About this Event
Dedicated to the study of stage and screen performance, Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL, trains students to become innovative performers and experimental designers. Regular opportunities to collaborate with renowned arts organisations and students across other disciplines enable Wimbledon College of Arts students to become versatile performance arts professionals.
As part of their collaborative practice unit, Year 2 students working across different disciplines have come together to present a series of performances, screenings, installations and events taking place on 27 November 2025. Participating students come from a range of courses including:
- BA (Hons) Theatre Design
- BA (Hons) Costume for Theatre and Screen
- BA (Hons) Acting and Performance
- BA (Hons) Technical Arts for Theatre and Performance
- BA (Hons) Production Arts for Screen
Age recommendations are provided below where performances or installations are not suitable for all, due to their content.
Non-alcoholic refreshments will be served between 5pm and 8pm.
Wimbledon College of Arts x London Parade New Year’s Day Preview: ‘Iconic London’
Processional performance beginning outside Reception at Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL, 1.30pm
Happy New Year! Marvel as we depart on a journey like no other, in collaboration with Destination Events for the London Parade. Join us to process our beautiful ‘Ruby the Dragon’ and regal ‘Admiral Nelson’ with his stampede of Lions, from the reception of the College towards Dundonald Recreational Ground. Our New Year’s Day creations respond to the theme ‘Iconic London’, where we drew from renowned monuments and famed London living to inspire and invent our characterful creatures. The puppets will burst into life on the 1st of January 2026 alongside the celebrations of the London New Year after our preview performance here at Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL for audiences of this Festival.
Duration: Approximately 20 minutes
nine, inspired by Labyrinth
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DINOTOPIA, inspired by Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
Showings at 2.15pm, 4.45pm and 8pm, AG09
Experience cutscenes from a new short film, nine, created by second year students, inspired by Jim Henson's Labyrinth, alongside an exhibition of costume and production arts visual imagery from the film.
When Suzy enters a labyrinth made up of the afterlives of her cat, Beans, every room and every door asks who she wants to be. Nine, is set to be a bold, image-led short. Funny, tender and curious in all the right ways.
Dinotopia is set in a prehistoric world uncomfortably close to our own, inspired by Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time by James Gurney. This darkly comic tale follows a community of dinosaurs and humans, whose routines are shattered when a blinding light cuts through their horizon. As rumours spread and alliances crumble, the town is forced to confront ancient questions: Who controls the story? Who gets to survive it?
Duration: These performances and exhibitions run back-to-back, lasting approximately 30 minutes.
Form and Frequency
Showings at 3.30pm and 6.45pm, Theatre
Form and Frequency is a devised performance project that explores relationships between the visual and the aural in live performance. Students from BA Theatre Design, BA Costume for Theatre and Screen, and BA Production Arts for Screen have collaborated in mixed groups to form their own themes and ideas responding to 'Form & Frequency', through a series of initial workshops, and gone on a devising process to develop and create 10-minute performances, which will be performed back-to-back as part of this Festival. Some works feature physical performers who are creating and collaborating with sound and scenography; while others explore how sound and scenography can be the performer. Together the pieces showcase a myriad of ways form and frequency speak to each other in a performance context.
These include: an immersive experience interested in understanding the human perception and relationship with outer space; an experience seeking to give form to the decaying body of a memory, instead of it diminishing into nonexistence; and a performance which questions whether our efforts heal or hurt the world around us.
Please note that there will be an interval approximately 20 minutes in length between the second and third performances.
Trigger Warning: Please be aware that this experience includes use of flashing and bright lights, loud noises, haze, and one scene victims of sexual assault may find triggering.
Age recommendation: 16+
Macbeth
Immersive Exhibition inspired by Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, AG07, open from 2-8.30pm
Step into a reimagined, supernatural Scotland where Shakespeare’s Macbeth is brought to life through an immersive blend of live-action cutscenes and interactive gameplay created by students of Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL. Experience haunting characters, atmospheric worlds, and reimagined fates in this bold fusion of classic theatre and modern digital storytelling.
Age recommendation: 12+ due to mild violence
Please note that this exhibition is not ticketed.
Mad Hatters
Immersive exhibition inspired by the Mad Hatters Tea Party in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, AG07, open from 2-8.30pm
As part of our Festival and inspired by the Royal Ballet and Opera's fantastical rendition of the Lewis Carroll classic, enter this immersive exhibition, fall through the rabbit hole and into the world of ‘Alice's Adventures in Wonderland’ to enjoy the company of the Mad Hatter alongside his companions at his tea party.
