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UCOL Fashion and Beauty students will strut their stuff on the catwalk tomorrow night.

The Times Gone By Parade and Show is the culmination of 18 weeks intensive study for the twelve Certificate in Fashion and Beauty (Level 1) students. It is their chance to showcase what they have learnt and created.

Fashion Lecturer and Show organizer Sheran Merritt says, “The students have worked hard to be ready in time for tomorrow night’s show. I am very impressed with their commitment.”

The students will exhibit their newly acquired skills in batik, tie-dying and fabric art in The Warehouse Colourful Tee category.

They will also showcase garments they constructed with materials from Arthur Toye Fabrics Ltd. 

The show’s programme features a parade of costumes representing different eras of fashion, courtesy of sponsor, the Manawatu Theatre Society.

Seven graduates from last year’s UCOL Fashion, Health and Beauty programme will take part in the parade, showcasing outfits from The Warehouse’s fashion labels. Sheran says the graduate students were mad keen to be involved in the show. “I didn’t have to ask twice,” she says.

The Times Gone By Parade and Show

Where: UCOL Learning Hub (Princess Street end)

When: Thursday 23 June at 7.30pm

Entry: $5

It was a silver lined weekend for two Whanganui UCOL Culinary Arts students when they competed at the Wellington Culinary Fare on Friday.

Certificate in Advanced in Culinary Arts (Level 4) students Marama Savage and Brenda Pollard were competing in the high pressure, live cookery events that are held annually in conjunction with the Wellington Food Show.

Marama’s Salmon main course of Grilled Salmon on potato blini, with seared vegetables and Pesto beurre blanc earned him a silver medal.

Brenda also scored a silver medal with her brunch chicken dish of Pan fried Chicken thigh, wrapped in Prosciutto with a red onion confit, on potato pizza, with grapes, mesclun salad greens and a Verjuice dressing.

The pair had one hour to prepare four identical plates of their respective dishes for judging.

The student’s Culinary Arts lecturer Claude Baudet says, “Marama and Brenda competed to a very high standard and deserved their success in the hotly contested event.”

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I just went and checked out the rehearsals for the show the performing arts students are putting on in just a few weeks. The camera I used isn’t the best so the photos are all pretty poor quality (there are some good shots though). The students will be performing scenes from Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard on December 2nd, 3rd and 4th at 7.30pm in block 5 (the Buckman building) in Palmerston North and the tickets are only $5 at the door.

I have to say what I saw looked pretty good, I will be there to watch the rest on their opening night thats for sure. If you want to see some more snapshots click HERE and ignore some of the spots on the camera, I think there was dust on the lens or something.. either that or some ghosts hanging out in block 5? who knows, I got sick of photoshoping them all out so there are a few in some of the shots. Anyway, make sure you check out the show because it does look like its going to be pretty good!

Last night was the BICT students poster showcase for their final projects.  I went along to check out what was happening and there was quite a good turn out. Some of the projects looked pretty good, most of it was a bit over my head though (had to get some things explained once ot twice).

After 3 years of study I am sure the students are relieved that it’s all finished, judging by what I could see – I am sure they will all do pretty well in the industry. I took a couple of random photos; if you want to check them out HERE.

Last night was the fashion show in Whanganui, it blew my mind! even before it started I was impressed with how they had set it all up and the show itself just got better and better as the night went on. There will be more photos but I haven’t got them yet, I used a photographer this time (so I don’t make a mess like my last lot) however the picture above is taken from my phone, you may have seen it via facebook.

I wish I could remember some of the names of the fashion students but as per usual I am useless when it comes to that sort of stuff, the 3rd years were amazing though.. all of them were! My favorite one was the spitfire somethingarather, again.. don’t remember names, I have the program somewhere so might update it later on. Another cool one was where all the models were wearing these gray and black coats and at the end they took them off to reveal bright coloured dresses which were all pretty cool, I thought that was probably the most memorable one of all just because it was so different.

I’ll look at posting another blog when I get the photos back from the photographer, they will be epic i’m sure! and hopefully I will have some names of the students to go with them. Well done Whanganui students, it was primo!