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.
Read More / Book »
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.
Read More / Book »
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.
Read More / Book »
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?
Read More / Book »
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
Read More / Book »
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.
Read More / Book »
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.
Read More / Book »
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.
Read More / Book »
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…
Read More / Book »
‘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.
Read More / Book »
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.
Read More / Book »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.
Read More / Book »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
Read More / Book »Inventing The Modern
Wed 23 October 2013, 6:30pm -8:00pm
Part of the Arts & Humanities Festival 2013: Being | Human
Read More / Book »
Does the British Establishment still exist?
Thu 24 October 2013, 1-2pm
Lord Peter Hennessy discusses ‘The British Establishment’.
Read More / Book »
Philosophy Salon: Elizabeth I
Thu 24 October 2013, 7pm - 8pm
Join Professor Miri Rubin to discuss representations of women and power.
Read More / Book »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.
Read More / Book »
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
Read More / Book »
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.
Read More / Book »
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.
Read More / Book »
’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.
Read More / Book »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
Read More / Book »
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.
Read More / Book »
