We are an open and inclusive collective of student artists and student entrepreneurs who band together for social contacts, artistic education and stimulation, entertainment and all things pertaining to the advancement of our dreams and careers in media, journalism, film, television, music, sound and video recording and distribution, set design, costume design, lighting design, concert, online innovations, photography, architecture, mixed and multi-media and dramatic performance.
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[Pictured above: Zanzibar Soccer Queens, Dir Florence Ayisi, UK/Tanzania, 2007]
There will be a day conference to mark International Women's Day at the University of Glamorgan on Saturday 8 March 2008.
The event is free and all are welcome.
International Women’s Day, March 8th 2008. University of Glamorgan, J132/234/237 Provisional Schedule
9.30 Opening remarks: Christine Chapman, Assembly Member for Cynon Valley; Chair of the All-party Group on Women and Democracy.
9.40 Keynote speakers: Politics and the history of feminism ➢ Prof June Hannam (University of the West of England, Bristol) ➢ Kat Banyard (The Fawcett Society)
10.40 TEA/COFFEE
11.00 Presentations: Feminist activity today ➢ Kim Griffiths (Women’s Aid) ➢ Lindsay Hannigan (Trustee of the China Centre) ➢ Dilys Jackson (Women’s Arts Association) ➢ Dr Mair Rigby (Mind the Gap)
[Pictured above: Professor June Hannam]
Followed by a round-table discussion facilitated by Dr Kath Holden (University of the West of England, Bristol)
➢ A screening of the acclaimed film, 'Zanzibar Soccer Queens', followed by a short discussion with Florence Ayisi, the director.
A provocative and timely portrait of Women Fighters, a team of Zanzibari women playing soccer, and defining new roles and identities for themselves, in a predominantly Muslim society. Dir Florence Ayisi, UK/Tanzania, 2007, 83 mins
[Pictured above / Yn ffoto y fynny: DD-CH : Ffion Cambell-Davies, Ryan Bennett, Daf Du (Presenter – BBC Radio Cymru C2), Lois Williams, Jac Moore]
February 29, 2008
Young people from sixth forms across South and West Wales gathered at the University of Glamorgan’s brand new ATRiuM building in Cardiff this month to celebrate the growing number of Welsh language university courses available to them in the capital.
Young people from sixth forms across South and West Wales gathered at the University of Glamorgan’s brand new ATRiuM building in Cardiff this month to celebrate the growing number of Welsh language university courses available to them in the capital.
The day during which the youngsters took part in workshops with some of Wales’ youngest creative talent, marked the announcement of Glamorgan expanding its Welsh language provision for creative industry based courses including a bilingual option for media and music courses.
Renowned young Welsh author Caryl Lewis was joined by BBC Radio Cymru presenter Daf Du during the day which saw fifty 16 and 17 year-olds take part in practical and question and answer sessions.
Schools attending included, Ysgol Gyfun y Cymer, Ysgol Gyfun Plasmawr, Ysgol Gyfun Glantaf, Ysgol Bro Myrddin and Ysgol Maes yr Yrfa.
BBC Wales series Pobol y Cwm producer Dafydd Llewelyn and Huw Meredydd Roberts a producer with BBC Radio Cymru also took part in the event during which the pupils got a taste for all things creative including devising new storylines for Pobol y Cwm and learning how to put a radio programme together.
Ioan Gruffudd - Pobol y Cwm 1991
[Ioan Gruffudd appearing as 'Gareth Wyn' on the Welsh-language soap 'Pobol y Cwm' circa 1991 /Ioan Gruffudd ar Pobol y Cwm tua 1991].
Lisa Lewis Head of Drama at the Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural said, “The aim of the day was to inspire young people and to demonstrate the range of careers open to them in the creative industries if they want to work through the mediums of both Welsh and English.
“At ATRiuM we currently offer a bilingual drama course and will soon be offering both media and music as bilingual pathways.
The University of Glamorgan is at the forefront of developing bilingual courses in the creative industries in Wales and we hope that many of the pupils who visited the new campus will go on to study here in the future.”
The University is running a competition for Welsh speaking applicants applying this year. Students are required to submit a portfolio of work through the medium of Welsh and could win one of four prizes of £1500.
