"KNEECAP" is the first Irish-language film to debut at Sundance and is also Ireland’s submission to the Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film.
Rita Duffy was born in Belfast and graduated with an honorary BA and MA in Fine Art from the University of Ulster in 1985. One of Ireland's groundbreaking visual artists, she has produced acclaimed public art projects, including her early project Thaw, inspired by the Belfast ship Titanic. This post-conflict project explored Belfast’s relationship with the iceberg and aimed to connect local experiences of colonialism and sectarianism with a universal climate crisis. In 2011, she was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship to work at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster. She was recognised for her contribution to visual arts in Ireland in 2018 and elected to Aosdana, Ireland’s elected “people of the arts.” She was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Architects and was an associate at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she looked at the role of art in post-conflict societies. In 2024, she was appointed the Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Irish South Africa Research Chair at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.
Her recent projects include The Shirt Factory Project, The Souvenir Shop, Soften the Border, and The Raft. She has held residencies at the Long Room Hub at Trinity College in Dublin and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Duffy’s work is held in museum and private collections worldwide and her public art projects continue to grow in scale and ambition, exploring issues of female identity, history and politics, and borders.
Produced by Boston College Lowell Humanities Series, cosponsored by Irish Studies at Boston College and the Art, Art History, and Film Department.
Cambridge Forum is kicking off a new series AI: Servant or Master with Professor Gary Marcus, one of the most trusted voices in artificial intelligence who is well-known for his knowledge about the challenges and risks of AI. In his latest book, Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure that AI Works for Us, Marcus explains how Big Tech is taking advantage of us, how AI could make things much worse, and most importantly, what we can do to safeguard our democracy, our society and our future.
Marcus explains the potential and potential risks of AI in the clearest possible terms and how Big Tech has effectively captured policymakers. He lays out how they have played both the public and the government and why they need to be reined in. Marcus offers eight suggestions for what a coherent AI policy should cover from data rights to layered AI oversight to meaningful tax reform.
In addition to being a scientist and best-selling author, Marcus was founder and CEO of Geometric.AI, a machine-learning company acquired by Uber. A Professor Emeritus at NYU, he is the author of five previous books, including Kluge (one ofThe Economist's best-sellers on the brain and consciousness), and co-author of Rebooting AI one of Forbes's seven must-read books on AI.
The GBH BPL studio will host Outspoken Saturdays, a spoken word poetry event for emerging artists. Every first Saturday of the month, the series will be created in collaboration with spoken word artist
Amanda Shea. For October 2024, we will also have a panel of guests for Latin American Heritage Month. Join us!
Experience a live performance by one of the world's most distinguished chamber music ensembles, on demand. The Boston Symphony Chamber Players, the BSO's first-chair string and wind players, visited GBH Fraser Performance Studio on May 16 to perform for a limited in-person audience. In celebration of Serge Koussevitzky's 150th birthday, the concert salutes the former BSO Music Director's profound impact on the music of his time.
Brian McCreath, producer and host of CRB Classical 99.5's Boston Symphony Orchestra broadcasts from Symphony Hall and Tanglewood, hosted the event.
Boston Symphony Chamber Players Program Serge KOUSSEVITZKY Second movement (Andante) from Double Bass Concerto, and Valse miniature, for double bass and piano Walter PISTON Quintet for flute and strings Olivier MESSIAEN Abîme des oiseaux from Quartet for the End of Time, for solo clarinet Jean FRANÇAIX Dixtuor, for winds and strings
Featured Musicians Alexander Velinzon, violin Lucia Lin, violin Cathy Basrak, viola Blaise Dejardin, cello Edwin Barker, bass Elizabeth Rowe, flute John Ferrillo, oboe Bill Hudgins, clarinet Richard Ranti, bassoon Richard Sebring, horn Randall Hodgkinson, piano
“You & Julia” is a series that celebrates the legacy of Julia Child. Top chefs share their favorite stories, recipes, kitchen hacks, and other culinary tasks that they learned from the unforgettable chef, exploring how her contributions to the culinary world still resonate with cooking today. In the spirit of Julia, we encourage viewers to “be fearless, and above all have fun” by following along at home.
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