School of Creative Arts

Led by Richard O'Donnell and comprising some of Ireland's finest young percussionists, the RIAM Percussion Ensemble is one of the leading exponents of music for this exhilarating medium. During MusicTown 2018, this dynamic ensemble celebrates its 20th Anniversary in style on Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th April at 7p.m. in ATRL with a highly charged programme featuring music never before performed in Ireland. The Irish première of a work by Evangelia Rigaki commissioned by the RIAM Percussion Ensemble to mark its landmark anniversary year will be performed alongside a composition by Harrison Birtwistle, one of the best-known names in British contemporary music and a celebrated composer throughout the world.

Nicholas Brown's recent work for clavichord, electronics and mobile phones, Vanishing Points (2017), will feature at this year's Sonorities Festival in Belfast at 1p.m. on Saturday 21st April. Nicholas will give three live performances on the clavichord, further to giving the world premiere performance in September 2017 at the Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium. Tickets are free, but advanced sign-up is required via the Sonorities booking system.

We are delighted to announce that 3 Trinity students have been shortlisted for Film Script of the Year at the Oxygen Student Media Awards. The shortlisted scripts, one from each screenwriting module in Michaelmas Term, are Áine Thistleton from SF, Sarah Ratcliffe from SS, and Ivan Cush from M.Phil. in Film Studies - Theory, History, Practice. One other shortlisted script was written by Aoife Bradshaw who graduated from Film Studies at Trinity and is now doing her Masters at IADT. Áine and Aoife have been nominated as finalists in the Film Script of the Year category.
Congratulations to these highly talented students on achieving recognition nationally and best of luck to Áine and Aoife at the national awards ceremony at the Aviva Stadium on 19th April 2018.

How much energy does it take to put on a piece of theatre? Come behind the scenes to discover the highs, lows, blood, sweat, tears, clichés and passions of a technical rehearsal in Anne Washburn's play 10 out of 12. A partnership between award-winning Sugarglass Theatre, second-year drama students, and the Samuel Beckett Theatre. Performances daily at 19:30hrs (matinee 14:30hrs on 14th) 10-14 April, Samuel Beckett Theatre.

Edited by Sinéad Gleeson, The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers (New Island, 2015) gathers short stories by 30 Irish women writers, from Maria Edgeworth to E. M. Reapy. It is the Dublin: One City One Book choice for 2018. Inspired by the anthology, this event explores the many timely questions it raises about literature and representation in Ireland, and celebrates the achievement of four of the writers whose stories are collected here. The event happens on Thursday 5th April 2018 at 19:00hrs in Regent House.

Gavin Fitzgerald, a graduate of Film Studies at Trinity, returned to the Maxwell Theatre, Hamilton Building on 7th March to talk about his acclaimed documentary: Notorious (2017) with current Trinity students and staff. Filmed over four years, the documentary follows Conor McGregor from his local Dublin gym, when some members cannot even afford mouth guards, to his 9-figure payday fighting Floyd Mayweather.
Gavin graduated from Trinity in 2010. After working in the film industry and perfecting his craft, the emerging filmmaker made a documentary for RTÉ about mixed martial arts that led to Conor inviting Gavin to fully document his rise to stardom. After screening the film, Gavin participated in a Q&A with Trinity students and staff about his road to Notorious, his plans for the future, and how his degree in Film Studies from Trinity helped prepare him for work in the industry.

We are delighted to announce the return of Trinity's annual US Open Day Roadshow taking place in March 2018. We are proud to return to locations we visited in previous years - Boston, New York and Chicago. We are also excited to bring our first Open Day to the West Coast as we visit San Francisco. Additionally we will be holding two information evenings in Los Angeles and Philadelphia. Register today to secure your place at our US Open Day Roadshow if you are considering attending Trinity.

Join us on Saturday, 17th February, at 8pm to hear two of Dublin's award-winning choirs come together to present an evening of a cappella choral music in the atmospheric surroundings of Trinity College Chapel. Featuring works by Buckley - Debussy - Doherty - Dubra - Ešenvalds - Vaughan Williams sung by the Mornington Singers and the Laetare Vocal Ensemble.

Join us for a screening and informative Q&A with acclaimed writer/director Maeve Murphy on Friday 26th January 2018 from 12-2pm in the Samuel Beckett Theatre.

Silent Grace (2001) is Maeve Murphy's critically acclaimed feature debut about the untold story of the women prisoners in Armagh Prison during the 1980 'dirty' protests and hunger strike. Starring Orla Brady, the film remains little seen and is unavailable on any commercial platform. This is, therefore, a unique opportunity to view it and to hear Maeve discuss her approach to making it. We are also hoping that Orla Brady and other cast members will be in attendance.

The School of Creative Arts will be meeting prospective students in the Dining Hall and the Samuel Beckett Theatre as part of Trinity's Open Day on Saturday 9th December.

Hearty congratulations to our current Irish and Music student Luke Rock who achieved a 2017 Trinity Sports Scholarship in basketball!

Join us on Saturday, 18th November, at 8pm to hear the Mornington Singers conducted by Orla Flanagan singing Echoes of Eternity, a concert featuring Requiem by Howells and Mass for Double Choir by Martin in Trinity College Chapel!

A public presentation of Virtual Play, the inaugural V-SENSE Creative Technologies project at the School of Creative Arts Art Technology Research Laboratory!

Join the School of Creative Arts in celebrating all things Beckett from 30 July - 4 August 2017.

Our immensely talented graduate, Ruth Negga, joins The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with fellow Irish actors Ciarán Hinds & Domhnall Gleeson.

Join us for Brecht in the Beckett! The English-language premiere of Brecht’s David scenes translated & directed by our colleague Dr. Nicholas Johnson adapted for the stage by David Shepherd and the David ensemble. Opening Wednesday, 28th June for one week only at the Samuel Beckett Theatre!