We’re starting our AUTUMN TERM with a WALTZ!

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New pupils very welcome.

Two left feet; no problem!

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#NewTerm #AutumnTerm #NewDance #Waltz #Waltzing #DanceClass #AdultClass #DanceSchoolHull #RhythmAndDreams

First week of term over! Spent 3 hours in the library today between lectures doing some French grammar and translation. This year seems like it’s gonna be a good one! (thank god Friday is here though)

Throwback to @espoeducation catalogue #Repost @espoeducation with @get_repost ・・・ Get them making their very own Christmas baubles for a fun and personal way of decorating the classroom or taking home as a gift. Find out more: https://bit.ly/2m6p8K5 #festive #christmas #festivecrafts #craft #autumnterm #teachersofinstagram #education #fashion #photography #commercialphotography #pedroagoas #pedroagoascom #fashionphotographer #photographer #fashionphotographer #work #uk #lovemyjob #ecommerce #editorial #campaign #lookbook #advertorial #myjob #creativestills #creative #kidsmodels (at Red Creative) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8qwmnCnjay/?igshid=3s6znp7tkq6d

#dance back up and running for the #autumnterm at #Bodens #perfomingarts www.bodens.co.uk https://www.instagram.com/p/BnRYlSYnppF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1mfx6s5rg51dz

I swear these two have some weed DNA. They grow so fast, it's the only possible explanation. "When it's time for you to venture out, don't let fear have you looking back at what you're leaving behind." #LDS #Mormon #Quote #Quotes #DailyQuote #DailyQuotes #QuoteOfTheDay #Siblings #UKParentBloggers #Family #FamilyFun #FamilyForever #FamilyTime #Morning #MorningPhoto #DailyPhoto #MomsOnInstagram #FamilyGoals #AutumnTerm #MumsOnInstagram #SchoolRun #SchoolDays #September

Two days to go until we start the Autumn term at MTM! We are sooooooo excited!! #mtm #singing #dancing #acting #musicaltheatre #musicals #musicaltraining #tripletreat #firstdayofschool #autumnterm #funtimes #auditions #newstudents #family #support #encouragement #mentorship #cantwait (at Musical Theatre Masterclass)

Happy back to school day for these three dweebs 🎉 have fun, I’ll try to remember to pick you up at 3pm but if not, just remember I’m having the time of my life enjoying the silence and probably my 100th cup of HOT tea of the day. Love you 😘 . . . . . . . . #backtoschool #september #autumnterm #autumn #autumn2017 #goodmorning #morning #schoolrun #wednesday #wednesdaywisdom #love #life #family #lifestyleblogger #lifestyle #tea #teaislife #icecream #summer #siblings #children #daughter #son #mom #momblog #momfashion #momlife #mommy #momproblems #momsofig (at Looe)

2018/2019 Term and Holiday Dates For Your Diary!

AutumnTerm Starts - TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2018

School closed - Monday to Friday 22-26 October Classes as usual - Saturday 27 October

School closed for church events

Saturday 10 November Saturday 8 Saturday 15 December

Term Finishes - MONDAY 17 DECEMBER 2018

Spring Term Starts - SATURDAY  5 JANUARY 2019

School closed - Monday to Friday 18-22 February Classes as usual - Saturday 23 February

Term Finishes -  MONDAY 8 APRIL 2019

Summer Term Starts - TUESDAY 23 APRIL  2019

School closed - Monday 6 May (Bank holiday) School closed - Monday to Saturday 27 May – 1 June

Term Finishes - SATURDAY 13 JULY 2019

FEES ARE DUE ON THE FOLLOWING DATES

4 September 2018         19 November 2018 25  February 2019 20 May 2019

Start of New term #Autumnterm. Teaching #artclasses in #Ostreme Mumbles & #swanseagrandtheatre on a beautiful autumnal day. When your drive to class is a pleasure! #mumbles (at Mumbles, Gower, South Wales)

Thank you to everyone who made it out to the ECQSA #AutumnTerm Bonfire on Thursday! #Eckerd #pride (at Eckerd College)

Ay freshers!

It's already the 3rd week I am here in Colchester, UK! (whuuutttt???) So there is just so many things I wanted to write, to share, to tell and to record! 

Now let me take you to the day we arrived at Colchester.

