10.10.07
Media students from University College Falmouth film Oyster Festival 2007

University College Falmouth are sponsoring Falmouth’s Oyster Festival again this year, with Alan Barnes’ team of media students filming and broadcasting the cookery demonstrations live onto the big screen.

Seven students from BA(Hons) Film Studies and BA(Hons) Broadcasting will film TV cook Clarissa Dickson Wright’s masterclass which launches the Festival, followed by a packed programme of cookery demonstrations by leading local chefs throughout the popular, four-day event. Alan Barnes, who is University College Falmouth’s Media Resources Manager said: “This provides the students with an invaluable real-life experience in that they will be working absolutely live, in front of a large audience. UniversityCollegeFalmouth prides itself on preparing students for the world of work, and it doesn’t get more real than this!

“The students will also be filming Falmouth’s own version of ‘Ready Steady Cook’ on the Friday evening at which Lusty Glaze chef, Nick Hodges will compete against Arty Williams from the Cove, and they are really looking forward to capturing the action in such a dynamic, fast-paced environment,” Alan added.

The College has also sponsored an exhibition of BA(Hons) Press Photography Course Leader Mal Stone’s evocative photographs of Falmouth’s oystermen at work.

Falmouth has one of the last remaining traditional oyster fisheries. The Oyster Festival celebrates the start of the oyster season and the diversity and quality of Cornish seafood.

The Festival runs from Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 October 2007. For full details of the programme and further information, visit www.falmouthoysterfestival.co.uk.

For further information about BA(Hons) Broadcasting and BA(Hons) Film Studies at University College Falmouth, please visit: www.falmouth.ac.uk, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 213730.

University College Falmouth is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education. The CUC is funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council.

For further information please contact Jilly Easterby, Head of Public Affairs, University College Falmouth, on 01326 213792 or email jilly.easterby@falmouth.ac.uk.

The Objective One Programme for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly has invested in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC) project, both Phase 1 and Phase 2, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the European Social Fund (ESF). University College Falmouth is a partner of the CUC.

Editor's notes:

Clare Morgan
Media Relations Manager
Objective One Partnership Office
Castle House
Pydar Street
Truro TR1 2UD
Mobile: 07973 813647
Telephone: 01872 223439

cmorgan@cornwall.gov.uk

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