Datblygiadau Cyffrous i Ddarpariaeth Dwyieithog Morgannwg
DATGANIAD I’R WASG 29.02.08
Daeth myfyrwyr chweched dosbarth o ysgolion ledled de a gorllewin Cymru i’r ATRiuM yn ddiweddar i ddathlu twf y cyrsiau prifysgol cyfrwng Cymraeg sydd ar gael iddyn nhw yn y brifddinas.
Yn ystod y dydd bu’r bobl ifainc yn rhan o weithdai gyda rhai o dalentau creadigol ieuengaf Cymru a’r nod oedd hyrwyddo cyfleoedd gyrfaol dwyieithog a dathlu’r datblygiadau i ddarpariaeth Cyfrwng Cymraeg Morgannwg o fewn y diwydiannau creadigol a diwylliannol, gan gynnwys opsiynnau dwyieithog yn y meysydd Cyfryngau a Cherddoriaeth.
Ymunodd cyflwynydd Radio Cymru, Daf Du รข’r nofelydd ifanc enwog, Caryl Lewis i ddarparu sesiynau holi ac ateb ymarferol i dros hanner cant o fyfyrwyr 16 a 17 mlwydd oed.
Ymysg yr ysgolion yn bresennol oedd Ysgol Gyfun y Cymer, Ysgol Gyfun Plasmawr, Ysgol Gyfun Glantaf, Ysgol Bro Myrddin ac Ysgol Maes yr Yrfa.
Fel rhan o’r digwyddiad yn ogsytal darparwyd sesiynnau gan Dafydd Llewelyn, cynhyrchydd Pobol y Cwm a’r cynhyrchydd BBC Radio Cymru Huw Meredydd Roberts, lle gafodd y myfyrwyr y cyfle i gymryd rhan mewn sesiynnau creadigol gan gynnwys meddwl am straeon ar gyfer Pobol y Cwm a dysgu am gynhyrchu rhaglen radio.
Dywedodd Lisa Lewis, Pennaeth Drama yn Ysgol Diwydiannau Creadigol a Diwylliannol Caerdydd, “Nod y diwrnod oedd ysbrydoli pobl ifainc a dangos yr amrediad o yrfaoedd dwyieithog sydd ar gael iddyn nhw yn y diwydiannau creadigol”.
“Yn yr ATRiuM ar hyn o bryd rydym yn cynnig cwrs Drama dwyieithog a fydd yn fuan yn cynnig llwybrau dwyieithog yn y cyfryngau ac mewn cerddoriaeth.
Mae Prifysgol Morgannwg ar flaen y gad o safbwynt datblygu cyrsiau dwyieithog yn y diwydiannau creadigol yng Nghymru”.
Ar ben hyn y mae’r Brifysgol yn darparu cystadleuaeth yn arbennig i ymgeiswyr cyfrwng Cymraeg eleni.
Y mae angen i’r myfyrwyr anfon portffolio o waith creadigol drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg at y Brifysgol lle darperir 4 gwobr o hyd at £1,500 i bedwar unigolyn a £1,000 i’w ysgolion.
Myfyrwyr Ysgol Gyfun Plasmawr – Caerdydd
For additional info please contact Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk
Take the library with you: an introduction to e-Books
Workshop dates:
Glyntaff Room GT137 Tuesday 4 March 12-1pm Presented by Jan Williams & Louise Williams
ATRiuM Room CA211 Thursday 6 March 12-1pm Presented by Amanda Endicott & Emma Rye
Treforest Room L310a Friday 7 March 12-1pm Presented by Emma Rye & Jan Williams
The e-Book revolution… read your textbooks online!
What is an e-Book? Where can you access e-Books?
How do you read an e-Book? How do you use the content of an e-Book?
These workshops are a basic introduction to finding and using the University's e-Book content (focussing in particular on NetLibrary), and they are suitable for students, staff and researchers.
To book a place, please email Emma Rye - erye[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk - with your details and which workshop you would like to attend.
For additional info please contact Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk
The Skillset Screen Academy Wales (SSAW) is a new partnership for high-level training and education that focuses on the film industry.
Date for your diary . . . SSAW event for new and returning students
The Skillset Screen Academy Wales (SSAW) warmly invites new and returning students* to an evening at Cineworld Cinema, Mary Anne Street, Cardiff on the 18th of October 2007
New students - wondering what advantages being an SSAW student will offer? returning students - want to find out more about collaborating with other SSAW courses on your graduation films, or find out about what you can expect this year in terms of masterclasses and festival visits?
