At the beginning of May the Regional Jack Petchey Achievement Award ceremony took place at the Palace Theatre in Southend.
Every year the Jack Petchey Foundation hosts almost 80 Achievement Award Celebrations across London and Essex designed to celebrate and publicly recognise the Jack Petchey Achievement and Leader Award winners.
Ukulele playing, film, art and face painting all form part of a fun-filled event on Saturday 18th May at South Essex College to celebrate Adult Learners’ Week (18th – 26th May), a national week celebrating adult education and the benefits of lifelong learning.
Taking place at the Southend Campus from 10am – 2pm, the family-friendly event hosted by adult learners is open to anyone looking to upskill, improve their job prospects or simply learn for fun.
As part of Media Industry Week local filmmaking pair Jason Ford and Terry Bird came into College to speak to students about the lows and highs of making British films.
Their latest Essex-based epic is a horror film, Community, that is well and truly about scares in the community and was partly filmed in Basildon.
The ‘gruesome twosome’ were recently interviewed for local magazine Level 4 by Alex Norman and part of that interview has been kindly reproduced with the magazine’s permission below.
Students from Early Years and Health and Social Care came together to organise fundraising activities for Olivia’s Vision and have raised over £1400.
Olivia’s Vision is a charitable organisation raising awareness of Uveitis and training specialists to diagnose the condition and the money was raised as part of National Health Week back in February, with the final monies only just been counted.
Actor, comedian and successful graphic designer David Brown returned to his former College recently to inspire the next generation of creative professionals. Over 200 Media and Creative Arts students from the Southend Campus of South Essex College were treated to a talk by The Mighty Boosh actor and director of London-based creative studio, APE.
David, who plays Bollo the ape in the cult comedy show, shared his industry experience and gave the eager students hints and tips on how to work their way up the creative career ladder before ending with a Q&A session.
