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Artsfest 2021
This year marks the seventh year of Artsfest hosted by the university. Traditionally we join with cultural venues across the region to programme a variety of events including live performances, workshops, theatre shows, music, poetry, art exhibitions, and lots more to get involved with.
We invite an eclectic range of new and established artists both locally and further afield, to use Artsfest as a platform to enhance their careers. This is something that we are proud to support and will endeavour to do in the future, using Artsfest as a vehicle to continue to bring you the very best this region has to offer. As a result of Covid-19 we weren't able to do this in 2020 but are planning a return in 2022. However, during the pandemic we have brought art to you as a series of online artist talks. This has been so popular we have made it a permanent programme which will now run throughout the year in addition to our traditional arts festival. It is encouraging that something so positive has happened as a result of the pandemic and it proves more than ever that art is important to our well-being.
Our Spring 2021 recorded events are listed below and if you head over to our YouTube channel you will find lots of other creative and inspiring videos to watch including our Black History Month and LGBT History Month events >> UoW YouTube Channel, UoW Black History Month, LGBT+ History Month
Hope you enjoy!
Claire Buckerfield
Faculty Public Engagement Coordinator
Intellectual property in the arts
![A small magnifying glass focusing on a thesaurus entry for copyright](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Copyright-CQB.jpg)
![A yellow neon sign over a dark backdrop which reads ART and has a copyright symbol](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Fine-Art-CQB.jpg)
Inspiration or Imitation? Copyright and Moral Rights in Artistic Works
![A camera lens held in the hand of the photographer and pointed towards a lake](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/IP-Photography-CQB--3.jpg)
Intellectual Property and Photography - Creators, Owners and Licences
![A graphic of a red stop sign with text in its middle segment reading COPYRIGHT](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Copyright-CQB-1.jpg)
What’s in a Name: Trade Marks and Brands - Workshop
![A golden microphone in a black stand](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Music-CQB.jpg)
Intellectual Property and the Music Industry: Mapping the Maze
![Graphic of a sewing machine decorated with a heart, a yellow pincushion to the side](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Sewing-machine-CQB.jpg)
Fashion, Textiles and Intellectual Property: Patchworks, Quilts or Veils?
Illustration and Print
![A black and white print of an early wood engraving](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/HoPIN-2-CQB.jpg)
HoPIN Webinar: Woodcuts and Wood Engraving (History of the Printed Image Network)
![Artwork showing a devil, with horns, wings and a pointed tail, capturing a woman with a dress, handbag and hat](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Content-Q-Block.jpg)
Illustrator and writer Edward Gorey: Talk by Dr Louise Fenton
![A mosaic of various printed advertising material throughout history](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Hopin-3-CQB.jpg)
HoPIN Webinar: Illustrated Print for Industry and Commerce
![An example of early photographic illustration: painter Narcisse Virgilio Diaz de la Pena captured for a related pamphlet](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Hamber-CQB.jpg)
HoPIN Webinar: The Rise of Photographic Illustration 1839-80
![Paul Cox artwork of a horse and carriage pursued by a crowd of dogs](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Paul-Cox-19th-CQB.jpg)
Paul Cox - His Illustrated Life and Career
![Three Paul Cox illustrations: a boy sitting on a windowsill after climbing up on a ladder, an older man taking the boy out with butterfly nets for each of them, and a piper playing in front of the boy and a dog](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Paul-Cox-27th-CQB.jpg)
In Conversation - Dr Louise Fenton and Artist Paul Cox
![Sketch of two arms resting on a desk and working with pen and paper, text in the centre of the image reading O LABORUM DULCE LENIMEN](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/HoPIN-5-CQB.jpg)
HoPIN Webinar: Contrasts in Print
![Print of old artwork depicting a ship at sea](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/HoPIN-6-cqb.jpg)
HoPIN Webinar: Chapbook Illustration
![Two illustrations depicting forms of labour, on the left an industrial worker using tools on wood, on the right a housekeeper with a duster](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Illustrating-Industry-CQB.jpg)
HoPIN Webinar: Illustrating Industry (Centre for Printing History and Culture)
Fine Art
![Dr Kate McMillan sitting in a chair in front of a large, blank canvas](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Kate-CQB.jpg)
International Women's Day: The Representation for Female Artists in Britain
