CSM Monthly | May 2022

HIGHLIGHTS
FOUNDATION 2022
LETHABY GALLERY | 18-21 MAY | CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS
Foundation is often a student’s first experience of art school, so head to the Lethaby Gallery as we open our doors and release the creative energy of future artists, designers and innovators.

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EARTH DAY: APPETITE FOR JUSTICE
This Earth Day, 22 April, the Colleges across UAL saw a wellspring of activity from staff, students and alumni. At Central Saint Martins, workshops, performances and talks filled the communal and public spaces highlighting creative and optimistic ways toward ecological justice.

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EVENTS
DIGITAL INNOVATION SEASON 2022
3-24 MAY, ONLINE
Join one of the talks from the public programme of the Digital Innovation Season 2.022. Exploring the intersection between ecology and the digital sphere, in collaboration with the Living Systems Lab.

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BLOCKCHAIN IN ART AND FASHION
10 MAY – 7 JUNE, ONLINE

This series of talks hosted by MA Innovation Management will dive into the implications of this game-changing technology in both art and fashion spaces.

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MA DESIGN: KALEIDOSCOPE22 | PRIVATE VIEWING
6.00-8.00PM, 12 MAY 2022
TOM DIXON SHOP, NEW YORK, USA
Join MA Design as they present the designers of the future. This exhibition will propose new sequences, patterns and rhythms, celebrating the triumph of design.

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DESIGN TRANSFORMS: BORDERS | DINNERS
12 AND 16 MAY, BROOKLYN
Product, Ceramic and Industrial Design – Design Transforms Borders is inviting participants to join the communities of Sunset Park Brooklyn on a journey of decolonising food.

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DESIGN TRANSFORMS BORDERS | EXPERT SPEAKER PANELS
12, 13 AND 16 MAY, BROOKLYN
As part of the co-produced exhibition, CSM, Touching Land and Territorial Empathy are hosting speaker panels across three evenings. Including designers, chefs, farmers and community organisers, exploring design and borders through themes of home, food and places.

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DRAMA CENTRE LONDON PRESENTS: SIMA
19-27 MAY, PLATFORM THEATRE
CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS
Sima by Ellen Bannerman and directed by Maddy Corner, is a gripping, Edinburgh-set morality play,  asking whose responsibility is it to stop femicide? The outsider, the police, the abused, or the abuser?

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DRAMA CENTRE LONDON PRESENTS: THE YELLOW WALLPAPER
19-27 MAY, PLATFORM THEATRE
CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS
Written and directed by Lauren Carter, this play follows famous novelist, a disintegrating marriage and a world where reality and imagination are increasingly blurred.

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DRAMA CENTRE LONDON PRESENTS: AS I HAVE LOVED
19-28 MAY, PLATFORM THEATRE
CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS
By Liam Borrett – a young girl stands accused of committing the ultimate sin within her Baptist Church, triggering a chain of events that will shatter a community forever.

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DRAMA CENTRE LONDON PRESENTS: CHAOS
19-27 MAY, PLATFORM THEATRE
CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS
By Laura Lomas – people search for meaning in a complicated and unstable world. Bouncing through physics, the cosmos, love and violence, they find order and disorder in each other.
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DRAMA CENTRE LONDON PRESENTS: BLASTED
20-28 MAY, PLATFORM THEATRE
CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS
By Sarah Kane, Blasted is a statement about the parallels between domestic and war-related violence, torture and abuse.

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DRAMA CENTRE LONDON PRESENTS: GOOD DAY
20-28 MAY, PLATFORM THEATRE
CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS
By Daniel Bainbridge and Cameron Scriven,  Good Day is a new dark comedy about impermanence and our need to go on.
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DRAMA CENTRE LONDON PRESENTS: FEWER EMERGENCIES
21-27 MAY, PLATFORM THEATRE
CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS
By Martin Crimp, in Fewer Emergencies the truth is a slippery thing and modern comforts can’t quite protect us from ourselves.
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NEWS
REPAINTING HEARTS AT THE NATIONAL COVID MEMORIAL WALL
In collaboration with Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice and activists Led By DonkeysBA Graphic Communication Design students repainted the memorial for those who died from COVID-19, helping to set it in perpetuity.

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FASHION BRAND GINA GRNW LAUNCHES THE KOBZAR COLLECTION TO RAISE FUNDS FOR UKRAINE
In response to the invasion of Ukraine, GINA GRNW, BA Fashion Knitwear student, is launching a limited-edition collection of their signature Plex Bags inspired by Ukrainian culture, to be sold on ginagrnw.com in an online fundraising raffle, from 6-20 May.

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OPENING THE DOOR TO SUSTAINABLE, PLASTIC-FREE LAB-GROWN FUR
LVMH, Imperial College London and CSM are working together to develop lab-grown fur fibres for luxury fashion.
“We’re not interested in the hype of a new fibre for the sake of a new fibre. We’re interested in new, radical, sustainable fibre. We’re far from being sustainable in the way nature is. The more we look at how nature works, the better.” – Carole Collet, Professor in Design for Sustainable Futures and Director of Maison/0.

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SAUL NASH, BA PERFORMANCE: DESIGN AND PRACTICE ALUM WINS THE WOOLMARK AWARD
“I can’t describe how much this means to me. I just want to thank, so much, the Woolmark team. You’ve changed the trajectory of my life.”

Saul Nash was awarded 2022’s International Woolmark Prize. The prize comes with a life-changing sum, of $144,000 and has a long and rich history of altering the trajectory of some of the world’s best-known fashion designers.

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