Creative Futures Institute- London’s Welcoming Art Galleries for Amateur Artists
- Mastering the Art of Exposure: How to Get Your Paintings Viewed and Sold
- A Comprehensive Guide to Self-Publishing Your Novel
- SoundCloud: A Musician’s Perspective
- The Best Music Platforms for Amateur Musicians
- Striking a Chord: The Path to Success as a Musician
- Upcycling for Profit: Turning Trash into Treasure
- Crafting Success: The Path to Becoming a Successful Author
- From Obscurity to Literary Stardom
- Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Meteoric Rise from Obscurity to Art Icon
- Commercial Music programme
- FIVE NATIONS (IEG) MUSIC FESTIVAL: 26th APRIL, THE BERESFORD LOUNGE (GLASGOW)
- EXPLORING CASSETTE CULTURE IN SCOTLAND’S INDEPENDENT MUSIC SCENE
- UWS STUDENT-STAFF RECORDING: ‘THE CITY OF PRAGUE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA’
- MA SONGWRITING and PERFORMANCE STUDENTS TAKE TO TORONTO AND CHICAGO
- UWS MUSIC: RODDY HART BAGS RESIDENCY ON CRAIG FERGUSON SHOW, USA
- UWS OPEN STUDIOS DAY – SATURDAY 26th APRIL, AYR CAMPUS
- Scottish Pop Academics Network (SPAN) @ CCA – 9th May
- [RELEASES]: ‘MOONSHINE’ (SUSPIRE)
- [RELEASES]:’WHEN WE LIVED IN THE CROOK OF A TREE’ (JO MANGO)
- INAUGURAL MUSIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONFERENCE AT UWS
- UWS Practice Research
- We Are Northern Lights: University of Sussex seminar
- The Uprising at Video Vortex 10
- Hanging Out in Teacher Education: Walking, Drawing and Extending Sites for Learning
- Incubating Soup? Elicitation, distillation and communication in/for research
- How To Choose?
- CauseWay: the story of the Alloway Suffragettes
- Rhythmic Routes: Developing a nomadic performance practice for the daily commute
- Interstices: Performance/Art/Film
- 17 Letters to my Brother
- Media, Technology and Creative Spaces of Education
- Scottish Centre for Island Studies
- UHI Islands Strategy Survey: online!
- ‘Poetic storytelling and the context of cultural resilience’: Ray and Kathryn present at Film-Poetry Scotland and Brittany Conference.
- TIDES: Rosie Alexander offers insight from a careers research perspective on Young people and Scottish Island Migrations.
- Mike Danson sets context in keynote address to “A National Mission’ – Delivering a Just Transition to Net-Zero in Scotland’ Online event 15 Dec 2021
- Air an Àiridh: Hugh Cheape ‘islands of the moor’ at Faclan 2021
- Universal Basic Income: Mike Danson delivers ‘webinar’ talk to Green European Foundation event
- “The World’s Whose Oyster?” SCIS at 6th Oct online event on Scotland’s coastal commons, alt economies and locally embedded responses to climate breakdown: with Atlas Arts and #CLIMAVORE friends
- TIDES: Iain Caimbeul “Community agency, participation and local Gaelic development: research insights from two island Gaelic communities”.
- Sharing here a great opportunity for young island filmmakers!
- Finland’s Baltic Sea, island and coastal landscape explored in new work by UWS MA student Julia Tirkkonen.
- Broadcast Journalism blog
- Scriptwriting blog
- Putting It All Together
- “Miraculous” Premieres on Ayr Gaiety Lockdown TV
- “The Beaches Of St Valery” to feature In Poppy Scotland 80th Commemoration
- Chic Murray Locked Down At The Gaiety, Ayr
- “The Beaches Of St Valery” Returned.
- BBC Scotland Celebrate Chic Murray’s Centenary
- Thanks To Carrick Cycles : Pantani Rides Again
- “Chic Murray – A Funny Place For A Window” Is Back On iPlayer
- “Chic Murray-A Funny Place For A Window” tours.
