College for a Day!
BA Contemporary Visual Culture

Thursday, 1 June 2017
9.30 am-12.30pm

Room RD006, Rathdown House
Dublin Institute of Technology, Grangegorman, Dublin 7

An Information Morning hosted by Dublin School of Creative Arts:

09.30:            Welcome - Meet the key staff teaching on the programme
                       Overview of BA Programme by Niamh Ann Kelly      
10.00:            Lecture by Mary Ann Bolger, “Re-thinking Newgrange”
10.40:            Tea & Coffee Break
11.00:            Tour of Library DIT Grangegorman campus
11.20:            Lecture by Connell Vaughan, “What Happens When Statues Talk Back? Adventures in Graffiti, Public Art and Visual Culture”
12.00:           Meet past and current students on Contemporary Visual Culture
12.30             Finish

This event is for anyone interested in knowing more about the BA Contemporary Visual Culture, taught at the Dublin School of Creative Arts, DIT.

All welcome and if interested in coming along, please email: niamhann.kelly@dit.ie  
  

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