Arts & Science Festival 2015

Sight and Sound

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Cadbury Research Library presents an exhibition highlighting aspects of the…

Civic Life/ Civic Science

Monday, 16 March 2015

12.00–12.50

Muirhead, G15
We are surrounded by images and sounds, and these usually are a reliable guide…

Sight, Sound and Mental Health

Monday, 16 March 2015

12.00–14.00

Arts, LR 201
Final year recitalists perform a selection of music in preparation for their…

Final Year Recitals

Monday, 16 March 2015

12.30–14.00

Bramall, Dome
Has a work of fiction ever changed the way you see the world around you? Could…

Can Fiction Generate Social Change?

Monday, 16 March 2015

12.30–14.00

Arts, LT 7
You are aware, but you are meant to be unconscious. AWAKE explores the findings…

AWAKE

Monday, 16 March 2015

Bramall, Concert Hall
Join Winterbourne artist in residence, Anne Parouty in conversation with…

Imagining Mushrooms

Monday, 16 March to Sunday, 22 March 2015

Winterbourne, Gallery
In 1900 Oliver Lodge, at the invitation of Joseph Chamberlain, became the first…

Civic Science: Oliver Lodge

Monday, 16 March to Friday, 20 March 2015

9.00–18.00

Muirhead, Atrium
Home, Harmony and Hope will explore the musical prominence of Birmingham and…

The Sound of Sister Cities

Monday, 16 March to Friday, 20 March 2015

9.00–18.00

Bramall, Foyer
Voyeurism, idolatry, the transience of life and orange-phobia are among the…

New Art West Midlands

Monday, 16 March to Sunday, 22 March 2015

Barber Institute of Fine Arts
The frivolous and extravagant fashions of the Ancien Regime were brought to a…

Revolutionising Fashion

Monday, 16 March to Sunday, 22 March 2015

Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Look at one of the coins you’re carrying today: you’ll see the Queen’s…

Inheriting Rome

Monday, 16 March to Sunday, 22 March 2015

Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Visit the Stones & Bones exhibition and take a trip through time! At…

Stones & Bones

Monday, 16 March to Sunday, 22 March 2015

Library of Birmingham, B1 2ND
Lie down, look up, and listen – this is an unmissable immersive,…

e-x-p-a-n-d-i-n-g

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

12.00, 14.00, 16.00

Munrow, Sports Hall
University of Birmingham staff established the charity LUCIA (Life Uplifted by…

LUCIA: Improving Vision in Ethiopia

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

13.00–14.00

Law, Senior Common Room
From the 1700s to late 1800s, explorers went all around the world collecting…

Maori Tattooed Heads

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

17.30–18.30

Medical School, LT 4
Join Dr John Peaty, International Secretary for the British Commission for…

Lawrence of Arabia

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

17.30–19.00

Arts, LR 3
Mat Jenner will talk about his exhibition Dreams Time Free, currently showing…

Dreams Time Free

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

18.00–19.00

Barber, Lecture Theatre
When you look up at the sky on a clear night did you know that many of the…

Music of the Stars

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

18.00–19.00

Poynting, Large Lecture Theatre
MA Film and Television showcase documentary films and guided editing projects…

One Minute Movie Competition

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

18.30–20.30

Muirhead, G15
Join Ikon Gallery for a rare opportunity to hear Norwegian artist A K Dolven…

Ja, As Long As I Can

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

19.30–21.30

Barber, Concert Hall
What is a woman in sport? Media exposure of the 2014 Women’s International…

Ladies of Leisure

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

12.00–14.00

Sport & Exercise, LT 2
Explore drawing in a new way. Join artist Saranjit Birdi and have a go at…

Nokyorsoxoff

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

12.00–15.00

Venue TBC
Drawing on ten books from the Cadbury Research Library, Professor Jonathan…

Ten Books That Changed Medicine

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

13.00–14.00

Muirhead, CRL Seminar Room
Find out more about the behind the scenes world of art conservation with…

How Many Breughels Make Four?

