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Professor Robert Shaughnessy - Inaugural Lecture
Friday 9 December 2011 - 4.30pm
'Speechless: Shakespeare, the Players and the Arts of Silence'. Professor Robert Shaughnessy will be giving his inaugural lecture in Studio 1 of the Jarman Building. The lecture will be followed by a reception in the Jarman foyer.
School of Arts Design Your Future
Tuesday 6 and Wednesday 7 December 2011 10am-3pm
National Hall, Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London W14 8UX
Come and meet staff and students from the School of Arts’ Fine Art and Event and Experience Design sections on Stand 28 at Design Your Future. Find out about our courses, multi-million pound facilities and new riverside School of Arts development just 45 minutes from London. More
Arts Postgraduate Information Evening
Thursday 17 November 5-7pm Jarman Building
You may be considering postgraduate study to build on your undergraduate degree, develop your career or purely for interest; whichever the reason we will be delighted to meet you and discuss the range of options available across Kent’s campuses at Canterbury, Medway and Paris. Enquiries to: A.J.Whiffen@kent.ac.uk
'Frosty Photos: Images and Object Perception'
Thurs 10 November, KS13, 5pm
Aesthetics Research Seminar - John Kulvicki, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College
'Philosophies of the Art School'
Tuesday 25 October
Aesthetics Research Seminar - Rutherford Lecture Theatre 2, 12-2pm. Michael Newall, History and Philosophy of Art, University of Kent
Compose Your Future
Monday 17 October 2011
If you are interested in a music or performing arts degree at the University of Kent, come and meet School of Arts staff at Compose Your Future at the Manchester Central Convention Complex.
"This is not America 3" - Reckless Sleepers
Saturday 15th October - Aphra Studio, 7.00. £5 entrance
Reckless Sleepers' 1st graduate performance, 'This is not America', draws inspiration from the lyrics of David Bowie, 80s music videos, diamonds, diamond dogs, changes and air guitar. Arrive early for a seat with the clearest view. 16+ only
The Tin Ring
Friday 14 October 2011
A performance based on the true story of Czech holocaust survivor Zdenka Fantlova with a post-show colloquium on memory and the holocaust, autobiography and performance with the author and guests. Aphra Theatre/GLT2
'Two-dimensional versus three-dimensional pictorial organization' -
Aesthetics Research Group seminar
Wednesday 12 October, 5pm, KS17
Bence Nanay
Professor of Philosophy and BOF Research Professor, University of Antwerp Senior Research Associate, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
Walking in Motion
Thursday 22 September 20.00-22.00
A performance and collaborative research event hosted by the School of Arts and the School of Architecture at the Westgate Towers, Canterbury. A research project on the simple and daily (and nightly) action of walking in city centre street.... More
Imagining Autism
21 July 2011
The School of Arts is pleased to announce a £350,000 AHRC research grant for Dr Nicola Shaughnessy and Dr Melissa Trimingham.
Donation to Kent Print Collection
22 June 2011
A significant donation of two sixteenth-century prints has been made to the Kent Print Collection by Mr John Chown. This donation was made to support the work of History & Philosophy of Art in training undergraduates to identify prints as part of the module HA573: Print Collecting and Curating.
Imagining O
July 7 (8pm), 8 (10pm), and 9 (8pm)
Who is Ophelia? Who is "O" as imagined by Pauline Réage/aka Dominique Aury? What could the relationship be between an Elizabethan classic and a modern French erotic novel? As part of his Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Kent, Richard Schechner is creating a performance-in-progress with staff and students at the School of Arts.
Success for Drama teaching
Wednesday 25 May 2011
Drama has had great success this year with teaching awards and prizes.
Stand-up Comedy Module features on ITV news
Wednesday 25 May 2011
Comedian Ross Noble's visit to the School of Arts to participate in the festival marking 10 years of the Stand Up Comedy module caught the attention of Meridian TV news.
Fine Art Degree Show 2011
Saturday 11 June to Sunday 19 June
Everything Must Go! Education, we are told, is a buyable good - on offer - in return for student loans and extended debt. The wide ranging work showcased here takes the temperature of this new cultural moment and registers the defiant response of the University of Kent's Fine Art graduands of 2011.
