http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/byzantium/
Super exhibition. Went on opening day because I just couldn't wait.
Sunday, 26 October 2008
Fashion v Sport
http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/fashion-v-sport/
Very interesting exhibition for our fashion students.
Very interesting exhibition for our fashion students.
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
The last debutantes exhibition - Kensington Palace
http://www.hrp.org.uk/KensingtonPalace/WhatsOn/Default/thelastdebutantes.aspx
I went to the above exhibition last week. Very interesting in both the cultural and fashion aspects.
I went to the above exhibition last week. Very interesting in both the cultural and fashion aspects.
Black History Month - The Many Colours of British Fashion
Please note this upcoming event
Thursday 30 October 6pm - 9.30pm The Many Colours of British Fashion - an evening of discussion and entertainment Cutting edge insights on issues around creative workers in the fashion industries. Black street fashion and music is categorized as representing cultural diversity. Museums and other cultural institutions are now putting this into official historic contexts. Speakers: Maame Baryeh, Untold Design Sola Oyebade, Mahogany Fashion Agency Ghandan Mahal, Women's Library Performers: Felix Dexter, Actor, writer and outstanding comedian shortMAN Musician, spoken word and sensational performance poet Michelle Marie Author, songwriter and astonishing spoken word artist Main Lecture Theatre, Business School and Library Building, Docklands Campus.
Thursday 30 October 6pm - 9.30pm The Many Colours of British Fashion - an evening of discussion and entertainment Cutting edge insights on issues around creative workers in the fashion industries. Black street fashion and music is categorized as representing cultural diversity. Museums and other cultural institutions are now putting this into official historic contexts. Speakers: Maame Baryeh, Untold Design Sola Oyebade, Mahogany Fashion Agency Ghandan Mahal, Women's Library Performers: Felix Dexter, Actor, writer and outstanding comedian shortMAN Musician, spoken word and sensational performance poet Michelle Marie Author, songwriter and astonishing spoken word artist Main Lecture Theatre, Business School and Library Building, Docklands Campus.
Friday, 10 October 2008
Images of Medieval Manuscripts from Leeds University Library
Some 685 digital images from our medieval illuminated manuscripts are now
available online: http://ludos.leeds.ac.uk/collection/medmss. Twenty-seven
different manuscripts have been drawn on for the project, including four from
Ripon Cathedral Library (held at Leeds University Library). Apart from the Hours
associated with the Bedford Master Workshop (Brotherton Collection MS 1),
the Genealogical History Roll (Brotherton Collection MS 100) and one small
fragment, which have been photographed in full, the manuscripts are
represented selectively, but all miniatures and all significant illuminated borders
and initials have been included.
available online: http://ludos.leeds.ac.uk/collection/medmss. Twenty-seven
different manuscripts have been drawn on for the project, including four from
Ripon Cathedral Library (held at Leeds University Library). Apart from the Hours
associated with the Bedford Master Workshop (Brotherton Collection MS 1),
the Genealogical History Roll (Brotherton Collection MS 100) and one small
fragment, which have been photographed in full, the manuscripts are
represented selectively, but all miniatures and all significant illuminated borders
and initials have been included.
Statuephilia
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/all_current_exhibitions/statuephilia.aspx
New sculpture exhibit featuring Antony Gormley and Ron Mueck
New sculpture exhibit featuring Antony Gormley and Ron Mueck
Thursday, 2 October 2008
New books
I do apologise for the lack of blogging lately but it is a busy time for all of us.
Please see the links below to view all the new books put into stock for July, August and September. Once you have click on the link, you can choose the subject area from the list on the left.
http://www.uel.ac.uk/library/new_books_july_2008.htm
http://www.uel.ac.uk/library/new_books_august_2008.htm
http://www.uel.ac.uk/library/new_books_sept_2008.htm
Please see the links below to view all the new books put into stock for July, August and September. Once you have click on the link, you can choose the subject area from the list on the left.
http://www.uel.ac.uk/library/new_books_july_2008.htm
http://www.uel.ac.uk/library/new_books_august_2008.htm
http://www.uel.ac.uk/library/new_books_sept_2008.htm
Thursday, 11 September 2008
New Olympic Archive for UEL
We have just been successful in securing £100K from the Joint Information Systems Committee for a one-year project to create a digital Olympics Archive. Our archive will be called East London Lives – a unique digital archive of ‘London 2012’. It will record and reflect on the process of social change in East London arising from hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games, focusing on two of the key Olympic promises - social regeneration and health and wellbeing.
