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The field of arts management is in a constant state of flux. Opportunities such as the rapid development of technologies – virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial technology. In this conference, we discuss these opportunities and challenges.

Come along and see the rapid response work of History and Theatre students. Earlier in the day, a small group of students will participate in a workshop with theatre-maker Vivi Bayliss, this showcase is an opportunity to see what they have created!

School of Arts and Creative Technologies Contemporary Music Research Collective (CMRC) Seminar

Vivi Bayliss is a theatre-maker from Warwickshire, specialising in accessible, historically informed work across theatre and opera. She works as a professional director for companies including National Opera Studio and Cherwell Theatre Company.

A witty and heartbreaking monologue about Alice, as she returns home on the hottest day of the year to say a difficult and untimely goodbye. One that will leave a hole in her life forever.

For the last 25 years, York alumnus Mark Burton has worked on numerous feature animation projects both here and in Hollywood, and in this lecture offers a very personal insight into what he has learned about storytelling.

Join Ella McKeown, artistic director of alumni company Ricochet Theatre, for a practical workshop. More details coming soon.

Student intern Dylan Day hosts a Q&A session with stand-up comedian, author, diversity consultant and podcaster Sadia Azmat.

Music's 'Practical Project'

This year’s Visiting Practitioner Programme starts in style with a panel of expert playwrights, including Simon Stephens, Sarah Grochala and Zodwa Nyoni

Tim becomes a courier for the app Wallaby, hoping to turn his life around, but haplessly uncovers a sinister conspiracy.

Teach Rex Live - VELOCIRAPTOR SHOW

Teach Rex Live - VELOCIRAPTOR SHOW

Teach Rex Live - VELOCIRAPTOR SHOW

Swimming Upstream - Masters Performance

Building - Masters Performance

“Glantóir simléar, an ea?” “A sweep, is it?” Two chimney sweepers meet at a crossroads. They’re waiting for their well-to-do cousins to arrive. Until then, though, they only have each other for company…

Poppy is grieving, Simon needs his money back, and Lucy needs a raise.

‘Meat That Feeds’ is about hunger, desire, control, and obsession. Obsessive desire for beauty leads to an addictive cycle, as desire needs lack. Therefore you can never have what you desire.

A special screening of The Knife That Killed Me to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its release by Universal Pictures. The experimental 100% green-screen film was made in collaboration with the University of York by the team that became Viridian FX

After months of pre-production, fundraising and production, 3rd-year film and TV production students behind the 15-minute short period drama, St. John’s Blessing, are delighted to present its official screening in the Holbeck cinema this June!

The 2024 ACT Graduate Symposium offers a unique platform for full-time & part-time PhD and MRes students to present their current research and creative work to an engaged audience of peers and academic staff.

In an electrifying concert experience, Venus Rise takes audiences on a transformative journey from the cosmic expanse to the microscopic world, intertwining the symphonic majesty of the universe with the delicate ecosystems of our planet

The MT Space Project: Making Musicals in the Metaverse - Virtual Event

The MT Space Project: Making Musicals in the Metaverse

The MT Space Project: Making Musicals in the Metaverse

The MT Space Project: Making Musicals in the Metaverse

Phenomenal work and ideas created by the Interactive Media student community during the academic year will be shared with the cohort and experts from different industries. Explore projects created by students ranging from games, mobile apps and VR

The MT Space Project: Making Musicals in the Metaverse - Virtual Event

A collection of the top screenings of the festival & the awards hosted by industry professionals and returning alumni.

The MT Space Project: Making Musicals in the Metaverse

LUMA Film and TV festival champions the work of budding filmmakers at the University of York, in a colourful 2-day event showcasing all student films created this year in the School of Arts and Creative Technologies.

Phenomenal work and ideas created by the Interactive Media student community during the academic year will be shared with the cohort and experts from different industries. Explore projects created by students ranging from games, mobile apps and VR

Phenomenal work and ideas created by the Interactive Media student community during the academic year will be shared with the cohort and experts from different industries. Explore projects created by students ranging from games, mobile apps and VR

LUMA Film and TV festival champions the work of budding filmmakers at the University of York, in a colourful 2-day event showcasing all student films created this year in the School of Arts and Creative Technologies.

For this week's Research Seminar, please join Joyce Goggin (University of Amsterdam), and their research 'The Magic Bank in London'

After our final performance stick around for a drink to wind down after a week of events. This party is a chance to celebrate the end of the festival, share feedback on the week and say goodbye to the third year students who've made Elevate happen.

Have we got to spend our life praying that someone we love, or know, dies before we can make owning a home a possibility?

'It wasn't a good idea to meet this evening, was it?'

Hell is other people

I Antigone take you Haemon to be my lawfully wedded husband. To have and to hold, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer. Till Death do us part.

You're only the greatest person ever invented and he's some boy who's probs never had a conversation with a side of the sun before – but like Let's Be Modest About It

“I can’t know you in one hundred and forty.” “Try.”

Join us in the Ignition Theatre for a showcase of work from students on our Independent Playwriting module, who will be reading extracts from their playtexts.

This event offers a supportive space for creatives to showcase their work-in-progress. Open to anyone who would like to share, this is a great opportunity to get feedback on your work!

York Theatre Royal has a long history of large-scale community productions. Join York Theatre Royal's Creative Director Juliet Forster in conversation with playwright Bridget Foreman about the process that goes into making a production of this scale.

