Human Christmas Tree lights up offices

This year Canterbury College have created a Christmas card with a difference – it features a human Christmas tree made up of over 150 students.

The card will arrive through letterboxes around the Canterbury area this week and is sure to brighten offices and homes.

The human tree concept grew out of a November morning photo shoot, which took about an hour and featured over 150 students and around twenty assisting staff standing in the Main Street of the College’s new £50 million campus. Tony Payne, Student Activities Manager at the Student Union provided the participants with special green t-shirt that they wore as they stood in tree formation.

Jon Dent, Head of Faculty for Creative Arts, had the initial idea for the human tree in September and has been working on the concept and design with a team of staff and students. Jon said: ‘the human tree image was designed to show students from different courses, races and learning capabilities working together to form a festive celebration of equality and diversity.’

Barry Legg who is a member of staff took the actual photograph and worked on the image with Photoshop until it was all packaged for Christmas. The finished image has also been used on the College Carol Concert literature and the Celebration of Achievement materials.

(This article was researched and written by Ben Tuohy, a BTEC National Diploma in Media Production)