AVA Gallery
The AVA Gallery can be found in the AVA Building on UEL’s Docklands Campus and showcases work from students across the School of Arts and Digital Industries as well as Architecture (part of the School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering). The gallery has regular exhibitions of work by students, staff and visiting artists from the UK and abroad. Visitors are invited to join us for the Private View nights. New items will be added and amended continuously, so please check regularly for more information and updates.
If you have an event to add to the calendar please email adi.events@uel.ac.uk
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Thursday 23 February 2012 6pm - 8pm |
Wednesday 22 February - Monday 27 February Weekdays 10-5pm |
BUILD An exhibition of work created during Architecture Construction Week 2011/12. Curated by Alan Chandler. |
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Wednesday 29 February 2012 5:30 - 9pm |
Thursday 1 March - Monday 5 March 2012
Weekdays 10-5pm |
Linear Malfunction An exhibition of work by second year BA Hons Fine Art students. 'Linear Malfunction' explores the contradictions between the artist's decisions regarding intent and the openness to serendipity.
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Featuring work by Andy Bowles, Joshua Brown, Tom Costello, Steven Gee, Lewis Mitchell and Luke Noel
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Week commencing 5 March 2012 |
Architecture Show - further details to be confirmed |
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Wednesday 14 March 2012 6pm - 8pm |
Wednesday 14 March 2pm - 6pm Thursday 15 - Friday 16 March 2012 10am - 5pm |
Faisal Abdu'Allah An exhibition of work by Faisal Abdu'Allah, artist and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art. Faisal Abdu’Allah graduated from the Royal College of Art, his first solo show ‘Censored’ received wide acclaim and was quoted as ’one to watch’ by art critic Sarah Kent. Abdu’ Allah’s work primarily evolves from the interface of photography, the printed image and lens-based installation, more recently moving image has featured in his practice. This has enabled him to reposition values and ideologies pertaining to representation. Abdu’Allah continues to broker disparate worlds through his practice best exemplified in ‘The Garden of Eden’ 2003 with architect David Adjaye, ‘Gold Finger’ 2007 with the late Joey Pyle from the British Mafia and more recently 'Double Pendulum' 2011 featuring Jeanette Kwakye of Team GB, described as an exploration of breathing through training rituals of sports athletes. Abdu’Allah has participated in Sharjah, Torino and Tallinn Biennales and has been the recipient of the Decibel Artist Award 2005, Tallinn Print Triennial 2007 and IDA award 2010. A senior lecturer in Fine art at the University of East London, visiting professor Stanford University, California and University of Wisconsin, Madison. Abdu’Allah is currently in collaboration with Christian Boltanski on ’14 years in between’ which will be showcased in his retrospective at the CAAM Gran Canaria 2012. He is represented by Magnolia Editions, California. |
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Week commencing 19 March 2012 |
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Mikey Georgeson and Paul Tecklenburg Visual arists and lecturers Mikey Georgeson and Paul Tecklenburg collaborate in the AVA Gallery. More details to follow. |
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Week commencing 26 March 2012 |
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Illustration Level 1 students exhibition. Further details to follow. |
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Week commencing 16 April 2012 |
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Illustration Level 2 students exhibition. Further details to follow. |
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Tuesday 24 April 5:30 - 8pm |
Wednesday 25 - Friday 27 April 2012 |
Printmaking - Year 1 and 2 This exhibition brings together levels 1 and 2 BA Hons Printmaking students, giving them the opportunity to share their working practices and approaches to printmaking. The gallery offers a professional and public context for students to show their work to an audience of peers, family and visitors to the school. |
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The gallery is used between May - September for its annual end of year shows and events. Click here for a schedule of our events. |
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On Campus Events
We have many events on campus during the academic year including special lectures, performances, symposiums, conferences and other actvities. New items will be added and amended continuously, so please check regularly for more information and updates.
