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OCA events: Hexham Book Festival
Posted: 08/06/21 10:07 |
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This year, some festivals are staying online, to prevent having to cancel at a later date. But the established Hexham Festival, established in 2006, is planning to go ahead next month in beautiful Northumberland. We’re delighted that three of our creative writing tutors will be running workshops at the event.
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OCA Student Association study event: Paul Harfleet, artist’s talk
Posted: 02/06/21 04:29 |
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OCA students are invited to join Artist Paul Harfleet via zoom on Saturday 12 June at 2pm to hear him talk about his work.
Harfleet plants pansies at the site of homophobic abuse; he finds the nearest source of soil to where the incident occurred and generally without civic permission plants one unmarked pansy.
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Study event: OCA East of England
Posted: 13/05/21 10:05 |
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Join us on 29 May 2021 as Andrew Fitzgibbon talks about his photography project and short film Drifting by the Leeds & Liverpool.
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Celebrate
Posted: 27/04/21 09:18 |
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For the last ‘Expressing Your Vision’ groupwork session we decided to try something a little bit different and invited all EYVers from March assessment to share the best of their submissions with their fellow students. The idea was more for a celebration than a crit, but with such a creatively diverse set of assignments there were plenty of questions to be asked and the session naturally developed into a wide ranging discussion on different aspects of the course and photography in general.
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Virtual study event: Ope Lori, artist’s talk
Posted: 29/10/20 09:39 |
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Ope Lori uses lens-based media to investigate politics of representation, race, gender and cultural and sexual identity.
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Virtual study event: Paradise, Garden.
Posted: 27/10/20 09:15 |
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Across both sessions, we will look further at the relationship between the real, the photographic, the digital and the physical. You will be sharing work on a group Padlet as well as working together from time to time. There is a playful edge to these sessions to reflect the considerations of Bosch as well as the theme of the fantastical garden.
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Virtual study event: Contamination/Curation
Posted: 08/09/20 09:10 |
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The October Keeping up Momentum sessions will aim to motivate and challenge and help you to contextualise your work. There will be two workshops, approximately two hours each, led by OCA tutor Bryan Eccleshall. The first session will be on October 3 at 10am with a follow-up on the 24.
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Calling all Level Three creative writing students!
Posted: 07/09/20 03:57 |
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The Creative Writing department is now offering Zoom-based peer hangouts and workshops for students at HE6 (Level 3) on a regular basis.
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On collaboration
Posted: 24/08/20 09:04 |
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To study as a distant learner with OCA might seem to be a lonely endeavour. However, there are many ideas and opportunities to collaborate with fellow students. Collaboration can be a core to one’s contemporary art practice. It goes beyond the making of a shared object.
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Instagram takeover – Celebrity curator!
Posted: 19/08/20 09:26 |
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We are very honoured to have the excellent artist and influential curator Simon Carter taking over our instagram account over the weekend of 29/ 30 August.
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