Librezine

LIBREZINE Summer Edition 2016

THINKING INSIDE THE BOX

MEDIA MAKE-UP

Level 3 showcase

Neo art for the next generation

SUMMER FILM REVIEW

ATROCIOUS AGONISING AUNT

Need some advice?

Think again!

LRC NEW RELEASES

JANET’S RECIPES Apple & pear crumble

Celebratory Event in Diversity 6th June 2016 Time: 6pm - 8pm

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New releases Pick of the month Puzzle Page Showcasing Media Make-Up Film Review/Poetry Page Atrocious Agonising Aunt Theatre Review Janet’s Recipes Creative corner Love in the Library

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hat’s on in the Library RC opening times

1st Floor LRC MonDAY - ThursDAY FriDAY 2nd Floor LRC MonDAY - ThursDAY FriDAY

8.30am - 7.30pm 8.30am - 4pm

Reading Ahead Event in Diversity 6th June 6pm - 8pm

8.30am - 7.30pm 9am - 4pm

Check the LRC enrichment calendArs on the Notice boards and the TV screens in college for more details on:-

Arts & Construction MonDAY - ThursDAy 8.30am - 5pm FriDAY 8.30am - 4pm

Introduction to Macs Study skills Photoshop for beginners Graphics Tablet Taster (Wacom pad) ART Portfolio Review

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n the LIbrary (inspired by Africa Day)

Once again, Bolton College has celebrated Africa Day with a range of activities: Dance, Music, Song, Poetry, Food, Fashion and Crafts. In the Library, we’ve taken to the shelves to find African-inspired Music, Art and Fiction.

New to the world and library shelves, is Beyoncé’s critically acclaimed visual album ‘Lemonade’.

As both album and film, ‘Lemonade’ merges the personal and political life and thoughts of Beyoncé, ranging from her own marriage, to her African routes. Many of the direct references to Africa are within the visual aspects of the video, through use of costume and make-up; for instance, a range of African fabrics, prints and patterns, which reference the West African Yoruba tribe. Similarly, Beyoncé goes on a bus ride in the video, alongside other women in a sense of formation, whose faces are painted white in the Yoruba tradition of Ori. ‘Lemonade’ blends genre, personal, political and cultural references to create a selection of memorable and powerfully original songs, which get richer and richer with every listen.

BY Rachel WEBB

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ick of the Month isgrace by J.M. CoEtzee

New to the LRC is J.M. Coetzee’s 1999 Booker-prize winning novel ‘Disgrace’, which stands out amongst his other work set in post-apartheid South Africa.

The story follows David Lurie, an academic at Cape Town University who is discovered to have had sexual misconduct with one of his students; rather than fighting for his job and enduring a process of rehabilitation, he succumbs himself to the preferred state of disgrace. With this, he retires to the country to live with his daughter Lucy where he is faced with the struggles of the apartheid aftermath. In particular, the barbaric horrors which daughter, Lucy, subjected to.

Coetzee is subtle when painting the bleakness of this South African setting, which

builds up into a powerfully bleak portrayal. It goes far beyond this portrait of its setting, with its dramatic depictions of animal suffering, sex, and gender.

Also in the library is ‘Things Fall Apart’ which is perhaps the most widely read African novel, written

by Chinua Achebe (16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013), it is set in a fictional village in the author’s native Nigeria and was published in 1958.

We explore central theme of the book (the advent of colonialism in Nigeria and the conflict this causes) through the eyes of Okonkwo, a member of the Igbo tribe.

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Shakespeare Shelley Rowling Austen Hemingway 6

by Rachel Webb

WORDSEARCH

Woolf Wilde Christie Dahl Wilson

Plath Brown Angelou Poe Patterson

CROSSWORD Across 2. ‘Of mice and ***’

by John Steinbeck (3) 3. ‘******** Island’

by Robert Louis Stevenson (8) 6. ‘P.S. I **** You’ by Cecelia Ahern (4) 7. ‘***** let me go’ by Kazuo Ishiguro (5) 9. ‘A **** with a view’ by E.M. Forster (4) 11. ‘Gone ****’ by Gillian Flynn (4) 12. ‘Harry Potter and the chamber of *******’ by J. K. Rowling (7) 15. ‘***** in Sunderland’ by Lewis Carroll (5) 16. ‘***** Towns’ by John Green (5) 17. ‘Brave *** World’ by Aldous Huxley (3) 18. ‘The ****** games’ by Suzanne Collins (6) Down 1. ‘The Perks of Being a **********’ (10) 2. ‘New ****’ by Stephenie Meyer (4) 4. ‘The Catcher in the ***’ by J. D. Salinger (3) 5. ‘A Clockwork ******’ by Anthony Burgess (6) 8. ‘Noughts & *******’ by Malorie Blackman (7) 10. ‘The ****** Vacancy’ by J. K. Rowling (6) 13. ‘Girl on a *****’ by Paula Hawkins (5) 14. ‘The **** Runner’ by Khaled Hosseini (4) Need a clue? Each of these books are available in the First Floor Library, check the fiction shelves under the author’s name

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HINKING INSIDE THE BOX Neo art for the next Generation

This week’s Librezine looks at five students from the Interactive Media Extended Diploma Level 3 course. This group of talented learners all have very different styles and approaches to their character designs, whose life starts off as a basic sketch and is worked on using Photoshop and a graphics tablet to complete the finished piece.

