University College Falmouth launches Masters celebrations

University College Falmouth's collective showing of work by graduating students from the College's portfolio of art, design, media and performance-based Masters degrees open to the public on Friday 4 September at the College's Woodlane Campus in Falmouth and on Thursday 24 September at the College's Dartington Campus in Devon.

Entitled, MA Show 2009, the exhibitions will comprise an eclectic mix of both traditional and non-traditional media, created during an extensive year of study and will be the public's first opportunity to see the College's newest and brightest stars to graduate.

There will be a preview evening on Thursday 3 September from 6pm to 9pm at the Woodlane Campus, in the heart of Falmouth, and will feature an unusual and diverse range of work from students completing their Masters in Fine Art: Contemporary Practice, Illustration: Authorial Practice, Photography, 20^th Century Art & Design: Histories & Theories, Interior and Landscape Design, Textile Design, 3D Design, Broadcast Journalism, Creative Advertising, Professional Writing and Television Production. The Cornwall exhibition will then be open to the public each day (excluding Sunday) from 10am to 4pm.

Bringing a diverse range of cultural backgrounds and experiences to their work, the MA participants at the Dartington Campus have spent the past year reinventing, deconstructing, and reflecting.

The exhibited work on show from 24 -26 September, will represent all MA awards from the School of Art & Performance including MA Performance Writing, MA Devised Theatre, MA Music, MA Curating, MA Visual Performance, MA Performance Writing, MA Contemporary Arts Practice and Dissemination, MA Choreography, MA Arts Management, and MA Arts and Ecology.

The festivities begin with a reception on Thursday 24 September at 5pm in The Garden Room at Lower Close with the following three days offering a full programme of performances, exhibitions, events and screenings, and work on display. The MA Show 2009 will offer a hub for intellectual discussion; and provide a social platform and meeting point between graduates and professionals.

4-10 September 2009
(Woodlane)
Friday 10am to 4pm and 5pm to 9pm; Saturday to Thursday 11am to 4pm (closed on Sunday)

24-26 September 2009
(Dartington)
Thursday 5pm to 9pm; Friday 11am to 11pm; Saturday 11am to 11pm

Admission: Free to all campuses

There is still time to apply for MA Courses in Art, Design, Media and Performance for September 2009 entry. For further information please visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/courses, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 213730.

University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the powers to award degrees in its own name. It has two campuses in Cornwall - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns, and jointly manages with the University of Exeter) - and a third campus at Totnes in Devon, following its merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008.

This merger created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing. The Devon-based courses will relocate to a new, high-specification Performance Centre at Tremough in 2010, paving the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2012/2013 that will be unique to the South West.

The College is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall Council.

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For further information about University College Falmouth, please contact Jilly Easterby MCIPR, Head of Public Affairs, Telephone: 01326 213792, or email: jilly.easterby@falmouth.ac.uk

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