Oxford Brookes University Festival

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1 Oxford Brookes University Festival Thursday Pegasus, Oxford OX4 1RE

2 Welcome! OutBurst is the Oxford Brookes University festival at the Pegasus on Magdalen Road. The festival runs from 4- and showcases cutting-edge research and expertise from across the University in a variety of stimulating and fun events for everyone, including installations, lectures, workshops, exhibitions, and discussions for all ages. Check our website regularly for news, events and updates, and follow us on Twitter and Facebook. brookes.ac.uk/outburst Come and meet the Oxford Brookes robots See a live cookery demonstration by Ken Hom Try your hand at furniture design Relax with a tai chi taster session Draw with light and paint in virtual reality Take part in Chinese paper craft and calligraphy workshops...plus art, theatre, creative writing, music, song and dance!

3 Highlights... Furniture Design 2:00pm 3:00pm Rycotewood Furniture Centre (Oxford) has collaborated with the This Girl Makes initiative, to present an inclusive and practical workshop, that offers an insight into furniture design and making. With all equipment provided, participants will be able to create and take home with them, a small furniture item of their own design. All welcome. Cooking with Ken Hom 3:30pm 5:00pm Ken Hom OBE is the man who showed the British how to cook Asian food. A leading authority on Chinese cuisine, he talks about his life in food while making some tasty dishes. Ken has cooked for presidents, prime ministers, celebrities and royalty this afternoon he s cooking for you! Drawing with Light 3:45pm 4:45pm Adrian Pawley, Technical Video Specialist, demonstrates the technique of drawing with light through a one hour workshop, creating images with long exposure photography and torches. Part drawing, part choreographed performance, participants move coloured lights around the stage space to draw in the air. Using long exposure photography these movements are captured and complex, beautiful images are created. Home/Less 7:00pm 7:45pm What does home mean? Where is it? Is it a physical place or a state of mind? Should we nurture our roots could they otherwise die? Do we have only one home? An evening packed with readings from Ahmed Masoud s novel Vanished The Mysterious Disappearance of Mustafa Ouda and Laura Ryhänen s interpretations of ancient Finnish songs. Meet Artie, the Humanoid Robot 10:30am 11:30am Meet the full-sized humanoid celebrity, Artie! At OutBurst 2017 you will get the chance to control Artie, get him to sing songs or enact extracts from famous movies, you can even write your own script for him to perform. Tai Chi & Kung Fu 5:15pm 6:15pm This workshop will offer taster sessions in two traditional Chinese martial arts and health practices: Tai Chi and Kung Fu from Wudang mountain, and also Win Chun Kung Fu. The workshop includes demonstrations from both child and adult practitioners, followed by an opportunity for both children and adults to try the practices themselves. This workshop is run by local clubs Daoshu Wudang Arts and WCI Oxford. Photo credits: Ken Hom by Nick Smith Photography Home/Less by Matthew Leake

