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Weird Things About the Brits

1. ‘Hiya’

This means HELLO or HI. Why add a ‘ya’ on the end? Still trying to figure that one out.

2. ‘You alright?’

When this is said in passing, you’re going to want to stop and say: ‘Yeah I’m fine thanks for asking, are you okay?’. Don’t do this. This is a rhetorical question. By no means respond with an actual answer. Simply repeat the question back and keep walking.

3. Pancake Day

Also known as ‘Shrove Tuesday’. We have a day to celebrate and eat pancakes. It’s a thing and it’s happening. Mark your calendars because it’s a BIG DEAL - Tuesday February 13th, 2018.

4. A million x’s

Literally, a MILLION X’s. The equivalent of xo but would you write xoxoxoxoxoxoxo after every text, email, comment? Well, we do!

5. You don’t wait in ‘line’

You wait in a queue! The queue is what keeps the UK moving at a steady pace. Be it at the supermarket, on the tube platform, or waiting for the bank to open. We queue.

6. HP sauce

We don’t think anyone knows what HP stands for, it anything at all BUT we do know that this is the nectar of all condiments for all occasions. Find one in a Tesco aisle near you.

7. ‘Taking a piss’

This does not literally mean using the toilet. It could mean any of the following, someone’s not taking you seriously, someone’s playing with you, someone’s laughing at you. This is actually said a lot more than you may think!

8. Taking the ‘elevator’

Is actually known as taking the lift! All our signs point to the lift. Not sure what this elevation business is all about. Must be some sorcery stuff...

9. 15th July 2016

You see that? The day is BEFORE the month when writing the date. because the date is always before the month. Simple.

10. ‘Cheers mate!’

Best of all and what you’ll hear EVERYWHERE and 24/7. Cheers, mate! We may not be friends but it’s only right to!

#Welcome to London #Welcome to UK #Moving countries #British Culture #British things #UAL #ARTSSU #Arts SU #Student Life #Students #Art #HeartArts #Moving to London

We need to talk about International Students’ Wellbeing

I first began studying at UAL as a foundation student at LCC, in September 2012. And I had a really hard time. We only had classes around 3 times a week, and it was rarely for more than 2-3 hours. There weren't that many other International students and I was struggling for various reasons. I was seventeen, and almost every social thing had to do with drinking or ended up in a pub. I wasn't enjoying my time at university and meeting people from every corner of the world, the way the UAL prospectus told me I would. What I didn’t know then, was that I could’ve asked to speak to someone. That I could have asked for help. That it was okay to feel lost and displaced. That it is normal. I come from a side of the world where the stigma around mental health is so strong, it removes the capabilities of people from identifying as they are experiencing mental health issues. The idea of going to counseling or a support group sounded too drastic. When the truth is, it really isn’t. I felt ashamed about the idea of going to one. I wish someone had told me that there is plenty of help you can reach out for and that it is completely okay and normal to do that. Which is why, when our Welfare Officer, Scarlett first published the Arts SU Mental Wellbeing Zine last year, I really appreciated it as a student who really struggled in my first year but did not know what to do. This year, Arts SU Wellbeing Week turned into Arts SU Wellbeing Month, and there is a revamped zine too!

Check it out here or come pick up a copy at the SU Office.

There is plenty going on, and I will be facilitating an International Students Support Group on 26th of January as well as a discussion around mental health in non-western cultures on 6th February. There are also Self Care workshops for Women of Colour and Black Women on 23rd of January. And plenty of other workshops like Art therapy and exploring ‘failure’ and ‘success’ (I went to the latter last year as a student and highly recommend it!)

Check out all all the events here!!

Moving to another country can be difficult. Being worried about making new friends and settling in to a new culture can be overwhelming. But it’s so important to know that those feelings are valid. That it’s okay to acknowledge them and ask for help if you want to 💛

I hope to see you at some of the events! ☺️

#Wellbeing #international students #arts su #heartarts #University of the Arts London #mental health matters

Boot Camp

Private View 14 November 6 - 8 pm

Show continues until 16 November 12 - 5 pm

'Fellowship is heaven.’ William Morris

Boot Camp is an exhibition featuring the work of three Chelsea MA Fine Art students - Rosalind Faram, Amy Robson and Stephen White.

