Lancashire Arts
A guide to events and exhibitions October - December 2018 uclan.ac.uk/whatson
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INTRODUCTION This is the first edition of the Lancashire Arts booklet. It is an invitation to events and exhibitions curated by the University of Central Lancashire’s Faculty of Culture and the Creative Industries. The Faculty offers a vibrant range of subjects including Architecture, Fine Art, Design, Journalism, Law, Media, Performing Arts, Languages, Humanities and Social Sciences and our students and staff work creatively and collaboratively across this range of disciplines to open up new avenues for exploration and new opportunities for learning. Our autumn programme celebrates a rich and diverse offering which includes Preston’s 12th International Film Festival, our 5th Great Northern Creative Expo and our first Festival of the Humanities. Please visit the exhibitions in our PR1 Gallery; participate in a musical jam; immerse yourself in dance and somatic movement; celebrate Halloween with the author of Cold Bath Street. This season there really is something for everyone and we are delighted to open our doors and invite you in. We hope that you enjoy every step that you take and we look forward to continuing to grow and evolve our programme.
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Conga Course Ryan Dixon, Find Your Rhythm The intention of this short course is to instruct people in basic conga drumming techniques whilst learning traditional patterns. All levels of drumming and musical experience welcome. Instruments provided. Supported by the UCLan’s Something for Everyone project and led by local community music practitioner and instrumental teacher Ryan Dixon. Please note these dates are the final three sessions of a five-part course.
Every Monday, 1 October until 15 October 6.00pm 2 hours £25 (for the full course) Booking is required All ages, children must be accompanied throughout by a responsible adult Media Factory, Room ME226 (second floor), UCLan, Kirkham Street, Preston PR1 2XY Contact Ryan Dixon: info@findyourrhythm.co.uk
Sounds Imagined Dr Jon Aveyard The main piece in this exhibition is a collection of postcards describing sounds heard by the artist whilst on a six-month journey around England and Scotland in a converted ambulance with his then-fiancée, now-wife. Along the way, he took notes of the sounds he heard – wind and waves, blackbirds and skylarks, buskers on the street and Bonnie Tyler on the radio. This piece presents a selection of these notes in the form of a series of poetic, prosaic and picture-based postcards written four years later in 2018. Through these filters, delays and transformations, the sounds heard become sounds imagined. Other works will also be on display.
Tuesday 2 October until Friday 5 October 9.00am 8 hours Free No booking required 12+ PR1 Gallery, Victoria Building, UCLan, Adelphi Street, Preston PR1 7HD pr1gallery.eventbrite.com @pr1gallery
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Hidden Gems School of Art, Design and Fashion in collaboration with Gawthorpe Textiles
Tuesday 2 October until Tuesday 9 October (weekdays only) 9.00am
An exhibition of scarves and portraits inspired by pieces from the Gawthorpe Textiles Collection. The exhibition is part of an Arts Council funded project collaboration between UCLan and Gawthorpe Textiles Collection involving researchers, local artists, stylists, photographers, schoolchildren and community members.
8 hours
The aim was to uncover hidden gems from the rare samples in the textile collection at Gawthorpe and to find hidden gems from the local Asian community members who had undiscovered artistic talents.
PR1 Gallery, Victoria Building, UCLan, Adelphi Street, Preston PR1 7HD
The title Hidden Gems also makes an oblique reference to the ongoing debate about modesty, religious belief, fashion and women’s rights. Modest fashion has evolved to become an important cultural and economic force over recent decades, even high street labels feature models wearing headscarves meaning that modest clothing is now an international symbol for inclusion and empowerment for women across cultural, ethnic and religious boundaries.
Free No booking required 12+
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The project, led by Amanda Odlin-Bates and Bev Lamey, includes four artists, all UCLan graduates, Zareen Wahid, Lisa Scarlett Ryan, Femida Adam and Louise Duxbury who worked with ladies from the local community in Burnley and schoolchildren from Sir John Thursby Community College to produce contemporary textiles for headscarf designs.
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Preston Young Dancers UCLan in collaboration with Blue Moose Dance Company An exciting creative dance class for young people aged 7-11 years. The class develops creative dance skills and contemporary dance technique - fun, energetic, creative and designed to support individuals and give them the chance to achieve their potential. No previous experience necessary.
Every Tuesday, 2 October until 18 December 5.15pm 1 hour £3.50 No booking required 7-11 years Media Factory, Room ME215 (second floor), UCLan, Kirkham Street, Preston PR1 2XY bluemoosedance.org.uk/ prestonyoungdancers
Natural Voice Singing Preston People’s Choir The Preston People’s Choir, led by Moira Hill, meet every Tuesday evening to sing folk songs from around the world and arrangements of popular songs. This is a natural voice choir meaning that all voices are welcome, there are no auditions, and no previous experience or musicreading ability is required. The songs are taught within the sessions by repeating back lines sung by the choir leader. Those who want to can take part in the occasional performances given by the choir in Preston and beyond. Supported by UCLan’s Something for Everyone project.
Every Tuesday, 2 October until 11 December 7.00pm 2 hours £3-£6 per session based on ability to pay (first session free) No booking required All ages, children must be accompanied throughout by a responsible adult Media Factory, Room ME226 (second floor), UCLan, Kirkham Street, Preston PR1 2XY prestonpeopleschoir.org
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Samba Drumming Workshops Worldwise Samba Drummers The Worldwise Samba Drummers are a community group open to anyone regardless of experience or ability. They play high-energy music inspired by the Samba and Candomblé music of Brazil, and regularly perform around Lancashire. Supported by UCLan’s Something for Everyone project and the Worldwise Learning Centre.
