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Spring 2020
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centre stage! Students enjoy workshop at Theatre Royal Brighton
Grand design
Student wins Royal Opera House Design Challenge
Top universities await
ESC students set for places at top universities
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Media tutor stars in regional teaching campaign
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.Welcome News, events, and interviews from East Sussex College, the world of FE, and beyond...
First up is Lewes! In this edition you’ll be able to read news about our fantastically creative students who competed in the Royal Opera House Design Challenge (p5.),
That’s just a flavour of what our Lewes campus has to offer, so you really should come and visit to find out more!
Fred Carter, Principal, East Sussex College Lewes
ESC took centre stage at the Theatre Royal Brighton as Creative workshop returned. Read more on page 6.
It is special because Escape is celebrating its first birthday! We launched the magazine 12 months ago to tell you about the fantastic things that go on across our campuses. To mark the occasion we wanted to run a series of special editions to focus on each of our main campuses in Eastbourne, Hastings, and Lewes.
our Creative Theatre workshop at the Theatre Royal in Brighton (p6.) and a Hair and Beauty Prom showcase at Lewes (p9.). We also have plenty of things to look forward to in the next few months (p13.) and a fantastic food and film offer for you to try courtesy of our good friends at Depot (p14).
On the cover: ‘Centre Stage’
Welcome to a very special edition of Escape Magazine.
EDITORIAL TEAM:
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Zara Baker
Ashley Chapman
Have a story? Contact me zara.baker@escg.ac.uk
Have a story? Contact me ashley.chapman@escg.ac.uk
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.contents CREATIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP IN BRIGHTON (P6)
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News...
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Charlotte wins best Set Design in the ROH Design Challenge
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Students go behind the scenes at Theatre Royal Brighton
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ESC news in brief including Biology Olympiad and IMDB credit
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Lewes students set for places at top univerisities
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Hair and Beauty students take to the catwalk
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Humans of ESC
STRIKE A POSE AT THE PROM SHOWCASE (P9)
We catch up with published author and A-Level tutor, Paul Davies
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Become a teacher Campaign launches to encourage more people into teaching
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Escape plans
MINIFEST RETURNS THIS SUMMER (P13)
Find out what’s coming up this April, May and June - including MiniFest in July
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Depot and dine
Try Depot’s delicious Gnocchi in Parmesan Sauce
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Competition time
Five pairs of tickets to see Carmilla at Depot cinema, Lewes up for grabs
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And the winner is... Charlotte wins best Set Design in ROH competition Art & Design student Charlotte Dance has won one of the top awards at this year’s Royal Opera House Design Challenge. Charlotte, who is in her second year of the Level 3 course, was crowned the winner of the Set Design category with her piece themed around Giacomo Puccini’s 1896 masterpiece, La bohème. It is the second year in a row that a student from the college has won the Set Design category and the eighth consecutive year that East Sussex College students have won top awards in the Design Challenge. The annual Design
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Challenge competition runs in the Autumn term and invites students from colleges and universities across the country to compete in four categories; Set Design, Costume Design, Hair, Wig and Make-up Design, and Marketing Strategy and Design. Along with Charlotte’s success, two other Lewes students were highly commended for their entries. Ryley Ormond achieved a highly commended award in Set Design and Betty Taylor was highly commended in the Marketing Strategy category. James DiBiase, Art & Design tutor at Lewes, said, “What an
exceptional achievement. We’re delighted that Charlotte has won best Set Design and that Ryley and Betty have been highly commended for their entries too. This represents a great deal of hard work and talent from our students and continues our fantastic success in this competition highlighting that Lewes is a college for creative excellence.” The winners will each get an exclusive behind the scenes tour of the Royal Opera House and have her work displayed in the ROH’s Linbury Foyer until 7th April 2020.
