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‘We are European’ Photography Competition

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As part of the celebrations for the EU’s official Europe Day in May, the Dean for Internationalisation, Dr Anthony Manning, the Dean for Europe, Professor Roger Vickerman, and the Master of Keynes College, Chloé Gallien, are pleased to launch the ‘We are European’ photography competition.

As the UK’s European university, we are proud of the wide range of activities that the University community is engaged with and the strength of European feeling among colleagues and students from across the globe. The competition is open to University students and staff and participants are encouraged to submit photos that capture the essence of this.

A panel of judges will choose the best entries and these will be exhibited in Keynes College during May and June. There will also be a cash prize for the top three entries (1st – £100; 2nd – £50; 3rd – £25).

Full competition rules can be found here.

Photos should be submitted by the end of the day on Tuesday 18 April to the competition Flickr page. Click for instructions.

Canterbury Shakespeare Festival 2017 Acting Auditions

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CSF is proud to be hosting auditions for its third year of Shakespeare productions. Come along to the University of Kent to get involved. You will not need to prepare anything, just bring comfortable clothes and water.

Auditions will be held in hourly slots. There will be four slots on Friday 7th April, starting at 18.00, 19.00, 20.00 and 21.00 hrs. They will continue through Saturday from 12.00 – 16.00 hrs, with recalls being held both on the Saturday and the Sunday (12.00 – 16.00hrs). You will be contacted separately via email if you are required for any recalls.

Unfortunately, you must be 18 or over to audition for the festival.

The shows will run between Friday 4th August and Sunday 20th August (inclusive), beginning with the first full-scale production on the Friday.

Here is a list of the productions:
‘Julius Caesar’, directed by Elliot Huxtable – full-scale production
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, directed by Stephanie Randlesome and Luke Anthony – full-scale production
‘Othello’, directed by Tom Houlton – full-scale production
‘Cymbeline’, directed by Elizabeth Mae Hagen – full-scale production
‘Shakespeare’s Thatcher’, written & directed by Ciaran Barata-Hynes – experimental production (NO AUDITION)
‘Claudius’, adapted & directed by Ollie Graveson & Aimee Vient – experimental production

Audition Locations:
Friday 7th April 18.00-22.00 – Cornwallis Building; Seminar Rooms 5-9.
Saturday 8th April 12.00-16.00 – Eliot College Cloister Rooms, located at the bottom of Eliot College surrounding the courtyard space.
Sunday 9th April 12.00-16.00 – Eliot College Cloister Rooms, located at the bottom of Eliot College surrounding the courtyard space.

There will be memebers of the CSF team around to show you where you to go. There will also be signs up to help you locate us.

We look forward to seeing you at this year’s auditions. It promises to be our best year yet!

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THEATRE RE: FROM ACTOR TO MIME WORKSHOP

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LED BY GUILLAUME PIGÉ
Mon 19 June – Fri 23 June, 10am – 5pm every day, Large Committee Room, £200

BOOK

In this five-day workshop, designed for professional and semi-professional performers, participants will immerse in Theatre Re’s vital approach to Corporeal Mime and explore the ability to change and transform.

The mime gives physical reality to ideas and emotions. He makes the invisible visible. From body articulation to counterweights, from dynamo rhythm to mobile statuary, participants will discover how to play their body like a violin, how to create movement in stillness and how to be ready for action.

This workshop will be valuable for actors and performers wishing to enhance their physical presence on stage, but also to anyone involved in the devised theatre where the actor is at the centre of the creation process.

Suitable for ages 18+

Running time: 7hrs each day

Guillaume Pigé is an actor, director, mime and magician. He formed Theatre Re in 2009 and is an Associate Teacher at R.A.D.A. He is regularly invited to give workshops in the UK and internationally. Apart from directing and performing in all Theatre Re’s productions to date, Guillaume worked as a Movement Director with Andrew Visnevski, Sue Dunderdale and Bill Gaskill.

European Cabaret

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Laughs. Line dancers. Lil’ bit of nudity. All in a night’s cabaret show! Let our Popular Performance students take you on a journey of performative discovery from the very beginning, through the terrible times of war, and landing in the unravelled depths of the 80s comedy scene. Have your ribs tickled and your politics questioned, have your minds boggled and your funny bones engaged. Let your hair down, and join them in the Aphra Theatre on Tuesday 4th April for a medley of madness. Doors open 7pm, kicking off at 7.30. A variety performance you’ll never forget!

If you would like to book tickets please do so via Eventbrite or simply just turn up on the day!

‘Talk’ by Mark Wilson Information Session

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The Canterbury Players are holding an information evening for their summer production (‘Talk’ by Mark Wilson) next week and all are welcome to come along!

About the play:

“Hell must be a heart filled with unheard stories…”

Bethlem Royal Hospital, the Criminal Wing for the Insane. 1854. Two Doctors, Charles Hood and George Haydon, are angered by the cruel, inhumane treatment of patients. They struggle to reform old fashioned attitudes with more a progressive outlook. Care rather than restraint. Talking rather than punishment. Their relationship becomes increasingly strained as Haydon adopts a more radical approach, now known as psychotherapy.

