Ulster Tatler - The Social Update Magazine - Issue 5

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Ulster Tatler

ISSUE 5 Belfast, monday 27 APRIl 2020

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This issue

During these unprecedented and isolating times, the team at Ulster Tatler Group wanted to create a platform to keep our readers connected: even though we have to remain apart. We thought the best way to do this was through a series of small, but perfectly formed, locally focused digital updates. Twice a week we will be issuing a bite-sized digital magazine for you to peruse at home during lockdown. To receive it free of charge just email: kellie@ulstertatler.com.

Enjoy and stay safe!

The Editor

Contents

Ask An Architect Salon

03 THE SCENE

Ask and Architect Salon

04 COLUMN

Wedding photography with Dylan McBurney

06 Inside Track

Our top picks of resources to keep you entertained

08-09 Lockdown Profiles

The lockdown with Lady Elizabeth Bloomfield

11 Looking Back at Looking Back

The best moments of UT’s Looking Back column

12 Society Weddings O’Prey & Boyd

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Stay Home. Stay Safe.

In honour of International Women’s Day – and in service of the ask an architect initiative – RSUA Women in Architecture organised a “Salon” event on 11 March 2020 which brought together architects and members of the public to discuss projects, get design ideas, and talk about architecture in the city. A range of topics were discussed ranging from conservation to refurbishment and how to get the most out of your architect. Attendees asked questions from the floor and enjoyed pizza and a drink courtesy of the event sponsor van Dijk architects.

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Dylan McBurney

New ‘wild’ home learning hub helps parents in Northern Ireland

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Wedding Reportage for an authentic story

Wildlife charity WWT, which runs Castle Espie Wetland Centre in County Down, launches its new online ‘wild’ home learning hub to help hard pressed parents teach their primary school aged children key parts of the science curriculum.

New resources, covering different conservation science themes, will be released weekly on a Monday morning during lockdown.

WWT has 70 years’ experience in teaching school groups and its experts have tailored their wealth of curriculumlinked learning resources for use at home. Mini lesson plans have been adapted for parents, and divided up into bite-sized chunks, including an outdoors element.

Separate plans have been created for five to seven and seven to eleven year olds.

WWT is sharing this expertise with families to help educate their young children in the building blocks of conservation science.

Capture all the moments on your special day with Dylan McBurney Photography.

Reportage wedding photography on the other hand equates to non-posed coverage: moments captured, the telling of the actual story rather than a series of arranged concoctions.

Put simply, it’s where the photographer senses, anticipates and then documents moments as a reporter all without speaking or changing the scene. Results are truly timeless and telling of the day’s spirit and the couple’s love. It’s a philosophy based on the belief that people look their best when they are unaware of the camera.

About Dylan McBurney

For better or worse, wedding photographers seem to work with two divergent mandates and definitions of art and correctness.

The mission of the ‘traditional’ wedding photographer is to arrange and create photographic opportunities; for the wedding photojournalist, it is to sense, find and document existing moments. Two perspectives, two missions, two minds: one proactive, the other reactive.

The traditional approach can be seen everywhere in wedding photography where the subjects are aware of the camera and where the photographer has clearly had an input in arranging the scene or prompting the subjects to look into the lens.

Dylan’s professional career in wedding reportage began in 2005 when he was invited to show his photographs of Ireland at exhibitions in New York and France. Struck by the beautiful black and white images of children playing in the streets of Belfast in the 1970s taken by legendary American photographer Mary Ellen Mark and hanging alongside his own photographs, Dylan took this ‘photojournalistic’ approach into weddings.

Since then he has photographed over 300 weddings in Ireland and further afield in locations such as London, Barcelona, Prague, and across France.

Dylan’s storytelling approach to picture taking allows his couples to relax and enjoy their day with friends and family without hours spent posing - hours that interrupt the natural flow of the day. They want an album that’s a statement about themselves and a true reflection of what really happened, rather than just a series of posed images.

From the outset, Dylan’s approach has been on capturing authentic ‘real-life’ moments from the wedding. His simple, romantic, natural light images focus on the bride and groom’s interactions with friends and family, often revealing powerful emotions and relationships and capturing the uncomplicated charm of stolen glances or guests laughing.

Covering weddings unobtrusively allows him to tell the couple’s story with spontaneous photographs that always bring delight to the viewer.

This unique style has brought Dylan to photograph weddings all over Ireland and Europe and he remains one of the most indemand photographers in Northern Ireland.

• Column originally published in the March edition of Ulster Tatler .

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These weekly lessons cover themes that WWT Castle

Espie addresses daily such as climate change, migration, wildlife identification, and habitats. Parents can click on the hub for a full theme list. The lessons are supported by visual resources, ‘how to make’ videos and fun quizzes.

Click on wwt.org.uk/homelearning to access the hub.

Also check out #wwthomelearning

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We quietly capture authentic wedding moments knowing that people look best when unaware of the camera and just being themselves.

For more information: Website: www.dylanmcburney.com Instagram: dylanmcburney Facebook: dylanmcburneyphoto

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Inside TRack

RYA NI affiliated Club members swap scrubbing boats to scrubbing for the NHS! Around the shores of Strangford Lough, two long-time friends, Thelma and Louise, set up the North Down & Ards Scrubs for NHS group. The group was set up to help support NHS workers such as Thelma’s son who is a key worker within the NHS.

