Event title
- National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (NCACE) Meetup
Location
Date
- Thursday 20 November 2025, 14:00-15:00
Event details
Organised by the National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (NCACE), this event will involve planning and preparation for the second Festival of Cultural Knowledge Exchange due to take place in late-April 2026.
The inaugural NCACE Festival of Cultural Knowledge Exchange was held back in October 2022. Over the course of a week, NCACE hosted 14 online events bringing together hundreds of people on topics including:
- Place-making;
- Culture Compacts;
- Decolonial Heritage Practices;
- Artists in the Academy and Diversity;
- Knowledge Exchange; and
- Broadcasting.
The inaugural Festival presented a great opportunity to showcase ground-breaking cultural collaborative work being undertaken around the country, and to create much needed spaces for dialogue and debate around key themes. NCACE is, therefore, delighted to announce its plan to make the festival a biennial event.
The second Festival of Cultural Knowledge Exchange festival is due to take place in late-April 2026 and will become NCACE's flagship initiative for showcasing collaborative research activities, cultural knowledge exchange and all kinds of partnerships between universities and the arts and cultural sectors.
It is being conceived 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 exchangecontribute to current relevant policy developments; and
- encourage conversation, knowledge-sharing, discussion and debate as well as opportunities for further collaboration development.
The purpose of this event is therefore to provide an opportunity for information exchange and discussion for those engaged in collaborative activities of all kinds between universities and the arts and culture sector who are interested in being involved.
This could take the form of being part of a panel discussion or showcasing an event.
NCACE is also happy to explore platforming or otherwise supporting events that you may wish to curate that connect to the festival theme of cultural knowledge exchange.
It is anticipated that the festival will be of interest to:
- academics working with arts and culture sector partners, including those in the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums);
- arts and culture sector organisations, including those in the GLAM sector who are working with universities;
- research impact and knowledge exchange managers;Local authority culture officers and those engaged in arts/research/community type initiatives; and
- artists and Independent researchers.
As part of the festival, NCACE will also be making a number of small Cultural Knowledge Exchange Future Icons awards to incentivise and reward 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.
To register to attend, please access the National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (NCACE) Meetup.
Organised by the National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (NCACE).