Date: 04 Jun 2015 – 06 Sep 2015
Venue: The Foundling Museum
26 writers, including former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion, have been paired with 26 objects from the Foundling Museum Collection and responded with 26 ‘sestudes’ – texts exactly 62 words long.
Date: 25th June 2015, 12:00 – 14:00
Venue: Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts
We are excited to announce our second KQ Partner networking event which aims to promote and encourage partner collaboration and knowledge exchange.
Knowledge Quarter Partner the Creative Industries Federation has launched their Creative Education Agenda which aims to highlight concerns about the narrow focus some schools and policy makers have on science, technology and maths without art, drama, music, design or other similar subjects.
Date: Thursdays 18:00 – 19:30
Venue: Kings Place, St Pancras Room
With Kings Place being one of Europe’s leading cultural hubs, it’s about time its residents, workers and local community got involved in the musical action.
Date: 11th June 2015, 09:30 – 17:30
Venue: Platform Theatre
Restless Futures is a 12 month programme of events organised by Central Saint Martins, showing how art and design can actively inform and contribute to societal transformation.
Come and listen, discuss and debate four key issues which will contribute to restless futures for artists, makers, designers, architects and all of society.
Date: 20 June 2015, 10:00 – 17:00
Venue: The School of Life
Every family has a story to tell. But often we look for those stories in the distant past, painstakingly gathering a handful of dusty facts – when living relatives, of all ages, could tell stories that would make our toes curl, tears flow, or heads bonk to the floor in laughter.
Congratulations to Dr Sarah Savant, Associate Professor at the AKU-ISMC, who has been awarded over 13,000 pounds by the British Academy as part of its Rising Stars programme.
In this podcast Poet in the City ask whether poetry can give us another way of looking at the election and can tell us more about ourselves than the latest the poll-figures.
The 2015 General Election is shaping up to be the most exciting in decades, we would like to invite you to join the Knowledge Quarter for an evening of high drama as the election results come in from across the country.
On the 31st March the Knowledge Quarter invited its partners to attend the inaugural Knowledge Quarter networking event at the Foundling Museum to facilitate, promote and encourage partner collaboration and knowledge exchange.