comes in many shapes and forms, but have you ever had chance to take a look at cells up close? This exhibition shows a selection of fascinating cell images, showing the incredible detail of cancer in its various forms. Visitors can look down microscopes to see cancer tissue samples up close, and add to a public gallery by sketching/writing what cancer means to them. Therell also be cancer researchers working at the University of Birmingham on hand; visitors can discuss the images and the progress we are making locally in tackling cancer. Presented by School of Cancer Sciences

Living Classics in the Modern Community

Monday 17 Thursday 20 March, 9am5pm Arts Building, 3rd Floor landing (R16 on map) Admission free, no booking required An exhibition displaying entries to the Birmingham and Midlands Classical Associations Multiculturalism in the Ancient World poster competition. Entries have been designed by local school pupils and showcase the ways in which classics is accessible and relevant in the modern world particularly in our local community. Presented by School of History and Cultures

Image courtesy LRI EM department

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The Art of Anatomy

Monday 17 Friday 21 March, 9am6pm (exhibition continues to 6 June 2014) Muirhead Tower, Atrium (R21 on map) Admission free, no booking required Exhibition of how artists have depicted the dissected human body in anatomical literature from the time of Vesalius (1543) onwards, selected from the Universitys Special Collections by Professor Alice Roberts, including works from publications by Albinus, Bell, Cheselden, Bidloo and Cowper. Presented by Special Collections: Cadbury Research Library

Exhibitions at the Barber Institute

All exhibitions open 1721 March, 10am5pm & 2223 March, 11am5pm The Barber Institute of Fine Arts (R14 on map)

Family Circles:

British Portrait Miniatures of Children and Families

Exhibition continues to 26 May 2014 The family and how its members are depicted on portrait miniatures is the theme of this display of outstanding small British (and one French) masterpieces from two important English private collections. Complementing the exhibition Rubys Room, it includes delightful and intimate little portraits of children, brothers, husbands and wives, as well as groups of miniatures depicting members of particular families or dynasties. Among artists represented are Isaac and Peter Oliver (themselves father and son), Nicholas Dixon, Bernard Lens, James Scouler, John Smart and William Ross, some of the very greatest masters of the genre working between the 17th and 19th centuries.

Rubys Room:

Photographic Miniatures by Bettina von Zwehl

Exhibition continues to 26 May 2014 An intriguing eye miniature in the collection of the V&A Museum, London is the starting point for this series of recent work by renowned contemporary photographer Bettina von Zwehl. While producing a series of works inspired by historic painted portrait miniatures in the V&A and Baths Holburne Museum, Von Zwehl encountered a variant of the genre briey fashionable in early 19thcentury England, which featured paintings of single eyes from the members of one family. Rubys Room is her response an exploration of her own family connections through immaculate and beautifully composed photographic portraits. Rubys Room was commissioned by the Holburne Museum and is supported by Arts Council England.

Images of Research What is it to be human?

Image courtesy Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections

Monday 17 Friday 21 March, 9am5pm European Research Institute, PTR Social Space, 1st Floor (G3 on map) Admission free, no booking required An exhibition of short answers will be on display throughout Arts & Science Festival week as part of a student presentation competition in which participants were asked to deliver a presentation in answer to the question What is it to be human? Presented by School of Philosophy, Theology & Religionin association with GRAB (Great Read at Birmingham)

Thursday 20 March, 123pm University Centre, Avon Room, -2nd Floor (R23 on map) Admission free, booking required. Book online at www.graduateschool.bham.ac.uk A picture is often said to say a thousand words, but can it sum up an entire research project? The University Graduate Schools Images of Research event challenges the Universitys postgraduate researchers to do just that encapsulate their research in just one image. Everyone is welcome to come along, enjoy the images and speak to our researchers. There is also a public vote for the most engaging image, and refreshments are provided. Presented by University Graduate School

New Art West Midlands Exhibition continues to 27 April 2014

Cheryl Howard, Escaping, 2013

A feminist re-interpretation of fairytale Little Red Riding Hood, the urban landscape, and the relationships between people and their environment and between art and medical science are among the many diverse subjects and themes explored by emerging artists in this years New Art West Midlands. Created in as wide a range of media including acrylic, screen printing, photography, collage, textiles and found objects this multi-site, selective award exhibition showcases work by new artists who have graduated in the last three years from the ve West Midlands university art schools. All above exhibitions presented by The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

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Performance
Mad(e) in Hades
Wednesday 19 March, 89.30pm Hills Building, Room 1.20 (R3 on map) Pay-what-you-can on the night, bookings can also be made in advance. Please email drama@contacts.bham.ac.uk Greeting, my house! And greeting, doorway to my hearth! What happiness to see you, as I come at last Back to the living world! Having dealt with the three-headed guard dog of Hades, Heracles returns home to save his family from the tyrannical Lycus. Unfortunately for his own wife and children, Heracles killing has only just begun..... Written by students of the University of Birminghams Masters Playwriting course, under the guidance of Course Convenor and playwright Fraser Grace, these three new solo plays present a startlingly modern take on ancient story. Directed with a professional cast by Robert Ball, in a script-in-hand performance, this event aims to raise funds for the annual Playwrights Workshop, which will showcase student thesis plays later in the year. Support your local playwrights! Presented by Department of Drama & Theatre Arts

