DingsdabumsdaIssue 19 Summer 2010GOOD NEWS EDITION

Contents

Lady Windermere’s Fan + Dracula

Annecy International Animation Festival

Alice in Wonderland

The Blue Palace

Experimental Typography

Summer Courses

Media Tour Bus

V Involved

Sweet Freaks Variety Show

The Paper Eaters

Cover illustration by Lisa Gault

Lady Windermere’s Fan

Lady Windermere’s fan is an unsual name for a play, and if you haven’t read the book by Oscar Wilde, it’s all the more thrilling to watch. Who was Lady Windermere, and what’s the relevance of her fan?

Set in London, 1895, this is a story of high society and low women, gossip, scandal and intrigue.

Lady Windermere (Polly Cockelle) is just 21, when she discovers her hus-band Lord Windermere (David England) has been frequenting the apartments of another woman, Mrs Erlynne (Emily Heron). He’s been paying the woman large sums of money, yet when con-fronted will not admit to the affair. Hurt and bewildered, Lady Windemere seeks solace from her friend Lord Darlington (Nicholas Farr), and is further humiliated when Mrs Erlynne arrives at her ball.

Faced with a husband she fears will leave her, a six-month old baby, and a friend who admits he’s in love with her, Lady Windermere is about to make the biggest mistake of her life. And the only one who can stop her is the villainous Mrs Erlynne.

Performed by acting students of the Arts University College Bournemouth, Lady Windermere’s Fan played at the Light-house, Poole from 11 to 13 February.

It was a thoroughly enjoyable production, and gripping from the very start. The acting was faultless, with Lady Windermere as fragile and innocent as Mrs Erlynne was robust and conniving. My heart went out to the ernest and falsely accused Lord Windermere, who loved his wife all along, and to Lord Darlington, whose angst over unrequited love was clear in his face, his voice, and his mannerisms.

This could easily have been a professional production, and the friends I took thought it was. It was not only the acting, but the props and period costumes that took our breathe away with every perfectly choreo-graphed set change. Classical music on the gramophone and a far off piano were used to create the changing moods, and every last detail was perfectly executed right down to the lighting, which illuminated the cast as they strolled off stage to watch the sunset on the terrace.

If you have’t seen a production by the AUCB, I would definitely recommend it.

A review by ‘Listed Magazine’.

BA Acting, BA Costume, and Fda Make Up

DraculaBA Acting, BA Costume, and Fda Make Up

Students on the Arts University College Bournemouth acting course should be thanking their lucky stars to have joined at a time when Ellie Nixon is in charge of productions. After last year’s aston-ishing ‘They Shoot Horses, Dont They’, performed by a huge ensemble in the ballroom of the Pavillion in Westover road, last week’s Dracula was an ap-petising prospect.And it certainly matched up in impact and invention, from the opening chorus to the bloody finale.Played on the main stage of Poole’s Lighthouse theatre (formerly the Town-gate), Ellie Nixon’s adaptation was drawn together as a collaborative effort with the students, and played without interval to increase the tension.The story is familiar, told here in a brilliantly balanced production that involved music, costume, lighting, film, model-making, multi media effects and animation combining into an intense and menacing effort, whether in the lowering corridors of a Transylvanian castle or a blustery afternoon on the North Yorkshire coast.The production team had worked with the local Oxfam branch to acquire clothing and fabrics to use for the costumes, stylised and gothic, sexy and spectral.Without exceptional performances at its gory core, Bram Stoker’s eternal story can rapidly turn to cartoon. Here the charismatic Kevin Leslie brought fear

to the hearts of the Poole matinee audience in a characterisation of physical power and agility and psychological compulsion.Jane Crawshaw and Becky Snellin captured the determination and powerless of Mina and Lucy.And James Benedict was a mesmerising Ren-field. The movement from the entire company was inventive, exciting and dangerous. The AUCB Dracula is one of the finest afternoons of drama I can remember seeing, demonstrating what can be done with inspiration and disci-pline.

A review by ‘Blackmore Vale Magazine’.