If you have an event to add to the calendar please email adi.events@uel.ac.uk
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| 22 February 2012 1:30pm - 5pm | ADI Taster Day for Theatre Studies | Come along to talk to the tutors on the Theatre Studies course, discuss your application and see our campus. | UEL Docklands Campus | Booking is required. |
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29 February 2012 3pm - 5pm |
Imaging Migrants Seminar Series - Yohai Hakak |
Israel as viewed by a member of extremely orthodox Jewish sects, one that does not recognize the State of Israel. (Continued under additional information.)
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EB1.37 (Matrix East Research Lab), UEL Docklands Campus | As a young Haredi boy, Shmuel-Haim Pappenhym knew he must cover his eyes during Independence Day fireworks so as not to participate in "Zionist celebrations". Today, as a radical Ultra-Orthodox leader, he organizes mass demonstrations against the State of Israel. He is also the editor of an influential magazine of a radical Jewish sect known for not recognizing the State of Israel. In contrast, Ultra-Orthodox parliament member, Rabbi Avraham Ravitz, served in the Israeli Army, and has been involved in mainstream politics for many years. As national election day approaches, Ravitz anxiously tallies his party's projected parliament seats. Conversely, Pappenhym is counting on high numbers of voter abstentions. For Pappenhym, participation in Zionist elections is a grave sin.
In his presentation he will pose questions about reflexivity in documentary films and what claims these films have about portraying reality and 'the truth'. He will speak about the work on this series as a field-site for ethnographic research. He is currently analysing the process of producing/directing/editing of the series. He is building literature review of relevant academic references and media ethnographies that deal with the production process of media representations of religious minorities. About the Author: Dr. Yohai Hakak is a senior lecturer in social work at the School of Health Sciences and Social Work, University of Portsmouth. http://www.port.ac.uk/research/ceisr/members/YohaiHakak/ His research so far explored different aspects of the Jewish Israeli Ultra Orthodox community. Based on his research he has co-directed a documentary series about this community, entitled: Haredim. The series consists of 3 parts, each 50 minutes long. In this seminar he will present part 1 entitled: 'Gevald!' Contact Yohai through: Email: yohai.hakak@port.ac.uk Regarding further development of the Programme of events under Imagining Migrants, contact Dr Marta Rabikowska m.rabikowska@uel.ac.uk or call at 07759612066. Marta Rabikowska lectures at University of East London in the School of Arts and Digital Industries, her research concentrates on cultural identity and visual cultures, migration in urban communities and creative branding within the third sector. |
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7 March 2012 11am - 6pm |
Music, Politics and Agency in the Digital Age: Gender, Sexuality and Sound |
Panel discussion. Part of a series of events discussing Music, Politics and Agency in the Digital Age. |
UH.2.69 UEL Stratford Campus, | Participants: Jeremy Gilbert (chair), Bipasha Ahmed, Lisa Blanning, Freya Jarman-Ivens, Tim Lawrence, Helen Reddington |
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18 April 2012 3pm - 5pm |
Imaging Migrants Seminar Series - March Helene Kazan |
SK: ‘…. it would have been March….April of 1989. EK: ‘yeah 89, and the fighting never stopped, many, many, many ceasefires, none held up, fighting continued… so, we decided, if…the British Embassy are advising us to leave immediately, for the protection of all of us, we’ve got to leave. ‘ This excerpt is from ‘Masking Tape Intervention: Lebanon 1989’ a short film by London based artist and curator Helene Kazan. (Continued under additional information.) |
EB1.37 (Matrix East Research Lab), UEL Docklands Campus | This excerpt is from ‘Masking Tape Intervention: Lebanon 1989’a short film by London based artist and curator Helene Kazan. The film is entirely generated from a single archive photograph taken of the kitchen in the flat her family lived in, in Lebanon just before their forced migration in 1989 during the Lebanese civil war. From this archive photograph, 1690 images were generated to make up the four minute and fifty second stop frame animation. Each image occupies a single momentary viewpoint throughout the day, as a narrated testimony outlines the specific pressures that lead to their transformative moment of decision to migrate.
