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📷 Have you seen our latest North Cloisters display? 📷
'20 Years of Student Volunteering at UCL' celebrates the 20th anniversary of Students' Union UCL UCL Volunteering Service, through photography showing the incredible impact UCL students have made.
Visit the display in the Wilkins Building and explore the wide range of volunteering projects and community partnerships that UCL students have been involved with.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3EHP44z
🚗 Open until January 2023, new South Cloisters display '175 Years of Mechanical Engineering at UCL' showcases advances in the field globally and at UCL. 💻
This two-part display celebrates mechanical engineering as a human endeavour. It reflects upon advancements that have revolutionised the modern world, as well as contributions from UCL’s own UCL Mechanical Engineering department at 175 years.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3UeQrN2
📸 James Tye
🌍 Curious about the Objects of the Misanthropocene exhibition (open now in the Octagon Gallery) and want to know more? 🎨
UCL Slade School of Fine Art Lunchtime Lecture on 16 November is from Dr Dean Sully UCL Institute of Archaeology, exploring the process behind the exhibition, and the tensions between the voices of the artist and the institution.
Dean Sully is Associate Professor in Conservation at University College London’s Institute of Archaeology, where he coordinates the MSc in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums. He is a coordinator of the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies (CCHS) and the Curating the City Research Cluster, National Trust’s Conservation Advisor for Archaeological Artefacts, Emeritus Scientist-in-Residence at the UCL Slade School of Fine Art, Conservator-in-Residence at the Material Museum, and Director of the Illegal Museum of Beyond.
Book now: https://bit.ly/3hCb7kl
📸 Kirsten Holst.
📢 Our free Objects of the Misanthropocene events programme starts next week!📢
Using storytelling, objects & sound, 'Notes to Future Worlds from a Common Past' is at Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL for Being Human Festival, 7-8pm 15 Nov.
This interactive performance focuses on the human desires, fears and values accompanying breakthroughs throughout history. It asks: what kinds of values, knowledges, capabilities, fears and desires were created or lost during previous breakthroughs?
And which of these do we want to hold on to, redefine or transform as we enter, or live within, a future formed through climate crisis, agricultural disaster and emerging technologies?
Read more and book now: https://bit.ly/3fRvzNq
View the full programme: https://bit.ly/3xRARyv
🌍 This term's Objects of the Misanthropocene free events programme is now live! 🌍
🗣 15 November: Storytelling event at Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL for Being Human Festival
🗨 16 November: Slade School of Fine Art Lunchtime Lecture with Dr Dean Sully
✍️ 16 November: Invented Futures workshop for Being Human Festival
🎨 30 November: Artist Talk: Kimberly Selvaggi
More events to be announced.
Spaces for all are limited so we advise booking asap to avoid disappointment!
Read more and book now: bit.ly/3xRARyv
On Wednesday evening, catch a powerful performance Bloomsbury Theatre by The Laryngectomy Choir, including 'From Silence into Song' by Philip Clemo, featuring the voices of Japanese hibakujumoku, or Survivor Trees. 🌳
🎶 Presented by Shout at Cancer & IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
🎫 Tickets £10/£6
🗣 Followed by Q&A
Book now: https://bit.ly/3yVVKJe
🧪️ We love these Objects of the Misanthropocene exhibition shots, from human-fungi hybrids to nematode worms. 🦴️
Unearthed from a remarkable crash site here at UCL, have the objects been sent back in time as a warning?
Read more or visit the UCL Octagon Gallery: https://bit.ly/3xRARyv
Images © UCL/Kirsten Holst.
🗣 What’s it like to lose your voice box after throat cancer?
On Wednesday 26 October 7.30pm at Bloomsbury Theatre, Laryngectomy Choir gives a powerful performance of original pieces exploring how you can give back a voice that has been taken away.
Formed by IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, and laryngectomy charity Shout at Cancer, the Choir will also take part in an audience Q&A with Professor Martin Birchall (UCL Laryngology) and Shout at Cancer founder and director, Dr. Thomas Moors.
This event is part of the Performance Lab strand, where artists, researchers and students explore how live performance can animate research – and how research can inspire art.
