This academic year, the Arts and Culture team have six brand new interns, and we’re also welcoming back two of last year’s team. We’ve asked them all to introduce – or reintroduce – themselves in a blog post.

Hi! My name is Halle, I’m a third year Games design student at CCCU, and have spent the last couple of months working as one of this year’s Arts and Culture interns!

The arts have always been a really important part of my life; from being involved in performance in my younger years, and now as a poet, occasional freelance artist, and writer. Thus, it felt really important to further engage myself in the arts, and join the team!

Since joining, I have worked at a number of events that have allowed me to engage in the things I feel most passionate about, and have reminded me a lot of my love for performance art.

In Games design, I work heavily within writing and research, and am currently working towards my final major project: a game all about Welsh culture, history, and the spirituality that the country has always possessed.

I hope to soon move on to a Master’s degree in the same field, and move onto a job within industry either within narrative design or community management.

Outside of Games Design I am a strong activist for social sustainability, mental health, and disability. As topics close to my heart, it feels important for me to teach others about them, and to push for them to be spoken about more commonly and openly. I hope to be able to infuse them into more of the art that I produce, and to one day have a platform to discuss them more broadly than our university and surrounding community.

I am so excited to be part of such a delightful group of creatives, in a setting that allows for so much engagement and interaction with the arts. I’ve loved my time working with everyone so far, and cannot wait to do more next semester!