DraculaBA Acting, BA Costume, and Fda Make Up

Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde.

When it comes to choosing which productions we put on for the final showings, there are a number of factors that have to be taken into consideration.Firstly, the number of students in the year and the gender balance of the groups. We usually have to look for large cast plays in order for everyone to be able to have a part and one which gives them a reasonable amount of time on stage. However, most mod-ern plays have small casts as they are written for fringe theatres, or for companies which can’t afford to pay lots of actors. The majority of plays have more men than women in the cast, while acting courses usually have more women than men as students. This makes the choices available limited.We look for material which will give our students the chance to put into practise the skills and training they have developed over the previous two years and show them in a fully realised production. This involves giving our students different styles of theatre to work in, which will prepare them for the professional world, provide them with varied experiences and which will then enable them to compete in a very competitive market.The requirements for an actor to succeed are multifarious. They must be able to of-fer many skills and abilities, from improvisation and experimental creativity, through to handling very complex texts, like Shakespeare and Restoration drama. They must be prepared to do research into character and period background: historical, social, politi-cal. They must be able to recreate the speech patterns and etiquette of different eras. This was critically observed in the reviews for Lady Windermere’s Fan. ‘ It was clear from the beginning that this cast had done far more than simply learn their lines-the way they spoke, stood and sat was pure 19th century’. Scene One Magazine. Of course this detailed level of work can not be fully realised without the very professional input from the students from other courses. This includes work of the costume design-ers and assistants, and the work of the students on the make-up and illustration courses. Behind the scenes, other acting students are providing support working in stage -man-agement, lighting and sound. This year we gave our level six acting students two very different experiences, with pro-fessionally mounted productions , at The Lighthouse Theatre. The first play performed was Oscar Wilde’s ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’. As it was a classical play, this gave the students the opportunity to research and act, in a play, from a different time. They were required to, convincingly, portray characters from a particular social background. This meant that the actors were challenged by speaking sophisticated text and through sus-taining the emotional journey of characters over a specific time scale. The second show was a devised production of Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’, which made different demands on our students and challenged them in other, creative and imaginative ways. Both productions allowed the students the chance to put into practise, at a very profes-sional level, skills they had learned and developed over the course in Acting (psychologi-cal realism), Voice, Movement, Singing and Stage Combat.Ken Robertson (Director)Senior Lecturer in Acting

Broken Wave

Annecy International Animation FestivalBA Animation

Broken Wave: Chris Allen (director), Tara Baker (3rd year assistant), David Abiose (3rd year assistant)

Annecy International Animation Festival selected four of the BA (Hons) Animation Production 2009 graduation films for the ‘Graduation Films’ competition.

The animations are: Broken Wave, Lullaby (recent winner of RTS Students Televi-sion Society Awards 2009, Southern Region, Undergraduate Animation category,),

Lullaby

Lullaby: Nivk Hite (director), Emma Neesham (3rd year assistant)Broken Wave: Chris Allen (director), Tara Baker (3rd year assistant), David Abiose (3rd year assistant)

Paradis and Train of Thought (recent winner of Animex 2010, Experimental Anima-tion category and winner of 1st prize in the Super Shorts category at Skepto Film Festival, Italy)

Paradis

Paradis: Adrian Maganza (director), Polly Botham (3rd year assistant), Kit Man (3rd year assistant)

Annecy International Animation Festival is the big animation event of the summer where thousands of industry professionals, students and animation enthusiast come together for a week to celebrate animation from all over the world in Annecy, France.

Educational institutions are limited to entering 10 works, which makes it even more

Train of thought

Train of Thought: Ben Thomas (director), Leo Bridle (director), Tsu-Zin Kuo (3rd year assistant)

wonderful that a total of four have been chosen. This is the first time in several years that we have had entries accepted into the official competition and we are all thrilled. Especially since this year is Annecy’s 50th anniversary promising an even bigger event than usual with even more people in attendance.