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.Creative TheatrE is A smash-hit WITH STUDENTS .Cover Story
A group of students from Lewes and Brighton recently had the opportunity to go backstage at the Theatre Royal Brighton to take part in a Creative Theatre workshop. Creative Theatre, which has been running for six years, is a partnership between East Sussex College and Theatre Royal Brighton to give keen drama students an insight into the world of theatre production. Just over 40 Year 9 and 10 students from schools including Dorothy Stringer High 6
School, Downlands Community School, King’s Academy Ringmer, and Priory School Lewes had the opportunity to tour one of the oldest theatres in the country, visit the backstage areas, understand what goes into putting on a show, and go on stage to raise the curtain. The students then joined tutors from East Sussex College Lewes who gave masterclasses in drawing techniques, set design, and how to create a range of theatrical and special effects make-up, including prosthetics. Students from the
Lewes campus also had the opportunity to get involved and gain valuable work experience by helping to run the masterclasses and capture the day on film. John Baldock, Theatre Director at Theatre Royal Brighton, said, “This is a great partnership that gives the young people a real insight into the vast array of career options within theatre. They get to see everything from the lighting and rigging to how we plan, market and sell tickets; there’s so much more involved than what audiences see presented onstage.” Escape Magazine
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Biology Olympiad Our A-Level Biology students took part in the British Biology Olympiad competition in February. Five of our Biologist did particularly well with Holly Hills-Roberts achieving a Bronze Award, Rebecca Loader and Amy Barnes were Highly Commended and Lucy Wells and Lal Rawlinson received the Commended Award. It was a very close competition with only 15 marks separating the Commended Award and the Gold Award and only 9.9% of students who took part received the Bronze Award.
.News in brief Visit the news section on the college website to read these stories in full. www.escg.ac.uk/blog
Placement success Healthcare and Science students from across the college recently completed industry placements within local health or social care settings. The pilot project, created in partnership with East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, the Learning Disabilities Team at East Sussex County Council and Health Education England, saw students spend one day a week for 10 weeks gaining valuable experience in the environment.
First aid qualified Our second year Level 3 Early Years students are now qualified Level 3 Paediatric First aiders. The students recently completed the first aid course to give them a fantastic bolt-on qualification making them even more employable once they leave college.
IMDB credit for Caitlin One of our Make-Up Artistry students, Caitlin Howard, has been fully credited on IMDB for her work on a recent film ‘Typo.’ Caitlin started her journey with us as an explorer on vocational studies where part of her course was one day a week in Hair and Beauty. Caitlin then joined the Level 2 course to progress her skills further and will be moving on to Level 3 course next year. Issue #05
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.lewes students set for places at top unis All of our students have now submitted their UCAS 2020 applications with expert help and guidance from our careers advisors and tutors.
and workshops with guest advisers from local universities. “We have a cohort of very talented, academic, and high achieving students here in Lewes, many of who have applied We caught up with Careers to some of the top and Enrichment Team universities in the country. Leader, Susie Christie, to This year, over 70% of the find out more: universities that have been “We work closely with applied to are Russell curriculum to ensure Group Universities. Bristol, all students attend Kings, Leeds, Manchester UCAS surgeries so we and Nottingham are can support them with our students’ top five their applications and favourites! We have a discuss all their HE thriving Russell group progression options. We and Oxbridge society also host regular talks which is well supported
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by some really prestigious universities. “We also had 19 high flying students who have applied to Oxbridge. I’m really excited to say, that, Hope Kelly has accepted her place at Oxford to study Law and all the others chose Russell group universities including Edinburgh, Exeter and UCL. “Each year more students are securing places at top universities and it’s a real privilege to be a part of their journey.”
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.on the catwalk
Hair and Beauty students from our Lewes campus held a Prom Showcase evening in partnership with prom and bridal boutique, Our Little Secret. Current students showcased hair and makeup looks to an audience of friends, family, and Year 11 students interested in this area of study. Students also modelled the latest prom wear from Our Little Secret, with guests receiving a discount on dresses and exclusive treatments at Evolve Hair & Beauty in Lewes.
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The students’ work was judged by a panel of special guests, including WorldSkills global Beauty Therapist winners and ESC alumni, Kaiya Swain and Rebeca West, (WorldSkills competition 2017 and 2019 respectively). Winners on the night were: Ellie Hoadley (Level 2, Beauty, gel nails); Jasmin White (Level 2 Hair, Hollywood); EllieMae Gilbert (Level 3 Hair, weddings); Orlanda Titherly (Level 2 make-up); and Ella Lower, Lucy Jarvis and Ellie Naicker (Level 3 theatrical make-up).
