You are warmly invited to the book launch of A Collection of Creative Anthropologies: Drowning in Blue Light and Other Stories, edited by Eva van Roekel and Fiona Murphy, which will take place in the Brian Friel Theatre on Friday 18 October from 5pm to 7pm. Several colleagues from the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics contributed to the book and the editors are affiliates of QUB’s Centre for Creative Ethnography .

Schedule

17.00-17.30 Drinks in the space outside the Brian Friel Theatre

17.30-17.50 Fiona Murphy and Eva Van Roekel: Welcome and motivation of the book

17.50-18.00 Performing Waves - based on the poem Waves, this immersive performance is an experimental dialogue between anthropologist/poet Maruška Svašek, photographer Alan Field, musicologist/saxophonist Franziska Schroeder, ethnomusicologist/pianist Ioannis Tsioulakis, musician/composer Tristan Sparks, sound scholar/director of HIVE John D’Arcy, and members of the experimental choir HIVE.

18.10-18.20 Disruption Rich Thornton

18.20-18.30 Poetry reading Morgan Leatham

18.30-18.40 Poetry reading Seamus Heaney Centre

18.40-18.50 Open floor

18.50-19.00 Closing words 17.30-17.50 Fiona Murphy and Eva Van Roekel

The event also initiates collaboration between the Centre for Creative Ethnography and QUB’s Seamus Heaney Centre

 Please note this is an in-person only event.

As the Brian Friel Theatre has limited spaces, please register through  this link