Simon Cane, Director of UCL Culture and Knowledge Quarter Board member will host the UCL Culture launch party on the 10 November 2016 from 18.00 to 21.00. Knowledge Quarter partners are invited to join an evening of celebrations, performances and displays and to find out more about the UCL Culture Manifesto.
St Pancras Community Association (SPCA) is a charity that promotes community activity in St Pancras. The SPCA has had the opportunity to expand their programme since they moved in the new facilities, and are now looking for more volunteers to enable the delivery of the new activities.
A fascinating blog in which Amina Yaqin and Peter Morey, from SOAS University, illustrate the Muslims, Trust and Dialogue project (MTCD). They develop a theoretical framework and present practical case studies, exploring how building trust between cultures places mutual responsibility on participants in an open dialogue.
We are delighted to announce that Curious? Festival of Futures has been nominated for The Drum UK Event Awards and is running for ‘Cultural Event of the Year’ Award. The awards are announced on 1 December.
A fascinating blog by Helen Wallace, creative consultant at Kings Place Music Foundation, that brings us on a personal and historical discovery of the cello, giving us a hint of the different voices captured in the coming festival “Cello Unwrapped” at Kings Place.
On Friday 14 October, various King’s Cross neighbours sat down to a roundtable discussion on the area’s recent and future development to mark 5 years since Central Saint Martins’ relocation.
Knowledge Quarter’s partner, The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (ISMC) and Graduate School of Media and Communications (GSMC) invite KQ partners to the academic conference entitled, Media in Muslim Contexts: Inventing and Reinventing Identities; bringing together academics and media professionals to discuss the central role of mass media in the contemporary Muslim World.
The BL Labs team are pleased to announce that the fourth annual British Library Labs Symposium will be held on Monday 7 November, from 9:30 – 17:30 in the British Library Conference Centre, St Pancras. During the evening the BL Labs Awards (2016) will be announced, celebrating researchers, artists, educators and entrepreneurs from around the world who have made use of the British Library’s digital content and data. The event is FREE, although you must book a ticket in advance.
The first exhibition at the new Francis Crick Institute opens to the public on Wednesday 2nd November. On display are a collection of working images, rather than works of art, each created by a scientist to help solve a research problem.
The Knowledge Quarter brings scholars, researchers and activists at this year’s Bloomsbury festival to discuss the notion of stereotype threat; approaching it from different angles, recognising patterns across disciplines and bringing a fresh look at our multicultural society.