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Central is excited to be supporting the launch of the New Healthy Conservatoires Website.

Central graduate Sami Fendall has been named the overall winner of the 2019 Linbury Prize, widely acknowledged as being the UK's most prestigious award for Stage Design.

On Monday 9 December, Central hosted its annual Graduation Ceremony at The Royal Festival Hall.

From 28 – 29 November Central’s production of Tristan Bernays’ Boudica, performed by BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre students working alongside students from BA (Hons) Theatre Practice, toured to Leicester’s Curve Theatre.  This followed a successful, sold-out run at Central from 20 – 23 November.  The production formed part of the School’s annual East Midlands Project, and it also featured the School’s first ever relaxed performances for public audiences.

Dame Judi Dench and Martin Freeman are among the alumni who have lent their support to Central’s Big Give Christmas Challenge, raising funds for Scholarships and Bursaries for the next generation of Central students.

On 26 November, The Royal Mail issued 16 limited edition Star Wars-themed stamps to mark the release of the latest film in the franchise, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.  Central is delighted to celebrate this release as one of the stamps features alumna Naomi Ackie!

Through March, Central Staff, Students and Alumni will have their work exhibited at the V&A as a part of the Staging Places: UK Design for Performance display. 

On Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 October as a part of Black History Month, Central hosted a special screening of the independent documentary film The Space: Theatre of Survival.  Organised by Claudette Williams, Central’s Senior Lecturer in Voice, the screening was followed by a Q&A with directors Dan Poole and Mark Street, and founder of The Space Brian Astbury.

In November, Central is taking part in the 2019 Being Human Festival.  Being Human is the UK’s only national festival and celebration of the humanities, led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London in partnership with the Arts & Humanities Research Council and the British Academy.  The programme of free events and activities for all ages runs from 14 – 23 November, 2019.

On 16 and 17 November, Pamela Howard’s new production The Ballad of the Cosmo Café brings to life the memories of patrons at the Finchley Road’s beloved restaurant, which welcomed a community of European artists and intellectuals through its doors and served as a home from home, providing a place for émigrées and refugees to embrace their new lives in a new land whilst immersing themselves in the smells, tastes and sounds of their old ones.   

Congratulations to Dr Nicola Abraham and a team from the NHS’s Imperial Hospital Trust who, together with a cohort of Central students and alumni, have been recognised with the Outstanding Arts and Creativity in Dementia Care award at the 2019 National Dementia Care Awards.  The award was in recognition of the team’s intergenerational project work with the NHS and 4 schools in London. 

On Wednesday 6 November, Central students performed for The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall at a very special event commemorating the 20thAnniversary of the London Farmers’ Market.