Artistic Talent Celebrated during Trinity College’s Arts Festival
Posted on: 08 February 2011
The annual Trinity College Arts Festival, which was launched yesterday (February 7th), is a student-run festival that aims to foster artistic creativity amongst the College community. Now in its sixth year, the festival will feature a host of artists and performers who will visit the campus to give talks and hold workshops in applied arts, performance and crafts. The aim of the Trinity Arts Festival is to unite the many arts based societies in the College and highlight the artistic talent that exists within the university by offering both students and staff a platform where they can express their artistic talents.
Alongside exhibitions, lunchtime talks, art and architecture tours, and a series of night time events, the festival has scheduled a number of workshops in calligraphy, comic book drawing, dancing, jewellery making and juggling. There will also be large scale, collective projects such as the all-day Origami workshop, Foldplay, and the life drawing marathon. This year the Trinity Arts Festival is exploring new artistic concepts by investigating the relationship between the arts and science. A discussion panel on Art and Ethics is scheduled to take place in the Trinity Science Gallery on Wednesday evening.
Our bodies will have a central role in this year’s festival. It will be celebrated through the scheduled dance classes, dressed in one of the crafts and fashion-oriented workshops, or modelled in the thrift fashion event The Way We Wore on Thursday evening. The culinary arts will also have their place, with the screening of Trinity’s Come Dine With Me. The week will conclude with a closing ceremony in the Science Gallery on Friday night.