Jodie GardnerBA Costume

Jodie Gardner graduated from BA (Hons) Costume with Performance Design in July 2009. Whilst in her final year she was commissioned to design for a production of Moon Fleet by the theatre company Angel Exit. This production toured the South of England including the Lighthouse. The course have been able to use Jodie’s accomplished design talents for a unit with second year costume students and first year make-up students for a production of Alice in Wonderland. Jodie has worked with both designers and makers and created extremely creative costume designs for our students to realise. This collaborative project that involved Costume, Make-up and Acting has been an extremely cohesive experience.

David MertaBA Illustration

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For more information visit www.aucb.ac.uk/summerseason

Pavilion Ballroom10th & 11th june

A performance event where costume comes to life

ballroom of illusion

In March, 10 AUCB students and 3 staff left the UK for the biggest film capital of the world, Mumbai, India. Their final destination was the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune. This exciting opportunity was provided by generous funding from the University College, hard earned money from the students themselves and around £9000 from the British Council. The students were drawn from BA Film Production and from BA Costume Design for Media & Performance levels 5 and 6. This project represents the best aspects of collaborative work within the Faculty of Media and Performance where Film, Acting and Costume students often work together. The invitation from FTII was to work with staff and students on their Film Directing, Acting and Art Direction courses in an exciting joint film venture. University College students were drawn by the excitement of studying and shooting in India, as well as the chance to work with professional feature film technology such as 35mm film.

The resulting film called ‘The Blue Palace’ was written by FTII Film Directing student, Renu Sawant and then developed collaboratively with the AUCB Director Kim Jarrett and the AUCB Producer Jesse Jokela. Renu, Jesse and Kim communicated via telephone, Skype, email and through rare, face to face meetings during the ‘recce’ in January and Renu’s subsequent visit to the University College in February, a genuinely joint effort.

The rest of the AUCB crew, Dave Tallon, David Pedrick, Martyna Knitter, Toby Browne, Alex Woodward, Sarah Pearce, Lily-Ann Markham and Matt Taylor bonded well with their Indian counterparts. FTII was extremely welcoming giving us a dedicated office, computer and telephone on their fabulous campus. FTII is based in the world famous Prabhat studios established in the 1930s but which was completely unused by the 1960s when FTII was established. AUCB students got the opportunity to work in the original, enormous studios, complete with ropes, wooden scaffolding and archaic film equipment. By engaging in the universal language of film, cultural differences were explored and cultural barriers were crossed. Our students quickly got down to discussing production details with the FTII students, whilst AUCB

The Blue PalaceFaculty of Media and Performance

and FTII staff exchanged ideas on the practicalities of location work, particularly on the tricky problem of using sync–sound. Most Indian films are dubbed afterwards and at FTII they are lucky enough to have a vast surround sound studio. There were heated discussions about shooting in English or Hindi or even in Marathi (the main language of the state of Maharashtra in which Pune is located). We will have to wait for the film release to see what was decided…

The first two weeks were dedicated to running auditions and to scouting for locations and some amazing settings in and around Pune were visited. One location in particular, a beautiful temple on the banks of a river in Wai, was chosen for a fantasy sequence in The Blue Palace. Other locations included a motor rickshaw stand, the inside and outside of a chawl (a 4 or 5 storey tenement building) and a specially designed fairground tent built for the shoot on the grounds of FTII.

AUCB staff say they have been positively changed by the experience of working with colleagues in such a culturally rich environment. This is despite the challenges of working with the complex Indian visa system, negotiating the bureaucracy of a publically funded institution like FTII and managing the sheer logistics of planning a month long study trip for students that also involved film making. Susie Elliott’s fine organisational skills were tested to the limit. As the BA Film production manager it was Susie’s job to make sure there was kit, transport and money to enable the film to happen. Digby Elliott, the AUCB cinematography tutor, used his extensive industry experience to help students capture the stunning settings and ambience of India and David Munns, the course leader for BA Film Production, stayed for the entire month, provided guidance and support, domestic and creative, to the project.

