Culture & Arts
And don't forget the latest exhibitions at the Yorkshire Craft Centre
| Mourning The Loss of Rajen Kothari Continued collaboration and new developments will be lasting legacy of Rajen Kothari, the internationally acclaimed cinematographer, writer, director and passionate educationalist who founded Whistling Woods International, Asia’s largest film, television, animation and media arts institute in Mumbai, who died on 1st October 2012. |
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| Antony Markets His Design Skills A speculative branding design for Kirkstall Abbey Markets by Extended Diploma in Graphic Design student Antony Gibbons has been taken up the company. |
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| Announcing details of Bradford Textile Archive's Design Award 2012/13 Revealing the competition brief, and samples from the archive for design inspiraration, for this annual competition held as part of the prestigious Bradford Textile Society Design Awards. |
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| First of Many Film Premieres For Our Students Our students enjoyed seeing the culmination of their work at the premiere of the BYFA produced feature film of Richard II and looked forward to working on this summer's film. |
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| College Celebrates Great Yorkshire Fashion Although epic rain closed this year's Great Yorkshire Show after just one day, there was still time to thrill audiences in the Fashion Pavilion will student designs fit for a queen! |
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| Bradford School of Arts & Media Fashion Show 2012 The shows staged on 28th June were acknowledged by everyone to be our most spectacular yet! You can see coverage of all the collections here. |
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| Framing Olympic Innovation Exhibition The culmination of our Olympic project - our innovative show featuring the work of students, staff and alumni celebrates local links, legacy and international aspirations to London 2012. |
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| Bradford School of Arts & Media Summer Show 2012 Highlights of our annual end of year explosion of creativity! |
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| Concert and Lecture by Bollywood Music Star Rashid Ali A delightful day learning from and listening to this successful and accomplished musician, with his magical mix of flamenco, jazz, Arabic and Indian music. |
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| Announcing Ilford Photo's Artisan Analogue Photography Courses Great news for new and more experienced photographers wanting to learn the craft of black and white photography! The Yorkshire Craft Centre will be hosting a series of one and two day courses delivered by industry professionals in September 2012. |
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| Yum! Delicious Food Art Promotes Healthy Living Students on the second year of Bradford School of Arts & Media’s Extended Diploma in Photography immersed themselves in food, glorious food, recently for a community arts project related to sports, fitness and healthy eating. |
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| Diamond Jubilee Tea Dance! Bradford College and Kala Sangam held a vintage tea dance and entertainment at St Peter's House on Thursday 31st May. Staff, students and alumni worked together to put on a party evoking the spirit of the Coronation with a modern twist. |
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| Put on your shades and prepare to be dazzled by brilliance! Bradford School of Arts & Media’s Summer Show 2012 will be displaying final work by the brightest talents around! |
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| College’s Precious Textile Archive and Fashion Students Help Spin Golden Threads Volumes from the Indian Collection in the College's Textile Archive, and a response to them by students on Bradford School of Arts & Media's Extended Diploma in Fashion & Textiles, have helped to tell the the story of Bradford's textile heritage and its links to modern Bradford in an exhibition which is part of the Cultural Olympiad. |
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| College success at the 2012 Bradford Textile Society Design Awards Current and former students of Bradford School of Arts & Media enjoyed great success at this year’s Awards ceremony held at the Rio Grande Banqueting Centre on 2nd May. |
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| Inspired by the Olympics! We are celebrating London 2012 with our own mammoth Olympic campaign. A series of fabulous speakers have inspired students by sharing their experiences of previous Olympics Games or their preparations for London 2012, and work based on this will feature in two forthcoming exhibitions and in a competition judged by Official Olympic Artist, Darren Baker. |
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| Ashley serves up a carnival cocktail! When first year students from Bradford School of Arts & Media’s BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Illustration & Digital Media course were asked to create posters to promote the forthcoming Carnival of Technology, Ashley Jenkins devised a delicious design! |
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| Yadgar's Journey MA Visual Arts student Yadgar Ali Bagzada shares his incredible journey and talent. |
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| The Obsessions of Steven Appleby The many obsessions of author/illustrator Steven Appleby made compulsive viewing for students and staff at Bradford School of Arts & Media when he delivered a fascinating talk and workshop thanks to our sponsortship of BAF. |
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| MA Visual Arts Work in Progress 2012 An exhibition showcasing the diverse work and ongoing research interests of students on this programme. |