Every Wednesday, 3 October until 12 December 6.00pm 2 hours £3 No booking required All ages, children must be accompanied throughout by a responsible adult Media Factory, Room ME035 (ground floor), UCLan, Kirkham Street, Preston PR1 2XY @worldwisesamba
Creative Practice Talks PhotoUCLan Creative Practices is a series of artists’ talks by practitioners, academics and industry professionals.
Every Wednesday, 3 October until 28 November 2.00pm 1 hour Free No booking required 12+ Media Factory, Room ME414 (fourth floor), UCLan, Kirkham Street, Preston PR1 2XY photouclan.com
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“Mmm...” (Mischievous Music Moments)
Saturday 6 October
Flying Gorillas
1 hour
2.00pm
Children, Free / Adults £2
A family show created with prize-winning young musicians from European Union Youth Music Competitions and breakdancers from London. This new show is a combination of high quality classical music, high-energy drumming and physicality... wrapped in silliness!
Booking via Facebook preferred or just turn up on the day 7+ Media Factory, Room ME002 (ground floor), UCLan, Kirkham Street, Preston PR1 2XY @DanceUCLan @DanceUCLan
Pop song Play-Along Preston Scratch Band Bring along your instrument and join the Preston Scratch Band in playing popular music. We use books providing the lyrics, melodies and chords for songs such as ‘Mad World’, ‘Sunny Afternoon’, ‘Walk of Life’ and ‘Hi Ho Silver Lining.’ The group is friendly and inclusive and features experienced musicians alongside complete beginners. We currently number about 10 musicians using voice, guitar, ukulele, violin, keyboard, bass and percussion.
Every Saturday, 6 October until 15 December 11.00am 2 hours £5 (suggested donation) No booking required All ages, children must be accompanied throughout by a responsible adult Media Factory, Room ME226 (second floor), UCLan, Kirkham Street, Preston PR1 2XY Preston Scratch Band Contact Dr Jon Aveyard: JAveyard@uclan.ac.uk
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Monthly Somatic Movement Classes
Wednesday 10 October
Artist and graduates of MA Somatic Dance and Wellbeing
2 hours
2.30pm
Free
Free monthly immersions in somatic movement, led by skilled practitioners to allow you to dwell and explore your somatic imagination and movement. Ideally suited for those with some experience of movement work and somatic approaches.
Booking via Facebook preferred or just turn up on the day 16+ Media Factory, Room ME020 (ground floor), UCLan, Kirkham Street, Preston PR1 2XY @DanceUCLan @DanceUCLan
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MY MA Show 2018 MA students
Thursday 11 October until Thursday 25 October (weekdays only) 9.00am
The exhibition includes work by more than 80 talented designers from the following postgraduate courses: MA Animation, MA Ceramics, MA Children’s Book Illustration, MA Fashion Design, MA Fashion and Lifestyle Brand Studies, MA Fashion Lifestyle and Promotion, MA Games Design, MA Graphic Design, MA Interior Design, MA Product Design and MA Surface Pattern and Textiles. Design at UCLan has an established heritage in creative thinking that is embedded into everything we do, and everything we teach. Our postgraduate students express their mastery of this philosophy through their practice and research, with the MA show as the hallmark of their excellence. Through the MA show you will experience a creative diversity of thoughts, objects and practices that is the culmination of each student’s search to find both novelty and meaning within the dynamic world of international design. The Private View is on Wednesday 10 October 5.30pm - 8.30pm, where you will have the opportunity to meet many of the artists.
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8 hours Free No booking required All ages, children must be accompanied throughout by a responsible adult PR1 Gallery, Victoria Building, UCLan, Adelphi Street, Preston PR1 7HD pr1gallery.eventbrite.com @pr1gallery
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Musical Jam
Saturday 13 October
Tim Saunders, Rhythm Jam
1.30pm 2 hours
A chance to join a lively group of people having a musical jam together. There will be a large variety of percussion instruments provided and you are welcome to bring along additional percussion or pitched instruments. Led with a light touch by Tim Saunders, the music shifts between high-energy and gentle ambience. All levels of ability and experience are welcome.
Donation requested No booking required All ages, children must be accompanied throughout by a responsible adult Media Factory, Room ME226 (second floor), UCLan, Kirkham Street, Preston PR1 2XY uclan.ac.uk/ somethingforeveryone Contact Dr Jon Averyard: JAveryard@uclan.ac.uk
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Preston’s 12th International Film Festival – Launch Event
Monday 15 October
Worldwise Learning Centre
2 hours 30 minutes
We invite you to the launch of the film festival, an evening of celebrations for the 100-year anniversary of the founding of the former Czechoslovakia and a showing of ‘Dark Blue World’. With a guest panel of esteemed guests from the Czech and Slovak community both in Preston and internationally - including academics from the University of Pardubice and representatives from both embassies - the evening is set to be an interesting insight into what it means to be celebrating 100 years of the Czech and Slovak republics. The launch will open with a photo exhibition courtesy of the Slovak embassy and a panel discussion will focus on perspectives on Czech and Slovak culture, education, society and what it means to be celebrating 100 years of the Czech and Slovak republics. Then there will be an hour of refreshments where you can sample some traditional Czech and Slovak nibbles with Moravian wine until the film ‘Dark Blue World’ begins at 7.30pm.