![An archived photo from the Express and Star newspaper of a person feeding an elephant, holding a young child in their right arm and food in their left](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/e&s-Elephant-cqb.jpg)
Express & Star Photo Archive Talk & Q&A
![Yam Cams logo, a bubble with orange block capitals reading YAM CAMS inside its shape, bordered by a blue circle](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/YC-CQB-copy.jpg)
Yam Cams: Photography in the Black Country
![Graphic of a person in a hospital bed surrounded by flowers, balloons and get-well cards, an operation scar across their midsection](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Guts-CQB-copy.jpg)
World IBD Day: When Art and Medicine Meet
![Graphic for FEINART, a yellow background with a web of straight lines forming a larger shape](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Fein-CQB.jpg)
British Art Show 9 and Socially Engaged Art
![Bilston Art Project logo, an orange background with BILSTON ART PROJECT written with black text and highlighted white in the centre of the image](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Bilston-CQB.jpg)
Bilston Enamels: Talk and Q&A
![A block of flats against a grey sky](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Yam-Cams-Book-CQB.jpg)
Yam Cams Book Launch: Picturing The Black Country
![Graphic of people standing or lounging at a poolside, one couple walking a dog in a grassy area behind the pool, mountains outlined in the background](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/IBD-CQB.jpg)
Family Planning - The Lived Experience Through Art - Panel Discussion
![Profile photo of Paul Darke at a football stadium](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/disability-history-month/PD-CQB.jpg)
Why Bother? The Art of Disability: Practice Does Not Make the Perfect (Disrupting Bodies)
![Jennifer Gilbert standing in front of a large inscription on a wall in an art gallery](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/JG-CQB.jpg)
How a Manchester Gallery Supports Disabled and Neurodivergent Artists
![Tony Heaton, wearing glasses, a watch and a blue button-up shirt](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/TH-CQB.jpg)
The Art of Disability History: A personal view through NDACA (the national disability arts collection and archive)
![A painting of two figures looking at an object between them](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/TR-CQB.jpg)
It’s An Artists Life: Talk with Artist Tanya Raabe
Performing Arts
![A band of improv musicians: Singer, guitarist, drummer and keyboardist, performing under purple stage-lights](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Improv-CQB.jpg)
Improvised Musician Performance Pre-recorded Live Stream
![Andi Lee Carter in a blue button-down shirt sitting on a staircase](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Andi-Lee-Carter-CQB.jpg)
Trans and Non-Binary Representation in Musical Theatre with Andi Lee Carter
![Stafford Arima, wearing a black suit-jacket and V-neck, backstage at a theatre](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/stafford-arima-CQB.jpg)
East Asian Representation in the Broadway Musical Allegiance
![Reece McKenzie looking into the camera and smiling](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/black-history-month/RM-CQB-2.jpg)
Black Representation in Musical Theatre
![Painting by Elizabeth Ivwurie depicting a conflict between GHETTO and HIGH FASHION aesthetics, two figures representing each side staring each other down across a VERSUS sign](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/black-history-month/Elizabeth-CQB.jpg)
Cultural Appropriation in Film, Music and Fashion Creative Industries
![Photograph of Sejal Keshwala on a grey background](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/SK-CQB.jpg)
South Asian Representation in Musical Theatre
Writing
![Collage of book covers surrounding the heading: ALL THE WRITING SELVES WE HAVE TO BE](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/All-the-writing-selves-CQB.jpg)
All the Writing Selves We Have to Be - A Discussion on Writing Careers
![Xidus Pain looking into the camera and tilting his cap with both hands](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Xidus-Pain-CQB.jpg)
Lyric Writing Master Class with Xidus Pain
![Black and white photograph of R. M. Francis raising an eyebrow and looking towards his book THE WRENNA](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/The-Wrenna-CQB.jpg)
The Wrenna by R.M. Francis - Book Launch
![Rick Sanders on a darkened stage with blue lights, speaking into a microphone](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/RS-CQB.jpg)
The Top Secret Poetry Notebook of Willis the Poet
![A collage of covers for THE ILLUSTRATED MAN by Ray Bradbury](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Illustrated-Man-CQB.jpg)
Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man at Seventy
![Deb Alma sitting at a table with refreshment and a manuscript](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/DA-CQB.jpg)
Poetry on Prescription: Creative Writing & Wellbeing
Careers in the Arts
![Stephen Snoddy facing the camera in front of rows of bookshelves](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/SS-CQB-1.jpg)
