On 1st December, DocHouse presents a special screening of THE ARBOR + Director Clio Barnard In Conversation at Riverside Studios. Clio is a Chelsea Fine Art graduate is delighted to invite current students and staff at Chelsea College of Art and Design to this event.

As a special introductory promotion, DocHouse are offering Chelsea students a special FILM FOR A FIVER discount.

The Arbor has been hailed as a ‘remarkable film: conceptually acute, brilliantly realised, impossibly sad’ (The Daily Telegraph). A multi award-winning film, The Arbor has received five star-reviews from Timeout, The Guardian and The Telegraph to name but a few.

 We hope you can make it along to this unique screening and would be very grateful if you could share details of the event with your students via email or post on your website. For full details and to book tickets see here: http://www.riversidestudios.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.pl?l=1318586269

 DocHouse is the UK Centre for Documentary in the Cinema. If you would like to know more about us and/or the screenings then please take a look at our website www.dochouse.org or contact charlotte@dochouse.org

 Charlotte Balnave ~ DocHouse
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London W6 9RL
020 8237 1220 ~ www.dochouse.org

Graphic Design Communication at Chelsea have been invited to work exclusively with Comic Relief and Sports Relief. Six stage three students were invited for apply for three placement opportunities…and all six were all successful! Tom Brushwood, Daniel Cooper, Jack Haslehurst, Sophie Heath, Christian Jeffery and Emma Noble will be developing creative strategies to enhance this famous charity.

Red Nose Day has become something of a national institution since its launch in 1988. In 2011, more than £102 million was raised to transform lives. It just goes to show what a difference a Red Nose Day can make.

Bill Gosbee, Head of Creative Services of Comic Relief, adds: ‘Comic Relief’s greatest asset is its sense of humour and fun, cheeky tone of voice. We had a great meeting with the Chelsea student team and all the portfolios were pretty remarkable’.

Comic Relief home page: www.comicrelief.com/

Photo by Maria Panova

Last night, students  from the Chelsea’s Graduate Diploma in Interior Design presented their festive installation in the foyer of the Mint Hotel, in what has become and annual tradition for the course. This year’s Christmas tree which combines 21^st Century design with 19^th Century detail, was produced by Zahrasadat Moeinshirazi, Dominika Akuszewska, Justina Job, Fangyu Cheng, Jana Bartakova, Rita Lazrak and Mana Panova.

Photo by Leo Bieber leobieber.com

Photo by Leo Bieber leobieber.com

Photo by Maria Panova

The hotel is situated a few minutes walk from the college: http://www.minthotel.com/our-hotels/london-westminster

We would like to invite you to the private view of Chelsea College of Art and Design BA Fine Art graduate Alice Mendelowitz’s first solo show at Inland, En Dos Partes. We look forward to seeing you!

Private View: 25 November, 18.00 – 21.00

Open to public: 26 – 27 November, 12.00 – 15.00

Address: Inland, 25a Camberwell Church Street, London SE5 8TR

Inland is a gallery and studio space in Camberwell set up by 5 Chelsea College of Art and Design BA Fine Art alumni – Lauren Houlton, Keira Greene, Benji Jeffrey, Bella Marin and Alice Mendelowitz.

Twitter @InlandStudios

www.inlandstudios.co.uk

CLASHANDCONVERGEII

OPENING – 23 NOVEMBER, 5.00 – 7.30pm
Camberwell Space
Camberwell College of Arts
45 – 65 Peckham Road
London SE5 8UF

www.camberwell.arts.ac.uk/camberwellspace

Free entrance
 A Group Show of Moving Image Work from Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon (CCW)Colleges of Art and Design

 If you make sculptures, paintings or drawings people get the chance to see these as they walk around each others studios but if you work in moving image often your work only ever exists in the confines of your computer.

CLASHANDCONVERGEII will create a space where students from all three colleges, courses, levels and disciplines can share their practice and process. With the aim to generate a moving image community across CCW we invited anyone to submit any moving image work, from tests, first tries and experiments through to finished pieces, to be shown in the gallery context in a number of ways. The only rule was that it had to be three minutes or less.

