Wednesday 1 May 2019
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10.30-11.30
Chariots of Fire Run
Venue: Finish line under the Campanile
Cost: Free public event
Booking: No booking required
Description: Dublin University Harriers and Athletics Club (DUHAC) has established its own annual “Chariots of Fire” event, replicating the famous Cambridge tradition on the cobblestones of Ireland’s most hallowed academic fortress. We may not have the theme tune, but the competition is as fierce!
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11.00-12.00
Silence in Architecture
Venue: Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Building
Cost: Free public event
Booking: Booking required
Description: The architect, Alejandro de la Sota, said that architects should make as much nothing as possible. This ‘nothing’ is the space that people inhabit. Architecture encloses people. We all stand in the ‘void’ in the space between; in the freespace.
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12.00-14.00
The Hidden World of Academic Publishing
Venue:Teatar Mhairtin Ui Chadain, Trinity College Dublin
Cost: Free public event
Booking: Booking required
Description: Paywall:The Business of Scholarship made a big impact on across the academic and publishing world when it was released in 2018. Producer Jason Schmitt and a cast of high profile interviewees succeeded in comprehensively highlighting the deficiencies of the for-profit paywall journal system, the greed of big publishers, and the systematic failings of the status quo in scholarly communication. Part of the Unboxing Open Scholarship series, this screening will provide attendees insight into the profitable world academic publishing whilst also making a case for Open Access to scholarly research.
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14.00-17.00
Children Should be Seen and Heard
Venue: Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
Cost: Free public event
Booking: No booking required
Description: Children WILL be seen. WILL be heard. WILL speak before spoken to. At this event, children and their worlds take centre stage. Their voices will fill the university. Join us!
- Children’s choir and vocal workshop
- Interactive sound installation
- Mask-making
- Story-telling
All are welcome – children and adults*
*too-serious adults should be accompanied by a playful child
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14.00-16.00
25th Commemoration of the Rwanda Genocide (Kwibuka25): Remember-Unite-Renew
Venue: Thomas Davis Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity
Cost: Free public event
Booking: Booking required
Description: 25 years after the genocide that killed close to a million people, the Embassy for the Republic of Rwanda, London in collaboration with Trinity College through The Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI) invite you to a public event to mark the 25th Commemoration of the Rwanda Genocide. This years commemoration, under the theme of ‘Remember-Unite-Renew’, will focus on the legacy of strength, resilience, honour and unity that the new generation is called upon to sustain and carry forward to adapt to today’s global challenges and future aspirations. In line with the Trinity Week them, it presents an opportunity to break the Silence on genocide denial with a rallying call to the international community to strengthen their commitment and actions towards prevention and punishment of perpetrators of genocide throughout the world.
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14.00-18.00
Into Great Silence
Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
Cost: Free public event
Booking: Booking required
Description: Philip Gröning investigates the life of the Grande Chartreuse monastery in this documentary. The screening will begin with brief introduction to the Carthusian order, followed by a discussion with the audience.
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17.15-18.00
Total Body Strength
Venue: Ancillary Hall, Trinity Sports Centre
Cost: Free class
Booking: No booking required
Description: The Trinity Sports Centre will be organising a series of sports events during Trinity Week.
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18.00-20.00
The ‘Silents’ of Jesus
Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
Cost: Free public event
Booking: Booking required
Description: Join Prof. David Shepherd for an introduction to the earliest ‘silent’ films of Jesus and a special screening and discussion of ‘The Life of Christ’ (1906), an extraordinary 30 min film made by the world’s first female film director and studio head, Alice Guy.
