{"id":1658,"date":"2015-09-11T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:33:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T08:33:23","slug":"celebrate-the-2015-platform-graduate-awards-at-turner-contemporary-margate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2015\/09\/11\/celebrate-the-2015-platform-graduate-awards-at-turner-contemporary-margate\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate the 2015 Platform Graduate Awards at Turner Contemporary, Margate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday October 10<sup>th <\/sup>will celebrate the opening of the Platform Graduate Award 2015 exhibition. \u00a0The School of Music and Fine Art is delighted that three of our recently graduated BA (Hons) Fine Art students &#8211; <em>Ben Crawford<\/em><em>,\u00a0Evdokia Georgiou\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0Nadia Perrotta<\/em><strong><em> &#8211;<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0are shortlisted for this prestigious award, and their work is currently exhibited at Turner Contemporary, Margate. Now in it\u2019s third year, the Platform Graduate Award aims to support graduate professional development and nurture emerging talent from universities and colleges in the South East region.<\/p>\n<p>Also on October 10<sup>th<\/sup> is the opening celebration for Risk, Turner Contemporary\u2019s autumn exhibition \u2013 and much more! The day includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Artist Ruth Proctor enacting her falling stunt from a 4m high scaffold in the gallery<\/li>\n<li>Thanet Parkour Academy leading workshops and creating guerrilla-style interventions in, on and around the building<\/li>\n<li>Saxophonist Evan Parker playing improvisation experiments<\/li>\n<li>Free workshops by the Platform artists<\/li>\n<li>Networking with fellow students from East Kent Universities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Students from the University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury Christ Church University and University of Kent students can travel FREE to Margate. To book your free place on one of the coaches leaving from each university go to Platform-travel.eventbrite.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>For more info go to:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/e-turnercontemporary.org\/t\/24UF-3NI6Y-B9ISH0TZB5\/cr.aspx\">http:\/\/e-turnercontemporary.org\/t\/24UF-3NI6Y-B9ISH0TZB5\/cr.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"122\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"122\"><strong>Turner Contemporary<br \/>\n<\/strong>Rendezvous, Margate, Kent<br \/>\nCT9 1HG<br \/>\nTel: +44 (0) 1843 233 000<br \/>\nTel: +44 (0) 1843 233 029<br \/>\ninfo@turnercontemporary.org<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Open Tuesday to Sunday and bank holidays<br \/>\n10am &#8211; 6pm\u00a0(Closed Mondays)<\/p>\n<p>Related news item: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smfa\/news.html?view=1528\">http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smfa\/news.html?view=1528<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday October 10th will celebrate the opening of the Platform Graduate Award 2015 exhibition. \u00a0The School of Music and Fine Art is delighted that three of our recently graduated BA (Hons) Fine Art students &#8211; Ben Crawford,\u00a0Evdokia Georgiou\u00a0and\u00a0Nadia Perrotta &#8211;\u00a0are shortlisted for this prestigious award, and their work is currently exhibited at Turner Contemporary, Margate. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2015\/09\/11\/celebrate-the-2015-platform-graduate-awards-at-turner-contemporary-margate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Celebrate the 2015 Platform Graduate Awards at Turner Contemporary, Margate<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22922,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24626,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}