It is a joint bid between three parts of our university - the London East Research Institute (Professor Gavin Poynter and Dr Iain Macrury), the Institute of Health and Human Development (Professor Adrian Renton) and Library and Learning Services. Our partner is the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.
It is a joint bid between three parts of our university - the London East Research Institute (Professor Gavin Poynter and Dr Iain Macrury), the Institute of Health and Human Development (Professor Adrian Renton) and Library and Learning Services. Our partner is the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.
Fashionfringe
http://www.fashionfringe.co.uk/
WHAT IS FASHION FRINGE?2008 is the fifth year of Fashion Fringe, the hottest thing to hit British fashion in the last 20 years. Created in 2004 by IMG global sports, entertainment and media company, under the creative direction of Colin McDowell MBE, the challenge is to re-invigorate the fashion industry in this country. Fashion Fringe is looking for cutting edge, iconoclastic talent in design and creativity to continue the tradition Britain has long been famous for.
WHAT IS FASHION FRINGE?2008 is the fifth year of Fashion Fringe, the hottest thing to hit British fashion in the last 20 years. Created in 2004 by IMG global sports, entertainment and media company, under the creative direction of Colin McDowell MBE, the challenge is to re-invigorate the fashion industry in this country. Fashion Fringe is looking for cutting edge, iconoclastic talent in design and creativity to continue the tradition Britain has long been famous for.
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Stuart Hall Library - INIVA
I visited the Stuart Hall Library yesterday and was very impressed. I will definitely be recommending it to our students.
And there is a fantastic exhibit on in their gallery too. See above image.
Friday, 5 September 2008
Fashion V Sport at the V & A, 5th August to 4th January
This exhibition explores the creative connections between the two worlds of fashion and sport. Recent developments have seen an increasing number of collaborations and hybrids, from fashion designers producing collections with sportswear brands to sports personalities heading fashion campaigns or even designing their own collections. Fashion V Sport will reveal the complexities and tensions between the two industries.
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Tate Library
I have been contacted by the Tate Library because they would really their facilities to be used more by students. I will be mentioning this in my inductions. They are part of SCONUL Access so our students can actually borrow from them.Monday, 1 September 2008
Carfts Council Research Library
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/about-us/press-room/view/2008/re-opening-of-the-crafts-council
Inspirational resource for those interested in Contemporary Craft
Inspirational resource for those interested in Contemporary Craft
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Caught in the web: New ways of reaching our students
FYI
Hedley Roberts and Nadine Edwards are both presenting at this event.
Friday 12th September 2008, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
Web 2.0 technology has been an exciting development in the information world for a while now, but for the first time Arlis is holding a short course on the topic, offering a national overview, an insight into ways in which art and design lecturers are engaging students with the technology, and some practical sessions run by art librarians. Although aimed primarily at art and design librarians, this course has plenty to offer librarians in all subject areas, and will stimulate ideas for your own work with students.
Martin de Saulles, University of Brighton; Sheila Webber, University of Sheffield and Nick Ross, University College of the Creative Arts are amongst the speakers appearing on the day.
Fees:
ARLIS members £85 Non- ARLIS delegates £105
ARLIS Student/unwaged members £42.50 Non-ARLIS Students £65
Retired member rate £63.75
Booking: Deadline 26th August - contact Natasha Held : arlis@vam.ac.uk.
For further information - contact Judith Preece j.a.preece@uel.ac.uk or Nicola Salliss N.Salliss@kingston.ac.uk
Hedley Roberts and Nadine Edwards are both presenting at this event.
