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St Mungo’s homeless charity has places left on challenge events that are sure to get your adrenaline pumping!

From Thursday 14 June - Monday 9 July, Goldsmiths, University of London will celebrate the achievements of its final year undergraduate and postgraduate students from the Department of Art.

Give the thumbs up to a prize EVERY Friday with Fantime Friday from Endsleigh and be in with the chance to win £50 or other fantastic prizes!

Have you heard of the Whatuni Student Choice Awards? Well, it’s a really cool way to write reviews and rate universities. And the universities with the highest ratings in the 9 categories are winners.

Got ten or more friends? Fancy catching four fantastic days of music, art, theatre, comedy, film and workshops? All for free? Easy peasy…

The inaugural Debut Contemporary Art School Awards have launched, offering the chance to receive a cash prize of £1,000 to create a commission piece for the Debut Contemporary collection coupled with a prize fund valued in-kind at £10,000 entailing a 12 month programme as a Debut Artist to showcase and sell your artworks at the Debut Contemporary gallery space in London’s trendy Notting Hill, alongside receiving 1-2-1 mentoring and professional development led by their team of industry experts.

THE world’s top explorers and daredevils are gathering under one roof for one night only to share their experiences of adventure with a live audience with all proceeds going to hope and homes for children.

25 years after their demise, the much-loved lolly stick joke tradition is to be revived as one of Britain’s top ice cream manufacturers credits Twitter for creating a new generation of gagsmiths.

An evening of eclectic live performances at London’s South Bank Centre will officially launch PureGold – a six-week festival showcasing the wealth of musical talent from Goldsmiths, University of London.

The Churchill Theatre is delighted to host the production of Dick King-Smith’s The Crowstarver

Give the thumbs up to a Goldsmiths SU partners Endsliegh for the possibility to win a prize every friday.

Goldsmiths SU was awarded the Gold standard at the National Union of Students (NUS) Green Impact Awards in Manchester.

Please see below this petition set up regarding the proposed changes to the PACE Department:

Creative talent from Goldsmiths, University of London and the local area will be showcased as part of the College’s contribution to London’s Cultural Olympiad.

On 9th December 2010, tens of thousands of students took part in a national demonstration against MPs voting for £9,000 tuition fees in a mass show of unity against this deeply unpopular policy.

ARE YOU A DYSLEXIC WRITER?

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. Never forget what humankind is capable of doing to itself.

Never forget the disabled they came for first or the mental hospitals where they gassed all the patients. Never forget the Jews, the Travellers, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Communists, LGBTQ people, Poles, Hungarians and others who were killed, the women, children, identical twins and vertically challenged people who were experimented on.

Never underestimated the power of dehumanising language because all this was done to people who were not considered “fully human” by people no different to you. Never forget.

Here is a summary of the motions passed at Student Assembly on Tuesday. Remember that any student can submit motions and all students have a vote on policy as well:

1. Free Maxwell Dlamini
Maxwell is the President of the National Union of Students in Swaziland, and has faced continued imprisonment, torture and harassment for his role in the student movement by the absolute monarchy of that country. The UK National Union of Students have put a call out for solidarity and the motion passed mandates the following:
- Make Maxwell Dlamini co-honourary President of Goldsmiths Students’ Union
- The…

Please find below details of a fantastic new book edited by students from Goldsmiths, with content exclusively by dyslexic writers.
You can also find details of how to purchase the book, or alternatively you can loan a copy of the book from the Goldsmiths Library.

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Forgotten Letters: An Anthology of Literature by Dyslexic Writers (ISBN - 9780957033009), (edited by Goldsmiths student Naomi Folb, founder of publishing group RASP)  is the first of its kind: promoting the creative work of successful dyslexic writers - worthwhile to many whether dyslexic or not.

Forgotten Letters includes poems and works from both renowned…

Below is the letter Goldsmiths Students’ Union has sent to the High Commissioner of Swaziland to demand the immediate release of Maxwell Dlamini, the President of the National Union of Students in that country. He has been detained since April as part of a more general crack down on student and trade unions, in the only remaining absolute monarchy in Africa.

Please support the campaign for Dlamini’s immediate release - information can be found here: http://www.nus.org.uk/en/campaigns/global-justice/help-the-president-of-swaziland-nus/

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Dear High Commissioner,

I would be grateful if you would convey to your government my grave concern about the arrest of Maxwell Dlamini…

Do you have a project, idea, piece of equipment, club or society that could really do with
some financial help? If so then go to www.gold.ac.uk/giving-to-goldsmiths/annualfund/
applytotheannualfund/
and find out about how the Annual Fund might be able to help you.

Thanks to donations from alumni, staff and friends, last year the panel disbursed over £45,000 to a huge variety of projects and people, and we are now accepting applications for 2012 awards.

The closing date is 6 February 2012 at 5pm (sharp). Applications need to be received at Deptford Town Hall Room 108 and please note email applications cannot…

In less than 24 hours academics at Goldsmiths will join millions of other public sector workers in a mass strike to defend pensions.
We have organised a range of activities for tomorrow to show student support, they are listed below:

8am - Meet outside the SU Building
Join the battlebus as we drive round Lewisham dropping off food for local community picket lines!

9am - On the Goldsmiths picket lines outside RHB
The Goldsmiths UCU are organising a “Teach Out” which will discuss issues from cuts on education to the current strikes - a great opportunity for discussion and debate.…

Goldsmiths Students’ Union stands shoulder to shoulder with lecturers and public sector workers and supports the strike action on the 30th November. We feel the pension issue is part of a wider concerted attack on the public sector, including education, and therefore it is paramount we show solidarity and join the picket lines where we can.

On Wednesday the Whitehead went into occupation. Although the Students’ Union is not directly involved in this, we understand the occupation is peaceful and they are allowing all students and lecturers in and out of the building.

On 22nd November Goldsmiths Students’ Assembly voted…

Would you like to make a real difference to a disadvantaged young person by helping them on their way to reach their potential?

Be an IntoUniversity mentor and share your success with an aspiring young person aged between 10 and 18 years.

• Volunteers meet their mentor at least once a fortnight during term-time at an IntoUniversity centre.
• Balancing academic and social activities you might be talking through a school project and then playing a board games or designing a T Shirt

• You will receive training and support from IntoUniversity throughout.

Into University have a number of Training…

It’s almost a year since the beginning of the massive student protests against tuition fees.
One year on we are facing the further devastation of education with the whitepaper to be voted on soon, which would authorise and encourage for-profit companies to enter into our campuses and distort academia for the interests of the economy and big business.
This in the context of HUGE cuts to higher education funding - Goldsmiths is losing *all* it’s teaching funding!

A national student march has been called for this Wednesday! Students from across the country will once again be marching to keep education…