Increasing Engagement in the City Centre
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Arts, culture and creativity at the heart of our University
Arts, culture and creativity are at the heart of our University. University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 has reaffirmed its commitment to arts, culture and creativity through its Arts and Culture Strategy (2018-22) and a Memorandum of Understanding (2018-2021) with Arts Council England.
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Central to the strategy is a pledge to continue to contribute to 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载’s growing cultural reputation, and to ‘animate the city’ through its inspiring arts and culture programme.
天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 arts and culture programme is locally relevant and internationally acclaimed and we want that reputation to continue to flourish. We attract leading national and international talent - from our students and staff to the artists we work with - and we will continue to support high quality, innovative and interdisciplinary practices that bring together artists with pioneering researchers in a unique creative environment.
Louise Coysh, Associate Director, Arts and Culture, said “University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载’s arts and culture programme enriches people’s lives, giving opportunities for discovery, increasing engagement, connectivity and wellbeing for our students, staff and diverse communities. These activities are at the heart of what we do as a University and they remain as a focal point of our new arts strategy,”
The arts strategy is also focused on continually improving the career prospects of our students through professional development opportunities and workplace placements, arising through our collegiate and proactive partnerships with a wide range of organisations. 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 student Arts Ambassadors play an important role in the programme, supporting career progression whilst raising the profile of the University’s arts activities throughout the student community and beyond.
Find out more by downloading the University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 Arts Strategy document .
Shared Commitment with Arts Council England to Creativity in 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载
天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载’s growing reputation as a city of culture and creativity has received a major boost with the signing of an agreement between the University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 and Arts Council England.
Thanks to a Memorandum of Understanding, the long-standing partners will embark on a new phase with a strategy to further champion the provision of arts and other creativity-focused activities throughout 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 and the wider region.
The University has made a commitment to?animate the city with inspiring arts and culture activity through its own arts and culture strategy. This, in conjunction with the Arts Council’s strategy, will embed creativity as an essential part of everyday life for everyone in the city and the surrounding area, particularly children and young people. Darren Henley, Arts Council England Chief Executive, and Professor Sir Christopher Snowden, former University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 President and Vice-Chancellor, signed the Memorandum of Understanding document in 2018.
Darren Henley said “this city is a hotbed of creativity and innovation thanks to the long-term support of the University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载. It’s exciting to mark the next stage of our partnership. I’m certain the arts will continue to grow in importance here, as 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 develops even further as a great place to live, work and study.”
Professor Sir Christopher Snowden said “we are very pleased to enter into this new phase of our relationship with Arts Council England. This agreement recognises the importance and value of creativity as an essential part of everyone’s lives and will help facilitate using the arts as a way of increasing connectivity throughout our community and region whilst improving the health, well-being and improving life chances for the young people of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载.”
The agreement also pledges a shared commitment from Arts Council England and the University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 to:
- support the development and democratisation of the city’s cultural and creative ecology, creating opportunities for talent development, enhancing skills and employability and growing the city’s international reputation;
- increase public understanding and promote the positive impact and benefits of arts and culture in reflecting a diverse contemporary culture and promote equality in 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载;
- support new opportunities for talent development, increase skills and employability in relation to current and future needs of cultural and creative sectors;
- develop opportunities for creative research, development and innovation that supports artists, arts professionals, increasing interdisciplinary research, access to facilities and collaboration across the digital and creative industries;
- develop and deliver a strategic cultural agenda with the higher education sector across the region, increasing graduate retention, contributing to the city and region’s growing dynamic creative ecology and reputation internationally;
- establish an evidence base to capture the impact of how the 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载’s Cultural Quarter as a future creative arts hub can enrich the lives of children and young people, acknowledge and develop best practice, addresses inequalities, remove barriers and seek to contribute towards national policy.
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