Category Archives: event

including lectures, seminars etc

Colour Assemblages exhibition in Aldgate library

It’s that time of year again when our Foundation students come and decorate the windows of our Aldgate Library lounge. Its a great space to display their work as the windows are so big and easily viewed from the outside … Continue reading

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Summer Show In Real Life!

After 2 years of happening mostly online, the School of Art, Architecture and Design summer show is back in real life for 2022! Students from all art, architecture and design courses will exhibit their work from 22 June – 2 … Continue reading

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Artists’ Books online and Symposium

A selection of artists’ books has been launched online on VADS from the bookRoom collection at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA). bookRoom is an experimental post-digital research and publishing platform within the School of Fine Art and Photography … Continue reading

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The Annual Frederick Parker Lectures

The Fredrick Parker Collection is held in our Special Collections, and is a unique resource covering over 300 years of British Furniture making and design, from 1600 to the present day. The Collection consists of over 200 chairs, together with … Continue reading

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Printed Matter Virtual Book Fair

In a few days time (24th -28th February), the Printed Matters Virtual Book Fair will open  – its free to attend and you don’t need to go anywhere (registration required for the Opening programme). The Printed Matter Book Fair exhibitors … Continue reading

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Judith Butler event

Judith Butler is one of those names we see constantly on books coming in and out of the library, her books cover topics relevant in so many subjects. So we were very excited to hear she would be presenting a … Continue reading

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London Met Arts Summer Shows Online!

This is the time of year we are normally preparing to see our art, architecture and design students work in the annual summer show, so in this most unusual of times how will the students show their work? The good … Continue reading

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Lightboxes and Lettering exhibition and display

Just up the road from our Aldgate campus, Bow Arts Nunnery Gallery has an exhibition on about the history of east London’s print industry. ‘Lightboxes and Lettering‘ tells the story of the print industry across the 20th century, focusing on the … Continue reading

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Time to vote!

With the election fast approaching, we have put up a display in Aldgate library tying in Art and Politics (a vast subject!). Did you know Parliament has its own art collection?  It is jointly owned by the House of Commons … Continue reading

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Bauhaus 100

2019 sees the centenary of the visionary art school, The Bauhaus, which opened in 1919. As Cass lecturer Patrick Brill (AKA Bob and Roberta Smith, who teaches Fine Art here), once described the Cass as the ‘Aldgate Bauhaus’, we couldn’t let … Continue reading

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