As part of the Walled City Music Festival, and HoSTEM – Inclusive Creativity: Digital Practices symposium, we have scheduled a showcase (show-stopper!) public workshop to be held in Cultúrlann (thanks to Peter O’Doherty) in Derry/Londonderry, starting at 11:00 a.m. All ages, interests, skills and abilities welcome, from the very young: to the young at heart(sofstem): […]
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Hearts Of STEM Outreach workshops #4 and #5
The second week of our Inclusive Creativity/HeartsOfSTEM outreach workshops on interactive sound toys concluded with two workshops: one on Thursday May 25th, involving Denise White’s SEN group of young adults and other interested participants (Journalism student Maddie Siegmund, amongst others) in Foyle Arts Building, UU; the second, on Friday May 26th, took place in the […]
Inclusive Creativity/Hearts of STEM 2017 free workshop series closing soon
The Inclusive Creativity: Digital Practices and Hearts of STEM outreach workshop series is coming to a close, but there are still places and times to get involved! Visit our free workshops and experience simple, interactive and fun sound toys and musical instruments – for the complete beginner or the expert, from iPads to sensors, from […]
HoSTEM Outreach Workshops #3
Many thanks to Peter O’Doherty @culturlanndoire and Peter Doherty of Knockavoe School, Strabane, for inviting so many talented young adults to the third of our Inclusive Creativity: Digital Practices outreach workshops @InclusiveCreati. Lewis Smith (Ulster University) and Dr Brendan McCloskey (Ulster University) brought a range of instruments, from the conventional: . . . to […]
NonZeroSum rehearsals, for HeartsOfSTEM and Walled City Music Festival, as gig approaches
Prof Frank Lyon’s latest work NonZeroSum, for digital musicians and string quartet, is adacious, challenging and ground-breaking. Rehearsals have entered the “this is really happening” phase, as Friday 2nd June approaches. Only two rehearsals left, with the Benyounes Quartet. Here, the performers John, Sean, Jay, David and Lewis are working on a particularly tense and […]
HoSTEM Outreach Workshop #1
16th May 2017, Foyle Arts Building, Ulster University at Magee Shane Byrne (Maynooth University), Lewis Smith (Ulster University) and Dr Brendan McCloskey (Ulster University) led a small group through tools and methods for Inclusive Creativity and Digital Practices, emphasising DIY sound toys, Arduino and Web Audio API. The participants were offered a pot pourri of […]
Hearts of STEM 2017: Workshops

As part of Inclusive Creativity/Hearts of STEM 2017 and the Walled City Music Festival, we are delighted to be running FREE WORKSHOPS for the general public! These workshops are suitable anyone with an interest in arts, technology and issues of inclusion and accessibility and will be run at levels from beginners to intermediate. These workshops are […]
Inclusive Creativity: Digital Practices (Hearts of STEM 2017)
Inclusive Creativity: Digital Practices (Hearts of STEM 2017) is a public symposium/mini-conference which is being organised by Dr Brendan McCloskey, Prof. Frank Lyons and Dr Brian Bridges, at Ulster University, Magee campus on May 31st 2017. The event is being held in association with the Walled City Music Festival and is being supported by Garfield Weston. […]
ISSTA festival: sound, art, technology, experience
Just a quick note to say that we’re going to be hosting two great performance events as part of this year’s Irish Sound, Science and Technology Association festival and conference (at Ulster University, Magee, with partner venues) on Fri 9th September. The first is a creative exploration of the border (Borders Project), by our own […]
Photos from the first Hearts of STEM event

Some lo-fi as-they-happend photos (and some higher-fi photos contributed by others) can be found on our twitter stream:https://twitter.com/heartsofstem Our good friend Rowan Morrey from the Faculty of Arts at Ulster has some great photos of the event (95 in all) on the Ulster Arts Flickr account. Video documentary coming soon, courtesy of Pillarpix Media.