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| Tom's Art Feeds The Imagination Tom Rutherford fulfills a lifetime's ambition by curating an exhibition featuring his work, Observation Feeds The Imagination. |
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| Samuel sends software orbital! Samuel Wyatt, who is in the third year of his BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Illustration & Digital Media course, has won not one, but two iPads in a competition held by Salford Software, to name and brand the College's new online and mobile student portal. |
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| Visions First year BA (Hons) Photography students from Bradford School of Arts & Media share their visions of Bradford, reflecting all that is special about the city and district we love, with exhibitions in City Hall and Lister Mills. Prints sales support Marie Curie Cancer Care and the Haematology Unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary. |
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| Couples A marriage of writer Michael Stewart's poems with the sculpture and art of Bradford School of Arts & Media Lecturer Carole Griffiths has created an absorbing exhibition at South Square in Thornton. |
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| A Plague On Both Your Houses A powerful retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by our talented second year BTEC Level Extended Diploma in Performing Arts students,influenced by the work of Antonin Artaud. |
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| Trevor Frames The Nation Trevor Griffiths has set this challenge for Harman Photo’s annual student competition exploring the local impact of the 2012 Olympics. |
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| Encouraging Sensible Drinking - our students take the campaign viral A group of our BA (Hons) Graphic Design Illustration & Digital Media students aim to get everyone talking about Alcohol Awareness. |
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| Superstudio Bound for Book Project International Marseille Staff and alumni from Bradford School of Arts & Media have combined with two fellow artists from the University of the West of England to exhibit their unique artists’ books at the Book Project International in Marseille. |
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| An unforgettable opportunity - learning from Magnum Photographer Donovan Wylie As Outposts,the eagerly awaited exhibition by Donovan Wylie, opens at the National Media Museum we reflect on the incredible learning opportunities Bradford’s Photography Fellow for 2010/11 has given our students. |
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| Science Breakfast To celebrate the British Science Festival being hosted by Bradford and to showcase the contribution and developments at at Bradford College, a tasty Science Breakfast event was served at the Yorkshire Craft Centre. On the menu were two special exhibitions, three presentations, extracts from a new production and a satellite conversation with one of our Scientific Heroes, Mike Dinn. |
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| Faster Than The Speed of Light An inspirational weekend of seminars and workshops exploring developments in traditional and digital photography. |
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| Performing Arts Summer Season 2011 Highlights of Bradford School of Arts & Media's Performing Arts and Music students' season of shows including drama, comedy, physical theatre, music and dance. |
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| Bradford School of Arts & Media Summer Show 2011 Highlights of the brightest emerging art school talent from our degree and pre-degree programmes. |
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| Bradford School of Arts & Media Fashion Show 2011 Fashionistas' favourite! Our annual fashion spectacular thrilled audiences at the National Media Museum on 20th June with student and graduate fashion collections and an exciting international dimension. |
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| Art Auction Aids Help For Heroes Dale Cochrane, Lecturer at Bradford School of Arts & Media, raised a substantial sum for the charity Help For Heroes by mounting a special art auction of work by College staff and students. |
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| Lauren's Design Fur-nominal! BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Illustration and Digital Media final year student Lauren Ford has won one of ten special commendations in this year's Design Against Fur competition and career boosting exposure. |
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| Ian carves a woodland wonderland Artist and Lecturer, Ian Taylor's carvings on stones within Buck Woods are adding another dimension to discovering the natural beauty and history of the Thackley woodland. |
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| Bradford School of Arts & Media's Summer Shows 2011 The Lister Building and the Yorkshire Craft Centre will be bursting at the seams with creativity around every corner for one wonderful week as students from all Bradford School of Arts & Media's degree and pre-degree courses exhibit their fabulous final work! All the dates for your diary for this plus the Fashion Show and Performing Arts Shows. |
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| Filming Richard II Five students from Bradford School of Arts & Media's National Diploma in Performing Arts programme begin five weeks of location filming in July after landing the starring and leading roles in feature film of Shakespeare's Richard II. |
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| One Surface: A Textile View of New York Students from Bradford School of Arts & Media's BA (Hons) Contemporary Surface Design & Textiles programme enjoyed an intensive and inspirational five day research visit to New York for professional development and cultural inspirations. |
