UCD Creative Futures Academy invites you to join SPRAWL, a day of music performances, interventions & happenings in and around the Newman Building, 11am-5pm, 12th October 2022.As a new horizon shifts, our future dawns and sets in a haze of mere speculation. Amid this distortion, the merit of creativity and the importance of expression are amplified through our collective quest for meaning. SPRAWL proposes a creative setting for some of Ireland’s upcoming and established musical, visual, and performance artists in and around the Newman Building. It is an optimistic proposition and an expression of the relentless energies, and definitive perspectives of artists across multifarious fields that have in some contexts redefined, or who have broken new ground through their artistic endeavours.

SPRAWL is a new terrain, a platform for expression, and a space for us to reconsider our future, together. SPRAWL was curated by Brendan Fox and funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, through the Local Live Performance Programming scheme.

11 -11:50 am, Theatre N, The Newman Building 

Kate Butler, Lecture : This is a Story about Control: Music, Technology and Gendered Roles of Creativity

12 pm, Main Stage in front of The Newman Building

Nigel Rolfe,  Onsite Performance
1:45 – 1.30 pm, Orbiting the Main Stage area, in front of The Newman Building

Day Magee, Onsite Performance

1 – 4  pm,  Various Corridors across Campus

Chronic Arts Collective, Onsite Performance Series

3:30 – 4:30 pm, Theatre N, The Newman Building 

Léann Herlihy, Performance/Lecture : The Field
2:30 – 4pm, Orbiting the Main Stage area, in front of The Newman Building and around around campus

Acid Granny, Mobile Music Performance

12:45 – 1:45 pm, Main Stage, in front of The Newman Building

Felispeaks + UCD Spoken word Artists

2 – 2.30 pm, Main Stage, in front of The Newman Building

Abdul Malik Onilenla, Spoken Word Music Performance

2:30 – 3:30 pm,  Main Stage, in front of The Newman Building

Kate Butler DJ Set, Music performance/lecture
3 – 3:30 pm, Main Stage, in front of The Newman Building

Sly Boogie feat Kate Butler, Improvised Dance performance
4 – 4:45 pm, Main Stage, in front of The Newman Building

Katie Kim, Music performance

The Creative Futures Academy is a ground-breaking partnership between three leading creative institutions: The National College of Art and Design, University College Dublin, and the Institute of Art Design + Technology. Together we offer new skills, fresh networks and opportunities for learning throughout your life and career.

Follow us throughout the day using #sprawl #creativefuturesUCD

For more information on the day and the artists involved, see UCD College of Arts & Humanities website.