Students too, were deeply affected by the experience. One student, who had never been out of the UK before, wholeheartedly embraced the chance to study in India, thoroughly frightening the staff in our first week by eating a whole array of unusual, wonderful, but often uncooked, Indian food!

On 10th May staff and students from the Film and Television Institute are joining us at the University College to take part in the second ‘chapter’ of The Blue Palace project. The sound designer, editor and assistant

producer, all from FTII, will be working with staff and students in our post-production facilities and we look forward to the chance to return the kind hospitality we received in Pune.

This was a memorable trip for everyone involved and its success is testimony to the dedication of AUCB staff and students in their engagement with professional creative practice, whether it is round the corner or across the globe. We are hoping to premiere The Blue Palace as part of our summer graduation showcase.

Kavita HaytonHead of School of Media

Experimental TypographyBA Graphic Design, BA Illustration, BA Visual Communication

How well do you know the tourist attractions in the Bournemouth area?

This was a question posed to us by Graphic designer Kari Ojapelto from Lahti Institute of Design in Finland. We took part in a multi-disciplinary project including chosen students from Illustration, Graphic Design and Visual Communication from the Arts University College at Bournemouth. Overall there were 17 of us set to tackle the task of producing Bournemouth tourism poster designs, with the main emphasis on playing around with the conventions of typography.

The workshop lasted for five days between 8th to 12th March 2010. Each student was given a local attraction to promote and explore, being asked to breathe new light into the typical sights such as the pier, the beach and The Bournemouth Air Show, or drawing new exposure to less well-known sights and events such as The Triangle, Bournemouth Beer festival and The Bournemouth Ink Tattoo Convention.

Over the five days all of the students participated in lectures, teamwork and individual design work. The students were given free reign to have fun with materials, with letters being created from anything from twigs to whipped cream to ladies underwear. The week ended with a diverse selection of seventeen overall posters, exhibited on 12th March in The Arts Bar.

A representative from Bournemouth Tourism visited the Arts University College at Bournemouth, enjoying a fresh take on the idea of exploring tourism through the means of experimental typography.

Kari has taken his ‘Travelling Letters’ workshop to design institutions all over Europe. All of the posters, including those

Experimental TypographyBA Graphic Design, BA Illustration, BA Visual Communication

produced at the Arts University, will be shown in the Calligraphy & Experimental Typography Exhibition in Lahti, Finland, September 2010. A group of the participating students have made initial arrangements to view the posters and partake in further workshops.

The local library in Bournemouth also showed interest in exhibiting the posters, which will be on view for the public between 8th June until 12th July 2010.

Overall the experience has been a fruitful and exciting one. Students from different courses were given the chance to collaborate and share ideas in a lively working environment, developing new working relationships across different disciplines.

Holly Mills and Krister SelinBA (Hons) Illustration

What are you doing this summer? The University College now offers a range of 3 - 8 week specialist summer courses. When you join one of our summer courses you will have the opportunity to meet industry profes-sionals and find out why the UK has always been an influential creative resource. To find out more please visit us at: www.aucb.ac.uk Music Video 5th of July – 23rd of July, (3 weeks) Since the early 1960s, The British music industry has dominated the world stage; the in-ternational market place regularly employs the talents of British music video directors. You will be work alongside industry experts who will share their knowledge with you. Photography 5th of July – 30th of July, (1 – 4 weeks) Our portfolio of summer photography courses is designed to cater for every level of com-petence; from complete novice to advanced photographer, there is a program here to fit your ability. Each successive course can be completed individually or as a comprehensive 4 week programme. Film Directing 26th of July – 17th of September, (8 weeks) A course designed specifically for filmmakers who want to learn to direct a professional crew and actors. This course is for people either working in the creative industries looking for a career move or students wishing to fast-track their film education. To book a place on any of the above courses please contact the short course office by phone or email. Phone: +44 (01202) 363222 or + 44 (01202) 853608 Email: scourses@aucb.ac.uk studyabroad@aucb.ac.uk

Summer CoursesEnterprise Pavillion

Jodie GamblenBA Illustration

Gemma SummerellBA Textiles

The DistanceCraig Norman

The Distance is a play about the distance that grows between people: a married couple, a father and son and a mother and son.

