Dériving An Imaginary City: Virtual Psychogeographies

MA graduate Mariola Gayeska’s work has been featured in an online exhibition titled 'Dériving An Imaginary City: Virtual Psychogeographies'. Mariola's work is a sonic map of Battersea Park.

Half price ticket offer

A special offer of limited number of HALF PRICE student tickets to this year’s Battle of Ideas festival. These allow university students full access to the weekend festival for just £27.50. Click here to purchase discounted tickets.

The Battle of Ideas is taking place at the Royal College of Art, London on October 29-30. During the course of the weekend, over 2,250 people will be participating in 75 different debates involving hundreds of incisive and thought-provoking speakers.

This year’s festival programme includes strands of debate entitled Battle for the World, Battle for Morality, Food Fight, Society Wars, Battle for Our Brains, Reassessing Politics and Sporting Contests.

It also features keynote debates on: The Battle against the Fates, Profiting responsibly? Business in the big society, Creativity and curiosity: do we make stuff up or find it out? Has tolerance gone too far? Loyalty in an age of whistle-blowing and Wikileaks, Is individualism bad for society? as well as many more discussions on current themes in the arts, science, health, parenting, education, design, international relations and religion.

Internationally renowned speakers include: David Aaronovitch, Jonathan Aitken, Decca Aitkenhead, Anne Atkins, Simon Baron-Cohen, Daniel Ben-Ami, Katharine Birbalsingh, Melvin Burgess, Christopher Caldwell, Matthew Collings, John Cooper, Giles Fraser, Frank Furedi, Maurice Glasman, Tom Holland, Mick Hume, Sue Ion, Rebecca Jenkins, Simon Jenkins, Irma Kurtz, Philippe Legrain, Dame Ann Leslie, Kenan Malik, Paul Mason, Joyce McMillan, Tim Montgomerie, Brendan O’Neill, Ruth Padel, K.A.S. Quinn, Jeffrey Rosen, Jenni Russell, William Saletan, Fiona Shaw, John Sutherland, George Szirtes, Ray Tallis, GM Tamás, Mark Vernon, Tom Watt, Zoe Williams, Alison Wolf, Martin Wolf, Cathy Young and over 300 more.

"The Battle of Ideas is a global treasure. Bringing together some of the world's leading thinkers for civil dialogue on an array of topics, the festival is a must-see for those deeply committed to the free exchange of ideas."
- Fredrick C. Harris, professor of political science, Columbia University

Visit http://www.battleofideas.org.uk to view this year’s festival programme, including satellite events, as well as carefully selected readings for each session and videos of previous years’ sessions.

Live Canon Poetry Events

Opening this week:

LIVE CANON at the Bloomsbury Theatre

A seven show series... a whistestop tour of the 'canon'.

October 19th Romantics

October 25th Metaphysicals

October 26th War Poets

January 23rd Pre Raphaelites

January 24th Shakespeare and Co.

January 25th The Bloomsbury Group

January 26th Around the World in 80 Poems

All performances at 7.30pm

Tickets £12.50 and £10 concessions

Click here for further details.

Poetry Competition

The Poetry Business invites entries of 20-24 pages of poems and if the opportunity to have Carol Ann read a body of your work is not enough we will also reward our four winners with the following prizes:

§ Book publication for the overall winner and pamphlet publication for three first-stage winners

§ A share of £2,000 donated by NAWE

§ The winning collections will be launched at poetry readings hosted by The Poetry Business; and poems selected from the collections will be published in The North magazine.

§ One-to-one support from NAWE's Compass Points

§ A year's subscription to Ambit magazine

§ A free book from any publisher represented by Inpress

Click here for further details.

Creativity as ideology

'Our yearning for creativity is how we experience the problem of alienation in a highly individualised society. Previous generations defended skills through collective solidarity and politics'

Interesting article by James Heartfield (currently a visiting research fellow at LSBU), now available via academia.edu.

Call for entries - Students artists in London

The submission process is now open for Reflections, an exhibition at the Mile End Pavilion in November 2011.

Work in any media is welcomed. Open to 2nd or 3rd year BA, MA or Doctorate students.

Visit http://4ourart.blogspot.com/ for further details.

Enterprise and Intellectual Property

I'm planning a session on this at the next symposium. In the meantime you might find this information from the university's Business Development Office useful:

There are a number of schemes and programmes around student entrepreneurship and enterprise:

1. The graduate Enterprise Associate Scheme (open to any LSBU graduate) – 1 year bursary, office space, support and mentoring (5 per year at the moment)

2. The Entrepreneur in Action Scheme – runs for 2 semesters with 2 x £250 for development and office with hot desks, tutorials and mentoring.

3. Passport to the World of Entrepreneurship – series of 8 talks through the 2 semesters from mainly external speakers. Attendance to 6 achieves a certificate.

