TCCE’s Inside Out Festival Opening Debate: Failure – What’s it good for? Chaired by Helen Lederer

Mon 21 October 2013, 6.30pm - 7.45pm. (Doors open from 6pm).

A number of brave panellists offer their views on Failure.

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Shifting Focus: Digital Possibilities for Indigenous Arts

Mon 21 October 2013, 6.30–8pm (Doors open at 6pm)

Panel of international theatre makers, photographers and experimental designers introduce new ways of ‘seeing’ indigenous cultures. 

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Prokofiev Festival

Mon 21 October 2013

This festival features an exhibition of Oleg’s paintings and sculpture and Sergei’s grandson, Gabriel, hosts a special club night.

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Philosophers on Failure: Is that funny? Thinking about jokes and paradox

Tue 22 October 2013, 6.30pm for a 7pm start

Some jokes have a peculiarly philosophical character; they work like paradoxes.  But how? 

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Inaugural Lecture: Conflict and Coexistence in Deeply Divided Societies

Tue 22 October 2013, 6pm - 7.30pm

Part of the Arts & Humanities Festival 2013: Being | Human

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Psychedelic Cumbia: From the Amazon to the World

Tue 22 October 2013, 5-6pm

A talk and a live performance of Amazonian and other types of cumbia by Juan Carlos Arenas’ band, Los Musicos.

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The Decline of the Theatre Director?

Tue 22 October 2013, 6pm - 7.30pm. Please arrive promptly for a 6pm start.

Directors and designers will debate whether changes in the art form have made the traditional role of the theatre director redundant. 

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Passengerfilms presents BLACKFISH: film and the animal spectacle

Wed 23 October 2013, 6.30pm for a 7pm start

Film and discussion exploring human/non-human interactions, the intersection of nature and culture, and the captive animal as spectacle.

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TCCE in Partnership with the British Academy Presents ‘The Changing Face of Value’

Wed 23 October 2013, 6pm-7.30pm followed by a reception

‘The Changing Face of Value’ explores how our sense of value and values may be shifting…

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‘Good For You?’ Branding Guinness

Wed 23 October 2013, 6-6.30pm drinks reception and chance to look around the Museum; 6.30-7.30pm talk

Dr Stella Moss takes a fresh look at the history of this iconic brand.

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Off the Beaten Taqsim: Middle Eastern Musical Encounters in the Urban UK

Wed 23 October 2013, 13:30 to 17:30

A half day conference focusing on the Middle Eastern music scene in the urban UK. 

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Philosophers on Failure: Failure In Art

Wed 23 October 2013, 6.30pm for a 7pm start

What kinds of failure can there be in art? Dr Sacha Golob will discuss these and other questions from a philosophical perspective.

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Fragile Humanity: Syrian Refugees in the Middle East

Wed 23 October 2013, 6:30pm - 8:20pm

Part of the Arts & Humanities Festival 2013: Being | Human

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Inventing The Modern

Wed 23 October 2013, 6:30pm -8:00pm

Part of the Arts & Humanities Festival 2013: Being | Human

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Does the British Establishment still exist?

Thu 24 October 2013, 1-2pm

Lord Peter Hennessy discusses ‘The British Establishment’.

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Philosophy Salon: Elizabeth I

Thu 24 October 2013, 7pm - 8pm

Join Professor Miri Rubin to discuss representations of women and power. 

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Philosophers on Failure: Perceptual Success and Failure

Thu 24 October 2013, 6.30pm for a 7pm start

Bill Brewer looks at cases of failure throughout the history of philosophical theorizing. 

 

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Dorich House Museum Evening Tour

Thu 24 October 2013, 7pm for 7.30pm

Modernist 1936 artist studio home shows the major collection of Dora Gordine’s sculpture and Russian art from the 19th century

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The Middle East: News and Narratives – City University’s Olive Tree Forum at the Inside Out Festival

Thu 24 October 2013, 7pm to 8.30pm. Doors open 6.30pm.

Discussion on what’s at stake in understanding the contemporary Middle East.

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Christopher Hampton’s Film of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent: Screening and Panel Discussion with the Writer-Director

Fri 25 October 2013, 6.30pm - 9pm (Doors open at 6pm)

An adaptation of Conrad’s The Secret Agent by Academy award-winning Christopher Hampton.

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’Til the Black Lady Sings: Indigenous Voices for Twenty-First Century Opera

Fri 25 October 2013, 7.30–8.30pm

Join us for a discussion and performance of excerpts from Australia’s first Indigenous opera, Pecan Summer.

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The Limits of the Human: Vampires, Zombies, Serial killers and the Cabinet of Dr Caligari

Fri 25 October 2013, 6:30pm -9:00pm

Part of the Arts & Humanities Festival 2013: Being | Human

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Iran: An Overview of Classical and Popular Musical Developments

Sat 26 October 2013, 11am - 1pm

A panel of specialists will discuss various elements of musical development in Iran over the past century.

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