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The American Dream: pop to the present at the British Museum

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A new exhibition opens at the British Museum on 9th March on The American Dream: pop to the present.

A full programme of events is scheduled with our own Art History academic, Prof. Martin Hammer giving the lecture ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane: Artistic Exchange between Britain and America in the 1960s.’

Get offers on tickets today:

  • Groups offer – If you would like to bring a group of 10 or more people, tickets are priced at £13 per person and the group organiser goes free. Book by phone on 020 7323 8181.
  • Group lecture packages – Available on selected days, for a minimum of 20 adults, these include coffee and biscuits, a curator’s lecture and timed exhibition entry. £27 per person. Information and booking: 020 7323 8849 or hwilliams@britishmuseum.org
  • Student ticket offer – Student and 16–18 years, £13. Plus 2-for-1 tickets on weekdays after 14.30 (phone booking and walk-up only).

Image: Jasper Johns (b. 1930), Flags I. Screenprint, 1973. Collection of Johanna and Leslie Garfield. © Jasper Johns/VAGA, New York/DACS, London 2016. © Tom Powel Imaging.

Humanities for Hire

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The School of Arts is committed to preparing students for the world of work, and our Arts degrees open up a broad and diverse range of career paths. We have teamed up with Schools across the Faculty of Humanities to create ‘Humanities for Hire’: a series of events to offer you advice, support, and to spark ideas about where your future might lead you.

Together with the award-winning Careers and Employability Service and Kent Union, academic Schools from across the Faculty are offering a host of events.  Do you want to develop your key employability skills, like how to present your CV, manage your time, or find work?  Are you thinking about future training and study? Do you want to gain an insight into your potential future career? #HumsforHire aims to help you do all this and more

We have events running across the Canterbury campus between 6-17th March, including the University’s Postgraduate Study Open Evening (Tues 7th March) and the Jobshop annual recruitment fair (Tues 14th March).  Head to https://careers.kent.ac.uk/ to book your place at each event, and join the conversation on Twitter using #humsforhire

‘The Big Questions’ Work Experience Opportunity

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The Big Questions

Broadcasting from CANTERBURY

Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th March 2017

WORK EXPERIENCE OPPORTUNITY

The Big Questions will be in Canterbury on Saturday the 11th and Sunday the 12th of March and we would like to invite you to gain valuable work experience with us.

The Big Questions is the BBC’s flagship live religious, ethical and moral debate programme. It is hosted by the experienced television and radio presenter Nicky Campbell, and airs live on Sunday mornings from 10am-11am and from locations all around the country. The show addresses tricky moral questions facing the nation today, consulting front row experts and a select studio audience. Beliefs, informed opinions and personal stories are all aired during three lively debates.

If you’d like to apply for the chance to do work experience on this show, please send your CV to audiencetbq@mentorn.tv

Find the Right Words with Dean Atta

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At 6pm on Wednesday 15th March, Dean Atta will perform poems alongside students from the workshop in Jarman 1.

Wine in the foyer from 5.45pm. The performance will be followed by a short Q&A. All welcome – the performance is free

Dean Atta is a poet from London, UK.  His debut collection was shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. He was named as one of the most influential LGBT people in the UK by the Independent on Sunday Pink List and featured in Out News Global Pride Power List. He has performed across the UK and internationally at the Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (Italy), CrossKultur (Germany), Ordspark (Sweden), PuSh Festival (Canada) and Word N Sound (South Africa). He is a member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen and Point Blank Poets and Writer in Residence 2017 with Creative Future. He has been commissioned to write poems for BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, Dazed & Confused, Keats House Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain and Tate Modern. He is currently working on his second collection The Black Flamingo.

FREE Writing and Performance workshop for Drama Students – Wednesday 15th March 2pm-5pm (followed by performance at 6pm)

In the afternoon performance poet and playwright Dean Atta will lead a workshop where he will conduct students through an afternoon of his favourite writing and performance exercises, building towards you having your own poem ready to perform. This workshop is suitable for all levels of experience and is open to Drama students and staff Participants from the afternoon will be invited to perform in the evening alongside Dean Atta. If you would like to take part in the workshop please book your place here.

