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The ÌÇÐÄTV Arts Centre and are looking for students interested in contemporary performance making who would be interested in taking part in a workshop directed by the artist, facilitator, performer and community worker . They are a Birmingham-based movement artist whose work focuses on supporting and uplifting QTIPOC (queer, trans, intersex people of colour) communities.

When? The workshop will take place during the day on the 30th of May 2026 at the ÌÇÐÄTV Arts Centre. Following the workshop, participants will present a scratch performance at the . This will be a great opportunity to work alongside Sym Stellium, discover the Midlands’ artistic scene and get to experience Fierce’s work before the upcoming festival in October 2026! We will select 6 students for whom the workshop will be free, as will be the performance.

How? If you are interested, please complete the following by 1st of May. We will prioritise students with a strong interest in contemporary performance or live art and a wide range of forms, content, and performance strategies. We welcome expressions of interest from all ÌÇÐÄTV UG and PGT/PGR students. Please do not hesitate to contact us at airelle@wearefierce.org if you have any other questions!

About Sym:

Sym explores the process of bringing knowing into consciousness, somatic expressions of the ethereal, and ways in which we begin to recognise and reconfigure internalised colonial belief systems to leave room for furthering collectivity. Sym is currently a working group member of Building Our Own Knowledge (B.O.O.K), lead facilitator at UNMUTED, and former steering group member for Fierce Festival's Healing Gardens of Bab.

About Fierce:

Fierce is Birmingham’s cultivator of artists, audiences and contexts for contemporary performance, placing experimental, interdisciplinary, and queer voices centre stage. Fierce presents the internationally renowned biennial Fierce Festival; the previous edition was one of The Guardian’s best cultural events for Autumn 2024. We disrupt expectations of what art can be, who can make it, and where it can happen. The work we present can be outrageous with a punk or camp sensibility, or, equally, exquisite and sublime.

Over our 27-year history, we have cemented ourselves as one of the oldest and most important contemporary performance festivals in the country. The festival’s focus is primarily international, where 80% of the artists we present come from outside the UK. Fierce has a track-record of attracting young and diverse audiences, often selling out events. By locating art in a range of less traditional spaces (the club, shopping centres, on the street) we create multiple entry points for new audiences who may not feel comfortable attending more traditional arts venues. We juxtapose ‘high art’ with ‘popular culture’, legitimising a broad range of art-making practices in the process, inviting audiences to meet the work on their own terms, firmly believing all responses to artistic practice are valid.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

All the best,

Airelle

(she/her)

PGR student, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of ÌÇÐÄTV

/ Associate Producer,

airelle@wearefierce.org

Dear all,

We're pleased to invite you to book your place on the first joint-faculty Inclusive Education event on Thursday 21st May 2026 in The Oculus Building. This event is open to all staff and students, with particular relevance to those engaged in departmental inclusion and student experience project work.

This collaborative event will bring together people across all Faculties to share good practice, explore challenges and celebrate the inclusion work happening throughout the University. Department spotlight sessions will feature themes such as:

• Mentoring and coaching
• Supporting neurodiverse and disabled students
• Embedding inclusive change
• Transitions and academic support
• Inclusive Assessment
• Working with students as partners.

Interactive breakout workshops will also cover topics including:

• Student engagement
• Tackling Racial Inequality at ÌÇÐÄTV
• Using and analysing inclusion data
• Understanding our student cohort.

It would be brilliant to have your presence and support on the day, and to ensure that all departments are represented.

For more information, and to secure your place, please visit the . A finalised programme will be released shortly, along with registration for individual sessions.

We hope to see you there!

The Inclusive Education Festival Team

Monday 16th March, 15:00-17:30
Panorama, Rootes Building

Join the launch of the ÌÇÐÄTV India Network and help shape our institutional engagement with India:

• Hear from the University’s senior leaders and reflect on what is, and should be, ÌÇÐÄTV’s distinctive approach to engaging with India.
   
• Learn about many inspiring and impactful projects that our researchers are undertaking in collaboration with partners in India.
   