After learning of ABC Projects from an established mid-career artist, the three artists have recently set up their own experimental programme designed to maintain critical engagement, to encourage bold experimentation in the studio and to nurture the practice of an artists’ fellowship over the coming years. This rigorous programme borrows strategies from business development, sports psychology, philosophy, science and religion.

The inaugural exhibition is the result of their initial critical dialogue and subsequent experimentation within the Arts SU Exhibition & Project Space at Chelsea.

Rosalind Faram (b. Wirral, UK) is an English artist whose practice incorporates multiple parallel streams, often merging to open new ways of working. Painting, drawing and sculpture in bronze, cloth and ceramic interchange to form environments which primarily can be experienced as familiar but soon shift into something else, defying their usual parameters.

Amy Robson (b. Pittsburgh, PA) is an American artist who has lived in the UK for over twenty years. As a US/UK citizen, she uses her dual outsider’s perspective to explore loss, disillusionment and the collective anxiety pervasive in both countries.

Stephen White (b. Crowborough, UK) is a painter and lives and works in Hastings, East Sussex. There is a thin line running between surrealism and magical realism within his work and it is exactly that line or dimension, on which the work retains a unique balance.

www.rosalindfaram.com

www.amyrobson.co.uk

www.instagram.com/stephenchaskawhite

www.abc-projects

#Arts SU #Chelsea #UAL #Boot Camp

Before you arrive - a checklist

Coming to London (possibly for the first time) is as scary as it is exciting. We know this!

So, to help ease you in, we’ve put together a series of helpful tips to get you through the transition, whether you’re a local or not.

Enroll online 💻

You might have received information from UAL about how to enroll online. If not, don’t fear, there’s a good few weeks before you should chase it up!

It’s important to enrol online before you arrive to start your course, as you will need evidence of enrolment to get your student card, which you will need to enter the buildings for lectures. You’ll also need to have enrolled before coming to any of our Freshers’ Festival events, taking place on campus. We don’t want you to miss those! If you’re confused about this at all just email your course contact for help.

Get your finances sorted... 💰

If you need student finance or a visa to study here then make sure that you get these sorted out before you come. The student loans company has lots of information on the website to guide you.

… and ensure they’re safe!

Make sure that your bank accounts are all in order and that you have all the details stored in a safe place. You will guaranteed need some amount of money for something almost immediately, so ensure that you’re always able to access your bank account. It’s a good idea to set up online banking. Check out how to manage your money better here.

Map it out 📍

London is a beautiful city to get lost in, but that’s not much comfort if you’re running late for something! If you’re at all unsure about what to do, then it can be a good idea to plan out some of your most useful journeys (such as from your accommodation to your campus) ahead of time so that you’ll always be in the right place at the right time. For tips on this check out our transport post.

Keep your contacts close ☎️

It’s a good idea to not only take your mobile phone with you when you’re out and about, but also to memorise or write down the important contact numbers - just in case you lose your phone or run out of battery. That way you’ll always be able to contact someone in an emergency. Major key: buy yourself a power bank!

“Alright, mum…”

These might sound like overkill but they are things you may find really useful to prepare for the move to London! That being said, don’t worry if you forget anything as it won’t be the end of the world - we are always here to help you out!

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Feeling myself care

“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?” - Maya Angelou

“Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.” - Eleanor Brownn

At this event we learnt to identify why we might not be taking care of ourselves, and what we could do. We covered different aspects of self care:

Burn out:

When you burn out, you feel tired and drained most or all time, which lowers your immunity and you can get sick a lot, you can have frequent headaches or muscle pain and change in appetite or sleep habits.

Some of the emotional signs can be depression, lost of motivation, feeling helpless, trapped or defeated, a sense of failure and self-doubt and decreased satisfaction and sense of accomplishment.

