Introducing UEA’s End of Year Festival

By: Communications

Running from Saturday 9 to Saturday 16 May, UEA’s inaugural End of Year Festival is a new University-wide moment to celebrate creativity at work across our community.

Bringing together student work, performances and public events from across Faculties and disciplines, the Festival opens up the breadth of ideas, innovation and curiosity that shape how we teach, research and engage with the world.

The Festival features a week-long programme of performances, talks and live events – from public lectures and conversations with leading figures, to new writing, improv theatre and music performances across our campus spaces.

Most events are free and open to all, encouraging students, staff and the wider community to drop in and take part. Just look at the programme below for event details.

Prof Catherine Richardson, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, said: “Creativity runs through everything we do at UEA. It shapes not only the arts and humanities, but scientific discovery, health practice, social research, and how we work together as a community. Our End of Year Festival is an opportunity to take pride in the culture we create together – one that values imagination alongside analysis, innovation, and curiosity.”

Throughout the week, a Festival Trail will run across campus, turning our shared spaces into places to encounter new ideas, from exhibitions of publishing and translation work from the School of Literature, Drama and Creating Writing, exhibitions and demo screenings from the Faculty of Science, and showcases and screenings from the School of Media, Language and Communication.

The Festival Trail will be on display from Monday 11 to Friday 15 May in the following locations: the Council House (Foyer, CR1, Council Chamber), Arts and Humanities Building (Foyer), Lecture Theatre Building (Foyer), Union House, Music and Media Building, Thomas Paine Study Centre (Foyer), NEW SCI (Foyer).

End of Year Festival programme

Saturday 9 May

Menagerie Theatre Company, ALBATROSS by Martha Loader – Award-winning UEA graduate Martha Loader is one of the finest young playwrights working in Britain today. Albatross asks us what we’re willing to sacrifice for a better future, in an explosive, tender, often hilarious play that reveals the human heart to be more vulnerable than we hope but stronger than we believe. UEA Drama Studio, 7.30pm. Please note, this is a ticketed event. Find event details and how to book on our web page.

Monday 11 May

New Writing Live – UEA Creative Writers present new work to a student audience. 6 – 8.30pm, Dorothy's Bar (Union House). Open to all, no need to book.

Tuesday 12 May

UEA Music performance - Flute Fiddle and Box – The Square. 5pm – 6pm. Open to all, no need to book.

Clive Myrie In Conversation – Join Clive Myrie, the face of BBC 1’s News at Ten, as he discusses his career from trainee reporter to one of the most seasoned foreign correspondents and current host of Mastermind. The event will be opened by a screening of journalism student documentaries. Lecture Theatre 1 (Lecture Theatre Building), 6.30pm. Find event details and how to book on our web page. Please note this event is now sold out.

UEA Music performance – Cello Ensemble – Council House (Foyer). 6.30pm – 7pm. Open to all, no need to book.

UEA Improv presents: The Egg Benedicts + The Living Room – Council Chamber (Council House), 7pm – 8pm. Open to all, no need to book.

Wednesday 13 May

Politics on Wednesday: Rhetoric – SCI 3.05. 12pm.

UEA Music performance - UEA Baroque Ensemble – The Music Centre Amphitheatre (The Street), 1pm – 1.45pm. Open to all, no need to book.

W G Sebald Campus Walk – Assemble at the Sainsbury Centre Gallery reception at 2pm for a campus walk commemorating the life of W G Sebald presented by the British Centre for Literary Translation. The Sainsbury Centre, 2pm – 4pm. Open to all, no need to book.

British Academy Lecture: Sustainability, Interdisciplinarity and the Policy-environment Nexus, with Prof Nick Pidgeon – Join Prof Nick Pidgeon for a lecture exploring how effective environmental policy needs innovation and transdisciplinary thinking – with strong collaboration between science and civil society using real world dilemmas drawn from energy systems, climate change, industrial decarbonisation, and agriculture – offering insight into how integrated thinking can help shape a more sustainable future. The Enterprise Centre, 6.30pm – 7.30pm. Tickets are free but booking is essential. Find event details and how to book on our web page.

UEA Improv presents: The Egg Benedicts + Comedy Friends – Council Chamber (Council House), 7pm – 8pm. Open to all, no need to book.

Thursday 14 May

UEA Music performance – Wind Quartet – The Square (near to Multifaith Centre), 10am –10.45am. Open to all, no need to book.

UEA Music performance – UEA Community Choir – The Music Centre Amphitheatre (The Street), 12:30pm – 1.15pm. Open to all, no need to book.

New Writing Showcase – A selection of some highlights from recent Creative Writing reading events. Council Chamber (Council House), 4pm – 4.30pm. Open to all, no need to book.

Declamations! – Screening of student-written performance.CR1 – Max Sebald Room (Council House), 4.30pm – 5pm. Open to all, no need to book.

Snoo Wilson Prize + Janice Okoh – Lecture Theatre 4 (Lecture Theatre Building), 6pm – 8pm. Open to all, no need to book.

UEA Music performance – Big Band – Union House (on the Hive balcony), 5pm – 6pm. Open to all, no need to book.

Friday 15 May

UEA Improv presents: The Egg Benedicts + Non Sequitur – Council Chamber (Council House), 7pm – 8pm. Open to all, no need to book.

Saturday 16 May

Big Free Music Concert – A line-up of musicians from across UEA and the wider community, providing a day of free music alongside foodstalls, vendors and sunshine. More information is available on the UEASU website. The Square, 12pm – 8pm . Open to all, no need to book.

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