Masters in Conversation - Stephen Snoddy
![Frame from a talk by Cathy Wade on the relationships between cities, people and transport, showing an indoor car park](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Cathy-Wade-CQB.jpg)
Masters in Conversation: Artist Cathy Wade
![Two people with their arms entwined, one visibly having various shapes drawn on their arm and the word HATE written across their knuckles](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Robert-CQB.jpg)
Masters in Conversation: Artist Robert Luzar
![Lynsey Harris looking towards the camera, framed pictures on a blue wall in the background](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/LH-CQB.jpg)
Creative Futures - Lynsey Harris Designer Maker
![Jason Fenandes smiling at the camera with his arms folded and resting on a desk with a MacBook laptop](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/JF-CQB.jpg)
Creative Futures: Jason Fernandes, 3D Designer & 3D Design Lecturer
![David Longworth sitting in front of a square window and looking into the camera](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/DL-CQB.jpg)
Creative Futures: David Longworth Exploring Careers at the BBC
![Two people in matching VOiD Applications t-shirts sitting on a bench](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Void-CQB.jpg)
Creative Futures: VOiD Applications Web Design
![Naomi Jacques photographed with her face pointed downwards](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/NJ-CQB.jpg)
Creative Futures: Naomi Jacques Glass Artist
![Nick Cohen smiling at the camera in front of a pair of curtains](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/NC-CQB-1.jpg)
Creative Futures: Nick Cohen Creative Director, Writer and Maker
![Graphic of three people rendered in black and white on an orange background, each holding a pose](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Eighty3-CQB.jpg)
Creative Futures: Eighty3 Design, Web Design and Branding
![Jennifer Gilbert standing in front of a large inscription on a wall in an art gallery](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/JG-CQB.jpg)
How a Manchester Gallery Supports Disabled and Neurodivergent Artists
Festival of Britain
![Annotated map of South Bank Centre for the South Bank Exhibition](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/South-Bank-CQB.jpg)
Revisiting a Tonic for the Nation: Introduction to the Festival of Britain
![Graphic showing a birds eye view of the Market Hall](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/market-birds-eye-view-CQB.jpg)
Opened by Herb: Wolverhampton’s Festival Market Hall
![A white room full of glass chairs, tables, plates, lights and windows](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Stourbridge-Glass-CQB.jpg)
The Festival of Britain in the Black Country
![A brick building with a sign reading POOL in white block capitals on its side](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Tom-FoB-CQB.jpg)
The Festival of Britain: Black Country Traces
![A large organ at the top of a flight of wooden stairs in a tall, ornate hall with arching roof supports](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Sian-NEWS2-1.jpg)
The Festival of Britain and Walsall
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Simon Briercliffe in Conversation with Professor Keith Gildart
Affiliates
ArtsFest is delighted to be associated with like-minded organisations including: Black Country Studies Centre, The Centre for Printing History and Culture and Bilston Art Project.
Black Country Studies Centre
Black Country Living Museum (BCLM) and the University of Wolverhampton have much more in common than geographical location. Both institutions strive to raise aspirations and educational attainment by engaging individuals, families and schools across the country, making learning accessible, informative and fun.
The Centre for Printing History and Culture
The Centre for Printing History and Culture (CPHC) is a joint initiative between Birmingham City University and the University of Birmingham and consists of researchers, heritage professionals and librarians. It seeks to encourage research into all aspects and periods of printing history and culture, including the machinery and equipment, the industry and its personnel, printing processes, and the design of printed products such as books, newspapers, journals, and ephemera. It is also interested in the impact that print has in the wider world, and therefore also covers the social, cultural, industrial and economic aspect of print culture.
The Centre for Printing History & Culture, Faculty of Art, Design & Media, Birmingham City University, Parkside Building, 5 Cardigan Street, Birmingham B4 7BD
CONTACT caroline.archer@bcu.ac.uk 0121 331 5871
Visit: www.cphc.org.uk
Bilston Art Project
Bilston based art, murals, workshops and online events delivered by local artists, graduates and alumni from the Wolverhampton School of Art supported by Wolverhampton County Council.
We are embracing Black History Month beyond the confines of a single month. Our intention is for Black History Month to transcend seasonality and 'tokenism’ so that the original initiative itself is eventually no longer required.