News and Events
Events Calendar
This is a list of forthcoming events held at Bangor University and organised by the University or affiliated groups and open to the public.
To place an event on this site please send all the necessary details to press@bangor.ac.uk
Please download our Campus Map (PDF) to help you find the location of your event.
An illustrated lecture in the company of the artist Akiva Kenny Segan, MFA.
Date: Wednesday 10 February 2010
Time: 18:00:00
Location: Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery, Bangor.
Akiva Kenny Segan, MFA
'Art and the Holocaust'
Admission Free
All welcome
(The talk will be in English)
Language and Development and Cognition Colloquia.
Date: Thursday 11 February 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: Brigantia Room 342.
Dr Astrid Ensslin (School of Creative Studies, Bangor University) - 'Metalanguage and the Ideology of Creationist Capatalism in Second Life'
Ensemble Cymru.
Date: Thursday 11 February 2010
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.
A wonderfully evocative and superbly crafted series of contrasting dances by the Croatian-Serbian composer Tajčević (1900-1984).
More details coming soon.
Cabaret Powis Season...
Date: Friday 12 February 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.
'Come to the Cabaret...!'
The New Ropestring Band
Calan
Bar and food available / over 18's
Tickets: £10 Phone 01248 382141 or call at Cob Records, Bangor.
Improve Your Vocal Presentation Skills.
Date: Saturday 13 February 2010
Time: 10:00:00
Location: Lifelong Learning,
Dean Street,
Bango
Convince, persuade, interest and enthuse your audience through the use of simple vocal techniques on these workshops offered by Lifelong Learning @ Bangor University aimed at business people, academics, teachers, presenters, students a voluntary workers etc. Get your message across (in project presentations, lectures, talks etc) by working on:
* breathing and posture
* diction and projection
* accent and shaping to highlight text
* body language and facial expression
There will be focussed, one-to-one and small group coaching in these half-day workshops which are also suitable for those who have attended any of our previous workshops. The workshops will be held on Saturdays at Lifelong Learning, Dean Street Bangor - Saturday 13th and 27th February 10.00 am - 12.30, £35 per workshop.
The workshops will be held through the medium of English. However you may discuss aspects of the workshop in Welsh with the tutor. Places are limited so early booking is advised.
The tutor, Marian Bryfdir, specialises in vocal tuition for singers, actors and singing teachers. As singer and opera director her experience is wide and varied, from her early career at Covent Garden to directing composer Bill Evans' new opera "Cei Llawn Cyffro" at Galeri, Caernarfon in June 2008.
To book your place, contact Lifelong Learning on 01248 382708 or book and pay via their secure website: www.bangor.ac.uk/ll.
School of Theology and Religious Studies Research Seminar.
Date: Monday 15 February 2010
Time: 14:15:00
Location: WISCA Seminar Room.
PAPERS BY POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS
Dewi Huw Owen, School of Theology and Religious Studies, Bangor University
‘Y Cenhadwr: 1922’
Chris Meredith, Department of Biblical Studies, Sheffield University
‘A Case of Open and Shut: Thresholds and the Dialectics of Space in I Samuel 1:1-7:2’School of Social Sciences Seminar Series.
Date: Wednesday 17 February 2010
Time: 12:00:00
Location: Hen Goleg 1.11 (old coffee lounge)
Dr Paul Chambers, University of Glamorgan - 'The Changing Face of Christianity in Wales'
School of Modern Languages Research Forum.
Date: Wednesday 17 February 2010
Time: 14:00:00
Location: Room 321 Main Arts Building.
Dr Jonathan Ervine (Bangor)
'Muslims, music, meat and masculinity: the case of Lil Maaz'.
Language Development and Cognition Colloquia.
Date: Thursday 18 February 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: Brigantia Room 342.
Prof. Vladimir Sloutsky (Ohio State University) - 'Early Categorization: What is the mechanism and what develops?'
Film: Les quatre cents coups (1959).
Date: Thursday 18 February 2010
Time: 19:00:00
Location: Main Arts Lecture Theatre, Main Arts Building.
Les quatre cents coups is the semi-autobiographical story of Antoine Doinel, a boy trapped in a life of contemtptuous authority who turns to outward rebellion.
Entrance: £4
Part of Bangor University's PONTIO Programme
Croesi'r Rubicon.
Date: Friday 19 February 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: John Phillips Hall.
Welsh-language Drama
Theatr Bara Caws presents.....
Croesi'r Rubicon - by Valmai Jones
Tickets £8 01248 382141 or Palas Print, Bangor 01248 362676
Part of Bangor University's PONTIO Programme.
