Arrival Instructions and Practical Matters
Arrival Instructions
With the event now only a month away, here are some instructions on how to get to central campus using various modes of transport. The best source of information are these pages. Once on campus, you can use the various campus maps to help you to navigate to the Faculty of Arts Building (FAB), where our celebrations will take place. Between 10am and 10.30am there will be welcome refreshments on the ground floor of the FAB Foyer space, known as the Agora. From there, all sessions will take place in the FAB and we can point you in the directions of the various rooms.
Car Parking
If you’re travelling to the university by car, you can find details of campus car parking here. At weekends there is a £2 charge which allows you to park for the full day (and up to 8am the next day in fact, should you end up having one too many at the reception!). Payment is taken by app, but you can also pre-book parking online here, if you find that easier.
You can view a map of where to park and I would recommend the multi-storey close to the old Humanities Building, the Junction (formerly the Sports Centre) and the new Faculty of Arts Building. If you require accessible Blue Badge parking, there are spaces available right in front of the FAB, and you can find a map detailing these spaces on the car parking webpages.
Accommodation
If you’re thinking about staying locally, while halls of residence are not available, our on-site hotels will be open. These can be booked here. Use the promo code UOW60 to access the reduced rates of £78 for single occupancy bed and breakfast and £108 for double occupancy bed and breakfast.
Plan Your Day and View the Schedule
The programme has now been finalised and can be viewed here. Ahead of the event, we’d like you to select which sessions you’d like to attend. As some of the workshops and seminars have limited capacity, we’d encourage you to do this at your earliest opportunity.
Theatre Studies Archive
Over the next year we're gathering materials to submit to the Modern Records Centre as part of a special 50th anniversary acquisition for Theatre Studies. The aim of this is to counter the very formal archive that currently exists there – documenting the hiring of staff and graduations, for example. We're keen to see colour added to this archive, with programmes and photographs of coursework and extracurricular theatre, outlines of modules and any other material that you may have that relates to your time in the department. It’s already been fantastic to hear from so many of you about the materials that you have and we encourage more of you to reach out. If you're interested in contributing, please email David Coates.