Hell is other people

Alan Park has been the Chair of Theatre@41 since 2020. In that time Theatre@41 has become York's leading fringe venue, selling over 20,000 tickets to a range of shows!

Unveiling York Stories: The Impact of Community Theatre with Lydia Crosland, Community Connector at York Theatre Royal

Grab a team, brush up on your general knowledge and join us for a quiz in the Hub!

I Antigone take you Haemon to be my lawfully wedded husband. To have and to hold, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer. Till Death do us part.

For this week's Research Seminar, please join Milan Todorovic (London Metropolitan University) non , Inverse consequentialism or neo-Machiavellian co-opting: “Means justify ends”, in culture and destructive creativities of a disruptive venture

Transgression and Transfiguration - an exploration of the life and soul of an object, led by Marc Parrett of the OBJECT Project. In this 2 hour workshop we’ll explore the often surprising hidden lives and stories of everyday objects.

'It wasn't a good idea to meet this evening, was it?'

Move beyond improv games and into improv scenes and shows with this introduction to Long Form. Find the funny and serious by learning to spontaneously co-create improvised scenes using a combination of core skills and advanced ways to play.

In this workshop Matt will go through his learning, sharing sample applications, and highlighting his top tips for writing a successful funding application, so you'll walk away with some useful tools, a bit more confidence and a lot less fear!

You're only the greatest person ever invented and he's some boy who's probs never had a conversation with a side of the sun before – but like Let's Be Modest About It

Have we got to spend our life praying that someone we love, or know, dies before we can make owning a home a possibility?

After the first performance of Elevate, join us in the Hub for live music and free drinks to celebrate the launch of the festival. The party is a chance to meet some of the creatives who will be showcasing or creating work during the week.

“I can’t know you in one hundred and forty.” “Try.”

Join our scenery technician Will for the second installment of Will's Workshop Wednesdays! This week is Old Oak Panel, White Marble and Verdigris (Bronze)

Theatre-Making MA students present their work from the Collaborative Production module. Both are devised pieces of theatre, prepare for a night full of diverse performances.

Theatre-Making MA students present their work from the Collaborative Production module. Both are devised pieces of theatre, prepare for a night full of diverse performances.

Workshop - "It's The Economy, Stupid!"

Devised Theatre Workshop, with Worklight Theatre

Platform is a branch within the school which aims to use the resources and spaces to develop students' creativity.

Screen Yorkshire's Richard Knight will run an in-depth Q&A with producer Nicola Addyman. Nicola is an experienced executive producer and series producer for factual and current affairs programming, across TV and Audio.

An introduction and insight into collaborative programme models in theatre with John Tomlinson

Albion Revisited: The life of one man, in the events of one country. Who were we? Who are we now? And who could we yet become?

For this week's Research Seminar, please join Sarah Hibberd (University of Bristol), to discuss their research on 'The Puritani Quartet in London and Paris, c.1840'

From the innocence of childhood to the shadows of history, and the promises of salvation, these student-written plays explore denial through three unique plays. Witness the consequences of turning a blind eye to inconvenient truths.

This workshop exploring the exercises, games and physical methodology of theatre ensemble Tangled Feet. The workshop will include ensemble methodology, physical devising as a group, prop manipulation and devising through games and images

A practical and discursive workshop exploring how Tangled Feet co-create work with young participants, intergenerational casts and teenagers. Through games, exercises and devising methods this workshop explores how to inspire performance & creativity

From the innocence of childhood to the shadows of history, and the promises of salvation, these student-written plays explore denial through three unique plays. Witness the consequences of turning a blind eye to inconvenient truths.

Join our scenery technician Will for the third installment of Will's Workshop Wednesdays! This week is Mahogany wood graining effect, Red brickwork (vac form) and Antique Steel

For this week's Research Seminar, please join Niall Thomas (University of Winchester) to discuss their research on 'Technical Ecstasy: phenomenological perspectives of Metal Music Producers'

Sarah Ellis, an award-winning producer currently working as Director of Digital Development for the Royal Shakespeare Company, will give a talk on AI: The future of live experiences

Come and learn Vamos Theatre’s approach to mask work, creating physical character and devising non-verbal theatre that connects and moves audiences

The Clash of Tradition and Modernity, Olivia Chaney joins us to share her work and delve into her creative process, exploring creatively explosive tensions between the drive to innovate and the weight of tradition.

Join Director Selma Dimitrijevic, for a short directing workshop exploring liveness in performance and connecting with the audience

Essie's lost her job. Her girlfriend's left. But she's alright. Except lately she feels more like a chair than a person. One of those folding chairs. Solid one minute. And then…

Can cinema and lighting work in harmony? Join us to witness an immersive lighting show, accompanying the visual spectacle of Gregory Doran's 2016 stage recording of The Tempest

For this weeks Research Seminar, please join Katherine Graham, Mark Love-Smith, Karen Quigley and Tom Cantrell (University of York) to discuss the topic 'R&D in Contemporary Theatre-Making'.

Designing Immersive Theatrical Experiences in Virtual Reality with Robert Mark Morgan

Join our scenery technician Will for the second installment of Will's Workshop Wednesdays! This week is parquet floor, granite stone, and cast iron.

The General finds hapless Southern railroad engineer Johnny Gray facing off against Union soldiers during the American Civil War. When Johnny's fiancée, Annabelle Lee, is accidentally taken away while on a train stolen by Northern forces

Coral will dive into the processes behind some of her recent compositions and projects.