5.00pm
Students, Free / Concessions £2.50 / Adults £3 Booking via TicketSource or just turn up on the day 12+ Mitchell & Kenyon Cinema, Foster Building, UCLan, Kendal Street, Preston PR1 2HE prestonfilmfest. ticketsource.co.uk
The festival is open to all students, staff and members of the public to enjoy from Monday 15 October until Sunday 21 October. Why not get your hands on our Festival Pass which gives you access to all eight films for the reduced price of £15, saving up to £6 per person.
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Preston’s 12th International Film Festival - Dark Blue World (Czech)
Monday 15 October
Worldwise Learning Centre
1 hour 50 minutes
The film tells the story of the Czechs who fled their country in 1939, following Germany’s invasion, and fought for Britain. Their bravery in battle may even have swung the conflict. However, when they returned home - many with British wives - the communists seized power and denounced the soldiers as traitors, imprisoning, torturing and even executing them. Academy Awardwinning director Jan Sverák reveals their untold story in a film about love, comradeship and sacrifice. The film is in Czech, rated 12 and the run time is 110 minutes.
7.30pm
Adults £3 / Concessions £2.50 / Festival Pass £15 Booking via TicketSource or just turn up on the day 12+ Mitchell & Kenyon Cinema, Foster Building, UCLan, Kendal Street, Preston PR1 2HE prestonfilmfest. ticketsource.co.uk
Preston’s 12th International Film Festival - The Idol (Arabic)
Tuesday 16 October
Worldwise Learning Centre
1 hour 40 minutes
Synonymous to so many with conflict, destruction and despair but to Mohammed Assaf, and his sister Nour, Gaza is their home and their playground. ‘The Idol’ follows Mohammed, a singer from Gaza who has an impossible dream: to audition for Arab Idol, the most popular show in the Arab world, in Cairo. But the borders are closed. There is no way out. Inspired by the incredible true story, ‘The Idol’ is a simply told but thoroughly captivating portrait of Muhammad Assaf who became an irresistible symbol of hope for Palestinians worldwide. This film is in Arabic, rated PG and has a run time of 96 minutes.
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Adults £3 / Concessions £2.50 / Festival Pass £15 Booking via TicketSource or just turn up on the day 12+ Mitchell & Kenyon Cinema, Foster Building, UCLan, Kendal Street, Preston PR1 2HE prestonfilmfest. ticketsource.co.uk
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Fine Art Student Show 1 Year 2 BA (Hons) Fine Art students
Wednesday 17 October Monday 24 October (weekdays only) 9.00am
This exhibition will showcase a small group of second-year fine art students. Curated by the students, the show will display work that they have been developing within the fine art studios. This will be the first of four student shows taking place in this academic year. There will be a Private View on Thursday 17 October, 5.00pm-7.00pm with refreshments. Many of the artists will be present and all are welcome to attend.
8 hours Free No booking required 12+ Hanover Project, Hanover Building, Bhailok Street (behind The Ferret pub), Preston PR1 2XQ hanoverproject. wordpress.com @hanoverproject @bethwise_art @_kerrytenbey @Hanover_Project @HanoverProjectPreston
Preston’s 12th International Film Festival: I am not Madame Bovary (Chinese)
Wednesday 17 October
Worldwise Learning Centre, sponsored by The Confucius Institute at UCLan
Adults £3 / Concessions £2.50 / Festival Pass £15
To celebrate 10 years of the Confucius Institute at UCLan, before the film screening there will be a talk, Q&A and a Chinese buffet.
Booking via TicketSource or just turn up on the day
When Li Xuelian and her husband stage a fake divorce to secure a second apartment reserved for single citizens, everything seems to go to plan. However, when he then remarries, only to a different woman, Li is determined to seek retribution against both him and the bureaucracy that casts her out of society. Based on Liu Zheyun’s subversive novel ‘I Did Not Kill My Husband’, this darkly comedic social satire transcends all cultures in a uniquely stylish fashion. This film is in Chinese, rated 12 and has a run time of 139 minutes. uclan.ac.uk/whatson
5.30pm 3 hours 50 minutes
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Preston’s 12th International Film Festival - Who will Save the Roses? (Italian)
Thursday 18 October
Worldwise Learning Centre
Adults £3 / Concessions £2.50 / Festival Pass £15
A sentimental comedy with a great cast and a truly Italian sense of humour. Giulio is an old man. Once a promising lawyer, he decided to earn his living as a poker player. In his spare time, he takes care of his partner Claudio. Unfortunately, Claudio becomes seriously ill and Giulio cannot play poker anymore to win money. They are now on a tight budget and Giulio has to fire the gardener and cook and even sell some furniture. However, he tries to keep his poker face so Claudio will not find out about their problems. This film is in Italian, rated 12A and has a run time of 104 minutes.
7.00pm 1 hour 40 mins
Booking via TicketSource or just turn up on the day 12+ Mitchell & Kenyon Cinema, Foster Building, UCLan, Kendal Street, Preston PR1 2HE prestonfilmfest. ticketsource.co.uk
Preston’s 12th International Film Festival - The Sweet Escape (French)
Friday 19 October
Worldwise Learning Centre
Adults £3 / Concessions £2.50 / Festival Pass £15
‘The Sweet Escape’ is a pastoral adventure sparkling with humour and light-hearted charm. Middle-aged company manager Michel (Podalydès) loves planes and dreams of life as an airborne explorer. Then one day a photograph stops him dead in his tracks. Kayaks - they could almost be planes, planes without wings. Seized by a sudden crazy impulse, Michel orders the whole package online: canoe, paddles... everything he needs for an expedition. His wife Rachelle (Kiberlain) encourages him to set out along on his escapade. So what if he has never rowed a boat in his life? Adventure is adventure! His big trip on the water turns out to be full of surprises and unexpected encounters. This film is in French, rated 15 and has a run time of 98 minutes. 14
7.00pm 1 hour 50 minutes
Booking via TicketSource or just turn up on the day 15+ Mitchell & Kenyon Cinema, Foster Building, UCLan, Kendal Street, Preston PR1 2HE prestonfilmfest. ticketsource.co.uk
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Cold Bath Street Halloween Event
Friday 19 October
A J Hartley
6.00pm 2 hours
A very exclusive Cold Bath Street pre-launch spooky event for Halloween. There will be a ghost hunt for the bannister doll, live music, a reading from Cold Bath Street by the author and a chance to get an exclusive, numbered, limited edition of the book with individual illustration. Spaces at this event are very limited.
