Glamorgan Events

Undergraduate Open Day

Our open days allow you to explore the campus, meet some of our current students and talk to the academic staff who will be teaching you.

Our open days take place on all three campuses. Activity for design, media, music and drama courses take place at the ATRiuM in Cardiff. Health and science course activities are at Glyntaff and activity for courses in humanities, law, technology, engineering, business and sport are at the Treforest campus.

For more information and to book a place visit: http://www.glam.ac.uk/apply/open-days/undergraduate

Undergraduate Open Day

Our open days allow you to explore the campus, meet some of our current students and talk to the academic staff who will be teaching you.

For more information and to book a place visit: http://www.glam.ac.uk/apply/open-days/undergraduate

Postgraduate Open Evening

Our postgraduate open evenings run from 4pm through to 7pm with activity taking place across all three campuses.

Information on our postgraduate courses in design, media, music and drama will be available at the ATRiuM in Cardiff. Health, sport and science courses are based at the Glyntaff campus, and postgraduate courses in humanities, law, technology, engineering and business are at the Treforest campus where the open evening will be held in the brand new Glamorgan Postgraduate Centre, in Ty Crawshay.

Undergraduate Open Day

Our open days allow you to explore the campus, meet some of our current students and talk to the academic staff who will be teaching you.

For more information and to book a place visit: http://www.glam.ac.uk/apply/open-days/undergraduate

Postgraduate Open Evening

Our postgraduate open evenings run from 4pm through to 7pm with activity taking place across all three campuses.

Glamorgan Summer Programme 2012

The Glamorgan Summer Programme offers an exciting range of courses, with something to suit everyone; an Adult Education provision that is open to everyone over the age of 18 (or 16 with parental consent), our courses give you the opportunity to learn new skills and meet new people.

This year, we have a brand new and vibrant curriculum that allows you to study many different creative subjects – including Fashion, Interior Design, Animation and Film Production – over a two week period. We are based at the University’s Cardiff campus, ATRiuM; most courses run during the daytime, but some will also run in the early evening, and this year we have introduced a ‘Master Class’ Saturday packed full of our most popular subjects.

For further information and a full list of what’s on this year visit www.glam.ac.uk/summerprog or call: 01443 482828

Starts Monday 18th June, finishes Friday 29th June 2012.

Public Lecture: Sustainable Environmental Systems: Water, Wind, Earth and Fire

Sustainable Environmental Systems: Water, Wind, Earth and Fire

The inaugural professorial lecture of Professor Richard Dinsdale, Faculty of Health, Sport and Science.

The majority of the world’s leading authorities have identified that humankind will face significant problems in the 21st century regarding the provision of clean water, treatment of waste, provision of renewable energy and sustainable food systems. To meet these challenges, research will be required which cuts across traditional scientific disciplines and exploits advances in biology, chemistry and engineering to deliver solutions.

Lecture details

The lecture will be held in Aneurin Bevan Building on the Glyntaff campus.

Directions to the Glyntaff campus.

How to book

Seating is limited, so to reserve a place please email Jane Garrett on jgarrett@glam.ac.uk or call 01443 483345.

About the Inaugural Lecture Series

Glamorgan’s Inaugural Professorial Lecture Series profiles the academic excellence of the University’s professorial staff, and brings leading research and thinking to the wider community. All lectures are free to attend and open to all. Refreshments are provided before each lecture, giving guests the chance to network.

30 Degrees - BA Art Show

During June, the Faculty of Business and Society will be hosting the 30 Degrees – BA Art Show 2012 showcasing the work of final year students from the BA(Hons) Art Practice degree.

Exhibition details

This exhibition features the work of thirty students whose individuality and diverse creativity is reflected in the range of practice on show.

In this exhibition home and landscape are encountered in the everyday, the extraordinary and the sublime. Experiences of living and being, memory and loss are explored in representations of the body and through objects that are both significant and familiar to many of us. The physical, social and emotional environments, which we inhabit and share with other living creatures, are spoken of with resonance in the artworks on display.

Sometimes humorous in content, always serious in intent, the works in this exhibition are united in the creativity and purposefulness with which subjects are explored. This exhibition is testament to the intelligence, skills and creative enterprise of these emerging artists who will in their future careers make a valuable contribution to the cultural life of Wales and further afield.

Exhibition opening hours:

The exhibition will be open to the public from Saturday 9th June until Thursday 14th June, 10.00am – 4.00pm daily. A private viewing of the exhibition will also be held on Friday 8th June 6.00pm – 8.00pm.

30 Degrees BA Art Show: 9th – 14th June
Private viewing: 8th June

Featured contributors

Rebecca Wall

Rebecca Wall works with issues of the female body and ‘the gaze’. Rebecca aims to take back the power of representation, reclaim her body as her own and present an image of herself from an internal point of view. Showcasing the flesh, aches, physical and emotional strains often left out by the distanced artists observing and representing woman in the life room.

Anna-Louise Llewellyn

Through domestic pottery Anna has challenged the environment of the home, using the traditional craft of throwing Ann has constructed sculptural ceramics to represent a visual metaphor for her own personal exploration between the fragility of life, and its underlying strength, through memory and commemoration. Life is precarious- will they balance? Will they fall?

Kelly Unal

For a time Kelly has painted women’s shoes as a metaphor of womanhood. For Kelly they embody the strong women she grew up with, her mother in particular, had big shoes to fill, a daunting idea to a child. The parent has to provide emotionally and materially for the child, and it is difficult to ensure the child has adequate emotional security, especially when there is a willing absence of a parent.

Stephen Ward

Stephen’s work echoes very directly his commitment to the landscape and its history. He is interested in how processes and visual language can be used to evoke that which makes place, community and belonging. The process of making art however entails for him, that the presence of the artist is integral to and within the work. It is through materials and processes that Stephen wishes to communicate this commitment and investment to create artwork that fully reflects my sense of place.

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Further information

For more information about studying BA(Hons) Art Practice degree and other art related courses at the Faculty of Business and Society, please visit our subject pages on art.

Public lecture: Transit of Venus

Take advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to watch the Transit of Venus.

The phenomenon will not repeat for another 105 years: the next time a transit of Venus happens will be in 2117! The Transit this year (2012) is only the second to occur this century, the last being in 2004.

The University of Glamorgan invite you to a public lecture detailing the astronomical event. Martin Griffiths, Senior Lecturer in Astronomy outline the history of transits of Venus, their importance, and will present advice on how to observe the transit safely.

You can find out more about the Transit of Venus here

Create 2012 Graduate Showcase Exhibition

The Create 2012 Graduate Showcase Exhibition features a selection of the outstanding work produced by final year students across our undergraduate degree programmes.

The live exhibition opens on Monday 28 May at our ATRiuM campus, with a Private View for industry and staff between 5pm and 7pm, and a viewing for students, friends and family from 7pm – 9pm.

If you would like to attend the Private View and you are not a student or staff member of the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, please register for an invitation.

Registration is not required for students and staff.

Public Exhibition

The exhibition is then open to the public from Tuesday 29 May – Friday 1 June from 9am – 6pm. Registration is not required to attend between these dates – just turn up and enjoy the show!

Online Exhibition

The online showcase also goes live on Monday 28 May.