Updates from Lucy - Week commencing March 10th

NSS Reminder - Final Year

Could all final year students fill out the National Student Survey (link), more than half of the year group have yet to complete the survey.

Opportunity for Business students to get involved at Major Music Festivals

Apply today to attain UNIQUE volunteering/intern work experience and increase your employability in a role at a major music festival this summer!

In 2013, we gave over 750 students and alumni unique placements at music festivals, sporting spectacles and arts events.

This year we are providing festival volunteers and interns in a variety of roles at Hove (Norway), Latitude (Suffolk), Leeds and Reading Festival.

Roles include:

·         HATs Team Manager

·         Media and PR officer

·         Press Tent Office,

·         Assistant Production Manager (4 weeks including festival),

·         BBC Introducing Stage Manager,

·         Security Crime Mapping Intern

And many more…

For more information, roles and to apply (before April 11), please visit;

www.leedsmet.ac.uk/partnershipvolunteering

An audience with Erik Kessels - Creative Communications Director, Thursday 27^th March 2014

Leeds College of Art would like to invite you to the next Creative Networks event, ‘Strong Ideas allow you to Blur’ with Erik Kessels.

Kessels is a world-renowned Graphic Designer, Advertiser, Photographer, Curator and Artist and in 2012 he was elected as the most influential creative of the Netherlands.

Erik is Creative Director of communications agency KesselsKramer and works for national and international clients – such as Diesel, Heineken, Oxfam, Nike, The Hans Brinker Budget Hotel, J&B and has offices in Amsterdam, London and LA. KesselsKramer is one of only a handful of advertising agencies producing work that rises above the level of consumerist background noise, often witty almost anti-advertising.

Join from 6pm at Blenheim Walk on Thursday, March 27^th, 2014 for drinks - prior to the talk there will be a range of goods on sale from local independent art and design bookstores Colours May Vary and the Village Bookstore.

Booking is essential as places are limited so please click on the Eventbrite link www.erikkesselsindustry.eventbrite.co.uk and follow the instructions as soon as possible to reserve your seat. There is a £5 refundable deposit required to confirm your place but this will be refunded the day after the event once attendance has been noted.