We’re welcoming back four graduates of the Theatre: Writing, Directing and Performance degree to hear about what they did next. This alumni panel event is an opportunity to find out more about the many different career routes you can take!

For this week's Research Seminar, please join Amandine Pras, Jude Brereton and Katie Ambrose (University of York) to discuss their research on 'Unveiling the Female Ear - Challenging obsolete audio perception science and normative critical listening'

Artis is offering a taster of what it's like to work with their company, delivering a creative curriculum in Primary Schools.

Percussionist extraordinaire Joby Burgess discusses the commissioning, recording and premiering of his latest album A Percussionist’s Songbook.

For this week's Research Seminar, please join Deborah Nemko (Bridgewater State University) as she discusses her current research "From Momentum to Going.. Gone" Pulitzer Prize Winning Composer, Tania León, at the Piano.

How Toby's career and practice has developed to write for multiple types of voices across a variety of genres and music-making contexts: including choral and operatic composition, music for young and amateur singers, and popular music production.

Join Toby Young and Stef Conner for a deep dive into the special joys and many challenges of composing for voices, with an in-depth look at some works in progress by York composers.

What are we doing about the climate emergency? What are we not doing? What more could we be doing? What more should we be doing? Be part of the story and join the debate.

For this week's Research Seminar, please join Philip Burnett (University of York) discuss his research on "What links the study of music, the University of York, and Modderpoort, a former mission station in the Free State Province of South Africa?"

Thinking about what we do in theatre, and what theatre can do.

A CMRC seminar with cellist Frances-Marie Uitti

Frances-Marie Uitti takes us on a tour through some of the seminal thinking during a period of radical development in the sonoral resources of string instruments

For this week's Research Seminar, please join David Barnett (University of York) to discuss the topic 'Re-Thinking Theatricality'.

Spirited Winds – Carmen Troncoso (recorder), Desmond Clarke (oboe) and Jennifer Cohen (flute) – host this workshop and perform new works written for them by composers from the York community.

For this weeks Research Seminar, please join three School of ACT Postgraduate Student's discuss their research

For this weeks Research Seminar, please join David Arditi (University of Texas at Arlington) to discuss the paper 'Digital Feudalism: Creators, Credit, Consumption, and Capitalism'

For this weeks Research Seminar, please join Robert Adlington (Royal College of Music) to discuss the paper 'Penderecki in Peterborough: the avant-garde as industrial relations'

Informal catchup/organisational meeting for the CCC members

Please join us for this week's CMRC Seminar–Concert with Spirited Winds

“The brain is a storytelling machine and it’s really good at fooling us.” Nick Payne’s Incognito follows three interwoven stories that explore the conflict between science and self, work and relationships, and the legacy we leave behind.

“Love. Everyone thinks love is the greatest force in the cosmos and it isn’t you know.” It’s 2008 and Mankind’s most ambitious attempt to understand how the universe began is about to go online for the first time.

“Love. Everyone thinks love is the greatest force in the cosmos and it isn’t you know.” It’s 2008 and Mankind’s most ambitious attempt to understand how the universe began is about to go online for the first time.

Noche de Cine Latino’ presents a celebration of Latin American culture and history through the medium of film.

Creative Coding Collective

“The brain is a storytelling machine and it’s really good at fooling us.” Nick Payne’s Incognito follows three interwoven stories that explore the conflict between science and self, work and relationships, and the legacy we leave behind.

Please join us for a School of Arts and Creative Technologies research seminar. This weeks speaker is Michelle Meinhart from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

Join us for a talk with Amy Leach, Deputy Artistic Director at Leeds Playhouse

Through this student-run event, we aim to highlight the connection of their storytelling with particular environments and how these traditions have shaped their identities today!

Please join us for this week's CMRC workshop for composers with Spirited Winds

Creative Coding Collective - Open Session, research/work show and tell

Please join us for a School of Arts and Creative Technologies research seminar. This weeks speaker is Sue Miller (Leeds Beckett University)

Join us for a discussion session in which we continue last term’s exploration of the workshop format by considering how it might be reimagined in more supportive, empowering, facilitated by Stef Conner.

Creative Coding Collective

Platform is a branch within the school which aims to use the resources and spaces to develop students' creativity.

Please join us for a School of Arts and Creative Technologies research seminar. This weeks speaker is Liam Maloney.

Please join us for this week's CMRC seminar with composer, educator and researcher, Kirsty Devaney

Please join us for this week's CMRC workshop with Kirsty Devaney

How do we create space for mess? Space for mucking it up instead making it? For unexpected encounters? For community building? For wild artistic leaps into the unknown with soft landings when we inevitably fall?

Creative Coding Collective - Martin Suckling (UoY)

Please join us for a School of Arts and Creative Technologies research seminar. This weeks speaker is Susan Cook.

In this seminar, composer Martin Suckling will outline the creative process for the online game, Black Fell, considering ways in which online may be a new 'venue' for music.

Creative Coding Collective - Abi Evans (UoY)

Join us for a discussion on accessible filmmaking within the context of the Enhanced Audio Description (EAD) methods.

Please join us for a School of Arts and Creative Technologies research seminar. This weeks speaker is Raphael Nowak.

Violinist/violist Marco Fusi presents an investigation of Salvatore Sciarrino's Sei capricci for violin, composed in 1975/76, examining the unique vocabulary of instrumental gestures and musical figures developed in this piece.

Come along to this panel discussion to hear about theatre design and pose your questions to a line-up of professional practitioners.

