Newport Cathedral Emergency Campaign 2010

Newport students team up with Cathedral
Students from the University of Wales, Newport are working with Newport cathedral to showcase their work and help to improve the look of the building while repair work takes place.
Final year Documentary

Creative Newport Students team up with Newport Cathedral

Photography student Tom Bond is exhibiting photos from modern day Bethlehem following a trip to the holy land during the Christmas period. Tom, a former Student Union President, accompanied a group of Creative Therapies in Education students from the university on their visit to Bethlehem last December. While the others worked at the SOS Children’s Village and School in Bethlehem, Tom took photographs which record life in modern day Bethlehem, from the shadow of the ‘security wall’ to orphaned children at play his exhibition – Bethlehem Today - records the lives of Palestinian children, ravaged by poverty and war.
University Chaplain & Cathedral spokesman Fr Mark Soady said, “ It is great to have this collaboration between the Cathedral and the University, but it is also good that in the place where  we worship the babe of Bethlehem / the Prince of Peace it is good to remember that the Holy City today is a place of torment”.
The photos are displayed on the boards that have been put up to protect the Norman Archway and the ancient font while work on the building is carried out. As well as Tom’s work, 1st and 2nd year Fine Art students from the University have been commissioned to paint a number of pieces of work on to the external hoardings. These pieces, which depict the story of How Woolos came to found a church on this site, will be auctioned for the Cathedral Restoration Fund,  once the work is completed later this year.

The University of Wales, Newport is part of the University of Wales Alliance which also includes the University of Wales; Swansea Metropolitan University; University of Wales Institute Cardiff, (UWIC); Glyndŵr University and the University of Wales Trinity St David. The University of Wales Alliance aims to enrich and enhance Higher Education in Wales.