£5 (redeemable at the event with a book purchase) Booking via Waterstones 10+ St Peter’s Arts Centre, UCLan, St Peter’s Street, Preston PR1 7BS waterstones.com uclanpublishing.com @publishingdeb UCLan Publishing uclan_publishing
Preston’s 12th International Film Festival - Summer 1993 (Catalan)
Saturday 20 October
Worldwise Learning Centre
Adults £3 / Concessions £2.50 / Festival Pass £15
Six-year-old Frida has just lost her mother to AIDS. During her mother’s illness, Frida was living with her grandparents and her aunt in Barcelona. Now, according to her mother’s will, she must move to the village where her uncle, aunt, and three-year-old cousin, Anna, live. Before the summer is over, Frida has to learn to cope with her emotions, and her adoptive parents have to learn to love her as their own daughter. In a gorgeous rural setting, where the children roam the forest and play in barns, this autobiographical film is a real pleasure to watch. This film is in Catalan, rated 12A and has a runtime of 98 minutes.
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5.00pm 1 hour 40 minutes
Booking via TicketSource or just turn up on the day 12+ Mitchell & Kenyon Cinema, Foster Building, UCLan, Kendal Street, Preston PR1 2HE prestonfilmfest. ticketsource.co.uk
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Preston’s 12th International Film Festival - Sweet Bean (Japanese)
Saturday 20 October
Worldwise Learning Centre
Adults £3 / Concessions £2.50 / Festival Pass £15
Absorbed in sad memories and distant thoughts, Sentaro cooks with skills but without enthusiasm. When 76 year-old Tokue responds to his ad for an assistant and cheerfully offers to work for a ridiculous low wage, Sentaro is sceptical about the eccentric old woman’s ability to endure the long hours. However, when she shows up early one morning and reveals to him the secret to the perfect sweet bean paste, Sentaro agrees to take her on. With Tokue’s new recipe, Sentaro’s business begins to flourish, but Tokue is afflicted with an illness that, once revealed, drives her into isolation once again. Japanese director Naomi Kawase serves up a subtle study of the relationship between an elderly woman and a young street food vendor. This film is in Japanese, rated PG and has a run time of 113 minutes.
7.00pm 2 hours
Booking via TicketSource or just turn up on the day 12+ Mitchell & Kenyon Cinema, Foster Building, UCLan, Kendal Street, Preston PR1 2HE prestonfilmfest. ticketsource.co.uk
Preston’s 12th International Film Festival - The Villainess (Korean)
Sunday 21 October
Worldwise Learning Centre
Adults £3 / Concessions £2.50 / Festival Pass £15
Sook-hee is a trained assassin who takes revenge on the men who murdered her father in a breath-taking opening sequence. After losing consciousness, she awakes at the National Intelligence Service who recruit her as an agent to undertake confidential missions. Initially refusing, Sook-hee soon realises it is her only method of escape, until she is assigned a new mission that changes everything... Deliriously indulging in the excesses of South Korean action, The Villainess is a stunning vengeance film drawing its inspiration from western classics including Nikita and Kill Bill. This film is in Korean, rated 18 and has a run time of 124 minutes. 16
7.00pm 2 hours
Booking via TicketSource or just turn up on the day 18+ Mitchell & Kenyon Cinema, Foster Building, UCLan, Kendal Street, Preston PR1 2HE prestonfilmfest. ticketsource.co.uk
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Fine Art Student Show 2 Year 2 BA (Hons) Fine Art students
Thursday 25 October Thursday 1 November (weekdays only) 9.00am
This exhibition will showcase a small group of students from the second-year of the fine art course. Curated by the students, the show will display work that they have been developing within the fine art studios. This will be the second of four student shows taking place in this academic year. There will be a Private View on Thursday 25 October 5.00pm-7.00pm with refreshments. Many of the artists will be present and all are welcome to attend.
8 hours Free No booking required 12+ Hanover Project, Hanover Building, Bhailok Street (behind The Ferret pub), Preston PR1 2XQ hanoverproject.wordpress.com @hanoverproject @bethwise_art @_kerrytenbey @Hanover_Project @HanoverProjectPreston
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Whittingham 1918 by Eric Northey BA (Hons) Acting Alumni and Year 3 Theatre Production This new play written by Eric Northey will be premiered at St Peter’s Arts Centre - directed by Terence Mann, Head of BA (Hons) Acting at UCLan and performed by professional actors, musicians and final year students all from UCLan’s BA (Hons) Acting course. The play depicts the drama of Whittingham Asylum, near Preston, as the First World War comes to its own dramatic end. With more than 900,000 British military killed, two million wounded, 200,000 missing, all UK hospitals and institutions are admitting war-related casualties. Delivered in secret by closed ambulance trains, Whittingham Asylum has to take in 1,000 shell-shocked ‘service patients’, to add to the already desperate numbers of nearly 3,000 civilian mental cases.