Please join us for a School of Arts and Creative Technologies research seminar. This weeks speaker is Philip Burnett.

Putting the DISC in digital creativity and coding

In PIECE OF WORK James explores how the landscapes we exist within effect the way we think and feel; how searching for something is an end in itself, regardless of whether the search is successful.

Please join us for a School of Arts and Creative Technologies research seminar. This weeks speaker is Roger Dannenberg.

Join us for a live Q&A session with James Rowland, writer and performer of Piece of Work, a brand new show straight from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival about fathers, sons, and the hope that makes life liveable.

Composer and performance artist Andy Ingamells talks about the relationships between the different elements of his work, and in particular the ways in whine his recent work develops forms of collaboration and social interaction.  

The voices of women need to be at the centre, but the responsibility and accountability lies elsewhere.She Was Walking Home is a new piece of testimonial theatre created from the real life experiences of 33 women living, working and studying in York.

Please join us for a School of ACT research seminar.

Please join us for this week's CMRC seminar with Chilean composer Carlos Zamora.

Matt will bring the lessons he has learned over the past ten years, to support students in planning their next steps and career development, both as they study and after graduation.

Please join us for a School of Arts and Creative Technologies research seminar. This weeks speaker is Richard Carter.

Gaia Blandina and Niamh Dell, two practice researchers in music in the School of Creative Arts and Technologies, discuss the role of theory in their creative work.

Join us for a work in progress sharing of a new project from Theatre Re, Moments. This is a work in development and the sharing will be followed by a Q&A with the company.

Please join us for the first School of ACT research seminar of the semester with Dr Nick Jones.

Join us for a talk and Q+A with York Theatre Royal, Artist in Resident, Mingyu Lin.

In this Contemporary Music Research Collective seminar, Eliot Bates examines the social status of musical ‘gear’: why is there such interest, today, in a bulky, expensive and difficult to use instruments like the modular synthesizer?

In his inaugural lecture, Professor Ben Poore discusses the development of his research on dramas of the past – from neo-Victorian plays, to dramas of empire, to the contemporary history play – in the context of British politics since Thatcherism.

Theatre production directed by Izzy Masiliunas

Theatre performance directed by Amid Abtahi

Wilde in Love is a stage play about the downfall of Oscar Wilde.

Keep Meg company as she experiences a sleepless night filled with memories, forgotten objects and, of course, Taylor Swift.

Federico Reuben and Kate Ledger

In the realm of music cognition, the primary focus of imagery research has been on auditory mental imagery, which refers to the quasi-perceptual experience of sound and music in the absence of related external sensory input.

Celebrating the Launch of the School of Arts and Creative Technologies

ACT Research Seminar

A collection of the top screenings of the festival & the awards hosted by industry professionals and returning alumni.

Kyle Worrall presents: Game audio in Unreal Engine, part II: Music

The Interactive Media (IM) Showcase celebrates the works of Interactive Media students. The showcase aims to bring everyone together to engage with students and their projects, build connections with academic professionals and the IM cohort.

Research suggests we fail to pay attention to what we are doing as much as 50% of the time, and that the act of music listening is no exception.

ACT Research Seminar

We are delighted to welcome playwrights Simon Stephens and Nick Payne, who will be in conversation together about all aspects of the playwriting craft.

Join us for a discussion session on considering improvisation in contemporary music practice and research

A ninety minute writing workshop with leading British playwright Simon Stephens. (TWDP students only)

Join us for this session with harpist and composer Ruth Lee in which she discusses considerations when approaching writing for the harp and workshops music by student composers.

Tom Collins presents Planning meeting for next semester's Music Coding Collective

The everyday, involuntary imagining of music is commonplace. While this is not usually problematic, there is a need to support individuals who suffer from intrusive musical imagery.

Platform presents Scratch: a work-in-progress event which celebrates creative projects being undertaken in the department and provides a platform for you to receive feedback during the development of your practical work.

ACT Research Seminar

Join us for this session in which Federico Reuben (composer) and Kate Harrison-Ledger (piano) discuss their recent collaborative project On Violence.

Three artist-scholars will engage you in learning about and joining in with Afro-beat making, AI songwriting and Therapeutic Hip Hop.

Tom Basden's play Holes is set on a desert island in the aftermath of a plane crash.

Through a surrealist lens, Weldon Rising explores themes of guilt, loss and conscience within the community.

Ben Edwards has spent the year procrastinating completing his first tax return as a self-employed online tutor. Finally mustering the courage to call HMRC for guidance, he takes a patchwork walk down memory lane...

Loveplay takes us through time, starting at the Roman era ending here, now in 2023, telling distinct stories of love, tragedy an sex.

‘Are you one of those people who saw Princess Bride and decided you wanted to fence?’

On the Horizon Festival: Thomas Eccleshare, a talk with the writer of I'm Not Here Right Now

Thomas Eccleshare’s vivid storytelling conjures up a lone woman chasing footprints through blizzards as she grapples with the insidious spectre of her father’s legacy.

James Fritz’s Ross & Rachel is a one-woman show about love, life after death, and finding yourself in an all-consuming relationship.

Thesis seminar: On deep learning for the synthesis of sound effects

This beautifully powerful tale of love and loss speaks about the everlasting effects of a tragic day and how it can leave your life crumbling to pieces.

On the Horizon Festival: Comedy Soc presents a double bill of The Shambles and Dead Ducks

Ben Edwards has spent the year procrastinating completing his first tax return as a self-employed online tutor. Finally mustering the courage to call HMRC for guidance, he takes a patchwork walk down memory lane...

