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THE GREAT NORTHERN CREATIVE FESTIVAL GUIDE MONDAY 7 NOVEMBER – SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2016 UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE, PRESTON

Showcasing creative talent in Media, Film, Photography, Journalism & Performance.

WELCOME TO “THE GREAT NORTHERN CREATIVE FESTIVAL” The Great Northern Creative Festival returns for a third time to showcase the creative talent in Media, Film, Photography, Journalism & Performance. The Festival has evolved from a commitment to promote and showcase the creative talent that has been developed at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston and to also introduce to the world the fantastic students and professionals that we have working at the University, whilst opening our doors to the City, to the North and the world beyond. Once again, the Festival will introduce a variety of talent which will include Film, Photography, Media and Journalism with performances, workshops, masterclasses, music, monologues, networking, animation and inspiration to one and all. The Festival has attracted some of the leading creative talent (nationally and internationally) and we are pleased to offer staff, students and guests the opportunity to share a stimulating experience of creative talent which can be viewed, evaluated and enjoyed by everyone.

Alan Keegan (Festival Co-ordinator) Director of Business Development (UK Partnerships) The College of Cultural and the Creative Industries www.thegreatnortherncreativefestival.wordpress.com

MONDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2016

OFFICIAL FESTIVAL OPENING WITH FILM DIRECTOR JOHN GLEN AN AUDIENCE WITH FILM DIRECTOR JOHN GLENN FOLLOWED BY SIGNING SESSION OF HIS LATEST BOOK, “FOR MY EYES ONLY” 3pm-7pm, MiST, Media Factory 414 Presented by Bill McCoid John Glen was born in Sunbury-on-Thames in 1932. After an exciting childhood dodging bombs in the Second World War, he started work at Shepperton Studios as a messenger. Graduating to the cutting rooms, he eventually became an editor, working on “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” and “The Wild Geese”. His career as a director started with shooting car chases and close ups of gadgets for television series, before progressing to second unit on “The Spy who Loved Me”, “Moonraker” and “Superman: The Motion Picture”. Legendary producer Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli admired his second unit work on the James Bond films and asked him to direct “For Your Eyes Only”. John went on to become the most prolific director in the series’ history, directing four more James Bond films, “Octopussy”, “A View to a Kill”, “The Living Daylights” and “Licence to Kill”. Subsequent to his Bond career, he directed “Aces: Iron Eagle III” with Louis Gossett Jr, and “Christopher Columbus: The Discovery” with Marlon Brando, Tom Selleck and Catherine Zeta Jones. John has recently re-released his autobiography, For My Eyes Only, which is available at the event and he will also be holding a signing session after the audience with …….. He and his wife Janine live near London. Booking necessary. www.formyeyesonly.eventbrite.co.uk

“SAD TO BE GAY” - THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF AUTHORED DOCUMENTARY MAKING PRESENTED BY DAVID AKINSANYA 11am-1pm, MiST, Media Factory 414 *

A freelance journalist/reporter who works in both national television and radio.

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Spent 20 years working in broadcasting at the BBC, Sky News, Channel 4 and for independent production companies.

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Reported on current affairs in Europe, the US, Australia and the Caribbean.

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Has a strong reputation for making social affairs programmes.

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Strong personal story, committed community worker, connects with people

David has worked in the media for over 20 years. In this time he has mainly worked in social current affairs in news and documentaries. Although he works as a presenter/reporter, David enjoys DV shooting and has had a lot of his work broadcast. David enjoys making films with community groups as well as making programmes for television and radio. He also has regular guest talking slots on social affair issues on radio and TV. Specialties: Looked After kids, young people, ex-offenders, children’s rights David is on the 2014 Sunday Times list of the UK’s most influential movers and shakers for his work with charities.

JAMBOX

CONGA ROOTS

6pm-8pm, Media Factory 035

7pm-9pm, Media Factory 125

A twice-monthly music-making session giving anyone the opportunity to jam along with whatever instruments the public want to bring along.

Part of a series of sessions introducing people to playing candomble drumming patterns on conga drums. No experience required. Booking necessary. £4-6. Email to book: [email protected]

TUESDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2016

BOBBY THANDI - VP, DIGITAL AT DUBIT 11am-12.30pm, Media Factory 210 Introduced by Bill McCoid As VP Digital at Dubit, Bobby develops strategies and oversees development of digital entertainment apps and games for kids. Since launching in 1999 Dubit has experience of working with leading children’s entertainment companies as well as innovative start-ups from around the globe. Clients include DreamWorks, Mattel, PBS KIDS, Disney, Cartoon Network, and others. Write On is part of the Great Northern Creative Festival.

DIANE CULVERHOUSE - DIRECTOR, CULVERHOUSE ASSOCIATES 1pm-2pm, Media Factory 210 Introduced by Steve Lawson Diane is director of Culverhouse Associates, the sole UK agency, representing and developing talented dramatists in the North West and throughout the UK. Having recognised the need for better training in the production side of the drama industry, Diane also founded and set up the country’s first, and much respected, MA for Script Editing at Liverpool John Moore’s university, alongside teaching an MA in Screenwriting for a number of years. Ever passionate about new writing, Diane has been behind many of the leading courses for new writers, having also been a mainstay behind the much vaunted TAPS scheme. She’s therefore proud to have advised and steered countless budding writers to their first professional commissions. Prior to this she fulfilled the roles of producer, head development, script editor, director and storyliner, on drama series such as The Bill, Family Affairs, Brookside; Coronation Street; Crossroads, Boon; The Archers, Radio 4 Drama; and Morning Story.

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WERNER VAN PEPPEN, SENIOR IT POST PRODUCTION MANAGER 3pm-4.30pm, Media Factory 210 Hosted by Bill McCoid Werner has more than 20 years’ experience in a variety of roles in the film and television industries. He has worked as a director, camera operator, editor and specialist for a variety of productions and broadcasters such as the BBC, ESPN, Dutch WorldService, Viasat, and Lucasfilm. He is currently working at Pinewood on several film productions. Credits include The Force Awakens and Rogue One. Write on is a part of the Great Northern Creative Festival.