Thursday 25 October until Saturday 27 October 7.30pm 2 hours £8 / Concessions, £5 No booking required 12+ St Peter’s Arts Centre, UCLan, St Peter’s Street, Preston PR1 7BS @UCLanActing
This powerful drama is based on research into the Whittingham Asylum papers held at Lancashire Archives. It questions who is ‘mad’ - the warmongers or the peacemakers? It presents a tale of hope not hatred, in a shattered world and it is women who pick up the pieces, and rebuild. After its run at St Peter’s, the show will tour the North West, kindly funded by the health service union, Unison. Whittingham 1918 is part of Whittingham Lives, a two-year Arts and Heritage project, funded by Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery, Unison and partnered by Lancashire Care NHS Trust, the Harris Museum and UCLan.
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The Beauty of Indigenous Power Winners of the Indigenous Poster Design Competition
Monday 29 October until Friday 2 November (weekdays only) 9.00am
Inspired by the beauty of indigenous peoples comes ‘The Beauty of Indigenous Power’. An exhibition showing the winning pieces of the 2017 Students Indigenous Poster Design Competition - which received more than 1,500 student entries from 51 different schools around Taiwan. Fu-Ning Hsu, overall winner of the competition, will be giving a talk on Monday 29 October at 4.00pm-7.00pm about the role her work has in bringing continuous efforts towards the understanding of local cultural diversities and Taiwanese indigenous culture. The preview evening will follow on from the talk, 7.00pm-9.00pm.
8 hours Free No booking required 13+ PR1 Gallery, Victoria Building, UCLan, Adelphi Street, Preston PR1 7HD pr1gallery.eventbrite.com @pr1gallery
Can These Dry Bones Live? Rachel Cousins and Carolyn Curtis Magri Artists Rachel Cousins and Carolyn Curtis Magri are bringing an exhibition to PR1 Gallery which shows the artists’ different perceptions of loss and its consequences. Rachel Cousins is a final year fine art student and Carolyn Curtis Magri has an M.Phil in fine art and has worked in her hometown of Manchester and also in Malta, New York and Chicago. The exhibition features digital prints, drawings, forensic traces, origami, paintings and sculptural plaster forms.
Monday 29 October until Friday 9 November 9.00am 8 hours Free Booking not required 12+ PR1 Gallery, Victoria Building, UCLan, Adelphi Street, Preston PR1 7HD pr1gallery.eventbrite.com @pr1gallery
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Interdisciplinary Project - Open Sharing
Tuesday 30 October
Year 3 BA (Hons) Music and BA (Hons) Dance Performance and Teaching
30 minutes
A mixed group of third-year students from the music and the dance courses has been exploring creative processes using Heather Barnett’s Matter Method Material approach (The Creative Stance, 2016), supported by music tutor Dr Jon Aveyard and dance tutor Giorgio de Carolis.
No booking required
Together they have created original interdisciplinary works for public performance, challenging discipline-specific habits and opening up possibilities for different approaches and strategies. This open sharing event will offer you an insight on some of these processes.
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4.30pm
Free
16+ Media Factory, Room ME020 (ground floor), UCLan, Kirkham Street, Preston PR1 2XY @DanceUCLan @UCLANMUSIC
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Flourish West Yorkshire Print Workshop This annual exhibition celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Established in 2009 to champion printmakers working throughout Yorkshire, Flourish now celebrates work from across the UK, with an exhibition of artists selected from open submission. Flourish brings together a wide range of prints made by artists shortlisted for this year’s award, selected by an independent panel of judges who have carefully considered artworks submitted from all over the country. Their selection presents a diverse, rich and imaginative group of 13 printmakers. Following the Preston dates, Flourish will be displayed at Spike Island, Bristol. The panel of judges includes; Tracy Hill, Awagami Prize winner at Flourish 2017 and Research Associate for Artlab Contemporary Print Studios at UCLan; David Sinclair, Head of Visual Art and Engagement at The Civic, Barnsley; and Grant Scanlon, Huddersfield Museums Manager.
Wednesday 5 November until Wednesday 7 November (weekdays only) 9.00am 8 hours Free No booking required 12+ PR1 Gallery, Victoria Building, UCLan, Adelphi Street, Preston PR1 7HD pr1gallery.eventbrite.com @pr1gallery
Musical Jam
Saturday 10 November
Tim Saunders, Rhythm Jam
1.30pm 2 hours
A chance to join a lively group of people having a musical jam together. There will be a large variety of percussion instruments provided and you are welcome to bring along additional percussion or pitched instruments. Led with a light touch by Tim Saunders, the music shifts between high-energy and gentle ambience. All levels of ability and experience are welcome.
Donation requested No booking required All ages, children must be accompanied throughout by a responsible adult Media Factory, Room ME226 (second floor), UCLan, Kirkham Street, Preston PR1 2XY uclan.ac.uk/ somethingforeveryone Contact Dr Jon Averyard: JAveryard@uclan.ac.uk
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The Great Northern Creative Expo - Risa Jaroslow Talk
Monday 12 November
BA (Hons) Dance Performance and Teaching
1 hour
4.30pm
Free
International choreographer Risa Jaroslow has created a performance to celebrate UCLan’s 190th anniversary. The creation process and the performance of this work included students from the BA (Hons) Dance Performance and Teaching course, as well as UCLan staff and local community members. Risa will share her practice and process for bringing trained and non-trained dancers together to create and perform. Risa has said: “My dance-making process begins with questions. In the studio, the dancers explore the questions through movement, take the answers and stretch them, turn them into daring partnering, whirl them through space and arrange them in patterns across many bodies. I include both the incredible virtuosity of highly trained dancers and the unique and deeply human contributions of non-trained movers in my work. By combining them, I aim to create a rich, complex picture that is resonant with all kinds of audiences.”
