Beat The Winter Blues With A Colourful Array Of Events At UCF

There's plenty going on at University College Falmouth over the next few months, so no excuses to stay in! For further information on any of the events listed here, as well as the animation awards you can visit the UCF events page or use contact details provided below for individual events.

University College Falmouth’s  Film Lecture Series – Neil Waddington

Neil Waddington, founder of film production company, fortyfoursixteen, and recognised as one of the country’s leading creative studios, visits UCF to discuss the challenges of setting up a production company, the practicalities of pitching for work, managing budgets and working with clients in an increasingly competitive environment.

Venue: Media Centre Cinema, Tremough Campus, Penryn TR10 9EZ

Date: Thursday 11 February 2010

Opening Times: 6.30pm to 7.30pm

Admission: Open to the public and free.

University College Falmouth’s  Journalism Lecture Series – Leo Hickman

Features journalist, Environmental Editor at The Guardian and newly-appointed Writer-in-residence on BA(Hons) Journalism at UCF, Leo Hickman, will be discussing his latest work-in-progress, a narrative non-fiction exploration of the first environmental outrage in 1852 in America.

Venue: Lecture 3, Peter Lanyon Building, Tremough Campus, Penryn TR10 9EZ

Date: Thursday 11 February 2010

Opening Times: 5.30pm

Admission: Free and open to the public. For more information please call 01326 370420

 

University College Falmouth - BA(Hons) Contemporary Crafts Exhibition

A unique and impressive collection of the creative spirit from University College Falmouth’s 2nd-year BA(Hons) Contemporary Crafts students featuring a range of materials from glass, ceramics, plastic, recycled materials and metal using experimental techniques and processes pushing the boundaries of established contemporary crafts practices.

Venue: The Poly, Church Street, Falmouth TR11 3EG

Private View: Wednesday 17 February 2010

Date: Thursday 18 February to Thursday 25 February 2010

Opening Times: 10am to 4pm (Closed on Sunday)

Admission: Free

University College Falmouth’s  Journalism Lecture Series – Blake Morrison

Blake Morrison, Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College, London, and best-selling author of And When Did You Last See Your Father? and Things My Mother Never Told Me will be giving a public lecture at University College Falmouth.

Venue: Lecture B, Daphne Du Maurier Building, Tremough Campus, Penryn TR10 9EZ

Date: Thursday 25 February 2010

Opening Times: 5.30pm

Admission: Free and open to the public. For more information please call 01326 370420

University College Falmouth’s  Film Lecture Series – Mary Burke

Script Consultant on Shane Meadows’, Dead Man’s Shoes and This is England, before producing Chris Cunningham’s short, Rubber Jonny, Mary Burke, is the development producer at Warp Films. Dedicated to finding new voices in the directorial field and constantly striving to push the boundaries of film, Warp’s close ties with Film Four have allowed the company to create some of the most original and compelling video works of the past few years.

Venue: Chapel Lecture Theatre, Tremough Campus, Penryn TR10 9EZ

Date: Friday 26 February 2010

Opening Times: 6.00pm

Admission: Free and open to the public.

MARCH

University College Falmouth - Tate Talk - Dexter Dalwood Guest Lecture

In the current display at Tate St Ives, Dexter Dalwood has selected Tate Collection works made in 1971. Michael Bracewell, writer and critic, joins Dexter Dalwood in a conversation exploring this constructed snapshot of a personally relevant period, revealing how many radically distinct generations of artists and art historical practises co-existed at one time.

Venue: Chapel Lecture Theatre, Tremough Campus, Penryn

Date: Wednesday 3 March 2010

Time: 5.30pm to 8pm

Admission: Free tickets, available from The Poly, Church Street, Falmouth. 01326 212300

University College Falmouth’s  Journalism Lecture Series – Professor Andrew McNeillie

Course Leader on MA Writing, Nature and Place at the University of Exeter, founder of literary magazine, Archipelago and formerly the Literature Editor at Oxford University Press, Professor Andrew McNiellie, will discuss literary traditions of nature writing and its resistance to the peripheral nature of publications today.

Venue: Lecture 3, Peter Lanyon Building, Tremough Campus, Penryn TR10 9EZ

Date: Thursday 4 March 2010

Opening Times: 5.30pm

Admission: Free and open to the public. For more information please call 01326 370420

University College Falmouth’s  Journalism Lecture Series – Brian Cathcart

Brian Cathcart, Professor of Journalism at Kingston University; Principal Investigator on Museum Lives, an AHRC-funded oral history project at The Natural History Museum; and renowned journalist and investigative reporter, will be giving a talk at UCF testing out a new theory about the death of news.