Friday 12th September 2008, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
Web 2.0 technology has been an exciting development in the information world for a while now, but for the first time Arlis is holding a short course on the topic, offering a national overview, an insight into ways in which art and design lecturers are engaging students with the technology, and some practical sessions run by art librarians. Although aimed primarily at art and design librarians, this course has plenty to offer librarians in all subject areas, and will stimulate ideas for your own work with students.
Martin de Saulles, University of Brighton; Sheila Webber, University of Sheffield and Nick Ross, University College of the Creative Arts are amongst the speakers appearing on the day.
Fees:
ARLIS members £85 Non- ARLIS delegates £105
ARLIS Student/unwaged members £42.50 Non-ARLIS Students £65
Retired member rate £63.75
Booking: Deadline 26th August - contact Natasha Held : arlis@vam.ac.uk.
For further information - contact Judith Preece j.a.preece@uel.ac.uk or Nicola Salliss N.Salliss@kingston.ac.uk
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
British Printed Images Pre-1700 - Conference
BRITISH PRINTED IMAGES PRE-1700 **
Is a conference jointly organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum and
Birkbeck, University of London.
Venue: Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Auditorium, Sackler Centre
Date: Friday 12 & Saturday 13 September 2008
10.30-17.00
Cost: £110 for 2 days, £55 for 1 day, concessions available
This conference is about the status and role of early printed images in Britain
in books and elsewhere. There is an international line up of speakers.
Printed images were widely circulated in early modern Britain and they provide
vivid and revealing evidence about many aspects of the culture of the period.
Yet only recently have historians begun to give them proper attention, and
this conference will be one of the first to draw out their significance. Themes
will include the importance of printed images for the history of the Reformation
and post-Civil War politics, the emergence of new genres like topographical
engraving and mezzotint, and the place of prints in the developing consumer
market. Speakers will include Kevin Sharpe, Anthony Griffiths, John King, Justin
Campion, Michael Hunter and Alex Walsham.
The conference is linked to, and will showcase, an innovative project in the
form of the AHRB-funded British Printed Images to 1700 project, which will
make available pre-1700 prints in the British Museum and selected material
from the V&A and other collections.
In association with Birkbeck College, University of London Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
See the V&A website at
http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/courses/conferences/index.html#printed
for further details or attached for a copy of the Programme and the Birkbeck
Brochure.
You can book online via the V&A website or email bookings.office@vam.ac.uk
Is a conference jointly organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum and
Birkbeck, University of London.
Venue: Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Auditorium, Sackler Centre
Date: Friday 12 & Saturday 13 September 2008
10.30-17.00
Cost: £110 for 2 days, £55 for 1 day, concessions available
This conference is about the status and role of early printed images in Britain
in books and elsewhere. There is an international line up of speakers.
Printed images were widely circulated in early modern Britain and they provide
vivid and revealing evidence about many aspects of the culture of the period.
Yet only recently have historians begun to give them proper attention, and
this conference will be one of the first to draw out their significance. Themes
will include the importance of printed images for the history of the Reformation
and post-Civil War politics, the emergence of new genres like topographical
engraving and mezzotint, and the place of prints in the developing consumer
market. Speakers will include Kevin Sharpe, Anthony Griffiths, John King, Justin
Campion, Michael Hunter and Alex Walsham.
The conference is linked to, and will showcase, an innovative project in the
form of the AHRB-funded British Printed Images to 1700 project, which will
make available pre-1700 prints in the British Museum and selected material
from the V&A and other collections.
In association with Birkbeck College, University of London Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
See the V&A website at
http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/courses/conferences/index.html#printed
for further details or attached for a copy of the Programme and the Birkbeck
Brochure.
You can book online via the V&A website or email bookings.office@vam.ac.uk
Monday, 18 August 2008
Archetecture Book by UEL Grads
http://www.merrykawamuraganjavian.com/
I have just received a book entitled 'Loctorio Colon' written by Key Portillo-Kawamura and Ali Ganjavian, who are Uel graduates.
See above for a link to their website.
I have just received a book entitled 'Loctorio Colon' written by Key Portillo-Kawamura and Ali Ganjavian, who are Uel graduates.
See above for a link to their website.
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