Timetable:

Thursday - 8 March 2012
Introduction and Brainstorming

Sonic Lab:
12.30pm Lunch:
For all participants

1.10pm SARC Concert in the Sonic Lab (optional)

2pm:
Short introduction by Felipe Hickmann (Big Ears 2011 candidate).
Icebreaker Session. Overview of training. Outlining of expectations and possible outcomes.
Introduction of all participants. Led by Anna Newell and Franziska Schroeder

Multi Media Room:
3pm:
Communication training with specific emphasis on working with children.
Led by Ali FitzGibbon, director of the Belfast Children’s Festival

Please explore the ‘treasure box’ (with lots of materials to use for possible projects) !!!

Multi Media Room:
4pm – 6pm:
Practical Session: Teasing out ideas that are crucial for the final framework to be shared with the children. Teaming up of Researchers into smaller groups. Led by Pedro Rebelo, composer, School of Creative Arts

Time for Dinner 6.00pm - 8.00pm

8pm: Surgeries for individual teams of students. Led by Anna Newell.

Friday - 9 March 2012:
Public Engagement and New Technologies

Multi Media Room:
10am:
General overview on public engagement and the meaning of outreach activities in the context of Queen’s University Belfast. Led by the Directorate for Academic and Student Affairs.

11am:
Practical and ethical implications on working with children. Led by Prof Ruth Leitch, School of Education

Lunch 12.00 – 1.00 pm

Sonic Lab:
1pm – 3pm:
Your Body and Your Voice: Vocal Coaching by professional voice coach Debra Stuart Pollen.

COFFEE BREAK: 3.00 - 3.15pm

Sonic Lab:
3.15pm:
Presentation by iphone app developer (tbc), highlighting current sonic arts technologies for mobile devices, such as Sonic Wire Sculptor, LumiSonic, or Biophilia.

4.15pm:
Discussion of/Technical preparation for possible proposals that can be work-shopped with children in day 3. Led by the grant proposer and composer with support from two SARC technicians.

6pm: All PhD students are invited to the official launch | reception of the Belfast Children's Festival 2012 (City Center)

Saturday/Sunday - 10 - 11 March
BIG EARS and SHOWCASE

The final two days will be spent in SARC’s state of the art performance space, developing, planning and designing an event/composition/object/instrument/installation or performance. The ideas will be developed in collaboration between the doctoral students and local children. It is envisaged that around 25 children will work with ca. 10 research students in various groups (groupings will be flexible to allow for smaller and larger groups depending on the proposed outcome). The outcomes will be shown/demonstrated on Sunday at 3pm as part of the Belfast Children’s Festival events.
The work will be overseen by the grant proposer, by the artistic director and by staff from ‘Young at Art’.
Two sound/light technicians plus a post-doctoral aid will be on hand to ensure a smooth running of all the outcomes.
A video artist and a photographer will document the processes throughout the day.

 

Timetable for Saturday, the 10th March 2012:
Sonic Lab, Multi Media Room, Studios, and other spaces

9.30am: PhD Students arrive

10.15am: Children arrive

10.30am – Icebreaker and dividing into groups

11am - 1pm: workshops with children

1-2pm: Lunch (children bring packed lunch)

2-5pm: workshops with children

 

Timetable for Sunday, the 11th March 2012:
Sonic Lab, Multi Media Room, Studios, and other spaces

10am: PhD Students arrive

11am –1pm: workshops

1pm-2pm: Lunch (children bring packed lunch)

2pm - 3pm: Children warm up for final show (Led by Anna Newell)


3pm
Final Showcase (SARC - Sonic Lab)

5pm: Feedback

Feedback and Evaluation Session with all the doctoral students, the grant proposer, the artistic director, and staff from ‘Young at Art’. Written questionnaires and documented discussions will emerge out of this session. These documents will inform future training courses and will show whether and which parts of the training will need to be revised for the following year. ARK from the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work will be collating feedback at this stage.

 

 

 

 

Supported by a Collaborative Research Training Award, AHRC 2011-2012: