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.

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