Studio 3 Gallery volunteer scheme
4 January 2011
Gain valuable practical experience of working in a gallery and add to your CV by volunteering for Studio 3 Gallery. Meet artists, art dealers, collectors and curators and create opportunities for a career in the art world.
Student Theatre Reviewing Scheme at the Edinburgh Fringe 2011
12 May 2011
For the third year running, the School of Arts students are being given an opportunity to participate in the Stage Newspaper Student Reviewing Scheme.
Professor Elizabeth Cowie: Inaugural Lecture
Wednesday 8 June 2011
Temporality and the cinema: the fiction and non-fiction of time and memory in film: Grimond Lecture Theatre 1 - 5pm
Lecturer's film opens in the US
23rd April 2011
Clio Barnard's award-winning feature film 'The Arbor' opens in the US this week. The New York Times has made it a 'Critics' Pick' while the Village Voice described it as 'pitch perfect'.
Ana Maria Pacheco at Studio 3 Gallery
17 January 2011 – 17 May 2011
Studio 3 Gallery begins 2011 with a major artistic event: Shadows of the Wanderer by Ana Maria Pacheco. This work has been described by Galleries Magazine as ‘a major new sculptural work by perhaps the most powerful and original of significant artists practicing in this country’.
Cognitive Science & the Moving Image
Wednesday 30th March 2011 - 14:00 – 16:30
Banqueting Hall, Chelsea College of Art & Design. CCW Graduate School is delighted to present three leading scholars, representing different perspectives and disciplines, who are now turning to science to expand the territory of film history and theory.
South East architects visit 'special' University of Kent Jarman Building
Wednesday 2 March
Architects from all over the South of England visited the University of Kent's award-winning School of Arts Jarman Building as part of series of visits to outstanding examples of architectural practice in the region.
The Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Film presents a colloquium: Repetition/Repetition
Thursday 7 April: Jarman Studio 7
Theorizing Cyclical Film Production:The purpose of this colloquium is to demonstrate that historically located studies of cycles in film production can provide new research questions that have the potential to revise conventional concepts of popular cinema.
What is Theatre Criticism for?
11th March 2011 5pm Jarman Studio 1
Speakers include Irving Wardle, writer and theatre critic Lyn Gardner, theatre critic, The Guardian Mark Fisher, freelance theatre critic, former editor of The List Patrick Marmion, freelance writer, arts journalist Dr Paul Prescott, Associate Professor, University of Warwick
Aesthetics Research Group Seminar: 'Aesthetic Vice and Sentimentality'
Wednesday 9 March, Grimond Lecture Theatre 3, 4.30pm
Matthew Kieran, University of Leeds
Aesthetics Research Group Seminar: 'Don, Peggy, and other Fictional Friends? Engaging with Characters in Television Series'
Wednesday 2 March, Grimond Lecture Theatre 3, 4.30pm
Margrethe Bruun Vaage, Norwegian University of Science and Technology /University of Kent, and Robert Blanchet, University of Zurich.
Celluloid From Beyond The Grave: Memory, Mourning and the Death of Cinema.
February 23rd - 5pm: GLT3
Dr. Kim Knowles (SECL)
Guest Lecture: The Soviet side of the Cold War: the history of East-West military confrontation
Wednesday February 23rd Grimond Lecture Theatre 1
The Schools of English, History and Arts announce a guest lecture by Professor Irina Bystrova, a Leading Researcher in the Centre for Military History at the Institute of Russian History, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. All colleagues and students within the School of Arts are invited to attend this cross-School event and reception which follows.
ARG seminar: 'Character, Social Information and Psychology'
22nd February 2010. KS17
Noël Carroll, City University of New York
Derek Jarman Memorial Lecture
Thursday 10 Feb 17.00
Gulbenkian Cinema
James Mackay, producer, film programmer and long time collaborator of Jarman's, will speak about Derek's life and work.
School of Arts/KIASH Research Lecture
26 January 2010 GLT 1 17.00
Professor Paisley Livingston, 'Cinematic Genius and the Ontology of Art'
School statement on tuition fee rise and cuts
16 December 2010
School of Arts public statement on tuition fee rise and higher education cuts
Postgraduate funding opportunities
8 December 2010
The School awards a number of postgraduate scholarships each year. Applications are invited from highly-qualified students to undertake doctoral research and taught MA study.
Fine Art Lecturer's work makes India tour
8 December 2010
The British Council has selected work by Angus Pryor, a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art for its touring programme which showcases examples of contemporary British painting in India.
Prof Schechner to be Leverhulme Visiting Professor
16 December 2010
Kent's Drama Department is to host a return visit of Professor Richard Schechner to devise with students, faculty, and staff of Kent's School of the Arts a new piece, The Ophelia Project, in June and July 2011.
Kent film-maker scoops top London film awards
1 November 2010
Reader in Film Studies Clio Barnard last night scooped two top awards at the BFI London Film Festival for her first feature film, The Arbor, which she both wrote and directed.
New book by lecturer Grant Pooke
11 October 2010
Contemporary British Art (Routledge 2010) is an introduction to some of the themes, ideas and directions which have informed British art since the 1980s through to the first decade of the new millennium.
Film criticism in dialogue: A Symposium
11 November 2010
The Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Film and the Moving Image presents Film Criticism in Dialogue: Assessing the Public Impact of Journalistic and Academic Criticism.
In Elysium: Prints by James Barry
4 October - 17 December 2010
An exhibition of original prints by 'the great historical painter' James Barry (1741-1806) and his contemporaries, including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Mortimer and Fuseli. Studio 3 Gallery, Jarman Building.
Contemporary Portrait Practices seminar
23 November 2010
This seminar examines the contemporary state of portraiture in Britain from a range of angles...
Professor Paul Allain shortlisted for THE Award
28 September 2010
The Times Higher Educations (THE) awards celebrate the excellence and achievements of the UK's higher education institutions.
Senior Lecturer’s film receives critical acclaim
1 September - 16 September 2010
Following its sold-out screenings at the Edinburgh Film Festival, earlier success at the London Film Festival and current run at the ICA, Sarah Turner’s film Perestroika has received many positive reviews.
MA Film (Paris)
The University of Kent at Paris MA in Film Studies is one of five innovative and interdisciplinary MA programmes which combine taught modules and a dissertation and allow students to share their year between Canterbury and Paris.
Art Histories, Cultural Studies and the Cold War
Friday 24th September 2010
IGRS London - Full Programme and registration form now available. More
Leverhulme Funded Cold War Poster Project On Display at TUC Congress
15th September 2010
Following a new partnership between the Marx Memorial Library and Paul Kenny of the GMB Union, a selection of rare Soviet, Comintern and Cold War posters will be on display at his year's TUC Congress in Manchester.. More
School of Arts Film Success
26th July 2010
Following on from the success of Clio Barnard's The Arbor and Sarah Turner's Perestroika, Dr Virginia Pitts' film Fleeting Beauty was screened on New Zealand's Maori Television channel in April 2010.
In addition, Virginia's latest film, Beat... More
School of Arts Success in University League Tables
15th June 2010
The School of Arts has enjoyed significant success in the new league tables released by the Guardian, Times Good University Guide and the Complete University Guide. More
School of Arts Fringe Festival
14, 15, 16 June 2010
The School of Arts Fringe Festival features the very best work created by 2010 graduates in art, drama and film. More
Film lecturer publishes two books
31st May 2010
Tamar Jeffers Mcdonald's Virgin Territory: Representing Sexual Innocence in Film and Hollywood Catwalk: Exploring Costume and Transformation in American Film were recently published. More
HPA students display work on Unibuses in Canterbury
31st May
The next time that you hop on the Unibus, look out for posters on display featuring photographs by students from the History and Philosophy of Art module, “Camera, Light and Darkroom.” More
New School of Arts building wins architectural award
26th May 2010
The Jarman Building has won a prestigious award for architectural excellence from the Royal Institute of British Architects. More
Creative Events students team up with Fuse Medway
12-26 June 2010
Students from the Creative Events: Design and Production course are involved in a unique collaboration with the Fuse Medway Festival. More
University of Kent Film-maker wins prestigious award
26th April 2010
Clio Barnard, Reader in Film Studies at the University of Kent, has won the Best New Documentary Filmmaker award at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival for her new film The Arbor. The jury included actress Jessica Alba (Sin City, Fantastic Four), Whoopi Goldberg, producer Eric Steel (Angela’s Ashes, Bringing Out The Dead), and Aidan Quinn. The film also got extensive coverage in the Guardian. More
Broadway debut for production designer and theatre lecturer
9th March 2010
A production of the award-winning The Pitmen Painters featuring set and costume designs by Gary McCann, Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at theSchool of Arts, has been announced for the historic Samuel J Friedman Theatre on Broadway in September. More
Jinhee Choi book on Korean Cinema published
2nd March 2010
School of Arts lecturer Jinhee Choi examines how the Korean film industry turned an economic crisis into a cinematic renaissance in the face of globalization.. More
School of Arts professor's DVD commentary
22nd february 2010
In the summer of 2009, Professor Murray Smith was invited to undertake the dvd commentary on Lars Von Trier's latest feature film, Antichrist, in a dialogue with Von Trier himself. More here
Call for Papers: Art Histories, Cultural Studies and the Cold War
Conference: Art Histories, Cultural Studies and the Cold War
Friday 24 September 2010
Study Day: Cold War Cities
Saturday 25 September 2010 - More
Research Connect
Friday 28th May 2010
Hosted by the Department of Drama and Theatre Studies, this event offers an exciting
opportunity to sample our vibrant and diverse research and postgraduate
culture, to meet with staff and current students, and to explore ways in which
you can develop your own interests. More
Former Kent Drama Student Wins Brit Award
22nd February 2010
Ellie Goulding, former student on the University’s MDrama programme, was presented with the Critic’s Choice Brit Award by Courtney Love at a packed Earl’s Court on 16th February. More
Video art and film between documentary and fiction
Wednesday 9 June 2010 10.30-6pm
Grimond Lecture Theatre 3 and Aphra Theatre. This one day symposium addresses video and installation art that engages the social through combining techniques of documentary and fiction. More
Kent Graduate opens iconic Theatre in South Africa
24th February 2010
Georgina Rae, who graduated in 2007 with an MDrama specializing in Creative Producing, is the key person developing and project managing the new Athol Fugard Theatre in Cape Town’s District 6. More
Kent artists stage joint exhibition at Canary Wharf
19-30 April 2010
A joint exhibition of new paintings by Angus Pryor, Director of Fine Art at the University of Kent, and recent sculptures by local resident William Henry, a graduate of the University of Kent’s Associate College Fine Art Programme at Ashford, will open at the West Wintergarden, 25-40 Bank Street, Canary Wharf, on 19 April. More
School of Arts Student Wins Enterprise Competition
22nd February 2010
In October the University’s ‘Back of an Envelope Competition’ took place, with First Prize of £500 going to Primrose Matambo, studying Visual and Performing Arts. Joint second, winning £250 each, were Carlos Silla studying Computer Science and Katie Hogben, studying English and American Literature. All three winners went on to develop their ideas further, with a view to starting up a new business based on their entries.
RAE 2008: Outstanding Success for Arts at Kent
The School of Arts, which made the largest submission to the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in our subject areas, is pleased to announce that it is ranked as one of the two best departments in the country in terms of 'research power', for the quality of the research of its staff working at a world leading level... more
The Art of Lithography - inaugural exhibition of the School of Arts new gallery in the Jarman Building,
24th March-7th May 2010
The exhibition brings together many rare and important prints by French artists in the 19th Century and re-examines the way lithography became a significant part of the visual culture and artistic production of France in that period. More
Richard Schechner lecture
Tuesday 16 February
Professor Richard Schechner (New York University), the founder of Performance Studies and editor of The Drama Review, will be giving an afternoon directing class (closed) and an open evening lecture
"9-11 as Avantgarde Performance?” in Grimond Lecture Theatre 1, 6-30-8pm.
Witkiewicz: Madman of Polish Theatre?
Sunday 6 December: 14.00
School of Arts Professor of Theatre and Performance Paul Allain will explore the themes of the exhibition Given and introduce the approach of Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz to theatre-writing and making, in relation to Polish experimental theatre.
