St. John's Central College

St. John’s Central College graduate show 2012.
St John’s College is pleased to announce the opening of DIRECTION, the 2012 student’s graduate exhibition, on Friday 25th May from 6.30pm to 9pm. The title of ‘Direction’ was chosen as direction is crucial in any situation, and the vocational and creative skills the graduating students have acquired at St. John’s College will enable them to continue their journey with confidence.

For over a quarter of a century St. John’s College has developed on it’s city centre campus a ‘culture of creativity’. This is achieved by having so many different courses where experimentation, inventiveness and expression are central to the learning experience. The college endeavours to provide a grounded base for study, whilst encouraging students to take chances, try new media, new ideas, and new approaches – to find their own direction.

The exhibition, which is open to the public, will feature over a thousand of pieces of work from twenty further education courses making it one of the largest of it’s kind in the country.

Visitors to the exhibition will see creativity expressed in a range of areas from fashion design to painting, musical instrument making to photography, film screenings to computer games demonstrations.

The broadcaster John Creedon will be the guest speaker on the opening night and the St. John’s College Gospel choir will entertain visitors as they arrive.

The exhibition it will be open to the public from 10am to 8pm on Monday and Tuesday 28th – 29th May in the college’s main building on Sawmill street, Cork.