Two patients, Richard and Emily, are caught in the middle as they attempt to demonstrate their innovative theories and battle with the repressive authorities. Emily, a bright and brilliant poet has been wrongly incarcerated by her domineering husband. Richard, a talented artist suffers from psychosis and wrestles with a history that haunts him. Both have been banished from the world.

We watch their struggle to find a voice amidst the roar and clamour of madness, both from outside and within. Will Talking ease their troubled minds or crack them completely?

In a time blighted by NHS cuts to mental health care, Talk is at once a scathing rebuke of treatment of the mentally ill in the past, and a moving and thought-provoking story about how we inter-relate and connect with one another in the present.

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Auditions will be in April and the performances will be 27 – 29 July in the Marlowe Studio.

More info on the Facebook event

Brexit the Stage: What Next for British Theatre and Europe?

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Saturday 22 April, 10.30 – 17.15

The Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, V&A Museum

On 23 June 2016 the UK voted to leave the EU. This symposium will explore what Brexit means for the theatre industry at home and abroad.  Bringing together performance practitioners, academics and policy makers who work in and between British and European stages, this day will celebrate our shared history, consider the opportunities and responsibilities of theatre in a post-Brexit society, and ask how we can continue to foster international relationships. As the UK enters unchartered territory, this event aims to contribute creatively and productively to conversations about the relationship between Britain and Europe, theatre and society.

£25, £20 concessions, £15 students

In collaboration with The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London and European Theatre Research Network, University of Kent

Full Programme and Tickets

Image: Copyright Graham Brandon, V&A Museum, London

2Comics and Anarchism

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The Centre for American Studies invites you to a research seminar on Wednesday 22nd March from 4-6pm in Eliot Lecture Theatre 2 (ELT2).

All postgraduate students and staff are welcome at this event – for further information, please contact Jacqueline Basquil j.m.basquil@kent.ac.uk

Wednesday 22 March, 4-6pm in Eliot Lecture Theatre

2Comics and Anarchism

Dr Frederik Byrn Køhlert, Lecturer in American Studies, UEA

Originally from Denmark, Dr Frederik Byrn Køhlert, holds graduate degrees from Denmark, the United States, and Canada, and has been awarded major research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Quebec Research Council.

Frederik’s research concerns issues of representation in literary and visual culture, with a special emphasis on comics and graphic novels. He is the author of several articles about trauma, gender, and representation in autobiographical comics, as well as a monograph on literary representations of Chicago entitled The Chicago Literary Experience: Writing the City, 1893-1953.

His most recent research focuses on political comics and cartoons, and he is currently working on projects concerning the intersection of comics and anarchism and the international reception of Charlie Hebdo in the wake of the shootings at the newspaper’s editorial office.

Frederik’s book Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics is forthcoming from Rutgers University Press.

Image: original drawing by ‘The Alacell’ Wikimedia Commons

Creative Writing Reading Series at Paris

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Wednesday 22 March 2017

6.30pm at Reid Hall, in the University of Kent in the Kent Paris Seminar Room

4 rue de Chevreuse, Montparnasse, Paris 75006

All welcome.

Lee Ann Brown

“To paraphrase Lee Ann’s version of her own poetic genealogy: enthusiasm is the mother (‘We are the daughters of enthusiasm’), excitement the sister (‘Where are my excitement sisters’). Sappho, Emily Dickinson, and Gertrude Stein are among the many innovative godmothers who grace her work with their influential kisses. As a woman writer myself, I am grateful to Lee Ann for the way she unabashedly connects gender to knowledge. In her poems, knowing is knowing as a woman. Knowledge is pleasure. The life of the mind is refreshingly erotic. What was once deemed too trivial here shines.”               – Elaine Equi

Lee Ann Brown was born in Japan and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is the author of several works, including Other Archer, which also appears in French translation by Stéphane Bouquet as Autre Archère, In the Laurels, Caught, which won the 2012 Fence Modern Poets Series Award, and Polyverse, which won the 1996 New American Poetry Competition, selected by Charles Bernstein. In 1989, she founded Tender Buttons Press, which is dedicated to publishing experimental women’s poetry. She currently divides her time between New York City, where she teaches at St. John’s University, and Marshall, North Carolina.

Other dates for your diary:

21 March:                            Crocolitho Lithography exhibition preview/vernissage, 18h30, Reid Hall

22 March – 2 April:            Crocolitho Exhibition at Reid Hall, by appointment

30 March:                            Abdulrazak Gurnah Politics of Translation: Translating Cultures series, 7pm, Grande Salle, Reid Hall

Get Out There Film Festival

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GOTFF is a film festival created by students in collaboration with the Film Society for all filmmakers studying at the University of Kent. GOTFF wants to give the possibility to as many students as possible to screen their projects (even unfinished) to a critical audience of fellow student filmmakers, critics and cinephiles to discuss how they could improve their work and GET OUT THERE with confidence in the future.

More information.

Film Screening: The Race Against Tuberculosis

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RESULTS UKC, a Kent Union Community Action Group, are hosting a short screening event on World TB Day, March 24th.

They will be raising awareness of the ever-growing threat of multi-drug resistant TB (tuberculosis) which, along with standard TB, is the world’s largest infectious killer.

They will be showing two short documentaries from the Exposed series and will have a short talk at the end.

The event will be at Darwin lecture Theatre 2 at 6-7pm on March 24th.

More information.