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Student stories: BA (Hons) Photography success

Posted: 10/07/20 11:33
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creativity engagement sustaining practice

By Dan Robinson

Our BA (hons) Photography course has had a series of success in recent months...

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OCA wellbeing: Not quite art

Posted: 09/07/20 09:56
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creativity cross discipline wellbeing

By Craig Dewis

My relief and support throughout all this has been to immerse myself in a...

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Virtual Study Event – OCA East of England & friends

Posted: 08/07/20 02:12
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engaging social

By Andrea Norrington

Join the OCA East of England regional group's next meeting via on Zoom on...

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What is conflict?

Posted: 08/07/20 09:43
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engaging

By Inga Pelosi Leighton

When talking about conflict in scriptwriting, we don’t simply refer to the central ‘battle’...

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Writing a good reflective commentary

Posted: 07/07/20 09:52
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sustaining practice

By Vicky MacKenzie

I recently a ran an online workshop on what a good RC might include,...

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edge zine – Submit by 15 July 2020

Posted: 04/07/20 11:28
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collaboration creativity cross discipline engaging

By Michael Green

The edge-zine team have extended the deadline for submission to 15 July 2020. The...

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Virtual study event: Write where you are

Posted: 03/07/20 09:29
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creativity cross discipline social

By Suzannah Evans

In this workshop we’ll explore the places we inhabit most, the views we see...

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OCA wellbeing: Photography

Posted: 02/07/20 09:51
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cross discipline wellbeing

By Edward

I’d started up an Instagram account a while back, but I’d fallen into posting...

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A guide to tutoring prisoner students – Part 2

Posted: 01/07/20 09:50
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art education creativity innovation

By Rachel Forster

In this blog post I want to outline the different options prisoners have for...

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OCA new course: Material and Making: Approaches to Sculpture

Posted: 30/06/20 09:09
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art education creativity

By Adam Thompson

This new foundation course introduces various key methods for material investigation, through approaches to...

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Writing a good creative reading commentary

Posted: 29/06/20 09:29
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sustaining practice

By Vicky MacKenzie

At Level 2 and 3, Creative Writing students are asked to research an author,...

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‘Do the Trod’

Posted: 26/06/20 09:48
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art education diversity

By Robert Bloomfield

The past couple of weeks have found us in the middle of a culture...

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OCA wellbeing: Volunteering

Posted: 25/06/20 09:52
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cross discipline wellbeing

By Catherine Wood

When I drop shopping off some people like to have a distant chat, just...

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A guide to tutoring prisoner students – Part 1

Posted: 24/06/20 09:18
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art education creativity innovation

By Rachel Forster

Tutoring prisoner students can feel like something of a minefield. It can be difficult...

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Setting out on textiles journey: Foundations textiles

Posted: 23/06/20 09:50
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creativity innovation sustaining practice

By Junko Asakura

What I learned here was not a specific technique but the process to research,...

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Burrowing into your writing –Close observation

Posted: 22/06/20 09:30
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sustaining practice

By Nina

One of my own methods of creating new ideas, new characters or new scenes...

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Revealing the gaze in Vince Staples’ ‘Señorita’ 

Posted: 19/06/20 09:55
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art education diversity popular culture

By Robert Bloomfield

In a time when we’re saturated with images of race and violence, reading an...

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OCA Wellbeing: A trip to the bibliotherapist

Posted: 18/06/20 12:30
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cross discipline wellbeing

By Barbara Henderson

Imagine going to the doctor’s and coming out with a prescription – for a...

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Inventing the truth and bargaining with the light

Posted: 18/06/20 09:06
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creativity sustaining practice

By Liz Cashdan

I don’t know how may of you managed to get to the Hay Festival...

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Study event review: OCA Europe

Posted: 17/06/20 09:23
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creativity social sustaining practice

By Emma Pigott

As part of our annual virtual meetings with other international students, the Europe regional...

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