Images: Top: Jayde Adams, Travis Alabanza (holding pic)
Bottom: Law Holt, Nelly Ben Hayoun
- Acclaimed comedian, Jayde Adams, will launch the showcase on 9 June
- Programme will close with a commencement speech for students by award-winning writer, performer and theatre maker Travis Alabanza on 20 June
- Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Maria Sappho are key contributors to School of Simulation & Visualisation event
- New Head of the School of Fine Art, Professor Rebecca Fortnum, hosts student in-conversations with leading artists Jenkin Van Zyl, Emma Talbot and Susan Pui San Lok
- Nelly Ben Hayoun and Law Holt join with students in Innovation School event exploring appetite for risk
- Architecture students host Things I Think But My Work Can’t Say
- Event linked to Design School’s presentation of work on billboards across Glasgow
The Glasgow School of Art has released details of the core programme of events that will accompany its Graduate Showcase 2021 today, 28 May 2021. Starting with the launch event hosted by comedian Jayde Adams and culminating in a commencement speech for students by Travis Alabanza, the programme will feature online events presented by each of the GSA’s five schools.
“I am delighted to share details of our programme of online live events which has been devised by GSA staff and students in partnership with Don’t Google it,” says Penny Macbeth, Director of The Glasgow School of Art.
“The core events programme has been designed to complement the digital showcase of work by our talented graduating students, offering them the chance to talk about their practice alongside recognised experts in their fields. It will also interrogate some of the wider themes that have been explored by students across the Graduate Showcase including the Climate Emergency and Sustainability, Race and de-colonisation, ethical decision-making and Covid and cultural recovery.”
… and it features some very special guests from across the creative arts.”
The Graduate Showcase 2021, which features work by over 500 graduating students at The Glasgow School of Art, will launch at 6pm BST on Wednesday 9 June. The moment will be marked with a performance by acclaimed comedian, Jayde Adams.
The following afternoon (2pm – 5pm BST), the School of Simulation and Visualisation will host a discussion on ethical decisions in game making, film and sound. Two graduating students from the GSA’s Sound for the. Moving Image programme will be joined on the panel by London and Berlin-based artist and games developer, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, and American pianist, improviser and researcher, Maria Sappho.
On Saturday 12 June (5pm – 7pm BST) Side Hustles brings together Montana Hall (founder of the incredible Run The Check), multi art form producer and club programmer Anjali Prashar-Savoie and the Scottish Artists Union to discuss when things go right, when things go wrong and ways to make sense of things after graduating. Everyone knows that no-one has the answer… one size does not fit all… but it’s a space to ask questions.
From 5pm – 7pm BST on Sunday 13 June 30 graduating students in the Mackintosh School of Architecture will participate in a presentation of their work in the context of “Things I Think But My Work Can’t Say.”
On Tuesday 15 June (7pm – 9pm BST) Innovation School explores the Appetites for Risk. Two graduating students will present speculative designs created in response to “Cancer Care 2030” brief to be followed by contributions from two special guests: the award-winning French designer of experiences, filmmaker and artist Nelly Ben Hayoun and Scottish-based song-writer, Law Holt.
On the afternoon of Wednesday 16 June (2pm – 5pm BST) there will be a screening of films by Stage 3 Architecture students, and later in the day, (7pm – 9pm BST) the GSA’s new Head of Fine Art, Professor Rebecca Fortnum will host, Changing Face of Fine Art – an event in which three graduating students will each undertake an in-conversation with a leading contemporary artist. Participating artists are Jenkin Van Zyl, Emma Talbot and Susan Pui San Lok.
17 June (7pm – 9pm BST) sees an event led by the School of Design linked to presentation of student work on billboards across Glasgow.
In the closing event on Sunday 20 June (7pm – 9pm BST) creative producer, Morvern Cunningham, hosts a panel discussion with GSA’s POC Society and Queer Society/Intersectional Feminist Society, and the performance artist, writer and theatre maker, Travis Alabanza. Alabanza will then bring the core events programme to a close with a commencement speech for students
The core events programme has been developed by staff and students at the GSA in partnership with Don’t Google It. A programme of fringe events, arranged by GSA students, will complement the core events programme.
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