The play centres on a couple, Darby and his wife, Alex. It is set sometime in the future, a future which is frightening and threatening. Throughout the play, there is the sense of an ‘army’ coming for the characters, possibly just for them, just for their baby or for all of them; the sense is of a very real outside threat against which the drama unfolds. The first half of the play explores the distance between Alex and Darby, contrasting the people they were in the past with the people they have become in the present. By the end of the first act of the play, which takes place entirely in their home, and in which we are also introduced to Darby’s mother Nora and hear the relentless crying of their baby son, Alex has seemingly committed an horrific and intensely violent act.

The second half of the play introduces Alex’s father, Peter and we see how and begin to understand why he and his daughter have become estranged. The scenes between Alex and Peter are alternated with scenes between Darby and his mother Nora, and the suggestion is of their close relationship slowly unravelling as a result of what has happened in the first act. At the play’s conclusion, Darby and Alex are re-united but it seems their relationship is lost forever….

It’s hard to remember exactly when and why I started writing The Distance....I distinctly remember where.....it was on the beach in Bournemouth and for some reason, I wanted to write something set not too far in the future. I think I just started writing to see what would happen.... I remember being really influenced by the film ‘Children Of Men’, in that it was a vision of the future that seemed, to me, not completely unrealistic. It wasn’t all gleaming skyscrapers and space age a la Blade Runner; London was a grey, dirty, bombed out and broken

down capital city in a world in which society had collapsed, illegal immigrants were persecuted, the environment continued to suffer and terrorism was rife. I was also interested in the idea of ‘a culture of fear’ and how we all deal with what we’re frightened of in very different and contrasting ways. On top of all that, as I continued to write, I discovered that, in terms of the married couple in the play, I was interested in exploring how close relationships can change so drastically over time and not only relationships but the people in them. I wanted to explore how someone can end up changing so much from the person they used to be and the reasons for that change; is it because that person is unable

The DistanceCraig Norman

to shake off past childhood events, has the person they’ve chosen to spend their life with altered them, a combination of all of that and more? And as the story and the characters developed, I also wanted to explore how the events of the play pull the two main characters to and propel them away from their respective parents and how those relationships change when the stakes are as high as they can be. I put all that into the mix, stirred it all up and a play began to form.....for some reason, I also wanted to set myself the challenge of writing an entire first act as one scene!

Navamon UdyaninBA Illustration

Lucy EvansBA Illustration

As Great Britain looks forward in anticipation to the London 2012 Games RELAYS (Regional Educational Legacy for Arts and Youth Sport) will engage with and inspire young people and their communities in the South West. Through an exciting range of festivals, events and school-based activities, RELAYS aims to raise aspirations by delivering an innovative and stimulating activity programme. Young people can get involved in a whole host of events running throughout the region up to, including and beyond 2012. RELAYS events incorporate an eclectic mixture of sport and cultural elements, ranging from film projects, competitions and festivals to music and dance festivals and school sports events. Young people from across the region’s Higher Education Institutions (HEI’s) and communities will be encouraged to volunteer and get involved with the planning and running of RELAYS events. They will be given the opportunity to call the events their own thereby making a positive impact on their communities. Students within HEI’s are being offered the opportunity to work on RELAYS events to share their skills, knowledge and enthusiasm of the arts with young people and communities. Students will benefit from their input into the RELAYS project by gaining extra qualifications and experience to add to their CV, therefore becoming more employable for the future and standing out from the rest.

If you are interested in the opportunities available or you would like to find out some more information, please contact Jo Gardner, Cultural Coordinator, based at The Arts University College at Bournemouth on 01202 363745, or email jgardner@aucb.ac.uk.

A double decker bus with a difference visited the Arts University College at Bournemouth (AUCB) on Friday 26th March, giving school children from Oakmead College of Technology and AUCB students the opportunity to produce a short ‘spoof-style’ film about the 1908 Olympic Games held in London.

