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Photograph @SophieMitchellPhotography, 2021 |
Dancer- Francois Xavier Fesneau
ELEVATE festival showcases the distinctive excellence and cutting-edge innovation of students from the University of East London’s School of Arts and Creative Industries
Audiences will experience the next generation of creative change-makers, including foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate work from across the collaborative areas of dance, acting, applied theatre, music, media, performing arts, film, writing, journalism, animation and gaming, and fashion.
Threepenny Opera
Thursday 4th May, 14:30 and 19:30
The Red Lion, 640 High Rd
Leytonstone, Bushwood, London E11 3AA
Level Five BA Acting for Stage and Screen students perform in a comic version of Bertolt Brecht’s Threepenny Opera. First staged in 1928 in Berlin, the play is a biting satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic. With Kurt Weill’s unforgettable music - one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz to the theatre - we see MacHeath roaming the streets of East London where his father-in-law, a racketeer exploiting London’s beggars to make money from the Coronation Weekend, is intent on having him hanged. This production sees our Acting students expanding their craft into acting through song and comedy.
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Highlights
COLL!DE: Dance: Urban Practice Showcase
Friday 12th May, 19:00 – 21:30
Barking Broadway Theatre, Broadway, Barking IG11 7LS
The closing event and night to COLL!DE 2023, produced and led by the Second Year BA (Hons) Dance: Urban Practice students. The night will feature work and performances from our current dance students, highlight graduate work, and showcase industry talent.
Annual Journalism Awards
Tuesday 16th May, 16:30 - 18:00
Docklands Campus, WBG01
Annual Journalism Awards and Showcase recognizes and celebrates UEL’s outstanding students and their exceptional work. The awards aim to promote excellence and innovation in students by honouring those who have made significant contributions to the field. The showcase portion of the event provides a platform for them to exhibit their work and engage with industry professionals, peers, and the public.
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Artistic Change Leaders
Community Art Day
Saturday 29th April, 10:00 – 18:00
Art in the Docks, Gallions Reach E16
Artistic Change Leaders Community
Art Day in partnership with Art in the Docks and local artists, creators and businesses. The day will bring together creative people across the community to an exhibition of sustainable inspired work from amazing talent from across the Royal Docks with family activities all day.
(Closed event)
ELEVATE Takeover
–The
University of East London’s annual UEL Summer Festival
Wednesday 31st May, 12:00 – 16:00
Docklands Campus, Main Stage
The University of East London’s annual UEL Summer Festival will take place on Wednesday 31 May 2023 and we are bigger than ever before. Taking place at our Docklands campus, there is something for everyone including highlights from the Arts and Creative Industries ELEVATE festival.
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BA Film Final Dissertation Screening
Thursday 1st June, 17:00 – 20:00
Stratford East Picture House
Final year students on the BA Film degree will be presenting their dissertation films on the big screen at Stratford Picturehouse on Thursday June 1st. The screening will showcase films made across a variety of different forms, from dramas and comedies to documentaries and experimental work, demonstrating the wide variety of talents and ambitions that our students will be taking into the industry.
UEL Fashion Week
Tuesday 6th June – Friday 9th
June, Times TBC
Stratford Campus, Great Hall
For the second year running, students from the University of East London will showcase their designs at London Fashion Week (LFW): a testament to the exciting and cutting-edge work being created by its BA Fashion Design students. More details to follow
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Animation and Games Degree Showcase 2023
Wednesday 7th June, 17:00 – 20:00
Docklands Campus, West Building
WB G.01 and WB G.02
(Closed event)
An Animation and Games industry invite-only event to celebrate our talented graduating students. Games students will demonstrate their innovative Games work while the exciting animations created by Animation students will be screened. Light refreshments and drinks will be served. Student work will be available to view on www.animationuel.com and www.gamesuel.com after 7th June.
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Full Programme
Reimagine Crombie
Tuesday 25th April, 10:00 - 15:00
Docklands Campus, Venue TBC (Closed event)
L6 Fashion Marketing students will individually present their marketing & social media strategy direct to the CEO of Crombie, Gordon Ritchie.
Zero Waste
Wednesday 26th April, 14:00 - 18:00
Docklands Campus, AVA G.22 (Closed event)
A creative collaboration between Fashion Marketing Design & Dance students addressing the environmental impact on the fashion industry, aligned to the Mental Wealth Module, in conjunction with Art Matters.
