Roehampton Summer Showcase
My talk will focus on the decline of local news and why this is troubling for society. We’ll take a look at the news landscape to figure out why revenue has dropped and small titles have been forced to merge. We’ll discuss how local news plays a vital role in democracy reporting, upholding trust in
HOW TO BE A FILMMAKER Join writer/director Josh Appignanesi for a discussion of filmmaking, inspiration, career path and the film industry. Appignanesi has worked with talent including John Malkovich, David Tennant, Tom Hiddleston, Sarah Jessica Parker, Omid Djalili, Sara Kestelman, Michelle Dockery, and the artist Martin Creed. Director of four features spanning fiction and documentary,
A presentation around my work-in-progress, East Side Stories (working title), an exploration of the nature of home and belonging that uses a variety of techniques to visually capture elusive and shifting memories. Mixing edited and recomposed archive alongside recent footage, the upper east side of Manhattan is represented, reimagined and exalted, alongside personal but potentially
An injury left Tracey Falcon reliant on a wheelchair just under 3 years ago and she then found it impossible to physically manage the larger newspaper/wood artworks, referencing trees, the printing process and news making, that she had been making for the previous 16 years or so. Tracey began experimenting with smaller works and painting
Hope Fitzgerald shares work and thoughts about a 25 year multi-hyphenate/slashie/Portfolio career in the creative industries with a focus on the challenges and benefits of choosing a career that foregrounds a work/life/family balance. Being constantly open to learning and self improvement, developing complementary skills, and the adaptability of applying those skills in the event of
This event is for students to listen to student-led projects in creative writing (mainly poetry) such as UR Writing Society’s ‘Roey Writes On’ student-led literary journal. The journal was created by Andie Davies (UR Writing Society President) with the intent to ‘…have a space where students can have a printed voice. It will run bi-monthly