Shakespeare Unbard
Monday 17 March, 66.35pm Venue to be conrmed, please see festival website for details Admission free, no booking required Dear Shakespeare If you could ask Shakespeare anything, what would it be? Students from The Shakespeare Institute invite you to join them for a performance which explores questions about how societies over time have celebrated Shakespeare, and his relevance to individuals and communities today. Tweet your questions to @ShakesUnbard, or share them using #dearshakespeare. Presented by The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham

Bill Drummond
Wednesday 19 March, 124pm Chancellors Court (R6 on map) Admission free, no booking required Scottish artist Bill Drummond leads a durational performance on the University of Birmingham campus as part of his forthcoming exhibition The 25 Paintings at Eastside Projects. Drummond may be making a wooden bed, giving away bunches of daffodils or sweeping a line. It will be one of his 25 projects being performed across Birmingham from March to June. Presented by Cultural Engagement in partnership with Eastside Projects www.eastsideprojects.org

Mary Shelley
Thursday 20, Friday 21 & Saturday 22 March, 7.309pm George Cadbury Hall, 998 Bristol Rd, Selly Oak Campus 7 or 5 for full time students, UoB staff, under 16s and over 60s. Book online at www.shop.bham.ac.uk In 1814 the teenage Mary Godwin meets the radical Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley for the rst time. Their love is instant, passionate and irreversible. In the face of parental opposition and social scandal they elope to Europe in search of personal and artistic freedom. Helen Edmundsons compelling play charts the emotional fallout of this legendary affair and the emergence of Mary as the brilliant author of Frankenstein. Presented by Department of Drama & Theatre Arts

Bill Drummond. Image courtesy Eastside Projects

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Screenings
Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons Dont Fear Death. Image courtesy Flatpack Festival

Ken Loachs Save The Children Fund Film

Tuesday 18 March, 5.306.30pm Aston Webb, Lecture Theatre WG5 (R6 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please email artsandscience@contacts.bham.ac.uk The previously banned, Save the Children Fund Film, directed by Ken Loach and produced by Tony Garnett, is a documentary about the work of Save the Children, a British-based charity working for children around the world. Shot in 1969 in the UK, Kenya and Uganda, the lm was originally commissioned by Save the Children and London Weekend Television to mark the Charitys ftieth anniversary. Already an established lmmaker, Loach opened the documentary with a quotation from Friedrich Engels, and constructed a lm that explores the politics of poverty, class and charities and the relationship between them. The lm, however, was promptly withdrawn from release and kept in the BFIs national archive; Save the Children representatives at the time felt it subverted their aims. Banned until 2011, we are delighted to present the second ever public screening of this lm. After the screening Professor Matthew Hilton will lead a Q&A session with Juliano Fiori, Humanitarian Affairs Adviser from Save the Children. Presented by the Centre for Modern British Studies and the Institute of Advanced Studies Saving Humans

Saving Mothers Lives

Monday 17 March, 12.301.15pm Aston Webb, WG12 (R6 on map) Admission free, booking required. Please email h.m.williams.1@bham.ac.uk There are still some places in the world where a girl is more likely to die in childbirth than receive education. 800 mothers die in childbirth or as a result of pregnancy-related complications everyday. And for every woman who dies, it is estimated that another 20 mothers are left with serious injury or long term illness. Most of these tragedies are avoidable. Ammalife a charity working at the forefront of global womens health presents a short lm programme to show how you can make a difference. Presented by School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Filming the Inevitable

Monday 17 March, 12.301.45pm The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Lecture Theatre (R14 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please email artsandscience@contacts.bham.ac.uk Since the pioneering days of cinema in the late 19th century, death, murder, and suicide have always been portrayed on lm. Over a century later, these subjects are as prevalent as ever for lmmakers. Flatpack Film Festival curates a programme of lms that explore how contemporary short lmmakers and animators are dealing with the theme of death. The programme includes the award-winning Animals I Killed Last Summer, which touches on Freuds psychoanalytic theory that there is evil within every one of us; Birmingham-based animator Louis Hudsons festival hit Dont Fear Death, a whimsical look at the positives of being dead, and I think this is the closest to how the footage looked, an experimental documentary in which a man with poor means recreates a lost memory of the last day with his mother. This is a drop-in screening, dont worry if you cant stay for the duration. Presented by Flatpack Festival in partnership with Cultural Engagement

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Event

Category Concert Exhibition Talk Screening Talk Talk Screening Screening Screening Talk Workshop Screening

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Event Category Concert Concert Screening Screening Venue Town Hall, Bham City Centre Time 18.00 Price Page

Thursday 20 March

Postgraduate Lecture Recitals Images of Research When Life Means Death Victorian Magic Lantern Show Why We Die Creative Minds: Michael Longley The Stuart Hall Project Understanding Nature

Bramall Music Building, The Dome 10.0013.00 University Centre, Avon Room Law Building, Lecture Theatre 2 Winterbourne House & Garden 12.0015.00 12.3013.30 12.0013.00 + 14.0015.00

Watson Bldg., Lecture Theatre C 13.3014.30 Bramall Bldg., Elgar Concert Hall 17.1518.30 Arts Building, Lecture Room 5 Physics West, Room 117 Muirhead Tower, Room 710 Arts Building, Lecture Room 1 Lapworth, Aston Webb, A Block Muirhead Tower, G15 17.1520.00 17.3020.00 17.3020.00 18.0019.00 18.3019.30 19.0021.00

