Creative Arts Summer Show 2021

23 June 2021 – 26 June 2021 16:30 – 22:00

With a difficult year for the arts behind us, this year's Summer Show at Loxton Campus will be a breath of fresh air and a phenomenal trip out for the family with live music, performances, artwork, locally sourced food, drink and more - all in celebration of the arts and young people in Weston-super-Mare.

We have a pop-up cinema showing a selection of films by FdA Film & Media Arts Production and BA Lens Based Media Films students from UCW.

To reserve tickets and for more details please visit: https://www.weston.ac.uk/event/creative-arts-summer-show-2021

You can also watch the films by Vimeo feed below or on Film showcase 2021 page

Guest Seminar - Rebekah Tolley Georgiou - Arts Lab International - Collaborative arts projects

Rebekah Tolley - will be joining us again for a guest seminar on Monday 25th January 2021. This seminar will be focussed on the Collaborative arts projects Rebekah does as Georgiou Tolley - https://www.artslabinternational.com/

Watch recording of Meeting on Teams here (you will need your student ws login)

ArtsLab international is a studio / laboratory, for collaborative art projects.

Founded in the UK by artists: Darryl Georgiou & Rebekah Tolley-Georgiou. 

Joining the Dots…
Georgiou & Tolley work across lens based media, technologies and platforms, to visualise and realise their ideas. ‘Joining the dots’ and gathering data, in an attempt to understand the past, and set a wider context for making new work in the here and now. Exploring the language of art, image sound and radio, often researching the hauntology of ‘how places feel’ (Genius loci).

More about Rebekah’s other work

From 2006-2010 Rebekah Tolley was an Executive Producer/Director for UK super indie TV production company, Tinopolis. Responsible for concept development, creative and production input on wide variety of video and interactive projects for clients such as the United Nations, BBC and Channel 4. As an independent producer, she has worked on a variety of projects for BAFTA LA, BAFTA UK, Five TV and Oxford University.

Rebekah’s professional photographic work has been featured in The Guardian, Observer Magazine, Radio Times, AG Photographic, The Magazine (Santa Fe’s magazine for the arts) Annual Best of World Photography edition 2005, Photography magazine, BAFTA Academy magazine and BAFTA Annual Report 2005-06.

Rebekah is a MA graduate in Design & Digital Media/Media Arts from Coventry University (one of the oldest digital arts courses in Europe) and of the EAVE European Producers programme for 2011.

Rebekah began working with the celebrated Documentary Film maker Michael Grigsby during the making of his documentary, Rehearsals, in 2005. They later went on to make 'We Went to War', which revisits the stories of David, Dennis and Lamar - veterans of Vietnam war 40 years after their return, when Michael first filmed them for the award winning film, 'I WAS A SOLDIER'

Visit: http://poool.co.uk/rebekah-tolley

Rebekah’s previous seminar, Thursday 10th December 2020, focussed on Documentary Film

UCW Film students can access the recording of the meeting and see links from seminar here (or via meeting in Teams Calendar).

Some notes and links to Films Rebekah shown/ spoke about:

Michael Grigsby - BFI Wiki IMDB.

The Stones in the Park

The Beatles - Live at The Cavern

​Enginemen (1959) - Watch Enginemen - on BFI Player. This poetic Free Cinema documentary, filmed near Manchester, reflects on the changing world of the engineman.

Rebekah spoke about Michael’s mentor Lindsay Anderson and ‘Free Cinema’. Read More about ‘Free Cinema’ on Poool

​Tomorrow's Saturday (1962)

I was a soldier (1970)

We went to War (2012) - Michael Grigsby and Rebekah Tolley

Some notes from Michael Grigsby said in video interview- "Rightly or wrongly, I am known for making films with people with 'no voice' “.
“I learned about: 'Shutting up', 'Letting people be' , ‘No interuption’, ‘having no agenda’, ‘Silence, space in between is important’, ‘listen to their world’.

​Other Films Rebekah spoke about:

Okhwan's Mission Impossible - The story of a man on a bicycle, overcoming the borders of continents and body to reunite Korea. Bicycle road movie about a man and his epic 10 year journey around the world.

Life in a day - Kevin MacDonald / Ridley Scott

​Other notes:

Rebekah: “Always remain curious, be passionate, give people a voice”

​Also spoke about Iranian cinema including Directors Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi , speaking about his ‘This is not a Film’

Use of sound in Films, ‘Listen to their world’, ‘Don't load your films with music’.

Rebekah will be back in 2021 :)