The film enabled a theoretical framework and point of reference for the research undertaken during a month long residency in Istanbul in September 2011. During which Kazan invitation local and international community to engage with a process of open discourse and exchange. Through collecting personal testimonies and archive photographs, she sought to explore and illustrate the events that are evidence to a history of migration in Istanbul. Also making visible the emotive relationship with the architecture of the home that somehow also becomes witness and evidence to this event. The residency took place in collaboration with Openvizor, a non-profit international arts and cultural platform and organization that brings together different people and skills from around the world to combine practical knowledge and research. Abbas Nokhasteh director of Openvizor will also be present to discuss the project.
During the presentation, Kazan will screen ‘Masking Tape Intervention: Lebanon 1989’ along with the outcomes to the research undertaken during and since the residency in Istanbul. Investigating the reliability of the collective elements in the film i.e. memory, testimony, image and archive as true representations of the events that took place. Interrogating what politics, strategies and actions the migrant is forced to engage in, in making the decision to leave. To understand how collating evidence of this moment can map and question the greater histories behind migratory movements. About the Author: Helene Kazan is currently an MA student at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University. She has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, as well as the residency with Openvizor, she also exhibited at the Architectural Research Studio MARS, as part of Architectural Research Exhibitions Series 1: Crystal City during 12th Istanbul Biennial. In June she exhibited in Invasive Alien Species, a British Council fringe exhibition to the 54nd Venice Biennial. Other galleries and institutions she has worked and exhibited with include; Jerwood Foundation, London Festival of Architecture, Royal Academy of Arts, Mardin Biennial (Turkey), Site Gallery, Flowers East and V22. http://www.openvizor.com/Content/Index/372 Regarding further development of the Programme of events under Imagining Migrants, contact Dr Marta Rabikowska m.rabikowska@uel.ac.uk or call at 07759612066. Marta Rabikowska lectures at University of East London in the School of Arts and Digital Industries, her research concentrates on cultural identity and visual cultures, migration in urban communities and creative branding within the third sector. |
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25 April 2012 3pm - 5pm |
Imaging Migrants Seminar Series - Nela Milic
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Nela Milic will be focussing on 3 projects that form her practice background for development of the core project for her PhD at Computing department of Goldsmiths University – building of a digital archive of the protest in Belgrade in ‘96/’97.
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EB1.37 (Matrix East Research Lab), UEL Docklands Campus | She will discuss the process of archiving and theoretical and physical positionality with Balkanising Taxonomy, representation and media in the case of “other” with Wedding Bellas and memory and visuality with Yugo Yoga. In all cases, reflexivity, participation and narrative will be the methodology employed to discover and evaluate her artistic work. Nela will present a visual journey through the Balkans and socialism as well as through the experience of exile and media in the UK. She will discuss how one negotiates self in the process of “othering” and how experience and memory influence that process. She will develop an argument around representation of “other” in the media and the everyday and unpack the idea of the matrix of real and fiction in art and life.
She will ask you to dive into senses in order to engage with layers of history through visual and audio records, but you will also do some light physical exercise. Prepare for lecture that will help you develop communist spirit and teach you why it must prevail (Zizek). About The Author Nela is a visual artist and a writer working in media and arts industry. She particularly applies mosaic and collage merging text with image, creating installations and publications. She started out as a journalist, moving onto producing documentaries on arts. She has managed art projects in community and corporate environments. Her longest engagement was as a coordinator of The Refugees and the Arts Initiative, a national organization for ‘refugee arts’, where she dealt with over a 1000 practitioners and communities. As a freelance practitioner, she has delivered projects with different outputs – a collage, an installation, a feasibility study for John Lewis, Oxford House, Campbell Works, Oxo Tower, Light Gallery, NFTS, Miramax, Film and Music Entertainment, Film Four, new Asian cinema, Raindance, ESF, LIFT, LFF and independent productions. She has developed a project Balkanising Taxonomy (www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/balkanising-taxonomy) at Digital Studio/Visual Sociology programmes as a PhD student at Goldsmiths University where she does research the city as a protest site. She has just completed Wedding Bellas, a photography project with migrant and refugee women and performance with PK Fiskulturnik. More about her research is in the book Audiovisual Media and Identity in Southeastern Europe, edited by E. Pistrick, N. Scaldaferri & G. Schwörer (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011). Regarding further development of the Programme of events under Imagining Migrants, contact Dr Marta Rabikowska m.rabikowska@uel.ac.uk or call at 07759612066. Marta Rabikowska lectures at University of East London in the School of Arts and Digital Industries, her research concentrates on cultural identity and visual cultures, migration in urban communities and creative branding within the third sector. |
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Wednesday 2 May 2012 3pm - 5pm |
Imaging Migrants Seminar Series - Janet Bowstead |
This presentation reflects on the visual aspects of a PhD research project, mapping and conceptualising the journeys women make to escape domestic violence. (Continued under additional information.) |
EB1.37 (Matrix East Research Lab), UEL Docklands Campus | This research project includes wider quantitative and spatial analysis of woman-journeys to access support services in England, however, this presentation focuses on participatory photography work with two small groups of women resident in women’s refuges.
