Thursday 2 May 2019

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• 09.00-14.00 Silent Film of East Asia Venue: Room 2011, Trinity Centre for Asian Studies Seminar Room, Arts Building
  Cost: Free public event
  Booking: No booking required
  Description: Learn about the film industries of Japan, Korea and China in the era of silent movies. What did people in Asia find entertaining in cinemas nearly one hundred years ago? This exhibition puts together examples to provide information showcasing East Asian silent films up to the early decades of the 20th Century. At this exhibition you can enjoy watching some films that Asian peoples found entertaining in the early 20th Century, before the invention of the "talkies".
• 10.00-12.00 Silence in Asian Calligraphy Venue: Trinity Long Room Hub
  Cost: Free public event
  Booking: Booking required (two timeslots available)
  Description: Chinese characters were originally based on pictures and some can still be described as pictographs. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that Chinese calligraphy is closely associated with art. Over the centuries characters developed: they became stylized, to the extent that in some cases the early pictorial representation has been lost. Also characters were combined together to create ideographs and phonograms. Consequently, Chinese characters will often refer both to sound and as well as to sense or meaning.
• 12.00-16.00 Campus Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
  Cost: Free public event
  Booking: No booking required
  Description: The sound and installation artist Darri Lorenzen will make recordings in spaces on Trinity campus associated with Samuel Beckett (e.g. his former bedroom on campus, the Berkeley Library he sponsored, the Beckett Threatre etc.). He will make these recordings at times when these rooms are  allegedly silent (at night or early in the morning). However, no space is ever completely silent, so the microphones  will continually register some "micro events" and their resonances in the space. If these recordings are amplified by the use of advanced audio processing, atmospheric drones that are specific to the environments can be heard.  These will be mixed and played back in the Beckett Theatre. Darri Lorenzen is an artist based in Berlin and Reykjavik. Working in a variety of media including sound, video and photography, he exploits the specific qualities of exhibition spaces to investigate the relation between the human body and its environment, often disorienting the audience in the process. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions and performances in New York, Berlin, Reykjavik, Poznan, London, Lisbon and other places."
• 13.00-14.00 Tree Walk Venue: Start at Campanile, Front Square
  Cost: Free public event.
  Booking: No booking required
  Description: This walk will certainly put a spring in your step! We invite you to join us for a guided walk through our campus, where you can enjoy and learn about the variety of trees which are currently blooming in the heart of our busy city. Trinity College hosts a wide variety of fauna, all of which are expertly tended to by our grounds and garden staff. You might be lucky enough to spot some of the critters that call our grounds home.
• 13.00-14.00 Bitesized Talk Venue: TRISS Seminar room
  Cost: Free public event
  Booking: Booking required
  Description: We hold regular bitesized talks with a pizza lunch and three speakers from the School of Education.
• 14.00-15.00 Townhall meeting to discuss the Strategic Plan 2019-2024: Community and Connection Venue: JM Synge Theatre, Arts Building
  Cost: Free event
  Booking: No booking required
  Description: Make a Plan! Take part in the Conversation on the next Strategic Plan, 2019-24. At the end of this academic year, the five year strategic plan that has guided our development will come to an end, to be replaced with a new plan. That new plan is now being formulated, and it is time to engage as many members of the university community as possible. Focussing around four mission statements relating to research, education, civic action and organisation, the new plan will identify a series of cross cutting goals, to guide us on the next stage of the development of Trinity. Should we be bigger? How much? Have a greater emphasis on research? On postgraduates? How we could be more agile organisationally? If you want to be part of the conversation, come along to an open discussion.
• 15.00-16.00 Lost Sounds and Silent Languages Venue:Trinity Long Room Hub
  Cost: Free public event
  Booking: Booking required
  Description: Members of the Schools of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Histories and Humanities, and English will read aloud short texts in languages of the past, reconstructing their pronunciation to the best of our ability.
• 16.00-18.00 Awkward Silences in Literature Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
  Cost: Free public event
  Booking: Booking required
  Description: Four literary scholars will give three multimedia presentations on the uses of silence in literature.
• 17.30-18.00 Bootcamp Venue: Ancillary Hall, Trinity Sports Centre
  Cost: Free
  Booking: No booking required
  Description: The Trinity Sports Centre will be organising a series of sports events during Trinity Week.
• 18.00-20.00 Silence by Pat Collins, followed by Q&A with Director Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
  Cost: Free public event
  Booking: Booking required
  Description: Screening of Silence (2012), followed by a discussion with the Director, Prof. Sarah O Brien (CLCS) and Prof. Jennifer O Meara (Film Studies).