Book now: https://bit.ly/3yVVKJe
As part of Black History Month, Students' Union UCL has taken this opportunity to showcase and highlight Black artistic talent with a free display in the South Cloisters: 'Students’ Union UCL celebrates Black History Month'.
The display aims to give visibility to some of the range of voices and experiences from across UCL.
📅 Open now until 26 October.
See images and read more about the artists:
https://bit.ly/3eAFjej
Artwork by Zuva Dengu.
🔎 Have you visited Objects of the Misanthropocene?
Join us for the exhibition launch next week to hear more about what might be the Octagon Gallery’s most curious exhibition to date...
Learn about the origins of the exhibition, hear from the minds behind the Illegal Museum of Beyond and connect with the artists whose works are on display.
A series of short talks and a panel discussion will be followed by a chance to view and discuss the exhibition in more detail.
📅 Wednesday 12 October, 4-5.30pm
📍 Object Based Learning Lab, moving to Octagon Gallery
Free, booking essential: https://bit.ly/3C72fK1
🎨 What do religious wall paintings show us about the early artistic heritage of Ethiopia?
Visit the North Cloisters, Wilkins Building for a free display exploring sacred spaces and how Christian Ethiopians engaged with local and non-local communities through art.
📅 Open until 1 Nov: https://bit.ly/3RFLM5F
⌛️ Open now until 10 February 2023, the Octagon Gallery, Wilkins Building, UCL presents new free exhibition 'Objects of the Misanthropocene: Unearthing futures'.
Set to revolutionise our understanding of time itself, the museum objects in this exhibition have been sent back to us from distant futures. Are they a warning?
Read more: https://bit.ly/3xRARyv
Coming soon: ‘Objects of the Misanthropocene: Unearthing futures’.
Sent back in time from distant futures, the objects in our new free Octagon Gallery exhibition were unearthed from a remarkable crash site discovered during the construction of the UCL Student Centre in 2012.
What they reveal is set to revolutionise our understanding of the past, future and time itself.
📅 Unveiled 26 September 2022: https://bit.ly/3xRARyv
Death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
It is with great sorrow that we hear of the death of Her Majesty The Queen, Queen Elizabeth II. We extend our very deepest sympathies and sincere condolences to the Royal Family at this extremely difficult time.
🍂 Our autumn season is underway!
Free display 'Christian Art and Faith in the Ethiopian Empire' explores the early artistic heritage of Ethiopia through religious wall paintings.
Wall paintings in Ethiopian religious buildings reveal how Christian Ethiopians visualized and conceived sacred spaces, as well as how they engaged with local and non-local communities through art and other media.
Co-curated by conservators working for the Ethiopian Heritage Fund, UK-based scholars from Ethiopia and Eritrea, and members of the ITIESE project (UCL History of Art and Hamburg University).
📅 Open until 1 Nov
📍 North Cloisters, Wilkins Building
🎨 Led by UCL History of Art
Read more: https://bit.ly/3RFLM5F
📢 Call for exhibits 📢
Staff and students are invited to create objects for the ongoing online exhibition Objects of the Misanthropocene, exploring possible future worlds or alternative universes. 🌍
Work may also feature in the UCL Octagon Gallery from September!
Read more and take part: https://bit.ly/3ueNcuu
🔬 Are you passionate about pathology and science collections? Do you have a flair for engaging diverse audiences and making collections inclusive?
We're looking for a Curator (Collections - Science) to work with our human pathology specimens & science apparatus and prototypes.
The Pathology Museum collection, containing nearly 6000 human pathology specimens, is an important and irreplaceable collection with clinical and research significance. It contains specimens from several London teaching hospitals such as the Middlesex Medical School, the Royal Free Hospital and the world-renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
UCL Science Collections reflect the university’s history of pioneering research and innovation in scientific advancement with objects including Nobel Prize-winning experimental apparatus, prototypes and historical teaching aids across the fields of physiology, electrical engineering, medical physics and eugenics.
These collections are an essential resource for our work enabling staff and students at UCL to critically reflect on our collective past, which we believe is crucial to our continuing scientific work in the present and future.
