Undergraduate Open Day Programme - Bath School of Art and Design - June 2019

Your

timetable for today Bath in four hours

Reasons you'll love Bath Spa

Record amount of graduates

in work or further study

NEW

Art and Design campus for 2019

Make it

Why choose us?

Jump in – and make the most of your talent.

Be true to yourself.

Be your best self.

Discover your direction.

Make your passion your profession.

Creative to the core We’re proud to be one of the UK’s top creative universities.

For us, being ‘creative’ isn’t just about visual and performing arts, it’s ingrained in our entire ethos. Whatever you study, we’ll encourage you to be creative, enterprising, open minded and innovative.

Inspirational campus settings There is really nowhere like Bath Spa University. It’s a clash of old and new.

Modern, specialist facilities as well as period charm. A catalyst for creativity.

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Why choose us?

Our amazing spaces New campus for 2019 Brilliant teachers Your timetable Sion Hill maps bathspa.ac.uk Tours Our offer to you Bath Festival Your guide to Bath Bath in four hours

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WHERE TO EAT Café Sion Complimentary tea and coffee is also available throughout the day at Café Commons.

SHARE YOUR DAY Capture memories of your visit and share your photos using #makeitbathspa

Focused on your career Studying at Bath Spa University is about more than getting a qualification. We’ll do all we can to help make your passion your profession. We’ll give you guidance; link you up with like-minded businesses and valuable networks, and help you build the essential skills that employers (and entrepreneurs) need. Plus, every one of our undergraduate courses includes the option of a professional placement year to help you build skills and make those all-important contacts.

Talented, supportive teachers

A happy, caring community

The best of both worlds

Passionate and engaging. Down-to-earth and understanding. We’re proud to have a team of talented teachers – with many bringing direct industry experience to our courses.

We’re small enough to be able to focus on every student, but large enough to have a thriving community with lots going on.

There’s also a strong support network to help you make the most of your time here.

Bath is renowned for its quality of life. It’s safe and compact, but creative with plenty of room for even the biggest ideas. There’s a lively shopping and social scene, yet you’re only ever a few minutes from the great outdoors. It has period buildings and UNESCO-listed heritage alongside cuttingedge technology and innovative businesses.

And if you ever hanker for the big city, you’re just 15 minutes from Bristol and 90 minutes from London.

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Bridie Doyle-Roberts, Dance

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“It is beautiful, charming, inviting, inspiring, engaging, rewarding, fulfilling, supporting.”

Locksbrook Campus, our brand new state of the art campus is truly stunning. The open-plan building has technical workshops surrounded by flexible studio spaces. There’s a permanent gallery, an art shop, as well as a café, open social areas, presentation spaces, and a rooftop pavilion for reflection and collaborative project work.

Our campuses combine outstanding facilities with breathtaking locations. Situated in the beautiful World Heritage City of Bath our main campuses Newton Park, Locksbrook Road and Sion Hill, are easy to reach by public transport or road. We also have a campus located in the pretty market town of Corsham, three miles west of Chippenham in Wiltshire.

ARCHITECTS IMPRESSION OF THE COMPLETED CAMPUS

Oldfield Park Theatre Workshops, our new, purposebuilt facility for acting, theatre and digital production, located near the city centre, has been designed and built to industry standards. Oldfield Park boasts three rehearsal studios, quiet study areas, lecture and seminar rooms and an IT Suite.

Bath Spa, a unique place to learn Newton Park is an exceptional place to study and live! Only four miles from Bath the campus has its very own nature reserve, woods, historic listed buildings, and rolling fields. At the busy heart of the campus is our ultra-modern academic building, Commons. There’s an outdoor amphitheatre, library, and theatre. Newton Park is also home to the award winning Students’ Union.

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Corsham Court is our beautiful campus concealed within a grade I listed country house, surrounded by stunning gardens complete with peacocks.

The campus offers superb teaching and research environment with workshops, studios and seminar rooms in an exceptional setting. Individual study spaces for Masters and PhD research students, specialist art and design studios and excellent performance facilities.

Sion Hill offers some outstanding art and design facilities, studios and workshops.

As well as workshops and studio spaces, there’s a cafe and art and design library. The campus is well known for its buzzing creative atmosphere, and friendly community feel.

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Brilliant teachers

NEWS

Creative Writing lecturer wins BAFTA Children’s Award Dr Joanna Nadin, MA Creative Writing Lecturer at Bath Spa University, is celebrating after the CBBC adaptation of her book, Joe All Alone, scooped a prestigious BAFTA Children’s Award for Best Drama in 2019.

