By building on strengths and existing resources, the Creative Campus seeks to coordinate and integrate best practice to mark out Kent as a highly creative university. This will take the University forward as a creative place to be: to work, study, play and visit.

Calling Practicing Artists – University of Kent

2009 November 13
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Creative Campus Initiative (CCI) commissioning brief for the UNIVERSITY OF KENT

SLIPSTREAM PROGRAMME Deadline 1st December 2009

Selection criteria

Projects will be selected on artistic merit, creative innovation and potential to respond to the CCI is a major HEFCE funded project for a consortium of South East universities tt deliver practice and research-led creative responses to the 2012 Olympic Games – taking both direct and tangential inspiration from the sporting arena and the various social, cultural and political issues the Olympic and Paralympic endeavour raises.

The outputs of the Creative Campus Initiative will initially be presented in the South East in 2010 and then go on to tour internationally in 2011* We are seeking expressions of interest from both university-based practising artists and Kent based creative practitioners from across all disciplines (performance, media, carnival, visual arts etc) to contribute to the programme.

* Subject to Phase 2 funding allocation

University of Kent’s cultural frame of reference. 

Projects must: 

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Calling Student Artists – University of Kent Slipstream Commision

2009 November 2
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This is a new commissioning fund available to University of Kent students and alumni. (deadline for applications – 5pm, 24th November 2009)

We want to hear from student artists, performers, makers and creators who would like to secure funding to help make new art work. The work will be featured in a University exhibition, at local arts showcases and may get lifted into an international tour.

Student creatives can apply for funding of £1,000 to make a new piece in response to the Olympics and the Creative Campus Initiative (Please see the briefing note ).

In mid-December four student-commissions will be announced and the new works must be completed by the 7th April 2010, ready for inclusion in the Student Arts Festival.

The work is funded as part of a regional programme with aspirations towards the Cultural Olympiad, and student-artists are requested to respond creatively (and in the abstract) to one or more of the following sporting events:

  • Paralympic Sailing
  • Wheelchair Fencing
  • Gymnastic Floor exercises
  • Cycling
  • Relay- race
  • Another Olympic Sporting Event

For example an artist may be interested in exploring the theme of ricochet (using sports like squash and fencing as stimuli); Or you may have a site specific wind-oriented piece in mind that could benefit from research into Sailing events.

We are hoping to attract ideas that can be sited in some of the outdoor spaces of the two campuses (as well as indoor) and subsequently travel to other showcasing events.

Note: If your piece is site specific then please mention in your application whether there are elements that might be able to travel (for example photographs of the piece, part of an installation etc)

How to Apply:

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Gener8

2009 September 16
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Gener83

Yellow and black ribbons in trees surrounding the Gulbenkian heralded the Gener8 celebration this spring: the Theatre’s annual festival of shows, events and arts activities for the under 11s in half term. During the week of May 23rd-30th, children as young as 1 were welcomed into the Theatre to watch everything from balloon modelling experts to puppet shows on the stage, meet snakes and spiders in the cafe bar and engage with authors and artists in a number of exciting creative workshops. This year, thanks to funding by the University of Kent’s Creative Campus, a special week-long outdoor drop-in workshop was commissioned from Canterbury based Animate Community Arts, called “Springin’ Trees”. Here children of all ages (and their creative parents) were invited to work with artists to make beautiful streamer-like decorations which were hung in the trees around the Gulbenkian and accompanied by brightly coloured fish and flowers fluttering under the trees until taken home by their smiling creators.In just five years Gener8 has grown into an important focal point in the Gulbenkian’s cultural programme and to offer the best in creative and artistic experiences for young people – and their grown ups!  

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The Cultural Olympiad’s Creative Campus