⏳ Closes 6 July.
Read more and apply: https://bit.ly/3yqcvML
📺 This Sunday 8pm, don't miss Pathology Museum on Channel 4's 'Tutankhamun: Secrets of the Tomb'.
Ella Al Shamahi and Dr Hutan Ashrafian visited the Museum to explore some of the medical conditions that contributed to the myth of Tutankhamun’s curse.
Read more about the series:
https://bit.ly/3Qpi8BQ
🎨 Get making with two free family events on Saturday!
Visit on Saturday 18 June for Collage Club and Make Your Own Zine at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology.
⌚️ Free drop-in from 11am
🦉 Explore the collections
🎒 Take your work home!
More info: bit.ly/3QB3zLI
We're excited that the UCL edition of The 3rd Degree recorded at Bloomsbury Theatre will be on BBC Radio 4 on 20 June. 🎓📻
Three UCL students did battle with their professors Sophie Scott, Michael Sulu and John Mullan - but who won?!
Episode info: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018g5r
Three students from University College London take on their dons in the upbeat quiz.
Our friends at The Bloomsbury Theatre are hiring! 🎭🎤
Do you have a good grounding as a technician working in a commercial theatre? Are you happy setting up and operating lighting or sound desks on shows and events, with good basic knowledge of theatre technical equipment?
You might be the Bloomsbury's newest Theatre Technician, providing technical support to Theatre/Studio users on both commercial and student productions.
⏳ Closing date 15 June.
Read more and apply: https://bit.ly/3NJFgJ7
🦜️Join our mask-making workshop this Saturday 28 May! 🎭
Birds of a Feather: Make Together, a free family workshop with artist Fran Riando, takes inspiration from our 🐦🐓🦚️ .
⌚️ 11am-1pm (10am for Family Members)
👋 Drop in
🧒 Best for ages 5+
Read more: https://bit.ly/3MM0x4N
📸 Matt Clayton
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UCL has come second in the UK for research power in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF) announced today. Find out why 93% of our research was graded ‘world leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’: https://bit.ly/UCLREF2021
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Generation One: The Climate Podcast is back! Episode one asks whether we should make the switch to plant-based diets and whether seaweed could be the next super food: www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change/podcasts-videos/generation-one-climate-podcast
Photos from Tower Hamlets Events's post
📢 Booking is open for The Soma Project Bloomsbury Theatre! 📢
Part of Performance Lab, Soma takes you on a sensory journey across physical, virtual and imagined realities.
👀 Will you be a Witness or a Traveller?
🗓 9-11 May
🎫 £10/£7
📱 Info & booking: https://bit.ly/38g83W4
We're hiring!
We're looking for a creative, collaborative Programme Manager to design event programmes that engage the public with UCL research & teaching.
Sound like you?
🗓 Closes 17 April
🗣 Book an informal chat to hear more
🔎 Info and how to apply: https://bit.ly/3iObgi0
Image © James Tye
Are you an artist or creative practitioner? Do you have experience working with family audiences? 🖍🎭🎨
We're looking for fun family Saturday activities that bring the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology and Grant Museum of Zoology to life in new ways!
Apply by 22 April - more info: https://bit.ly/3uGD9y2
Staff and PGR students!
💡 Got an idea for an exhibition that uses UCL collections objects, student work or research to tell stories with impact?
🗓 We're looking for proposals for high-quality, object-based exhibitions to host in the Octagon Gallery, Wilkins Building across the 2022-23 academic year.
⏳ Apply by 25 April or book an informal chat.
Details and how to apply: https://bit.ly/3wwBu0u
Photo: © Hydar Dewachi
This Saturday, drop in to Collage Club here at the Grant Museum:
✂️ Cut and paste your own creations in a free family-friendly workshop
🌳 Make a habitat for your favourite specimen - or invent a new species!
⌚️ 10am Family Members, 11am-1pm all family visitors
Read more: https://bit.ly/3L2Dn95
Do you have an idea for a UCL Culture exhibition, workshop, talk, live experience, or other activity that supports or champions LGBTQ+ communities?