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

13.00–14.00

Barber Institute of Fine Arts
This panel session bringing together University of Birmingham academics from a…

The Big Prison Debate

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

17.00–19.00

Arts, Main Lecture Theatre
An illustrated talk presenting the work of 2014 Nobel Prize Winner Patrick…

In Search of Patrick Modiano

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

17.30–19.00

Arts, LT 3
Do you think in the same way as you did 10 years ago? Do you think your…

Act Your Age Pub Quiz

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

18.00–20.00

Staff House, Bratby Bar
Don’t miss this evening of screening and discussion exploring human rights…

Film & Human Rights

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

18.30–21.30

Muirhead, G15
Join poets Nadia Kingsley and Emma Purshouse as they lead you through a series…

Under The Night Stars

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

19.00–21.00

Physics West, LR 103
Plants can undergo incredible shape changes and movement, from leaves following…

Mathematical Lego

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

19.30–20.30

Watson, LT A
Poetics of (Outer) Space (2015) is a multi-channel sound installation by…

Poetics of (Outer) Space

Wednesday, 18 March to Sunday, 22 March 2015

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Perrott's Folly, B16 9AL
Join the University’s Particle Physics Group to see and hear the cosmic rays…

Sights and Sounds of Cosmic Rays

Thursday, 19 March 2015

11.30–14.00

Muirhead, Atrium
This multimedia installation piece has been created by Liberal Arts and Science…

Rituals of Disorder

Thursday, 19 March 2015

13.00–14.00

32 Pritchatt’s Road
Ian Dury, Steve Harley, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Donovan, Israel Vibration,…

Crippled with Nerves

Thursday, 19 March 2015

12.30–13.30

Barber, Lecture Theatre
Our sense of vision is designed to allow us to access a wealth of information…

Making Sense of it all

Thursday, 19 March 2015

12.30–13.45

Nuffield, G17
Tune into your surroundings and join BEAST for a deep listening session drawing…

BEAST: Evensong

Thursday, 19 March 2015

18.15, 19.00, 19.45

Bramall, Dome
Poetics of (Outer) Space (2015) is a multi-channel sound installation by…

Poetics and Outer Space

Thursday, 19 March 2015

18.30–19.30

Ikon Gallery, B1 2HS
Marking the 70th anniversary of Fassbinder’s birth, Little Earthquake joins…

The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant

Thursday, 19 March to Saturday, 21 March 2015

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George Cadbury Hall, B29 6LU
Jack McNeill and Ulrich Heinen perform the compositions produced by…

Visualising Sound

Friday, 20 March 2015

16.00–17.00

Barber Institute of Fine Arts
A practical calligraphy workshop presented in association with the Pen Museum.…

Calligraphy Workshop

Friday, 20 March 2015

10.00–16.00

Winterbourne House & Garden
The cake orchestra is a cake-technology-music interface for people without much…

The Cake Orchestra

Friday, 20 March 2015

12.00–14.00

Computer Science, Atrium
Pareidolia is the psychologists’ term for the brain’s tendency to detect…

Hunting the Mind’s Wildlife

Friday, 20 March 2015

12.30–14.00

Mech & Civil Eng, LT B23
Winner of the Gold Medal at the 2012 Fischoff National Chamber Music…

Tesla Quartet

Friday, 20 March 2015

13.00–14.00

Barber, Concert Hall
Explore sound and instrumental technique with leading professional musicians…

Visualising Sound: Art & Music

Friday, 20 March 2015

14.30–16.00

Barber Institute of Fine Arts
B-Film and Flatpack Film Festival presents this one-off screening of Girlhood,…

Girlhood

Friday, 20 March 2015

Electric Cinema, B5 4DY
The University’s premier brass ensembles present an evening of entertainment…

Brass in Concert

Friday, 20 March 2015

19.30–21.30

Bramall, Concert Hall
Bacteria and microbes are all around us, on us and within us: they are often…

Bioprospecting Birmingham

Saturday, 21 March 2015

10.30–17.00

BOM, B5 4EG
Once considered part of the fungi family, the slime mould’s multi-coloured…

The Creeping Garden

Saturday, 21 March 2015

13.00–15.00

Electric Cinema, B5 4DY
Simon Halsey is joined by two talented student conductors for this concert…

The Age of Choirs

Saturday, 21 March 2015

19.30–21.30

St George’s Church, B15 3DQ
The birthplace of celluloid and the Odeon circuit, Birmingham has always had a…

Celluloid City

Sunday, 22 March 2015

12.00–16.00

Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Internationally acclaimed Irish concert pianist David Quigley joins the Music…

Philharmonic Orchestra

Sunday, 22 March 2015

15.00–18.00

Bramall, Concert Hall
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