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Booking required, email Hannah Tongue 16+ Media Factory, Room ME020 (ground floor), UCLan, Kirkham Street, Preston PR1 2XY Email: HLTongue@uclan.ac.uk @DanceUCLan @DanceUCLan
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Creative Influence of Southern China
Tuesday 13 November until Thursday 22 November (weekdays only)
Global Sound Movement and BA (Hons) Fashion Design students
9.00am 8 hours
This exhibition aims to display the work of the Global Sound Movement (GSM) and the Fashion Design course. The collaborative outcome will display the methodologies and outcomes from the two subject areas Fashion and Music. Documenting the inspiration gathered from Southern China. The visitors will be able to view the garments and the fashion show along with listening to the soundtrack developed for the event hosted in Beijing.
Free No booking required 12+ PR1 Gallery, Victoria Building, UCLan, Adelphi Street, Preston PR1 7HD pr1gallery.eventbrite.com @pr1gallery
International Book Club - Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegwa
Wednesday 14 November
Worldwise Learning Centre
1 hour
2.00pm
Free
Join us once a month for our book club, where we review a variety of wonderful international books (English copies available to borrow). The first book will be Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa (2017), a charming tale of friendship, love and loneliness in contemporary Japan. Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time, he spends his days in a tiny confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with a sweet bean paste. But everything is about to change. Into his life comes Tokue, an elderly woman with disfigured hands and a troubled past. Tokue makes the best sweet bean paste Sentaro has ever tasted. She begins to teach him her craft, but as their friendship flourishes, social pressures become impossible to escape and Tokue’s dark secret is revealed, with devastating consequences.
No booking required 18+ Worldwise Open Area, Adelphi Building, Room AB108, UCLan, Adelphi Street, Preston PR1 7AY @WorldwiseCentre
A moving novel about the burden of the past and the redemptive power of friendship. Translated into English for the first time, Durian Sukegawa’s beautiful prose is capturing hearts all over the world. uclan.ac.uk/whatson
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Monthly Somatic Movement Classes
Wednesday 14 November
Artist and graduates of MA Somatic Dance and Wellbeing
2 hours
2.30pm
Free
Free monthly immersions in somatic movement, led by skilled practitioners to allow you to dwell and explore your somatic imagination and movement. Ideally suited for those with some experience of movement work and somatic approaches.
Booking via Facebook preferred or just turn up on the day 16+ Media Factory, Room ME020 (ground floor), UCLan, Kirkham Street, Preston PR1 2XY @DanceUCLan @DanceUCLan
Nowhere to Call Home: A Tibetan in Beijing
Thursday 15 November
Jocelyn Ford
2 hours 30 minutes
9.00am
Free
The international workshop ‘The Invisible within: Actors, Relationships and Activities in Chinese Migrant Families’, is a cooperative project between UCLan and the University of Portsmouth. We will be screening the documentary movie ‘Nowhere to call home. A Tibetan in Beijing’. Following the screening of the movie will be hosting a Skype Q&A session with the director Jocelyn Ford.
Booking required, email Lara Momesso 18+ Mitchell and Kenyon Cinema, Foster Building, UCLan, Kendal St, Preston PR1 2HE @UCLanApsEvents Email: LMomesso@uclan.ac.uk
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Festival of the Humanities
Wednesday 21 November
Dr David Troupes, Jhilmil Breckenridge, Dr Keith Vernon
5.00pm 3 hours
We welcome you to an evening of poetry readings and book launches, hosted by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences to celebrate the nationwide Festival of the Humanities. Launching Dr Keith Vernon’s book on the history of the University, established in Preston, as the Institution for the Diffusion of Knowledge in 1828. We also feature poetry readings by Dr David Troupes, who has published two books of poetry with Two Ravens Press, and his poems are published in PN Review, Carcanet New Poetries VI and Magma. His comic strip Buttercup Festival has also appeared regularly in PN Review. Also reading and launching her new collection of poetry, Reclamation Song, published by Red River, we feature Jhilmil Breckenridge, poet, writer, activist who works in mental health advocacy, poetry as therapy, creative writing and writing for wellbeing. Refreshments provided and all are welcome.
Wiggle Woogie Laine Tomkinson
Free Booking via Eventbrite 18+ Livesey House Café, Livesey House, UCLan, 6 Heatley Street, Preston PR1 2XR uclanhumanities. eventbrite.co.uk
Monday 26 November until Thursday 6 December (weekdays only) 9.00am
A colourful and captivating exhibition. Artist and UCLan Alumna, Laine Tomkinson describes her practice as lyrical abstraction. She works on heavy paper making bold, vibrant marks, often incorporating elements of monoprint or collage. Laine’s chosen shapes are inspired by movement and the joy of life; they give the appearance of dancing, shaking, hitting on each other, accordingly the completed works are given movement based titles: Roundabout, Tumble, and Wiggle Woogie.