The Queen's House, National Maritime Museum. More
Kent academic's film at London Film Festival
22nd Sept 2009
Sarah Turner's new film, Perestroika, will be shown as part of the prestigious London Film Festival this October. More
BFI info
High Praise for the School of Arts in National Surveys
20th August 2009
The School of Arts at Kent has received high praise across a number of recent national surveys. The Good University Guide 2010 rates Kent as 6th in the UK for Art & Design. The Complete University Guide 2009 rates Drama 7th nationally, and the Good University Guide ranks Kent 8th for Drama, Dance and Cinematics. The Research Assessment Exercise 2008 ranked Kent 12th for research quality in Drama, Dance and Performing Arts. In the National Student Survey Film was rated in the top 4, with Drama rated in the top 20.
Practice as Research showcase 2009
23rd & 24th September
Lumley and Aphra studios - Admission free
With access to the full resources of the University of Kent’s Drama and Film Departments, students, teachers and professional artists are invited to create and reflect on their own practice, making work in a stimulating and supportive environment. more
Film Lecturer's Book Receives Award
15th June 2009
Dr Jinhee Choi, Lecturer in Film at the University of Kent, has been awarded the publication fund from the Korea Foundation for her book, "The South Korean Film Renaissance: Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs" (Wesleyan University Press, 2010 forthcoming) More details to follow.
School of Arts Lecturer wins Prestigious Award
6th April 2009
Dr Michael Newall, lecturer in History & Philosophy of Art, has been awarded the 2009 John Fisher Memorial Prize in Aesthetics for an essay entitled "Pictorial Resemblance".
The prize is awarded every two years for an original essay in asthetics to a scholar in the early stages of their profession. Dr Newall will receive the prize at the annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA) in Denver, Colorado, in October. The essay will be published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
British Grotowski Conference June 11-14
As a culmination of Professor Allain's three-year large research grant, the School of Arts will be hosting an international conference. Full programme and registration details
Film in the Humanities
The Interdisciplinary Study of Film
Symposium: Wednesday, 3rd June, 2009
10.00: Grimond Lecture Theatre 3. More
Final year student photography exhibition
“Reflections of Light,” an exhibition of photographs by final year History and Philosophy of Art students opens on 22nd May in the Keynes college Teaching Foyer and Gallery. More.
Art, Aesthetics and the Sexual
A conference organised by the Aesthetics Research Group
21-22 May 2009
Student Film Festivals 2009
May 2009
University of Kent students premiere their work to the public - More
4th Year Drama Festival
Featuring an exciting line up encompassing site-specific work, classic plays, and comedy showcases, in a range of venues across Canterbury, Margate and Chatham. More
School of Arts Professor appointed President of BITEF-festival
25th February 2009. more
Faculty Teaching Prize 2009
13th Feb 2009
Three School of Arts staff members awarded Faculty Teaching Prizes for 2009. more
School of Arts Studentships and Bursaries 2009/10
12th February 2009
We have a number of studentships available for 2009/10 across our range of postgraduate programmes and subjects. More
‘Art Xchange’ for the Canterbury Campus
21st Jan 2009
Penultimate and final year Fine Art students get an extra venue to showcase their degree work. More
Leverhulme Trust Award
2nd Dec 2008
Dr Grant Pooke, History & Philosophy of Art, in collaboration with the Marx Memorial Library has been awarded a project grant of £39,000 from the Leverhulme Trust to research and catalogue a recently discovered archive of rare Soviet and Comintern Posters dating from the 1920s and 1930s. The discovery arose from research initially undertaken for Dr Pooke’s recent biography of the late Marxist Art Historian, Francis Klingender, who had been a member of the Marx Library in the 1930s.
Tradition and Innovation: Britain/Russia
Training for Performance
23rd Oct 2008
Professor of Theatre and Performance, Paul Allain has received an International Research Network Leverhulme Grant for furthering staff and research links with the Moscow Art Theatre School (MXAT), in a two year project beginning in September 2008. This will build on Drama's successful student exchange which is now in its third year, and will be part of the European Theatre Research Network's activities. More
New visiting Leverhulme Professor
14th Oct 2008
The School of Arts and the Aesthetics Research Group are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Jerrold Levinson as Visiting Leverhulme Professor in the Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent for 2008-9. Professor Levinson is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, and the author of many significant works in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, including Music, Art, and Metaphysics, Music in the Moment, The Pleasures of Aesthetics, and Contemplating Art. More
Important New Donation to the Kent Print Collection
1st Oct 2008
The Kent Print Collection has recently acquired through donation an important example of the British Abstract Constructivist School: Pembroke Drawing no. 3 (1977) by George Dannatt. More
Creative Events student at Beijing Olympics ceremonies
Berna Ucel spent several weeks working alongside members of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). More
Read Berna’s Blog. (Note you will be taken out of UoK pages, use your ‘back’ button to return.)