On the Horizon Festival: Harri Marshall, advocating deaf and disabled creatives whilst working as a technician and director

Emergence of digitally encoded musical corpora & advanced computational tools has allowed music scientists to dissociate the roles of retrospective surprise & prospective uncertainty in the cognition, composition, & improvisation of musical melodies.

Through a surrealist lens, Weldon Rising explores themes of guilt, loss and conscience within the community.

Sam Steiner’s You Stupid Darkness is a dark comedy that tells the story of four volunteers answering the phones at a helpline in the early hours of the morning - when our thoughts are at their darkest and most overwhelming.

Have you ever wanted to go to the Fringe Festival with one of your productions, but have never known how to do so?

Have you ever felt unsafe on the bus, walking to work or on a night out? The Dancefloor Project brings people together to explore ways we can make everyone feel safe and reduce sexual harm in public spaces.

ACT Research Seminar

‘Are you one of those people who saw Princess Bride and decided you wanted to fence?’

Join Bill Kinder and Bobbie O'Steen to discuss their book 'Making the cut at Pixar'. (Available to TFTI Staff and Students only)

Tom Basden's play Holes is set on a desert island in the aftermath of a plane crash.

This beautifully powerful tale of love and loss speaks about the everlasting effects of a tragic day and how it can leave your life crumbling to pieces.

Thomas Eccleshare’s vivid storytelling conjures up a lone woman chasing footprints through blizzards as she grapples with the insidious spectre of her father’s legacy.

Join us for this session in which cellist, composer and arranger Audrey Riley discusses aspects of her work.

Join us on Tuesday 30th May for an exciting talk with Juliet Forster who is the current Creative Director at York Theatre Royal.

James Fritz’s Ross & Rachel is a one-woman show about love, life after death, and finding yourself in an all-consuming relationship.

Loveplay takes us through time, starting at the Roman era ending here, now in 2023, telling distinct stories of love, tragedy an sex.

An introduction to Silent Faces' physical, political, playful style, this workshop will tool you up to make seriously silly theatre.

Sam Steiner’s You Stupid Darkness is a dark comedy that tells the story of four volunteers answering the phones at a helpline in the early hours of the morning - when our thoughts are at their darkest and most overwhelming.

Please join us for a range of lightening talks with a number of different speakers

Adrián Barahona-Ríos and Kyle Worrall present: Previews of Game Audio Symposium talks

ACT Research Seminar

Maria A. G. Witek is Associate Professor at the Department of Music, University of Birmingham, UK.

Kyle Worrall presents: Game audio in Unreal Engine, part I: Sound Design

ACT Research Seminar

Join us for a discussion session concerning an aspect of contemporary music practice and research – topic to be announced.

Inaugural Lecture

FREE Illustrated Concert of Baroque and Improvised Music

The second year Theatre: Writing, Directing and Performance cohort present an evening of performances exploring the theme of ‘Strikes’. From Ancient Rome to France in 1968 to a modern day classroom.

The second year Theatre: Writing, Directing and Performance cohort present an evening of performances exploring the theme of ‘Strikes’. From Ancient Rome to France in 1968 to a modern day classroom.

Breaking the Mold: Embracing Neurodiversity in Musical Thinking and Cognition

Tom Collins presents: Server-side programming with Node.js in Glitch

ACT Research Seminar

All around the world, music is used to connect people, often through shared body movements.

Dar'ya Guarnera presents: Two solutions to one computer graphics problem

ACT Research Seminar

Composer Jia Chai discusses aspects of her recent work.

Music is the product of a long evolutionary process that has shaped it for the human mind and its constraints – similarly to language.

Liam Maloney presents: Max/MSP for sound installations

Soulpaint: Visualising Embodied Experience in an Immersive Environment

ACT Research Seminar

The Garden of Forking Paths project (GoFP) explores how we can compose for contingent instruments that have their own ‘material agency’.

Working through Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening framework, the workshop engages clarinettist Heather Roche and a group of participants in a range of listening activities and scenarios.

Music Cognition is an inherently interdisciplinary field and can be approached from multiple perspectives.

Dr Jenn Chubb presents: AI, what's that sound? Exploring how composers and artists sonically portray AI in documentary

Announcing our new community exhibition taking place between 18 March - 20 April at StreetLife, 29-31 Coney Street, York - a celebration of live-music venues, heritage and ephemera!

ACT Research Seminar

Have you ever stargazed? Have you ever looked up into space and wondered how you could possibly wrap your mind around the incomprehensible bigness of our universe?

Have you ever stargazed? Have you ever looked up into space and wondered how you could possibly wrap your mind around the incomprehensible bigness of our universe?

Discover the rehearsal process and techniques used to create Run, Rebel - Pilot's new stage adaptation of the acclaimed Young Adult novel by Manjeet Mann.

Discover the rehearsal process and techniques used to create Run, Rebel - Pilot's new stage adaptation of the acclaimed Young Adult novel by Manjeet Mann.

Platform presents Scratch: a work-in-progress event which celebrates creative projects being undertaken in the department and provides a platform for you to receive feedback during the development of your practical work.

ACT Research Seminar

This talk reports on an ambitious project by Mark Gotham - CANCELLED

Pianist Matthew Schellhorn discusses his work bringing new music to a wider audience, exploring themes of collaborating with composers and the commissioning process.