Graduates on the Entrepreneur in Action Scheme assign the IP to the Business Development Office, which then protects and manages it for them, license it back into their companies.

The Intellectual Property Office http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ has good descriptions for the forms of IP.

Own-it http://www.own-it.org/ advises on IP for the creative sector and runs free (or heavily subsidised) workshops and talks.

The British Library Enterprise and IP section runs talks and events (mostly free) for start-ups and business

There’s also a knowledge transfer network for creative industries https://ktn.innovateuk.org/web/creativektn

There are a number of business plan / pitching competitions. The Business Development Office runs one called ‘Make it Happen’, and also offers one-to-one meetings with students wishing to start their own businesses.

New Media Writing Competition

The second international New Media Writing Competition is now open.

The event is a celebration of creative writing which uses new-media to its best advantage.

Prize winners will have their work exhibited at Bournemouth University's Media School during the week of the event, and it will be featured on all the university's webspaces.

The Literary Platform (http://www.theliteraryplatform.com/about/) is supporting the event and will also give prominent feature space to the shortlisters and eventual winners.

The deadline for entries is 31 October. Please go to the competition website for further details: http://www.newmediawritingprize.co.uk/

The Seat Of Your Pants

The Seat Of Your Pants
25 July to 19 August
Taster day 16th July
Free four-week course for anyone aged 16-25 to work with artist Mark Storor to create a new artwork.

Artsadmin invites you to be part of a group working with artist Mark Storor to learn and develop new skills in a range of integrated and participatory approaches to making artwork.

The Seat Of Your Pants is a one-month FREE course giving you the chance to share your experiences and explore themes of identity, personal histories and collective knowledge.

The work you create will be made through a series of processes, which will be physically challenging as well as emotionally and intellectually stimulating.

Activities may include storytelling, writing, drawing, painting, physical movement, performance and creating installations. At the end of the month you’ll have the chance to create an innovative and original piece of work where your ideas will form the basis of a collective artwork.

The project is open to anyone aged 16-25 interested in art and/ or performance. The project runs from 25 July to 19 August (10am-5pm Monday to Friday). You need to be able to commit to all the dates. A taster workshop for anyone interested in taking part will take place at Toynbee Studios on 16 July.

For more information email samtrotman@artsadmin.co.uk
or call Sam Trotman on 020 7247 5102.

Artsadmin will be supporting you throughout the course and aim to continue that support after the course finishes.

Free National Art Pass https://artfund.org/join/landing/guardian

Free National Art pass - for 3 months, no strings attached!

Clean Break Theatre Company: Free Talks and Events

To accompany the production of RE-CHARGED (click here for further details), the Clean Break Theatre Company is organising a series of free post-show talks and special events, including:

Thursday 17 March, 6.30pm, Foyles, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EB

Women and Playwriting - A special FREE event hosted at Foyles book shop with writers and directors from CHARGED, with actors performing extracts from the plays.

Tuesday 29 March, post show 9.30pm, Studio, Soho Theatre
Dancing Bears panel discussion looking at girl gangs and the themes of the play. Speakers include Carlene Fimin MBE.

Saturday 2 April & Wednesday 6 April, 5.30pm, Main House, Soho Theatre
Performance of 17 Minutes by Chloë Moss, performed by former Clean Break students.

Saturday 9 April, 5.30pm, Main House, Soho Theatre
Post-show talk with the creative team, writers and directors.

10 Great Student Film Festivals For Fans and Filmmakers

Let’s face it: many student films are, well, not that good. They’re invariably about suicide or troubled twentysomethings or one of a million other ideas that have been completely covered in the past 100 hundred years of movie-making. But for every few (or few dozen) that don’t live up to the hype, there are those that announce the presence of new talents and serve as calling-cards for the blockbuster directors of tomorrow.

Read on...

Student Discount Offer

Details of this festival can be found here. As students you can get a £30 discount (off the £149 ticket price) by quoting the code 'SouthBank' when you buy your ticket.

Southern Script Festival

On 26th and 27th March 2011, students from the Scriptwriting
programmes at Bournemouth University will be holding the inaugural
Southern Script Festival which looks to encourage, inspire and support
not only students, but all aspiring writers looking to hone their
skills in writing across a range of media, film, TV, theatre, games,
comics and animation.

Workshops, seminars and debates will take place across the two days,
with many leading names from the world of writing, directing,
producing and agenting giving generously of their time to the event.

This new two-day festival is organised and led by students at
Bournemouth University studying BA (Hons) Scriptwriting for Film and
Television, MA Screenwriting and MA Writing for the Media. With a
student-centred focus, the Southern Script Festival will provide an
opportunity for emerging scriptwriters to enhance their abilities, be
informed of current trends in screenwriting education, network and
pitch. The event hopes to encourage a strong relationship between
scriptwriting courses and the media industry in the South of England.

