Category Archives: Training and Personal Development

Start-Up Support to Kick Start Your Creative Career from Deutsche Bank Creative Awards

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The Deutsche Bank Creative Awards is a national Awards scheme for final year creative students and first year graduates, it aims to support creative graduates starting their career, those setting up their first business or starting out as a creative practitioner with their first not-for-profit initiative.

You could be in with a chance to win £10,000 plus business training and mentoring to turn your ideas into reality. The Award categories are:

  • Art & Photography
  • Craft & Design
  • Film
  • Music
  • Performance

This Award is open to all Final Year BA or MA creative degree students or recent graduates (after April 2016).

If you are interested and would like to find out more then come along to an induction workshop on Wednesday 8th February 12.00-13.00, Cornwallis East Seminar Room 1 Canterbury Campus, or contact unikenthub@kent.ac.uk

Short Courses at Tonbridge

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Short courses at our Tonbridge Centre allows you to spend time exploring a subject purely for interest, among like-minded people, without formal assessment.

The University’s Tonbridge Centre is a small and friendly centre dedicated to part-time study, located just 5 minutes walk from Tonbridge railway station.

Details of upcoming courses can be found here.

Spring Short Courses – Intro to PG Study

Spring and Summer Short Courses and Personal Development

Full course info is available at www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge

These courses are usually very popular and you are advised to apply as soon as possible.

Skepsi Image Competition

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Would you like to boost your CV and get your work published? If so, this could be your opportunity: The Postgraduate Journal Skepsi is currently looking for an image that could be used to advertise their upcoming conference in print (e,g. on a poster) throughout the University of Kent, as well as online. The image would also be used on the cover of the corresponding journal edition. 

The topic of our conference is ‘Time to Remember: Anniversaries, Celebration and Commemoration’ and the image you create should obviously match this topic. All mediums (photography, painting, graphic design etc.) will be considered. 

In return for your efforts, they would gladly publish your name together with the image and provide you with digital copies of the poster and our journal for your portfolio. 

Please, direct questions and send submissions to skepsi@kent.ac.uk. Submission deadline is 12th Febuary 2017.

Justice and Persuasion Workshop

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Calling all arts students interested in the concept of persuasion in performances or project presentations…

Justice and Persuasion

A one-day workshop exploring the art of persuasion and the concept of justice. Participants learn about techniques from legal argument. You will watch, analyse and debate film excerpts demonstrating the art of persuasion and practice dramatic skills in interdisciplinary rehearsal groups. This is your opportunity to improve your effectiveness in public speaking and create dynamic and engaging performances as well as engage with other disciplines to enhance your understanding of persuasion in performance.

Justice and Persuasion workshops are multi-award-winning events (including awards in the University of Kent Postgraduate Experience Awards 2012-2013 and the University of Kent Teaching Awards 2014)

The workshops are open to University of Kent students from ALL disciplines and all stages of study.

ALL participants earn 15 Employability points and receive certificates of attendance.

No previous experience in either law, drama or public speaking is required.

The workshops have been acknowledged to have “an impact on students’ learning, developing their confidence and skills beyond the academic curriculum.” Dr. Janice Malcolm, Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education 2014.

Places are limited and will be given on a first-come-first-served basis. You can read more details about the workshop by visiting the Study Plus webpage and searching for KE013: Justice and Persuasion: an interdisciplinary workshop (Modern Context) on the Study Plus webage

Next year the workshop is taking place on 25th February 2017. The workshop will be widely publicised, so it is anticipated that places will be taken up very quickly. To reserve your place on the one-day event at the University of Kent or if you would like your name added to the waiting list, email S.R.Harris@kent.ac.uk

CHANGING THE HEARTBEAT as part of LIMF ’17

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“A brilliant insight into a rather unknown art form”.

Workshop participant, LIMF’15

Week-long workshop CHANGING THE HEARTBEAT
Jan 30 to Feb 3 2017
10am – 5pm
£250 for the full course – BOOK A PLACE

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

Following the work of Etienne Decroux and his successors, participants will discover how to follow an impulse and how to give thoughts and emotions a physical and theatrical form, structure and rhythm.

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.

There are limited places on the workshop so we recommend booking as soon as you are able to.

BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE

“It was packed with content. I want to do more.”

Workshop participant   as part of LIMF’15

FDM – Applications now open!

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Following the news last week from Milkround and TMP Worldwide that students rely on internships as their most trusted source of careers advice I wanted to let you know that applications for the 2017 FDM summer internship programme are now open.

FDM interns work on real business projects that directly impact our business and gain exposure into how a successful and expanding business operates, as well as being able to develop skills in a commercial environment. Our eight week paid programme provides opportunities across business and technical areas including IT Support, Research and Development, Marketing, Sales, HR, Finance and Business Innovation to name a few. With offices around the UK we have internships opportunities in our London, Leeds, Glasgow and Brighton offices. We welcome applications from all universities and the deadline date is Monday 9 January 2017 for a 19 June start.

In the coming few days we’ll be posting the details on your job boards and also on Target Jobs and Prospects but in the meantime you can access the on-line application via:

https://fdmgroupsummerinternship.recruitee.com/o/fdm-group-summer-internship

Double Edge Theatre Artistic Training Programmes

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Double Edge’s Adam Bright has contacted Paul Allain to share a link with students for Double Edge’s training programmes. This year he has been a part of creating a scholarship programme for non-US students to apply for a tuition break to attend Double Edge Theatre trainings. “I have a great passion to work with students from the UK and just a few months ago helped to create a training group in London made up of alumni of our programmes. I plan to be visiting a little more frequently to work with them and other groups in and around the city.” Intensive training dates Winter 01 – 07 January 2017  Spring 10 – 12 March 2017  Here’s a link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1jGFKoTqxVTVTY0SmdxcEN6Wjg/view

Adam Bright Co-Producer and Actor Double Edge Theatre (001) 413-628-0070    You tube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-IDN6QqUzw

Contact us at: training@doubleedgetheatre.org    www.doubleedgetheatre.org