Then join us for one or all of the following…
5-7pm (Bar) A speed-networking event for students from different SSAW courses (meet the collaborators for your graduation films!)
5pm (Cinema) A screening of the best animation films from 2006 and 2007 graduates
6pm (Cinema) A screening of the best live action films from 2006 and 2007 graduates
7pm (Cinema) An industry masterclass on film and animation in Wales
8pm (Bar) A networking reception with students and with SSAW Industry Panel members
Space for 170 students and staff.
To book your place (please specify which elements you would like to attend) email hannah@screenacademywales.org before the 15th of October
* Students starting, or returning to, film and animation courses at the International Film School Wales (University of Wales, Newport), Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries (University of Glamorgan), School of Digital Media (Swansea Institute of Higher Education) and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. To check you are an SSAW student click
Are you a member of the AIM / ATRiuM Intelligent Media? Why not? It’s free and some your friends are joining – so what are you waiting for?
Just what are the Five Primary Aims of AIM / ATRiuM Intelligent Media?
Our Five Primary Aims
1) We are an open and inclusive collective of student artists and student entrepreneurs who band together for social contacts, artistic education and stimulation, entertainment and all things pertaining to the advancement of our dreams and careers.
2) We devise and launch events and projects related to media, journalism, film, television, sound and video recording and distribution, set design, costume design, lighting design, concert, festival and special events promotions, online innovations, presentational graphics, photography, architecture, mixed and multi-media, dramatic performance, public speaking, performance art, individual or collaborative projects and other diversions.
3) We assist each other in developing and perfecting our art forms and professions.
4) We sponsor, attend and promote artistic, educational and social events, including imagined, narrated, fictional, real and virtual.
5) We assist one another in developing our artistic and professional portfolios, and we share these creations at various networking opportunities; with all these activities, we commit ourselves to the promotion and refinement of our own as well as our colleagues’ artistic portfolios and professional dossiers.
Is AIM a political or religious organization?
While it’s true that our ultimate goal is WORLD DOMINATION balanced with INTRINSIC FULFILLMENT nuanced with MEANINGFUL / MEANINGLESS PLEASURE enhanced by INCREDIBLY GREAT STYLE / LACK OF STYLE, and the inevitable material / spiritual gains / losses that accompany these goals, AIM respects the fact that we’re all on similar / different and interesting / mind-numbingly-boring paths; to this end, we neither affirm, deny or espouse any one political view or religious / non-religious, irrational / rational viewpoint.
Is AIM an arts club, a social fetish, a secret society, or a Cult of Personality?
It’s all of these things and none of these things. It has never existed and it has always existed. If it ceased to exist tomorrow, in the GREAT UNIVERSAL SCHEME OF THINGS, hardly anyone would care.
How do I join?
Email our Faithful Leader and Esteemed Founder, Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk
When Dr. Mark collects a sufficient number of interested students’ names and details, he will announce an initial organizational meeting.
He’ll probably call or write to you before the end of October 2007, just in time to plan your Halloween costume.
Please include at least your name, alias, email address, mailing address, interests, Zodiac sign, your favourite ice cream flavour and hat / rollerblade size. Dr. Mark will use his extraordinary intuition to guess in which century you were born.
Where will the meetings be held?
The first meeting will be held at either ATRiuM or Ty Pont Haearn in the Cardiff City Centre. ATRiuM students and Ty Pont Haearn residents will host the first meetings to assist the launch of our collective.
Later meetings will held in Newport, London, Aberystywth, Port Meirion, Castle Harlech, Salisbury Plains, among the Roman ruins of Caerleon and the Norman ruins of Ogmore Castle, online, via pod-casts and video-conferences, in eventually in Copenhagen, Seattle, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Toronto, Prague, Southern Italy, Barcelona and Amsterdam.
Conversations will take place in the past, present, future, conditional, imperative, pluperfect, and in other dimensions.
Can anyone be a member of this collective?
Well, the collective intends to include all interested residents of Ty Pont Haearn and other local student residences, communes, and shared living arrangements in the Cardiff City centre area.
Students or faculty can be affiliated with ATRiuM, UWIC, Coleg Glan Hafren, Cardiff University, Swansea University, Swansea Institute, Newport School of Art, Media and Design, or other institutions. Enthusiastic, dynamic and artistic friends and families of these students are also welcome to join.
What will be the social and political ethos / mythos of this collective?
