Goldsmiths' Alumni Blog
Silent auction for EduHaitian features work from Design Department I’ve always really enjoyed seeing my course mates’ work. Also, I have an unlimited amount of admiration for the work of EduHaitian, the small charity supporting children’s education in Haiti that my dear friend and Goldsmiths alumna Olivia Owen (BA International Studies, 2015) set up and runs. That will… Read more Guest Post: Silent Auction
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
My Time at Goldsmiths I arrived at Goldsmiths in 2012 to study for an MA in Writing for Performance. My tutor, John Ginman, asked me straight off whether I was a writer. I hesitated. He said that hesitation was something we could work on. I asked how. By getting you to write, he said. And… Read more Guest Post: My time at Goldsmiths
Call and Response Brighton’s stony shore saw us collect at music college, a roomful of ripped jeans reflected in the tall walls of an old dance studio, nervous silence accompanied by tinny noodling on unamplified electric guitars. Of all the exercises we learnt to enjoy, Call and Response was a favourite: one led improvising through… Read more Guest Post: Call and Response
Jesc Bunyard to present at Wysing Arts Centre annual festival It’s been almost two years since I finished my BA in Fine Art and History of Art at Goldsmiths. In that time my practice has had quite a number of developments, including being selected for last year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries. 2015 has also heralded some good… Read more Guest Post: Wysing Arts Centre
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
Forty Years Ago by Tom Murtha You asked how it began. The First Time. The first time I met him was in my room at Raymont. I was standing on my balcony smoking. It was a sunny afternoon in early October 1972. The day before I had returned from a holiday in Spain with a… Read more Guest Post: Forty Years Ago
