Creative Arts
The Nicholson Center is pleased to support events in the Creative Arts, by sponsoring and co-sponsoring lectures and workshops by writers, musicians, and artists involved in creative work either in Britain or with relevance to British Studies.
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Bríona Nic Dhiarmada and Jane Ohlmeyer – “From that Small Island” – screening and Q&A, 11/4, 7.30pm
On November 4, 2025, the Film Studies Center at the University of Chicago, in partnership with the Nicholson Center for British Studies and Chicago Irish Film Festival, hosted a screening of the documentary From that Small Island. The story of the Irish, produced by...
Lucy Kaye – “From Where we Stand” screening and Q&A, 4/4, 4pm
Filmmaker Lucy Kaye creates intimate portraits of diverse individuals in three northern English towns struggling with post-industrial deprivation. Amongst the people we meet in Halifax, Middlesbrough and Wakefield are an Eritrean asylum-seeker, a British former...
Ian Harnarine – “Doubles” 2/7, 7pm
“Doubles,” with Director Ian Harnarine Logan Center for the Arts Screening Room (915 E 60th Street) Friday, February 7 at 7pm Free and open to the public, food and drink to follow https://filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu/event/doubles Ian Harnarine’s debut feature...
Dunedin Consort – In Concert, 11/15, 7:30pm
Dunedin Consort Friday, November 15 // 7:30PM Mandel Hall (Reynolds Club) “The Dunedins approach the score with a scholarly angle…but it’s the heart rather than the head that informs their music making.” – BBC Music Magazine Bearing the ancient Celtic...
Doc Films: Black Britain Mini Series
In collaboration with The Nicholson Center for British Studies Doc Films presents Black Britain 5/05 - 5/19 Presented in collaboration with the Nicholson Center for British Studies, this mini-series will showcase four essential films centering Black life in...
The Guerrilla Fighter: Mrinal Sen and the Legacies of Radical Cinema, 3CT, 11/16-11/18
The Guerrilla Fighter: Mrinal Sen and the Legacies of Radical Cinema Thursday, November 16–Saturday, November 18, 2023 Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts 201 and Cobb Hall 307 On Mrinal Sen’s birth centenary, we celebrate his legacy on radical artistic practice....