Sunday 16 March Monday 17 March

Urban Islam What do we know about the Vikings now? Written in Stone: Mass Extinctions Life and Death and the Social Action Film

Mozarts Requiem Final Year Recitalists Saving Mothers Lives Filming the Inevitable

15/10/5 4 Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 5 19 18 26 26 8 17 27 9 27 27 9 28 19 10 22 36 13 16 28 36 28 29 29 30 22 31 30 37 11 Thurs 20 to Sat 22 March Mon 17 to Sun 23 March Mon 17 to Thu 20 March Mon 17 to Fri 21 March

Bramall Music Building, The Dome 12.30 Aston Webb, WG12 12.3013.15

Barber Institute, Lecture Theatre 12.3013.45 Arts Building, Lecture Room 5 Biosciences Building, E102 Arts Building, Archae. Museum Tbc see website for details Haworth Bldg., Lecture Theatre 13.0015.00 17.0019.00 17.3018.30 18.0018.35 19.00

Friday 21 March

Voices of War and Peace: the Great War Launch Back-to-back and Up the Yard The Art of Anatomy Alexander Panlov The Handsworth Scroll: Radical Politics 366 Days of Kindness: A Talk Life Before Death Understanding Nature Binchois Consort
Talk Talk Concert C. Pieces Talk Screening Screening Concert C. Pieces Screening Concert

Library of Bham, Studio Theatre 12.0014.30 Arts Building, Lecture Room 7 Muirhead Tower, G15 Barber Institute, Concert Hall 13.0014.00 13.1013.50 13.10

Mental Illness: Philosophy, Ethics & Society Talk Life Echo Dead Fashionable Shakespeare Unbard Preventing Heart Attacks
Talk C. Pieces Performance Talk C. Pieces Talk Talk C. Pieces Talk Screening C. Pieces Screening Hub Exhibition Performance

Arts Building, The Danford Room 13.3014.30 ERI Building, G51 Arts Building, Lecture Room 3 Muirhead Tower, G15 15.3017.30 17.3018.30 17.3020.00

Tuesday 18 March

Life and Death in Chekhov Jo Ind: 50 Shades of Gold Mortality Matters Chant on the Wings of Gabriel Bham Great War Centenary Lecture Ken Loachs Save the Children Fund Film Susan Phillipsz: Study for Strings MA Film & TV Documentary Screenings

Barber Institute, Lecture Theatre 12.0013.00 Winterbourne House & Garden Barber Institute, Galleries 12.3013.30 13.1513.45

Bramall Bldg., Elgar Concert Hall 19.30 Start at Paolozzi statue, West Gate 13.0014.30 Barber Institute, Concert Hall 15.0017.00

Bramall Music Building, The Dome 17.0018.00 Arts Building, Lecture Room 3 Aston Webb, WG5 Barber Institute, Concert Hall Muirhead Tower, G15 Muirhead Tower, Atrium Barber Institute, Foyer Chancellors Court Law Building, Room 111 Barber Institute, Galleries Arts Building, Lecture Room 8 Arts Building, Lecture Theatre 1 Arts Building, Lecture Theatre 2 Law Building, Lecture Theatre 2 Muirhead Tower, G15 ERI Building, G51 Nufeld, G13 Lapworth, Aston Webb, A Block 17.3019.00 17.3018.30 18.3019.30 19.3021.30 11.0016.00 10.0017.00 12.0016.00 12.301.30 14.0015.00 14.1516.00 14.3016.00 16.0017.00 17.0019.00 17.3020.00 18.0019.00 18.0019.00 18.3019.30

Saturday 22 March Sunday 23 March

1960s Art and Architecture Tour PHONO-CINEMA-THEATRE University Symphony Orchestra

Bramall Bldg., Elgar Concert Hall 18.00

Wednesday 19 March Macrophages: The Cells that Save

Cancer: Up Close & Personal Bill Drummond: Performance

Representing Animals in Scientic Journals Talk Arts History Speed Workshop What is is to be human? In our digital age books have? Living Classics in Modern Community Prison Life: Inside & Out Understanding Nature Re-visualising the Inglorious Dead Dying for Sex Written in Stone: Lifes diversication Bill Drummond: Life & Death of an Artist Mad(e) in Hades
Workshop Talk Talk Talk Talk Screening Talk Talk Workshop C. Pieces Performance

Events over multiple days

Event Category Exhibition Exhibition Exhibition Exhibition Exhibition Exhibition Performance Venue Arts Building, 3rd Floor Landing Philosophy, Theology, Religion Social Space, ERI Building Muirhead Tower, Atrium Time 9.0017.00 9.0017.00 9.0018.00 Price Free Free Free Free Free Free 7/5 Page 13 14 14 15 15 15 17

Living Classics in the Modern Community What is is to be human? The Art of Anatomy New Art West Midlands Family Circles: British Portrait Miniatures Ruby's Room by Bettina von Zwehl Mary Shelley

Barber Institute of Fine Arts 10.0017.00 Sat/Sun Opening Times: 11.0017.00 Barber Institute of Fine Arts 10.0017.00 Sat/Sun Opening Times: 11.0017.00 Barber Institute of Fine Arts 10.0017.00 Sat/Sun Opening Times: 11.0017.00 George Cadbury Hall, Selly Oak 19.3021.00

