King's College London
King’s College London
King’s College London has a long history of working in partnership with the cultural sector through a wide range of teaching, research and creative collaborations. The newly established King’s Cultural Institute, under the direction of Deborah Bull, will provide leadership across the College to extend and enrich this wide range of collaborative activities with artists, arts professionals, cultural organisations, creative industries and policy makers. With its home in Somerset House East Wing, King’s Cultural Institute is the cultural sector’s first point of entry to the College, facilitating access to its full range of research expertise and multi-disciplinary strength across its many Schools to generate new forms of engagement, test new ideas, stimulate new partnerships and reach out to new audiences.
King’s Cultural Institute’s Creative Futures programme – a rolling programme of Knowledge Exchange projects – will link the College's research expertise with the sector it is designed to benefit, ensuring that the broad base of knowledge within King's influences and impacts on cultural production, policy and practice and, in turn, that the creative know-how of the cultural sector informs and inspires new ways of thinking in the academic setting.
King's Cultural Institute's programme of events and activities – in the Inigo Rooms, Anatomy Theatre Museum and other networked facilities within King's, as well as a range of spaces outside the College – will make manifest the Institute's strategic aims, by:
-Exploring new forms of engagement and collaboration.
-Furthering debate about cultural and artistic practice.
-Engaging a new public with academic research through cultural partnerships and collaborations.
-Engaging new audiences for culture by presenting practice and product through the alternative lens of an academic approach.
Currently in development, the programme will include projects building on research from within the College; projects that complement or enhance the programmes of our cultural partners; projects developed in collaboration with our partners and neighbours in Somerset House; and projects that exploit King’s potential as a creative crucible, bringing together organisations and artists that would not normally see themselves as natural partners, to develop new and imaginative programming.
The programme will be launched in early 2013.
Enquiries about Creative Futures can be made via Dorian.Hayes@kcl.ac.uk
Enquiries about King’s Cultural Institute's programme of events and activities can be made via inigo@kcl.ac.uk.
Festival Partners
Premier Partners
Principal Funders
Supporters
- Arts Council of Wales
