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Huston School of Film & Digital Media
Date: Friday, 03 March 2006
Location: Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Earl’s Island
Time: 15.00
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’Seeing the Past from the Present: Cinema in the Age of New Technologies.’ Speaker: Laura Mulvey, film-maker, theorist and author of seminal essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Places limited. If you wish to attend, phone: Dee Quinn, Ext. 507.
http://www.nuigalway.ie/news/dialann.php?d_id=3205

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Huston School of Film & Digital Media/Womens’ Studies Centre, NUI Galway Annual Symposium
Date: Friday, 03 March 2006
Location: Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Earl’s Island
Time: 18.00
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’Women in the Picture 2: Influence and Inspiration.’ Speakers include: Laura Mulvey, feminist film-maker and theorist; Pat Murphy, film-maker & critic (Nora) and Liz Gill, film-maker (Goldfish Memory). To register, phone: Dee Quinn, Ext. 5076 or email: dee.quinn@nuigalway.ie
The symposium continues on Saturday 4th March.

WOMEN IN THE PICTURE 2

Influence and Inspiration

3-5 March, 2006
In association with the Womens’ Studies Centre, NUIG.

Following on from the success of last year’s event, the second Women in the Picture symposium focuses on the question, what inspires and influences contemporary women film-makers?

While acknowledging fully that the work of male artists and film-makers has been and continues to be a major influence on the work of most women film-makers, the symposium will focus on women’s influence on each other’s work. The notion of influence raises many questions about such issues as the role of critical discourses in creating canons and constructing ‘auteurs’; women filmmaker’s creative and working practices; and the desirability, or otherwise, of role models.

The various talks and screenings will allow us to think about these and other questions, about the range of women who have inspired women film-makers, why this is so, and how their influence has been manifested.

A range of distinguished filmmakers and critics will explore these issues, including renowned feminist film-maker and theorist, LAURA MULVEY, whose discussion of the work of Iranian film-maker, Rakshan Bani Etemad, will be preceded by a screening of UNDER THE SKIN OF THE CITY; film-maker and critic PAT MURPHY (NORA); filmmaker LIZ GILL (GOLDFISH MEMORY); and filmmaker MONIKA TREUT, who will also screen and discuss her new film, TIGER WOMEN GROW WINGS, a documentary tracing the profound changes undergone by Taiwanese society by examining the lives of three generations of Taiwanese women.

Fees
€25 waged, €10 unwaged

To book a place, please send a cheque in Euros for the relevant amount, stating which part of the symposium you wish to attend, and your name and contact details, to the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, Ireland. Alternatively, you can register and pay on arrival.

Orientation, Accommodation
For information on university accommodation in Galway, maps of the city, the campus and tourist information go to:
http://www.nuigalway.ie/administration_services/conference_facilities/maps.html
For a complete guide to Galway city and county including accommodation, events and things to do, see the links page on this website.

PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE

Friday 3rd March

6.0 Registration

6.30 Short welcome / intro – Rod Stoneman

6.40 Introduction: Laura Mulvey

6.50 Under the Skin of the City Rakshan Bani Etemad (2001) 92 mins.

8.20 Reception

Saturday 4th March

9.30 Registration / Coffee

10.0 Introductory remarks – Jenny Roche / Fidelma Farley

10.20 The Nature of Influence – Pat Murphy

11.45 Coffee

12.00 Her Name was Lola - Ann Roper.

1.30 Lunch

3.00 Iranian Women’s Cinema – Laura Mulvey Discussion

4.15 Tea

4.30 Tigerwomen Grow Wings Monika Treut (2005) 83 mins [To be confirmed] -6.30

8.00 Dinner [In order to facilitate further dialogue we have reserved a venue – the Lemon Grass restaurant, Spanish Arch for dinner. Should you wish to come dinner please confirm with Dee Quinn; however please note this is not included in the registration fee.]

Sunday 5th March

10.15 Coffee

10.30 Liz Gill (film-maker)

11.35 Coffee

11.50 Nancy Malone (actor, producer, director)

1.0 Plenary

1.30 Close

[SUBJECT TO CHANGE: 22 Feb 2006]

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Tuesday 7^th March 2006

5.00pm – 7.00pm

Following our roundtable with Jay Koh and Chuyuan in December we are hosting a roundtable discussion with London based artist Loraine Leeson. This discussion is intended for arts, community and youth practitioners dedicated to developing participatory practice in the context of regeneration.

Loraine’s input will cover her early work exploring the role of arts and culture within the changing architectural, social and cultural landscape of London’s Docklands. She will reflect upon the changing production and political conditions that are fundamental to her current work with young people. The discussion will focus on how new ideas / practices emerge from research processes about the potential of participatory arts practice to address and infiltrate the city.

The discussion may focus on three questions.

(1) How can cross disciplinary (artists, youth workers, community development projects, academic practitioners) establish shared understandings and a potential consensus on ways forward for collaborative practice in community contexts?

(2) What new ideas / practices are emerging from research processes about the potential of participatory arts practice to address and infiltrate the city?

(3) How can these evolving processes link to an active archiving process?

Biographical Note:

Loraine Leeson has worked with communities through the visual arts for thirty years, creating artworks in the public domain. During the late seventies her work centred on the politics of health, including posters and exhibitions for the East London Health Project and Bethnal Green Hospital Campaign. In the early eighties she co-founded and directed the Docklands Community Poster Project, spending the following decade working with the communities of London Docklands on re-development issues. In the early nineties she co-founded and directed The Art of Change, which during the nineties developed participatory projects exploring creativity in relation to issues of social change. During this time she became increasingly interested in the opportunities for collective creativity offered by the new communications technology, which led to the founding of cSPACE in 2002. Loraine has lectured and taught part-time over this period at colleges and universities throughout the country. Her work has been widely exhibited and published in this country and abroad, most recently in a major retrospective of her work in the NGBK in Berlin in Nov 2005. She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East London.

See also - www.cspace.org.uk

Places are restricted and must be booked in advance. For further details contact Elita Costello at 01-6394608 or email admin@cityarts.ie