Bramall Bldg., Elgar Concert Hall 19.1520.15 Hills Building, Room 1.20

20.0021.30 Pay what 17 you can

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Tuesday 18 March, 7.309.30pm Muirhead Tower, Lecture Theatre G15 (R21 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please email j.j.saunders@bham.ac.uk A showcase of documentary lms and guided editing projects produced by recent alumni of the MA in Film and Television: Research and Production, with an introduction from key members of academic staff. Engaging with the festivals theme of Life and Death, we will nish the evening with My Way, an intriguing documentary about the UK funeral industry. Come and support our local lmmakers! Presented by MA Film and Television: Research and Production

Wednesday 19 March & Friday 21 March, 5.30pm at Muirhead Tower, Lecture Theatre G15 (R21 on map) and Thursday 20 March, 5.30pm at Physics West, Lecture Theatre (Room 117) Admission free, booking advised. Book online at www.eventbrite.com/ event/10212314307 Join the School of Physics and Astronomy for an evening of discovery. Learn about the physics of elementary particles, the scientic process and how discoveries are made. Each evening will comprise an introductory lecture followed by a lm screening. Presented by Particle Physics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy

The Stuart Hall Project Image courtesy BFI

MA Film & Television Documentary Screenings

Understanding Nature: The Birth of Scientific Discoveries

The Stuart Hall Project

Thursday 20 March, 5.158pm Arts Building, Lecture Room 5 (R16 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please email artsandscience@contacts.bham.ac.uk The Stuart Hall Project is a meditation on the life, politics and work of the renowned intellectual Stuart Hall by the acclaimed director John Akomfrah. Hall, who sadly passed away in February, was an integral gure in the establishment and development of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, the institutional origin of what is now the international discipline of cultural studies. Presented by the Centre for Modern British Studies

Urban Islam
Thursday 20 March, 5.308pm Muirhead Tower, Room 710 (R21 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please email c.allen.2@bham.ac.uk Join Dr Chris Allen for a special screening of Le Grand Voyage, a 2004 lm exploring the relationship between an elderly Muslim father and teenage Muslim son who both embark on a religious pilgrimage to Mecca by car. Beginning in the suburbs of contemporary Paris, the lm explores themes of life and death and also what it means to be Muslim in todays Europe. The screening is followed by a discussion involving researchers from the University of Birmingham from Social Policy and Geography - to draw upon some of the themes raised by the lm especially those relating to Urban Islam. Presented by Institute of Applied Social Studies

Victorian Magic Lantern Show

Image courtesy Research and Cultural Collections

Thursday 20 March, 121pm & 23pm Winterbourne House and Garden (G12 on map) Admission free, booking required. Email enquiries@winterbourne.org.uk Using glass slides from the Universitys Research and Cultural Collections, and a traditional magic lantern from Winterbourne House and Garden, the event will explore archaeological sites & discoveries, & highlight some of the most interesting images in the collection. Presented by Winterbourne House and Garden in partnership with Research and Cultural Collections

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PHONOCINEMATHEATRE LIFE Before Death

Friday 21 March, 5.306.30pm Arts Building, Lecture Room 3 (R16 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please email artsandscience@contacts.bham.ac.uk LIFE Before Death is a multi-award winning documentary series that asks the fundamental question underpinning our mortality. This beautifully lmed journey takes us to 11 countries as we follow the remarkable health professionals battling the sweeping epidemic of pain that threatens to condemn one in every ten of us to an agonizing and shameful death. Through the eyes of patients and their families we discover the inherent humanity that empowers the best of us to care for those beyond cure. This is an intimate, hopeful and life-afrming story of living well and dying better, advocating for making the most of every moment in our life before death. Presented by Cultural Engagement Sunday 23 March, 35pm The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Concert Hall (R14 on map) Tickets 12/9 available at www.atpackfestival.org.uk At the 1900 Paris Exposition, visitors had their rst taste of sound-cinema, thanks to the Phono-Cinema-Thtre. This special pavilion featured current stars of theatre and variety, including Sarah Bernhardt in Hamlet and a cancan by Gabrielle Rjane - captured on lm with original sound thanks to an ingenious gramophone system. Following a century in obscurity, these startling short lms many of them in hand-tinted colour have been restored by the Cinmathque Franaise, and are screened here for the rst time in the UK. The material without sound will be accompanied by a live trio led by pianist and arranger John Sweeney. This premiere is presented by Flatpack Film Festival,which runs in venues across Birmingham from 2030 March. Presented by Flatpack Festival in partnership with The Barber Institute of Fine Arts & Cultural Engagement

Life & Death and the Social Action Film

Thursday 20 March, 79pm Muirhead Tower, Lecture Theatre G15 (R21 on map) Admission free, booking required. Please email artsandscience@contacts.bham.ac.uk A showcase of short Social Action lms made by pupils at Holte School, Lozells, Birmingham in collaboration with staff from Film Studies at the University. The evening will also feature social action lms by local lmmakers and a panel discussion exploring the potential of lm to change lives. Presented by Department of American and Canadian Studies