The Hendre Fable-Fest.
Date: Saturday 20 February 2010
Time: 14:30:00
Location: Hendre Hall, Talybont.
2.30-10.00pm
Family-friendly Storytelling festival.
All day: Face painting/children's crafts/dance exhibitions/live music/food and drink on sale at the Hendre cafe/bar.
Tickets: Full day - £15, Half Day - £10, Book on 01248 685222 through Galeri, Caernarfon (Concessions for children & OAP's: Full day - £12, Half day - £8, Family ticket (2 adults, 2 children) Full day £45, Half day £35.
Part of Bangor University's PONTIO Programme.
Brabant Ensemble.
Date: Saturday 20 February 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Bangor Cathedral.
This professional choral group presents unique discoveries from the Chirk Castle collection (including music by Tallis, Byrd, Parsons, Hooper, Tomkins and Tye) alongside newly edited music by the early seventeenth century composer, Adrian Batten.
More details coming soon.
Public Consultation Seminar.
Date: Tuesday 23 February 2010
Time: 17:30:00
Location: Terrace Conference Room 3, Main Arts Building, College Road, Bangor University.
TAX AND BORROWING POWERS FOR WALES.
Presentation by Gerald Holtham, Chair, Independent Commission on Funding and Finance for Wales and panel debate chaired by Professor Merfyn Jones, Vice Chancellor, Bangor University
This public consultation seminars provides a briefing on the arguments for and against the National Assembly acquiring tax and borrowing powers. The arguments are being considered by the Welsh Assembly Government¹s Independent Commission on Funding and Finance for Wales which is charged with identifing possible alternative funding mechanisms and will deliver its final report in mid 2010.
Language Development and Cognition Colloquia.
Date: Thursday 25 February 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: Brigantia Room 342.
Mrs Anne Cooke (School of Psychology) - Title TBC.
Cabaret Powis.
Date: Friday 26 February 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.
Jazz night with...
Lleuwen Steffan and Band
Jochen Eisentraut Trio
Tickets: £10 Phone 01248 382141 or call at Cob Records, Bangor. Bar and food available / over 18s.
Part of Bangor University's PONTIO Programme
Improve Your Vocal Presentation Skills.
Date: Saturday 27 February 2010
Time: 10:00:00
Location: Lifelong Learning,
Dean Street,
Bango
Convince, persuade, interest and enthuse your audience through the use of simple vocal techniques on these workshops offered by Lifelong Learning @ Bangor University aimed at business people, academics, teachers, presenters, students a voluntary workers etc. Get your message across (in project presentations, lectures, talks etc) by working on:
- breathing and posture
- diction and projection
- accent and shaping to highlight text
- body language and facial expression
There will be focussed, one-to-one and small group coaching in these half-day workshops which are also suitable for those who have attended any of our previous workshops. The workshops will be held on Saturdays at Lifelong Learning, Dean Street Bangor - Saturday 13th and 27th February 10.00 am – 12.30, £35 per workshop.
The workshops will be held through the medium of English. However you may discuss aspects of the workshop in Welsh with the tutor. Places are limited so early booking is advised.
The tutor, Marian Bryfdir, specialises in vocal tuition for singers, actors and singing teachers. As singer and opera director her experience is wide and varied, from her early career at Covent Garden to directing composer Bill Evans’ new opera “Cei Llawn Cyffro” at Galeri, Caernarfon in June 2008.
To book your place, contact Lifelong Learning on 01248 382708 or book and pay via their secure website www.bangor.ac.uk/ll.
Bangor University Symphony Orchestra.
Date: Saturday 27 February 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard-Jones Hall.
Programme to include Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 with soloist Nicholas Hardisty.
More details coming soon.
School of Social Sciences Seminar Series.
Date: Monday 1 March 2010
Time: 12:00:00
Location: Hen Goleg 1.11 (old coffee lounge)
Professor Charlotte OBE, Keele University - 'Revisiting the Rural/Race debates: civic participation and ethnic minorities in rural Wales'
School of Theology and Religious Studies Research Seminar.
Date: Monday 1 March 2010
Time: 14:15:00
Location: WISCA Seminar Room.
Professor David Smith, Department of Philosophy, Warwick University ‘Ontotheology, Beyond Being, and Being Itself’
School of Modern Languages Research Forum.
Date: Wednesday 3 March 2010
Time: 18:00:00
Location: MALT.
Annual Lecture in Translation Studies
Maria Reimondez (Galician writer and literary translator)
'Gender in Translation'.
Film: Millions (2004).