Looking very much like a standard double decker bus on the outside (albeit a very colourful one), the ‘tardis-like’ Media Bus, has been cleverly converted inside into an innovative state-of-the-art digital media facility. Founded in 2009 by the team at Poole’s White Lantern Film, the project aims to bring formal and informal training and educational opportunities to rural and disadvantaged communities across the region.

In 1908 the fourth official modern Summer Olympic Games were held in London at the White City Stadium. These Games were originally planned to be held in Rome, however due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 7th April 1906, the new venue of the Games was awarded to London.

Working alongside the Arts University College at Bournemouth’s Digital Media Production lecturer, the Costume course,

the Widening Participation Project Officer and the RELAYS Cultural Coordinator, the Media Bus assisted with the filming and editing of the students’ short film.

The script had been devised by the Oakmead College of Technology’s Year 10, 11 and 12 pupils the day before the Media Buses visit onto the AUCB campus in preparation to bring these historic Games back to life but with a fun twist, in turn raising people’s awareness of the London 2012 Games.

‘Our media students were very excited about this opportunity to work with RELAYS, the AUCB and the Media Bus to develop their skills and they had so much fun doing it’, states Alexa Munn, Head of Media from Oakmead College of Technology. ‘This project has most certainly helped to inspire our students that want to enter into a career within the Creative Media Sector and has provided them with a positive experience to help make that happen.’

Students from Digital Media Production and Costume assisted with the running and delivery of the project and were able to offer their expertise and knowledge to the pupils visiting from Oakmead College.

RELAYS, the Regional Educational Legacy for Arts and Youth Sport, organised the visit as

Media Tour BusRelays

part of a regional tour designed to engage young people in the South West in the 2012 Games.

‘Working with Media Bus has been really exciting for us,’ explains Leanne Dingle, Project Director for RELAYS. ‘This bus is truly amazing. The young people involved in the project have had a unique chance to learn about film creation, editing and production. Focusing on the 1908 London Olympic Games as a theme has been a great tool to enthuse young people about the 2012 Games. The absurdity surrounding some of the events during the 1908 Games, including the Italian Athlete, Dorando Pietri, being assisted to the finish line during the Marathon and consequently disqualified, resulted in a fun and uplifting experience for all involved!”

The Media Bus Managing Director, Darren Nicholson, adds: “The Media Bus concept was created to fill a gap in the educational and training market by taking facilities and space to the people who would benefit from it the most. It’s great to be able to combine that aim with getting young people thinking about the 2012 Olympics by looking back at the 1908 Games held in London.”

The Media Bus is fully kitted out with high-end digital media technology, including a number of high-definition still and video cameras, with 11 iMacs and three Mac Pro Final Cut Edit Suites, which run a range of software including

digital film editing and sound mixing software, and various Adobe packages. It will be touring around the South West throughout the month of March, visiting several of the region’s universities and hoping to engaging teenagers from all areas.

The RELAYS project seeks to engage young people in the South West in sporting and cultural events in the run up to the London 2012 Games. Led by Universities South West, through a network of regional universities and cultural organisations, RELAYS aims to blend youth sport and cultural in a vibrant mixture of activities across the region in the build up to the 2012 Games. It is funded by Legacy Trust UK, an independent charity that has been set up to help build a lasting cultural and sporting legacy from the 2012 Olympic Games and HEFCE (The Higher Education Funding Council for England).”

