OCA wellbeing: Not quite art
Posted: 09/07/20 09:56 | 1 Comments
My relief and support throughout all this has been to immerse myself in a hobby and history in a way I’ve not done before.
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OCA wellbeing: Photography
Posted: 02/07/20 09:51 | 6 Comments
I’d started up an Instagram account a while back, but I’d fallen into posting very sporadically, going months without and not making much of a contribution. So I decided to try out the whole ‘post an image a day’ and use some hashtags to get the message out that although we were in lockdown, we were still here.
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OCA new course: Material and Making: Approaches to Sculpture
Posted: 30/06/20 09:09 | 8 Comments
This new foundation course introduces various key methods for material investigation, through approaches to making that challenge students to navigate, explore and respond to their three-dimensional environment. We encounter a vast range of materials and objects in our daily lives and this course enables students to exploit the materiality around them in creative ways, forming transferable skills for further study in different areas, primarily Creative Arts and Fine Art pathways.
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OCA wellbeing: Volunteering
Posted: 25/06/20 09:52 | 2 Comments
When I drop shopping off some people like to have a distant chat, just general stuff about the weather and how they are coping, while others are very regimented and want their shopping leaving at the end of the drive and they come and collect, everyone is dealing with this pandemic in their own way and has to do what they feel is right, I completely respect that.
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OCA Wellbeing: A trip to the bibliotherapist
Posted: 18/06/20 12:30 | 7 Comments
Imagine going to the doctor’s and coming out with a prescription – for a good book. It’s really not as daft as it may sound. And what’s more, the notion that our mental wellbeing can be improved by something other than pills is far from new.
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OCA wellbeing: Running
Posted: 11/06/20 09:23 | 5 Comments
I realise I am very fortunate to be in my running group. It has opened my eyes to all the virtual experiences that people can now engage with. Lockdown has resulted in the creation of so many activities to connect people – virtual running competitions, online courses, online counselling – the list goes on. Being removed from family and friends is difficult, but having a great group of people online has kept me going. I can’t wait until we can run together again.
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OCA wellbeing: Gardening for mental health
Posted: 05/06/20 09:10 | 4 Comments
Lockdown in mid-March prompted two responses. First was a recognition that getting outside for parts of the day without bumping into other humans would become a very valuable thing. Second, I had some new time, that used to be spent travelling and trolling the train companies about their poor service, and I could put this to good use by sorting out my embarrassing back garden.
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Keith Tyson: Isolation Art School
Posted: 15/05/20 09:12 | 1 Comments
In recent weeks Turner Prize winning artist Keith Tyson (born 1969) has been putting a lot of energy into his ‘Isolation Art School’ on Instagram. This initiative has encouraged practitioners to offer tips and tutorials about making and to then post them on Instagram with the hashtag #isolationartschool.
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2020/21 Fees communication
Posted: 11/05/20 09:56 | 3 Comments
We are announcing today the fees which will apply in the next academic year (from 01 August 2020 to 31 July 2021).
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Victory in Europe Day – 8 May 1945 – 75th Anniversary 2020
Posted: 08/05/20 09:00 | 0 Comments
This Friday Bank Holiday, 8 May 2020, marks the 75th Anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (VE Day), the end of fighting in Europe in 1945. Fighting in the Far East against Japan would continue for a further three months, costing the lives of many more servicemen and women, and civilian deaths in the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki before the final surrender on August 15 1945.
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