Creative groupwork was carried out in two women’s refuges to explore how women who have relocated due to domestic violence settle into a new area. During the first session participants looked at published images to consider what images can communicate, and were given cameras to use for the following week. The second session discussed important places for the participants in the local area; and the third session considered the photographs the women had taken. Issues of safety and confidentiality were very significant, both for the participants at risk from violent partners and for the security of the location of the refuges, and this was a challenge in terms of the images that could be used further within the research. About the Author: Janet Bowstead has worked for over 25 years around domestic violence issues in frontline roles in women’s organisations and in policy and coordination roles in local authorities. She has a personal interest in photography and has attended training on participatory photography. She is currently a PhD student at the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University. Contact Janet at j.bowstead@londonmet.ac.uk Regarding further development of the Programme of events under Imagining Migrants, contact Dr Marta Rabikowska m.rabikowska@uel.ac.uk or call at 07759612066. Marta Rabikowska lectures at University of East London in the School of Arts and Digital Industries, her research concentrates on cultural identity and visual cultures, migration in urban communities and creative branding within the third sector. |
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23 May 2012 11am - 5pm |
Music, Politics and Agency in the Digital Age: Sonic Radicalism |
Panel discussion. Part of a series of events discussing Music, Politics and Agency in the Digital Age. |
EB1.03, UEL Docklands Campus | Participants: Jeremy Gilbert (chair) Dhanveer Brar, Adam Harper, Matthew Prichard, Barry Shank, Jason Toynbee |
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27 June 2012 11am - 5pm |
Music, Politics and Agency in the Digital Age: Capitalism, Creativity and Music |
Panel discussion. Part of a series of events discussing Music, Politics and Agency in the Digital Age. |
EBG06, UEL Docklands Campus | Participants: Tim Lawrence (chair) Mark Fisher, Jeremy Gilbert, Dave Hesmondhalgh, Timothy Taylor |
Off Campus Events
The School of Arts and Digital Industries has an active calendar of activities off campus including many performances and special events. New items will be added and amended continuously, so please check regularly for more information and updates.
