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Students Helena Hunter, Olga Koroleva and Lea Collet are showing at One Day in the City Festival, UCL, 13 June 2014.

Helena Hunter is screening her film Showing Seeing, followed by a discussion with poet and writer Saradha Soobrayen at UCL Art Museum on Friday 13th June from 12:30-13:30. See www.ucl.ac.uk/onedayinthecity.

Botanical Drift - UCL
Botanical Drift - UCL, 2014

Botanical Drift - UCL

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Lecturer Melanie Jackson is speaking, and alumna Connie Butler is presenting a screening at Botanical Drift Round Table on Friday 6 June 2014, 5 - 7pm, at UCL Department of History of Art, 20-21 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AG. See www.ucl.ac.uk.

Lecturer Joy Sleeman has co-curated Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain, 1966-1979 for the Arts Council and Hayward Touring. The show, which includes works by alumni Antony Gormley and Derek Jarman and Professors Emeriti John Hilliard and Bruce McLean is touring Britain.

Joy Sleeman is giving a Curator's talk at the Mead Gallery on Thursday 6 February 2014. See www.warwickartscentre.co.uk.

Dates and venues are as follows:

Southampton City Art Gallery, 10 May - 5 August 2013
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 4 October to 5 January 2014
Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, 18 January – 8 March 2014
Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 5 April to 15 June 2014.

See the Uncommon Ground website.

There are reviews in The Independent: www.independent.co.uk and The Financial Times: www.ft.com.

The UCL Festival of the Arts takes place from 27 - 30 May 2014.

Hayley Newman is participating in the discussion, London’s Burning: Our Habitat in Times of Crisis, on Thursday 29 May, from 6.30 - 7.30pm at Roberts Lecture Theatre 106, Roberts Building, Malet Place, London WC1.

Jo Volley and Henrietta Simson present their new work, Copper is Restless Until it Becomes Gold*, at the entrance to the Housman Room, Wilkins North Cloisters, Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1, from 27 - 30 May 2014.

The Slade Salon Afternoon is taking place at the Wilkins North Cloisters, Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1, on Wednesday 28 May, 2-5pm.

*Meister Eckhart c.1260-1328, German theologian, philosopher and mystic.

Safe House, an installation by alumna Gabriella Sonabend and set designer Jeremy Herbert, is showing at the Young Vic, 66 The Cut, London SE1 8LZ, from 28 April - 17 May 2014. See www.youngvic.org.

The Slade School of Fine Art has a fascinating, but currently incomplete, collection of annual class photographs dating from 1931. The black and white panoramic images reflect the school’s rich history, capturing the likeness of Slade students and faculty through the decades.

We are asking former staff and students, scholars and members of the public to help us complete the collection and identify the sitters through a new website designed by UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. We've already listed all of those who appear in the 1953 photograph (http://sladearchive.github.io/groups/SLADE_1953_A/), including William Coldstream, Lucien Freud, Henry Moore, Sam Ntiro, and Paula Rego. Can you help us identify other faces in the photos?

The feedback provided by visitors to the site will result in a dynamic archive and research resource, giving us an opportunity to compare crowdsourcing platforms and begin to trace the impact of Slade alumni around the world.

This project is a collaboration between UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and the Slade School of Fine Art, as part of the Slade Archive Project. (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/sladearchive)

Slade class photos http://sladearchive.github.io/index.html

Follow the Slade Archive Project blog http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/slade-archive-project/

Slade School of Fine Art http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade

UCL Centre for Digital Humanities http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh

The Changing Room, a new opera by alumnus Sam Belinfante, Professor Emeritus Bruce McLean and Lawarence Preece, is premiering at Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow Leeds LS1 3AA, on Thursday 8 May 2014. See www.leeds.gov.uk.

Nathaniel Rackowe is showing a new light installation, Black Cube, at Den Frie, Centre of Contemporary Art, Oslo Plads 1, Copenhagen, Denmark DK-2100, from 11 October 2013 - February 2014. See www.facebook.com/rackowe.

Leah-Miller-Biot is showing in What Came Paint? at Plate Space, 408 Commercial Road, London E1 0LB, from 30 May - 1 June 2014, 12 - 6pm.