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Mental Illness: Philosophy, Ethics and Society
Monday 17 March, 13pm Arts Building, Lecture Room 5 (R16 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please email k.miyazono@bham.ac.uk Join leading academics for this fascinating discussion exploring the relationship between psychiatric diagnosis and moral responsibility for action. Does experiencing psychiatric symptoms or having a psychiatric diagnosis imply that one has reduced or no moral responsibility for action? Professor Lisa Bortolotti (Philosophy, UoB) and Dr. Matthew Broome (Psychiatry, Oxford) will lead this lively discussion, incorporating real-life case studies including Norwegian mass murderer Anders Brevik along the way. No background knowledge required, refreshments provided. Presented by Kengo Miyazono, Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy

Preventing Heart Attacks by Stopping the Humble Platelet

Monday 17 March, 7pm, (refreshments from 6.30pm) Haworth Building, Lecture Theatre 101 (Y2 on campus map) Admission free, booking required. Email r.a.wrigglesworth@bham.ac.uk Join the School of Biosciences for this fascinating Biology lecture led by Dr Mike Robinson, who has an international reputation in the two elds of platelets and cell surface biology, and is funded by the British Heart Foundation to complete further research in these areas. Presented by School of Biosciences

Jo Ind: 50 Shades of Gold Life Echo

Monday 17 March, 57pm Biosciences Building, E102 (R27 on map) Admission free, booking advised. To book please visit www.ikon-gallery. org or telephone 0121 248 0708 Do your memories have sounds? What might these sounds look like? How could you create a life echo? Sound artist Justin Wiggan explores his innovative approach to working with residents at the John Taylor Hospice and discusses his research with Dr Hugh Rickards, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, National Centre for Mental Health, Birmingham. Life Echo will attempt to change how we interact with our own memories and how we can approach death. www.life-echo.com Presented by Cultural Engagement in partnership with Ikon Gallery Tuesday 18 March, 12.301.30pm Winterbourne House & Garden (G12 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Email artsandscience@contacts.bham.ac.uk Join journalist and writer Jo Ind for a reection on midlife. The period of life when we are nearer to death than to birth can be a time of crisis, loss and a suprising invitation to a new way of being. Jo uses poetry, Jungian literature and the art of Birmingham artist Jake Lever to explore the golden years euphemistically known as middle age. Formerly special correspondent on The Birmingham Post, Jo is the author of Memories of Bliss, a book about sexuality and spirituality, and Fat is a Spiritual Issue, about eating disorders. Presented by Cultural Engagement in partnership with Writing West Midlands

Portrait of a Man with a Skull, Frans Hals, c. 161014 Image courtesy The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Mortality Matters Taster Tour

Tuesday 18 March, 1.151.45pm The Barber Institute of Fine Arts (R14 on map) Admission free, no booking required Explore how artists have tackled the subject of life and death in paintings of all periods throughout the Barber Institutes collection. Youll discover hidden symbolic references and links to science in this eye-opening 30-minute gallery Taster Tour. Presented by The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

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Birmingham Great War Centenary Lecture:

Roads to War
Tuesday 18 March, 5.307pm Venue: Arts Building, Lecture Room 3 (R16 on map) Admission free, no booking required To commemorate the centenary of the First World War, the University of Birminghams Centre for War Studies is hosting a series of lectures by distinguished international historians exploring the origins of the First World War. This session features Dr. Annika Mombauer (Open University), Dr. William Mulligan (University College Dublin) and Dr. Jonathan Gumz (University of Birmingham). Presented by Centre for War Studies

Representing Animals in Scientific Journals: A Corpus Linguistic Approach

Wednesday 19 March, 12.301.30pm Law Building, Room 111 (R1 on map) Admission free, booking required. Please email pakc@bham.ac.uk The different ways in which people talk and write about animals is the topic of a major new Leverhulme funded collaboration between researchers at the University of Birmingham and Kings College London. This talk presents ndings relating to the language of scientic journals and their orientation toward animals. How does this literature mobilise animals for the purposes of medical research, to improve farming productivity, and to present models of animal behaviour? And how, in the context of a science that attempts to control animals, do these orientations relate to issues of life and death? Presented by School of English

Living Classics in the Modern Community

Wednesday 19 March, 45pm Arts Building, Lecture Theatre 2 (Room 126) (R16 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please email t.j.l.cross@bham.ac.uk Dr Elena Theodorakopoulos presents a special talk about a new project revitalising the teaching of Latin and Classics in schools in Birmingham and the Midlands with support from the charity Classics For All. The talk accompanies an exhibition displaying entries to the Birmingham and Midlands Classical Associations Multiculturalism in the Ancient World competition in which local school pupils designed posters showcasing the ways in which classics is accessible and relevant in the modern world particularly in our local community. Presented by School of History and Cultures

In our digital age, what value do books still have?