Our collective will vacillate between historical notoriety and contemporary obscurity. We will foster greatness and encourage Misfits and other Outcasts. Invariably power struggles, nepotism, clicks, sub-groups, spin-offs, copycats, crass commercialism and other controversies will overtake our collective.
Obviously some of us are destined for Greatness; what will become of our collective?
Our Great Leader and Esteemed Founder Dr. Mark will attempt to arbitrate petty in-fighting and common resentments between members, including jealousy and jousting / fencing / armed pistol duels and mud-wrestling /cock fights; but eventually he too will tire of the fuss and choose to instead balance his check book and go into the West with the other Elves. Product line extensions, copyrighted residuals and returns, film franchises, Japanese language comic book series based-upon-our-lives and computer games will go on forever.
Are the members of this group either successful, aspiring or wannabe ‘Media Whores?’
Yes.
What will be the first projects of our collective?
a) We will organize and elect / appoint officers. All members will have important titles and hold multiple posts. Powdered wigs and celebrity entourages / limousines are optional.
b) We will launch a project to create and produce glossy 8x10 headshots, personal and group biographies, news releases, and promotional gimmicks of our ever-more glorious and celebrated selves. And this is only the beginning! Next we’ll develop video calling cards, websites and blogs, and various innovative ideas yet to be conceived or exploited.
c) We will organize and plan a variety of domestic and international trips, events and study abroad projects; we will involve ourselves in fund raising, grant writing, and other activities to fund our projects.
d) We will enhance our current research and study with activities including TV & Film Retrospective Screenings, exhibits and performances, speeches and debates, parties and festivals, media and print ‘guest articles and appearances, etc.
e) We will always call ourselves the ‘AIM Collective’ and we will write endless Manifestos. We will do this mostly because we like the sound of the word, ‘Manifesto’.
We are the spiritual and artistic heirs of many enigmatic icons, including but not limited to D.W. Griffith, the Marx Brothers, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Marilyn Monroe, Che Guevara, Billy Holiday, Victor Hugo, Luis Buรฑuel, Michelangelo, Jacques Brel, Bertol Brecht, Edith Piaf, Grace Jones, Simone Weil, Louie Armstrong, Flip Wilson, Arthur Godfrey, Jackie Gleason, Walt Disney, Merv Griffin, Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis, Donna Reed, Al Jolson, Harvey and Bob Weinstein, Joel and Ethan Coen, John Dewey, Marcel Proust, Elvis Presley, The Artist Formerly-known-as-and-once-again-known-as Prince, William Shakespeare, Sir Salman Rushdie, porn star John Holmes, Buckminster Fuller, John Waters, Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Mel Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright, and too many others to list.
I’m a painfully ordinary and dismally plain wallflower: can I join?
Yes.
I’m a fabulous reincarnation of Mother Teresa, P.T. Barnum, Madonna, Cher and David Bowie: can I join?
Yes.
I’m heterosexual / metro-sexual / gay / lesbian / transgender / asexual / celibate / neuter / spayed, all-of-the-above or unsure: can I join?
While your sexual orientation / relationship status / dating availability are immensely interesting / mind-numbingly-boring to all of us, we recommend that you share the intimate details of your life only with qualified gossip-mongers, literary agents, and assorted predatory paparazzi, until we get to know you better.
I’m naรฏve, innocent, pompous, moody, broke, or morally bankrupt: can I join?
Yes.
AIM seems to intentionally side-step answers while asserting ambiguities and ambivalent stances; do you have any core values?
YES!
We value humour, and we try to always take ourselves seriously / not take ourselves (or others) too seriously.
We value creativity and we like to pay our bills and get along with others; we are constantly seeking ways to avoid Writer’s Block, balance our check books, and have fun.
We value mutual respect and consideration for others. These simple values guide all our other activities.
We value having and nurturing within ourselves a good attitude and productive work ethic; but if we can’t be optimistic and helpful, we can always be spiteful and distracting.
We value kindness, altruism, and transcendent human equalities; we also recognize and delight in our ruthlessness, compassion, competitive spirit, neo- Machiavellianism, and related vagueness.
How will it benefit me to join this group?
Only you can answer that question. Generally, you will sound smarter-than-your-mates, make more friends, have better sex, consume less fat, sodium and sugar, have whiter teeth, you will lose weight, gain muscle, look better, feel better, gain self-esteem, and eventually make more money or not care about making more money.