CLASHANDCONVERGEII is part of the wider CCW Artist Moving Initiative which funds moving image projects across colleges, disciplines and years with the aim to make the most of the creative infrastructure of the art school whilst enabling students to work to industry standard briefs and have their work shown at public galleries.

www.ccwartistmovingimage.wordpress.com

For further information please contact:
Tatjana Gretschmann, Camberwell Space Gallery Co-ordinator
020 7514 6402 or email t.gretschmann@camberwell.arts.ac.uk

E mail: camberwellspace@camberwell.arts.ac.uk
www.camberwell.arts.ac.uk/camberwellspace

 Notes to Editors

1. For further information and images, contact: Tatjana Gretschmann on emailt.gretschmann@camberwell.arts.ac.uk.

2. Camberwell Space is an exhibition space at Camberwell College of Arts. The exhibition programme reflects the College’s interdisciplinary art and design curriculum and includes work by curators, critics and artists who are encouraged to realise experiments and projects which are innovative and international in outlook.

3. Camberwell College of Arts is one of the world’s foremost art and design institutions. Since 1898, it has had an international reputation for educating artists, designers and conservators to the highest levels, many of whom have become acclaimed practitioners including Cathy de Monchaux, Mike Leigh, Howard Hodgkin, Maggi Hambling, John Keane, Ewan Henderson, Humphrey Lyttleton, Gillian Ayres, Sarah Raphael and Tim Roth. www.camberwell.arts.ac.uk It is one of the six colleges of University of the Arts London, which is Europe’s largest University for arts, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. www.arts.ac.uk

A series of screenings and workshops in collaboration with the Women’s film distributor Cinenova.
3^rd – 11^th December 2011

Auto Italia in collaboration with Cinenova present Bodies Assembling, a series of screenings and workshops featuring moving image work selected by invited artists and activists.  Auto Italia have recently hosted the CCW Salon Series and encourage students to get involved with this current project.

Bodies Assembling strives to facilitate multiple readings or viewings of historical works from a current perspective, screening older film and video works from Cinenova’s collection alongside recent artistic and filmmaking practices. The construction of a temporary cinematic site at Auto Italia’s space will allow a discourse to develop that builds new relationships and knowledge.

Engaging with Auto Italia and Cinenova both as organisations but also as active communities of artists, the programme will express a range of diverse viewpoints on the struggles and feminisms present in the material distributed by Cinenova. Bodies Assembling will encourage discussion, collaborative practice and alternative approaches to the production and distribution of culture through film and video work.

Bodies Assembling will act as a forum to consider the contemporary legacy of the film and video work distributed by Cinenova reflecting on the similarities and differences of filmmaking and its various economic and political contexts.

A full timetable will be released in the next few weeks with a list of participants.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Rachal Bradley, Melissa Castagnetto, Emma Hedditch, Huw Lemmey, Irene Revell, Nina Wakeford, Jess Weisner (more TBC)

 VISITING INFORMATION
Auto Italia South East
434 – 452 Old Kent Road, London, SE1 5AG
www.autoitaliasoutheast.org
Admission free

PRESS INFORMATION
For further press information, photographs or to arrange interviews, please contact:
Marianne Forrest, Project Coordinator, marianne@autoitaliasoutheast.org

Students from Chelsea’s Gaduate Diploma Interior Design were awarded 3^rd place in this year’s American Institute of Architects (AIA) Charrette11.

This year the British Institute of Interior Design (BIID) collaborated with the American Institute of Architects (AIA) on their annual student charrette and it was opened up to Interior Design students.

Students were divided into groups for a day of intensive problem solving at the Architectural Association. This years’ challenge was to design an extension to the British Museum, The students were split into 9 teams and one mentor was appointed to each group before they received their brief. The teams visited the British Museum before going back to the Architectural Association to start their work. The groups had until 4.30pm to finish the assignment and creative sparks were flying.