MAGIC LANTERN TALES - POET, IAN MCMILLAN AND PHOTOGRAPHER IAN BEESLEY 4pm-6pm, Foster Lecture Theatre A not-to-be missed event of storytelling, photography and poetry exploring memory and remembrance, from poet Ian McMillan and photographer Ian Beesley. The first-hand stories and photography by Ian Beesley will be brought to life using original magic lantern projectors and glass slides – alongside live poetry and spoken word by Ian McMillan, created specially in response to each individual’s story. While Ian Beesley was working as artist in residence at Moor Psychiatric Hospital in Lancaster in the 1990s, where the majority of patients suffered from senile dementia or Alzheimer’s, he came across a drawer full of glasses and another full of photographs. Some patients had been in the hospital for decades and for those who had died with no living relatives, their last few possessions were placed carefully into these drawers. ‘Many of the photographs were related to the First World War, soldiers in uniform, family gatherings, weddings with the grooms in uniform. These glasses were the glasses they must have used to look at their fading photographs perhaps to attempt to pull back some fading memory. Two simple wooden drawers containing a visual eulogy to forgotten lives. This experience prompted me to photograph and interview as many men and women who had experienced the First World War before it was too late’, said Ian Beesley. Magic Lantern Tales features this original photography by Ian Beesley and captures final memories and reflections on the changing world these people had lived through and grown old in. Ian McMillan said: ‘We often view war as a series of huge historical sweeps and this show reminds us that war is made by people who each have their own narrative of what happened.’ Magic lanterns are an early form of image projection, which originated in the 17th century, allowing painted or photographic images to be projected onto a white backdrop. Lantern shows would have been a popular form of communal entertainment across the UK during the late 19th and early 20th century. Ian & Ian have been touring the show since 2014 in numerous village halls up and down the country and have performed the show at the Imperial War Museum North for armistice day and at the Imperial War Museum London for the commemoration of the Battle of the Somme.

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Ian Beesley is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed artist and photographer. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including such venues as the Milan Photo festival, Italy, the International Industrial Photography festival, Shengyang, China, The National Media Museum, Bradford, the Peoples History Museum Manchester and the London international art fair. His work is held in the collections of the National Media Museum Bradford, The Royal Photographic Society, The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, the Imperial War Museum London, the National Museum of Labour, Helsinki, amongst many other important national collections. He has published 25 books. In 2012 he was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. He is currently artist in residence for the Bradford Institute for Health Research/ Born in Bradford, artist in residence for the University of Bristol’s School of Social & Community Medicine and artist in residence for Chetham’s Library, Manchester and Gallery Oldham. He was recently appointed Reader Practitioner in Visual Representation at UCLan.

Ian McMillan is a writer, broadcaster and performer with a career spanning over thirty years. He has worked with performance poetry groups, been poet in residence at Barnsley Football club, Northern Spirit Trains and Humberside Police, and in addition to his published work has become a prolific broadcaster, he is a regular presenter on Coast and Countryfile. He is currently presenting The Verb on BBC Radio 3 and has weekly columns in the Yorkshire Post and the Barnsley Chronicle. Still resident in South Yorkshire, McMillan is also proud of his northern heritage, as well as refusing to let go of what the Radio Times called his “fruity Barnsley accent”. He cites a “great line of Ted Hughes’s where he says ‘Calderdale’s my tuning fork’; well, Darfield’s my tuning fork.” Poems such as ‘The Meaning of Life’ - subtitled “A Yorkshire Dialect Rhapsody” - show his ear for the natural patterns of northern speech and, at the same time, a refusal to be precious about it. He also gives witness to the decline of the mining industry in this area, avoiding the pitfalls of artless diatribe and appropriation of pain. He is one of the few poets able to remain completely accessible while exploring techniques such as surrealism and postmodernism.

TUESDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2016

AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERFORMANCE FEATURING FINAL YEAR MUSIC AND DANCE UNDERGRADUATES 5.10pm (for 20 minutes approximately) Media Factory 011 Students in the final year of their undergraduate dance and music programmes have spent a week sharing skills and trying out ideas working towards this public showing of the results. Last year’s group took to dressing in their worst clothes and drumming, dancing and gurning at the audience in a piece called ‘Grotesque’. You are invited to find out what this year’s group have come up with.

THE PRESTON PEOPLE’S CHOIR 7pm-9pm, Media Factory 226 Come and have a go at singing folk music from around the world and arrangements of classic popular songs. This group meets once a week and is open to anyone regardless of experience or ability. First session free. www.prestonpeopleschoir.org

TAKE 5 FIVE BRAND NEW FILMS FROM UCLAN SCREENWRITING ALUMNI 5 UCLAN PREMIERES, INTRODUCED BY BILL MCCOID AND STEVE LAWSON 6.30pm-9pm, The Alumni Lounge, Foster Building Lecture Theatre 4

JACK PEACE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY HARRY SHERRIFF World Premiere “Peace was July’s short film as part of my 12 shorts in 12 months. I had wanted to write a film about a man with mental health problems that also thinks he’s a detective” Starring James Harkness, a Manchester-based stand-up comedian. The following week we made the film. Harry Sherriff is a writer, director and actor based in Manchester. Harry studied Screenwriting at the University of Central Lancashire (class of 2011), graduated from the Young Writers’ Programme at Everyman Theatre and has recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at the Manchester Writing School. He is currently an artist in residence at Metal Culture in Liverpool. Over the course of the residency he is making a short film every month in 2016. Harry won Best Film at the 2015 Great Northern Festival for Hits Like A Girl, which he wrote and directed. www.harrysherriff.com www.facebook.com/harryjjsherriff

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GET BACK IN YOUR TECHNICAL AREA WRITTEN BY NIALL BAXTER World Premiere - Starring Jack Verity It’s been another tough game. With two sendings off and eleven bookings both managers are unhappy with our referee, played by Jack Verity. Niall Baxter is an MA Scriptwriting graduate from at UCLan (class of 2017). Apart from writing his passion is following Carlisle United.