Wednesday 19 March, 2.304pm Arts Building, Lecture Theatre 1 (R16 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please email r.pemberton@bham.ac.uk To coincide with the announcement of the winners of the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Writing Competitions 2014, this Question Time-style event will debate the topic undergraduate students have written on: In our digital age, what value do books have? Are you passionate about reading? Do you buy more books than youll ever have chance to read? Are you a Kindle convert? Or do you like both? Come along and join in with the debate and pick up a free book (a real live one!) as part of our book crossing promotion. To submit an advance question to the panel, please email Ruth Pemberton using booking email address listed above. Presented by Student Experience Team, College of Arts & Law

What is it to be human?
Wednesday 19 March, 2.154pm Arts Building, Lecture Room 8 (R16 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please email r.j.wareham@bham.ac.uk Join the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion for this student presentation competition in which participants will have up to two minutes and one slide to answer the question: What is it to be human? Presented by School of Philosophy, Theology & Religion in association with GRAB (Great Read at Birmingham)

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Prison Life: Inside and Out

Wednesday 19 March, 57pm Law Building, Lecture Room 2 (R1 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please visit www.eventbrite. com/e/prison-life-inside-and-outtickets-10505930521 This event showcases multidisciplinary research exploring aspects of prison life ranging from prison visitation and recidivism, pathways to imprisonment, the impact of imprisonment on prisoners families, and the difculties prisoners face following release. Speakers include Louise Dixon (School of Psychology), Marie Hutton (School of Geography), Karen Graham (School of Education) and Garry Henry (practitioner).This fascinating lecture will be followed with an opportunity for questions and audience discussion. Presented by School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Wednesday 19 March, 67pm Nufeld, G13 (R9 on map) Admission free, no booking required In this illustrated talk, Professor Lisa Downing explores how auto-erotic death has been understood and represented in narratives drawn from four elds: media representation, forensic psychiatry and pathology, literary ction, and internet humour. What do representations and explanations of auto-erotic death tell us about mainstream cultural understandings of sex and gender? What can we learn about the assumptions and biases guiding perceptions of normal and abnormal sexuality by looking at discourses surrounding extreme bodily practices that lead to death? Presented by Modern Languages and Sexuality and Gender Studies

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Dying for Sex: Cultural and Forensic Narratives of Auto-Erotic Death

Re-visualising the Inglorious Dead:

The Abandoned Enemy from the Great Holiday of World War One
Wednesday 19 March, 67pm European Research Institute, G51 (G3 on map) Admission free, no booking required Working from a large collection of original photographs of German soldiers taken during the First World War, this talk by Professor Mike Robinson, Professor of Cultural Heritage and Director of the Ironbridge Institute, displays the ordinariness of life within the context of war. The images reveal unknown enemy soldiers at leisure and play, almost as if they were on holiday. The photographs exist as orphaned souvenirs, abandoned from their owners and largely disconnected from collective memory. Presented by Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage

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Why We Die
Image courtesy Bobbie Hanvey

Thursday 20 March, 1.302.30pm Watson Building, Lecture Theatre C (R15 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please email artsandscience@contacts.bham.ac.uk Death might not be certain, though taxes probably are. In this lecture, featuring immortal jelly sh, the worlds slowest bacteria and the trip Darwin took to a sance, biologist Simon Watt delves into the surprising science behind why we die, and what the alternatives might be. Come satisfy your morbid curiosity. Presented by Cultural Engagement

Creative Minds at Birmingham: Michael Longley

Thursday 20 March, 5.156.30pm Bramall Music Building, Elgar Concert Hall (R12 on map) Tickets 6 to general public/ free to UoB staff and students available here: birmingham.ac.uk/creativeminds Creative Minds at Birmingham, the School of English, Drama, and American and Canadian Studies (EDACS) Writers and Artists Distinguished Speaker Series, features an exciting variety of renowned writers, poets and theatre leaders who give a public talk or reading, showcasing their latest works. Michael Longley is a central gure in contemporary Irish poetry. A forceful gure within the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, where he founded the literary programme, he is one of the 200 distinguished artists who are members of Aosdna. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a recipient of the Queens Gold Medal for Poetry and the Wilfred Owen Award. He has won the Whitbread Prize, the TS Eliot Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry and the Librex Montale Prize. He was made a C.B.E. in the Queens Birthday honours 2010. Presented by School of English, Drama, and American and Canadian Studies (EDACS)

What do we know about the Vikings now? When life means death
Thursday 20 March, 12.301.30pm Law Building, Lecture Theatre 2 (R1 on map) Admission free, no booking required ...are life sentences merely the death penalty by another name? The UK is currently struggling with the question of how to punish those who commit the most serious offences. Prime Minister David Cameron has recently criticized the European Court of Human Rights for holding that whole life orders are unlawful, and there are many who believe that we should be able to lock people up and throw away the key. In this talk, Dr Bharat Malkani will examine the pros and cons of whole life orders, and suggest that whole life orders are, in practical terms, just the same as the death penalty. By denying prisoners the prospect of release, we are just subjecting them to death by incarceration, which is perhaps worse than death by lethal injection or death by electrocution. And if this is the case, we need to ask ourselves whether we want to bring back capital punishment. Presented by Birmingham Law School Thursday 20 March, 67pm Arts Building, Lecture Room 1 (R16 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please email artsandscience@contacts.bham.ac.uk From North America to eastern Europe, the Vikings visited, raided or colonised more places than almost any other group of people before the modern era. Our understanding of what they did, why they did it, and what this meant for people in their Scandinavian homeland, is changing all the time. This lecture considers some of the latest research on what some scholars are now calling the Viking diaspora. Presented by Department of History