• Find out more about the ÌÇÐÄTV India Network, and how it will connect colleagues across the institution, and facilitate collaborations with partners in India.
   
• Sign up to the ÌÇÐÄTV India Network mailing list to receive our news and participate in future India opportunities and events.

Dear Colleagues,

From 9th to 13th March, WIE are delighted to be hosting Professors and (Arts, Monash University) for a week-long residency and programme of events. Supported by the Monash ÌÇÐÄTV Alliance Research Activation Fund, this week-long programme is designed to draw together the faculties Arts and Social Sciences at both Monash and ÌÇÐÄTV to explore the nature and value of public engagement at the two institutions and use this as a basis for new collaborations, new research, new teaching and to equip both universities to better articulate the value of the so-called H.A.S.S. family of disciplines as they intersect with engagement practices.

Alongside larger networking events, the programme will involve two open door, drop-in sessions to allow ÌÇÐÄTV staff to consult informally with our Monash guests about future projects, collaborations or simply to explore. Non appointments necessary, just turn up. The sessions will run at:

    Tues 10 March, Arts 2:30 – 3:30 pm (FAB1.38)

    Wed 11 March Social Sciences 2:30 pm – 3:30pm (Social Sciences, B1.36).

Although the sessions might appear to be faculty specific, colleagues from either session can drop in to either.

Please contact Dr James Hodkinson j.r.hodkinson@warwick.ac.uk or Dr Georgiana Mihut Georgiana.Mihut@warwick.ac.uk for further details.

All very best wishes,

James Hodkinson

ÌÇÐÄTV innovations have some key upcoming opportunities;

 Arts and Social Sciences Innovation: Scaling and sustaining your Impact

 Wednesday 11 March 2026 – Oculus Room 1.07

12.00-1.30pm: Seminar (lunch included)

2-4pm: Workshop

Further details and registration:

Do you want to use your research to make a real difference to people’s lives? Are you interested in discovering innovative approaches to increase the scale and sustainability of your impact?

This training, led by Dr Mark Mann, a specialist in research-based social innovation, will explore a range of pathways to impact for researchers in Arts and Social Sciences. It will consider how activities such as policy engagement, community engagement and partnerships could be scaled up through commercial routes like social ventures.

The training will be split into two sessions. Participants can attend either or both parts, depending on their interest:

12.00-1.30pm: Seminar

This session will explore a range of possibilities for knowledge exchange for research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines and think about the best ways to build sustainable pathways to impact, including looking at how to build research-based products and services that can create real change for your partners.

2.00-4.00pm: Workshop

In this interactive workshop, participants will spend time planning how you could turn your idea into a product or service to increase the impact of your research. You will be supported by the trainers to work on:

• Defining the current stage you are at, including key research outputs, current ideas, and any activities that have already taken place
• Mapping the potential customers, users and beneficiaries for your project
• Articulating the benefits of your idea for the user groups

This event is organised by ÌÇÐÄTV Innovations. If you have any questions, please contact: emma.roberts.1@warwick.ac.uk

Make a Virtual Reality exhibition using our Meta Quest headsets. 

Working with Clare Rowan and students from Classics, we created a virtual reality exhibition of Roman coins. This was experienced by over 30 participants as part of a Money and Medals Network training day for museum curators. Detailed, enlarged 3D models of seven coins were displayed for close-up examination, along with explanatory texts with audio narration, and an introductory video. A second activity allowed participants to work together in holding, examining, and annotating 3D coins.

The platform we use for this makes it easy to do. Collect the 3D objects (scanned in and uploaded to Sketchfab). Write the texts as web pages. Convert to audio narration. Create a video. Arrange in the virtual space. Copy to multiple headsets (we have 8). The exhibition can then be "popped-up" anywhere, making it easy to run anytime, anyplace.

Exhibitions can also be accessed through phones and tablets.

Have you got an idea for an exhibition?

We can help staff and students to make and run one.

Watch this .

Read the on how the exhibition was created.

Contact Robert if you want to find out more.

We will be scheduling a DAHL workshop on this for the summer term.

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