Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Clothes Show Live 2011

The Clothes Show Live 2011 will be taking place at the NEC Birmingham 2-7th December. See the event website for more info, to see the 2010 event photo gallery and to sign up for the newsletter.

Monday, 21 November 2011

Imagine- Vidal Sassoon

Tomorrow evening, 22nd November, on BBC 1 at 10.35pm, you can see a biopic that details the significance of Vidal Sassoon’s hairdressing career as well his early life, which included seven years in an orphanage and time as a soldier in the Israeli army. The programme includes interviews with Mary Quant and John Frieda.

Tuesday, 15 November 2011

New Book - Photographing the Patterns of Nature


Photographing the Patterns of Nature , a new book on the Special Effects Make-up reading list, is now available at Richmond House Library.

Monday, 14 November 2011

TV Programmes of Interest This Week

There are two TV programmes this week that might be of interest. The first is Skin Deep: the business of beauty which is a consumer show exploring the downside of treatments in the hair and beauty industry. Episode 1 (on screen tonight, 8.30pm on BBC3) includes a student who after visiting a salon for hair extensions was left with a bald patch.
Anyone interested in theatrical and special effects might want to watch the film Hellboy11: The Golden Army, which is on Friday 18th November on ITV1 at 10.35pm.

Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Alexander McQueen: genius of a generation - ebook

If you are having problems accessing the ebook of Alexander McQueen: genius of a generation using Summon, you can locate it via the Athens list of resources in the Dawson Books database.

Online Journals Available Now

You can read current digital editions of numerous publications by visiting the Leisure Opportunities website , clicking on the "Jump to other Leisure Media publications" tab at the top of the page and then selecting the title that you want to read. Titles include: Health Club Management, Leisure Management and Spa Business.

Friday, 4 November 2011

Employabilty Week at UCB


Monday 14th November sees the start of Employability Week at UCB, so if you are thinking about your career options, click on this link for more details