Arts
BBC talent at campus comedy
club
The final Three Shots Comedy Club of the term will
showcase established and up-and-coming BBC comedy talent this week.
Headlining the show will be Mitch Benn, one of the
most sought after comedy acts in the country best known for his creative
song writing. Since breaking onto the comedy scene in 1994, Mitch is now
a regular writer and performer on
The Now Show on BBC Radio 4 and
It’s Been a Bad Week for BBC
Radio 2. He presents The
Mitch Benn Music Show on BBC
Radio 7 and has broadcast three series of his show
Mitch Benn’s Crimes Against Music
on BBC Radio 4.
New talent Tom Craine will also be performing.
Since winning Best Comedy and Drama at the BBC National Student Awards
in 2006, Tom has seen his radio comedy commissioned for BBC Radio 2,
penned laughs for BBC 3 and presented on BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6 Music.
Completing the line-up is the ever popular Three
Shots MC Rob Broderick, who, since taking up residency last year, has
caused quite a stir on campus.
The Three Shots Comedy Club will be at the Lakeside
Theatre on 24 March at 8.30pm. Tickets cost £8 (£5 concession and £4 for
Essex students). For further information see:
www.essex.ac.uk/artson5.
MA students
lead curating conference
Postgraduate students from the Department of Art
History and Theory are co-organising the first student-led public
conference on curating at Tate Britain.
The students, from Essex’s Centre for Curatorial
Studies, were invited to stage the conference with counterparts from
Chelsea College of Art and Design and Sheffield Hallam University.
Together, they will stage the international conference exploring
curatorial practice and theory in May.
The central theme of the event will be whether
curating needs art, and whether art needs curators. Invited speakers
will also address the contingency of curation and its consequences for
culture and society. There will also be an exhibition of art works
including video screenings, audio art, performance, and music.
Group seminars, at which the students have been
able to formulate and present their ideas took place in December and
February. The students will have the chance to test their ideas and
possible exhibition and performance elements in a third event at
Wimbledon College of Art later this month.
Also in the printed March edition of Wyvern:
- Exploring multi-cultural society