4 Meet Artie Ben Hunt-Davis Draw and Colour your own OutBurst Schedule Art& Day Day Time Time Event Event Venue About Age GuideAge Guide Music Thursday 7:00pm Creative Writing MA Students from Oxford Brookes MA programme in Creative Writing Thursday 7:00pm - Creative Writing MA 4 May 8:00pm Showcase Pullman Stage showcase Students their from Oxford work. Brookes MA programme in Creative Writing showcase their work 8:00pm Showcase Thursday 8:00pm Creative Writing MA Café Reception for all attendees of the Creative Writing MA Showcase. Thursday 4 May 8:00pm 9:00pm - The Reading Reception Machine: The Reading Machine re-creates a prototype technology and ancestor of the ebook designed 9:00pm interactive exhibition by the American Dadaist poet Bob Brown in :00pm Home/Less readings Palestinian writer Ahmed Masoud and Finnish songwriter Laura Ryhänen 7:45pm and music share their common feelings about what home is. Step onto the stage, take an actor s place and try to change the story... In this evening of 8:30pm 8:15pm - Forum : Home/Less Pullman Stage Forum, you will be invited not just to watch a performance, but to try and improve its 9:30pm an experiment Taster session of the traditional Palestinian dance. 9:00pm Dabke dance outcome! Work from students on the Fine Art Course at Oxford OutBurst Schedule Whilst every effort will be made to keep to this schedule, unavoidable circumstances may lead to changes on the day. 10:00-17:00 10:00am Want to be a tiger for the day? Come and have your face painted... all Face Painting Foyer 3:00pm Face Painting Foyer ages Want welcome! to be a tiger for the day? Come and have your face painted... all ages wecome! 10:15am Chinese Calligraphy 10:30am 11:30am - Meet Artie, the Humanoid 11:30am Robot 10:30am Meet Artie, the 10:30am 11.30am Humanoid Robot -11:15am (session 1) Draw and Colour your 11:30am own Comic! -12:15pm 11:30am Virtual Reality (session 12:30pm 2) Painting (session 1) 11:00am- HAB360: virtual reality 11:45am Chinese Paper 5:00pm 1:00pm interactive Crafts exhibition 11:00am- 12:00 noon Mobility Suit: simulating old age, Sumo interactive Robots exhibition 3:00pm1:00pm 1:15pm Virtual Reality 12:45pm- 2:15pm 1:30pm Elements Painting Virtual (session Reality 2) System 2:00pm Furniture Design 2:00pm- 3:00pm Drawing with Light 3:00pm 2:15pm 3:00pm Going for Gold at the - Virtual Reality Olympics: rower Ben-Hunt 3:00pm 4:00pm Painting (session 3) Davis tells his story Room Room Room Room Pullman RoomStage Chinese calligraphy is one of the oldest forms of written communication and is still an integral part of modern Chinese culture. You ll be Meet the full-sized humanoid celebrity, Artie! At OutBurst 2016 you will get the chance to introduced to this elegant art form and experience writing Chinese control Artie, get him to sing songs or enact extracts from famous movies, you can even write numbers. You could get your name written in Chinese calligraphy! your own script for him to perform Meet the full-sized humanoid celebrity, Artie! You will get the chance to control Artie, get him to sing songs or enact extracts from famous movies, you can even write your own script for him to perform. Come and take part in this fun interactive workshop where you will get to draw and colour Be your inspired own comic! by the Suitable latest 3D for children VR technology ages 7-12 and with immerse parental supervision. yourself There will be 2 in a sessions, world of starting new possibilities at 10.30am and in 11.30am which you are the artist. Let your imagination run free and in minutes you ll be creating your own virtual Try various Chinese paper crafts, including cutting out a Chinese Experience fully immersive virtual reality films character and paper folding to make a frog. Learn a new craft and experience the charm of Chinese art. A hands-on A suit designed session to simulate take your various place visual in and the mobility robot arena! difficulties Will related your robot to ageing. Carry out be tasks victorious? such as sitting down and walking in order to develop empathy for the elderly and those with mobility difficulties Be inspired by the latest 3D VR technology and immerse yourself in a world of new possibilities in which you are the artist. Let your Developed to provide a playful environment for treating movement difficulties of the arm and imagination run free and in minutes you ll be creating your own virtual hand, Elements is a touch-based virtual reality table-top. Objects of different shapes can be used to interact and play with the system in targeted games and creative activities Rycotewood Furniture Centre (Oxford) and the This Girl Makes initiative, present An hour a practical long workshop, workshop exploring with the all techniques equipment of long provided. exposure Create photography. and Interactive take fun home for all a the small family furniture item of your own design. Be inspired by the latest 3D VR technology and immerse yourself in a What world is it of like new to compete possibilities at the in Games? which What you are are the the pressures artist. Let and your the rewards? Olympic imagination gold medal run winner free and and Oxford in minutes Brookes you ll alumnus be creating Ben Hunt-Davis your own tells his virtual story 7+* Brookes and from students from the Foundation Degree Course at Swindon College. An exhibition of student work in a variety of media including painting, photography, and printmaking. Art and Music This will emphasise the diversity of practices which contribute to contemporary fine art. We are also hosting music students who will be playing live in the café. During the whole festival there will be a display of Work hung in the corridors of the by students on the Fine Art Course. There will also be music playing in the public spaces composed by students on the Undergraduate Music Course. Drawing with 3:30pm Cooking with 4:00pm - Acoustic Music in the 5:00pm Ken Hom 5:30pm Cafe 3:45pm Drawing with Light 7:30pm 4:45pm - Light of Civilization: music and dance from China 8:30pm From The OutBurst schedule 4:00pm is subject to change 5:15pm 6:15pm 7:30pm 10:00pm Cafe A live talk and demonstration by a leading authority on Chinese cuisine, celebrated Acoustic music TV chef live Ken in the Hom. Cafe An hour long workshop, exploring the techniques of long exposure photography. Colourful show Interactive of traditional fun Chinese for all the folk family. 7+* dance, music and song, presenting the local custom and culture in Jiangxi Family Friendly at OutBurst! Have your face painted, say hello to Artie the robot then have a go at drawing your own comic. Come and join us on at OutBurst for a family friendly day out! Children of all ages are welcome at Pegasus. The building is totally accessible for wheelchairs and push- Music in the Café Café Live acoustic music in the Café. Tai Chi and Kung Fu Radiant Vermin A family taster session in Tai Chi, Wudang Mountain Kung Fu and Win Chun Kung Fu, run by local clubs Daushu Wudang and WCI Oxford. 4+* Presented by Stones Company, Radiant Vermin is the darkly humorous story of expectant couple Jill and Ollie just how far would you go to get a foot on the property ladder? Family Friendly at OutBurst! Have your face painted, say hello to the Brookes robots, then have a go at drawing in virtual reality! Come and join us on at OutBurst for a family friendly day out! Children of all ages are welcome at Pegasus. The building is totally accessible for wheelchairs and pushchairs, and the café will be open for a drink or a bite to eat. 14+ *Children under 12 to be accompanied by an adult Art by Beth Brookes Images of work by Augusta Mclean www. instagram.com/brookesoutburst Visit our website Art by Chris Surridge outburst Visit our website outburst

5 BOOK TICKETS Per event: 2.50 Adult 1.00 Child / Concessions 3-for2 on tickets for events across the whole festival! Free entry for Oxford Brookes University staff and students. Visit the Pegasus website to book tickets: or call Pegasus, Magdalen Road, Oxford OX4 1RE GET IN TOUCH brookes.ac.uk/outburst Parking, transport and accessibility information is available on the Pegasus website. The theatre is able to meet accessibility needs and is happy to be contacted before your arrival to help with your particular requirements.