2009 September 16
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The University of Kent is working with a consortium of 13 universities to deliver a series of cultural events, known as the Cultural Olympiad Creative Campus Initiative, in the run up to the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.The project has secured £1 million of funding from the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) with £1 million additional matched-funding being contributed by project partners. Together they will create a major touring exhibition in response to Olympic and Paralympics values, with each institution allocated at least ten Olympic sports to respond to in an artistic and creative way.Dr Louise Naylor (UELT) said; “As part of our own, much more wide-ranging, University of Kent Creative Campus, I am delighted that we can work to help realise the potential of the Cultural Olympiad by celebrating our excellence in the arts and sports.”Dr Seymour Roworth-Stokes, Pro Vice Chancellor at the University for the Creative Arts and Chair of the Cultural Forum Sub-Group added: “This is excellent news for the region and will further a strong and vibrant cultural sector in the lead up to 2012. Alongside the exhibition, there will be a series of commissioned works representing the strength and diversity of creative and performing arts provision in our universities. We hope to involve our local communities in this project as much as possible, and in particular reach out to young people and disenfranchised groups through a series of workshops and educational events linked to the region’s local Olympic and Paralympic history.”The Universities involved are: Buckinghamshire New University, University of Brighton, Canterbury Christ Church University, University for the Creative Arts, University of Kent, Oxford Brookes University, University of Portsmouth, Royal Holloway University of London, Southampton University, Southampton Solent University, University of Sussex, Thames Valley University, Winchester University

The Partner Institutions are: Higher Education South East (HESE), South East England Development Agency (SEEDA), Arts Council England South East, Culture South East, Museums Libraries & Archives Council (MLA) South East, PODIUM

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On the Buses

2009 August 29
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Would you like to see creative work from your course appearing on posters on the buses? ‘On the Buses’ poster series contributions are commissioned and curated by Jan Sellers as part of her National Teaching Fellowship Project. The first series, ‘Poetry on the Buses’, drew on poetry from a Creativity Workshop for MA Creative Writing students. The second, features Kentish Wildlife: photography from DICE (Durrell Institute for Conservation and the Environment). ‘Short Stories on the Buses’ will appear in October to coincide with Canterbury Festival; ‘Wildlife around the World’ (more from DICE) in November; and hopefully, ‘Art on the Buses’ in the Spring. The possibilities are wide open, so if you have an idea to share, please get in touch.  

 

  
©Brett Lewis

©Brett Lewis

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Labyrinth

2009 August 29
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Labrynth3This project, part of Jan Sellers’ National Teaching Fellowship, is open to staff and students on both the Medway and Canterbury campuses. Portable canvas labyrinths, and the outdoor Canterbury Labyrinth, provide the resources for workshops to foster creativity; build confidence; explore our journeys; deepen reflection and explore specific topics through shared and individual reflection. The Canterbury Labyrinth, located beside the footpath and cycle path, a short distance below Eliot College, is the first to be built at an English university. Wheelchair accessible from the path, it offers a quiet, peaceful place for walking and reflection – the perfect break!

If you would like to know more about the Canterbury Labyrinth, please visit our website, or email labyrinth@kent.ac.uk (this email is now working fine). If you would like to volunteer to help at labyrinth events, visit Kent Union’s website, http://www.kentunion.co.uk/pages/activities/volunteering/ and look for the Labyrinth Stewards entry. Happy to hear from anyone who wants to find out what’s involved…

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Canterbury Campus Nature Trail

2009 August 21
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This project involves the physical restoration of the Canterbury Campus Nature Trail, rewriting the interpretation materials, and providing these on the University website in a form that can be downloaded as self-guided trails.  

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Marlowe Foyer Improvements

2009 August 21
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This exciting and innovative project engaged seventeen Architecture MA students in a competition to design a social hub space in and arround the vicinity of the Marlowe Building foyer. The final scheme is shortly going out to tender and, following user group inputs, will be implemented within the next six months. One student, Pier Del Renzio, has co-designed the final scheme along with MELD Achitecture, a collaborative practice of tutors within the Dept.  

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Library Level 3 Seating

2009 August 21
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The Social Hubs research project conducted in 2008 by a staff-managed team of DICE/ Anthropology and Architecture undergraduate and postgraduate students, identified a need for more informal seating in the Library for groups. Following a competition amongst 2nd year interior design students, Rebecca Lilley’s scheme has been selected for development. It is anticipated that her ’seating laboratory’ will be installed over the forthcoming Xmas/New Year period.  

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Library Benches

2009 August 21
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The Social Hubs research project conducted in 2008 by a staff-managed team of DICE/ Anthropology and Architecture undergraduate and postgraduate students, found a general paucity of outside seating areas and many students to see the area around the front entrance of the Templeman Library as being the ‘heart’ of the campus. As a result the University is constructing benched ‘cut outs’ along the bank forming the front of the library.

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