CAN’T LIVE OFF TENACITY: THE CREATIVE EXPERIENCE IN NEW YORK PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY ALAN LIVESEY World Premiere Is it easier to be a creative person in Preston, Lancashire or New York City? Filmmaking is more accessible now than ever, but making your creative passion your full-time vocation can still feel a struggle! “Can’t live off tenacity” is a line borrowed from a street poet that Alan Livesey met in Brooklyn when talking about aspiring creatives existing in the current global climate. Does being on one side of the Atlantic offer more chances than the other? Can’t Live off Tenacity is my ‘stream-of-consciousness’ as Alan explored the city and met actors, poets and writers all reaching for the same goals and trying to make it happen. Alan Livesey (UCLan class of 2013) is a Filmmaker and Screenwriter based in Preston, Lancashire. This film is Alan’s way of exploring the world and how we relate to each other. His works often look at themes surrounding isolation and communication. His last feature film The Blackout was produced on a zero budget and opened to over 700 people at the Preston Guild Hall. The film went on to screen at the Lisbon International Film Festival.

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PATIENT 13 WRITTEN BY MATTHEW BENNETT World Premiere Matthew Bennett (UCLan class of 2015) is a writer/screenwriter/lyricist based in Preston, Lancashire. Matthew’s work focuses on taking a twisted and dark perspective on the human condition, obsessions and relationships. He has recently finished a feature length horror script, ‘Those That We Love’ and is looking to have it produced. Matthew was a finalist in Preston’s second short story slam and is currently working on recording an album with his father/son rap duo FMA + 12 Gage. Patient 13 is sick. When he wakes in a disused factory, he realises that his nightmare has just begun. Patient 13 is a dark and twisted tale of violence and failed redemption. When a desperate man goes looking for his missing family he finds only empty corridors and a mysterious masked figure. Faced with a Doctor whose only goal is the advancement of his own twisted experiments, he is about to learn that there are some wounds that cannot be healed. To see the trailer go to https://youtu.be/2w-UfJkzYjs

THE DAUGHTER I NEVER HAD WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY TOMMY COWELL World Premiere - Starring Alice Berry and Anthony Westhead In the smoking area of a canal street bar, Viv meets Drag Queen Roxy. What she doesn’t realise is there’s more connection the two of them then she thinks. Q and A with Alice Berry hosted by Tom Cowell (UCLan class of 2012).

WEDNESDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 2016 PHOTOGRAPHY FORUM: ”FIELDWORK” GREENBANK LECTURE THEATRE 9am-4.30pm, Greenbank Lecture Theatre Fieldwork Photography Symposium is a free one day event held at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston. It is made up of a series of talks by photographic practitioners on this year’s theme of the urban image. The talks start at 9.30am and end at 4.30pm with time for breaks, discussion, networking and lunch. The talks will take place in Greenbank Lecture Theatre on the main campus. Alongside the day of talks is an exhibition of photographic work on the same theme held at the PR1 Gallery in the Victoria Building. The Symposium lunch will be held upstairs in PR1. At the Symposium the second volume of North will be launched. North is a magazine showcasing the outputs by UCLan’s photographic students and staff. This volume is based on the same theme as the Symposium. The event has been organised by UCLan’s Photography Research Group.

GUEST SPEAKER DETAILS WEDNESDAY 9TH NOVEMBER The Urban Image - Greenbank Lecture Theatre 9.00 – Coffee & Registration 9.30 – Welcome & Introduction to Fieldwork: John van Aitken (UCLan Photography Course Leader) ‘The Urban Image’ – North Launch 9.50 – Theo Simpson - An Exploration of How the North of England Can Be Conceived and Encoded 10.10 – Valentina Anzoise - Fringescapes: Hangzhou Future Sci-Tech City 10.30 – Q&A: Led by Jon Purcell (UCLan Photography Research Group) 10.50 – Break 11.10 – David Ball – Glass Ball Collective 11.30 – Laetitia Vancon – Photography & Gentrification 11.50 – Led by Brian Morrison (UCLan Photography Research Group) 12.15 – Lunch in PR1 Gallery – Victoria Building 1.30 - Kevin Crooks (DBACE Winner 2016) 2.00 – John Darwell - A Period of Transition 2.30 - Eugenie Shinkle - Gabriele Basilico and the New Topographics aesthetic 3.00 – Break 3.15 – Jerome Krase “Seeing the Image of the City Change, Again” 4.00 – Q&A: Led by Erik Knudsen (Professor of Media Practice UCLan) & Gary Bratchford (UCLan Photography Research Group) 4.30 – Closing statement - John van Aitken 5.00 – North Launch, PR1 Gallery, Victoria Building

WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2016 BIOGRAPHY THEO SIMPSON Theo Simpson lives and works in the North of England. His works examine and document British material culture and heritage through the examination of the built environment, vernacular architecture and objects of the everyday. Simpson’s work has featured most recently in: Palladian Design, exhibition at RIBA (2016), Shooting Space: Architecture in Contemporary Photography (Phaidon 2015) and journals Mas Context and Photoworks. His work is also held in various international public Collections including the V&A National Art Library, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Royal Institute of British Architects and the Tate Artists’ Book Library. www.theosimpson.co.uk

“An Exploration of How the North of England Can Be Conceived and Encoded” The North of England has long been the site for visual exploration, with image-makers producing some of the most important, politically charged and probing projects in photographic history. However, rather than being considered part of a whole, often these projects are seen as singular visions. This paper will propose that the North of England has developed from a photographic subject to a photographic genre. This paper will argue that it is has become a genre through the repeated use and occasional subverting of reoccurring symbols and motifs. The portrait, the object and the mutability of the landscape are each implicated with lasting traumas and convoluted, incomplete narratives. This development will be further explored by broadening the field of engagement within the subject and considering the diverse methodologies implicated in the expression of landscape, urban environment and the spaces between considering work that challenges the established histories and conventions of the medium intent on bringing photography into a dialogue with other mediums. Ultimately this will explore how the social and cultural landscape of Northern England can be conceived and encoded, thus becoming part of cultural mythology.