The groups competed to produce the best solutions possible to a design assignment given at the beginning of the day and are guided by professional architects, interior designers and educators. Paul Finch CBE, head of Design Council CABE, chaired the jury and was joined on the judging panel by Graeme Brooker, head of Interior Educators, and Stephan Reinke, the first president of the AIA UK.

You can read more about the project here http://www.biid.org.uk/news/Charrette-11

And see pictures from the awards on the Facebook page here:  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.312153875465769.97199.278839132130577&type=3

If you’re a student and have a passion for filmmaking, this is your chance to prove it. Go head to head with student filmmakers across the world and enter your film into London’s first international student film festival.  SFF London film screenings will be one of multiple opportunities for filmmakers to showcase their talent. Networking events, workshops, and mentorship awards will create a space for industry experts and young ‘creatives’ to communicate and exchange ideas, sowing seeds for future development within the filmmaking industry. 

Competition Categories: Short Film, Fiction Film (over 45 min), Animation, Documentary Short, Documentary Feature (over 45 min), Music Video, Best 16mm 

Judges in these categories include:

Fiction Features: Dave Calhoun, Jabez Olssen and Simon Pegg

Fiction Shorts: Kevin Loader, Jonathan Morris, David Morrissey and Tim Robey

Documentary Features: Dominic Allan, Marc Isaacs and Gary Tarn

Animation: Nick Bradshaw, Barry Purves, Simon Quinn and Alexander Williams

Documentary Shorts: Lucy Bailey, Gavin Humphries and Andrew Thompson

Music Video: AlexandLiane, Otis Bell, Trudy Bellinger and John Hardwick

Best 16MM: FujiFilm

Submit your film before the 30th of November 2011.

 http://www.sfflondon.org/en/the-awards-how-to-submit.html

Following our introduction for Chelsea MA students to the Chelsea Salon Series on November 8th in the Triangle space at 5.00 pm we are holding an event in a space that we hope to be using in the future.  All CCW students are welcome.

Brunswick House is just over Vauxhall Bridge on the right and only a few minutes walk. It is a great venue with a wonderful bar and a zany collection of antique furniture. Jackson Boxer who runs the bar has incredibly generously donated the space to us exclusively on condition that everybody buys a drink which doesn’t sound too onerous!
It also has a stage. We are looking for volunteers who would like to do some performance with Chelsea Alumni and indeed for anybody who has ideas for performances which they would like to put forward to us.

http://chelseasalonseries.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-call-for-performance-brunswick.html

IT SHOULD BE FUN so do all come along!

 Monday 14 November  6-9 pm
Brunswick House
30 Wandsworth Road
Vauxhall
SW8 2LG

Laura Carew and Josh Y’Barbo

lacarew@gmail.com
joshuaybarbo@gmail.com

Away from the graphics studio, Chelsea Technician David Barnett has been in the spotlight following the success of his recent collaboration with Bruce McLean and Sam Belinfante: ‘A CUT A SCRATCH A SCORE: a comic opera in three parts’.

A CUT A SCRATCH A SCORE: a comic opera in three parts is a distinctive new performance and exhibition that was presented in three different public spaces in Dundee, a (botanic) Garden, a (city) Square and a (Cooper) Gallery. Combining opera, comedy, drawings, sculpture and moving images, the work acts as a stage for the city and its people, upon which the comedies of contemporary life strut, turn and take a bow.

The opera received a 4 star review in The Times which you can read here: http://www.exhibitions.dundee.ac.uk/images/a-cut-a-scratch-a-score-the-times-review.gif

Developed through a close collaboration between David Barnett, Sam Belinfante and Bruce McLean, the project widened its pool of authors over its five days to include the public and the city itself. As the artists themselves say “It is not enough to merely co-exist. This project is truly collaborative — it has developed through dialogue and co-authorship”. This collaborative focus presents a timely and cogent politics for all of us, a politics that is ‘to the left, to the right and in the middle’.

The opera also featured the renowned Mezzo-soprano Lore Lixenberg and performance artist Adeline Bourret with 60 musicians from three local choirs and the Dundee Drum Academy.

You can read more about the project here: http://www.exhibitions.dundee.ac.uk/acut.html