For more information about this story or the RELAYS project please visit www.universitiessouthwest.ac.uk/relays or contact: Rachel Jenkins on 01392 454104

For more information about The Media Bus please visitwww.themediabus.co.uk or contact: on

The regional RELAYS (Regional Educational Legacy in Arts and •Youth Sport) is a £3.1million project which will deliver an ambitious, flexible programme of linked cultural and sporting events. The project is grounded in education and aims to inspire a generation of young people and diverse communities throughout South West England. RELAYS is run by Universities South West in conjunction with its partners Lyme Regis Development Trust, The Works and Watershed. The project is funded by Legacy Trust UK and HEFCE. Website: www.universitiessouthwest.ac.uk/relays Universities South West is the regional higher education association •for South West England. It provides a forum for the 13 Universities and Higher Education Colleges in the region to work together. It aims to extend higher education’s contribution to sustainable regional development and to influence and shape the social and economic agenda in the South West region by appropriate joint action. Website: www.universitiessouthwest.ac.uk Legacy Trust UK’s mission is to support a wide range of innovative •cultural and sporting activities for all, which celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and leave a lasting legacy in communities throughout the United Kingdom. Legacy Trust UK has been established as a charitable trust to use funding endowed by the Big Lottery Fund, Arts Council England and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Website: www.legacytrustuk.org HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) distributes •public money for teaching, research and related activities. In 2008-09 HEFCE will distribute over £9 billion to universities and colleges in England. Website: www.hefce.ac.uk

Carolin GiessnerND Art and Design

Lisa GaultBA Fine Art

Gillian GoodridgeBA Fine Art, PT year 3

Pernille OlsenBA Fine Art

Volunteering with ‘vinvolved’

There are some great projects that are happening in Bournemouth and Poole with ‘Vinvolved’. They provide loads of opportunities to get involved with a range of creative things from film and music to peer support and working with the Bournemouth and Poole community. I began helping out as a peer mentor for a youth magazine designed and created by young people in Bournemouth who have a disability called ‘The Chatterboxes’. It is a great idea to ensure that they are not excluded from the community as it is full of activities that are available for young disabled people and their families to do in the local area. It’s great to be helping with something that is so constructive and creative and that really benefits everyone that attends. It engages them in imaginative ways and gives them a sense of achievement knowing that they’ve created something from scratch themselves. The magazine is hopefully an inspiration as to what they can do. Currently I am also helping

out in a group called ‘Youth Action Team (YAT)‘ with the groups aim; to change young people’s perception that volunteering is “uncool” and in turn encourage people who would never had considered volunteering to help the community whilst getting something back themselves. I have met new young people who are very passionate and dedicated and it is a great way of finding out about what is going on around Bournemouth and Poole that I wouldn’t otherwise know about, as I am not local to the area. A recent project that we have been working with is to organise the ‘Young Stars of Bournemouth Awards’, an awards ceremony that’s taking place at the Royal Bath Hotel to celebrate young people’s achievements with ‘V’ and ‘Bournemouth Youth Service’. Ideas and the organising team are all constructed by the volunteers with guidance from the youth workers. If you get bored really easily, I am sure that whatever you are interested in, ‘V’ will have something for you, or definitely guide you in the right direction.

Rachel MarcuzziBA Arts + Events Management

Categories For Young Stars Event 2010

Arts Star Award-: A young person who has shown dedication and •enthusiasm to music, drama, dance, art, creative writing or poetry.

Sports Star Award-: A young person who has shown outstanding •sportsmanship, dedication and peer support to others to promote sports and a healthy lifestyle.

Aspirational Role Model Award-: A young person who has inspired •other young people to succeed or to make positive choices.

Young Local Hero Award-: A young person who has shown courage, •strength of character or has carried out an act of bravery.

Young Star of The Future Award-: A young person who has shown a •real potential to achieve great things in the future in any area.

Triumph Over Adversity Award-: A young person who has made •positive changes in their lifestyle, education, relationships and attitudes.

Young Carer Award-: A young person who cares for another or •others selflessly.

Outstanding Contribution to the Community Award-: This award is to •acknowledge a young person who has given time and dedication to support their local or the global community.

Young Entrepreneur-: A young person who has developed a new •enterprise, venture or idea and assumes significant responsibility for it.

Most Successful Young Team-: A group of young people who •

promote the ethos of good team work.