Postgraduate social event which is open to all PG ACT students

Asset economy in the music streaming business

Are you interested in a career in the Gaming industry? Join us for a panel event in TFTI with current industry professionals

ACT Research Seminar

Please join us for an online Masterclass with Martez Mott. Martez is currently a Senior Researcher in the Ability group at Microsoft Research.

Performance art gallery 'In Praise of Woman, Life, Freedom'. This hybrid event is part of York's International Women's Week 2023 and aims to celebrate and amplify Iranian women's voices in their fight for justice and equality.

This session will open up discussion around the pros and cons of a knowledgeable audience.

Alex Mackay will be introducing the work of a selection of record labels engaging with musical practices outside of the mainstream

Phillip Harrison will present on 'Explorations in VR'.

Composer Sarah Lianne Lewis will discuss aspects of her recent work.

Ricochet Theatre presents a double bill of monologues navigating grief: Intricate Rituals by Seth Douglas and The Same Rain That Falls on Me by Logan Jones. Two intimate contrasting monologues that balance dark humour and touching pathos.

In this session, Logan will run a workshop exploring the fundamental elements of drama, including character, action and structure.

In this 90 minute workshop, Ella McKeown shares her experience working as a theatre director. Ella is a TFTI Writing Directing Performance graduate and now Artistic Director of Ricochet Theatre, a company interested in new writing.

In this 90 minute workshop, Jay Seldon shares their experience working as a technician.

A-Frame for coding VR experiences, part II

Are you interested in a career in film or television production? Do you want to find out what roles are available once you graduate, and how to get there? Join us on Wed 8th February where we will be hosting a ‘Women in Production’ panel event.

ACT Research Seminar

This workshop is open to anyone with an interest in performance practice, no matter your experience level. We are offering this workshop both to disabled + neurodivergent communities, and to nondisabled people who wish to improve their understanding.

Discussion session led by PhD student Kate Ledger

Hannah Gibbs joins us to discuss her exploration of mixed methods ways of understanding the unconscious shared flow experience in Javanese gamelan as part of the Music Coding Collective seminars.

Accordionist Amy Thatcher joins us to present some of her work and composition methods.

Accordionist Amy Thatcher will present and speak about her practice.

Noah Henry discusses how people select music that 'fits' the situation and how this information can be used to answer complex research questions.

ACT Research Seminar

Matthew Whiteside joins us to talk about his compositions and career as a composer and concert producer.

This workshop will give you a broad overview of what steps you need to take to self-release your music to generate income and engagement.

Tom Smith joins us to discuss A-Frame for coding as part of the spring term Music Coding Collective seminars.

Maya Verlaak introduces her music and her approaches to composition and collaboration, with opportunities for questions and further discussion.

For this weeks Research Seminar, please join Erin Johnson-Williams to discuss the paper 'Sounding Colonial Incarceration: Pedagogy, Hymns, Resistance'.

On Wednesday 18th January we are extremely excited to welcome Colin Salmon to the School of Arts and Creative Technologies for a Talk and Q+A session. 

In this talk, Alex will compare two pieces from his doctorate portfolio: Ghoulish Airs, an orchestral piece written for the LSO Panufnik scheme, and Jab for solo piano, performed and recorded by Ben Smith.

Simon Van Der Borgh provides insight into scene writing for film and TV.

An overview of the current state of the UK film and television industry, top tips that students can applyimmediately to further connect to the industry and shape their careers

Forming part of Nina Kümin’s PhD at the University of York, this solo recital showcases her research looking at how to improvise baroque fantasias.

Atomic flute and p5.js visualisation: Update on a Sounds, Voices and Technology project

Julia Havas and Gábor Gergely discuss sonic constructions of Eastern European identity in Anglo-American film and television

A discussion session led by Jake Adams (PhD composer)

Written by Lope De Vega in the early 1600s, The Dog in the Manger is known as one of his funniest and most erotically liberated plays.

Love, manipulation, and hidden identities. The Labyrinth of Desire fuses fairytale and intrigue to create a world where trickery and wit can prevail over honesty and rank.

Love, manipulation, and hidden identities. The Labyrinth of Desire fuses fairytale and intrigue to create a world where trickery and wit can prevail over honesty and rank.

Coding session 5: Review of coding this term

Written by Lope De Vega in the early 1600s, The Dog in the Manger is known as one of his funniest and most erotically liberated plays.

Pete Dale puts the record straight by discussing how DJing can be used a tool to boost engagement in music education.

Music technology research and human-computer interaction domains (HCI) have seen the emergence of several tools for designing expressive gestural interactions with digital sounds.

Come along for an informal social event on Combating the Chaotic Tornado of Newness: How to deal with the challenges of studying abroad.This is open to TFTI and Music International and Home PG students and is run on a first come, first served basis.

Colin Ward explores the opportunities and challenges children's media faces as a global industry.

The IPC department will be celebrating Global Inclusion week during the week commencing the 14th November. In collaboration with the IPC department, the School of Arts & Creative Technologies will be hosting a screening of the film Samsara.

John is a Zimbabwean Music Composer, Theatre Director/Practitioner and Actor/Musician who is published by Warner Chappell Music (Warner Music Group).

This talk will consider compositional practice in relation to Timothy Morton’s ideas surrounding the hyperobject.

Krisztian Hofstadter (School of Arts and Creative Technologies) joins us to present "Developing brain-computer music interfaces for meditation."

Join us as Scott McLaughlin discusses what does a national repository need for practice research.

