End of Year Show - Opening Night
Friday 6pm - 9pm, 3rd June
The End of Year Show is the University's annual large-scale exhibition mounted by the graduating students from the Faculty of Art, Design and the Built Environment. As part of the examining assessment, the culmination of their three years of study, final year students present their work. It is then reconfigured and transformed into a public exhibition covering some nine acres of the Belfast campus in York Street. One graduate from the applied arts will be presented with the Craft NI Invest NI Craft in Business Award at the University's prize giving ceremony on 3 June.

Karen Nicol Workshop
Wednesday 10am - 4pm, 8th June / Ticket Price: £6 / £3
Karen's workshop will be a practical session when participants will have the opportunity to work under Karen's guidance, trying out some of the techniques that she employs across the broad her range of her own practice.

Contemporary Souvenir with Caroline Till & Peter Ting
Monday 1pm, 6th June / Ticket Price: £6 / £3
Peter Ting trained as a designer craftsman in ceramics and glass. He has been working as a creative consultant in the luxury industry for over 20 years and his talent for creating beauty and quality through design and craftsmanship, infusing the spirit of the handmade in all his designs, has brought him worldwide fame. Caroline Till has worked as a freelance designer and researcher for a diverse range of clients, including Gucci, Philips, the V&A, the Design Council, Innovation RCA and the Peabody Trust.

Peter and Caroline will each talk about their work and how it has evolved throughout their career. This will be followed by a discussion about Contemporary Souvenir, a project which they have both been working on with the University of Ulster over the past three years, developing ideas and concepts for a new breed of design-led mementoes for Northern Ireland.

Catalytic Clothing
Thursday, 7pm, 9th June / Ticket Price: £6 / £3
Panel members Helen Storey, Vyvyan Howard, Phil Waywell and Trish Belford will give a brief outline of their career background and their part in the development of Catalytic Clothing. This will be followed by a discussion on the pioneering realm of art / science initiatives.

Catalytic Clothing is a radical project that brings together the worlds of fashion and chemistry with the potential to clean the air we breathe. Employing existing technology in a new way, it looks at how clothing and textiles can be used as a catalytic surface to purify air.

View the programme in full.