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.humans of ESC It’s only when you get to know the people who work at ESC that you realise how interesting and inspiring they are. During the week Paul Davies teaches A-Level English, but outside of college he has a passion for comic books and has recently had his first book published. We caught up with him to find out more about his book. “Comics as Communication is my first book and I’m very excited. It came out around Christmas and it’s already been pretty popular. I loved comics as a kid and then read them growing up. I was college age in the 80s when
comics were changing a bit and were being more for grownups. Comics used to be Tintin and Asterix, which I enjoyed for their storytelling power and their visual pleasure, but now they’re also being used to talk about things that I would be studying at A-Level Literature or used to take characters seriously and treat them as if they’re real human. When I went to university I wanted to do more of this but no-one was really doing it at the time. I managed to steer one of my extended essays at the end of my degree to talk about Shakespeare being done in comics form. I had a receptive tutor who
“I do some close readings with a couple of famous comic creators, one of them being Mike Mignola, who did Hellboy”
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said it was ok to write about the comic of Shakespeare and argue that when you draw a comic of a Shakespeare play it’s just like doing a performance. Casting, costuming, miseen-scene, pacing… all of those things we would do for a theatre production. Fast forward a few years and I began studying my PhD part-time while working at the college. The idea for my book came from my thesis in February 2017. I had already been to a few conferences and doing papers here or there, publishing short articles, and working on chapters in collections before bringing it all together to pitch it to be published. It is an academic book and was turned around relatively quickly. I had to put together a proposal and get it passed by two readers, one who seemed to like it and the other was a bit more suspicious. This led to a title change and some revisions to the book. I shopped around for a publisher but I found that most editors, if they don’t know who you are, aren’t interested. I then found Palgrave Macmillan. They’re international and have a lot of resources and beautiful printing.
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Humans of ESC is all about celebrating the people who make our college great. Throughout Comics as Communication there are images from different artists as well as some of my own work. I had to contact them or their publisher and seek permission to print their images. Some wanted to charge me a lot of money, which just wasn’t possible. It was really striking that when I said I’m looking to publish with Palgrave Macmillan, they’d say ‘yes, that will be 250 dollars per image’. I’d say, it’s just me, I’m a part-time researcher, I’m not a representative of a huge company. They’d often get back and say, ‘70 dollars then’. Others came back and waived the fees. Often, the smaller publishers would say yes, as you’re talking about their work and getting readers for it. At the end of the book I do some close readings with a couple of famous comic creators, one of them being Mike Mignola, who did Hellboy, a major comic series. He is fiercely controlling of his own copyright so he doesn’t let DC or Image or any of his publishers have copyright. I contacted him directly and he allowed me to use them with no charge. But for other creators, when
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I went to institutions, they wanted a shed load of money for it. Other publishers use Fair Use policy as their approach. You ensure the image is printed black and white, a small extract, and you’re closely writing about it, so you’re covered if there were to be a legal challenge. It’s 300 pages of fairly dense theory. Writing it I did try and think is each chapter extractable; could you just read one chapter and take away
something from that, whilst also adding up to a complete theory. At the moment I’m tweeting quite a lot of little extracts and fishing around for reviews, so I’m getting a bit of promotion done. It’s been a ride and I look forward to reviews!”
Read an extended version of Paul’s interview at: humansofesc.com
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.george stars in teacher recruitment campaign Our Digital Media lecturer, George Hedges, has a leading role in a region-wide campaign aimed at attracting people with industry experience into teaching. George explains how he changed career at 50 in a new video that is part of the ‘Become a Lecturer’ campaign. The project is being funded by the South East Local Enterprise Partnership (SELEP), to combat shortages of lecturers in key subject areas in colleges across Essex, Kent and East Sussex. These include construction, engineering, health and care, finance and accounting, digital and catering. 12
George said, “I’ve been teaching for 12 years and the enjoyment just grows and grows. I love seeing the spark that switches on when students get what you are trying to show them and they can see their potential. “If people with industry experience are considering becoming a lecturer, I recommend they contact their local college to see where their skills might fit. Colleges are always looking for specialists to come in and teach technical skills to students, with professional input. “It’s rewarding, engaging and addictive. You can start one or two days a week but I warn you it’s something you’ll want to do more and more of!”
Project Director Tim Strickland said, “Colleges and independent training providers are always looking for people with real-life experience to join their teaching teams to help educate the workforce of the future helping to support the economic growth and productivity of tomorrow.” Fancy getting into teaching? As well as videos from lecturers explaining why they love teaching, the Become a Lecturer website also contains details of job vacancies and information about how to get started. www.becomealecturer.org
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.Escape plans Take a look at some of the exciting things we’ve got coming up over the next three months. None more exciting than our smash-hit summer festival...
april STRESS AWARENESS MONTH - 1st - 30th
April is Stress Awareness Month. Take time to relax this month, especially if you have exams coming up. EASTER HOLIDAY - 6th - 17th
Enjoy the two-week Easter Break. Recharge the batteries ready for the final term of the year. STRESS BUSTERS - 22nd
Take some time out to relax and destress during our popular Stress Busters event. Join us for top revision tips and techniques to try so you can focus during exam season.
