A second-year film student within the School of Arts is looking for Drama student support!
The project is a dark comedy short movie,”Neighbour’s Cake”, with KTV Drama this year.
The team are looking for a male actor to play one of the main characters, possibly looking middle/the late twenties. The actor’s scenes will be probably shot around the second half of January and first half of February.
If you are interested, please contact arts@kent.ac.uk for more information.
In Student Support & Wellbeing we’ve been working on an exciting line up of events to mark Disability History Month (22 November to 22 December), which this year has an Arts focus. Activities include art exhibitions, musical performances, talks, workshops, performance art, film screenings, a comedy night, as well as an exploration of gaming accessibility and design, all free to staff, students and the local community.
The full programme of events is available at www.kent.ac.uk/dhm, but there are various events we think Arts staff and students may be particularly interested in…
‘Adventures of a Super Aspie Girl’ by Annette Foster
Friday 24 November, 18:00 – 19:00 in Lumley Theatre
Human Microphone
Thursday 23rd November, 16:30 Outside Senate Building; Tuesday 28 November 14:30 Keynes Duck Pond; Tuesday 5 December 14:30 Plaza
Join us for a series of collaborative performances inspired by Gandhi and harnessed by the horizontal protest groups of Occupy at Wall Street. The Human Microphone creates a space for us to speak as individuals, but also speak as a community. To come together and amplify each other’s voices. To make the ‘invisibles’ visible. To celebrate disability and challenge disablism. To come together as one and speak for the many.
Professor Mike Oliver: Distinguished Visitor Lecture – ‘Disability History, Bleeding Hearts and Parasite People’
Wednesday 29 November 18.00 to 19.00 Grimond Lecture Theatre 1
(Free to attend REGISTER HERE MIKE OLIVER LECTURE)
Professor Oliver, an academic, author and disability rights activist, will speak of how from small beginnings at the university, and elsewhere, the social model of disability has had a profound effect on disability consciousness and a significant influence on social policies. He says vicious attacks have been launched on the living standards and lifestyles of disabled people and his talk will explain what’s really happening to disabled people in 21st century Britain.
Mustard Seed Singers Concert
Tuesday 5 December, 17:15 – 18:00 (followed by mulled wine and mince pies reception from 18:00), Colyer-Fergusson Hall
The Mustard Seed Singers is a charity comprised of singers with mental health difficulties or those affected by it, e.g carers, relatives and friends.
Mental health Stigma Workshop with Chloe Farahar
Wednesday 6 December, 13:00 – 15:00, Cornwallis East Seminar Room 1
(Free to attend, REGISTER HERE MENTAL HEALTH WORKSHOP)
Fighting Instinct: Challenging game design in a sighted world
Wednesday 6th December, 15:00 – 17:00, Studio 2 Jarman
Join us for an afternoon exploring gaming accessibility, Killer Instinct (contains strong violence) and what it takes to compete with sighted gamers when you have no sight yourself.
Little Tich: ‘Size and Identity’ talk by Olly Double and Jonjo Brady
Thursday 7 December, 12:00 – 13:00, Rutherford Lecture Theatre 1
Melzebra – a music performance by saxophonist Mel Dawkins
Friday 8th December, 13:00 – 14:00, Colyer-Fergusson Foyer
For further information please contact us at DHM2017@kent.ac.uk.
Opera Holland Park is a small opera production company that stages 4 shows each summer on their temporary stage at Holland House in Kensington. I joined the company as an intern for three weeks; while they were in the midst of securing artists, stage crew and production team. It was particularly interesting for me, as a Creative Producing for Theatre MA student, to gain access and insight into contracts, interviews and negotiations. The benefits of working with a smaller company are that every department is located within the same office. Communication channels are short and it is easy to keep up with the progress of everyone around. I am able to gain a full insight into the entire workings of the company. My individual tasks included sending out contracts and music sheets, filing returned contracts, chasing up uncompleted documents and updating the database on the on-going progress. Other tasks included researching potential short operas for a specific collaboration project, as well as researching various different theatres and opera houses in Europe for a potential tour of their family opera of Alice’s adventures in Wonderland.
Opera Holland Park sets itself apart by making opera accessible to all audiences. They aim to change the perception of opera being prestigious and elite to something that is accessible and for everyone to enjoy. While working at the Opera Holland Park office, I found great interest in the Inspire programme they are running, which is an education program that aims to inspire and encourage all members of the community to experience, discover and actively participate in opera and classical music, developing their taste and knowledge and bringing the art from to as wide an audience as possible. I was very fortunate that I was able to attend one of their quarterly community concerts hosted at the St Cuthberts Church in Kensington. The event was organised by Age UK and as the host of the event explained importance of acknowledging loneliness within a community of elderly, it became clear to me that this valentine’s themed concert was more than just a display of excellent opera music.
This placement is a mandatory part of my course and my placement made me realise the benefits of completing a placement at this point in time. It enables me to make contacts in an industry I am aiming to work in shortly after I graduate and it opens doors at a perfect point in time. The University of Kent bursary scheme helps a great deal, while it is absolutely manageable to commute from Canterbury to London within an hour – it comes at a high price. The financial contribution towards my expenses enabled me to fully enjoy this placement and not worry too much about my bank account.