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Chat Room
Friday 28th April, 14:30 & 19:30
USS Campus, Studio 2
“Newham’s Bloody Opinionated” is a chosen chatroom for six teenagers, with fiction, fantasy, and fun on their minds. But hidden behind computer screens lays the truth of dark humour and awkward laughs. Come and see the L4 Performing Arts and Drama, Applied Theatre and Performance take on Enda Walsh’s (2005) Chatroom.
A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain
Wednesday 3rd May, 16:00 start Stratford Circus Theatre
“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition”James Balwin Elif is from a land far away. She is searching for sanctuary. A group of storytellers meet to share Elif’s story; a folk tale, an immigrant’s journey, a class struggle. Co-devised with the company, Level 5 Drama and Applied Theatre BA and Performing Arts BA perform music they have written and created with extracts from A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain.
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Threepenny Opera
Thursday 4th May, 14:30 & 19:30
The Red Lion, 640 High Rd
Leytonstone, Bushwood, London E11 3AA
Level Five BA Acting for Stage and Screen students perform in a comic version of Bertolt Brecht’s Threepenny Opera. First staged in 1928 in Berlin, the play is a biting satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic. With Kurt Weill’s unforgettable music - one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz to the theatre - we see MacHeath roaming the streets of East London where his father-in-law, a racketeer exploiting London’s beggars to make money from the Coronation Weekend, is intent on having him hanged. This production sees our Acting students expanding their craft into acting through song and comedy.
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Level 6 Drama and Applied Theatre Showcase
Thursday 4th May, 19:00
USS Campus, Studio 2
New writing, autobiography, surrealism, visual art and choreography come together in this exciting showcase. Level 6 Applied Theatre students present an evening of new work exploring concepts of sleep, seizures, loneliness, migration, terror and time. Facilitated by artist Claudia Palazzo this multidisciplinary event is a chance to see these performance makers before they are soon to burst onto the scene!
FOUNDATIONS >< CHANGE
Thursday 4th May, 16:00 and 18:00
Docklands Campus, AVA building and Way Out East Gallery, UEL Docklands
A showcase for collaborative projects from across all of the ACI foundation programmes, including students from Media, Performance, Music and Fashion. Students present their needs for change.
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Music Showcase
Thursday 4 May, 19:30
Docklands Campus
UEL Music presents THURSDAY
LIVE. Our end-of-year LIVE music showcase. BA Music Perfromance & Production students will perform their own compositions as well as their versions of famous or not so famous songs. Support and DJ sets from BA Music Technology students and BA Music Journalism students.
COLL!DE Level 4 Battles
Tuesday 9th May, 13:00 – 17:00
Stratford Campus, Stratford Dome
2v2 Popping and House battles featuring the first year BA (Hons)
Dance: Urban Practice students
Still I Rise
Tuesday 9th May, 10:00 - 17:00
USS Campus, Studio 3
Just like the Moon and Suns With the certainty of tides
Just like hopes springing high Still, I’ll rise
Maya Angelou (1976)
Taking the cue from Angelou’s celebrated and visionary poem, this is a student-led initiative supported by the Drama, Applied Theatre, and Performance programme and sponsored by the UEL 360 Empowerment Project. This special 1 day student facilitated
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workshop is defined to provide a space for all students at UEL (from any discipline), or anyone interested in somatic based trauma informed performance, where we can restore, reset, recharge our minds and bodies through gentle somatic practice, performance, & storytelling. No previous practice experience is necessary, all are welcome… just bring a curious mind.
COLL!DE Level 6 Final Project Performances
Wednesday 10th May and Thursday 11th May, 19:00 – 21:00
Barking Broadway Theatre, Broadway, Barking IG11 7LS
Two evening events featuring choreographed work by Final Year BA (Hons) Dance: Urban Practice students
Performing Arts Final Project Showcase
Thursday 11th May, 14:30 & 19:30
Friday 12th May, 14:30 & 19:30
USS Campus, Studio 2
Final year Performing Arts
BA students show an array of original, individually produced interdisciplinary work. This work includes both live and screened performances.
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The Galllion 2023 Launch: On the theme of ‘Power’
Thursday May 11, 18:00 - 20:00
USS Campus, Venue TBC
Written, designed and edited by UEL students, The Gallion Anthology 2023 will feature works of creative writing exploring the theme of ‘Power’. The event will include performances of the works curated by Stage and Screen students and a reading from Wes Brown’s upcoming novel, Breaking Kayfabe.