Therefor, you may end up withdrawing from responsibilities, isolating yourself from others, procrastinating, using food, drugs or alcohol to cope, and taking out your frustrations on others.

We actually did an exercise that consists on drawing a “problem tree”, next to the roots we wrote down different possible causes for burning out, and up of the tree we wrote effects that these causes could have, you can do it with us!

And remember: burnout is not the fault of the individual. Burnout is a symptom of the society we live in.

Self care, self love:

Do you actually know what’s the difference between these two? We used a lot of post-its to express what each term means to us:

Self-care has proven to improve people’s physical health, and even get them cure from different diseases. What does self-care mean to you?

Overcoming barriers:

Mirror advice: How can we overcome the effects of a burnout? There’s another small exercise that you can do with us, grab a friend that may be/have struggled/struggling too and:

Answer to each other: What stops you from engaging in self-care?

Write down those barriers and give them to your friend, and ask them to do the same. Once you see their barriers, think of ways to overcome them and suggest those ideas to them. Ask them to do the same. It gets easier when they are not your own!

The #FeelingMySelfCare Rule: The Golden Rule is that one should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself.

One should treat oneself like they would treat others.

If you treated yourself how you treated other people that you cared about what would you do?

If you don’t want to miss more events like this one, please check what’s coming next here.

#Mental Health #Mental Wellbeing #UAL #Arts SU #HeartArts #Self care #Self love #Advice #Burn Out #Overcoming Barriers #The Arts Students Union #Keep Trying #Feeling Myself Care

The first job I loved

I have no words to describe how it feels to get paid for doing what you love.

Two months after I started studying BA (Hons) Film Practice at LCC, I was just learning about the Arts SU (called SUARTS at the time), and as soon as I saw the job offer on Tumblr saying that they were looking for a student to join their team, I knew it was for me.

I had experience working only in customer service, and my mind was asking me desperately to get into something more creative (having undiagnosed ADHD made it even more difficult, as non-creative jobs can make me feel extremely bored and apathetic). Working as a Communications Assistant at the Arts SU sounded so amazing, creative and fun, that I was dying to get the job. But when I first saw the advert, my first thought was:

I am not good enough.

It took me a while to get myself together and fill in the application form as everything I wrote sounded like I was making it up just to get the job. But I was just highlighting all the things that I was proud to have achieved, and basically wording, in the most professional way I could, how excited I was to get the job. I also gathered the courage to ask my tutor to write a recommendation, and when I got the interview I tried really hard just to be myself and show them how much I had to offer. And let me tell you, when I got the phone call saying that I got the job, I think I got something stuck in my eye, if you know what I mean.

And since my very first day working at the office in Holborn I have loved this job every single day. I have written articles, I have gone to amazing events, I have taken pictures, I have searched for GIFs, I have interviewed really cool people, I have had really nice food and drinks, I have filmed, and I have been part of a really nice team. And I can’t describe how incredibly it feels to be paid for doing something you love.

(And I’m not even mentioning how it feels to be awarded for doing something you love!)

And I am taking so much with me. Now I am looking for a job, the kind of job that will be the thing I do the rest of my life, my career, my dream. During my three years at UAL I got to know myself better and I have learnt that I want to be a film editor. Thanks to have been working for two years and a half at Arts SU, I feel confident enough to continue my career and I am aware of my value.

Thanks to this role I am proud to say (and I did so last week at an interview for an editing job) that I filmed and edited a very important event that took place at the British Museum, and the museum’s management liked the video so much they didn’t even ask for any changes. I can show all the amazing pictures I had the opportunity to take during events such as ‘The Other Garden Party’. I can even say that thanks to my article “Being an International Student at UAL” two people contacted me to tell me they were inspired by it, and they were going to start new degrees, thanks to my article.

I couldn’t be more grateful, and, hoping that the next Communications Assistant can learn and get even more than I did from this great role and this wonderful team, I say goodbye, for now. My graduation ceremony will be happening soon and I am very excited about it, so I’ll leave you with my favourite picture from the ones I took when I covered the Graduation Ceremonies last year at the Royal Festival Hall: