Student Culture Vulture is a new scheme launched by All About the Arts, designed to help you get the most out of student cultural discounts in London. Visit the website to flip through the virtual magazine and find something to satisfy your cultural cravings. The current ‘Summer in London’ edition contains discounts on theatre, comedy, and classical music, but the scheme has provided discounts across the arts. There are also some informative articles full of ideas of how to enjoy your leisure time on a budget. Definitely worth a browse!
Exposures, the UK's largest festival of students' moving image work, brings you the very best in local, national and international student filmmaking. This year, the festival includes not just film but all aspects of the moving image. If you have a piece of video work, animation, a visual art installation or even a mobile phone movie and you meet the entry criteria, you can enter it into the festival now. Your piece must be under 30 minutes long, and can be made in any genre, from drama to documentary, experimental, music video or comedy. To enter your work for exposures, you must have been on course at a UK education institution at any time between August 2007 and July 2008. If you were 19 or under during that period, then underexposed, the young filmmakers' strand of the festival is for you. This year's special theme is change. Your film doesn't have to be on this theme, but the judges will be keeping an eye out for those that are. Entries close on 31st July 2008, and the festival is held from the 23rd to 27th November.
BBC Three is launching a new US comedy drama this spring. The series, called Greek, follows the members of the fraternity and sorority houses at a fictitious American university, Cyprus Rhodes. It tracks the lives and loves of a group of students as they navigate their way through the Greek system; pledging to a fraternity or sorority, serving their peers to retain their place, and working their way up the hierarchy. The first season of ten episodes is starting soon.
Summer in the city
In The City 2008, one of the world's premier new music events, will take place on October 5th to 7th, at The Midland hotel in Manchester, and at venues across the city. The event showcases the best unsigned and just signed bands, and has more live music from established acts than ever before. If you wish to have your band considered to play at the event, demo submissions are now open. Bands who wish to be considered can either send a demo (with a minimum of three tracks), biography and photo to the ITC office, or register online.
The Cambridge Comedy Festival, curated by Jesterlarf Comedy Club returns to the city on the 16th to 22nd June with 22 shows over seven days. Some of the world's finest stand-up comedians will be presenting previews of the brand new shows that they'll be performing at this years' Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The comedy festival incorporates four great venues in Cambridge, and the first ever stand-up show on a punt.
Tickets are available from The Junction Box Office by calling 01223 511511 or online at www.junction.co.uk.
Game, set, match
This year's Wimbledon Tennis Tournament, held at from the 23rd June to 6th July, at The All England Lawn Tennis Club, has the usual impressive line up of the world's top tennis players. Take a break from the action and visit the Wimbledon museum, which offers a glimpse of how the original medieval tennis game has now become a multi-million dollar professional sport played all over the world. The museum also includes memorabilia from many famous players and tours of Centre Court, and a large screen showing highlights of great players in action.
Visit www.wimbledon.org or call 020 8971 2473 to book tickets for this year's championships.
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