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366 Days of Kindness A Talk Back to Back and Up the Yard: Life and Death in Back-Street Birmingham, 18801960
Friday 21 March, 3.305.30pm European Research Institute, Lecture Room G51 (G3 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please email r.j.wareham@bham.ac.uk In response to the riots of August 2011, Bernadette Russell committed to be kind to a stranger every single day for a year. Her experiences have recently been turned into multi-media theatre show which tells the heartbreaking, surprising and challenging stories of that year, which began with burning buildings and ended with the ame of the Olympic torch, against a global backdrop of social unrest and economic crisis. Bernadette will describe her experiences and share her motivations in an inspiring talk. This will be followed by a panel discussion including academics from the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion who will attempt to answer the question: can kindness change the world? Refreshments will be provided. Presented by School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion

The Art of Anatomy

Friday 21 March, 1.101.50pm Muirhead Tower, Lecture Theatre G15 (R21 on map) Admission free, booking required. Please email special-collections@bham.ac.uk Join Professor Alice Roberts, Clinical Anatomist, broadcaster and Professor of Public Engagement in Science as she explores the subject of how artists have depicted the dissected human body in anatomical art through history. Following the lecture Alice Roberts will be signing copies of her books: The Complete Human Body, Evolution and The Incredible Human Journey in Muirhead Atrium, 23pm. The lecture accompanies the exhibition, The Art of Anatomy, guest-curated by Professor Alice Roberts in Muirhead Tower Atrium until 6th June 2014. Presented by Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections

Friday 21 March, 12pm Arts Building, Lecture Room 7 (R16 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please email artsandscience@contacts.bham.ac.uk Carl Chinn, Professor of Birmingham Community History and author of over 20 books on the history of Birmingham, the Black Country and the urban working class in England, will take you back in time to unravel the history of one of Birminghams fascinating areas. Presented by Department of History

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Art History Speed Workshop
Wednesday 19 March, 23pm The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Galleries (R14 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please email e.a.lestrange@bham.ac.uk Expand your knowledge of art through ve key paintings, selected in response to the festival theme of Life and Death. A bit like speed dating, youll spend a few minutes up close and personal with each picture, with some of UoBs very own art historians helping you get to grips with what its all about, in this enjoyable and compelling roving art discussion organised in association with the Barber Association student club. Presented by Department of Art History, Film and Visual Studies
Cretaceous losers. Image courtesy Lapworth Museum of Geology

Workshops presented by The Lapworth Museum of Geology

Written in Stone: Life and Death in the Fossil Record

Festival Hub:

Written in Stone: Mass Extinctions

Thursday 20 March, 6.307.30pm Lapworth Museum, Aston Webb, A Block Earth Sciences (R4 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please email j.m.harris@bham.ac.uk Mass extinctions have dramatically shaped the history of life, creating biological revolutions that radically reshaped global ecosystems. This interactive event will explore the causes (e.g. asteroid impacts, climate change) of mass extinctions and their impacts on the evolution of life. In particular, we will explore the endCretaceous extinction, which killed the dinosaurs, and the end-Permian extinction, which wiped out nearly all life.

Macrophages: The Cells that Save your Life Everyday!

Wednesday 19 March, 11am4pm Muirhead Tower, Atrium (R21 on map) Admission free, no booking required Join the School of Biosciences and take a closer look at macrophages the white blood cells that protect us and ultimately save our lives everyday! Enthusiastic lab staff will make available microscopes, videos, and posters demonstrating macrophages at work. Presented by the School of Biosciences

Wednesday 19 March, 6.307.30pm Lapworth Museum, Aston Webb, A Block Earth Sciences (R4 on map) Admission free, booking advised. Please email j.m.harris@bham.ac.uk During Earths long history there have been times where life has dramatically diversied. These big bangs have shaped the biodiversity of our planet today. This interactive workshop will explore the types of marine organisms that contributed to the Cambrian Explosion (~542 million years ago) and The Great Ordovician Biodiversication Event (~470 million years ago), the most substantial increase in biodiversity in the history of life on Earth, as well as explore some of the hypotheses put forward to explain these remarkable events. www.birmingham.ac.uk/ lapworth-museum

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Exhibition:

Culture Off Campus

A snapshot of the exhibitions and events some of our cultural partners have to offer
Jamal Penjweny, Photograph from the series Saddam is Here (200910). Courtesy the artist.

Jamal Penjweny: Saddam is Here

Ikon Gallery
19 February to 21 April 2014 Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells St, Birmingham B1 2HS Ikon Gallery is open Tuesday Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays, 11am 6pm, free entry. For more information visit www.ikon-gallery.org Ikon presents Saddam is Here, the rst solo exhibition by Iraqi-Kurdish artist Jamal Penjweny, including photography and video works reecting on life in Iraq today. This is the opening exhibition of Ikon 50, the year-long programme celebrating Ikons 50th anniversary. Exhibition continues to 21 April 2014.

Exhibitions & Events:

Library of Birmingham
Saturday 22 March Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square, Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2ND For more information visit www.libraryofbirmingham.com/culturesseason or telephone 0121 242 4242 (MonFri, 9am5pm) Theres lots taking place at Library of Birmingham as part of their ongoing cultures season; join the Library of Cultures Curators Tour (Gallery, 25pm, 5), an expert guided tour which takes in some of the Librarys greatest treasures. The Library also launches SCORE: Trace that Sound (Spotlight, foyer) a Frontiers exhibition which presents beautiful musical graphics from pioneering composers such as Robert Ashley, Pauline Oliveros, Elliott Sharp, Carl Bergstrm Nielson and others. Alongside the exhibition, families are invited to Little Composers in a Day (Childrens Library, Middle Earth, 10 11.30am and 23.30pm), a music workshop where 05 year olds can turn their ideas and scribblings into a music score; therell even be musicians from Birmingham Conservatoire on hand to play their pieces!