Join composers Alan Bullard, Kristina Arakelyan and Association Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) Partnerships Manager and composer James Welburn as they explore the world of composing to a brief with ABRSM.

Mary Stewart-David: Making Musicals in the Metaverse

Stan Royle is a professional floor manager who has had a long career in the broadcast & television industry working across many genres. Stan will talk about the career of a floor manager, the production cycle & the superpowers you need in the studio.

Details to be confirmed nearer the time.

This workshop explores DJ skills in schools and beyond, and the variation of hip hop and related music around the world.

Coding session 4: Next steps in p5.js and Tone.js.

Michellee Couttolenc is a sound engineer of the seventh art. In April 2021, thanks to the film 'Sound of Metal', she received the BAFTA, AMPS, CAS and Óscar®️ awards.

Listen to three short presentations from XR Stories and the Screen Industries Growth Network (SIGN), who are leading companies in helping the future generation get into the creative industry.

This workshop will explore theatre-making from an autobiographical devising perspective. A practical, fun couple of hours to give you some tools to get you thinking about how you might begin to make art from your own experience.

Mixing UK Garage with unpretentious class politics, award-winning performance-maker Holly Beasley-Garrigan wants to talk about the fetishisation of the feral female.

This discussion session led by PGR Music students with Professor Christopher Fox explores the question: 'What is the nature of the 'new' in 'new music'?

Coding session three: Tone.js.

Join Jenna Ng on a journey from ABBA Voyage to the Metaverse.

Graham Fitkin talks about his work, including his new piece, BLA BLA BLA, for pianos, samplers and spoken voice (York Concert Series: The Fairy Relentless Fitkins).

Session three: Interactive pop music infilling interface in Ableton with Rui Guo (University of Sussex)

Sue Miller explores improvising Sabor in the streets of New York.

John East is one of the foremost television drama directors working out of the UK today. With credits such as Killing Eve and The Last Kingdom, Jon has been at the forefront of British television drama for three decades.

Boston (USA) based composer Roustom will share his experiences of his journey exploring identity through music.

Music Coding Collective week 2: JavaScript and p5.js

Listen to Sarah Waltz discuss why it's not the 'Kretzer' Sonata.

This session will explore the 'spaces' in which contemporary music practices can or might take place. Questions might include: Where is there space 'for' contemporary practice? How does the choice of context shape or change practice?

Autumn term session one, 'Introduction to JavaScript and p5.js.'

A multidisciplinary conference on Digital Creativity, Industry and Culture.

YSTV's 'Fit For Another World: The Legacy of Anne Lister' documents the life and legacy of legendary 18th Century lesbian diarist Anne Lister, and her untold connection to York ahead of the opening of the Anne Lister College at the University of York

Emily Fairhurst, like most nineteen-year-olds, isn’t perfect. But what if this prevented you from pursuing your passions? Emily begins to attend therapy to figure out her life.

A screening of several short video essays produced by first year students for the module Cinema: History and Analysis. The best essay of the year will also be awarded by a judging panel consisting of Grace Moore, Charline Foch, and Francesca Greenlee

An isolated window cleaner comes face to face with an old flame..

When Jane’s over-controlling father unexpectedly arrives home while her boyfriend is around, she must choose between keeping her secrets, and confronting her possessive father.

When Sam’s new job delivering pizza coincides with a full moon, he learns that the town of Lycanstoke is keeping a gruesome secret... and he’s on the menu!

A young woman, Ruby, must figure out how to cope when she returns home from studying away and discovers that every trace of her existence has mysteriously vanished.

The story of Adman follows Darius, a man who has sold off the airtime of his imagination to advertisers, and Adam, his partner, as they navigate love in a world distorted by marketing, where even one’s own memories can’t be trusted.

Proudly displaying the work of Interactive Media students to the public and industry guests, the showcase includes critical and user experience design, virtual reality experiences, games and apps, humanities dissertations, and web application designs

Between the 1st -16th of June students have the chance to write and edit films including or about ducks! These films will be screened and awarded in the University of Yorks Holbeck Cinema.

Acoustic Atlas aims to inspire people to experience the world through listening. The talk will explain the project and invite people to experience it.

Accessibility to film for visually impaired audiences has been traditionally provided through ‘Audio Description’ (AD), a third person commentary which is added to a production. This talk will introduce audiences to the Enhanced Audio Description.

Please note this seminar has been CANCELLED.

A piece of testimonial theatre based on the life of women living in York.

TFTI will be proud to host Joe Walker - the Oscar-winning editor of Dune, and long-standing creative partner of Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049, Arrival) and Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, Widows, Shame).

During this talk, the audience will immerse themselves in a sonic journey to understand what ASMR is, common sound formats found in ASMR-inducing videos and ongoing research findings!

This is an informal drop in session for you to come and meet the co-programme leaders & to hear more about the course. The course is led by co-programme leaders Hannah Davies and Bridget Foreman who are both practising playwrights & theatre-makers.

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

York Creative Collision Festival 2022 provides a fusion of York’s creative community in a week-long festival showcasing a vibrant range of fringe-scale theatre, contemporary music, and budding comedic talent.

The composer and improvising-trombonist joins us to discuss his recent work.

Please note that this event has been cancelled.

A movement workshop to equip you with devising and physical theatre skills to apply to your theatre-making practice.

The only non-documentary film this year: In this sci-fi classic, a spacecraft travels to the distant planet Altair IV to discover the fate of a group of scientists sent there decades earlier.

