Further Opportunities
In addition to casual paid volunteering and traineeship opportunities, each year Lakeside offers students stimulating, nurturing and creative experiences through degree modules or as extra-curricular opportunities. If you or your society would like to arrange a tour of Lakeside’s facilities or to visit an exhibition, please contact Lakeside's Learning Officer Rachel Feneley at: rachel.feneley@nottingham.ac.uk who will put you in contact with the right department and help to arrange your visit.
MUSIC
Musicians visiting the University to perform in Lakeside’s professional concert series regularly offer opportunities to students, either as participants or observers. These opportunities are advertised through Mussoc/BlowSoc and on Lakeside’s noticeboard in the Music Department. We are enormously grateful to the private donors whose generous donations make these opportunities possible.
LAKESIDE ARTS & NOTTINGHAM NEW THEATRE CO-PRODUCTIONS
Since 2013, Lakeside has worked in partnership with Nottingham New Theatre (NNT), the only entirely student-run theatre in England to deliver an intensive 4 week long professional development project run through the Easter vacation with performances during the first week of term. Past productions performed to capacity audiences of schools and the general public have included Lysistrata, Dr Faustus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Blue Stockings and Dennis Kelly’s DNA.
We are proud to announce we will be working in collaboration with NNT to produce Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet directed by Nic Harvey Tuesday 2 – Friday 5 May 2023.
WORK PLACEMENTS
Work placement opportunities in Ensemble Administration are available to current University of Nottingham students. Normally, four students are recruited in June for the following year, these provide industry experience in all aspects of concert administration, rehearsal, co-ordination and management linked to the University of Nottingham Philharmonia and Choir.
Other placements open to students from any discipline can be arranged with the Technical Team, or other aspects of administration of marketing, depending on work programmes.
STUDENT SOCIETIES
Lakeside works in partnership with many student societies at the University of Nottingham including History of Art Society, Classics Society, various film societies, the Chinese Students and Scholars Association and the two music societies, MusSoc and BlowSoc. Details of how to join are available on the Students' Union website.
The Djanogly Gallery welcomes requests from student societies for guided tours of its exhibitions. Talks by curators and artists might be integrated into evening reception events. For enquiries please contact Tracey Isgar, Visual Arts Manager at tracey.isgar@nottingham.ac.uk.
PAST PROJECTS: CROP UP GALLERY
Crop Up Gallery is the University of Nottingham’s student-run curatorial group founded in 2012.
Lakeside works with Crop Up students to provide engaging experiences in a professional creative environment including the curation of exhibitions, art installation and marketing.
PAST PROJECTS: FROM PAGE TO STAGE
In early 2019, Lakeside produced its first opera Losing Her Voice. Composed by Elizabeth Kelly, Assistant Professor of Composition in the University’s Music Department, the production of this new opera required involvement from professional Music and Artistic Directors, Technical Team, academics who devised the interactive digital technology integral to the opera’s design concept, professional opera singers and instrumentalists. Undergraduate and Masters’ students in the Music Department auditioned for the opportunity to perform in the opera and participated in its development through a specially created module ‘From Page to Stage: Bringing Opera to Life’. This gave students an extraordinary insight into the development of a new opera production as well as the unique opportunity to perform in a public premiere.