So cast your eyes upon a new wave of digital artists who will be leaving us soon and stepping into the future of some next level learning.

Chloe Guest 2016

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Chloe Forrest 2016

What inspired your character?

This is a piece of work, technically, for artist research in our projects. The style of it is inspired by a dude called Sergi Brosa – he’s a concept artist. So, his work involves a lot of post-apocalyptic kind of themes. There’s a lot of ragged edges and very defined shapes, like the tears on her dress and the really chunky boots. I basically just wanted to make her look cute and like she could kick your butt.

Any tips for people wanting to design their own characters?

It’s really just trial and error. Just keep practising and find your own style within it. It’s took, like, two years to get where I am now from basically trial and error. I’m improving a lot. It just really takes time.

You just gotta have the patience for it.

Tam Onlaor 2016

About the character: My character is actually a blue kangaroo type of thing. I designed him to entertain the kids, and make them smile and laugh and that. The story is that the kangaroo is trying to find his friend and travel home.

He got lost so many times and overcame a lot of obstacles to get to the other place. His face is more like a rabbit face, more than a kangaroo – supposed to make kids laugh, really. I wanted to make it look funny and interesting.

Janelle Jordon 2016

Where do you imagine your character being used? TV? Films? Video Game? Comic Book?

I can see it mainly as a game. So I’d like to develop it, hopefully, in the future as, not like a platform game, but like an RPG. I can see that. But I’d hopefully develop it into a game. If not that, then a TV show, I guess. I’m not set on the concept of it yet; it’s just a rough idea for now.

Matthew Crompton 2016

Do you see any of yourself in the characters you design?

In this character, Jay, he’s very creative like me. He’s like me in the aspect where he doesn’t know how to sew or create clothes, so he uses the pelt of the mammoth inside his duster coat to keep him warm. He’s kind of like me and also, Dr. Shara, he’s like me in the fact that he’s a fear-ist. Like, he knows that in about 15 years from when he is, there’s going to be a decline in natural resources. Well, I’m a fear-ist in that aspect too.

Interview by Katelyn Poon

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Inspired by Cadbury Chocolate

Inspired by Ladies Day

FORGET LOVE - I’D RATHER FALL IN CHOCOLATE by AMY WALSH

ONE IS NOT BORN A WOMAN - ONE BECOMES ONE by HANNAH STANLEY

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HE BEST OF BRITISH UTOR - IRIS MORAN

Inspired by Navy Tattoos

Inspired by Alice in Wonderland

HOPE ANCHORS THE SOUL by CHELSIE EVANS

PEOPLE WHO DON’T THINK SHOULDN’T TALK by MEGAN HARTLES Photography by Zoe Rothwell

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applethorpe: Look at the Pictures

A candid canter through the career of one the twentieth century’s most iconic and controversial artists. While today we have arguably become desensitized to explicit imagery online, Mapplethorpe’s depictions continue to portray human sexuality with stark and arresting honesty. However, as an early champion of the medium of photography as art, what comes across most vividly from the film are not the images themselves, but the ambition of the artist to make his photographs a commercial success. It is a tribute to the American dream, wrapped in what conservative America deemed a nightmare.

His photography reflected his time brutally documenting the gay liberation of the 1970s, whilst balancing this with soft imagery of flowers and contrasts of black and white men. The film gave an insight into Mapplethorpe’s life, his loves and his lofty ambitions to be famous. He was portrayed as an innovative artist who pushed boundaries to the limit but often

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Review by Kate Grigsby hurt those closest to him in his pursuit of perfection. The film flashed between his raw and realistic art whilst documenting his rise and eventual fall due to AIDS. His subjects and lovers are interviewed in his film and almost mirror the direction of his work. His death has made him an almost immortal figure and cemented him in pop culture.

I enjoyed the film but found some of the imagery difficult to watch due to the extreme situations he documented of both himself and his subjects.

Additionally, Mapplethorpe is portrayed as a man who will stop at nothing to achieve his aims of fame and recognition – he even failed to make peace with his brother as he ended his life.

Essential viewing - a raw portrayal of a twentieth century genius.