The Myth and The Flesh
The British Grotowski Project and The European Theatre Research Network Present:
The Myth and The Flesh - more
a performance-based research presentation by Marián Araújo
Wednesday 15th of October
Aphra Theatre 6PM. All welcome
MA Practice as Research Productions 2008
26th and 27th September 2008
The Lumley Studio, University of Kent at Canterbury.
An evening of work:
Everything Must Go
or The Voluntary Attempt to Overcome Unnecessary Obstacles
by Kristin Fredricksson
An athletic-puppetic performance installation inspired by a father's life.
One Man Good Woman
by Rob Vesty
The story of a good woman turned sour by the memory of one man.
Major events featuring research fellow Adam Chodzko
27th May 2008
‘Proxigean Tide’ at Tate St Ives May to September 2008 and Folkestone Triennial ‘Tales of Time and Space’ 14 June - 14 September 2008. More
A major award to Film lecturer Sarah Turner
7th May 2008
Sarah has been selected to receive funding to produce new work through the 2008 London Artists’ Film and Video Awards (LAFVA). More
Deutscher Memorial Prize Nomination
5th May 2008
History & Philosophy of Art lecturer Dr Grant Pooke has been nominated for the Deutscher Memorial Prize for his biography Francis Klingender: A Marxist Art Historian Out of Time. More
The Art of Comedy -
An investigation of humour through prints
Kent Print Collection Third Exhibition 2008
The exhibition is curated by HPA undergraduates taking the award-winning module Print Collecting and Curating. More
Important donation to Kent Print Collection
5th May 2008
The Kent Print Collection has recently received an important donation from William and Sue Church of two original aquatint plates by Harry Eccleston. More
The Paradox of Mezzotint
An exhibition of original prints after Titian, Guido Reni, Lely, Kneller, Hogarth, Gainsborough, Wright of Derby, Kauffman and Reynolds. More
Museum of Canterbury: 12 April – 11 June 2008
Strang Print Room, UCL: 2 July – 31 October 2008
BA MA Fine Art Degree Show
22nd - 29th May 11am-5pm
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School of Arts Annual Lecture by Nick Starr
Executive Director, National Theatre,
Friday 6th June, 6 pm, Brabourne Lecture Theatre, Keynes College. More
Celebrated Indian ensemble Milón Méla visits the University
Wednesday 28th May
The University of Kent is to host a visit by the Milón Méla ensemble on its first ever trip to the UK. Organised by School of Arts Research Associate Guiliano Campo, it is stunning mix of live music and visual and physical performance from across India. Milón Méla is one of the most dynamic, colourful and adrenaline-filled ensembles in the world today. More
Ecology
Film lecturer Sarah Turner’s new feature-length film has screenings in London in March following its premiere at the Cambridge Film Festival in 2007. Acclaimed as a compelling and highly moving presentation of family trauma, it is also a radically innovative use of new technology, sound and image ... more
Patrice Pavis wins 'Gay Lussac Humboldt' prize..
09/03/2008
..and receives his award from French Minister Valérie Pécresse. More
Work by film lecturer on show at New York's Museum of Modern Art
20/02/2008
Clio Barnard, artist and lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Kent, is the only UK artist to have work included in a collection being screened later this month at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. More
Research grant awarded
Professor Paul Allain has received a large Research grant from the Arts and Humanities Council for £203,000 to conduct 'The British Grotowski Project - a re-evaluation' from October 2006 - October 2009.
Arts residency awarded
Peter Hatton, as part of the collective TEA, has been awarded one of two £10,000 residency places on the Widnes Waterfront Arts Residency Programme.
Major new donation to Kent Print Collection
7/02/2008
We are delighted to announce a major donation of several hundred prints to the Kent Print Collection. The prints range from the Sixteenth Century to the present day and cover the complete range of techniques used during the history of printmaking. More
International Research Network Leverhulme grant
Professor Paul Allain has received a grant for furthering staff and research links with the Moscow Art Theatre School, in a two year project beginning in September 2008.