8 hours Free No booking required 12+ PR1 Gallery, Victoria Building, UCLan, Adelphi Street, Preston PR1 7HD pr1gallery.eventbrite.com @pr1gallery @lainetomkinson
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ILLUME – Skelmersdale Glassball
Wednesday 28 November until Monday 3 December (weekdays only) 9.00am
ILLUME is a three year co-creative public arts project based in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, funded by Arts Council England and Lancashire County Council co-ordinated by Glassball. The project and the artists involved are using open working processes, when making a response to the 5,000 glass slides donated to the project by the Lancashire Archives based in Preston, in order to discuss and articulate views of the former new town of Skelmersdale. It asks how can an artwork become physically and conceptually embedded within the place through the ‘present past’. Working with students from West Lancashire College and artists John van Aitken (UCLan) and Jane Brake (Manchester School of Art), this collaboration has produced a series of photographs looking at several locations within Skelmersdale, collected from photo walks to the original public art works found in the town. The location of these works will physically change soon due to redevelopment, some locations have been forgotten, and others are perhaps becoming more political. This exhibition looks at these places as unanswered questions. The project aims to converse with these spaces etched with the passing of time but filled still by hope.
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8 hours Free No booking required 12+ PR1 Gallery, Victoria Building, UCLan, Adelphi Street, Preston PR1 7HD glassball.uk/portfolio/illume/ pr1gallery.eventbrite.com @pr1gallery
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Worldwise Photo Exhibition Worldwise Learning Centre The Worldwise Photo Exhibition is a display of photographs entered into the Worldwise Photo Competition. The winners of the competition will be announced at the launch event on the opening day, and the photographs will be available for viewing during Worldwise Centre term time opening hours. The Worldwise Learning Centre is putting together a calendar for 2019 and they want you to be a part of it. They are looking for exciting photographs that capture your ‘worldwise experiences’. Maybe you have seen something amazing during a summer or year abroad, or perhaps you would like to share something of your own culture with others. Winning entries must give an insight into a country’s customs, culture or people. To enter, send a maximum of five photos via email along with a short description of what each photo is about and how it captures the spirit of being worldwise. The closing date is Sunday 14 October 2018.
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Wednesday 5 December until Friday 7 January (weekdays only, excluding Bank Holidays) 9.00am 8 hours Free No booking required 18+ Adelphi Building, room 108 (first floor), UCLan, Adelphi Street, Preston PR1 7BQ WorldwiseCentre Email: worldwise@uclan.ac.uk
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Winter Festival Year 2 BA (Hons) Dance Performance and Teaching Site-specific choreography responding to various locations within Preston and the UCLan campus. Come along to see innovative and interesting work. Each piece will be about 10 minutes long and there will be eight performances. For more details on times and locations see our social media.
Thursday 6 December until Friday 7 December 12noon / 3.30pm (on both dates) 1 hour 20 minutes Free No booking required 12+ Harris Museum / Preston Railway Station / Media Factory @DanceUCLan @DanceUCLan
Musical Jam
Saturday 8 December
Tim Saunders, Rhythm Jam
1.30pm 2 hours
A chance to join a lively group of people having a musical jam together. There will be a large variety of percussion instruments provided and you are welcome to bring along additional percussion or pitched instruments. Led with a light touch by Tim Saunders, the music shifts between high-energy and gentle ambience. All levels of ability and experience are welcome.
Donation requested No booking required All ages, children must be accompanied throughout by a responsible adult Media Factory, Room ME226 (second floor), UCLan, Kirkham Street, Preston PR1 2XY uclan.ac.uk/ somethingforeveryone Contact Dr Jon Averyard: JAveryard@uclan.ac.uk
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Bowerbird Year 2 BA (Hons) Textiles An exhibition showing collections made by staff and students. Bowerbirds are known for the incredible structures they make out of sticks and colourful objects in order to attract a mate.
Monday 10 December until Friday 14 December 9.00am 8 hours Free No booking required 12+ PR1 Gallery, Victoria Building, UCLan, Adelphi Street, Preston PR1 7HD pr1gallery.eventbrite.com @pr1gallery
Vanishing Point Community Showcase
Tuesday 11 December
BA (Hons) Dance Performance and Teaching
1 hour
7.30pm
Adults £5 / Concessions £3
A celebration to mark the end of our Year 1 students’ first semester, and to close the University’s 190th year celebrations. A selection of our youth dance partners and friends join together to share with others the great work they have been doing so far this year. Join us as we give a big thumbs up to all things dance and joy - everybody welcome.
Booking via Facebook preferred or just turn up on the day All ages Media Factory, Room 002 (ground floor), UCLan, Kirkham Street, Preston PR1 2XY @DanceUCLan @DanceUCLan
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Worldwise International Book Club - Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
Wednesday 12 December
Worldwise Learning Centre
Free
2.00pm 1 hour
No booking required
Join us once a month for our book club, where we review a variety of wonderful international books (English copies are available). This month’s book will be ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad’ by Ahmed Saadawi: A prize-winning horror novel from war-torn Iraq. From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, the scavenger Hadi collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognise the parts as people and give them a proper burial. But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who, though shot, cannot be killed. Hadi soon realises he has created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive - first from the guilty, and then from anyone who crosses its path. An extraordinary achievement, ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad’ captures with white-knuckle horror and black humour the surreal reality of a city at war.
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18+ Adelphi Building, Room AB108 (first floor), UCLan, Adelphi Street, Preston PR1 7AY @WorldwiseCentre WorldwiseCentre
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Monthly Somatic Movement Classes
Wednesday 12 December
Artist and graduates of MA Somatic Dance and Wellbeing
2 hours
2.30pm
Free
Free monthly immersions in somatic movement, led by skilled practitioners to allow you to dwell and explore your somatic imagination and movement. Ideally suited for those with some experience of movement work and somatic approaches.
