Cultural eXchanges

Cultural eXchanges

Guest speaker Alastair Campbell - Spin Doctor

Our Cultural eXchanges festival is fast becoming a nationally recognised event and attracts an enviable list of guest speakers, artists and performers.

Organised and run by our Arts Management students each year, this week long event is now in its eighth year.

The majority of the events are free and are open to everyone especially our staff and students.

'Contemporary culture'

It provides a great opportunity for the Faculty to demonstrate the nature of its interests in contemporary culture and to open its doors to everyone in the region.

Previous guests have included:

• Alan Yentob (Creative Director and Presenter)
• Alan Moore (Graphic Novelist)
• Louis de Bernières (author)
• Janet Street-Porter (journalist)
• Alastair Campbell (spin-doctor)
• Andrew Davies (scriptwriter)
• Corin Redgrave (actor)
• Matthew Sweeney (poet)
• Jenny Colgan (chick-lit author)
• Sue Mcgregor (radio presenter)
• Roy Hattersley (politician and author)
• Tony Hawks (novelist)
• Bali Rai (children’s author)
• Cicely Berry OBE (voice director at the RSC)
• Terry Jones (Monty Python actor)
• Germaine Greer (academic and writer)
• Colin Dexter (author of Inspector Morse)
• Sue Townsend (author of The Adrian Mole Diaries)
• Andrew Motion (Poet Laureate)

and many more. 

 For more information see the Cultural eXchanges website.

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