Date: Thursday 4 March 2010
Time: 19:00:00
Location: Main Arts Lecture Theatre, Main Arts Building.
The UK is about to switch its currency from Pounds to Euros, giving a gang a chance to rob a poorly-secured train loaded with money on its way to incineration. But, during the robbery, one of the big bags falls literally from the sky on Damian's playhouse, a 5-year old given to talking to saints. The boy then starts seeing what the world and the people around him are made of. Millions is lovely: refreshingly uncynical, funny and moving - a film about faith that doesn't preach. Written by Frank Cotrell Boyce and directed by Danny Boyle.
Entrance: £4
Part of Bangor University's PONTIO Programme.
New Faces.
Date: Thursday 4 March 2010
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.
More details coming soon.
School of Social Sciences Seminar Series.
Date: Thursday 11 March 2010
Time: 12:00:00
Location: Lecture Room 3.
Joint event with British Society of Criminology Wales.
Dr Harriet Pierpoint, University of Glamorgan - 'Offenders with Speech and Language Disorders'
Language Development and Cognition Colloquia.
Date: Thursday 11 March 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: Brigantia Room 342.
Dr Linda Wheeldon (Birmingham University) - 'Producing Spoken Sentences: The Scope of Incremental Planning'
Ensemble Cymru.
Date: Thursday 11 March 2010
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.
Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet and Mozart's Piano Quartet No. 1, alongside music by BAFTA Cymru award-winning Welsh composer, John Hardy.
More details coming soon.
Cabaret Powis.
Date: Friday 12 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.
Cabaret Powis presents...
Stand-up Comedy Night - 'Kill for a Seat Comedy!' with Tom Wrigglesworth, Nick Doody and Silky.
Bar and Food available / over 18s, Tickets; 01248 382141 or Cob Records.
Part of Bangor University's PONTIO Programme.
Early Music Bangor and Bangor Baroque.
Date: Saturday 13 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.
More details coming soon.
School of Theology and Religious Studies Research Seminar.
Date: Monday 15 March 2010
Time: 14:15:00
Location: WISCA Seminar Room.
Professor Mary Mills, Department of Theology, Religious Studies and Philosophy, Liverpool Hope University
‘Temple Space and Urban Imaginary in Prophetic Texts of the Hebrew Bible’
Bangor New Music Festival.
Date: Tuesday 16 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.
Presents...
Gwilym Simcock Trio 'Forever Young'
Gwilym Simcock - Piano / Yuri Goloubev - Double Bass / James Maddren - Drums
Tickets on the door: £10 (Adults), £7 (Pensioners), £5 (Students), £2 (Under 18)
Online: www.bnmf.co.uk
Contact: info@bnmf.co.uk
School of Social Sciences Seminar Series.
Date: Wednesday 17 March 2010
Time: 12:00:00
Location: Hen Goleg 1.11 (old coffee lounge)
Dr Ros Burnett and Dr Gisella Hanley Santos, University of Oxford - 'Chewing more than you bite off: evaluating a complex pilot project in criminal justice'
School of Modern Languages Research Forum.
Date: Wednesday 17 March 2010
Time: 14:00:00
Location: Room 321 Main Arts Building.
Professor Tim Unwin (Bristol)
'Jules Verne, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and the Great Eastern'.
Bangor New Music Festival.
Date: Wednesday 17 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.
Presents...
Electroacoustic Wales 'A Portrait of Michael Alcorn'
Composers: Michael Alcorn, Andrew Lewis and Bangor University Music Students.
Tickets: £10 (Adults), £7 (Pensioners), £5 (Students), £2 (Under 18's).
Online: www.bnmf.co.uk
Contact: info@bnmf.co.uk
Film: Cinema Paradiso (1988).
Date: Thursday 18 March 2010
Time: 19:00:00
Location: Main Arts Lecture Theatre, Main Arts Building.
A beautiful story unfolds about a man's childhood friendship with an old man who was the projectionist at the local theater.
Entrance: £4
Part of Bangor University's PONTIO Programme.
Bangor New Music Festival.
Date: Thursday 18 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.
Presents...
Iwan Llewelyn-Jones
'Etudes Et Paysage' - Solo piano works
Tickets: £10 (Adults), £7 (Pensioners), £5 (Students), £2 (Under18's)
Online: www.bnmf.co.uk
Contact: info@bnmf.co.uk
Cabaret Powis.
Date: Friday 19 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Powis Hall.
Latin Night with...
Sierra Maestra
Banda Bacana
Tickets: £12 Ring 01248 382141 or call in at Cob Records, Bangor. Bar and food available.
Part of Bangor University's PONTIO Programme.