If you have an event to add to the calendar please email adi.events@uel.ac.uk
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23 February 2012 7:30pm - 9:30pm |
Critical Beats: Innovation and the Past | Panel discussion. Part of an ongoing series entitled 'Critical Beats'. | Circus 2 at Stratford Circus | Tickets : general public £3, students £1
Participants: Steve Goodman (chair), Simon Reynolds, Mark Fisher (respondent), Tony Herrington (respondent) |
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March 2012 (exact date to be confirmed) |
Fine Art Student Auction |
Fundraising event for the Fine Art degree show. Featuring work by staff, students and invited artists. Mark Hammond will be the auctioneer for the evening. | Ground Floor Left, Enterprise House, Tudor Grove, London E9 7QL |
Tim Allen t.allen@uel.ac.uk |
| 19 April 2012
7:30pm - 9:30pm |
Critical Beats: Sound Systems |
Panel discussion. Part of an ongoing series entitled 'Critical Beats'. | Circus 2 at Stratford Circus |
Tickets : general public £3, students £1 Participants: Anne Hilde Neset (chair), Julian Henriques, Mark Leckey, Kevin Martin, Colleen Murphy |
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Monday 23 April - Friday 27 April 2012 |
AprilFest |
A festival of Theatre, Dance and Music. Full programme to be published shortly. | Various off campus and on campus locations including Stratford Circus, Trinity Buoy Wharf and UEL Docklands Campus. |
Further details will be available shortly. |
| 10 May 2012 |
UEL Student Film Show |
Come and join us for an evening of film and video produced by students from the BA Hons Film & Video: Theory and Practice programme. | Stratford Picture House |
Further details will be available shortly. |
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10-13 June 2012 UEL's Runway Show: Sunday 10 June 2012 1:00pm Theatre B (tickets are required) |
UEL @ Graduate Fashion Week |
Graduate Fashion Week GFW is an annual exhibition for Fashion programmes across the UK. UEL is proud to support our Fashion Design and Fashion Design with Fashion Management students at this high profile event. Our student website will go live on Sunday 10 June. |
UEL Exhibition Stand Stand Number: TBC Earls Court 2 Warwick Road It's quicker and easier to travel to Earls Court and Olympia exhibition, conference and event venues by public transport. |
For Tickets please contact: Nadia Shah n.shah@uel.ac.uk For Press Enquiries please contact: Julie O'Sullivan j.c.osullivan@uel.ac.uk For information about the Education Event please contact: Sian Harris sian@uel.ac.uk 020 8223 3045 |
| 14 June 2012
7:30pm - 9:30pm |
Critical Beats: Dancing and Dance Culture Scenes |
Panel discussion. Part of an ongoing series entitled 'Critical Beats'. | Circus 2 at Stratford Circus |
Tickets : general public £3, students £1 Participants: Tim Lawrence (chair), Lisa Blanning, Mark Cotgrove, Kodwo Eshun |
| Wednesday 27 - Saturday 30 June 2012 |
UEL @ New Designers |
Come and see work from our graduating BA Hons Printed Textile Design students at New Designers - a specialist exhibition for Textile Design programmes in the UK. | Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street
London, Greater London N1 0QH |
For futher information, please contact Nadia Shah, Fashion Textiles Programme Administrator n.shah@uel.ac.uk or call 020 8223 2517 |
End of Year Show
We invite you to join us at our end of year exhibitions and events to celebrate the work of students from across the School of Arts and Digital Industries.
If you have an event to add to the calendar please email adi.events@uel.ac.uk
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March 2012 (exact date to be confirmed) |
Fine Art Student Auction Fundraising event for the Fine Art degree show. Featuring work by staff, students and invited artists. Mark Hammond will be the auctioneer for the evening. |
Ground Floor Left, Enterprise House, Tudor Grove, London E9 7QL | Tim Allen t.allen@uel.ac.uk |
| Monday 23 April - Friday 27 April 2012 |
AprilFest A festival of Theatre, Dance and Music. Full programme to be published shortly. |
Various locations including Stratford Circus, Trinity Buoy Wharf and UEL Docklands Campus. | Further details will be available shortly. |
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Friday 4 May 2012 Time to be confirmed. |
Students Shows - Media and Computer Games This mini-exhibition will include work from students on BA Hons Interactive Media, BA Hons Multimedia Design Technologies, BA Hons Computer Games Design and BA Hons Computer Games Technologies. Selected works from these programmes can also be seen later at the Creative Futures event on the 17th of May. |
AVA Building, UEL Docklands Campus, London E16 2RD | Further details will be available shortly. |
