Arts and Events January 2014

Artist-Profile-Penguin-CafeTurner Sims – Thursday 13 February

Penguin Cafe visit Turner Sims for the first time to present music from their forthcoming release The Red Book.

 

 

anne2-2-150x150Nuffield Theatre – 25 February – 1 March

This summer is the 70th anniversary of the Frank family’s betrayal and arrest, along with the others who shared their cramped attic space for two years. University staff and students in partnership with students from three of the city’s six form colleges will be performing a thoughtful and sensitive production of the1997 adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, by Wendy Kesselman.

 

John Hansard - Yinka Shonibare Nelson's Ship in a BottleJohn Hansard Gallery – 8 February – 4 May

Ship to Shore: Art and the Lure of the Sea is a new exhibition across two venues that explores how contemporary artists have engaged with seas and oceans. The exhibition is an intriguing visual feast of paintings, films, photography and prints alongside archival objects, evoking vast ocean expanses, the romance of sea travel and ship-to-shore communications.

 

zaytoun-150x150Phoenix films showing ‘Zaytoun’- Wednesday 12 February

University staff can come and view all Phoenix films on campus which are a bargain compared to normal cinema prices. Come and watch Zaytoun set in Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot form a tentative bond in their attempt to make their way across war-torn Lebanon back to their home.