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| Student Posters highlighting the plight of the homeless find a home in the Urban Garden Another outcome of the major project undertaken by students from our BA (Hons) Graphic Design Illustration & Digital Media working with a group of former homeless learners in conjunction with Artworks Creative Communities. |
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| Graham's Textile Achievements in the Spotlight Graham Preston, Assessor Trainer for Textiles Fashion at Bradford School of Arts & Media has been attracting lots of positive attention with his designs, with a magazine feature about his work and two prizes at the recent Bradford Textile Society Awards. |
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| Barry Purves presents the Best of BAF The Oscar and BAFTA award nominated animator and director used highlights from Bradford Animation Festival and his own career to offer guidance to budding animators. |
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| Priscilla Students from level two of the Foundation Degree in Make-up Artistry & Special Effects were asked to design and create wigs, make-up and costumes for a theatrical production of Stephan Elliott’s Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and the results were absolutely spectacular. |
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| International Design Competition Winner heads to New York Jane Bridges, who is in her second year of studying towards her BA (Hons) Contemporary Surface Design & Textiles degree at Bradford School of Arts & Media, has won a prestigious design prize enabling her to showcase her work at SURTEX, an influential international trade show in New York. |
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| Documenting Fictions A fascinating conference concerned with visual representation in documentary photography and film as well as art film, initiated by the MA Visual Arts programme at Bradford School of Arts & Media. |
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| As I Walked Out... Superb empathy inspiring devised theatre exploring themes of migration by our first year National Diploma in Performing Arts students. |
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| A Masterclass in Cool Design from Brian Cannon The creator of seminal designs for bands such as The Verve and Oasis plus brands including Converse, Levis and Absolut Vodka explains the importance of being a meticulous maverick! |
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| Students’ Fashion Fix for Gok’s Retro Frames To celebrate the launch of style guru Gok Wan’s debut collection of retro frames for Specsavers, students from our National Diploma in Fashion, Photography and Foundation Degree in Special Effects Make-Up were asked to devise a total look to demonstrate his vision channelling iconic fashion from the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s and capture it in a photoshoot. |
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| Future Designers Against Fur A harrowing exposé of the fur trade by Respect For Animals revealed the ugly truth about the fur as fashion. |
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| Mel's Feel For the Big Society HND Photgraphy student, Mel Harper, volunteers her help to celebrate the work of volunteers. |
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| Dancers Unite to Change Lives Reflections on five years successful involvement with Dance United. |
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| Student Billboards Expose the Harsh Realities of Life for Bradford’s Homeless BA (Hons) Graphic Design Illustration & Digital Media student, Poeyan Chan and Lucy Wileman see their work for the Hidden Voices campaign displayed on billboards in the city. You can also see extracts of the TV documentary about the project. |
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| Soliloquy Green Monkey Productions' fabulous showcase at the Alhambra Studio featuring dramatic monologues, musical numbers, dance and physical theatre, plus a preview performance by our re-launched dance company. |
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| Under Construction Photography exhibition at the Pop Up art space in Centenary Square by our first year BA (Hons) Photography students. Prints are for sale in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care. |
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| Staying Safe Online Our National Diploma in Graphic Design students devised striking campaign material to be used throughout the College warning students to beware of divulging personal information online. |
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Jane Austen's Christmas |
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| Christmas Variety Performance Our Performing Arts students delivered a feast of festive songs, music,dance,drama and a few surprises in a cracker of a Christmas showcase. |
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| Festive e-card 2010 It is the season for rejoicing and our annual e-cards, will give you plenty to smile about. You can watch our official College e-greeting and see some of the other fabulous cards which impressed Hallmark so much that they decided to include them on their own website as well as ours. |
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| Making Hidden Voices Heard We have been proud to support Artworks Creative Communities' Hidden Voices campaign speaking up for the homeless in Bradford by contributing facilities, teaching and student support. We celebrate the first milestone in the year long campaign as the first billboard is launched and listen to powerful testimony from two former homeless project participants. |
