Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb at the Festival of Science, April 11–16, 2011

The Festival of Science has been organized for the ninth year in a row in order to popularize science among pupils, students and other citizens. This year's Festival was held in eight Croatian cities – Mali Lošinj, Omiš, Osijek, Rijeka, Sinj, Split, Rab and Zagreb from April 11 to 16, 2011. Visitors were offered numerous events, such as interesting and educational lectures, workshops, exhibitions, movie projections, presentations, contests, etc

Eat Cambridge (2014) Economic/Social Impact and Innovation Report

Incorporating the views across 29 food and drink traders, this study attempts to look at the local economic and social impacts of the Eat Cambridge 2014 festival, and explore the ways local traders marketed and innovated in light of, and during, the festival. The study: disseminated via an online survey asked 15 questions, hosts a mix of open (qualitative) and closed (quantitative) questions, and are thus split in to two key areas of this report: - Responses to closed questions (3.0) - Responses to open questions (4.0) Findings from the closed questions identified that there was strong agreement that the festival provided opportunities to (1) expand the customer bases; (2) built business to business (B2B) relationships; (3) provided a platform to market their business; (4) helped consider new marketing techniques, and (5) consider, in future, hosting fringe events to stimulate footfall. Although throughout the closed questions a high number of traders reported an economic boost to their businesses, the open question responses revealed, that for most traders, being part of the festival meant much more than a short-term economic boost. The report highlighted the added complexities, and positive outcomes of being part of such a large networked communicative festival. Indeed being part helped to ‘stimulate new business’; ‘enhance business profile’; reach ‘wider audiences’ and ‘expand’ customer base both locally and regionally to capture new and existing foody audiences. However, the study reported stories of e.g. (1) specific B2B collaborations and formation of networks; (2) festival as a platform to test and launch new products; (3) identifying new ways to engage with customers; (4) promoted a shift in customer buying behavior from ‘chain’ to ‘local trader’ and promote more generally the local food and drink scene in and around Cambridge. Interestingly, there is a strong dominant role for Twitter and social networks within this report and the festival as a whole, and the role in which ‘@EatCambridge’ as festival organisers could-should play in helping to promote local traders in light of and during festival time on Twitter

Making global connections through dance film

Dance film communicates on a most basic level, eliminating barriers of language and geography. Through this accessible art form, one is able to experience a variety of global perspectives that tend to crystalize aspects of the universal human experience, promoting our sense of belonging to a global family

Involving citizens in priority setting for public health research: Implementation in infection research

Background Public sources fund the majority of UK infection research, but citizens currently have no formal role in resource allocation. To explore the feasibility and willingness of citizens to engage in strategic decision making, we developed and tested a practical tool to capture public priorities for research. Method A scenario including six infection themes for funding was developed to assess citizen priorities for research funding. This was tested over two days at a university public festival. Votes were cast anonymously along with rationale for selection. The scenario was then implemented during a three-hour focus group exploring views on engagement in strategic decisions and in-depth evaluation of the tool. Results 188/491(38%) prioritized funding research into drug-resistant infections followed by emerging infections(18%). Results were similar between both days. Focus groups contained a total of 20 citizens with an equal gender split, range of ethnicities and ages ranging from 18 to >70 years. The tool was perceived as clear with participants able to make informed comparisons. Rationale for funding choices provided by voters and focus group participants are grouped into three major themes: (i) Information processing; (ii) Knowledge of the problem; (iii) Responsibility; and a unique theme within the focus groups (iv) The potential role of citizens in decision making. Divergent perceptions of relevance and confidence of “non-experts” as decision makers were expressed. Conclusion Voting scenarios can be used to collect, en-masse, citizens' choices and rationale for research priorities. Ensuring adequate levels of citizen information and confidence is important to allow deployment in other formats

Spartan Daily, February 20, 2018

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L'Octuor De Violoncelles, Tuesday, March 30, 1999

This is the concert program of the L'Octuor De Violoncelles performance on Tuesday, March 30, 1999 at 6:00 p.m., at the Boston University Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Totem by Georges Aperghis, Sonate a Huit by Betsy Jolas, Loop by Pascal Dusapin, Messagesquisse by Pierre Boulez, Korot by Luciano Berio, and Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5 by Heitor Villa-Lobos. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Working with graphic design students to promote `Land of Lost Content¿ at Leeds Met.

yesAs Leeds Metropolitan is a university of festivals and partnerships, the library was given the opportunity this year to host a festival to promote the library and all its services to the university. The library festival was a week of events and activities to promote the library and its space in new ways. It was a good way to remind staff and students of the value of libraries, not only as places to learn but also as places to enhance our leisure and working lives ... we chose to promote the database `Land of Lost Content¿. This was because graphic design and art students are based at our campus and we also thought this database would attract a wide range of students who might otherwise think that electronic databases contain little of interest for them. Our promotion has been so successful in many ways that we would like to share our experience with other librarians

Looking Back at the Audience: The RSC & The Wooster Group’s Troilus and Cressida (2012)

The controversy around the RSC & The Wooster Group’s Troilus and Cressida (Stratford-upon-Avon 2012) among the spectators and critics in Britain revealed significant differences between the UK and the US patterns of staging, spectating, and reviewing Shakespeare. The production has also exposed the gap between mainstream and avant-garde performance practices in terms of artists’ assumptions and audiences’ expectations. Reviews and blog entries written by scholars, critics, practitioners, and anonymous theatre goers were particularly disapproving of The Wooster Group’s experimentation with language, non-psychological acting, the appropriation of Native American customs, and the overall approach to the play and the very process of stage production. These points of criticism have suggested a clear perception of a successful Shakespeare production in the mainstream British theatre: a staging that approaches the text as an autonomous universe guided by realistic rules, psychological principles, and immediate political concerns. If we assume, however, that Troilus and Cressida as a play relies on the dramaturgy of cultural differences and that it consciously reflects on the notion of spectatorship, the production’s transgression of mainstream patterns of staging and spectating brings it surprisingly close to the Shakespearean source

Spartan Daily, March 7, 1967

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A Day in Her Boots

Spend a day with groundskeeper extraordinaire Carol Gallagher to learn some of the secrets behind what makes the Linfield campus so beautiful