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Engage Scotland announces receipt of Creative Scotland’s Multi-Year Funding for 2025-2028
Engage Scotland is thrilled to announce that we have been awarded Multi-Year Funding from Creative Scotland, ensuring three years of continued support for our members and the wider sector. This funding marks a significant step forwardin our mission to strengthen the...
NAFAE Annual Conference: Call for Papers
NAFAE ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2025 Feral Art School, Hull Friday 25th April 2025 Culture Co-operative: Moments, Spaces, and Alternatives for Art and Cultures of Learning Call For Contributions. Deadline: 3rd March 2025 and Confirmation: 17th March 2025 ContextThe themes of...
World Design Organization: World Design Congress Call for Papers and Posters
Hosted by WDO Promotional Member the Design Council, the 34th World Design Congress and WDO General Assembly will take place in London, some 50 years after the event was last hosted in the city in 1969. Set for 9-11 September 2025, the three-day event will gather the...
Creative UK presents Creative Diversity: A Hub of EDI Case Studies
Create Diversity launches with a year-long communications campaign that will amplify and celebrate stories of great EDI practice that have been shared from across the creative industries from companies including Sky, the V&A Museums, The British Fashion...
Professor Paul Fieldsend-Danks, Vice-Chancellor of Arts University Plymouth, elected as the new Director of UKADIA
Professor Paul Fieldsend-Danks, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Arts University Plymouth, has been elected as the new Director of UKADIA. UKADIA is a grouping of 18 leading specialist arts and design institutions from all regions of the UK and managed by...
Manchester Metropolitan University’s role in supporting the yearly 20:20 print exchange in the School of Art
Technical Services supporting 20:20 Print Exchange: The 20:20 Print Exchange is a project by Hot Bed Press, running since 2009. Since its inception, the initiative has continued to collaborate with artists and grown year on year, becoming global with more workshops...
Call to halt the defunding of Level 7 Apprenticeships
CHEAD, alongside other mission groups and 300 sector signatories, has written to the Chancellor asking her to reconsider the proposal to remove Level 7 levy funding. Level 7 Apprenticeships are a progression pathway for future creative leaders. 48% of Level 7...
See My Academic FACE: Unveiling the Barriers to Equity in Creative Education
Latest Survey DOWNLOAD HERE Pictured: FACE co-founders Pascal Mathias, Sharon D Lloyd, and Andrew Ibi; driving transformative work across the UK. “The admin staff asked for my passport to photocopy, I handed her my UK passport, and she asked again if she could have my...
Tentacles Making Fists: Re-Imagining and Neuro-Futurising Leadership, with Dr Kai Syng Tan
‘Adam McDade tattooing a client at Flesh Tattoo, Manchester (2024)’