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One Camden - Letter from the Leader of Camden Council

June 30, 2016

Camden Council is monitoring and taking action against any form of hate crime in the follow up of the EU referendum. Knowledge Quarter partners are invited to support the Council in reassuring our community that there is no place for hate in Camden. Please read here the letter form the Leader of the Council.

Invitation to Make, Do and Bend: The One-Dayer

June 29, 2016

Knowledge Quarter’s partner, The London Sinfonietta, is partnering with the hub to produce Make, Do and Bend, a project bringing together musicians, composers and creative technologists to explore how digital technology can open up new forms of interaction.

Improve your disability confidence for free with CamdenAbility

June 29, 2016

Business Disability Forum (BDF) is reaching out to Camden-based organisations that might wish to join a unique employer network dedicated to improving disability confidence across business. CamdenAbility project aims to significantly increase the number of disabled Camden residents who are in full-time employment.

Somers Town Festival - Diana Foster interviews Steve Denholm

June 28, 2016

Artist Diana Foster presents this year's Somers Town festival with an interview to Steve Denholm, musician, maverick, chair of Somers Town Art (START) who has run the festival for over 19 years. This year the festival runs on Saturday 9th July with two music stages, a Somers Town photography competition prize, Pearly Queens, live bands on two stages, with a Bengali stage and a strong participation of many Knowledge Quarter partners.

FOUND: One inspiring collaboration by Caro Howell

June 28, 2016

Caro Howell, director of the Foundling Museum, presents FOUND. An exhibition freighted with anecdote and emotion, in which artists, writers and musicians were asked to respond to the theme of ‘found’ with a new or existing work, or a found object of significance to them, looking for something that in order to be found, it must first be lost.

IoM3 celebrates national Women in Engineering Day

June 23, 2016

To celebrate National Women in Engineering Day, Knowledge Quarter's partner IoM3 offers a free download of the Materials World app June issue, a must-have app for engineers and those working or studying in the sciences.

The Innovation District: Lessons from Europe by Chris Green, Director, SQW

June 23, 2016

Chris Green, director of the Knowledge Quarter's partner SQW, presents an insightful blog on Innovation Districts. Chris develops an analysis of two European examples, drawing important lessons both specifically in relation to the creation of innovation districts and more generally to the long term regeneration of our cities.

Great Parchment Book Awarded Unesco Memory of the World Status

June 22, 2016

Knowledge Quarter's partner, London Metropolitan Archives, is delighted to announce that on 21 June 2016 the Great Parchment Book of the Honourable the Irish Society was inscribed to the UK register of the UNESCO Memory of the World.

Alina Velias appointed PhD researcher at the Knowledge Quarter

May 25, 2016

The Knowledge Quarter is pleased to announce the appointment of Alina Velias, who has joined the Knowledge Quarter for a 3-month research project on the the Knowledge Quarter economic impact.

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