Booking via Facebook preferred or just turn up on the day 16+ Media Factory, Room ME020 (ground floor), UCLan, Kirkham Street, Preston PR1 2XY @DanceUCLan @DanceUCLan
Vanishing Point Year 3 BA (Hons) Dance Performance and Teaching Our annual showcase of choreographic work. Each evening is a different programme of work, sharing a range of pieces made by our third-year students, investigating and devising creations based on their artistic interests.
Wednesday 12 December until Thursday 13 December 5.30pm 1 hour Free Booking via Facebook preferred or just turn up on the day 12+ Media Factory, Room ME002 (ground floor), UCLan, Kirkham Street, Preston PR1 2XY @DanceUCLan @DanceUCLan
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Love of the Nightingale Year 3 BA (Hons) Acting “I always felt a shadow hanging over me. I asked too many questions”. Tereus King of Thrace deceives and seduces Philomele, his sister in law, then silences her by tearing out her tongue. The horrific act leads the characters down a dark and dangerous path of revenge and violence in Wertenbaker’s electrifying play. Based loosely on the Sophocles tragedy of Tereus and the story of Philomele in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Wertenbaker combines elements from Greek myth and the history and drama of classical Greece to make a play that is as original as it is modern. Dealing with issues around the silencing of a woman’s voice, power and corruption, more than ever the play feels as relevant and as pertinent to a contemporary audience as it did when the RSC first premiered the play in 1988.
Wednesday 12 December until Saturday 15 December 2.30pm (except Wednesday) / 7.30pm 2 hours 30 minutes Adults £10 / Concessions £5 Booking via TicketSource, limited tickets on door 15+ St Peter’s Art Centre, St Peter’s Square, Preston PR1 7BX @UCLanActing ticketsource.co.uk
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Ēkhe Alex de Vol and Josh Horsley This durational, mixed-media installation examines the intersections of design and sound. The Greek ‘Ekhe’ describes a sound, which to be heard, needs a resonating space. Vessels placed throughout the space are struck with falling objects. The resulting percussive sounds create evolving layers of tones that shift from note to noise as the vessels become full. Ekhe represents the continued collaboration and research of artists and UCLan music lecturers Alex de Vol and Josh Horsley.
Tuesday 18 December until Friday 11 January (weekdays only, excluding Bank Holidays) 9.00am 8 hours Free No booking required 12+ PR1 Gallery, Victoria Building, UCLan, Adelphi Street, Preston PR1 7HD pr1gallery.eventbrite.com @pr1gallery
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How to find us UCLan is conveniently situated within walking distance of Preston railway station, about a 10-minute walk. If you are coming on foot from the train station, exit from the station’s main entrance, turn right and then left down Corporation Street to Ringway. Cross Ringway at the lights, turn right, then take first left down Corporation Street (shops including Aldi on your left). Continue straight ahead and follow signs to the University. If travelling via bus, the number 31 bus service runs every 15 minutes from Preston bus station and stops outside the University’s C&T Building, which is located close to the Media Factory and Hanover and Victoria Buildings. If you are travelling on foot from Preston bus station, the journey is a 15-minute walk. Head towards Lancaster Road until you arrive at the Cenotaph. Turn right downhill on Friargate. Walk through the pedestrianised area down to the traffic lights at Ringway. Cross Ringway and continue up Friargate. Follow signs to University. To find locations of events, please see the campus map: uclan.ac.uk/campusmap
Daytime weekday parking Visitors attending University events on weekdays during daytime hours are advised to use public transport or the following nearby public pay and display car parks: Walker Street car park, 3050 North Street, Preston PR1 2HF Hill Street car park, Hill Street, Preston PR1 2BB
Evening and weekend parking Visitors attending University events taking place at the weekend or in the evening (after 6.00pm) can park free of charge for the duration of the event and do not require a permit to be on display. We also have disabled parking bays available for Blue Badge holders.
Accessibility The University welcomes visitors with specific requirements such as BSL assistance or help with access or egress. Where possible, please notify us at the time of booking or approach any member of staff for assistance.
Contact For enquiries about events featured in this booklet contact Tania Callagher: TCallagher@uclan.ac.uk 01772 894106. For enquiries about other University events contact: WhatsOn@uclan.ac.uk 34
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November
- Samba Drumming Workshops - Flourish - Musical Jam - The Great Northern Creative Expo - Risa Jaroslow Talk - Creative Influence of Southern China - International Book Club - Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegwa - Monthly Somatic Movement Classes - Nowhere to Call Home: A Tibetan in Beijing - Festival of the Humanities - Wiggle Woogie
December
- Wiggle Woogie - ILLUME - Skelmersdale - Worldwise Photo Exhibition - Winter Festival - Musical Jam - Bowerbird - Vanishing Point Community Showcase - Worldwise International Book Club - Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi - Monthly Somatic Movement Classes - Vanishing Point - Love of the Nightingale - Samba Drumming Workshops - Ekhe
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Conga Course Sounds Imagined Hidden Gems Preston Young Dancers Natural Voice Singing Samba Drumming Workshops Creative Practice Talks “Mmm...” (Mischievous Music Moments) Pop Song Play-Along Monthly Somatic Movement Classes MY MA Show 2018 Musical Jam Preston’s 12th International Film Festival Fine Art Student Show 1 Cold Bath Street Halloween Event Fine Art Student Show 2 Whittingham 1918 by Eric Northey The Beauty of Indigenous Power Can These Dry Bones Live? Interdisciplinary Project - Open Sharing