The Gopher Hole is pleased to present ‘To see a world in a grain of sand’
An exhibition featuring three emerging artists from Chelsea College of Art & Design

Working in different media within the context of everyday life -the exhibition transforms the Gopher Hole into the world of spirituality

Artists include:
Francis Ky Chu
Jess Huang
Aixin Luo

Private view: Thursday 2 Feb, 6-9:30pm -with complimentary first drink(!)

The Gopher Hole (Sited in the basement of Cafe El Paso)
350—354 Old Street,
London, EC1V 9NQ

http://www.facebook.com/events/271210262944230/

Commonplace is launching a competition with cycling fanatics Milltag to design a London cycling jersey that truly celebrates London’s diverse history, culture and general brilliance! download full brief here.
The competition is open to all UAL students and starts today (Wednesday 25th Jan) and the deadline for submissions is Monday 5th March (but you can submit any time before then, with a final crit on the 7th March at High Holborn’s top floor Boardroom with Ed Cowburn (Milltag director) me, Siobhan Clay (commonplace co-ordinator) and three keen cycling UAL staff.

Prizes
The winning jersey will go on sale on Milltag with a percentage of profits going to the designer (they’ll also receive a £50 voucher plus two jerseys).

3 runners up will each receive 2 jerseys and a £20 voucher. We’ll hold an exhibition in early summer of the best and winning designs (venue to be confirmed, but it’ll be somewhere cycle fab).

What to do next
• You’ll need to have a look at the full brief here for design and submission details.
• Download the Milltag cycle jersey template
• Submit your design to commonplace by Monday 5th March (no bigger than 2mb – you’ll have to shrink your design!)
• Keep the crit time and date Wednesday 7th March 10.30-12pm free

If you’ve any questions, email us at commonplace@arts.ac.uk
GOOD LUCK!

Bosco Verticale Chorale – Benji Jeffrey

Date: Thursday 26 January 2012, 18.00 – 21.00 (with a performance starting every 30 minutes)

Venue: Inland, 25a Camberwell Church Street, SE5 8TR

BA Fine Art graduate Benji Jeffrey’s first solo show ‘Bosco Verticale Chorale’ is a serialistic composition for a small choir. The piece finds unexpected origins in a diagram describing the proposed organisation of plant life within the Bosco Verticale or Vertical Forest model. This model, conceived by the architect Stefano Boeri Architetti, consists of two eco-compatible residential towers that are currently under construction in Milan.

The project proposes the vertical densification of nature within the urban space to combat ongoing environmental collapse. Function becomes fantasy as Jeffrey’s piece deals with a conscious misunderstanding of the diagram and plays it out to the full.

A series of dialogues, found on the Inland website, accompany the performance, providing a fictional clarification of the artists intention. The diagram transforms to become both theater and fiction.

www.inlandstudios.co.uk

2012 Part-Time Job Fair

Wednesday 1st February, 12-4pm

The Blue Print Bar, 272 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EY

2012 is going to be a big year for London, with the Olympics and the Queens Jubilee, many events are going to be taking place across the capital. We’ve been working with Podium, the official FE & HE unit for the 2012 Games to create an Olympic themed 2012 Part-Time Job Fair. This year’s fair is focused on helping our students and graduates find part-time or temporary work running up to the Olympics and during the event.
At the fair you’ll have the opportunity to talk to over 15 employers and find out what type of jobs they have available and during the afternoon you can attend talks by Podium about volunteering at the 2012 games.

Come along to the 2012 Employment talks. Find out what’s available for you during and after the Olympics.

Hear from Podium, the HE unit of the 2012 games and CREATE jobs the creative industries legacy organisation. Book your ticket online

http://ual2012employmenttalks.eventbrite.com/