BIOGRAPHY LAETITIA VANCON Laetitia Vancon is born in Toulouse, France, 1979. In 2003, after completing her studies as a Chemical Engineer she spent 6 years working within France and South Africa as Production Site Manager in a chemical firm manufacturing artificial flavour enhancers. The pressure, the feeling of insignificance, the one of the time which passes and escapes, and the loss of a loved one, convinced her to leave the highway for more unconventional path. In 2009, she gives up her career, and it was whilst travelling throughout Australia and South East Asia, that photography begins helping her reconnect with herself and her surrounding. She has now concluded her studies at the Danish Photojournalism School in Aarhus, specialising in Visual Storytelling in May 2014. Laetitia has further developed and defined her distinctive, interactive approach to Documentary Photography. She sees an importance and necessity in her projects not to search for the latest scoop or hot news. Rather adapting to more extensive, long-term projects to help creating a more honest method of respectfully documenting people’s thoughts, emotions and place within society. By using this precise approach towards storytelling, Laetitia hopes to confirm her values and belief in the importance of morality within today’s journalism. www.vanconlaetitia.com

“Life Carries on: Documenting Gentrification in Istanbul” Not far from Istanbul’s Taksim Square, the epicentre of protests against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, where thousands of protestors are locked in a staredown with the police, there’s another waiting game in progress, in Tarlabaşı. It’s a game that families living in one of Istanbul’s most notorious districts will, in all probability, lose. This project examines the person cost of urban gentrification as people lose their homes and ways of life.

WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2016 BIOGRAPHY DAVID BALL AND CORA GLASSER (GLASSBALL ARTS COLLECTIVE) Glassball is an arts collective, formed in 2002 by artists Cora Glasser and David Ball, and since then has worked with a variety of creatives and organisations nationally. The main emphasis of our work is to collaborate with other people and places, engaging in a site responsive practice, along the way exploring new relationships with the everyday. Co-creating with people and place, our practice has a wide scope in what we make with each project we work on being different to the last, responding to what we find and producing public artworks, exhibitions, interventions, to name a few. David Ball is an artist who makes pictures through painting and photography using this media to establish an understanding of place and of remembering; whilst Cora Glasser creates works using video and photography capturing glimpses both in the present and in memory, to reimagine them through her artworks. www.glassball.uk/

“Skelmersdale – New Town – A Photographic Archive” We completed a project exploring a former new town last year, we envisaged this project would explore the relatively short history of this town using photography, all sources of imagery from the town we could gather were to be recognised, ending with a hardback book and website. What happened during this project in terms of a public response both startled us and challenged our responses at a collaborative level and also asked fundamental questions within our own individual practice. If you have lived or are fortunate enough to have been brought up within a new town, or this town of Skelmersdale, then you’ll know that concrete is as wild as nature that is also interweaved throughout the town, places that have become as mysterious as any untouched rural idyll. These urban places are both as wild and intermingled between prefabricated housing, pavement slabs and mature canopies from a wide variety of trees, vast open green spaces, sculptured by the waste product of power stations. What became unavoidable was the questions that kept being asked by people we met and the landscape we were looking at; to view these spaces became political, emotional, all resonant with memory, how could we respond to questions being asked of now, with a town centre to be redeveloped, but hasn’t, land that has been given away to private developers originally purchased with public finance. And how can we re-ask the unanswered questions from thirty years ago, when the town itself was stopped from being completed. How can these questions be articulated through making pictures using a photographic process?

BIOGRAPHY VALENTINA ANZOISE Valentina Anzoise holds a BA and MA degree in Sociology and a PhD in Information Society. Since 2004 she has been teaching Sociology of Culture and Visual Methods at the University of Milan-Bicocca, University of Padua and European Institute of Design. Since 2012 she is Associate Researcher at the European Centre for Living Technology (Ca’ Foscary University of Venice) and currently she is one of the Young Researcher of the EuropeAid project MEDIUM (New pathways for sustainable urban development in China’s medium-sized cities) within which is conducting fieldwork research in China on the socio-territorial changes produced by urbanization and on the way sustainable development is framed and pursued by different stakeholders. Her main research interests concern: Urban/Rural sustainability; Landscape and Environmental Perception; Qualitative, Visual and Participatory methods. Since 2014 she is President of the Visual Sociology Working Group of the International Sociological Association (ISA). [email protected]

Fringescapes: Hangzhou Future Sci-Tech City The presentation will focus on the urbanization-related changes which have been faced in the last 30 years by the city of Hangzhou (China), focusing on an area of Yuhang, one of the districts annexed to the city in 2001. Since then Yuhang, previously a county constituted mainly by farmlands and wetlands, is experiencing a rapid urban development and among various projects addressed in its strategic plan, it will host one of the 4 national demonstration Cluster Zone in China dedicated to the innovation industry, the Zhejiang Hangzhou Future Sci-Tech City. The area, 113 square metres big, is located in the west side of Hangzhou and aims to become another centre of the city. The author will discuss the approach adopted to conducted one-year fieldwork in this peculiar urban fringe, discussing how visual methods have been used in such complex and often overlooked contexts. In particular, the attempt of this phenomenological research has been to study how these landscapes of and in transitions are taking shape and also how these are perceived by the those who are inhabiting these dynamic but also critical social and geographical entities where different populations, functions, opportunities and threats coexist. The hypothesis here is that visual methods offer valuable tools and frameworks in the exploration of fields and phenomena that require a more expanded research and researchers making not only use of multiple devices and applications, so as to expands beyond the boundaries of what can be experienced directly by our senses, but also intertwining, adapting and integrating different knowledge(s) and languages together with research tools.

WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2016 BIOGRAPHY KEVIN CROOKS Kevin Crooks is a St. Helens based photographer who has recently won the Deutsche Bank Award for Creative Enterprise, after completing an MA in Photography at the University of Central Lancashire. His work currently explores the effects of how changes to government policy, initiatives and programmes shape the lives of people within society. Kevin is currently Head of Photography at Carmel College. Since completing his undergraduate education Kevin has worked professionally within the field of photography, producing a range of projects that tackle social and spatial mobility and the politics of community. Kevin is currently Head of Photography at Carmel College. www.kevincrooks.co.uk

“M62: The Trans-Pennine Motorway (A Work in Progress)” Carving out the Trans-Pennine M62 was, at the time of its construction, one of the most difficult and ambitious road construction projects ever attempted. As motorists travel across the Pennines within a matter of several minutes, the strangeness of the M62 is easy to dismiss. Travellers can detach themselves from the landscape that they pass through, and the irreversible impact that the motorway has had on the landscape and its surrounding areas becomes unnoticeable. [T]he motorway [for Augé] is seen as an archetypal non-place. Yet rather than ‘being in the middle of nowhere’, the geographies of the motorway landscape is complex and heterogeneous. (Merriman 2004) What, then, is the ‘M62’ today, and how will the future developments of the motorway affect the regions that it travels through? In a climate of economic austerity, can the M62 contribute to the suggested necessity towards the creation and sustainability of a Northern Powerhouse? There is a specific focus on connectivity in George Osborne’s vision of how the Northern Powerhouse is to be created and facilitated, however do the towns that the motorway passes through really benefit from these initiatives? Have the towns (and cities) that the M62 travels through really benefitted from the inclusion of the motorway, in the same way that increased connectivity through the creation of the Northern Powerhouse is to be envisaged?

BIOGRAPHY JOHN DARWELL John Darwell works on long-term projects that reflect his interest in social and industrial change, concern for the environment and issues around the depiction of mental health. He has had 18 books published, including most recently: ‘The Dark River’ (Five volume boxed set Café Royal Books, 2015/16) and ‘Chernobyl’ Vols 1 & 2 (the Velvet Cell 2014. He has been exhibited widely including exhibitions in the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, the USA, (Houston Foto Fest, New York and San Francisco) Mexico, South America and the Canary Islands. In 2008 he gained his PhD for the work ‘A Black Dog Came Calling: A Visualisation of Depression Through Contemporary Photography’. www.johndarwell.com

‘A Period of Transition’ This presentation explores five projects I undertook in a period from the 1980s up to the early 00s that look to the transformation of the northern post-industrial landscape, from a largely industrialised setting, to one where heavy industry was gradually replaced with new, private, housing developments. During this period I explored the industrial and urban environments of the north’s major cities, including Manchester, Sheffield and Liverpool in an attempt to both capture and understand the changes that were taking place. Early work from this series explored the Manchester Ship Canal, (‘The Big Ditch’) this was followed by an exploration of the River Irwell (’The Dark River’) described at the time as the “Most Polluted River in the UK”. As previously, this work explored the relationship between the domestic and the industrial, looking to how new housing developments were changing the face of a landscape traditionally inhabited with “Dark Satanic Mills”. Subsequently, I was commissioned to produce bodies of work in Sheffield (‘Regeneration’) and Liverpool (Jimmy Jock, Albert & the Six-Sided Clock) looking respectively at the closure of the city’s largest steelworks and the containerisation of Liverpool’s docklands. These works looked at the effects these changes had on local communities often sitting cheek by jowl alongside the factories and economically dependent on their presence. This presentation will discuss these works and the change in identity of these iconic industrial centres and will conclude with a final body of work (‘A Different World’) that took my projects full circle by returning to the Ship Canal and its subsequent rebirth as Salford Quays.

WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2016 BIOGRAPHY EUGENIE SHINKLE Eugenie Shinkle is Reader in Photography at Westminster University. She writes and lectures widely on landscape photography and is co-editor (with Davide Deriu and Krystallia Kamvasinou) of Emerging Landscapes: Between Production and Representation (Ashgate, 2014). www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/ our-people/directory/shinkle-eugenie

“Gabriele Basilico and the New Topographics aesthetic” Gabriele Basilico’s early photographs of the city and its outskirts are often said to conform to the ‘new topographics’ aesthetic – an approach to landscape representation linked to the work in the 1975 exhibition of the same name. In this paper I examine two of Basilico’s early projects – Ritratte di Fabbriche (197880), and Bord de Mer (mid-1980s) – to show that his work departs from the new topographics aesthetic in important respects. The New Topographics photographers used repetition – of architectural typologies and framing strategies – to level distinctions between individual images, to draw attention to the homogeneity of built space, and to diminish any signs of the photographer’s subjectivity. Basilico, on the other hand, is consistently drawn to the heterogeneity of the built environment, using light and shadow to highlight the individuality of architectural forms and the way that they are networked into the urban fabric. Where the New Topographics work was broadly concerned with the refashioning of the city’s edges as abstract spaces of global capitalism, Basilico’s work constitutes a sustained reflection on the concrete character of real space.

BIOGRAPHY JEROME KRASE Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York is an activist-scholar who works on many urban community issues. He researches, lectures, writes and photographs about urban life and culture globally. Among his many books are Self and Community in the City (1982), Ethnicity and Machine Politics with Charles LaCerra (1992), Race and Ethnicity in New York City (2005) and Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World. (2006) coedited with Ray Hutchison, Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class (2012), and Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn (2016) with Judith N. DeSena. He is co-editor of Urbanities and serves on the editorial boards of Cidades, Visual Studies, and the Journal of Video Ethnography. Professor Krase is an officer of ProBonoDesign Inc, and is active in the American and International Sociological Associations, Commission on Urban Anthropology, Humanities on Line, and International Visual Sociology Association. www.visualsociology.org/about/board-members/item/jerome-krase.html

“Seeing the Image of the City Change, Again” The City and, perhaps even more so, its image have played powerful roles in human history. The tragic meanings associated with cities such as Sodom and Gomorrah as well as Hiroshima and Nagasaki are almost universally shared and understood. Over the same millennia, cities like Athens and Paris have as to art and ideas at times represented the best of all possible urban worlds. For much of the past century cities in general have had for want of a better phrase “a bad press.” Much of this has had to do with wide spread anti-urban biases, shared by those as different as Thomas Jefferson and Mao Tse Tung. In many of the most important cities around the globe there has been a reversal of these historically negative images of the city as a place to fear or to flee. Ironically these positive views are having a negative effect on many of its long-time residents in the form of gentrification and displacement. At the same time other cities have again become a refuge for those escaping violence and poverty. In my work I ask, “How does the image of the city in which people live and work impact on their lives, and how do images of their denizens create or reflect the image of the city itself? “ As to justice in the City, I interrogate the role of visuallyoriented social scientists, photographers, photojournalists and others who create and disseminate images of the city.

WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2016 GETTING A JOB AND FILLING KEY SKILLS GAPS IN MEDIA A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND A SPECIAL WORKSHOP WITH 3 LEADING MEDIA SPECIALISTS 11am-1pm, MiST, Media Factory The panel includes:

Christine Bellamy, (Head of Business Operations, BBC Digital, News, Sport, Children’s & Homepage)

Victoria Goodwin, (Head of Production, BBC Talent)

AJ Reid, (Publicity & Engagement Manager, ITV in the North)

GAMES DESIGN PROGRAMME Victoria Building Room 19 10am: Peter Field, Designer Media Molecule 12 noon: Rebecca Michalak, Freelance Concept Artist & Ben Bennett, Freelance Game Designer 3pm: International Skype

PETER FIELD DESIGNER MEDIA MOLECULE Peter is a Game Designer at Media Molecule hard at work on Dreams, their upcoming spiritual successor to Little Big Planet. Prior to Media Molecule Peter worked at Naughty Dog where he worked on both the Uncharted franchises and the critically acclaimed The Last of Us. Over the years Peter has designed many play spaces and wanted to share his thoughts on how such an unassuming part of the game making process can be used to change how a game can feel in powerful ways. Not to be missed if you are a budding level designer or environment artist.

REBECCA MICHALAK FREELANCE CONCEPT ARTIST AND BEN BENNETT FREELANCE GAME DESIGNER Rebecca and Ben discuss their personal attempts (and failings) to create games. They will be hosting a workshop where students have the opportunity to collaboratively create abstract game systems and explore alternate routes into and ways of thinking about games. www.remichalak.com

WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2016 DAVID AKINSANYA CURRENT AFFAIRS DOCUMENTARIES TALK MiST, Media Factory

WORLDWISE SAMBA DRUMMERS 6pm-8pm, Media Factory 035 The Worldwise Samba Drummers are an all-percussion group that plays high energy traditional Brazilian patterns and original compositions. Part of Music For All at UCLan, this Preston-based community group regularly performs across the region. At this event, we intend to dazzle you with our up-beat performance before encouraging the brave amongst you to have a go on the instruments yourselves and play a simple groove. Find us on Facebook: Worldwise Samba Drummers. A weekly samba drumming session open to anyone regardless of experience or ability.

THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2016 SHAKESPEARE IN THE NORTH THERESA SAXON AND JANICE WARDLE 5pm-6.30pm, MiST, Media Factory This session will examine the ways in which Shakespeare’s plays, as national ‘treasures’, have been interpreted by audiences in the North of England. Our talk will begin with an historic journey through the development of theatre in England, particularly how London became known as a centre for theatrical activity, but also exploring the very important work done in regional theatre. In our discussions we will examine two important plays: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Othello. A Midsummer Night’s Dream was in 2016 performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Grand Theatre Blackpool as part of the RSC’s ‘Play for the Nation’ tour performed in 12 theatres across the UK. One of the unique aspects of the production was it integrated a local amateur cast in each venue. In Blackpool the production utilised the talents of the Poulton Drama group. The talk will examine not just this inclusion of amateur with professional, but also the juxtaposition of local and national culture and how the production in Blackpool, located in this specific place, represented and engaged with the North-West, and ideas associated with the North. Othello, as a play about race and racial tensions, has always been notorious but became particularly so in the early nineteenth century, when in 1825, Ira Aldridge a young black actor recently arrived from America, took on the role in England, the first black actor known to have played Shakespeare’s tragic “Moor” before a paying audience. Aldridge also played to provincial audiences and is known to have performed in Lancaster, Manchester and Preston throughout the course of his career. This talk will examine the very different responses that Aldridge encountered in the theatres of the capital to those he experienced in the North. The talk will include a selection of scenes from both plays performed by students of Theatre and Drama at UCLan.

THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2016 “BASTION” PREVIEW SCREENING OF UCLAN FEATURE FILM 5pm-7pm, Sound Stage, Media Factory 210 UCLan Film Production is the only course in the country that is Creative Skillset accredited and produces professional full length feature films with undergraduate students since 2011. The productions are supported by top industry practitioners, amongst them Derrin Schlesinger (This is England, Babylon), Bafta award-winner Diarmid Scrimshaw (Tyrannosaur) and Debs Paterson (Africa United). Bastion is a re-worked cold war story set in an alternative Britain where war between old rivals is imminent and the government has become more and more fascist. Within this turmoil, David and his pregnant wife Abigail escape the oppressive city, but their loyalties and alliances soon fray and their relationship is tested by suspicion, mistrust and secrecy. Espionage, revolt and murder ensue as their marriage and the future of Britain tumble towards their ultimate, dark destiny.

FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2016 cJAM CAREERS IN MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

9am-4pm, MiST Media Factory 414 cJAM is a showcase event for students to meet industry professionals, to share ideas and make connections. Our cJAM is part of the ‘Great Northern Creative Festival’, which also showcases film, media and photography. The day starts with a breakfast networking session, followed by talks from successful alumni and our special guests. Then we have a Q&A with ‘The Professionals Panel’ – people working in the creative industries, who can offer their advice and experience to our students. After lunch we launch into a giant ‘ideas pitch’. Check out the link below to see what’s involved. Each student has 10 minutes to pitch a programme/print/digital story idea to an employer. The best pitches win a one-day placement with our employers. Last year our fantastic students in the School of Journalism, Media and Performance secured 60 work placements and mentoring opportunities from cJAM. Check out our cJAM 2015 event at https://youtu.be/RzuAS2kaOvY

FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2016 POPULAR MUSIC AND EUROPE 10am-5.15pm, Kirkham Building 006

PREMIERE SCREENING OF WILDSEED PRODUCTIONS NEW FEATURE FILM 4pm-6pm, Media Factory Sound Stage, Media Factory 210 Wildseed are a new kind of production company. They enable new talent to make the kind of films they want to make. Wildseed take risks and if you see yourself as the new Scorsese or Wes Anderson they are worth going to see. You never know they might be touring and screening your feature next. Premiere Screening of Wildseed Productions new feature film ‘Darkest Dawn’ and a question and answer with MD Miles Bullough and director Drew Casson.

As far as popular music is concerned, Europe seems to be split into two parts: the Anglo-Saxon centre and the rest, functioning as a province. Terms such as ‘Europop’ convey a sense of inferiority, lack of authenticity and longing to join the exclusive club of British rockers. Such a perception persists despite the fact that from continental Europe originates some of the most influential music globally, for example Kraftwerk and Abba, and that Sweden is today probably the most successful producer of pop music in the world. Moreover, there were always strong links between music from different parts of Europe, including Germany and the UK. This symposium will discuss some of these connections, in the light of the fact that a different set of connotations now derive from the word ‘Europe’ than prior to Brexit referendum of June 2016, namely that in recent months the UK, and England especially, appear to be less European than they used to be.

Directed by and starring awardwinning director Drew Casson, The Darkest Dawn introduces a new generation of YouTube stars including Bethan Leadley, Cherry Wallis and Stuart Ashen and is produced by Jesse Cleverly (Hungerford) and Miles Bullough (A Matter of Loaf & Death) for Wildseed Studios. Logo by former UCLan graphic design student Tom McInally.

POPULAR MUSIC AND EUROPE PROGRAMME 10.00-10.10

Keynote - Aimar Ventsel

Introduction - Ewa Mazierska and Peter Atkinson

Eastern Europe as Punk Frontier

Popular Music, the West and the UK

Poland and Abroad

10.10-10.50

Zlatko Jovanovic Solidarity with Solidarity: Poland, Yugoslav New Wave and the Transnational Sense of Connectedness in Late Socialist Europe

Keynote - Richard Witts Vorsprung durch Technik - Kraftwerk and Modernity 10.50-11.00 Coffee break 11.00-12.00 Adam Evans Style of the Street: U.K. Electro, Hip Hop, and the Street Sounds Compilation as Product James Ingham ‘B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989’: Manufacturing the Fiction of Europe 12.00-12.10 Coffee break 12.10-1.00 Brian Baker Scrap Value: Sleaford Mods and the Abjection of Brexit Britain Peter Atkinson ‘Bowie Xerox’: Euro-electronica, Synthpop and the Emergent Enterprise Culture 1.00-1.40 Lunch 1.40-5.00 Focus on Eastern Europe 1.40-2.20

2.20-3.20

Lidia Kopania I Sing, Therefore I Am… Polish Female Musician in Poland and Abroad 3.20-3.30 Break 3.30-5.00 Orientalism and Cultural Translation Xawery Stańczyk Authenticity and Orientalism: Cultural Appropriations in Polish Alternative Music Scene Ewa Mazierska The Multi-layered Transnationalism of Fran Palermo Maya Nedyalkova Bulgarian Audience Reactions to the Pop-folk Remake of Beyonce’s Crazy In Love 5.00-5.15 Presentation of the winner of the competition for the best essay ‘Popular Music and Europe’

SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2016 CONGA GROUP PRESTON 11am-1pm, Media Factory 111 A monthly session introducing people to playing Afro-Brazilian drumming patterns on conga drums. No experience required. Booking necessary. £4-£6. email: [email protected]

RHYTHM ALLEY DRUM CIRCLE 2pm-4pm, Media Factory 111 A chance to join in with improvised percussion music in a supportive setting. Open to anyone regardless of experience or ability. Payment by donation.

ANIMATION DAY “GREAT NORTHERN ANIMATED TALENT” EVENT SPONSORED BY FLIX FACILITIES 10am-5pm, Media Factory 210 & MiST, Media Factory CPL – Ex-animation graduate James Millington and his managing director will be on hand for students to show their showreels and CVs too. James Millington from 2D “Animator hailing from Liverpool, with a passion for animation, football and drinking fancy tea. Also a bit of a traveller at heart, I disappeared to the other side of the world for a while after graduating from UCLan. Which was fun apart from the slave labour banana picking! Alas the exploring ended a little closer to home than expected at CPL Animate, where I’ve been enjoying drawing and animating ever since.” http://www.cpltraining.co.uk Lunch 12.00-1.00pm

UCLAN OPEN DAY SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2016

SATURDAY 12TH NOVEMBER 2016 ANIMATION SYMPOSIUM 10am-11.45am, Sound Stage, Media Factory 210 & MiST, Media Factory Introduction by Sarah Ann Kennedy. Pitching, portfolio and showreel workshop with 3 fantastic talented professionals. Animation students get the chance to have a professional look at their portfolio and showreel and get up-to-date industry advice. You never know you may get head hunted. Networking is a key part of the industry and today is a brilliant opportunity to make these initial steps.