Venue: Lecture 3, Peter Lanyon Building, Tremough Campus, Penryn TR10 9EZ

Date: Tuesday 9 March 2010

Opening Times: 5.30pm

Admission: Free and open to the public. For more information please call 01326 370420

University College Falmouth - BA(Hons) Photography Exhibition

Celebrating the diversity of practice, this exhibition will offer a unique glimpse into the work undertaken by these 2nd-year students from University College Falmouth as they explore their ideas and interests and the unique way they choose look at the world though a lens.

Venue: The Poly, Church Street, Falmouth

Date: Wednesday 10 March to Thursday 18 March 2010

Time: 10am to 4pm Monday to Saturday (Closed Sundays)

Admission: Free

University College Falmouth - MA Illustration Open Forum – The Untamed Tiger

An open public forum examining the enterprising and enigmatic illustrators who generate their own projects, creating their own employment and working on their own terms - the development of new autonomies and enterprising initiatives in illustration.

Venue: Lecture Theatre, Woodlane Campus, Falmouth

Date: Friday 12 March 2010

Time: All day event

Admission: Tickets £15 available from https://secure.falmouth.ac.uk/201/short-courses-conferences/ma-illustration-open-forum-2010-external-visitor-/product.aspx

 

University College Falmouth’s  Film Lecture Series – Paul Andrew Williams

British film-writer and director, Paul Andrew Williams, is the only UK-based director to have been picked up by the Fox Searchlight Director’s Lab in 2003. He also won the New Director's Award for his film, London to Brighton in the 2006 Edinburgh International Film Festival, which prompted The Guardian to describe him as the hottest director in Britain.

Paul will talk about his work as a writer/director, focusing on his feature films that also include the dark comedy-horror, The Cottage and the forthcoming urban thriller Cherry Tree Lane.

Venue: Chapel Lecture Theatre, Tremough Campus, Penryn TR10 9EZ

Date: Friday 12 March 2010

Opening Times: 6.00pm

Admission: Free and open to the public.

University College Falmouth’s  Journalism Lecture Series – Olly Lambert

Foreign Press Association Journalist of the Year, Olly Lambert made his first film in 2001 for the Channel4 series, Alt:TV and has since filmed, directed and produced films for flagships series like Cutting Edge, ONE Life and Bodyshock. He will be discussing, Truth and Lies, in documentary film-making and screening one of his films at UCF.

Venue: Media Centre Cinema, Tremough Campus, Penryn TR10 9EZ

Date: Thursday 18 March 2010

Opening Times: 5.30pm

Admission: Free and open to the public. For more information please call 01326 370420

APRIL

University College Falmouth – MA Curatorial Practice Exhibition at Newlyn Gallery

Working in collaboration with staff at Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange, students of MA Curatorial Practice will co-curate an exhibition of contemporary art by Portugese artist, Nuno Sousa Vieira, who intervenes in spaces with sculptures and installations.  Vieria uses pieces of architecture and parts of the fabric of his factory studio in Lisbon to create his work.  

Venue: Newlyn Art Gallery, New Road, Newlyn TR18 5PZ

Private View: Friday 23 April 2010 6.00pm to 8.00pm

Dates: Saturday 24 April to Saturday 15 May 2010

Time: 10am to 5pm Tuesday to Saturday (Closed Mondays and Sundays)

Admission: Free

University College Falmouth – Zweig Exhibition at Open Space Galleries, Penryn

An eclectic exhibition showcasing the adventurous work of last year’s Ferdynand Zweig Scholarship winners.  The scholarship, set up in 1994 by the widow of a prolific Polish painter, sculptor and lecturer, supports staff and students at University College Falmouth to explore the past and present artistic and cultural achievements of other nations.

Venue: Open Space Galleries, 40 Lower Market Street, Penryn. TR10 8BH

Private View: Tuesday 27 April 2010, 6pm – 8pm

Date: Wednesday 28 April to Sunday 2 May 2010

Time: 11am to 5pm (Closed Sunday)

Admission: Free

University College Falmouth – National Contact Improvisation Jam

A celebration of contact improvisation through workshops, jams and performances by improvisers from across the UK and Europe at University College Falmouth’s Dartington Campus, in the spirit of the Dartington Dance Festivals organised by Steve Paxton and Mary Fulkerson in the 1980s.

Venue: Dartington Campus, Dartington, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EJ

Date: Friday 30 April to Monday 3 May 2010

Time: 11am to 5pm

Admission: Audience – free.

Participants - £90 before 1 April or £110 after 1 April, to include all meals and events. To register email Richard Sarco-Thomas at littlefeet@hotmail.com

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