COLL!DE Showcase
Friday 12th May, 19:00 – 21:30
Barking Broadway Theatre, Broadway, Barking IG11 7LS
The closing event and night to COLL!DE 2023, produced and led by the Second Year BA (Hons) Dance: Urban Practice students. The night will feature work and performances from our current dance students, highlight graduate work, and showcase industry talent.
All You Need is LSD
Friday 12th May, 14:00 and 19:00
Applecart Arts, The Passmore Edwards Library, 207 Plashet Grove, E6 1BX
Level 5 Acting for Stage and Screen Company Production of All You Need is LSD. In 2015, acclaimed British playwright Leo Butler accepted an invitation to be a guinea pig in the world’s first LSD medical trials since the 1960’s.
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Part history, part wild fantasy, this darkly humorous play illuminates the drugs debate that won’t go away and examines the freedom we have to make our own choices in life, and death.
End of Year Film Festival
(Acting for Stage and Screen)
Tuesday 16th May, Times TBC Stratford East Picture House
BA Acting for Stage and Screen Level 4 students collaborate with Film Students, Music Students and Fashion Students to create a festival of original work. Taking the starting point of An Untold Story and in collaboration with Project on a Bus, we see the level 4’s building a creative community of digital storytellers under the guidance of Senior Lecturers Juliet Knight and Julian Alexander. BA Acting for Stage and Screen Level 5 Students have developed their interdisciplinary camera skills with David Lashbrook’s Writing for Screen and Film Directing modules. Taking inspiration from artists such as Phoebe Wallerbridge and Michaela Cole, we present a Festival of short Films that have been written and directed by UEL Acting students.
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Annual Journalism Awards
Tuesday 16th May, Times TBC
Docklands Campus, WBG01
Annual Journalism Awards and Showcase recognizes and celebrates UEL’s outstanding students and their exceptional work. The awards aim to promote excellence and innovation in students by honouring those who have made significant contributions to the field. The showcase portion of the event provides a platform for them to exhibit their work and engage with industry professionals, peers, and the public.
Artistic Change Leaders Community Art Day
Monday 29th April, 10:00 – 18:00 Art in the Docks, Gallions Reach E16
(Closed event)
Artistic Change Leaders Community Art Day in partnership with Art in the Docks and local artists, creators and businesses. The day will bring together creative people across the community to an exhibition of sustainable inspired work from amazing talent from across the Royal Docks with family activities all day.
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ELEVATE Takeover –The
University of East London’s annual UEL Summer Festival
Wednesday 31st May, 12:00 – 16:00
Docklands Campus, Main Stage
The University of East London’s annual UEL Summer Festival will take place on Wednesday 31 May 2023 and we are bigger than ever before. Taking place at our Docklands campus, there is something for everyone including highlights from the Arts and Creative Industries ELEVATE festival.
Media Showcase
Thursday 1st June 2023, 15:00 - 17:00
USS Campus, Stratford
Our annual Media Awards event showcases the outstanding work students have completed this year. We will be celebrating and promoting our innovative creative practitioners, who have imaginatively executed the briefs presented to them. As well as handing out individual awards, we will be exhibiting the work itself, which includes podcasts, marketing campaigns, promotional material and critically engaged written work . Do join us! Refreshments provided.
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BA Film Final Dissertation Screening
Thursday 1st June, 17:00 – 20:00
Stratford East Picture House
Final year students on the BA Film degree will be presenting their dissertation films on the big screen at Stratford Picturehouse on Thursday June 1st. The screening will showcase films made across a variety of different forms, from dramas and comedies to documentaries and experimental work, demonstrating the wide variety of talents and ambitions that our students will be taking into the industry.
UEL Fashion Week
Tuesday 6th June
– Monday 12th June, Times TBC Stratford Campus, Great Hall
For the second year running, students from the University of East London will showcase their designs at London Fashion Week (LFW): a testament to the exciting and cutting-edge work being created by its BA Fashion Design students. More details to follow.
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Animation and Games Degree Showcase 2023
Wednesday 7th June, 17:00 – 20:00
Docklands Campus, West Building
WB G.01 and WB G.02
(Closed event)
An Animation and Games industry invite-only event to celebrate our talented graduating students. Games students will demonstrate their innovative Games work while the exciting animations created by Animation students will be screened. Light refreshments and drinks will be served. Student work will be available to view on www.animationuel.com and www.gamesuel.com after 7th June.
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We would like to thank the Dean and all our colleagues; academic, administrative, marketing, communications, technical and production for making Elevate happen.
A special thanks to all our incredible students.
Arts and Creative Industries UEL
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