Joanna said: “It started with a small boy I’d glimpsed on a street, his sleeping bag on his back like a nylon snail. From that came pages of notes about a boy called Tom, who eventually turned into Joe.” As well as lecturing on the MA Creative Writing course at Bath Spa, Joanna has written more than 70 award-winning books for children and adults, and currently works with Sir Chris Hoy on the Flying Fergus series.

Illustrator captures Street Child World Cup

New Art and Design campus for 2019 ARCHITECTS IMPRESSION OF THE COMPLETED CAMPUS

We’re very excited that work is nearly complete on our new Locksbrook Campus. If you come to study art and design at Bath Spa University you will be one of the first to use this amazing new space. Originally designed by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw for Herman Miller, the American furniture manufacturers in 1976, Bath Spa University has spent the last few years revitalising this Grade II listed building.

Grimshaw Architects have worked closely with Bath Spa to transform the iconic building into an extraordinary facility for artists and designers to flourish. Right from the outset, we placed students and their creative practice central to the design of the new campus. The new building is open-plan, with large, adaptable spaces. The new campus will house large, open social areas, presentation spaces, a rooftop pavilion and art shop. At the heart of this new facility will be making and fabrications spaces, to enable ambitious and collaborative project work, plus an art and enterprise shop.

Visit www.bathspa.ac.uk/locksbrookcampus

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Tim Vyner, renowned British illustrator and Senior Lecturer at Bath Spa University, has drawn and documented major events across the world including many sporting events.

Did you know he was commissioned to digitally document the World Cup in Russia? An event was held which saw more than 200 street-connected children from across the globe take part in their own international football tournament, festival of arts and congress for their rights.

Tim then documented the event with illustrations drawn on an iPad to capture the essence of that exact moment in time, tell the stories of young boys and girls, representing 24 national teams, playing to change the negative perceptions and treatment of street-connected children across the world.

First black female Professor of History in the UK Our very own Bath Spa University Professor, Olivette Otele, became the UK’s first female black Professor of History. Olivette, who holds a PhD in History is also the first black female to be awarded a personal Chair position, in recognition for her high levels of achievement within the field.

Olivette, who teaches History here at Bath Spa, said: “There are many hard-working women, especially women of colour, working in academia, and I hope this will open the door to more of them receiving the recognition they deserve.”

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Your timetable for today

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Lecture Theatre

10:00 – 10:30

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Cafe Sion

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Introduction to the Schools of Art and Design

Professional Services Fair

Accommodation Drop-in

10:40 – 11:10

Employability and Student Life

Professional Services Fair

Accommodation Drop-in

11:20 – 11:50

Fine Art

Professional Services Fair

Accommodation Drop-in

12:00 – 12:30

Photography

Creative Arts Practice

Professional Services Fair

Accommodation Drop-in

12:40 – 13:10

Foundation in Art and Design and Integrated Foundation Year

Digital Animation

Professional Services Fair

Accommodation Drop-in

13:20 – 13:50

Accommodation, Student Support and Finance

Professional Services Fair

Accommodation Drop-in

14:00 – 14:30

Introduction to the Schools of Art and Design and Postgraduate Study

Professional Services Fair

Accommodation Drop-in

14:40 – 15:10

Graphic Communication

Interior Design

Professional Services Fair

Accommodation Drop-in

15:20 – 15:50

Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors

Furniture and Product Design

Professional Services Fair

Accommodation Drop-in

16:00 – 16:30

Fashion Design

Professional Services Fair

Accommodation Drop-in

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CAFE SION CONTEMPORARY ARTS PRACTICE AREA

KEY: Welcome Talks Professional Services Subject Sessions

T1.08 will be a base room for postgraduate visitors and postgraduate staff.

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Off-site tours

Here’s our offer to you...

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Show us your talent and potential in an interview and we’ll guarantee you a place.

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Take a tour around our new state of the art Locksbrook Road campus, opening in September 2019. The Heads of Schools will show you around the amazing new development giving you the chance to be one of the first to see it.

Safety wear will be provided.

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A potential £750 available to help fund your uni life.

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OFF-SITE ACCOMMODATION TOUR

A guaranteed offer of accommodation.

Alternatively, you can make your own way to visit our off-site accommodation. Ambassadors will be on-hand between 10:00 and 16:30 to talk to you and show you the rooms and facilities.