Remember, the more people put into something, the more they seem to get out of it. Some folks are never happy, and as Abraham Lincoln supposedly said, “ People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Who will run the collective?
This group will be run entirely run by student members. Dr. Mark and other faculty, University staff, Advice shops, Resident Hall Activities Coordinators, and qualified volunteers will also advise and help as needed.
Who is the Faithful Leader and Esteemed Founder, and why do we call him that?
Dr. Mark Leslie Woods is the fabulous author and initiator of this collective, and we owe him our lives! Also, he likes to wear wizard capes and over-stuffed animal costumes, clown make-up, clever disguises and gangster suits, and he really likes weird titles and decorative headpieces and likes wigs, hats, plumes, crowns and space helmets.
While he prefers to play the head, he has occasionally been the horse’s ass.
Okay, so just who is this Man-behind-the-curtain, Dorothy?
Dr. Mark Woods is the Ty Pont Haearn Resident CCI Senior Welfare Tutor:
Dr. Mark is a filmmaker and scholar from Miami Beach, Florida, who has recently completed his Ph.D. in Film Studies.
His long and diverse background in the arts and creative industries allow him to offer advice and guidance to many different students:
He studied performance voice and keyboards and attended a Theatre & Drama Program for the Arts. He sang 1st Tenor with regional opera company choruses, and has done back-up vocals for Gospel, Bluegrass, Jazz and Folk concerts.
He studied Film Production Technology and worked on the Miami film production crews of feature films starring Will Smith and Monica Potter.
He has worked on both independent and studio productions, film festivals, and music videos and television & radio advertising campaigns in Miami, New York and California. He is currently studying the
He edits 9 blogs and three award-winning websites.
His specialties include Welsh, Italian and European Minority Language Cinemas, Hollywood & Cult Films, Feminist & Gay cinemas, Broadway Musicals, Horror, Mythology & Fantasy films.
Dr. Mark is a student of Latin, Welsh, French, Italian and several other languages. He lifts weights and is an unreformed Romantic / Socialist / Hippie / Health Nut / Jesus or Krishna Freak / Pagan / Anti-war agitator / Satirist.
Dr. Mark is friendly and helpful and a bit of a perfectionist, and he engages in shameless self-promotion, so let that be a lesson to you all!
Why is ATRiuM spelled with three initial swollen letters, followed by two sick, humiliated and bent-over letters, followed by a mountainous and glorious final letter?
Good question.
I am sleep-deprived / hung-over / brain dead, so please tell me again: How do I join?
Email our Faithful Leader and Esteemed Founder, Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk
[Pictured above: a visitor enjoys the internationally-celebrated art collection at the Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales.]
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales is within walking distance of the new University of Glamorgan ATRiuM Arts & Media Learning Centre, located on Adam Street in the Cardiff City Centre.
It's imagined that a massive urban influx of ATRiuM Art & Media Students can be expected to swell attendance numbers at the nearby National Museum of Wales attractions.
The museum has just completed most of the phases of a comprehensive re-furbishment project.
The project, which is supported by the Welsh Assembly Government, will safeguard and improve access to the national art collections of Wales for generations to come.
Coincidently, the techno-savvy ATRiuM students will be able to see glimpses of many art treasures online, prior to planning their visits:
A new website to access our "hidden" treasures has just been announced, to coincide with the transfer to Cardiff of thousands of new ATRium Arts & Media students and their faculty and staff.
At 12 o'clock, Friday 31 August, Amgueddfa Cymru launches Rhagor - a brand new website that reveals, for the first time, many of the treasures previously hidden in the collections at Wales's seven national museums.
Going live with over a hundred illustrated articles, maps and puzzles Rhagor features:
delicate 19th-century glass models of exotic sea-creatures
a miniature 17th-century portrait complete with costume disguises, which you can now 'drag and drop' online
meteors - the oldest items in the collections
the largest object made of Welsh gold
photographs, memories and personal stories submitted by the public.
These are among many items that are used for expert research or are that are simply too fragile to be exhibited conventionally.
"This is the first phase of a very exciting project for Amgueddfa Cymru," said Robin Gwyn, Director of Communications.
"Rhagor will develop over time to include more articles, images and other interactive features to make the Museum's collections, research and expertise accessible worldwide."
The creation of Rhagor is a major highlight of Amgueddfa Cymru's centenary celebrations. From 31 August, Rhagor can be experienced at
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