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Welcome to the School of Film, Music & Theatre
The School of Film, Music and Theatre is a place of ground-breaking creative learning and experimentation that promotes parity of esteem for theoretical and practical teaching, research and practice. Our School nurtures the ambitions of all who walk through its doors, and produces the most innovative, pioneering research and analysis of creative practice across disciplines in Ireland.
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05
Mar
05/03/26 - FUAIM Lecture: Dr Ioannis Tsioulakis - New Voices in Jurassic Park: Making Contemporary Popular Music in Belfast
Belfast is bursting with sound. Independent, original popular music creativity is audible everywhere: in its pubs and arts venues, open-air stages and repurposed buildings, bookshops and cafés. From new-folk to queer punk, and from afrobeat to experimental electronica, emerging musicians tell stories about Northern Ireland, their place in it, and the myriad routes that brought them here. And yet, this burgeoning creativity is doubly ignored.
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06
Mar
06/03/26 - FUAIM Concert: Dónal 'Doc' Gleeson Awards
This week's concert is always a very special event in the FUAIM Spring season, when we proudly present the winners of the 2024-25 Dónal 'Doc' Gleeson Awards for outstanding undergraduate performance to students of the UCC Department of Music.
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Academy Award-winning director Régis Wargnier to visit University College Cork for special public event
UCC Film and Screen Media to host 'In Conversation with Régis Wargnier' on Monday, 2 March. A rare opportunity to hear from an Academy Award-winning master of cinema. The event presented in partnership with Cork French Film Festival, supported by Alliance Française de Cork and the French Embassy in Ireland.
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Dr Lourdes Monterrubio Ibáñez (Pompeu Fabra) on Preciado’s Orlando, My Political Biography, Tues 3 March, 3pm
Philosopher and activist Paul B. Preciado’s essay film Orlando, My Political Biography (2023) reflects on the epistemic transition necessary to achieve a nonbinary reality. To do so, Preciado addresses his transition as a nonbinary transgender man from a self-representational premise, by considering Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography (1928) as his own political biography.
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