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| The Decorated Body Second year National Diploma in Art & Design students discovered the artistry of tattoos and created artwork inspired by body decoration for display at the Bamboo Rooms. |
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| BAF 2010 This year Bradford's sensational Animation Festival screened a fabulous animated film, The Music of Life, made in collaboration between students from Bradford College and Whistling Woods International. Our coverage includes interviews with former movie industry executive, author, humantarian and teacher, John J Lee and the acclaimed Bollywood cinematographer, Rajen Khotari. |
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| Our Students' Posters Help to Tackle Drugs and Change Lives Following widespread recognition for their success in creating arresting visuals for the recent Bradford Council led Alcohol Awareness campaign, our BA (Hons) Graphic Design Illustration & Digital Media students have designed posters aiming to reduce the harm caused by drugs. |
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| Remembering the Victims of War Our National Diploma in Performing Arts and Diploma in Music students marked 11th day of the eleventh month with a special Remembrance Day tribute to the fallen. |
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| Our students apply clear heads and creative flair to promote Alcohol Awareness A group of our BA (Hons) Graphic Design Illustration & Digital Media students have created a series of stunning posters and a compelling moving image for a special display for Alcohol Awareness week, highlighting the issues that young people need to be aware of when consuming alcohol. |
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| Animal Magic. Ian Reveals the Stories in the Stones. Artist and Lecturer, Ian Taylor reveals how he created an equisite story seat depicting various animals for Holmewood Story Garden, which is now cherished by the local community. |
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| Time Flies Green Monkey Productions proudly presented the final showcase for our second year National Diploma in Performing Arts students before they fly the nest to continue their studies at drama schools and universities throughout the UK. |
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| Musical Box You couldn't stop the beat as Green Monkey Productions let loose a fabulous evening of musical theatre, featuring songs from everyone's favourite shows, courtesy of our first year National Diploma in Performing Arts students. |
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| Bradford School of Arts & Media's Fashion Shows 2010 Delight for dedicated followers of fashion as our students' imaginative collections played a starring role on stage and screen at the National Media Museum for our annual Fashion Shows. You can see highlights of all the collections and peep behind the scenes. |
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| Bradford School of Arts & Media Summer Show 2010 Our annual spctacular was more fabulous than ever this year, combining our degree and pre-degree programmes for an explosion of new talent and creativity. Our handpicked highlights are packed with images, films and insights. |
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| Nicola's Corridor of Power
BA (Hons) Fine Art student, Nicola Wood, is busy transforming a dull corridor into a work of art as part of her degree show. Her paints are already having a powerful impact on everyone who uses this space. |
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James Shows Our Buildings Are Positively Inviting BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Illustration & Digital Media student, James Thompson, has given our heritage a contemporary edge in his stylish designs for the invitations, posters and leaflets promoting our Summer Show 2010. |
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Alice's Textile Art Strikes The Right Note |
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| Undressing Mr Darcy The third of our fabulous events staged by the costumne experts History Wardrobe, exposes the fashion secrets (and much more besides) of a Regency gentleman. |
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| David's Steaming Ahead BA (Hons) Photography student, David Ackroyd's exceptional photography of the North York Moors Railway perfectly captures the magic of steam and now features on the first of a series of posters promoting for this scenic and historic line. |
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| Return To Closet Space Two groups of aliens land in a man's flat to search for 'the universal treasure' in this devised performance from our National Diploma in Performing Arts students. |
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| Yellow Our National Diploma in Photography students have taken fabulous images inspired by the yellow of the Marie Curie daffodil. You can purchase prints to support our favourite charity. |
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| The Caucasian Chalk Circle Our National Diploma in Performing Arts students stage Bertolt Bretch's famous play at the Alhambra Studio. |
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| This and That Let the rat race pass you by as you take sanctuary in Helen Wood's illuminating installation at the Delius Arts & Cultural Centre. Enjoy highlights of the exhibition plus watch her film. |
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| Dance The Movies Dancers from our National Diploma in Performing Arts programme present choreography inspired by cinema dance numbers old and new. |
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| Fabulous Fifties The costume experts from History Wardrobe show us how the dazzling designs of the 1950s were shaped by post war economics and cultural influences. |
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Italia |
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| Votes For Women!