As our cultural landscape has changed, we reveal our favourite ways to remain entertained and connected whilst staying at home.

The group, which was set up only 3 weeks ago and now has over 30 teams (averaging 10 members per team) including stitchers, cutters, drivers and a few independent sewers, has made over 500 scrub sets to date.

“Operation Elsewhere brings alive Irish myths and takes audiences on a virtual trip”

The volunteers include a team made up of club members from around Strangford Lough including Quoile YC and Killyleagh

YC. The team led by Liz Baker, RYANI Development Committee member and Quoile Yacht club member, is working alongside 12 others from Quoile and Killyleagh.

Other club members include – Jill Heron; Julie Chambers; Bridie McKeating; Paddy Mullan; Bridie Warren; Heather Crawford; Sheenagh Crawford; Liz McCormick; Joanne McGown trying on the scrubs Dawn Crosby; Helen Bready; made by the volunteers from Quoile Allison Crichton and Viv White Yacht Club and Killyleagh Yacht Club.

– even getting their husbands involved, who are gaining new skills by getting roped into trace and cut patterns for the scrubs.

The group are sewing scrubs for the Ulster Hospital, Covid testing centres, the Maternity unit at the Ulster, the Mater and Ards and North Down community nursing.

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Donations for the work they are doing can be made through: https://bit.ly/2VAr6BZ

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Northern Irish theatre company Big Telly is bringing a new and extraordinary online theatrical experience right into homes across the UK, Northern Ireland and beyond.

Directed by Zoe Seaton, Operation Elsewhere brings alive Irish myths and takes audiences on a virtual trip to some of the most stunning locations on the north coast and NI, for an adventure into another dimension, where somewhere is Elsewhere. Once admitted to the journey, the audience weave their path and meet strange and wonderful characters, faeries and changelings, together with mysterious quests, intrigue and game mechanics. Operation Elsewhere takes place from 2-4 May 2020 with six live performances at 3pm and 7pm. To book: https://www.big-telly.com/operationelsewhere-goes-live-2-4-may/

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PROFILES

What is the first thing you are going to do when things return to normal?

I am really looking forward to going for a swim again – I really miss going to the pool. I also miss seeing family and friends – we talk on the phone or through the window when I am having groceries delivered, but it is not the same as sitting down together, and I can not wait to go to the hairdressers!

How are you keeping fit during this period?

As I can’t go to the golf club, the gym or the pool, I have started going for walks along the shore most days, which I am enjoying. Fresh air is great at reviving you. I am practicing my golf in the garden.

Have you any books, box sets or podcasts you can recommend to help Ulster Tatler readers get through this?

I am not much of a reader, but I am rediscovering lots of old movies that I have not seen for years.

I am also really enjoying watching Murder, She Wrote and Columbo on TV, and of course reading Ulster Tatler.

Do you have any tips on how to stay positive during this period?

I have always been a very positive person and I do not let things get me down too much. My best advice is never stay in bed – it just makes you feel awful. I like to keep busy, so there is not too much time left to worry about things!

Lady Bloomfield MBE (middle) at her investiture at Buckingham Palace. She is pictured with her husband Sir Kenneth and their daughter Mrs Caroline McDowell.

With the nation being put in lockdown, we ask some prominent local figures how they are dealing with this unique situation. In this edition, we chat to author and architectural historian, Paul Harron.

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Lockdown Profiles

With the nation being put in lockdown, we ask some prominent local figures how they are dealing with this unique situation. In this edition we chat to Lady Elizabeth Bloomfield MBE.

What is your daily routine?

My husband has not been too well this past year, so quite a bit of my day is spent looking after him. But I make sure I get outside at some point every day for some fresh air and exercise, and like to spend some time doing puzzles in the afternoon.

“I am practicing my golf in the garden.”

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looking back

looking back

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at Looking Back In the Ulster Tatler Stay Home Social Update, we look at the best moments from Ulster Tatler’s much-loved Looking Back column.

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1. NOVEMBER 1990 Daphne Rainey, Margaret Copeland, Sheila Brooks and Dorothy Parish at the 25th Reunion of RVH Nurses, who began their training in September 1965. The event took place at Circular Road, Belfast.

2. DECEMBER 1994 The Senior Management team of the Belfast Model School for Girls, from left: Mrs V Boyle, Vice Principal; Mrs P Wilson, Vice Principal; Mr R Manson, Mr T Greenwood, Principal (seated); Mrs J McLain; Mr M Maginnis and Mr W Thompson.

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3. october 1994 The Famous Ulster Families series continued in the October 1994 issue with Peter and Lady Fiona Hannon.

The couple are pictured here in their drawing room. The photography for the feature was by Roy McFall.

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WEDDINGS

Society

Weddings

o’prey & boyd

Corrinne O’Prey from Glengoland Parade, Belfast and Darren Boyd from Glen River Park, Glenavy were married on 15th March 2020 at Clandeboye Lodge. The happy had planned to honeymoon in Calgary and Banff in Canada, however have been unable to go due to travel restriction as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. They did however manage to squeeze in a minimoon break to Edinburgh before lockdown.

Photography by Elijah & Susannah

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