Category Archives: Scholarships and Prizes

Start-Up Support to Kick Start Your Creative Career from Deutsche Bank Creative Awards

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The Deutsche Bank Creative Awards is a national Awards scheme for final year creative students and first year graduates, it aims to support creative graduates starting their career, those setting up their first business or starting out as a creative practitioner with their first not-for-profit initiative.

You could be in with a chance to win £10,000 plus business training and mentoring to turn your ideas into reality. The Award categories are:

  • Art & Photography
  • Craft & Design
  • Film
  • Music
  • Performance

This Award is open to all Final Year BA or MA creative degree students or recent graduates (after April 2016).

If you are interested and would like to find out more then come along to an induction workshop on Wednesday 8th February 12.00-13.00, Cornwallis East Seminar Room 1 Canterbury Campus, or contact unikenthub@kent.ac.uk

Student Projects Grant Scheme

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The Student Projects Grant Scheme is now accepting applications for the 2016/17, there is £50,000 available, with individual grants up to a maximum of £5,000.

The Student Projects Grant Scheme is funded by the Kent Opportunity Fund, which supports students by providing scholarships to enhance their academic studies, offering bursaries to assist individuals who are suffering financial hardship, and funding projects that help students to develop their personal and professional skills.

The Student Projects Grant Scheme encourages individuals to bid for funds to run projects that will enhance the student experience and employability of Kent students, offering them the opportunity to hone their skills and gain vital experience outside of the seminar room.

Applications are welcome from student groups in Kent Union, departments, faculties and schools across the University, including our campuses at Canterbury and Medway, our centre in Tonbridge and our European centres in Brussels, Paris, Athens and Rome.

Application forms and guidelines can be obtained from the Development Office or downloaded from the Kent Opportunity Fund webpage at www.kent.ac.uk/giving/opportunityfund/projects/

Please note the closing date for applications is 16 December, 2016. Applicants will be notified of their application results by late January. Should you have any questions, please contact me on 01227 824547 or at W.K.E.Chow@kent.ac.uk

Ivan Juritz Prize

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Postgraduates from institutions throughout the EU are invited to submit projects that exhibit formal or creative daring. These might include creative writing (up to 2000 words), images, films (up to 15 minutes), digital artefacts, performances, or musical compositions.

The prize is a collaboration between the Centre for Modern Literature and Culture at King’s College London and Cove Park, Scotland’s International Artist Residency Centre. Winners receive £1000 and spend the first two weeks of September at Cove Park, engaging in a residency and showcase. All shortlisted works are given a public performance at the prize-giving and are written up in the journal Textual Practice.

The prize will judged by Lisa Appignanesi, Michael Berkeley, Rachel Cusk, Dexter Dalwood, Julian Forrester, Jeremy Harding, Deborah Levy, Stephen Romer, and Fiona Shaw.

The deadline for the prize is Friday 31 March 2017. Entries should be submitted to modern@kcl.ac.uk (or posted to Dr Lara Feigel, Director of the Centre for Modern Literature and Culture, English Department, 22 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6LE).

You are also warmly invited to our prize launch on Wed 16 November at 6.30pm at King’s College London.
Dexter Dalwood and Eimear McBride in conversation with Lara Feigel
Free discussion followed by a drinks reception
To book please visit https://2017prize.eventbrite.co.uk
100 tickets reserved for students eligible to enter the Ivan Juritz Prize

How important or possible is it for the contemporary artist or writer to keep breaking formal boundaries? Is this compatible with the demands of the marketplace and how does this differ in the art world and the literary world?  How can we recognise the new when we are necessarily steeped in the old? Here acclaimed artist Dexter Dalwood and writer Eimear McBride will explore these questions in a discussion that launches the 2017 Ivan Juritz Prize.

Please see www.ivanjuritzprize.co.uk for more details about the prize and the Centre, and for details of the November event.

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