What?s On?

Guest speakers and panellists will include:

Sandy Lieberson, President of Production 20th Century Fox, MGM
International, Ladd Co. (W.B.) Supervising production of Blade Runner,
Alien, Thelma and Louise, Once Upon A Time In America. Producer of
Performance, Stars and Bars, Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Swastika and 22
other films and documentaries and responsible for establishing Film
London?s ground breaking Microwave Film Fund for low budget feature
films.

Serena Cullen, former Head of Development for BBC Drama Series who now
runs her own production company with a range of TV, film and online
output including Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll;

Jonathan Harvey, award winning writer of film, TV and theatre
including Coronation St, Gimme Gimme, Britannia High

Fay Rusling, The Green Wing, Smack the Pony;

Andrew Ellard, The IT Crowd, Red Dwarf

Robin Mukherjee, EastEnders, Casualty, The Royal et al., will talk
about his latest drama project for CBBC, Combat Kids;

Jeremy Paul; will reflect on his career in film, TV, theatre and radio
in conversation with MAWM student Celeste Joy Engel a career that
spans the golden era of series drama Midsomer Murders; Lovejoy;
Upstairs Downstairs, The Duchess of Duke Street, award winning drama
The Flipside of Dominic Hide and cult horror classic Countess Dracula
starring Ingrid Pitt!

Dr Shaun Kimber chairs a spotlight on low budget UK horror movies with
current filmmakers in the genre;

Chris Jones, guerrilla filmmaking expert;

Christopher Hill, writer on Skins;

Resh Somauroo; former International Head of Development for LEGO?s
Character & Story division charged with the development and
implementation of original characters and stories for use with both
LEGO play-materials, international marketing campaigns and multi-media
activities, helping win numerous international awards. He now runs
his own media consultancy, My Daddy?s Company, specialising in
developing new high-impact multi-platform, toyetic properties for
international market-place, along with advising on external properties
and feature-films;

Lucy V Hay, of Bang2Write fame will lead a session on script reading;

Danny Stack, EastEnders, writer on online drama Sophia's Diary and
organiser of the Red Planet Pictures Prize;

Dr Craig Batty, will lead a discussion on the Screenwriting PhD.

Nick Turner; agent from the Linda Seifert Agency

Phil Rutter, Zeitgeist Productions Copenhagen talks about
opportunities writing for the European market

And many more!!

There will be an opportunity for delegates to sign up for a 15minute
session with a panel of industry professionals to present a 5minute
pitch and receive feedback.

Networking evenings will provide further opportunities to ?meet the
professionals? and fellow delegates.

Competitions will include a short script for screen (with the
potential for production by White Lantern as part of the 1st prize).

The festival will take place at Bournemouth University, in the new
Kimmeridge House suite. The venue boasts several large workshop and
seminar facilities along with two large lecture halls.

REFRESHMENTS (buffet lunch, tea/coffee etc.) will be provided on both
days, and are included in the ticket price.
Full Price £50 (early bird £40) per day, and Students £20 (early bird
£15) per day.

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and visit the website at
www.southernscriptfest.co.uk
http://www.southernscriptfest.co.uk

Key20Media: Web Editor vacancy

European Business Awards: Web Editor

Key Accountabilities for this role:

Create, generate and manage news content for the European Business Awards website on a Pan-European basis

Activate and manage social media platforms and associated commentary from the Awards programme

Generate journalistic content from participants within the Awards with a keen eye for business stories to publish online

Also Accountable for:

Develop clear, effective and regular communication between participants, sponsors and the EBA press office in terms of digital content

Manage all content for EBAs digital platforms and social media

Reporting on performance to the appropriate line manager

Upholding the organisational culture and EBA personal qualities

Day to day responsibilities

Creating regular content for the EBA website for distribution online, keeping it fresh up to date and news rich.

Manage content for the EBA website in terms of stake holder interest, such as generating news worthy content for the media centre, ensuring sponsors online toolkits are kept up to date and relevant, managing media rich content such as films, interviews and downloads.

Plan the style of copy required and the frequency with which it will need updating.

Create schedules and deadlines for producing new content and writing it in an interesting and appealing manner

Generating case study material through identifying and interviewing news worthy participants past and present.

Managing and developing content for social media engagement, such as Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook etc.

Respond to digital content requests from EBAs digital partners such as sponsor’s digital marketers, web development teams, PR offices.

Experience & Ability

· You will have a strong business to business journalistic track record and the ability to deliver against tight deadlines.

· Robust social media skills and knowledge of Content Management Systems such as Word Press, Expression Engine etc.

· You will have excellent communication skills, both written and oral, be able to undertake research using a variety of sources, be creative and able to alter their style of writing to reflect their audience.

