Arts Faculty News
Exhibition: Constellations of HOME
Exhibition comprising self-portraits, photographs and personal narratives created and curated by people who have experienced - or are experiencing - homelessness in Coventry. Held in the foyer of the FAB, 3 - 27 October 2022.
A FAB Place to Be - Video of the 2022 FAB Festival
Have a taste of what it is like to be a Faculty of Arts student through the video of the recent FAB Festival and opening of Warwick's new Arts Building.
Interview with Bestselling Author Sarah Pearse
We're delighted to share an interview with crime author and Warwick alumna, Sarah Pearse (BA English Literature and Creative Writing 2002).
New Arts Building - Student Poetry on its Construction
Students from the Warwick Writing Programme in SCAPVC provide their own very personal reflections in poetry on the construction and significance of this landmark building for the Arts at Warwick.
New Arts Building Topping Out Ceremony
On Thursday, 12 November 2020 the University celebrated completing the final storey of the new Faculty of Arts Building with a “topping out” ceremony.
Faculty of Arts at Home 14 - Environmental Issues: Paragraphs on Forest Bathing
Hear from Dr Jonathan Skinner (English and Comparative Literary Studies) about his critical and creative work in the field of ecopoetics. Jonathan illuminates for us the importance of the writing and study of poetry in environmental contexts, and highlights the important work that poetry can do in times of environmental crisis. He reads here his poem ‘Paragraphs on Forest Bathing’, written for the HS2 protest encampment at Cubbington Woods, Warwickshire.
Faculty of Arts at Home 8 - Re-thinking the creative industries post-Covid-19: Free Freelancers
Dr Heidi Ashton (Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies) discusses how freelance workers in the creative sector are ‘Free Freelancers’ in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Heidi details the precarity of this sector, the ways that freelance workers have fallen through the gaps of government safety nets, and the difficulties faced in monetising freelance work on digital platforms.
Launch of the Then and Now: Arts at Warwick Instagram page
Then&Now is a student led-research project run by students in the Faculty of Arts in collaboration with the Modern Records Centre. Find out more about the project here.
Past Time: A Learning Resource About Victorian Prisons
Check out the new learning resource released by Professor Hilary Marland Past Time: A Learning Resource About Victorian Prisons. It is available as a free download, behind a simple registration page here.