All Knowledge Quarter partners are invited to submit proposals for Curious? Festival of Futures programmes. Building on the amazing success of Curious? 2015, King’s Cross will host a one-day long learning and knowledge-focused festival, encouraging and enabling partnerships and collaborations from across the Knowledge Quarter.
The Knowledge Quarter and Lord Cultural Resources will present the event Museums of the Future: Agents of Soft Power at this year Museum Next conference in Dublin.
We are delighted to announce that seven new partners have joined the Knowledge Quarter with specialities ranging from conservation, music, the arts and the third sector. New partners include BT Archives, Churches Conservation Trust, Help Musicians UK, London Sinfonietta, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, PRS for Music Foundation and the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide.
The Knowledge Quarter is delighted to partner with Centre for London, hosting a discussion on the changing geography of higher education and the knowledge economy as well as looking at how features of the innovation district model can be applied to London.
Regent High School invites Knowledge Quarter partners to join the school’s Community and Family Open Day. Partners can now express their interest, suggesting activities and ideas on how they would like to represent their organisation.
During this year’s edition of the Primary Careers Conference, sponsored by the Knowledge Quarter, young pupils will find out more how a gift, a story, the example of a parent or a relative has shape speakers’ current professional life.
Knowledge Quarter’s partner, the School of Advanced Study, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and British Academy, are now inviting applications for the third Being Human festival of the humanities. Sarah Churchwell, new festival director, talks about the importance and use of the humanities.
A very successful event has brought together Knowledge Quarter partners at the Wellcome collection reading room showcasing seven demonstrations of current Knowledge Quarter community engagement projects.
Share Academy invites Knowledge Quarter partners to a day symposium evaluating the partnerships among university and museums focusing on the national strategic level and looking at university/cultural-heritage partnerships more widely.
Knowledge Quarter partner, Camden Council, has partnered with the Timewise Foundation to provide a FREE workshop for Camden-based businesses. The workshop will focus on flexible hiring, providing an insight into the potential benefits and progressing to outline practical steps towards implementation.