Language Development and Cognition Colloquia.
Date: Thursday 25 March 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: Brigantia Room 342.
Dr Walter Van Heuven (Nottingham University) - Title TBC.
Bangor New Music Festival.
Date: Friday 26 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard Jones Hall.
BBC National Orchestra of Wales - 'Current Trends'
Presents...
BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Grant Llywellyn and Raphael Wallfisch
Pwyll ap Sion
Andrew Lewis
Guto Pryderi Puw
Adrian Williams
Tickets: £12.50 (Adults), £9.50 (Pensioners), £6 (Students), £3 ( Under-18's)
Online: www.bnmf.co.uk
Contact: info@bnmf.co.uk
'Chwilys'.
Date: Saturday 27 March 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: John Phillips Hall.
Cwmni Theatr Tandem (in co-operation with Bara Caws) presents a brand-new drama by Aled Jones Williams:
'Chwilys'
Tickets: £6 Phone 01248 382141, or Palas Prints, Bangor
Part of Bangor University's PONTIO Programme.
School of Social Sciences Seminar Series.
Date: Wednesday 31 March 2010
Time: 12:00:00
Location: Hen Goleg 1.11 (old coffee lounge)
Professor Huw Beynon, Cardiff University - 'Trade Unionism in Wales'.
NWORTH Open Day.
Date: Thursday 8 April 2010
Time: 09:00:00
Location: Bangor University.
Open Day.
Programme to be finalised.
Please contact Karen Hughes (karen.hughes@bangor.ac.uk) or Huw Roberts (huw.roberts@bangor.ac.uk) on 01248388095 for further information or to register.
School of Modern Languages Research Forum.
Date: Wednesday 14 April 2010
Time: 14:00:00
Location: Room 321 Main Arts Building.
Ms Nicki Frith (Bangor)
'The Banlieusards in the French Media: From Paris Commune (1871) to the Riots of 2005'.
LUCHIP Ensemble.
Date: Thursday 15 April 2010
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.
This ensemble from Leeds University's Centre for Historically-Informed Performance presents classical and early romantic music on period instruments.
More details coming soon.
Bangor University Chamber Choir.
Date: Thursday 22 April 2010
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.
More details coming soon.
Brass Bands of Beaumaris, Deiniolen, & Menai Bridge.
Date: Saturday 24 April 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard Jones Hall.
A gala concert featuring North West Wales's three leading brass bands.
More details coming soon.
School of Theology and Religious Studies Research Seminar.
Date: Monday 26 April 2010
Time: 14:15:00
Location: WISCA Seminar Room.
Dr. Peter Oakes, Department of Religions and Theology, Manchester University
‘Paul and Pompeian Craftworkers: Reading Religious Texts in relation to Social Diversity’
Language Development and Cognition Colloquia.
Date: Thursday 29 April 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: Brigantia Room 342.
Dr Danijela Trenkic (University of York) - 'Second Language Article Use: Asymmetry Between Comprehension and Production'
Jana Frenklova (piano).
Date: Thursday 29 April 2010
Time: 20:00:00
Location: Powis Hall.
More details coming soon.
Patsy Reid - Bridging The Gap.
Date: Saturday 1 May 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard Jones Hall.
Commissioned by Celtic Connections 2008, composer, Patsy Reid, combines her love of traditional and classical music on Bridging the Gap, comprising nine original melodies, each based on one of the seven modern modes of music: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian.
Bangor University Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
Date: Saturday 8 May 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard-Jones Hall.
The 100-strong University Chorus is joined by a cast of professional soloists for a major performance of Verdi's Requiem.
More details coming soon.
Language Development and Cognition Colloquia.
Date: Thursday 13 May 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: Brigantia Room 342.
Dr Pedro Guijarro Fuentes (Plymouth University) - 'Language Attrition at the Interface in Language Contact: Is This Syntactic Change?'
Language Development and Cognition Colloquia.
Date: Thursday 27 May 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: Brigantia Room 342.
Dr Carmel Houston-Price (Reading University) - 'How infants lear how to learn words'.
End-of-year Gala Concert.
Date: Friday 4 June 2010
Time: 19:30:00
Location: Prichard-Jones Hall.
The season draws to its traditional close with performances by the University Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Choir and Music Society - with a free glass of cava for everyone.
More details coming soon.
Language Development and Cognition Colloquia.
Date: Thursday 10 June 2010
Time: 16:00:00
Location: Brigantia Room 342.
Dr Tim Fosker (Queen's University Belfast) - 'Auditory processing deficits in developmental dyslexia: Do they affect speech perception?'
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