An enthralling presentation by History Wardrobe charting the revolutionary changes in women's fashions and lifestyles as women fought for and gained the vote. |
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| Think Ethical Exploring the challenges of designing ethical fashion to meet the needs and concerns of real customers. Our students present their designs for a live brief set by Georgia Mack of ethical boutique Magic Number Three. |
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| Flower Power! Growing Support for Marie Curie Cancer Care Beginning a year of support for Marie Curie Cancer Care by learning about the inspirational work of our local hospice, planning to Capture the Moment and planting our Field of Hope. |
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| History Wardrobe Announcing the first three of a series of presentations exploring different eras through costume and anecdote. If you have ever thought about 'undressing Mr Darcy' make sure you book for this event! |
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| Specs Appeal
Our National Diploma in Cothing & Fashion students are in the frame to create a new uniform for leading opticians' Specsavers. |
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| Remembering Bradford
Our Creative & Media Diploma students' exhibition to commemorate the 70th anniversary of WWII and raise awareness of the sacrifices made in wartime was launched with a fabulous 40's tea dance. Read the moving interviews with survivors recalling what it was really like to live through the war. |
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| Spreading their wings with Kes Thirteen of our Performing Arts students joined a starry cast for the The Touring Consortium and Liverpool Everyman’s production of Kes at the Alhambra Theatre from 10th to 14th November. |
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Joolz is Called To the BAR! |
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The largest and best anumation festival in the world, now in its 11th year, included screening of our annual e-card and a visit to College by Philip Hunt, director of the award winning film, Lost and Found. |
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| Remembrance for a new generation Our Performing Arts students offer a moving tribute to the fallen. |
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| Mumbai Montage
Our BA (Hons) Photography enjoy the photography shoot of a lifetime in Mumbai as they go on location with the master - the fabulous Trevor Griffiths. |
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| Formal Opening of the Delius Arts & Cultural Centre
Celebration event that was music to the ears of all who who had worked so tirelessly to see the project come to fruition. |
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| New Inc. Incredibly fine exhibition from graduates of Bradford School of Arts & Media's MA Visual Arts, MA Printmaking and MA Photography at Dean Clough in Halifax. |
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| Gallery Selections Two of our recent Art graduates discuss their work selected for display in Leeds and Batley Art Galleries. |
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| Jenna's a Poochymama! Our former Photography student scoops first prize in a self-portrait competition and tells of her fascinating career developments! |
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| Rafi Recalls The Muslim Tommies Our former Performing Arts student, Rafi Raja is proud to play his part in the dramatic reconstruction of hidden history for this BBC documentary. |
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| The Finale A grand finale to a fabulous year as National Diploma in Performing Arts students delight audiences at the Alhambra Studio with their summer showcase with drama, dance and song. |
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| All the Fashion Highlights of Bradford School of Arts & Media's sensational 2009 fashion shows |
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| Animation Collaboration Captures Bradford’s City of Film Zeitgeist Sky News are impressed by the film being made by Bradford College Photography students and students from Whistling Woods International in Mumbai. |
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| Green Monkey's 'Sarcophagus' recalls the tragedy of Chernobyl Powerful production of Vladimir Gubaryev's play set in an isolation ward for terminal radiation victims. |
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| AA2A Fellows Blossom Our two resident fellows, Shaeron Caton-Rose and Brigitte Soltau, unveil work completed during their AA2A fellowship year. |
