Dance artist and choreographer Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín has been exploring notions of site with the body and the senses in her UCC Creative Residency, leading the group through curious investigations around the connections between people and places. Join us on Thursday 28 January for a Public Presentation where Siobhán will share some of her practice and discuss her processes. The audience will be briefly invited to drop into their bodies in a guided seated exploration, and there will be a moment to experience a small number of pieces from workshop participants. The event will be hosted by Jools Gilson, Professor of Creative Practice. 

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I am continuously drawn to connecting with people and place. I am looking for where the body meets other forms and how this can lead to a shift in perception; of something’s purpose; of someone’s role; of the structures we surround ourselves with. This workshop will gently explore the textures and gestures of situated space and is open to beginners as well as those with some dance / movement experience.

Please note: 
The workshop entails a gentle and exploratory approach suitable for beginners. Please wear comfortable clothing you can move in. You will also need a yoga mat (or a blanket), pen / paper and colouring pencils. 

Workshops:

Tuesday 5th Jan 6 – 8pm
Tuesday 12th Jan 6 – 8pm
Tuesday 19th Jan 6 – 8pm

Final Online Presentation

Thursday 28^th Jan 6 –7pm

Alan Gilsenan has been exploring the notion of truth in documentary and fiction filmmaking in his UCC Creative Residency. Alan is a writer, film-maker and theatre director who works across documentary, experimental work, and feature films. In this public presentation, he will show short excerpts of his practice, discuss questions around truth in contemporary film making, and invite workshop participants to share some of their explorations. This event will be hosted by Jools Gilson, Professor of Creative Practice. 

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Paul O Donnell is a composer, performer and lecturer at the University College Cork School of Music and Theatre. His areas of interest are Jazz, World Music and Popular Music. Over the last 25 years he has worked nationally and internationally with a host of jazz luminaries, including: Grant Stewart, Bobby Watson, Bill Berry and Jon Faddis. Paul has also recorded CDs in the genres of Jazz, Latin American and Popular Music. In more recent times he has created  and  led a number of Jazz/World Music groups, including: Enerjazz (2010), The Paul O Donnell Jazz World Ensemble (2011) and his most recent and current project POD Fusion (2012 – present day) which is an intercultural, collaborative ensemble focusing exclusively on Paul’s own original work in the genres of Jazz and World Music. 

As well as his work with the aforementioned groups, Paul is also the keyboardist with TRASNA – another intercultural music-making project, which represented UCC, Cork and Ireland at the Shanghai World Expo in September 2010 and he is the founder and director of COLLAGE – a Soul/Pop ensemble which specialises in original arrangements of contemporary and classic popular music. 

Free. Organised by FUAIM.

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“Pattern Portraits: Composing Intermedia”

Biography

Jeffrey Weeter composes music, designs real-time multimedia instruments, plays the drums and performs musically with technology. He is director of the Cork Audio Visual Ensemble (CAVE) which performed “The Box” at the International Computer Music/Sound and Music Computing Conference in Athens, Greece. His work was also recently performed at Kunsthaus in Zurich, the !f Istanbul AFM International Independent Film Festival, and the Cork Film Festival. During 2011 and again in 2012, collaborations with electronic musician Kate Simko toured the world, touching every continent. 

As an educator, Dr Weeter created the first music composition MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) of it’s kind in collaboration with Kadenze, leaders in learning creative technologies online. The course “Loop: Repetition and Variation in Music”, has been taken by thousands across the globe. 

He completed his Doctorate in Music Composition from Northwestern University, served five years as an audio engineer for the Emmy winning “Oprah Winfrey Show”, Harpo Studios, Chicago and is currently a Lecturer in Music Composition at University College Cork, Ireland.

Free. Organised by FUAIM.

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No strangers to the FUAIM Friday lunchtime concert series, the Irish Guitar Quartet is back for this week’s concert, live-streamed from the Glucksman Gallery.

Be sure to join us at the usual time of 1:10pm at https://www.youtube.com/user/musicatUCC for a wonderful programme that ranges from Argentinian tangos to new age music by David Pritchard and Leo Brouwer – all conveyed through the magic of the guitar.

‘The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself’ – Ludwig van Beethoven 

‘Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two’ – Frederic Chopin 

Great minds think alike – if only Chopin had heard four guitars! 

The Irish Guitar Quartet (IGQ) – Jerry Creedon, David Keating, Colin McClean and Aengus Kirakowski – is one of Ireland’s most exciting music ensembles, performing a wide range of music from Baroque to Contemporary fusion. Utilising the wonderful versatility of the instrument to create extraordinary textures and ambience, the IGQ have left nation-wide audiences spellbound.  

The ensemble’s recent performances have included the National Concert Hall International Guitar Series in February, 2020, St. John’s Arts Arts Centre, Listowel; Fota House, Cork; RTE Lyric FM; National Concert Hall, Dublin; Boyle Arts Festival; Clifden Arts Week; Clonakilty International Guitar Festival; UCC; Guitar Festival of Ireland; Siamsa Tire, Tralee; National Opera House, Wexford; Cork Orchestral Society and a Schools Recital Series for West Cork Music.  

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Free. Organised by FUAIM.

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“The Cork Piper’s Club and its Impact on Irish Traditional Music and Dance in the early 20th century”

Mary is an uilleann piper and musicologist specialising in Irish traditional music. She teaches courses in Irish traditional music and manages the Department’s Traditional Music Archive. Mary learned her uilleann piping from the renowned Cork piper Mícheál Ó Riabhaigh. As manager of the Traditional Music Archive (UCC) she oversees the upgrading and digitising of recordings and she is engaged in the ongoing development of more effective methods of computer cataloguing and indexing field recordings and the many other, ever increasing, holdings of the archive. Mary has acted as archive adviser for the From the Sources project and she was a committee member of the O’Neill/Henebry digitisation project at UCC.  She has also performed extensively from North Carolina in the USA to Warsaw and Lublin in Poland. Mary has worked as a music collector in North Kerry for Muckross House Library, creating one of the largest song collections in the country.

Free. Organised by FUAIM.

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Artist in Residence Danielle McLaughlin, winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction and of the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, has been working on the themes of happiness and hope in short stories in her UCC Creative workshop. In this public presentation, Danielle will read some of her work, discuss the writing craft, and invite a small number of participants to share their writing. Join us for a lively event on writing, happiness, fiction, and hope.  

The event will be hosted by Professor Claire Connolly.

Workshops Dates:

Tuesday 3rd Nov 6 – 8pm

Tuesday 10th Nov 6 – 8pm

Tuesday 17th Nov 6 – 8pm

Online Public Presentation:

Thursday 26^th Nov 6–7pm

Join us on Thursday 29^th October for an online evening event exploring the works of playwright, actor and director John McCarthy, and traditional musician Danny O’Mahony.

Both artists will share their practices and the themes they have been exploring while in residency at UCC, with some participants sharing short spoken / sound pieces developed during the artists’ workshops. This is a fantastic moment to learn more about contemporary playwriting and traditional music.

These workshops will focus on some of the musical sources of North County Kerry.  From historic recordings to the local repertoire, participants will share and learn from what informs O’Mahonys musical journey.

Workshops Dates:

Thursday 8th Oct 6 – 8pm

Thursday 15^th Oct 6 – 8pm

Thursday Oct 6 – 8pm

Final Online Presentation:

With John McCarthy & Danny O’Mahony

Thursday 29^th October 6–7.30pm