Five stars.

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People who say they read poetry for pleasure both fascinate and confuse me a little, so I thought I’d step into the world of contemporary poetry and share it with you. Some poems I found were just plain weird, but here is one which I actually quite liked.

Sourced by Gemma Fox So Much Light We Could See to the Other Side

All fuel and fire, spine left like a bent arrow, dark matter, the teeth as relic, all of our words bitter fruit. Who could have believed we were made like this. The cosmonaut , the soothsayer , and the blind archaeologist knew merely by feeling with the ends of their fingers which reached out to nothing. We were a warring lot, hammered by days, and greedy too. Our plates were dented with heavy spoons, words spoken in secret in front of a fire, documents burned before anything of substance was revealed. We made that fire, fed the flames with newspapers, kings, martyrs, and love.

We were wanton , selfish, predisposed to constant dreaming.

We fed, fought and then fought some more until night arrived with its hellish glow. All around us, mothers taught their children words for the first time. They fashioned the universe into something knowable, sayable. Say this, said the mother and the infant repeated the words, clumsily, devoted. The child’s devotion was the world fabricating a truth. Repairs on the other side of the hemisphere .

The archaeologist found our bones and said we were a strong and healthy race, grew more ingenious than any generation before us, before we fell away from wit, invention, our own empty embrace.

We ran to our end like leaping into a volcano. Unstoppable fury.

We should have disappeared entirely after the bomb, the floods, our own desertion. Someone’s mouth blows dust off the bones.

The soothsayer predicts that we will come back, the cosmonaut is willing to bet when the world ended there were more stars filling the sky than ever before. There once was shadow, before a last light came, not to darken the plain but to define it.

By Tina Chang

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trocious agonising Aunt lways here to help.....or maybe not!

Q. How do you feel when you are in love?

A. Why do people ask me these horrendous questions? I’m a librarian not a love guru, but I must admit the first floor LRC does seem to attract all the lovers.

Speaking from a personal experience and being totally and utterly in love with my husband it is the best feeling in the world and you can’t buy a better medicine.

Q.Why are boys mean to me?

A. It’s usually because they are not in touch with their inner feelings and don’t know how to express their passion. In other words they fancy you so play hard to get and when they realise that being horrible doesn’t work they will become nicer people.

Q. What do you think about fashion?

A. Have you seen what I wear?

I love a good cardigan – the woollier the better.

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Some of the students are prone to being fashion victims but most trends we have all seen before. For example the Afro and the Hi-top fade hairstyle were all the rage back in the eighties and ain’t nothing new. As for high waisted jeans with bat winged tops, then just have a look at your mum’s old photographs and you will see what I mean.

Q.What can we do about racism?

A. It’s all about awareness and educating each other about different cultures and people’s ethnic

backgrounds. At the end of the day we are all human beings and should embrace the diversity of mankind. Within the college environment we try to be as inclusive as possible and encourage diversity. Racism usually comes from a deep rooted lack of understanding and in some cases fear. Society has a responsibility to act and stand up against racism and it breaks my heart when I see young people who still hold prejudice.

Q. Why do some people come to college but don’t want to study?

How can we motivate them?

A. Many students enjoy the social aspect of college but are not dedicated to studying and don’t understand the consequences. I was always told that the harder you study when you are younger the less you will struggle when you are older. In other words more doors and more opportunities will come your way with a good work ethic and a good education.

Q. People spitting outside college angers me. It is unhygienic and disrespectful to those around.

How can we stop it?

A. Well I haven’t got a clue because we already have a problem with

things like smoking and chewing gum outside the college and signs don’t seem to work.

I guess we could revert back to the early 1900’s and re-introduce spittoons although I thought we had evolved from then. Personally I think we should go down the route of a giant hand held wind device, which thrusts the spit back into the direction of the perpetrator or simply have people spit patrolling – maybe we could get the council involved.

Q. What is your last wish?

A. To not have to wear an adult diaper when I’m in my eighties.

Finally - there is a confidential problem cup on Becky’s desk in the 2nd floor library for the next issue of Librazine’s Atrocious Agonising Aunt column On a serious note, if you have any questions regarding more sensitive issues, I feel I should mention that the college provides an amazing counselling service with a highly qualified team.

If you would like to find out more information, just call into student services for more details.

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heatre Review hip Shop The Musical ctagon Theatre - May

The Olympus fish & chip restaurant is the venue for this event and as you would expect, fish & chips are definitely on the menu from the start. By the time our meal has finished, we are all feeling relatively relaxed and are eager for the performance to begin.

Since this is a musical there is virtually no dialogue, all we know about each character is conveyed through song. In both cases, the songs are fairly complex and very emotional, telling us a lot about these individuals. Gram’s great passions are brass band music and fish & chips.

