Fiona Sampson, former Warwick\RSC Fellow in Creativity and Performance, has been awarded a Cholmondeley Award for Poets, founded by the late Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966 to recognise the achievement and distinction of individual poets. They are honorary awards and submissions are not accepted. The recipients are chosen by the Awards Committee for their general body of work and contribution to poetry. http://www.societyofauthors.org/prizes-grants-and-awards/prizes-for-fiction-and-non-fiction/cholmondeley_awards/index.html

The winners of the 2008/09 Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence have been announced. This award provides recognition for people who teach, or support student learning at the University of Warwick.

One of the successful nominees was Nick Monk, CAPITAL Research Fellow, who has been honoured with the Butterworth Prize, the Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence given specifically to recognise early career excellence. 

In order to evaluate and theorise the work of the CAPITAL Centre Nick has applied its principles and strategies in practice, introducing a new module in the English Department, Drama, Performance and Identity post 1955; a performance-based Shakespeare course for the Centre for Lifelong Learning; kinaesthetic workshops for Chemistry, Cultural Policy Studies, Medicine. He has made it his mission to reach out across the disciplines to break down the 'silo' mentality so prevalent in universities at present and to foster creativity in academic colleagues and students throughout the University.

The culmination of a year-long project led by CAPITAL's Artist in Residence, freelance theatre director Tom Cornford, and involving a group of Warwick University students, the project has been exploring the text through the productions of Stanislavski and Gordon Craig (1912), Michael Chekhov (1924), and the planned, but never created, versions of Meyerhold and Tarkovsky. This is a unique, one-off presentation, including a performance of an abridged-version of the play, infused with the techniques of these practitioners learnt, and a discussion of the work led Professor Tony Howard.  CAPITAL Centre Studio, 7pm, Tuesday 21 April. Admission is free. Apply to h.j.neal@warwick.ac.uk  for tickets.

CAPITAL was delighted to support two Warwick shows at the NDSF this year: Elephant's Graveyard directed by Caitlin McLeod and Return to the Silence directed by Jack Lowe. We are even more delighted to announce that between them the two productions carried off nine awards including the Buzz Goodbody Student Director Award for Caitlin Mcleod, an Ensemble award for Elephant's Graveyard, Creative Landscape Award for Return to the Silence and plus all four Design Awards. Congratulations to all concerned.

Dr Nicholas Monk, CAPITAL's Research Fellow, has been shortlisted for a Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009. In order to evaluate and theorise the work of the CAPITAL Centre Nick has applied its principles and strategies in practice, introducing a new module in the English Department, Drama, Performance and Identity post 1955; a performance-based Shakespeare course for the Centre for Lifelong Learning; kinaesthetic workshops for Chemistry, Cultural Policy Studies, Medicine. He has made it his mission to reach out across the disciplines to break down the 'silo' mentality so prevalent in universities at present and to foster creativity in academic colleagues and students throughout the University.

The CAPITAL Centre will contribute to this annual festival with two events held in the CAPITAL Studio on 14 May.

Prize-winning Poetry: David Morley introduces three major poets: George Szirtes, Zoe Brigley and Luke Kennard  who will read their work. This will be preceded by Beginning in Gladness, a showcase of poetry from the bright young poets of the Universities of Birmingham, Warwick, East Anglia and Northampton who were taught by the poets who will take the platform earlier in the evening