Facilities and Infrastructure
Located in the Drama and Film Centre on University Square, the Brian Friel Theatre is a fully equipped 120 seat studio theatre with rehearsal room, dressing rooms, green room and workshop.
With over 48 loudspeakers the Sonic Lab is a specialist acoustic space designed to provide a unique and exciting listening experience, in fact, the auditory equivalent of an IMAX cinema
The Film Studio is an exciting new facility that boasts a broadcast approved LED lighting system with custom made Doughty hoists. Adjacent film, television editing and grading suites are all connected with a fiber network.
The Language Centre provides students throughout the University with language learning facilities unparalleled elsewhere in Britain and Ireland, with a Language Lab (installed with Can-8, Melissi and TRADOS software) and a Private Study area which all university students can use on a 'drop in' basis.
Established as a Centre for excellence in poetry and research, the Seamus Heaney Centre has, from the beginning also been the home of Creative Writing at Queen's, embracing as Seamus did in his writing lifetime, playwriting, prose, translation and song as well as poetry, criticism as well as practice.
Located in the Drama and Film Centre on University Square, Queen's Film Theatre is a two screen cinema with a combined seating of over 300. The QFT is used for screening student films as well as undergraduate and postgraduate course films.
Undergraduates at the school have the opportunity to be certified in editing and notations software used in both the Film and Audio Industries.
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The School has the 8 practice rooms all with pianos and an additional are a suite of four rooms - three performance and one control room for recording.
Seven purpose-built studio spaces designed and acoustically treated by ARUP acoustics.
Large concert venues that host musical events throughout the year for both students and general public.