This workshop, available to Drama students and staff, has been made possible by the 2016 Barbara Morris Learning Support Prize, won by a team from the School of Arts.

Editors and Sound Recordist Needed

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A postgraduate Film with Practice student is looking for editors that would like to be involved in a short film project that will be filmed Late Apr/ Early May and potentially submitted to festivals.

The film is a drama that deals with the inner thoughts and trickery of its central protagonist as he tries to conquer his mental health. It is around 10-15 minutes and you will be working with content that is filmed in Paris and England. 

There is also potentially an opening for a sound recordist (for boom work only) which will be required to be on-set for filming.

For further details about these enquiries, please contact gk245@kent.ac.uk 

A CAREER IN FILM with Caroline Hewitt

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Date: Thursday 16th March

Time: 6.30pm

Title: A CAREER IN FILM

Caroline Hewitt will discuss her career in film and the changing face of independent film-making from the early ’80’s to the current time.

Wine in the foyer from 6pm. The talk will be followed by a Q&A.

Caroline Hewitt is an eminent Film Producer known for her work on, among many others, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Mr Bean’s Holiday and Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. She has just co-produced The Mercy (directed by James Marsh featuring Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz) and Mary Magdalene (directed by Garth Davis featuring Joaquin Pheonix and Rooney Mara), both due to be released this year. Film students are strongly encouraged to attend, but any student with an interest in working in film production is welcome to attend. This talk is likely to be popular and places are limited; booking is strongly advised to avoid disappointment. To book visit Target Connect; https://careers.kent.ac.uk/home.html

JOIN RECOVERING FIRST WORLD WAR THEATRE

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An invitation to join Recovering First World War Theatre…
A nationwide community project researching war plays written and performed during the Great War.
 
Are you interested in the First World War?
Do you like learning about theatrical and cultural history?
Would you like to research long-lost plays?
Are you looking to develop new skills?
If so, then here is a chance to be part of an exciting research project run by Dr Helen Brooks, Gateways co-investigator and theatre historian.
Dr Brooks is looking for members of the public who would like to research theatre during the First World War. You can be based anywhere across the country, or indeed the world, as much of the work will be undertaken using online resources.
 
The project will examine long-lost war plays written between 1914 and 1918 using libraries, archives and online databases.
The results will be published in a public database and shared at a project festival.
 
The work will take place between March and November 2017 and you can work from home, at local libraries and archives or at the British Library.
 
Attendance at one of the training days in March or April is recommended (expenses covered by the project) but an online version will also be available for those who cannot attend in person.
‣ Anyone can apply
‣ No prior experience needed
‣ Travel expenses reimbursed for research
‣ Access to computer required
‣ Contact RFWWT@kent.ac.uk with any questions
 
RFWWT is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Gateways to the First World War
 
To apply to take part please contact RFWWT@kent.ac.uk for an application form.

Actors Needed

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Viewfinders Film-making Society are looking for actors in for their upcoming short film Courier – A Crime Drama.

They are auditioning for four main roles, with six background roles which will not have their own audition but are available.

Main Roles:

  • Joel – Protagonist; main character.
  • TJ – Joel’s friend, gets him the job, becomes more distant as the story progresses.
  • Frankie – Joel’s girlfriend, the reason he is working for criminals, she is ill and needs his constant help. Joel becomes more distant from her as the job start to take over more of his life.
  • Detective Smith – the Leader investigator against the drug group.

 

Background Roles:

  • Two employees
  • Second Officer
  • Three Undercover cops

 

Times of Auditions:

  • Detective 12-1
  • TJ 1-2
  • Joel 2-3
  • Frankie 3-4
  • Joel and Frankie Joint 4-5

 

Date and Location:

KS15, 5th March 

Please look at the event for directions.

Please be aware that these are just estimations of time.

Please arrive at least 15 minute before.

 

If you wish to attend, please mark as attending on the event and state the role you are going to audition for.