{"id":2142,"date":"2016-06-22T12:41:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T12:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2016-06-22T12:52:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T12:52:34","slug":"wonderland-success-for-event-experience-design-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2016\/06\/22\/wonderland-success-for-event-experience-design-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonderland success for Event &amp; Experience Design student"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2143\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2016\/06\/DSC07338.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2143 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2016\/06\/DSC07338-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"DSC07338\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2016\/06\/DSC07338-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2016\/06\/DSC07338-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2016\/06\/DSC07338-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wonderland, 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For her Independent Realised Project, School of Music and Fine Art 3<sup>rd<\/sup> year BA (Hons) Event &amp; Experience Design student <em><strong>Virginia Brennan <\/strong><\/em>devised and delivered an innovative and ambitious promotional event called <em><strong>Wonderland<\/strong><\/em> for the May release of the film <em>Alice Through the Looking Glass<\/em> at Costa at the Odeon Chatham Maritime, Leviathan Way.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia\u2019s event included activities for young people and families, face painting and crafts.\u00a0 She also had a new range of drinks designed for the event and the Costa staff dressed up in costumes. The event brought together the two businesses \u2013 Costa and the Odeon &#8211; \u00a0and it was so successful, the cinema\u2019s General Manager, Natalie Fisher, asked her to repeat the event over the Bank Holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Says Virginia,<em> \u201cWe had to adapt to the high volume of cinema attendees &#8211; Bank Holiday Monday saw over 1,200 guests walk through the doors! The winners of the drawing competition at the original event collected their prizes of free cinema tickets and goodies and the fundraising activities for MIND continued throughout the week.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The final independent 3<sup>rd<\/sup> year projects celebrate student work which creatively explores a broad range of formats and subjects, questioning what constitutes an event, and is an annual showcase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For her Independent Realised Project, School of Music and Fine Art 3rd year BA (Hons) Event &amp; Experience Design student Virginia Brennan devised and delivered an innovative and ambitious promotional event called Wonderland for the May release of the film Alice Through the Looking Glass at Costa at the Odeon Chatham Maritime, Leviathan Way. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2016\/06\/22\/wonderland-success-for-event-experience-design-student\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wonderland success for Event &amp; Experience Design student<\/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":[807,81427,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142"}],"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=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}