Liverpool Shakespeare Festival

Liverpool Shakespeare Festival 2009 presents:

William Sheakespeare's

Hamlet

St. George's Hall, Liverpool.

&

Tom Stoppard's
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Novas CUC, Liverpool.

The Festival runs from 11th August to 13th September.

Tickets available from The Bluecoat, via the website and also via our blog at http://tlsf.blogspot.com/

Best wishes and thanks, the festival team, Lodestar Theatre Company Ltd.

Phone: 0151 / 324 0237
Mail: Info@TheLiverpoolShakespeareFestival.co.uk
Web: http://www.theliverpoolshakespearefestival.co.uk/
Blog: http://tlsf.blogspot.com/

Is it really that time Already?

Today, yes today 4th June, 2009 is the anniversay of the 2008 Big Hope World Youth Congress held here at Hope Park. I do not think there was a single delegate at the Congress who did not go away a somewhat different person, and in some cases a very different person!

As Bill Chambers, the main driving force behind the Big Hope, said in an email earlier today:

"I have just got up to a new day and my immediate thought has been today is the first anniversary of the Big Hope, an event which for me was one of the most significant personal and professional experiences of my life. Please keep on with all we discusssed and acted upon during that wonderful week in 2008. "

Ken Pye, another key player in bringing the event to fruition adds:

"(Today) will remind me of what a wonderful experience it was for me, to work with you all - even though it was for just a short while. But what particularly delighted me was the knowledge that, as long as there are people like you in the world, there is much more than hope; there is certainty."

There is no doubt Big Hope was a magnificent achievement. No one involved in planning the event could have imagined just how special it would be and indeed become. I am still today in contact with many people from the event, although I must admit that more than a little of that sand has already slipped away, forced out by the day to day demands that life subjects us to.

In 9 years from today the 'alumni' of the Big Hope will hopefully reconvene here at Hope Park for their Reunion... What changes may we be witness to then I wonder. . ?

Community: This is what it's all about.

Happy Christmas to one and All

The Graduate Association here at Liverpool Hope University wish all and everyone a very Merry Christmas and an even better New Year!

Lets hope for great things for our community next year. With your help we can make 2009 the best year ever. And don't forget the S.Katharines 2009 Reunion in July (why did they miss off that 't'... I've never understood that?)

Next year sees Clare join the team. We wish her all the best in her new role and look forward to working with her. Meanwhile lets hope we all have a great holiday before plunging head first into the fray on January 5th (Oh, the thought of it!)

So eat, drink and be merry...

And we'll see you all next year!

Ray, Katie, Ian, Hazel, Anne and Irene and not forgetting Clare.

A little Quiet Around Here..?

Hello folks

Quiet around here? Well actually anything but!

 

There are things going on in the background that probably aren't immediately apparant to the membership, unless of course you have been keeping a lookout on the website, especially the Alumni News Section, where we try to keep you all up to date with the latest news from in and around the campus.

 

Two specific pieces of news you may like to know about are:

 

The replacement Alumni e-Mail service. This has unfortunately had to be put on hold, at least for a little while, while we explore the matter that is the subject of the second piece of news I need to tell you about today i.e.

 

The possibility of replacing the existing Graduate Association Community site. We have for a while now been seriously looking at alternatives to the existing friends@hope community site. We can't say too much about where we are at with our thinking at present, as there are some commercial issues involved that we must at least for the time being keep under wraps. However, as soon as we can we will pass further information to you as to our future plans. mSuffice it to say that whatever we decide to do, especially if we decide to make a change, then improving things for you the membership will be foremost in our minds.

 

So to sum up , the new e-mail system is very much tied into the community site and we can't progress one without knowing how things will develop with the other.

 

Watch this space (or the website CLICK HERE to take a look) and we'll bring you further news as soon as we can.     

Share Space, Share Free Stuff

Thinking ahead, we've created a new space on the alumni website. Not much in there at the moment but the plan is for it to contain tasters for our final year, i.e. soon to graduate students, of what life will be like as a member of the Graduate Association.

Called "SOON TO BE...", although there isn't much to see at the moment (well, nothing in fact), this space will be populated with all sorts of useful things.

One example is this:

A useful facility I think you will agree?

Many of you will have seen the cover disks from Computer magazines and the like that contain all sorts of free software, fully licensed and legal, yet available to install for nothing other than the time it takes you to set it up. GiveAway of the Day follows the same principal but in this case it's absolutely free; Don't forget you have to buy the magazine before you get the disk, they aren't cheap, and most of what's in them you won't want to read anyway! I'm telling you I've downloaded some really useful stuff over the last few weeks from personal finance planning programs to pdf-to-MSword converters (useful if you want to capture information for use elsewhere). All of it so far has been very useful and for those hard up students out there it's perhaps the only way they could afford to use it.

Finally, you can (and I have) loaded the software onto my PenDrive, which means of course that I can carry it around with me and not have to worry if what I need will be on the PC I use to do my work; Just plug in the Pen drive and I've already got everything I need. If you want to know more about how to do that you'll have to drop me a line alumni@hope.ac.uk, or better still come and see us for a chat, you can find us in HCA Room 012.

So, this is just one idea for starters. If you read this and think there are other things the Graduate Association should or could be doing for its "soon to be" members, then just drop us a line and let us know. We are good listeners and even better doers!

Bye for now

More on Podcasts ...

We STILL need your help!

So many of our alumni will either be employers themselves or work in or around the recruitment function of small, medium or large organisations.

The initial call for help on the subject of employability Podcasts was posted here back in July. It's very important to get this message 'out there' so I've taken the step of re-posting this information in the hope that people may still yet respond.

If you are an employer and would like to give something back to Liverpool Hope, the place that played such a large part in forming you as a person and thus aiding you as you began your chosen career, be that long ago or more recently. OUR STUDENTS NEED YOUR HELP.

We'd love to involve Alumni in our Podcast series, to hear about what you are doing now, to listen to any advice you have for the next generation of Liverpool Hope graduates entering the increasingly competitive labour market.

From September onwards the Career Development team, working with ourselves in the Graduate Association will be launching its series of Podcasts. These will be available for students to subscribe to and download throughout the academic year. Podcasts will provide Careers Advice, Expert Guidance, tips and tricks, the do's and don'ts of intereview technique, in short a helpful step-up that will coach students into knowing what employers out there actually want.

Podcasts are an innovative and exciting way to engage students. They can be downloaded and listened too from any computer or listened to on a MP3 player such as an ipod, allowing them to access and listen to careers advice in their own time. And we are one of the few Universities in the UK using this technology to deliver careers information.

We've already interviewed Joe Ainsworth, Bafta winning scriptwriter for Holby City. Also, Graduate Recruiters from companies such as Enterprise Rent a Car and Elmwood an award winning brand design agency.

We're also very happy to link-in with your own websites if you have them and/or to display your companies logo on our Career Development and Alumni websites.

If you're interested email us or call us on: 0151 291 3219