Hours &Location

· The number of days required will vary during the Awards campaign period (January – December 2011) between 2-4 days a week starting at 9am and finishing at 5:30pm.

· The role will be based at the European Business Awards office, 9 The Leathermarket, Weston Street, London, SE1 3ER.

· Rates according to experience.

Responses to paul.richards@key20media.com

Paul Richards

Managing Director

Key20 Media Limited

9 The Leathermarket

Weston Street

London SE1 3ER

United Kingdom

Dir: +44 (0) 20 7234 3545

Mob: +44 (0) 7786 885 831

Fax: +44 (0) 20 7234 3536

Wenlock Festival Poetry Competition

Wenlock Festival Poetry Prize
Open poem up to 40 lines, previously unpublished. Fee £5 per poem. Prizes £500, £200, £100. Closing date February 21. Judges include Carol Ann Duffy who will award the prizes during Wenlock Poetry Festival, April 29-May 1. Full details: www.wenlockpoetryfestival.org

Wenlock Poetry Festival, Much Wenlock Shropshire Friday April 29 - May 1. Exciting programme in beautiful Shropshire - readings/ workshops/ slams/ children's events/ fun with poets including Carol Ann Duffy, Andrew Motion, Ian McMillan and his Orchestra, Jackie Kay, Simon Armitage and many more. Full details: www.wenlockpoetryfestival.org

William Stopha: Hope for Robots

William Stopha (a.k.a. former MA student Chris Mitchell) has a new show:

The show: Hope for Robots

Location: Camden People's Theatre, 60 Hampstead Rd NW1 (2 mins from Euston Square or Warren St)

When: Sunday 23rd Jan 2011, Sunday 30th Jan 2011, Sunday 6th Feb 2011

Time: 8.00pm (Doors and bar at 7.30pm)

Flyer: http://bit.ly/eteIip

Press Release: http://bit.ly/hSplHK

Review (Spoiler alert): http://bit.ly/idzA5N

Centre for Media & Culture Research: Spring Events

Friday 21 January, 2.00pm, Studio 55, Keyworth Building

Reconfiguring Caribbean Literary History

Suzanne Scafe (Department of Culture, Writing & Performance)
This session will talk through the findings from a research project investigating the relationship between Caribbean literary production during the period 1930-50 and the news media that ‘housed’ it. The research focussed on a body of literature that has never been recognised as such, but which forms the basis for more familiar forms of national/nationalist and anti-colonial literary texts produced from 1950 onwards and published in London and New York. This talk will discuss how this material has formed the basis of an argument (currently being developed for publication) about literary history and nation-formation.

Living Montage: the Subject & the Interval in the Portrait Film

Patrick Tarrant (Department of Arts & Media)
Pedro Costa’s Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? (2001) is a portrait of the filmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and Daniel Huillét, one that renders an image of the couple living and becoming on screen, while acknowledging that the duration of their lives lies substantially in the intervals between and before shots. Straub claims at one point that psychology in his own films lies ‘in between the shots, in the very montage and in the way the shots are linked to each other, it is extremely subtle psychology.’ And depending on where you look in Costa’s film, one gets a sense that elided duration is the very ground of the film’s performative articulations about presence and about subjects in time. Springing from the author’s own filmmaking, this paper offers an account of how ‘Living Montage’ constitutes both an applied filmmaking methodology and a tool for film analysis, and thereby provides an example of the productivity and dialectical play of practice-led research.

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Wednesday 23 March, 12.00pm, Room L260, London Road Building

Image Warfare: A New War Paradigm For the Twenty-First Century

Nathan Roger (Swansea University)
The September 11, 2001 terror attacks marked a paradigm shift in terms of contemporary terrorism and contemporary war: a shift from Digital War (which dominated the post-Cold War period) to Image Warfare. This paper explores how the image as circulated within society has changed from what is broadly conceived of as a mass media society to that of an information society or a rhizomatic condition and how this has resulted in the weaponization of images. This paper also develops three new conceptual terms: ‘image munitions’, ‘counter-image munitions’ and ‘remediation battles’, which together provide a framework for exploring image warfare.

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Thursday 9 June, Room K205, Keyworth Building

‘Farewell Nathan Barley’? The Rise and Fall of the Freelance Creative

Graham Barnfield (University of East London)
Prior to the so-called credit crunch, it was claimed that the future of employment would involve freelancing, networking and horizontal portfolio projects displacing the vertical career ladder. The creative industries – arts, media, culture, consultancy – were treated as central, and important in New Labour discourse and policy. This paper considers the discourse and infrastructure that gave such (temporary) prestige to this particular aspect of 'creative Britain' and asks whether such 'fictitious variable capital' of working in the cultural industries has a future.