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PLACE Blog: Belfast: Toward a City Without Walls - Thurs 11 June, 6pm - 9pm

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Monday, 1 June 2015. Belfast: Toward a City Without Walls - Thurs 11 June, 6pm - 9pm. Colourpoint Books invite you to the launch of Belfast: Toward a City Without Walls. At The Red Barn Gallery. There will be an exhibition of photographs by Frankie Quinn and book sales and signings. Thursday 11 June 2015, 6pm - 9pm at The Red Barn Gallery, 43b Rosemary Street, Belfast. For more information or to RSVP please email jacky@colourpoint.co.uk. Or from local bookshops. Posted by Gary @ PLACE. Belfast On The Move.

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PLACE Blog: The Antrim Coast in the Age of Industry, 1750 - 1890 / Lecture Series at PRONI

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Monday, 27 April 2015. The Antrim Coast in the Age of Industry, 1750 - 1890 / Lecture Series at PRONI. All lectures will run from 1pm - 2pm in PRONI, 2 Titanic Boulevard, Belfast, BT3 9HQ. Lectures are free but advanced booking recommended. Email proni@dcalni.gov.uk or phone 028 9053 4800. Tuesday 28 April 2015. The Industrial Heritage of the Antrim Glens. The Limestone Town of Glenarm: Quarries and Quarrymen. Ballintoy Project: How to Organise a Local History Group. Posted by Gary @ PLACE. City as a Gal...

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Vacant to Vibrant - The Open Source

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The Open Source is part of PLACE. S Vacant to Vibrant campaign, started in 2013 to highlight opportunities for our town centres. Vacant to Vibrant d evelops research and delivering real projects that tackle the issue of vacancy and enable the creative reuse of urban space. PLACE has been developing and delivering high quality projects surrounding the issue of vacancy since 2010 and have activated over 80,000 ft2 of vacant space during this time. For more information on Vacant to Vibrant, click here.

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What goes on behind the scenes at the BBC NI – #OHBelfast – Bits and Bobs

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A Singaporean in the UK. What goes on behind the scenes at the BBC NI – #OHBelfast. July 20, 2015. July 21, 2015. A friend of mine is a huge fan of PLACE. And it’s thanks to her that I was alerted to Open House Belfast which occurred over the weekend. Numerous buildings all over the city opened their doors to the public and offered free guided tours, so I grabbed the chance to visit the BBC Broadcasting House. At the end of Ormeau Avenue. This studio is where BBC One’s. Next was the larger studio where B...

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Victor Sloan: Visual Artist

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The following are some of Victor Sloan's exhibitions:. Art in the Eastside. Billboard Project, Creative Exchange, various locations, Belfast, (invited artist) 2016. Vanishing Futures: Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art. Curated by Peter Richards, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, 2015. Victor Sloan: The Baron. Belfast Print Workshop Gallery, (Belfast Photo Festival artist-in-. Art of the Troubles. Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England, 2014-2015. F E McWilliams Gallery and Studio. Art a...

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Household collective | Out in the Open

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Sign up for our mailing list. Out in the Open. Out in the Open. What constitutes a piece of public art? Should it be outdoors and monumental? Permanent and made of strong, durable materials? Or is it something that can be more fluid, intimate in scale and ephemeral in execution; operating in our constantly changing urban environment in new ways, inviting us to consider our surroundings in a new light and asking difficult questions about how city spaces are developed and controlled. Out in the Open. Where...

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PLACE Blog: Virtual Uprisings: Tahrir Square, Social Media and the return of Public Space - Wed 6 May 2015, 2.30pm

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Tuesday, 28 April 2015. Virtual Uprisings: Tahrir Square, Social Media and the return of Public Space - Wed 6 May 2015, 2.30pm. The School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPACE) and Spaces of Liberation Project at Queen’s University Belfast would like to invite you to a public talk by Professor Nezar AlSayyad. 8220; Cairo: Histories of a City” (2011). 8220; The Fundamentalist City? 8220; Cinematic Urbanism” (2006). 8220; Making Cairo Medieval” (2005). 8220; Urban Informality” (2003).

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PLACE Blog: Belfast based architect Mark Hackett receives honourable mention in Helsinki Guggenheim international competition

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Monday, 27 April 2015. Belfast based architect Mark Hackett receives honourable mention in Helsinki Guggenheim international competition. A worldwide open architecture competition for the proposed Helsinki Guggenheim attracted a record number of entries (1,715) and the organisers have now revealed the six finalists and fifteen other schemes which narrowly missed out on the shortlist. Amongst those to receive an honourable mention is Belfast based architect Mark Hackett. Credit: Mark Hackett Architect.

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X MARKS THE SPOT | 48Hz

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X MARKS THE SPOT / a playful way of mapping Belfast through sound / 2012-ongoing close. At Platform Arts, Belfast. 28th-30th of March 2014. From 11am to 7pm. Event partners: PLACE Build Environment centre. Sonic Arts Research Centre. And Recomposing the City. Is an immersive imaginary soundscape of Belfast. A multi-channel sound installation that uses field recordings from ‘X Marks the Spot’ as the ground material for a drone composition. The 3-part composition progresses from a more “objective&#82...