Applications for British Science Week 2019
The application process for grants to support British Science Week in 2019 is still open. British Science Week will next take place between 8th-17th March, 2019. The application process involves thematic grants for school, community groups and one for the British Science Association branches. You...
New Anglia Enterprise Adviser Network
Embed from Getty Images Can you help create business builders for the next generation? Linking Education and Business – A New Approach Continuing our thematic coverage of new ways to support young people and the education and training sector, we were very pleased to see...
We support JDRF,
a great Type 1 Diabetes charity!
View image | gettyimages.com Cambridge Coffee Morning for JDRF Date: Friday 2nd October Time: 10am – 12.30pm Venue: Girton College (The Old Kitchens) Come along and join us for this informal coffee morning, which will give you the chance to meet other families living with...
Cambridgeshire Timebanking Partnership
…can you help?
The Cambridgeshire Timebanking Partnership are keen to ensure the sustainability of their Timebanks by diversifying their funding. The Partnership have decided on a development programme to institute a major raffle and an Auction of Promises. The Partnership are looking to develop this ambitious campaign which...
A Fellow, a camera, a keyboard?
View image | gettyimages.com This month’s conversationsEAST sponsored Coffee with My Councillor session will be held in Chelmsford. It is an opportunity for Fellows to meet and talk directly with their Fellowship Councillor in the East of England. Tim reports that conversations he has...
Be the change in Cambridge?
Be the Change in Cambridge are holding a community event on Saturday 14th March, 2015. This is an opportunity to help ‘…facilitate the creation of ideas and bring the city together to make Cambridge greater than the sum of its parts‘. Anglia Ruskin University East...
Be a volunteering Fellow
in Cambridge…
Volunteer for Cambridge Saturday 28th February, 2015 – There is a great day of volunteering opportunities for the Fellowship in Cambridge this weekend. Visit The Guildhall and see! Members of the regional Fellowship will be abroad, supporting 80 Cambridge based organisations who are ‘…working to...
Abbey People? A great volunteering opportunity
The Fellow led RSA Cambridge Network are offering their support to the Abbey People community project. This is a call to action for new volunteers from the Fellowship in the East of England and beyond. Abbey People is a community group working to support residents...
Water Buffalo
and Reed Beds
A small group of Fellows were this week able to take advantage of an invitation to visit and see the work of the team at Kingfishers Bridge Wetland Project . Situated close to Wicken Fen, this sanctuary, developed from privately held land, is both a...
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Innovation in architecture
- tamara djurovic, aka ‘hyuro’, leaves a legacy of monumental murals across the globe November 24, 2020the artist's huge-scale outdoor works are bestowed in all corners of the globe, from brazil, to italy, spain, belgium and the netherlands. The post tamara djurovic, aka ‘hyuro’, leaves a legacy of monumental murals across the globe appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.nina azzarello I designboom
- this robot can autonomously transform its legs into wheels depending on the terrain November 23, 2020the wheel-and-leg transformable robot (WaLTR) by kiju lee and her team can move around different surfaces which include but are not limited to, staircases. The post this robot can autonomously transform its legs into wheels depending on the terrain appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.juliana neira I designboom
- OTTAN studio turns orange peels, cut grass and carrot pulp into design objects November 23, 2020the istanbul-based studio is developing upcycled materials without consuming precious virgin resources. The post OTTAN studio turns orange peels, cut grass and carrot pulp into design objects appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.lynne myers
- olson kundig’s ‘city cabin’ is an urban retreat on a regularly-sized seattle lot November 23, 2020planting mature trees and dense greenery helped transform an ordinary urban infill lot into a private refuge. The post olson kundig’s ‘city cabin’ is an urban retreat on a regularly-sized seattle lot appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.philip stevens I designboom
Women, reading and writing in Glasgow
- Covid-19 Level Four Update November 19, 2020In line with the announcement made on 18th November by the Scottish Government that Glasgow is one of 11 Local Authorities in Scotland to move into Covid-19 Level Four restrictions, Glasgow Women’s Library is required to close our building to the public - we will therefore close at 4pm on Friday 20th November.GWL
- November Book Picnic Recommendations November 12, 2020Need some inspiration for the next book to add to your reading list? We’ve got suggestions! On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic…Jenna Haskins
- Glasgow Women’s Library: Open this Autumn November 11, 2020With Glasgow moving into Level 4 Covid-19 restrictions, the GWL building will be closed from 4pm on Friday 20th November.Emily Ilett
- NMRD Object of the Month: November November 1, 2020There are over 20 leagues in Scotland alone, and Scotland has partaken in three World Cups. In the 2015 British Championships, Glasgow Roller Derby won the top spot with Edinburgh's Auld Reekie Roller Girls coming in second.Kerry
- Demanding more of Feminist Leadership October 28, 2020We all have a capacity and responsibility to lead whether we are parenting, nurturing the talents of others, taking on a role in a cultural organisation, steering activist campaigns or showing up to call out inequality in the home or workplace. If we do understand ourselves to be leaders then what are the demands we […]Adele
Hyper Allergic to the arts?
- Film At Lincoln Center Workers Unionize November 23, 2020“The pandemic has magnified long standing issues, like the lack of job security and inadequate benefits, and theater staff are among the most vulnerable,” said Manny Lage-Valera, a theater manager at FLC.
- Melania Trump Acquires Noguchi Sculpture for White House Rose Garden November 23, 2020Noguchi is the first Asian-American artist to enter the White House collection.
- “What did we do before Hyperallergic?” November 23, 2020If you need us, we need you.
- Teachers, Staff Block Traffic in Escalating Labor Dispute at California College of the Arts November 23, 2020Tense union contract talks come during a precarious transition for the leading Bay Area art school.
- Thanksgiving Movies to Watch If You Aren’t Into Celebrating Colonialism November 23, 2020From a Martin Scorsese concert film to a classic road trip comedy, enjoy some movies that merely use the holiday as a background detail.
Digital Art – the news
- Why Clearpay created its own Pantone colour October 21, 2020Bondi Mint was created by Pantone to link Clearpay back to the company's Australian heritage.Geoff Seeley
- Apple updates Final Cut Pro X with social media tools, more August 25, 2020New version 10.4.9 of Apple's video-editing software now available for download from the Mac App StoreMikael Markander
- Marco Oggian's Dreams and Nightmares explores our global anxiety in 2020 August 6, 2020Dreamlike visions come to life for real world exhibition.Giacomo Lee
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Into the library vortex…
We have, with our new Libraries news-feed page, given our readers the opportunity to keep up with latest news from across the UK. We are rotating our topical feeds across University libraries, feminist collections and featuring, as we must, the go to public library resource, PLN. Library image by Jaredd Craig... Read more hereDid you see this too?
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Michael Morpurgo at Seven Stories
Continuing our theme of ‘Northern Energy’, we were in Newcastle upon Tyne this week and, on Friday afternoon, took time to visit Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children’s Books. They have an important exhibition and research project into the donated archive of the writer Michael Morpurgo. Below is what we thought. Read more here…
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