Modules

Advanced Performance

Taking place over a week from the 27th May, performances from 27 students will take you through a rainbow of repertoire , including popular music from bands, big bands and disco pop, metal, newly devised musicals using familiar songs and a Shadows tribute act! Not all on the one night though so you may need to buy more than one ticket!

Advanced Classical Performance 

The students of Advanced Classical Performance are trained specifically to hone their skills they have acquired in their previous two years of study, and work closely with chosen instruments, composition and in conjunction with outside professionals who lecture at Hope on occasion - for example Joanna McGregor.

Community and Applied Drama

The Community and Applied Drama module facilitates working relationships between Hope University students and local communities, giving students a chance to experience different ways of using drama for positive change and broading their potential career options after they graduate.  The module offers students the opportunity to develop and deliver an arts project in a professional context.  Come and see what effect this module is having on our students and the community. 

Design

Design includes an exciting display of printed and constructed textiles, studio and industrial ceramics, interior and street furniture, objects for the interior, product design, silversmithing and jewellery.   The course enables students to develop a visual and discerning understanding of the importance of design within a wide variety of specialist material areas relevant to individual learning, personal development and future employment. 

Documentary Theatre 

Third year students of Documentary Theatre present eighteen factual plays about controversial issues which they have been researching for four months. From solo performance to large group projects, from clones to footballing clowns, from narratives of asylum seekers to gun crime and binge drinking, these topics will interest anyone who cares about today’s world.

Fine Art at Hope

Independent Project

The Independent Project module is a research practice-based module on interdisciplinary performance art that explores the interaction of different art mediums such as sound, image, space, and live performance in a fusion of dynamic and innovatice pieces of performance. Students have the option of creating an original piece of performance within any art medium or any combination of creative performance arts which is the outcome of personal and group performance research work.

Shakespeare Practically 

The Shakespeare Practically module encourages students to engage with the works of William Shakespeare and other Renaissance playwrights, investigating the dramaturgy of these plays and re-framing them for contemporary audiences. For the past few months, using these works as a stimulus, these groups have produced this repertoire of new and varied presentations to ignite the imaginations of generations old and new. This is Shakespeare…Practically!!