The School of Arts, within a consortium co-ordinated by University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, has been awarded 380,000 Euros by the European Commission for an exciting new project ‘Three layers of telling a story: Creation of joint curricula in the Higher Education of Cinematographers, Puppeteers and Applied Theatre Practitioners’.

The three year project, led at Kent by Professor Paul Allain, is funded under the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships funding stream, which promotes activities designed to improve higher education through innovative approaches and practices.

Three Layers of Telling a Story will focus on cinematography, applied theatre and puppetry and will involve teacher exchange between partners of the consortium, including institutions in Norway, Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Ireland and Slovakia. Kent will also host teachers for sessions sharing teaching expertise, from Bergen, Budapest and Bialystok.

Professor Allain said ‘I am very excited about this opportunity to develop our curriculum and for staff interaction with so many specialist European partners in the two particular areas of applied performance and puppetry. Both these are enjoying a huge surge of interest in the UK, and this project is very timely’.

For more information on the Three Layers project, please contact Professor Paul Allain on P.A.Allain@kent.ac.uk.

For information about the opportunities of Strategic Partnerships funding under Erasmus+, please contact Primrose Paskins.