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Rashid Bhayat, founder of the Positive Youth Foundation, receives honorary doctorate from The University of Warwick
The University of Warwick has honoured social entrepreneur and youth charity leader, Rashid Bhayat, with an honorary doctorate.
‘Lost’ Duke Ellington concert film found after over 50 years.
A filmed concert by legendary jazz musician Duke Ellington, considered by him to be his most important, has been found after being unseen and thought lost for over fifty years and will be shown to an audience for the first time since originally broadcast thanks to a project led by the University of Warwick.
Warwick Professors Awarded Two of UK's Highest Cultural Honours
Two professors, the poet David Morley and the historian Peter Marshall, from the University of Warwick have this week been awarded two of the UK’s highest honours in arts and culture.
Coventry’s universities prepare for City of Culture with cultural projects open to all
Coventry’s universities are to embark on a series of collaborations to bring their research directly to Coventrians in the run up to UK City of Culture 2021.
Working with local cultural groups the University of Warwick and Coventry University will collaborate on 13 projects during the spring and summer of 2018 that will support Coventry City Council’s Cultural Strategy.
Coventry's Film and TV Heritage Returns to City Centre
Coventry’s history of film and television is set to be celebrated with a new exhibition that provides Coventrians with a unique opportunity to view their city through the years, thanks to a new project led by Dr Helen Wheatley of Film and Television of Studies.
Coventry: Ghost Town Haunting #1 runs from the 16th-22nd April in the Shop Front Theatre with members of the public invited to watch extracts of programmes made in and about the city on the big screen in two vintage living room sets.
Coventry schoolchildren to bring the idea of cultural exchange and shared heritage to life
Following the city’s winning bid to become UK City of Culture, Coventry schoolchildren are taking part in a new competition to bring the idea of cultural exchange and shared heritage to life.
The Two Chairs Creative Writing competition, which is open to all across the UK and is led by Dr James Hodkinson of the University of Warwick, invites people to see the world from the ‘other’ perspective.