TOI TANGATA | ARTS UPDATE

11 October 2019

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UC Arts at the Arts Centre School of Music

Monday was a very busy day for the School of Music! We hosted 44 guests from the MENZA conference being held in Christchurch this week, we had a sold-out performance by the UC Percussion Ensemble and we hosted a group of potential students for the New Music Student Experience Day. It was great to see so many connections being made and so much interest and buzz around the exciting work the School of Music are doing.

Last Saturday TuneSoc presented their annual Battle of the Bands competition, where a number of School of Music students performed! Cake and Eat It (made up of Nicole Taylor, Freddie Gash, George Tucker, Brodie Miller and Luke Burke) won Best Original Song and a slot to perform at the UCSA Tea Party’s second stage. Too Woke For Toast (made up of Hunter Craig, Freddie Gash, Katie Wright, Callum Davidson and Jordan Beswarick) came second overall! Congratulations to all involved, it’s great to see our students engaging in these activities and coming away with prizes!

Upcoming concerts

• Friday Lunchtime Concert: Ensemble music from UC students and staff – Friday 11 October, 1.10pm – Venue: Recital Room, UC Arts City Location

• UC Arts Centre Series: Sing! Sing! Sing! – Sunday 13 October, 2.00pm

– Venue: The Great Hall, The Arts Centre of Christchurch, 3 Worcester Bld – Tickets $10/$20, available online or on the door.

• New Music Central: Recent UC Student Works 2 – Monday 14 October, 7.00pm

– Venue: Recital Room, UC Arts City Location

Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities

Upcoming events:

• Marion Steven: an Academic Legacy – Friday 11 October, 5.45pm – Venue: Teece Museum, UC Arts City Location

Marion Steven: an Academic Legacy Miss Marion Steven, founder of the James Logie Memorial Collection at the University of Canterbury, dedicated her life to Arts education. Presented by Natalie Looyer, postgraduate Classics student, this talk will focus on Miss Steven’s life and achievements. Natalie has recently completed an oral history project interviewing family, friends, students and colleagues of Marion Steven. Museum doors will open at 5pm. Each talk will begin at 5.45pm. The talk is free, but we encourage you to register via Eventbrite in order to secure a seat. Encountering local heroes of Classics at the UC Teece Museum If you have ever had a teacher that sparked your enthusiasm and brought learning to life, you will know just how rare and valuable a treasure they are. In the past 146 years, Canterbury students of many disciplines have benefitted from some truly remarkable teachers of Classics. Classics and the ideal of education have been intertwined for many centuries. When Canterbury College was founded in 1873, classical cultures and languages were regarded as central to the institution’s academic development. The College, which later became the University of Canterbury, ensured they had a professor to instruct new students in the Classics from the very first day. This series of short-format talks will highlight the work of three local heroes of Classics, who were influential and inspirational for several generations of students in very different ways. REGISTER online to join us for these free talks, and take advantage of the opportunity to view Fantastic Feasts, the newest exhibition at the Teece Museum. Museum doors will open at 5pm. Each talk will begin at 5.45pm.

Arts Digital Lab

Dr Chris Jones, Dr Christopher Thomson, and Jennifer Middendorf collaborated in the production of an online teaching module for the EU-funded PARTHENOS project, which seeks to bring together knowledge and resources from Research Infrastructures and Humanities projects. The PARTHENOS Training Suite provides reusable training materials that can be accessed for free by students, lecturers, and anyone interested in issues and skills related to e-Heritage and Digital Humanities. The team, led by Professor Haida Lang (Physics, Nottingham Trent University), took recent research into UC’s 15th-century medieval genealogical text, the Canterbury Roll, as a case study. The new module includes three specially shot films presented by Chris and Chris. It was launched on 4 October at an event held in Rome, Italy. It can be found at: Digital Humanities and Heritage Research Infrastructures. The module was sponsored by the European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science.

English

History

School of Fine Arts

Present Tense : Wāhine Toi Aotearoa

Directory of Women Designers + Designers Speak (Up) ILAM CAMPUS GALLERY, BLOCK 2, SOFA, 4 OCTOBER – 1 NOVEMBER 2019 To record the current landscape of women in design and give visibility to the unsung diversity of Aotearoa design, Designers Speak (Up) made an open call early 2019 to all designers, artists and educators from the Directory of Women Designers to design a poster using the medium to explore and address any issue social, cultural, or political issue of their choice. Present Tense : Wāhine Toi Aotearoa presents the posters in various forms — from printed to projected to published online — over the course of a project and exhibition hīkoi which launched in Kirikiriroa at RAMP Gallery. All posters are being collected into the Designers Speak (Up) poster archive.

Documentation of the project includes written contributions to offer contextual discussion during the project hīkoi around Aotearoa New Zealand. This iteration of the exhibition includes silk-screened posters from ĀKAU Wāhine, Alessandra Banal, Anna Wilkinson, Elisapeta Hinemoa Heta, Ella Sutherland, Fiona Jack, Katie Kerr, Kyra Ta-Waka Clarke, Nell May, Pipi Press, Sarah Maxey and Sonya Lacey, as well as over 100 contributions to the #ff333 Poster Call from members of the Directory. Towards a Wider Understanding of Design by Michelle Wang is the fifth essay to accompany Present Tense : Wāhine Toi Aotearoa. The project is an opportunity to give visibility and voice to women-identifying and non-binary designers to speak up using the poster medium. It is a space for myriad voices to be heard, supported and championed in the wholehearted, collective way that is the Designers Speak (Up) kaupapa.

designersspeakup.nz

Global, Cultural and Language Studies

On 3 October, Evgeny Pavlov presented a talk at Columbia University hosted by the Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies titled “Indra’s Net: Time in the Novels of Arkady Dragomoshchenko.” https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/indra%E2%80%99s-net-time-novels-arkady-dragomoshchenko

Media and Communication

Research Institutes National Centre for Research on Europe

On Friday 23 August 2019 the National Centre for Research on Europe (NCRE) hosted its annual ‘Model European Union’. Approximately 60 high school students from South Island schools met on campus to debate the question, ‘Does the EU need an army?’ Participants were given a national identity and encouraged to work together with like-minded countries to pass directives in the European Council. The event was opened by PVC Jonathan Le Coq and Dr Serena Kelly gave the keynote address on EU foreign policy. UC postgraduate and undergraduate students acted as assistants on the day. We also greatly appreciated the input from two PACE interns, Regan (event organiser) and Molly (videographer) The NCRE looks forward to hosting more events like this in the coming years – the NCRE was recently awarded €EUR60,000 (2019-21) to host similar events around the country. Feedback from one of the teachers was: “We had a wonderful day of learning and skill development. We very much appreciate the time and effort NCRE puts into this event for the benefit of secondary students across Canterbury…. The new Rehua building is beautiful and the start of the day with the Waiata was very moving.”

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