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| Dance Past, Present and Future Our Performing Arts students take an exciting journey exploring the past, present and future of dance. |
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| Paper Zoo stage unforgettable production of 1984 Review of this incredible production fusing stage and film at the National Media Museum |
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| Threads of Success Our BA (Hons) Contemporary Surface Design & Textiles students make their mark in two major competitions |
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Hallmark Presses Ahead |
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The Audition |
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| To Die For. Creative Fashion for Living and Dying. BA (Hons) Fashion students presented a special display of To Die For designs and outfits inspired by Margareta Kern’s photographic exhibition Clothes for Living and Dyingat a special event at the Impressions Gallery. |
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| Directing John Hurt as Big Brother. Martin is the one to watch! Our former student turned film-maker, Martin Knowles, on filming the movie legend. |
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| Students Feel the Heartbeat Our Performing Arts students go back to the 1960s to play art students as the TV favourite films its penultimate episode in College. |
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| Dance Takes Off! Spring Showcase for our dancers and the launch of a new dance company, Launch, providing a springboard to success. |
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Exploring the Cutting Edge of Hair Design with Andrew Barton
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| Focussing on Sport An exhibition of sports photography by BA (Hons) Photography student, Sarah Midgley and a garments from forthcoming graduate collection of BA (Hons) Fashion Design student, Gemma Wadsworth’s final collection, 'Souled Out' launch new sports academies. |
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Fashioning an Ethical Industry Our visitors from Labour Behind The Label offer essential insights into global issues within the fashion industry. |
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Our National Diploma in Fashion & Clothing students create glorious daffodil headdresses for Marie Curie Cancer Care collectors. |
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| College lends support to Delius Arts & Cultural Centre Everybody needs good neighbours! We offer expertise to assist the renaissance of the German Church. |
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| Creative Pathways Seminar Series - Advice & Inspiration from Six Successful Artists Fabric's series offering advice and inspiration from six successful artists: Diane Bates, Gavin Parry, Ian Anderson, Shanaz Gulzar, Chris Vine and Su Blackwell. |
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Green Monkey Christmas Showcases |
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| Making Their Creative Mark Our BA (Hons) Graphic Media Communication students follow Hallmark's live brief for the chance of two prestigious paid placements. |
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| College Sponsors Bradford Animation Festival' 08 BAF'08 included screening of our annual e-card and a visit to College by the fascinating cartoonist and illustrator Steven Appleby. |
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| Eulogies for Remembrance Our Performing Arts students stage a special tribute to the fallen. |
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| Street Dreams - When Ballet Met Bhangra! A stunning fusion of ballet and bhangra performed in Bradford's Centenary Square by our Performing Arts students. Street Dreams, devised as part of a collaborative project with Northern Ballet Theatre and Kala Sangam, used lyrical ballet and rhythmic South Asian dance to explore dreams, love and confusion, inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream and traditional Indian storytelling. |
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| Enter the Green Monkey Our Performing Arts students take their professional practice to a new level by setting up their own production company. |
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| Flux 4mm Away Rejoice! Ceramics from heaven specially exhibited in a Leeds church. |
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| New Ink 9
The latest work by Bradford School of Arts & Media’s Masters and Postgraduate Printmaking and Photography students shown at The Crossley Gallery, Dean Clough, Halifax. |
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