UCLan Graduate James Millington, who is now the animation lead at CPL animate Miles Bullough, Managing Director of WildSeed Studios, his previous CV credits include Head of TV Production at Aardman and Absolutely Productions. Tracy Shaw, Filmography credits who has an extensive list of credits for her production work on film such as Corpse Bride and tale of Despereaux. 12.00-1.00pm Tips for getting into industry Recent graduates Francis Humphries and Gemma Rickers show the work they have been doing for Media 1 after graduating this summer 1.00-2.00pm Lunch

2.00-2.45pm Oscar nominated, Bafta winning animation celebrity Barry Purves shows his work 2.45-3.00pm Comfort Break 3.00-3.45pm Barry Purves workshop Looking at the art direction and animation of telling stories. 3.45-4.00pm Comfort Break 4.00-5.00pm Award-wining writer and animator Candy Guard shares her work including workshop

... and a little something extra WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2016

OWNING YOUR WALRUS A CROSS DISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM ON LONELINESS Book at: owningyourwalrus.eventbrite.com 2pm-6pm, Media Factory 226 In her show How not to Live in Suburbia, writer & performer Annie Siddons uses the metaphor of a walrus to describe her loneliness. In this cross disciplinary symposium, we look at loneliness through the practice of performance and the discipline of psychology. Hosted by BA Theatre in collaboration with the School of Psychology, featuring a series of 20 minute academic papers from professionals in the industry, Q&A and discussion around the subject of loneliness culminating in a live theatre performance by Annie Siddons. Annie Siddons presents: HOW NOT TO LIVE IN SUBURBIA: A FUNNY, BRUTAL AND POIGNANT AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SHOW ABOUT LIVING WITH CHRONIC LONELINESS Book at: Hownottoliveinsuburbia.eventbrite.com

Written and performed by Annie Siddons, video by Richard DeDomenici 6pm-7.10pm, Media Factory 002, 7.15pm post show discussion & dinner Through performance and surreal film, Annie recalls her gauche attempts to fit in with the yummy mummies who run triathlons and the families that row and cycle at weekends in the most married place in London. From sexist toddler groups, to judgmental book group leaders to the advances of married men, Annie takes a poignant and humorous look at what it is like to live in a community you don’t fit in, the compromises we make for the sake of our children, how chronic loneliness manifests itself and her own personal quest to cure it. Part love letter to London, part satire of suburban culture, part text book case of a woman reacting to chronic loneliness, How not to Live in Suburbia is Annie Siddons’ most determinedly autobiographical writing to date. @LaSiddons | www.anniesiddons.co.uk Contact: [email protected] for more info.

“THE GREAT NORTHERN CREATIVE FESTIVAL AWARDS” SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2016 - PRESENTED BY PRINCIPAL SPONSOR ARRIVA RAIL NORTH “THE ARRIVA RAIL NORTHERN CREATIVE FESTIVAL AWARDS” 6.30pm-8.30pm, MiST, Media Factory 414 The Great Northern Creative Festival would like to express its thanks to Arriva Rail North our Principal Sponsor. “The Great Northern Creative Festival” has attracted some of the country’s leading talent and we invite you to enjoy all of the creative talent along with the opportunity to share time and space with other Photographers, Film lovers, Film makers, Performers, Journalists, Writers and Creators.

THE NORTHERN FESTIVAL AWARDS 6.30pm-8.30pm, MiST, Media Factory 414 We round off The Great Northern Creative Festival with The Arriva Rail Festival Awards. Various prizes will be handed out on the evening including GNCF Outstanding Award 2016 and GNCF Lifetime Achievement Award. All are welcome to attend the evening, which will be a true celebration of the creative talents here at UCLan. Prizes awarded on the night include free travel on Northern Rail services.

PRE AWARDS ENTERTAINMENT SUPPLIED BY AGUERE, A FOUR-PIECE GROUP PLAYING AFRO-BRAZILIAN CONGA RHYTHMS

UCLAN OPEN DAY SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2016

THE GREAT NORTHERN CREATIVE FESTIVAL WOULD LIKE TO THANK David Wilkinson and Arriva Rail North, our Principal Sponsor for their continued support. Thanks must also go to staff and colleagues at UCLan, including Andrew Ireland, John Holloway, and Mick Gornall. Special thanks to Bill McCoid for his continuous support and hard work, John van Aitken, Adam Robson, Stephen Lawson, Peter Wobser, Steve Cooke, Toby Gregory, David Faragher, Andrew Coverdale, Mandy Langton, Linda Sever, Stephen Place, Maggie Maclean, Emma Speed, Julie Freer, Deborah Robinson, Sarah Ann Kennedy, Mario Kkounnous, Paul Greene, James Thompson, Jon Aveyard, Deborah Robinson, Theresa Saxon, Janice Wardle, Ewa Mazierska, Pete Atkinson, Krystyna Musiol, Richard Albiston, Linda Kenyon, Andrea Walker, Andrea Burch, Jo Crossley, Jonathan McManus, Ariana Scott, Chloe Cravagan, Sam Green, Jamie Heerlyn, Charlotte Lancaster, Peter Bishop. Kirsty Kirnon, Debbie Benton, Les Gillon, Cameron Honey and staff and colleagues in the The College of Culture and the Creative Industries. “The Great Northern Creative Festival” has attracted some of the country’s leading talent and we invite you to enjoy all of the creative talent along with the opportunity to share time and space with other film lovers, film makers, writers and creators. Have a great week. “The Great Northern Creative Festival”, has been created and is supported by UCLan’s College of Culture and the Creative Industries.

The programme in this guide is correct at time of going to print. October 2016.

THE GREAT NORTHERN CREATIVE FESTIVAL GUIDE MONDAY 7 NOVEMBER – SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2016 UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE, PRESTON

Showcasing creative talent in Media, Film, Photography, Journalism & Performance.

WE INVITE YOU TO ENJOY “THE GREAT NORTHERN CREATIVE FESTIVAL” AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE TIME AND SPACE WITH OTHER TALENT, MAKERS, WRITERS AND CREATORS Some of the screenings will feature material of an adult nature or may contain language or themes that individuals may find disturbing. The organisers will make every effort to ensure that screenings involving these situations or featuring flashing lights are clearly signposted but cannot accept responsibility for any disturbance caused. The claims and views expressed are those of the individual and do not represent University of Central Lancashire or “The Great Northern Creative Festival”. We will be sending members of the mailing list details of forthcoming events throughout the year. If you would like to leave our mailing list at any time please let us know by email at: [email protected] or [email protected]