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What is there for the Arts with the new Super Councils in Northern Ireland?

Northern Ireland’s local government system has replaced its 26 local councils with 11 ‘super councils’ this year. The change brings new responsibilities in local planning and urban regeneration as well...

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Mental health wellbeing and the role of the arts

The Third Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts and Film Festival is underway and will run until 22 May with a wide range of events, many at Queen’s, but also in venues across Northern Ireland. The aim...

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When it comes to experts on TV, women are still neither seen nor heard

What does an “expert” look like? If you took the example of news media, it would invariably be a man; usually – in Britain anyway – a white, middle-aged man. Women make up roughly half of the world’s...

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Where Next for Cultural Policy in Northern Ireland?

The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL) came into this world just before the millennium amidst the creation of a range of new government departments resulting from the Good Friday Agreement,...

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Why true horror movies are about more than things going bump in the night

Critics seem to have been shocked by horror films in the past few years. Of all people, they shouldn’t be, as shock is one of the cheap tricks for which they have always denigrated horror movies. Shock...

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Mistletoe might be festive, but it’s actually a tree-plundering parasite

Christmas and mistletoe: have you ever simply asked yourself … why? I have studied plant parasites like mistletoe for almost ten years, and I’m here to tell you that the answer is absolutely...

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Excavating hidden and forgotten pasts with sound

For people and communities whose pasts have been erased or denied historical documentation, sound presents a rich potential for rediscovering them. Sound has been used effectively in this regard for...

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Using Participatory Filmmaking to further Sustainable Development Goals in...

There is a growing urgency around the global need to reckon with the relationship between humans and the natural world. This urgency is reflected in the centrality of environmental concern in several...

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Engaging with Cultural and Heritage Organisations in a Covid World – Programme

Engaging with Cultural and Heritage Organisations in a Covid World Wednesday 15 September 2021   You can view the running order and the speakers’ profiles for this webinar below:   11.00am...

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Engaging with Cultural and Heritage Organisations in a Covid World

This webinar was a valuable opportunity for Queen’s academics to hear from key figures in the UK’s cultural and heritage sector about what has changed due to Covid-19 and what space, if any, there is...

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Belfast (2021): Orange and Blue Remembered Hills

15 August ’69 and young Buddy, living in a working-class Protestant area in north Belfast, comes face to face with the realities of sectarian conflict and an impending move by the family to England as...

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What does the new tax credit for Ireland’s games industry actually mean?

On Monday 21st November, history was made. Not just one, but two government ministers attended a press conference at the offices of Black Shamrock in the Guinness Enterprise Centre to launch the...

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