We're running a brand new series of online drop-in sessions where you can chat with our team, whatever stage your plans are at.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Read more about current projects and how to book:
https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/museums/2022/03/10/what-does-lgbtq-inclusivity-mean-to-ucl-culture/
Speakers now announced for Wednesday's free virtual Private View of Slade 150 exhibitions Testing Ground and Past, Present, Future with Knowledge Quarter. 🎨🖌🖼
Join Dr Nina Pearlman, Head of UCL Art Collections, and Slade School of Fine Art artists Abi Ola, Lícia Santos and Korallia Stergides for an exclusive online guide to the two shows on Wednesday 9 March, 3-4pm.
Register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kq-private-view-slade-150-tickets-256790626677
Join the KQ for this Virtual Private View in collaboration with the UCL Slade School of Art and UCL Culture
Want to hear more about our exhibitions Testing Ground at UCL Art Museum and Past, Present, Future?
Slade School of Fine Art have teamed up with Knowledge Quarter to host a free virtual Private View of both shows on 9 March 3-4pm. 💻🎨🎤
Register via Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kq-private-view-slade-150-tickets-256790626677
Join the KQ for this Virtual Private View in collaboration with the UCL Slade School of Art
Are you a creative practitioner interested in working with researchers and students?
Grants of £10K and £5K are available from UCL Institute of Advanced Studies to become a UCL Creative Fellow and work on 'Mapping the Future of the Creative Arts and Humanities'.
⏳ Apply by 6 March.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/news/2022/feb/ucl-2022-creative-fellowships-open-encounters-mapping-future-creative-arts-humanities
The Institute of Advanced Studies is delighted to open its call for creative practitioners to become one of our Creative Fellows for 2022.
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Join us on Monday for - a four-week, community-led climate action programme to make !
From an international climate ‘hack’ competition, a sustainability fair and a clothes swap shop to Fairtrade pancakes and podcast episodes on fairer climate finance and fast fashion, there's something for everyone to get involved in.
Follow Sustainable UCL for the latest updates and visit the event page to see how you can join the UCL community in taking climate action this spring: www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/events/2022/feb/28-days-sustainability-time-make-changepossible
We're very excited to share news of the Petrie Museum's upcoming project 'Tutankhamun the Boy: Growing Up in Ancient Egypt'.
Made possible by the 's Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund and the Friends of the Petrie Museum, displays and activities across the course of a year will explore childhood in Egypt and London.
https://bit.ly/3uSXdid
Did you attend Slade School of Fine Art? Do you have a story for the archive?
To mark , the Slade are inviting alumni, their family and friends, and former staff to submit a letter by 28 February sharing recollections and reflections. ✍️
Find out more: https://bit.ly/3sw4B07
Don't miss the free UCL recording of The 3rd Degree this Friday 6pm Bloomsbury Theatre, hosted by Steve Punt for BBC Radio 4. 🎓🎤
Three students engage in a battle of wits with their professors Sophie Scott, Michael Sulu and John Mullan. Everyone welcome!
Book now: https://bit.ly/3uimXUO
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We are UCL's world-class museums, galleries and theatres.
You’ll find most of our spaces in Bloomsbury in the heart of London. Nearly all our venues and activities are free and open to everyone.
In the university’s main building, UCL Art Museum cares for an important collection of sculptures, paintings, prints and drawings by artists past and present. Upstairs in the Flaxman Gallery you’ll find beautiful sculptures by artist John Flaxman under the university’s iconic dome.
Around the corner is the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, one of the greatest collections of ancient Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology in the world; and just across the road come and explore the animal kingdom at the Grant Museum of Zoology, one of the UK’s oldest natural history museums.
UCL is also where you can visit Jeremy Bentham’s famous auto-icon - the philosopher’s skeleton, wax head and clothes -on display in a wooden cabinet. Or book a ticket for the Bloomsbury Theatre for the best drama, live music, comedy and, of course, performances by the students and staff of UCL.
Further afield, the UCL Pathology Museum at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead is open for public events throughout the year.
You might find us us popping up with special events at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, where the new UCL East campus is being built, too.
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