Goldsmiths Alumni

Talks & workshops happening Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art this month. Find out more: http://goldsmithscca.art/events

Goldsmiths, University of London​ is working with Lewisham Council to create a mural to mark the Battle of Lewisham in Batavia Road, close to the plaque marking the event.
Find out more: bit.ly/2wkfdDh

ICYMI: Goldsmiths wins share of £170 million funding for PhD students
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The gal-dem collective is disrupting traditional media – all from their tiny HQ in a London car park.
Read the The Guardian interview with the journalists, including Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London alumna & video editor Daisy Ifama.
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Alumna Margaret Howell has spent decades as a staple on the London Fashion Week circuit, but she says she is still trying to find her place in the design industry.
Read her interview w/ Dezeen: bit.ly/2PADPiL

If you didn't receive this month's alumni newsletter, you can read it online now.
Featuring Goldsmiths Strategic Plan 2018-2023, the Education Honorary Degree Ceremony save the date and alumni achievements: bit.ly/2KBOYfS
Don't miss out on news, events and research coming out of Goldsmiths - join the alumni mailing list: www.gold.ac.uk/alumni/join

Six Goldsmiths alumni have been awarded Fellowships by the Royal Society of Literature as part of its inaugural 40 Under 40 scheme.
The initiative is intended to honour the achievements of Britain’s younger writers, and to bring different perspectives into the Society’s existing Fellowship of over 500.
Novelists Lucy Caldwell, Amy Sackville, Evie Wyld and Ross Raisin were recognised along with poets Emily Berry and Sophie Collins.
... Find out more about those shortlisted and Goldsmiths Creative Writing courses here: bit.ly/2LGhzoQ
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The George Wood Theatre has been the site of prayers, pageants and performances since the building’s original construction as a chapel for the Royal Naval School in 1854.
This year it will be re-opened after a redevelopment as a multiple-purpose theatre space that will provide the College with a contemporary theatre seating up to 200 people and two new studio spaces fit for 21st century creative practice.
Read about its history and plans for the future here: bit.ly/2LUCbXc

Congratulations to students graduating today and welcome to the alumni community!
If you want to see how graduation has changed since your time or listen to the honorand speeches, you can watch it online.
www.gold.ac.uk/live-stream

What happens next? Join the Goldsmiths alumni community or find out from the Alumni Team in the #graduation marquee this week!
If you register for you class pin now, you can collect it on the day.
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The Corinne Burton Memorial Scholarship, founded by Sir Michael Burton QC following the death of his illustrator wife Corinne from cancer, has supported art psychotherapy students at Goldsmiths since 1993.
The scholarship has made an incalculable contribution to the field of art therapy in cancer care and is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a special publication and exhibition at Goldsmiths.
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Graduating next week? Celebrate your achievements and wear your ‘Class of 2018’ pin on the day!
Register now for your pin and collect it during graduation at the Alumni stand in the marquee.
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Graduation happens next week so we'll be welcoming a new group of recent graduates to the alumni community!
If you've recently graduated, don't forget to join the alumni mailing list and stay connected to Goldsmiths, University of London
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Goldsmiths continues to bring former students together across the globe, with each event celebrating our dynamic and diverse community of alumni.
On 14 July, we will be returning to New York and we hope you can join us on and your fellow alumni at the dazzling Kimoto Rooftop Bar for an evening of food, drink and celebration of your time in New Cross.
Register: https://goldsmithsreunite-newyork.eventbr ite.co.uk

The V&A is dedicating its next exhibition to fashion icon and alumna Mary Quant and you can be part of it!
Have any Quant clothing or stories from the 60s & 70s? The public is being urged to turn out cupboards and attics for the Quant clothes they could never bear to throw away, and to submit photographs, films and memories of themselves wearing them, either by email (maryquant@vam.ac.uk) or social media (#WeWantQuant)

ICYMI: Musician and documentary-maker Stephen Manderson, aka Professor Green, was among the speakers at a free event for schools held at Goldsmiths last week.
The one-day De:Construct conference, which took place on 6 June 2018, invited school students to challenge the perception of how their identity is formed through arts, science, humanities and cultural settings.

ICYMI: Gabriella De Rosa (BA Design, 2017) won the Placement at Kinneir Dufort Award in the WEARING INTELLIGENCE 2.0 brief at this year’s RSA Student Design Awards bit.ly/2sYOWZe