A fantastic opportunity has arisen for two students to undertake a work placement at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

  
Gain valuable skills within the Digital Team supporting the Head of Digital with a range of tasks within video production and digital development. We have two voluntary placements for student internships, available for 3 months for a minimum of 2 days per week. 

• Placement 1  – Digital Development
• Placement 2 – Video

These are quite technical roles and would require students to have a certain level of understanding of how to operate video editing software and social media outlets. However, anyone with an interest in gaining experience of working within a communications department in an arts organisation is encouraged to apply.
Both roles are subject to a 2 week probationary period.

Student placements in ICA Communications Department will involve varied tasks focused on supporting the Head of Digital in all aspects of organising and forward planning the ICA’s digital activities as required. The successful candidates will work closely with the Communications Department providing proactive and comprehensive support in all aspects of online development and office management.

All students will be working closely within their team on general administrative and office duties which will enable them to gain a thorough and practical working knowledge of a Communications Department within a public visual arts organisation, and develop skills and experiences that are complementary to your studies.  
A full job description is available on request by emailing MFAReception@kent.ac.uk

Applications:
Please send your CV and covering letter to learning@ica.org.uk
by 5pm Friday 4^th October.

Please note that this is a two day per week commitment: Please contact your course convenor/ year co-ordinator if you have any concerns about how you’d manage this internship requirement alongside your course commitments.

Experience university life for a day – For FREE!

Saturday 26th October 2013
10am-2pm

The School of Music and Fine Art at the University of Kent are holding taster sessions for all of our undergraduate degree programmes on Saturday 22 October 2013, 10am – 2pm. 

These sessions are free of charge and are aimed at Year 12 and 13 students (or mature applicants) who are considering applying to university to study in a related area.

The sessions provide a great opportunity to see and use our wonderful new facilities on the Historic Dockyard, to meet and work with some of our academic staff and students, and to gain first-hand experience of the courses and opportunities we offer.

We are offering taster sessions in the following areas:

• Music
• Creative Events
• Music Technology
• Popular Music
• Fine Art

Interested?
Please email us at getcreative@kent.ac.uk to sign up and be sent further details. We welcome interest from both individual students and from schools and colleges.

If your school or college would like to organise a taster day so that your students can get a feel for university life or an insight into particular courses, please email your requirements to getcreative@kent.ac.uk Taster days are generally subject specific but we are happy to be flexible in terms of both timings and content so that we can best meet your needs.

The School of Music and Fine Art is pleased to announce that there are limited spaces available for the following courses in Clearing 2013:

• BA Fine Art

• BA Creative Events

• BMus Music

• BMus Popular Music

• BSc Music Technology

Clearing
Should you be interested in applying for a place on any of the above courses, please go to the Kent Clearing Website for further information http://www.kent.ac.uk/clearing/ 
Please note that Clearing for A-level applicants opens on Thursday 15 August. 

Adjustment
If your results are better than you hoped (or were predicted) you can also choose a different course or university through Adjustment (opens 15 August 2013).
Further details can be found here http://www.kent.ac.uk/clearing/adjustment.html

Clearing Open Day
If you are offered a place on one of our courses through Clearing (or Adjustment), you will be invited to attend our Clearing Open Day on Saturday 17 August.  We strongly recommend that you attend this event as it will give you the chance to meet our staff, talk through aspects of the course and life at Kent and receive a tour of our fantastic Dockyard-based facilities.

Contact
If you want to talk through any aspect of our courses, facilities etc prior to applying formally please contact Recruitment and Admissions Administrator, Kathryn Sansom on +44 (0)1634 202962 or email at kms@kent.ac.uk.

Introducing the new Ralph Steadman Art and Design Scholarship.

Artists from ages 8 to 80 are invited to enter a new art competition launched by the partnership of WOW Magazine (What’s On Where), Rochester Independent College and the University of Kent School of Music and Fine Art.

The competition theme is NOW, which is open to interpretation in any medium. The best entries will be exhibited in a public touring exhibition and in addition to the category prizes, one lucky winner will be the recipient of the first ever Ralph Steadman Scholarship to assist their ambition to become a professional artist as well as receive a day’s use of the cutting edge facilities of the University of Kent’s School of Music and Fine Art at ‘The Boiler House’.

World-renowned artist, illustrator and cartoonist Ralph Steadman is The Best Of… Art Competition’s head judge who will be joined by two professional artists of differing disciplines to assist with the final shortlist.

There are four categories for entry, based on age group and prizes will vary for each category.  The adult category winner (age 20+) will receive an original framed Ralph Steadman ‘Thought Sheet’. There will be further adult prizes of art materials vouchers.

Depending on the age group of the winner, the Scholarship will be comprised of either: A 2 year full Scholarship for A levels at the new art and design building at Rochester Independent College.
Or,
A bursary from Rochester Independent College of £2,000 per year for three years as financial support for the winning student to help fund their visual arts degree.

Closing date for the competition is 4pm on November 1^st, 2013. Successful shortlisted entries will be advised November 25^th and the winner and runners up will be advised during the week commencing November 25^th.

For more information and competition rules and application form, please visit the Rochester Independent College The Best Of… Art Competition website.