Join us to find out more about an exciting new duet composition and pedagogy project: Òran Fìdhle / Violin Song

The second-year Theatre: Writing, Directing and Performance cohort presents three short pieces, each exploring the theme of ‘Activism’. These student devised pieces ask what it means to be an activist.

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

Discussion and workshop of a new collaborative work exploring ideas of restraint, physicality and technique around piano and toy piano performance.

Live musical theatre performance in Web-based VR is a rapidly growing field of digitally produced entertainment that sits at the convergence of immersive media.

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

A session exploring roles of composition, collaboration, AI and experimental aesthetics with musicians who identify as disabled, Deaf and/or neurodivergent.

A portrait, mostly chronological, of composer, cellist, and vocalist Arthur Russell (1951-1992). His parents, friends and colleagues such as Allen Ginsberg and Philip Glass, his long-time companion Tom Lee, and others provide commentary.

Witness is a Crime Drama, set within a Police Station. Detectives, Jean and Michael, try to piece together the events that led to a Professor’s grizzly death and embark on a journey through the investigation.

Part of our weekly Music Research seminar series

A show about depression and death… sorry about that.

Dr Tom Collins will be discussing 'Data sonification: an Introduction'.

How does one respond when their lover tells them they are leaving? Given the opportunity to take their place, what would you do differently? This is the question posed in the first ever English translation and production of the French comedy 'Laure'

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

Please join us in Black Box on March 17th and 18th, when our MA Theatre-Making will students perform collaborative projects; three new pieces of theatre that they have created and developed this term.

Docudrama that explores the life and creative output of Coventry born-Delia Derbyshire – electronic musician, sound pioneer and female outsider in postwar Britain.

Ever wanted to know what a producer does? Nicki Copley is coming to TFTI's Holbeck Cinema to give a Career and Craft Masterclass on working as a producer in television.

A session exploring iterative methodologies, composer/scientist collaborations, distributed creativity and technological hybridity.

Philip Harrison: Research and high-performance computing for Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences

This panel event brings together leading theatre industry professionals to talk about their work as artists, makers and practitioners.

Feature film screening followed by Q&A with the film’s writer/director Sam Hartshorn and Cinematographer Thomas Sandler

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

Please join this virtual masterclass with Amy Jing Li to talk about the future of UX design. This masterclass will be hosted by Jon Hook.

Join us for a double bill of engaging seminars exploring 'robot ears' and composition.

Jemily Rime: Quantum computer music

Please join Mike Todd, CEO of Near-Life, for a masterclass. The session will be hosted by Jon Hook.

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

Join us for a double bill of engaging seminars exploring Karl Popper and John Coltrane

Kyle Worrall. Technical sound design in Unreal Engine, including syncing sound to animations

Part of our weekly Music Research seminar series

Join us for this double-bill of engaging seminars

Coding session 4: JUCE for bridging audio and machine learning, part II

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

This is a new boot camp that is designed to help students learn the key entry-level skill of locating and choosing the best-quality contributors for factual TV shows.

Adrián Barahona Ríos. Machine learning for procedural audio

Read by actors and performers, This Is Who I Am is a piece of documentary theatre sharing first-hand accounts of LGBTQI+ people seeking asylum, their experiences on arrival in the UK and the particular challenges they face in undergoing the UK asylum process.Trigger Warning: Please note that the testimonies include accounts of state, sexual and homophobic violence and a suicide attempt.

This event is a presentation and workshop on verbatim theatre and ice&fire’s theatre practices. It will take place in the theatre prior to the 7pm performance of This is Who I Am by ice&fire.

**This is a careers event and will only be available to FTP/BCI UG and PG students.**Please join Richard Knight next Wednesday, 9th February 2022 from 14:30 in the Holbeck Cinema for an exclusive location filming masterclass. This session will be a detailed examination of preparing, planning and executing a location based shoot from all angles - camera, sound, locations, art, AD, Production, SFX and VFX. Richard can also incorporate planning of a major action sequence, covering multiple aspects of production, script editing, locations, art department, sound, camera, directing, costume, make-up, stunts, ADs, SFX and VFX. Feel free to ask questions on the day.

Coding session 2.5: Debugging Matlab, querying Spotify’s API

Composer Florence Anna Maunders presents a guided exploration of her recent work, which draws upon influences from the worlds of drum 'n' bass, contemporary jazz, Persian folk music and American minimalism.

Coding session 2: More JavaScript and p5.js (continuing from previous session)

We are delighted to bring Transform Festival’s Artistic Director, Amy Letman and Producer, Ali Ford to TFTI. Amy and Ali will be speaking about Transform, and sharing their experience of working as creative producers of live performance. Amy Letman was recently featured in The Stage as one of 25 theatre-makers to watch out for in 2022 and beyond! Please join us for this careers focused event and bring any queries you may have about working in the theatre production industry, as there will be time for questions. https://transformfestival.org/

In this seminar, celebrated Brazilian-Canadian pianist Luciane Cardassi will perform live for the audience and talk about the different paths music collaboration have opened in her artistic journey.

Coding session 1: Introduction to JavaScript and p5.js

In 1997, over one million people gathered in Lagos for the funeral of Fela Kuti, Africa’s biggest artist, who gave the world Afrobeat, yet was also a thorn in the side of Nigeria’s military regimes.

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

In 2010, Hans Zender commented: 'the past is not past, we can take it up again and send it in a different direction’. Can we? How? To what purpose? Join Dr Mark Hutchinson in this engaging seminar to find out.