Also at Library of Birmingham:

University of Birmingham Lunchtime Lectures

throughout March
From the NHS to Bangladesh, join University of Birmingham academics from 12.30 1.30pm for lunchtime talks exploring cultures from wide-ranging perspectives as part of Library of Birminghams Cultures Season. Visit www.birmingham.ac.uk/events for more information.

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Film:

Flatpack Film Festival

Thursday 20 to Sunday 30 March 2014 For more information visit www.atpackfestival.org.uk Flatpack started life in June 2003, as a ramshackle monthly lmnight at the Rainbow pub in Digbeth. It has since grown into an annual celebration of lm that takes over venues all over Birmingham. The eighth festival takes place from 2030 March. Headline events include: The World Made Itself, an immersive piece of myth-making from LA-based artist and performer Miwa Matreyek, who will imagine the origins of the earth by interacting with her own animations; Bill Morrison presents the UK premiere of The Great Flood, a portrait of the devastation caused by the Mississippi oods of 1927; Phono-Cinma-Thtre, a recently-restored treasure trove of 1900s lm featuring theatre and variety stars of the day, notably Sarah Bernhardt as a duelling Hamlet, accompanied by thelive trio led by pianist and arranger John Sweeney; Birmingham-on-Sea, recounting the tale of one land-locked citys love affair with water; and an immersive, horizontal screening of cult 1972 sci- movie Silent Running.

Performance:

Events:

The Notebenders

Town Hall & Symphony Hall Birmingham

Saturday 22 March, 1.30pm Symphony Hall Caf Bar, 32 Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2EA For more information visit www.thsh.co.uk or telephone 0121 345 0600 The Notebenders Big Band return for another series of Sax in the City, breaking down barriers with their fun and uplifting sound. This diverse and dynamic band brings together musicians from communities across Birmingham, continuing the legacy of their founder, the legendary jazz musician Andy Hamilton. Hear them perform a selection of new and recognisable works that will ease you into the weekend.

Shakespeare Birthplace Institute

Monday 17 to Sunday 23 March 2014 The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, The Shakespeare Centre, Henley Street, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire CV37 6QW For more information visit shakespeare.org.uk or telephone 01789 204016 Join the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for Shakespeare Week, a national annual celebration bringing Shakespeare to life for primary school children across the UK. To celebrate the very rst Shakespeare Week, on 22 and 23 March 2014 take part in a number of fun, family activities at each of Shakespeares family homes. Activities are included in admission, so these events are free to valid ticketholders!

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Coming Soon
The University of Birmingham is home to a diverse cultural offer, which includes public museums, galleries, archives, collections, libraries, and cultural venues. See below for details of future projects and events, both on campus and beyond:

Credits
The Arts & Science Festival was conceived and developed by the Cultural Engagement team at the University of Birmingham. We would like to thank all of the individuals involved in the planning, promotion & delivery of festival events across campus. Special thanks to: Ian Grosvenor, Laura Coult, Clare Mullett, Catherine Maguire, Eliot Marston, Caroline Gillett, Tom Farrar, Stuart Richards, Caroline Ashton, Jen Ridding, Joanne Sweet, Jane Harris, Sarah Kilroy, Lee Hale, Claire Woollard, Jim Bell, Tasawar Bashir, Jon Wood, Sue Gilligan, Joanne Sweet, Gurmit Kler, Kerrie Holland, Molly Wright. We would also like to thank our festival partners: Eastside Projects, Flatpack Film Festival, Ikon, Newman Brothers Cofn Works and Writing West Midlands. This brochure was produced by our festival artists in residence An Endless Supply www.anendlesssupply.co.uk

First World War Engagement Centre

Friday 21 March, midday2.30pm at Library of Birmingham, Studio Theatre Admission free, booking recommended. Please email n.gauld@bham.ac.uk

Attend the launch of Voices of War and Peace: the Great War and its legacy, a new First World War Engagement Centre at the University funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and in partnership with the Heritage Lottery Fund. The Engagement Centre, led by Professor Ian Grosvenor and based in the Library of Birmingham, will support a wide range of community engagement activities, connecting academic and public histories of the First World War as part of the commemoration of the Wars centenary.

Think Corner

March April 2014 in Birmingham City Centre For venue details and programme information visit www.birmingham.ac.uk/events Think Corner is a city-centre venue for public engagement with University of Birmingham research. Drop into this pop-up space in Birminghams city centre for an exciting programme of talks, workshops, installations, exhibitions, screenings, experiments and discussions.

British Science Festival

Saturday 6 to Thursday 11 September 2014 For more information visit www.britishscienceassociation.org/british-science-festival The University of Birmingham is delighted to be hosting the British Science Festival 2014.The festival hosts over 200 events with over 350 of the worlds leading scientists, technologists, engineers and social scientists. It celebrates the latest scientic developments and aims to engage people directly in open discussion about interests, issues and the implications of scientic advancement.

Contact

artsandscience@contacts.bham. ac.uk www.birmingham.ac.uk/ artsandsciencefestival facebook.com/CultureUoB twitter.com/CULTUREUOB University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT

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