Gram, the owner of the restaurant, is struggling to run the business alone. He is the victim of impossibly high standards, set in part by his late father. A mournful brass band backing track accompanies his opening song.

Enter his future assistant Ayla, complete with a hoodie & headphones. She seems to be a carefree teenager when we first meet her, but it soon becomes apparent she

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Written and produced by Emma Hill & directed by Ben Occhipinti

also has her demons to fight.

Her passion is Grime music and it is this rap style of singing which defines her character. After persuading Gram to employ her, they work together for the good of the business and put aside their musical differences. By this time, the audience are not just observing the action, but are also willing participants in it.

The characters weave their way through our tables, balancing plates, setting cutlery and singing their way through every scene.

Through song they eventually develop a mutual respect for each other. Gram mellows to the youthful spontaneity of Ayla and she grows to respect his experience.

The musical ends in a duet, with a flourish of glitter filled tablecloths and a dazzling new menu board.

We are left in no doubt this business will succeed.

A thoroughly enjoyable evening, with two very talented performers.

Review by Janet Eckersley 17th May 2016

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anet’s Recipes pple & pear crumble

Ingredients 225g of plain flour 110g of unsalted cold butter 80g of golden caster sugar 1 teaspoon of ginger 3 medium sized apples 1 tin of pears in fruit juice

To prepare the fruit, peel, core & slice the apples.

Drain the tinned pears & slice.

Place fruit in a medium sized ovenproof dish. Place the crumble mixture evenly over the fruit Bake for 30-40 minutes, until topping is Golden brown 190C, 170C fan, Gas Mark 5 Serve with crème fraîche or cream Serves 3-4

To make the crumble mixture Rub the butter into the flour until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs Stir in the sugar, add the teaspoon of ginger

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When the Earth Went Dark: Part II

By Hannah Wood

A single precious oil lamp burned with a quiet hiss. The faces peering at me through the darkness wore premature lines that spoke volumes about the New World, the world after the bombs fell. I sat in a patched wheeled chair and regarded the grim faces in front of me with sadness.

“What happened to Seeker?”

A wave of nausea hit the pit of my stomach and I swallowed and remembered. Each breath came long and drawn out. My hazard suit stifled my every breath, my slightest movement. If it wasn’t for the head torch on the suit, I’d be completely immersed in darkness.

A building, or rather a crumbling shell of a building, lay ahead. A large hole had been punched into one wall, stretching out like the great maw of a venomous snake.

My hunting partner, Seeker, was out in front looking for tracks.

His suit was similar to mine; like a great jumpsuit that covered his entire body, complete with a torch and gasmask. It was yellow once, but the dust had turned it grey.

“Safe” he said, and nudged a bit of rubble out of his path.

“We haven’t encountered any Rads for days. I think we’re finally clear,” I replied. Rads were human once. They were the unlucky ones; poisoned by radiation and disease, many were prone to vicious behaviour. I gripped my pistol tightly and hoped I had no reason to use it ever again. A great block of rubble tumbled down from above. I shouted to Seeker, who dived away as it crashed to the ground. He laughed.“Guess we’re not completely safe!”

“This place is a wreck. There’s nothing here,” I said, feeling uneasy.

“Doctor was talking about you the other day, she was all like, that Hunter girl, she gets wound up all the time! Guess she was right. Stop being a scaredy cat,” Seeker teased. An earsplittingly high-pitched shriek tore through the wreckage. I saw something move at the corner of my eye in the shadows created by our head torches. I whirled around and aimed my pistol in the darkness.

“Never heard anything like that before,” I muttered. Whatever it was, I could hear it breathing.

Long, raspy breaths, not unlike my own. My legs and arms trembled and I readied myself.

(to be continued)

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To the girl in the LRC with the Violin. I’d love to play with your G-String.

To the girl with the red hair in the LRC this afternoon singing along to Elton John - I will make sure that you feel the love tonight.

To the brunette Access student helping out in the labs, if you were on the PH scale you’d be 0-6, because you’re the least basic girl I’ve ever seen. Sorry about the terrible Chemistry pun, but most of them Argon.

To that hot Arabic Guy who’s studying interior design, I want to fly on your magic carpet.

To the librarian who said “can you stop laughing and shut up” in the silent area of the library. I’m not into reprimands, but damn, I think I might be now.

To the pretty blonde girl in my Business and Management class, my resources are being allocated inefficiently because of you.

To the lovely lady at Bolton One with the Fiat 500. I can’t a Ford to give you a Saab story. You’re driving me crazy!

To the dark haired hottie in the light blue top by the criminology books, if loving you is a crime, then I’m looking at a life sentence.

If you would like to submit a piece of creative writing or post a message for ‘Love in the Library’ please pop into the 2nd floor library.

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