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Drama Students awarded 'Most Outstanding' in local Festival

Students on the BTEC First Diploma in Performing Arts recently took part in the Don Valley festival where they beat hundreds of competitors  to be awarded the most outstanding competitors in Group Drama. The festival is the biggest performing arts festival of its kind to be staged in Doncaster and was held at High Melton Campus.

Students Work with Professional Dance Company

Dancers on both the BA (Hons) Dance Practice with Digital Performance and National Diploma Dance got the chance to work with NEW ART CLUB, a UK-based dance theatre company led by Tom Roden and Pete Shenton. During the three day residency the students had the chance to work on contemporary dance and choreography and also had the chance to devise a short piece. This residency was part of the Hot House Festival, an annual arts event in Doncaster.

ND Music Tech Student's Band is through to finals

Doncaster band Tea & Biscuits have now made the regional finals of Live and Unsigned 2008 for the under-18's.

The lads have previously battled through rounds of auditions and a semi-final live show to reach the regional final competition.

At this moment, they are just one performance away from making it to the grand national final, taking place in London, in a bid to be crowned the UK's best 'Live and Unsigned' under-18 act of 2008.

The difference with Live and Unsigned is that the acts taking part are encouraged to do their own thing live; be individual, original, perform their own genre and style.

Joe Daniels, Rob Dooner, Jake Bramley and Doncaster College's very own Joe Renshaw will be competing along with other talented hopefuls at the regional final to be held at the Montgomery Theatre in Sheffield on April 12 for a place in the National Grand Final which will take place in London on June 28th.

For more information, visit the website www.LiveandUnsigned.UK.com or www.myspace.com/teaandbiscuitsmusic

Article reproduced with kind permission from The Entertainer- 20/4/08

APPLE ROADSHOW CAME TO DONCASTER!

Doncaster College were fortunate enough to host this year's Apple Young Creatives' Roadshow, which saw over 240 local school children descend on High Melton for a two day event.

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MA Digital Performance Trip to Berlin (February 2008)

The students on the MA Digital Performance programme in the Faculty of Arts, have returned from a week in Berlin as part of their Interactive Performance Technology module. During their time there they completed a workshop with 'Engineer in the Arts' Frieder Weiss and learned his specialist software Kalypso. The students also had the opportunity to meet with software designer Mark Coniglio, creator of Isadora. Also during the week, the students attended the Transmediale digital arts and culture festival.

Music and Sound Technology Practice in Education Conference 2008

A conference for musical Educators (Schools/FE/HE) and anyone working in or interested in music and sound technologies.

• Faculty of Arts, University Centre, High Melton
• Monday 7^th – Wednesday 9^th July 2008
• For further information visit www.don.ac.uk/training

Student Band M101 on Channel 4 (Oct 2007)

Following their success as last year's official College Band, M101 are to be featured on this week's T4 Mobileact Unsigned programme (Sunday 17th @ 12:30pm).

The band were placed in the top 20 following the internet based competition, where unsigned acts auditioned at venues across the UK.  MobileAct Unsigned arrives at the Leadmill in Sheffield where M101 were watched by Jo Whiley, Alex James and record label exec Simon Gavin. For more about the band visit their website www.myspace.com/m101.

Creative Arts student wins Design Competition (Oct 2007)

A student on University Centre Doncaster’s Visual Communication degree course has designed the new logo for the Doncaster 50+ Parliament.

Twenty-two-year-old Ben Spencer’s design wowed the group and is now being printed onto all stationery following an awards ceremony at Doncaster Salvation Army headquarters. The group approached the University Centre’s creative arts team to help them with a logo and many students had a go at coming up with a winning design.