May BANK HOLIDAY - Fri 8th
The first May Bank Holiday has moved to Friday 8th May to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day. GET CREATIVE FESTIVAL - 9th - 17th
We’re getting involved with the Get Creative Festival during 9th and 17th May. There is plenty going on including workshops and competitions!
JUNE GRADUATION ART EXHIBITION - 4th
Digital Media Design degree students showcase their work at the graduation show at the Fabrica Gallery in Brighton. SOUTH OF ENGLAND SHOW - 11th - 13th
Join us as we provide the perfect soundtrack to the County Show during this year’s event. We’ll have the ESC stage at the food court so pop along and say hi! END OF YEAR PROM - Fri 12th
We’ll be celebrating with our final year students during the end of year prom at the Amex stadium. YEAR 10 TASTER DAY - 30th Jun & 1st Jul
Our Taster Days are the perfect opportunity for Year 10s to come and try out college for the day. MINIFEST LEWES - JULY Our smash-hit summer festival returns to Lewes this July! Join us to celebrate the end of school and start your summer in style. Expect fun, games, food and a great line-up of live music!
GCSE EXAMS START - 11th
GCSE exams start on Monday 11th May. All the hard work and revision is about to pay off! BANK HOLIDAY - 25th
Spring Bank Holiday is pretty much the start of summer. Not long before exams are over, the sun is out and the evenings are longer. HALF TERM - 25th - 29th
Half term week is the perfect chance to enjoy some well-earned rest.
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.depot and dine Depot is passionate about serving fresh and enticing food, lovingly prepared - it’s a great place to eat, even if you’re not watching a film. Here, chef Marcin Nowak shares his simple recipe for gnocchi in parmesan sauce, currently on Depot’s evening menu.
Gnocchi in Parmesan Sauce serves 2
YOU WILL NEED:
250g plain potato gnocchi 50g spinach, washed and chopped 12 cherry tomatoes, cut into halves 20g parsley, chopped Salt and black pepper 10g shaved Parmesan A handful of rocket leaves, to garnish For the white wine sauce: Half a medium white Onion (or two medium banana shallots) 3 garlic cloves 50ml vegetable oil 200ml white wine 200ml double cream 100g grated Parmesan
METHOD Begin with the sauce. Finely chop the onion (or shallots) and garlic and fry them in the oil until soft but only slightly brown. Add the wine and reduce the heat to low before pouring in the double cream.
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Lower the heat further and simmer for at least five minutes, until the sauce is reduced by half. Season carefully. Meanwhile, bring a large pan of salted water to the boil and cook the gnocchi for 4-5 minutes, by which point all of the plump potato dumplings will have floated to the surface.
Drain and add the grated parmesan, chopped spinach and parsley, stirring gently before finally adding the tomatoes. Divide between two warmed pasta bowls and garnish with the rocket and shaved parmesan.
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.COMPETITiON TIME! WIN one of five pairs of tickets to see a film at Depot cinema, Lewes Filmed in Sussex, Carmilla is an atmospheric, coming-of-age love story steeped in eerie mystery; a reimagining of Sheridan La Fanu’s 19th century novella of the same name. 15-year-old Lara (Hannah Rae) lives with her father (Greg Wise) and her strict governess, Miss Fontaine (Jessica Raine), in total isolation and is struggling to find an outlet for her curiosity and burgeoning sexuality. When a carriage crash nearby brings a young girl into the family home to recuperate, Lara is enchanted by the eponymous Carmilla (Devrim Lingnau). Carmilla is released on 3 April 2020, 94mins, certificate 15.
For your chance to win, please answer this question: Which Grade II listed Elizabethan manor house in East Sussex served as the main location for the film? Think you know? Email your answer to: comms@escg.ac.uk with ‘Carmilla’ in the subject box. The first five correct entries received after publication will each win a pair of Depot cinema tickets. Don’t forget to leave your name and contact details. Closing date for entries: 1st May 2020
Did you know? If you’re under 25, it’s just £4 any time at Depot cinema. www.lewesdepot.org Issue #05
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