| 10 May 2012 |
UEL Student Film Show Come and join us for an evening of film and video produced by students from the BA Hons Film & Video: Theory and Practice programme. |
Stratford Picture House | Further details will be available shortly. |
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17 May 2012 Private View: 6pm Open Friday 18 - Sunday 20 May from 10am - 6pm |
Visual Arts Degree Show Join our graduating students to celebrate their work and achievements at the annual Visual Arts Degree Show. Featuring work from across the visual arts subjects. More details to be confirmed in due course. |
AVA Building, UEL Docklands Campus | For futher information, please contact ADI Events adievents@uel.ac.uk or call Sian Harris on 020 8223 3405. |
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17 May 2012 Private View: 6pm |
Creative Futures A celebration of the work by students from our Media, Communication and Screen Studies programmes as well as our Cultural Studies and Creative Industry programmes. More details to be confirmed in due course. |
Various locations across the UEL Docklands Campus | For futher information, please contact ADI Events adievents@uel.ac.uk or call Sian Harris on 020 8223 3405. |
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25 May 2012 Private View: 6pm |
Fine Art 1st and 2nd year shows Family and friends are invited to view the work of our 1st and 2nd year Fine Art students. |
AVA Building, UEL Docklands Campus | For futher information, please contact ADI Events adievents@uel.ac.uk or call Sian Harris on 020 8223 3405. |
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Thursday 7 June 2012 Private View 6pm Open to public Friday 8 June - closing date tbc |
Final Exhibitions for Professional Doctorate in Fine Art Ten exhibitions from our final year Professional Doctorate in Fine Art (DFA) programme. |
AVA Building, UEL Docklands Campus | For futher information, please contact ADI Events adievents@uel.ac.uk or call Sian Harris on 020 8223 3405. |
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Thursday 7 June 2012 Private View 6pm Open to public Friday 8 - Friday 29 June 2012 |
Architecture End of Year Show Since September 2011, UEL's Architecture programmes belong to the School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering. This annual showcase of work will open with our DFA Final Exhibitions and remains open for several weeks. |
AVA Building, UEL Docklands Campus | Further details will be available shortly. |
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10-13 June 2012 UEL's Runway Show: Sunday 10 June 2012 1:00pm Theatre B (tickets are required) UEL Exhibition Stand Stand Number: TBC
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UEL @ Graduate Fashion Week Graduate Fashion Week GFW is an annual exhibition for Fashion programmes across the UK. UEL is proud to support our Fashion Design and Fashion Design with Fashion Management students at this high profile event. Our student website will go live on Sunday 10 June. |
Earls Court 2 Warwick Road It's quicker and easier to travel to Earls Court and Olympia exhibition, conference and event venues by public transport. |
For Tickets please contact: Nadia Shah n.shah@uel.ac.uk For Press Enquiries please contact: Julie O'Sullivan j.c.osullivan@uel.ac.uk For information about the Education Event please contact: Sian Harris sian@uel.ac.uk 020 8223 3045 |
| Week commencing 18 June 2012 |
Interim Exhibitions for Professional Doctorate in Fine Art An exhibition of work by students on years 1 - 4 of the UEL Professional Doctorate in Fine Art programme. |
AVA Building, UEL Docklands Campus | For futher information, please contact ADI Events adievents@uel.ac.uk or call Sian Harris on 020 8223 3405. |
| Wednesday 27 - Saturday 30 June 2012 |
UEL @ New Designers Come and see work from our graduating BA Hons Printed Textile Design students at New Designers - a specialist exhibition for Textile Design programmes in the UK. |
Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street
London, Greater London N1 0QH
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For futher information, please contact Nadia Shah, Fashion Textiles Programme Administrator n.shah@uel.ac.uk or call 020 8223 2517. |
| 9 - 13 July 2012 |
MA Acting and MA Directing Performances |
Further details will be available shortly. | Further details will be available shortly. |
| Wednesday 12 September |
MA Exhibition Final year exhibitions for students from MA Fine Art, MA Fashion, MA Graphic Design, MA Photography and MA Print. Interested in studying one of these programmes? We are holding a Postgraduate Open Evening on Wednesday 18 April. Find out more here. |
AVA Building, UEL Docklands Campus | For futher information, please contact ADIEvents adievents@uel.ac.uk |