Please note that this exhibition is not ticketed.
In addition to live performance and exhibitions to view as part of our Winter Festival, we also have new student-made short films of their process towards some exciting projects and commissions with external partners including: the National Gallery; and Destination Events, London Parade (for New Years Day); and Polka Theatre.
These will be on display in our Reception at Wimbledon College of Arts for the entirety of the Winter Festival, from 1.30-8.30pm.
Wimbledon College of Arts x London Parade for New Year’s Day: ‘Iconic London’ – Behind the scenes short film of the making of this commission
Reception of Wimbledon College of Arts, screening on loop from 1.30-8.30pm
Watch our students' short film which captures their careful craft of their cleverly curated puppets for the London New Years Day Parade. Their final outcomes will debut as part of the 40th anniversary of the annual parade through London on 1 January 2026.
This short film, suitable for all, seeks to exhibit the key stages of the students’ fabrication process for which they have responded to the theme ‘Iconic London’ provided by Destination Events, the organisers of the New Year’s Day Parade. It demonstrates the journey of theproject, from initial concepts of schemes inspired by London’s tube network and Trafalgar Square’s Lions and Nelson’s Column, to their final designs and makes of fully fledged puppets – ready to take to the streets in celebration of the new year and ‘Iconic London’!
Duration: 5 minutes
National Gallery Project: Sensory Understandings - Behind the scenes short film on the process of making installations for the National Gallery Friday Lates on 5 December 2025
Reception of Wimbledon College of Arts, screening on loop from 1.30-8.30pm
As part of this collaborative project by students from BA Costume for Theatre and Screen, BA Theatre Design and BA Production Arts for Screen, students are creating interactive installations in the Roden Centre for Creative Learning at the National Gallery as part of Friday Lates on 5 December. Keeping inclusive practice at the heart of their process, the groups are interpreting paintings from the Gallery’s collection and creating work that encourages agency, play and sensory investigation for all audiences, especially those who may experience art differently.
As part of our Festival, a Behind-The-Scenes short film capturing the students’ processes of making these installations will be on view to audiences in the Reception at Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL, and is suitable for all.
Shakespeare-inspired performance for children in collaboration with Polka Theatre - Behind the scenes short film of the making of this performance
Reception of Wimbledon College of Arts, screening on loop from 1.30-8.30pm
As part of this collaborative project, students from BA Acting & Performance, BA Costume for Theatre and Screen, BA Production Arts for Screen, and BA Theatre Design courses created interactive performances with puppets for 90 children from schools local to us in Wimbledon to enjoy – opening our doors to our local community to inspire the performance-makers of the future.
About Wimbledon College of Arts
Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL, is dedicated to the study of stage and screen performance, training students to become innovative performers and experimental designers. The College has an international reputation for producing performance graduates known for their creativity, technical accomplishment and professionalism. With a range of courses available – from acting and performance to design and digital production, covering live performance, set and costume design, model making and prop making, animatronics and prosthetics and puppetry – Wimbledon College of Arts is on its way to becoming one of the UK’s leading performance colleges.
Wimbledon College of Arts offers a supportive community of students, academics and technicians who share a passion for creative expression through practical experimentation. Regular opportunities to collaborate with renowned arts organisations enable Wimbledon students to create performances and to become versatile performance arts professionals. The College has recently undergone a multimillion-pound redevelopment, providing high-quality design studios, rehearsal rooms, and theatre facilities, with investment in new state-of-the-art digital technology.
Find out more here.
Image Credits:
National Gallery Project - Sensory Understandings image by Kaixin Chen, Yiran Li, Gigi Pengilley, Maggie Qiao, Junyi Shen & Fan Xia from ‘A Woman and a Fish Pedlar’ by Van Mieris
Mad Hattars, image by Grace Wharton
nine, inspired by Labyrinth, still image from the film by Grace Page
Macbeth, illustrations & 3D work by Bella Xue & Jiruoshui; green screen image by Joshua Burgos-Montoya, featuring Jake Starkie
New Years Day Parade, image by Molly Cuthbertson
Dinotopia, image created by ChatGPT
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Wimbledon College of Arts, Merton Hall Road, London, United Kingdom
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