Goldsmiths' Alumni Blog
Very Kind Invention, co-founded by Petchpisut Assarasakorn (MA Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2011), Thiyaporn Panikbutr (MA Cross Sectoral and Community Arts, 2011), Attanon Wongluang (MA Design: Critical Practice, 2011) and Lisa Nantatermare, have been named Wallpaper* Design of the Year 2015 Emerging Talent. While pursuing their higher education in London, the four friends worked with… Read more Alumni named Emerging Talent in Wallpaper*
A Syrian Love Story produced by alumna Elhum Shakerifar (MA Visual Anthropology, 2006) and directed by Sean McAllister won the Grand Jury Award at this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest. Sheffield Doc/Fest brings the international documentary family together to celebrate the art and business of documentary making. Filmed over five years, the film charts an incredible odyssey… Read more Alumna wins 2015 Sheffield Doc/Fest Grand Jury Award
Comedian, entertainer and novelist Julian Clary’s (BA Drama and English, 1983) debut children’s novel The Bolds launches today! For children aged 8 and above, The Bolds tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bold, who are just like you and me: they live in a nice house (in Teddington), they have jobs (like writing Christmas cracker jokes) and… Read more The Bolds by alumnus Julian Clary launches today!
Clap Hands opens in July I watched a lot of Columbo at Goldsmiths. Not as part of my degree. It was my own extra-curricular activity. Preferable to watching bad cover bands at The Venue on New Cross Road. This was back in the heady days when DVDs were ubiquitous: 2003 – 2006. I must have… Read more Guest Post: Clap Hands
Why ‘Finance Is Personal’ Finance Is Personal: Making Your Money Work for You in College and Beyond gives you the tools to understand what you want, short and long term, to have a rewarding life. How to set plans to achieve that life, to balance what you want now against what you want for the… Read more Guest Post: Finance is personal
My Time at Goldsmiths Vicki Psarias contributes this guest post about her time at Goldsmiths and what she’s been up to now (A LOT!). I studied a BA in Media and Communications for my first degree and an MA in TV Drama, where I wrote and directed a short film Rifts about warring kebab shop owners… Read more Guest Post by Vicki Psarias
The Burning Bride Manoj Kerai contributes this guest post about his time at Goldsmiths and his book The Burning Bride. I’m Manoj Kerai and I was at Goldsmiths from 2006 to 2012. I came to Goldsmiths through clearing with the intention of only staying for one year before transferring to another university. I didn’t know Goldsmiths would change… Read more Guest Post: The Burning Bridge
The Groundnut began in January 2012 as a bi-monthly supper club in south London organised by three friends: Duval Timothy, Jacob Fodio Todd (BA Politics with Economics, 2009) and Folayemi Brown (BA English, 2013). After three years of supper clubs, the Groundnut is launching their first cookbook – a contemporary African cookbook that draws on… Read more The Groundnut Cookbook launches today!
Congratulations to alumna Julia Dahr (MA Screen Documentary, 2014), whose graduate film won the One World Media 2015 Student Award. Her film, Kisilu – I’ll start with myself, was one of four shortlisted for the award. The annual One World Media Awards rewards the most outstanding coverage of developing countries and recognises the critical role of… Read more Alumna wins One World Media 2015 Student Award
New Documentary ‘Sev’ Out Soon Sev is Yanitsa Paramova’s second documentary – to be out soon. It is a rare and touching film about the life of a Bulgarian orphan. After spending his childhood in notorious Bulgarian orphanages, Sev is on a journey back to his troubled past. He travels from the UK to Bulgaria to… Read more Guest Post: New documentary ‘Sev’ by alumna out soon
