NCACE Festival of Cultural Knowledge Exchange: Getting Involved

We held our inaugural NCACE Festival of Cultural Knowledge Exchange back in October 2022 and now have exciting plans to make the festival a biennal event to celebrate and shine a light on collaborative research activities, cultural knowledge exchange and all kinds of partnerships between universities and the arts and cultural sectors and the communities of interest they serve. We are putting the festival on in order to:

• showcase the brilliant collaborations taking place between universities and the arts and culture sector and the transformative impacts of such work
• inspire fresh thinking about the values, scope and possibilities of cultural knowledge exchange and the brilliant networks and connections they foster
• contribute to current relevant policy developments
• encourage conversation, knowledge-sharing, discussion and debate as well as opportunities for further collaboration development.

During our inaugural festival, we hosted many online events over the course of a week on topics including: Place-making, Culture Compacts, Decolonial Heritage Practices, Artists in the Academy and Diversity, Knowledge Exchange and Broadcasting to name a few. It presented a great opportunity to showcase ground-breaking cultural collaborative work being undertaken between universities and the arts around the country, and to create much needed spaces for dialogue and debate around key themes.

The purpose of this Meetup is create space for those engaged in collaborative activities of all kinds between universities and the arts and culture sector who are interested in being involved in the festival. You might be:

• An academic working with arts and culture sector partners, including those in the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)
• Working in an arts and culture sector organisation, as a professional or an artist/creative working with Higher Education
• A research impact and knowledge exchange managers or one of the many other movers, shakers and connectors in the knowledge economy.

• Working in a local authority and/or engaged in arts/research/community type initiatives
• Engaged in supporting community-led research

As part of the festival, we will be making a number of small Cultural Knowledge Exchange Future Icons awards to incentivise and reward the vital work being undertaken and to support future leadership and experimentation in the field, with each award being made to a collaboration between at least one researcher and one artist or arts/cultural organisation.

Join us to find out more.