- The Origins Of Ivor Punch
Andy Miah
Cameron King
David Manderson
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stuarthepburnCall for papers: intangible heritage/post-industrial waterfront zones
What does Heritage Change? Critical Heritage Studies 3rd Biennial Conference, Montreal, 6-10, June 2016 Call for papers Paper session: Representing intangible heritage of post-industrial waterfront zones: Politics of seeing, ways of noticing Chairs Prof Katarzyna Kosmala UWS and Graham Jeffery UWS While intangible cultural heritage is an important factor in maintaining cultural diversity in the … Continue reading
AHRC Grant Success for Jo-Collinson Scott
Congratulations to Dr Jo Collinson-Scott, Lecturer in Music in the School of Media, Culture and Society, who has been awarded two grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), following a call for collaborative proposals from Early Career Researchers within the Connected Communities programme. Details of each project are below, and the total value … Continue reading
Mother Courage
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht (abridged) Thursday 22nd January, 2pm and 7pm Studio Theatre, University of the West of Scotland, Ayr Campus You captains, tell the drums to slacken And give your infants a break: It’s Mother Courage with her wagon Full of the finest boots they make. Travelling with her children … Continue reading
Creative Futures Institute: 2014 Newsletter
The latest newsletter from the Creative Futures Institute can be viewed here.
Transmedia 101
Transmedia 101 – 2 Day Workshop University of the West of Scotland Deadline: 17 November 2014 at 12:00 Thursday 20th & Friday 21st November 2014 @ Creative Media Academy, University of the West of Scotland, Ayr Campus, University Avenue, Ayr, KA8 0SX – 2 Day Free Workshop Damien Smith and Chris Third of Digital Design … Continue reading
Curating Europe’s Futures
Curating Europes’ Futures is a collaboratively-organised discussion series which explores contemporary curatorial and artistic practices that have critically addressed themselves to the processes of socio-economic restructuring, identity politics, gender dynamics and cultural policies within ‘post-bloc’ Europe. The series will look to curatorial practices as they have evolved within the shifting and uneven economic and socio-political … Continue reading
UWS students receive a unique insight into live event production
Students at UWS received a unique insight into live event production by one of the world’s leading sport channels when they travelled to the St Mirren on Saturday. Sports Journalism and Broadcast Production undergraduates were invited to St Mirren Football Club on Saturday for a behind-the-scenes tour from Sky Sports, during the preparation for the … Continue reading
Creative Wednesdays
The UWS Creative Media Academy is delighted to announce a new initiative called ‘Creative Wednesdays’. Every Wednesday students and staff are invited to get involved with a series of creative activities, screenings, master classes and professional practice sessions designed to both inspire and prepare students for the real world of creative industry employment. During the … Continue reading
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- Alison Clifford
- Graham Jeffery
- Waste Work - the book and some events
- Dealing with the 'impact agenda'
- Some thoughts on the UK's current energy predicament
- Things I noticed right at the end of 2021 (31 Dec 2021)
- Things I noticed this week (20 Dec 2021):
- Things I noticed this week (11th Dec 2021)
- Things I noticed this week (5th Dec 2021)
- Things I noticed over the last two weeks (28th November 2021)
- Things I noticed this week, 14th November 2021
- Things I noticed this week, 7th Nov 2021
- Dr David Manderson
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- Prof David McGillivray
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- Prof Gayle McPherson
- A cultural extravaganza of a year
- My round up of the Cultural Planning session at Creative Scotland – February 2014
- The cultural lens
- Cultural Planning
- The evaluation and impact of London 2012’s cultural programme in Scotland and other cultural stuff
- Latest Cultural Offerings
- The Global Impact of the Olympics and the London 2012 Games: an interview with Professor Gayle McPherson – Anglo Higher® Publishes News, Commentary and Opinion About Global Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Professional Training
- Contribution to Cultural Value – priceless blog
- Qatar moves one step closer to Mega-event success!
- Prof Andy Miah
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- David Scott
- Fender&Squier’85
- Guest Blog: Don Klees interviews David Scott
- In The Presence of Angels: Gerry Rafferty & City to City
- Classic Scottish Albums: Glasvegas: Tartan Noir?
- Classic Scottish Albums: Shabby & Definitely Chic
- Classic Scottish Albums: How We Made It
- The Pearlfishers: Sugar Mountain Babies
- David Scott: I Just See The Rainbow
- The Umbrellas of Shibuya
- The Pearlfishers: The Last Days of September
- Andrea Braeuning
- Essay über Google’s Smart City Aktivitäten
- Excellent docu on the buy out of cities
- Is Europe left behind in the SC discourse due to limited municipal autonomy?
- Where are the European Googles? (Mazzucato, TED, 2013)
- Live talk from Ezio Manzini at lunchtime today!!
- The Town Management Company of Fujisawa SST shows that traditional roles of industry and municipality are about to terminate in the Smart City
- Google enters the Smart City business
- Tool to simulate the impact of sub-system alternatives to the system city – if it works it’s a massive asset for city planning
- Received Thank-You Letter from Minister Prof. Dr. Wanka …
- Peer reviewed article published
- Chris Dooks
- John A Carruthers
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