The UK General Election takes place on Thursday 12 December. Make sure you use your vote so you can have your say.
Find out who your electoral candidates and are where your local polling station is on the Electoral Commission website, just enter your postcode.
At Canterbury campus there will be a polling station at Senate Building.
More information about how to vote.
Thank you so much to everyone that donated on Friday for Elf day. A special thanks to those staff and students who got dressed up, it was great to see you get involved and support this worthy cause. We raised just over £200 on Friday for Alzheimer’s Society!
The winner of the Elf cake was Jane Glew, it was cut up and shared with staff and students.
The winners of the sweepstake are as follows:
Guess the number of elves – answer was 359 elves – Debbie Worthington was the closest with her guess of 371.
Guess the name of the elf – Lucy Hale won with the name Elfie McElfie-face
Elf advent game – Graham Hartland
All 3 donated their winnings back to the pot.
Thank you once again for supporting this College event.
The Kent Hospitality Housekeeping team have raised £500 for Catching Lives which is a local homeless charity. They organised a festive Christmas raffle which topped off a fantastic year of fundraising activities.
Becky Verlin and Lydia Lee from Kent Hospitality Housekeeping team made the donation in person to the Canterbury based charity on Wednesday 4 December.
Becky said: “Catching Lives were extremely happy to receive our donation. I am humbled and very proud of the support from staff throughout the year for their generosity for this fundraising and to achieve over and above our expectations is a credit to all.”
Catching Lives is an independent charity aimed at supporting the rough sleepers, homeless and vulnerably housed in Canterbury and East Kent; those who have, for many reasons, fallen through the gaps in society and feel they have nowhere else to turn.
Film students on the module FI624: Beyond Cinema have organised a series of film screenings with a difference this December.
Beyond Cinema considers the changing nature of where, when and how audiences engage with film and the moving image. As part of the module, students have organised screenings of classic films as an immersive experience and appropriate to the time of year.
The series opens with a 25th anniversary celebratory screening of Friends on Sunday 8 December at 7pm, including a Friends themed quiz, starting at 4pm in the Gulbenkian Cafe. Four episodes of the classic TV show will be screened, and tickets cost between £4 and £10. To book online please visit the Gulbenkian’s website.
On Monday 9 December there will be two screenings of Duncan Jones’ science-fiction drama Moon (2009) held in Jarman Studio 1. The screening will be an immersive experience, with an airlock walkway and the film will be show an astrodome. Seating will be on the floor, but there will be plenty of cushions to make it as comfortable as possible. The screening has been organised by BA (Hons) in Film student Tommy-Joe Brown (pictured, building the walkway), and the event is held in partnership with School of Physical Sciences.
There are 16 tickets per screening and cost £3 each and may be booked by the Gulbenkian’ website.
To capitalise on the festival season, there will be a screening of the Christmas Rom Com Love Actually (dir. Richard Curtis 2003). As this is the season of goodwill, the event is held in support of the student-led charity initiatives Kent Marrow and Canterbury Homeless Outreach. Katie Head, also on the BA (Hons) in Film and who has organised the screening, said: ‘I wanted to do a charity fundraiser for Kent Marrow and Canterbury Homeless Outreach in particular, as although they are two charities that need help and support all year round, Christmas is a time that I believe they need it the most. I thought that Love Actually would be the perfect film to bring people together for a joyous evening and then also give them the opportunity to support these charities in any way they can.’
Tickets cost between £4 and £8.70, and may be purchased from the Gulbenkian.
The final film in the series is The Grinch (dirs. Yarrow Cheney and Scott Mosier 2018) which will be shown at a family-friendly screening at the Gulbenkian cinema, at 11am on Sunday 15 December. Tickets cost between £2.50 and £4, and may be purchased from the Gulbenkian’s website.
To get you into the festive spirit, the College Life Team would like to invite you to a special Christmas screening of the movie ‘Elf’.
Date: Saturday 7 December
Time: 15.30
Location: Rutherford Lecture Theatre 1
Join us and follow everyone’s favourite elf, a fully-grown human man named Buddy (played by the wonderful Will Ferrell), on his adventures to find his real dad after spending his whole life living in the North Pole.
There will be free pizza at the event too, so make sure you’re not late and grab a slice before we begin. All attendees will also be entered into a free raffle for the chance to win one of several prizes, including:
Look out for your College Life Team representatives advertising the event later on in the week around campus.
‘Wildlife Trade on the New Silk Roads’ is the theme of the December DICE talk.
The talk will be given by Dr Amy Hinsley, Postdoctorate Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) alumna. Amy will talk about her work looking at threats and opportunities from the global expansion of traditional Chinese medicine.
The talk takes place on Thursday 12 December, from 18.00-19.00, in Grimond Lecture Theatre 3, Canterbury campus. It is free to attend and everyone is welcome.
Elf Day will take place on Friday 6 December at the Medway Campus to raise money for Alzheimer’s Society.
Medway College would love to see as many students and staff in elfish wear as possible. It could be an elf t-shirt or even just an elf hat but please all join in with the festive fun (£2 donation for dressing up or down). On the day, please don your favourite festive gear and bring some cash to help spread some cheer for people affected by dementia.
Micky at the Medway Building reception will be selling raffle tickets to win a tasty elf cake (you can see a photo of the cake at reception). There may also be a cupcake or two for sale in the morning. All proceeds raised will be donated to Alzheimer’s Society.
Join us over in No1 Bistro from 15.00 for afternoon tea and the turning on of the festive lights on the tree. Take a break, play some games, chat with fellow students and staff and enjoy some nibbles. Register for your free afternoon tea by Monday 2 December.
Elf t-shirts are available from Primark, Tesco and Asda from £6, elf hats are available from The Works for just £2 (student discount available). There are also some fab outfits available on Amazon and eBay.
Thank you so much for joining us and we look forward to seeing everyone’s outfits!
You are invited to our Postgraduate Information Event on Thursday 5 December 2019, 17.00-19.00.
This informal event is a great way to find out more about Kent’s wide range of programmes for personal or career development, £12m Postgraduate Scholarship fund, including discounts for Kent graduates, and welcoming and supportive postgraduate community.
You could be eligible for either £1000 Graduate School Scholarship or the 10% loyalty discount. Find out more about postgraduate scholarships.
The event will cover programmes at all our locations in the UK and Europe. The Dean of the Graduate School, Professor Paul Allain, and the Scholarships team will be giving talks
The Studio 3 Gallery at the School of Arts will be running a new exhibition, entitled Derek’s Room, from Wednesday 4 to Saturday 7 December 2019, from 10.00 to 17.00.
Derek’s Room is the first juried open submission exhibition in Studio 3 Gallery, and aims to display the rich variety of creative practice blooming in Kent: from painting, sculpture, and photography, to performance, textile, poetry and digital media.The opening night of the exhibition will be held on Tuesday 3 December 2019 from 17.00, and will feature live performances.
This first presentation of Derek’s Room is organised by Dr Eleen M Deprez, Curator of Studio 3 Gallery; Callum Foad and Alice Richardson, currently studying MA History and Philosophy of Art; Yannis Grimm, currently studying BA (Hons) Drama and Theatre; Emily Harman, currently studying BA (Hons) Art History; Debbie Patterson, a Kent alumna; and Kostas Xanthopoulos, currently studying BA (Hons) Multimedia Technology and Design.
The artists whose work features in the exhibition include Kent students, staff and alumni as well as the general public. The artists are: Elaine Almond, Claire Anscomb, Georgiana Barcan, Chris Blunkell, Danny Burrows, Joseph Clarke, Peggy Eagle, Izichi Elenwo, Jonathan Fryer, Elena Hansen, Emily Harman, Melanie Jordan, Hannah Joy King, Daniel Loveday, Euphemia MacTavish, Lorrain Mailer, Joy C Martindale, Kate Matthews, Jane McCourt, Ines Mourato, Rémy Noë, Philip Ofe, Ian Palmer, Marina Panayiotou, Sandra Pearson, Nic Ramsden, Clare Ruddock-West, Corinne Smallman, Clare Smith, Sam Vale, Kristy Widdicombe, Emma Williams, Kostas Xanthopoulos, Jinhao Xie.
More information about Studio 3 Gallery can be found on the Gallery’s blog.
The University Chorus and Orchestra join forces this Saturday (7 December) to explore the musical legacy of three great composers, in a programme including Haydn’s rousing ‘Te Deum’ and Beethoven’s effervescent First Symphony.
Two Music Scholarship pianists also join the performers for two of Brahms’ lyrical ‘Liebesliederwaltzer.’
Tickets for the performance are still available from the Gulbenkian Box Office; join them this Saturday night!