THE MOVING REVERIE – 2018 London Mime Festival
“It was a full-on, completely practical, full of knowledge week.” – Workshop participant, 2017 London International Mime Festival.
Week-long open workshop THE MOVING REVERIE
January 8th to 12th 2018
10am – 5pm
£250 – £275 for the full course – BOOK A PLACE
To have an idea; to hesitate and stop; to question; to decide; to stop again and doubt; to check… The actor on stage lives through all these different ways of thinking second by second. The challenge is to allow all these inner impulses and ideas to flow into expression and become visible to the audience.
In this week-long workshop designed for professional and semi-professional performers, participants will immerse in Theatre Re’s vital approach to Etienne Decroux’s Corporeal Mime and explore how to give physical shape and theatrical rhythm to these impulses.
Guillaume Pigé is an actor, director, mime and magician. He formed Theatre Re in 2009 and has been directing and performing in all the company’s productions to date. He is also an Associate Teacher at R.A.D.A and is regularly invited to give workshops in the UK and internationally.
There are limited places on the workshop so we recommend booking as soon as you are able to.
Please note that the Student Projects Grant Scheme will be opening on Monday, with £45,000 of funding available for grants of up to £5,000 per project. The deadline for applications is 16 December and applications are welcome from student groups, departments and schools.
If you are considering staying on to do a PhD in the School of Arts, you are encouraged to come to a PhD Information Event which will take place at
5-6pm on Wednesday 6th December 2017 in Jarman Studio 5, with Maurizio Cinquegrani, School Director of Graduate Studies
The session will cover topics such as
We hope to see you there.
There is a fantastic opportunity for a group of postgraduate students to travel to Cuba next year between April and May 2018 (final dates to be determined) thanks to a philanthropically funded scholarship which covers the cost of flights and a maintenance grant towards accommodation and subsistence. The deadline to apply is Sunday 5 November 2017.
The visit will encompass a series of cultural activities and is a wonderful opportunity to experience the life and culture of this vibrant island.
More information is available here: https://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/search/FNADCUBAEX02
Estelle Rosenfeld is a mixed media and live artist, using puppetry, installation, live art, photography, film and animation.
Estelle is offering 5 individuals work placement opportunities – if this is something you would be interested in, please follow the link for more information:
https://www.estellerosenfeld.com/work-placement
Voila! Europe, London’s language-barrier-busting theatre festival, is back with multilingual plays from the UK and the continent this autumn!
Bigger and bolder, this non-Brexit-fearing event brings 30 companies to three venues, showcasing the best of what European theatre has to offer!
This year you’ll find shows in French, Greek, Czech, Polish, Italian, and English, as well as plays without words using body language or some mixing multiple languages in one!
The companies are exploring themes of belonging, displacement, climate-change, money, power, identity, discrimination and more, in a variety of genres from comedy, to improvisation, puppetry, dance, documentary theatre, classics and poetry.
Check out the program on www.voilaeuropefestival.com (student discounts apply!)
8-18 November @ The Cockpit, Etcetera Theatre, Applecart arts.
The term ‘Canterbury sound’ is used to refer to the signature psychedelic and progressive rock developed by artists such as Caravan and Soft Machine. The event “Canterbury Sound: Place, Music and Myth” explores Canterbury as a metaphor and reality, a symbolic space of music inspiration. The discussion and performance event will take place on Saturday 28 October at Augustine Hall in Canterbury. For tickets and key details, visit: canterbury.ac.uk/canterburysound
The programme includes performances from the SoupSongs, assembled with the participation of ‘Canterbury Sound’ founding figure Robert Wyatt, experimental band Lapis Lazuli who recently worked with Gong and Acid Mother Temple, Jack Hues and the Quartet, and electronic artist Koloto. The day also presents a series of discussions with artists, cultural intermediates, and cultural researchers such as Professor Andy Bennett (Griffith University, Australia), Geoffrey Richardson (Caravan), Brian Hopper (The Wilde Flowers, SoupSongs), Aymeric Leroy (author of The Sound of Canterbury), Phil Howitt (Facelift fanzine), Professor Murray Smith (Princeton/Kent Universities), Matt Watkins (Canterbury Sans Frontiers), and organisers of the event – music researchers Professor Shane Blackman, Dr Asya Draganova, and Alan Payne.
We will also be exploring together a rich collection of archival material, books, and artwork linked to the Canterbury Sound.
This event seeks to demonstrate the development of the ‘Canterbury Sound’ as an inter-generational, local, and transnational cultural phenomenon.
For more information see:
Canterbury Arts and Culture Events: canterbury.ac.uk/canterburysound
Canterbury Festival: https://www.canterburyfestival.co.uk/whats-on/music/canterbury-sound.aspx
Expert comment: https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/expertcomment/the-canterbury-sound-music-from-the-small-city-in-the-global-history-of-popular-culture/
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/123693321515580/
Facebook handle: @TheCanterburySound
For Twitter and Instagram posts, #canterburysound
Asya Draganova,
Event co-ordinator
Email: asya.draganova@bcu.ac.uk and asya.draganova@canterbury.ac.uk