The first day at UK might not be a good day for me. Clumsy is me is clumsy because I have left my make up bag in the airport's female toilet! Make up bag is like the last thing you want them to lose (or don't want them to even lost from you sight!). The fact that there is so many sentimental values inside it made me really upset and depressed. Yes, I literally cried about it. How can you not cry when a pair of your beloved earrings given by your grandma is lost! My heart was totally cracked when I am trying to accept the fact that I can't get it back. Can you imagine how am I going to continue with my life after that? I keep trying to tell myself, everything happens for a reason. MOVE ON. Get a new freaking make up bag (although I can't replace the exact same thing that I've lost). I felt guilty for losing the earrings. When people give you gifts, they expect you to take a good care of it. Now I just ruined everything, ON THE FIRST FREAKING DAY. So to get my heart at ease, to get myself move on from that bag, I have decided that I will keep some money and get myself a pair of earrings that looks almost the same with the one that has lost. I know, it is irreplaceable because the value is just not the same for things that people give to you and things that you buy for yourselves :( I just want something to remind me about it. Is it even legit?

Enough with my ranting, now talk nature to me! The view here reminds me of home in Malaysia. The roundabouts; Wangsa maju. Factories; Shah alam. I am so in love with the sky here. Not really sure what is it really about but the clouds are just fantastic every time I look at it. 

Being the only TWO Malaysian (nani and i) in our department, I tell you it is really nerve wrecking. But alhamdulillah, so far our classes are great and we are doing good, so far. Confident is the most important thing when you come here, even to any other country. Be brave to be one of a kind. You can do things beyond your imagination.

Being here in other people's country, make me feels much more blessed and grateful for what I have back in my country. Don't think I have to explain more on it though. Just appreciate what you have because you never know when you will lose it. Nothing lasts forever. 

Here's some autumn eye candy for you!hehe

Soundtrack played over speakers as ambient noise, 0:34.

Soundtrack played over headphones, 1:33.

It is 25 hours before the deadline and I have only just been given a space to show in, so this piece is going to be rather experimental, although in the art world, getting things ready at the last minute after plans change seems to be a valuable skill to learn...

Trying out my ambient track in the sound booth; I like the dead quality the room gave the noise. Unfortunately, logistics meant I could not use the sound booth, but it has given me ideas for the future about dulling acoustics.

Year 3 Autumn Term Statement

Drawing on Philip Auslander's ideas of liveness, my recent work looks at layers of performance in everyday life. I chose to look particularly at sexual encounters, as I wanted to look at humans as purely mammals rather than in the highly cognitive sense, and sex was one of the few social scenarios to embody the natural rawness I was hoping to explore. According to The New Hite Report, 9% of women in the UK surveyed between 1994 - 2000 had never had an orgasm, and a mere 16% of women claimed to always reach orgasm through intercourse[1]. This interested me, as many women must therefore be faking orgasms, which is a highly performative sex act. I decided to explore this concept by listening to the noises woman make during orgasm, and comparing 'real' noises collected as primary sources in the form of sound recordings of solo female orgasms with the highly oversexed noises emanating from internet pornography. As Auslander states in Liveness: Performance in a mediatized culture, the internet is providing a new kind of liveness in the guise of Skype etc., in which we are watching a live broadcast with which we can interact, or even more interestingly, in chatrooms, where we are faced with an entity with which we can interact but remains faceless, thereby creating an entirely new type of social interaction.[2]

My current practice asks several questions: as internet pornography becomes ever more prevalent in society, is it changing our sexual performance? Do women perform sexually because of innate urges, or are we simply performing the sociocultural role thrust upon us by misogynistic images in the media? My art is not science, and does not aim to answer the questions posed, but merely to prompt the viewer towards the formulation of their own opinion, and to encourage a self-awareness in sexual performance. 

The piece this research has culminated in is "Overt Intimacy", a sound and light installation using ambient noise and headphones as well as different levels of light, in an attempt to create different moods within one space. This means that the viewers in the room simultaneously have a differing experience, echoing the different levels of performance one can glean from social interaction, which is, in this instance, the sex act.

  [1] Hite, S. 2000. The New Hite Report: The Revolutionary Study on Female Sexuality Updated. Hamlyn, a division of Octopus Publishing Group Limited, London, Appendix 4, pages 655-663.

[2] Auslander, P. 2008. Liveness: Perfomance in a mediatized culture. 2nd ed. Routledge, Oxon, p. 61.