V InvolvedYoung Star Award

Organised by a team of third year Arts and Event Management students and hosted by the wonderfully crude compare, Ophelia Bitz, Sweet Freaks Variety Show was a spectacular event of well complimented acts and pure talent which tantilised the freaks in all of us! The main show delivered a whole new meaning to the cabaret world, featuring magical mayhem, an accordionist extrordinaire, a bearded lady and a bed of nails, topped off with tail shakers Top Shelf Jazz!With added extra sauce from the amazing skiffle band Quinns Quinney to sexy ladies showcasing fresh designs from the new AUCB corestry course, Sweet Freaks was an all round show and heart stopper with entertainment seeping from all corners of the beautifully peculiar venue Rubyz Cabaret Restaurant. Hayley Graham

Sweet Freaks Variety ShowSunday 25th April @ Rubyz

Throughout April, BA Fashion second year have been working with Selfridges artists-in-residence; The Girls. The Ultralounge, in the London department store was turned into “The Paper Eaters- Long Live The Photo Story”; a live ‘arts experience’ where The Girls acted as editors-in-chiefs of old school style photo-story Zines. Having completed a foundation degree at AUCB, Zoe invited BA Fashion to collaborate with the event, setting a brief of 80’s inspired ‘tat’ and to consider the use of paper. Students created paper jewellery, dresses and even wigs which were displayed in the Ultralounge, which was was transformed into a space reminiscent of a girly teen bedroom (complete with Care Bears and an assortment of weird and wonderful hair products). One student; Jessica Jarvis, created a paper wardrobe in which visitors could try on the giant paper doll-esque cut outs and have their photograph taken. While another student, Justine McKee, set up an interactive installation filled with oversized paper origami birds that took up an entire wall. Students also appeared as contributors within the Zines, producing bizarre illustrations and quirky photo-shoots.With the event over The Girls plan on continuing the Zines to online editions, keeping a close working relationship with the students. Watch this space!

The Girls website- www.thegirls.co.uk

Working with ‘The Paper Eaters’Hattie Hignell BA Fashion

Working with ‘The Paper Eaters’

On Wednesday 21 April the Students’ Union organised this year’s sports, clubs and societies event in Aruba at the Pier in Bournemouth. All students were welcome to attend this free event with a buffet and drinks supplied by the SU. It was a chance for the students who attend the clubs to mix with the students who were interested in joining.

The Students’ Union encourages all students to attend the AUCB sports and societies or even start up their own. All of the clubs and societies are run and funded by the Students’ Union with the students contributing either a small registration fee or ‘pay as you go’ each term. If you are interested in joining or starting a club then contact studentunion@aucb.ac.uk for more information.

Students’ Union Sports, Clubs and Societies social@ Aruba

Students’ Union Sports, Clubs and Societies social

Hello everyone, we just wanted to say goodbye and thank you for all your support during our residency. Our time working at the Students’ Union has been a valuable and memorable experience, and we are glad to have been a part of the AUCB’s development this year.

We hope you have enjoyed the various events and entertainment we have organised for you during our time here, and we want to thank all of you who participated.

We are confident that the new Sabbatical Officers’ who will take over our positions for the next academic year will provide a new approach as to how the Students’ Union is run.

Good luck with the rest of your studies,

Max and Krishna

Krishna Malla Direction + Design

Max GalbraithJournalism

Rebekah IsaacJournalism

Ken RobertsonSL BA Acting

Anne TerkelsenTD BA Animation

Jodie GardnerBA Costume

David MertaBA Illustration

Kavita HaytonCL BA Film

Holly MillsBA Illustration

Krister SelinBA Illustration

Enterprise Pavilion

Gemma SummerellBA Textiles

Gillian GoodridgeBA Fine Art PT

Kate RowlandBA Illustration

Pernille OlsenBA Fine Art

Rachel MarcuzziBA Arts and events

Hayley GrahamBA Arts and Events

Hattie HignellBA Fashion

And a big thank you to the SU exec team, sports, societies, and clubs.

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Craig NormanITCS

Navamon UdyaninBA Illustration

Lucy EvansBA Illustration

Carolin GiessnerND Art + Design

Lisa GaultBA Fine Art

Jodie GamblenBA Costume graduate