Waterside Court* Waterside Court, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath, BA2 3ED

Twerton Mill* Twerton Mill, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath, BA2 1EW

Charlton Court* Charlton Court, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath, BA2 3ES

Green Park house (drop-in from 12:00) Green Park House, 6 Park Road, Bath, BA1 1BQ

*Limited parking available

On-site tours CAMPUS TOURS Ambassadors will be available in the foyer beyond reception to take you on a tour of the facilities.

Your place - guaranteed with 3, 2, 1, Go! At Bath Spa, we want the most talented people to join us and thrive. Your academic qualifications may speak for you, but they're only one way to show who you are and what you can do. We want to work with you to understand your potential. If we can see that you'll do well, we’ll give you a guaranteed place, whatever your predicted or eventual grades.

To qualify for a guaranteed place, you’ll need to demonstrate your ability in one of three ways: • by interview with one of our academic staff – either in person or over the phone • through your portfolio • by attending an audition.

As part of our 3,2,1, Go! offer you’ll also have the opportunity of receiving a £750 Talent and Excellence Scholarship and a guaranteed offer of accommodation.

To find out more about our 3, 2, 1 Go! offer, including full T&Cs and FAQs, visit www.bathspa.ac.uk/go

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What to expect at interview Current Bath Spa BA History student Erin MinettSmith came for an interview as part of her application process. Talking about the experience, Erin said: “I feel like making a connection with a member of staff was positive. That’s the kind of relationship I wanted to have with the University – being able to talk through what I like and the opportunities this University could provide me. As a result, I wasn’t worried. It reassured me and I spent the summer enjoying myself and looking forward to university, rather than dreading moving away from home. I just knew it was the right place for me.”

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NEWS

Record amount of Bath Spa University graduates in work or further study From sheep shearing to the small screen Katie Allen, a Design: Fashion and Textiles graduate and full-time shepherdess, recently took to the small screen as she and her British woollen textiles company, Loopy Ewes, featured on BBC 2 TV show, Back to the Land with Kate Humble.

Katie owns a flock of rare breed Portland and Castlemilk Moorit sheep and works with their wool to produce hand-crafted, contemporary, artisan homewares including cushions, throws and sheepskin rugs, which she sells online.

Katie said: “I am beyond amazed and proud to be among a group of fantastic rural businesses described as ‘passionate, headstrong, pioneering trailblazers’!

“The support and guidance from tutors at Bath Spa University has been invaluable and the course has given me the opportunity to understand my practice and the market I need to take my work into, on an entirely different level.”

Students and staff make Bath Festival a show-stopping success Last summer more than 100 Bath Spa University students and staff played an essential part in delivering the Bath Festival to a huge crowd of over 37,000 people.

From filming and directing, to singing and acting, across 17 days and 18 different shows our talented students showcased what it means to be part of the Bath Spa community at last year’s multi-arts festival.

96.1%

of Bath Spa University graduates are in work or further study six months after graduating.*

Commercial Music graduate wins Emmy Award Talented Foley artist and Bath Spa graduate, Oliver Ferris, was recognised at last year’s Emmy Awards after the episode of hit TV show, Black Mirror, which he worked on won the ‘Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Limited Series, Movie or Special’.

Oliver, who studied Commercial Music and graduated in 2013, headed to Los Angeles to collect his trophy at the annual Primetime Emmy Awards which celebrates excellence in the television industry.

As a Foley artist, Oliver reproduces every day sounds that are recorded and added to films and television shows in a post-production setting.

He said: “I have always been interested in film and television, but Bath Spa provided me with an understanding and experience of working with tools that I now use every day.”

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*HESA 2016/17 Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education

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Bath in four hours Walk into town from Sion Hill and explore Bath city centre.

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Grab a picnic and head to the Royal Crescent! This world famous landmark is a row of 30 terraced houses arranged around a perfect lawn overlooking Royal Victoria Park. This Grade I listed building is among the greatest examples of Georgian architecture to be found in the United Kingdom.

Head over to Pulteney Bridge – a sweeping horseshoeshaped weir. It’s one of the world’s most historic bridges with shops built into it. It’s best viewed from Parade Gardens by the crescent weir. Bath is often used as a setting for films. A pivotal scene from Les Misérables was filmed here.

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There’s nothing quite like a walk around Bath Abbey!

Experience the special atmosphere and history of this uplifting place. Containing war memorials for the local population and monuments of several notable people, in the form of wall and floor plaques and commemorative stained glass.

It’s time for some much needed retail therapy! You couldn’t visit Bath without checking out Southgate – a lively shopping centre combining Bath’s Georgian style buildings with modern shops and restaurants. Southgate Car Park is open 24 hours a day.

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