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Dear Friends and Colleagues
In less than a month our partners will be taking over Regent's Place to bring you Thoughfest, the Knowledge Quarter's free public festival, running from the 1–6 October and featuring a packed programme of music, workshops, activities, debates and poetry. Our theme of wellbeing and sustainability has inspired some unmissable ideas and installations from our partners, destined to be over-subscribed. Thankfully there is a way to get early access to the programme and event listings! Sign up to our festival mailing list and receive special offers, news and exclusives.
Engaging with the local public in interesting and meaningful ways is something to which our partners certainly aspire. To this end, we conceived of Community Champions, a series of networking events bringing partners together with charities and community groups. Our next event on the theme of Youth, which takes place on 27 September and is hosted by Regent High School. More on this below.
What you won't find below is a Poem of the Month, for the best laid schemes of mice and men gang oft agley. I'm sure the greatest marketing minds have at some point likened a newsletter without a poem to a boat without a paddle. Rather than drown everyone with my own verse, we are instead highlighting a visually poetic and striking exhibition opening this month, brought to us by Arts Catalyst.
Whisper it, the Knowledge Bank, our bespoke social network for knowledge sharing, will one day be the first resource you turn to for help with your next idea, your next invention, your next collaboration ... you name it, the Knowledge Bank will provide. It's the future, so why not join the platform today?
Many thanks for your support and interest in the Knowledge Quarter. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @KQ_London, Instagram and Facebook for the latest news and announcements.
With best wishes
Knowledge Quarter Team
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News
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What Green Great Britain Week means for KQ
To champion sustainability in Knowledge Quarter organisations during the inaugural Green Great Britain Week, the Knowledge Quarter, in conjunction with Camden Climate Change Alliance, is hosting a discussion to share sustainability advice and best practice.
Join us in October and hear from local leading organisations and experts to make a change for the greener in your institution.
18 October 2018 at the British Library, RSVP
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Guest Post: Crafts Council Craft Journeys
Despite evidence that job opportunities in the craft sector will continue to grow, the schools that Crafts Council work with say that students and their parents often worry that pursuing a creative subject might not lead to a job.
Challenging this misconception is a real challenge for the creative industries. A first step for the Crafts Council is our Craft Journeys series: a set of career profiles exploring different routes into the craft sector.
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KQ Labs: A new eco-system of data-driven start-ups set to revolutionize healthcare
Knowledge Quarter and The Francis Crick Institute are pleased to announce KQ Labs, an intensive accelerator programme offered to start-ups in the area of data-driven biomedical science.
KQ Labs will offer a customised development framework with a 16-week accelerator programme, including workshops and training in transferable skills, to create future digital health leaders. Innovate UK are offering £40k investment to each start-up.
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LRB special offer for students in the Knowledge Quarter
Get essays from some of the world’s best writers on literature, politics, history and art.
The London Review of Books is offering students the chance to subscribe for just £4.99 a month – this includes access through the app and to the online archive.
One of Europe’s leading magazines of books and ideas, The London Review of Books is a space for the world’s best known writers to interrogate important and interesting ideas in exhilarating detail.
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Events
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Community Champions
27 September 2018 at Regent High School,
15:00-17:00
We warmly invite you to attend the next event in our Community Champions series, a unique programme of networking events, providing Knowledge Quarter partners, charities and community groups across Camden and Islington with the opportunity to make the connections that matter.
Our first event on the theme of environment was a great success. This second event on 27 September will cover the theme of Youth, including early years, primary, secondary education, youth and family programmes.
A third event is slated for October on the theme of Wellbeing, and will be hosted by the British Museum. More information will be shared next month.
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21st Century STEAM pledge
18 September 2018 at Crick Institute,
16:30-18.30
Camden Council is calling on Knowledge Quarter members to sign their 21st Century Talent Pledge, which enables employers to support schools and develop a diverse talent pool of young people with the creative, digital and scientific skills to flourish in Camden’s 21st century economy.
Signing the pledge means committing to at least one employee becoming a STEAM Ambassador, alongside two activities from a menu of other options, with a range of support and recognition offered to employers who sign up.
The Pledge launches on 18 September with a reception of drinks and talks at the Francis Crick Institute. RSVP here.
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Private View: Picturing Forgotten London
11 October 2018 at London Metropolitan Archives
9:00-10:00
The Knowledge Quarter is pleased to invite our members to another private view, this time we are giving you the chance of a morning tour around the intriguing new exhibition at the London Metropolitan Archives.
London is a restless city, ever changing and evolving. Cranes and building sites crowd the landscape as new buildings rise. Yet traces of our forgotten past peep through on almost every street, whether intentionally preserved or incidentally left behind.
From coaching inns to horse markets, riverside mansions to ragged schools, images created by a wide variety of artists, antiquarians and organisations will appear together for the first time to tell the story of London’s forgotten buildings.
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Open House weekend in the Knowledge Quarter
22–23 September
No less than 12 of our partners open their doors to the public for Open House, 2018. From Georgian terraces to twenty-first century masterworks, step inside those beautiful and awesome buildings you walk by on your route to work.
Aga Khan Centre - N1C 4DN
Birkbeck - WC1H 0PD
City, University of London - EC1V 4PB
Conway Hall - WC1R 4RL
London Metropolitan Archives - EC1R 0HB
Francis Crick Institute - NW1 1AT
Regent High School - NW1 1RX
Royal College of Physicians - NW1 4LE
Royal College of General Practitioners - NW1 2FB
Senate House - WC1E 7HU
UCL Pathology Museum - NW3 2PF
Wellcome Trust - NW1 2BE
Wiener Library - WC1B 5DP
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Exhibition of the Month
Tuguldur Yondonjamts at Arts Catalyst
An Artificial Nest Captures a King + Investigations into the Darkest Dark
Crop circles and crocodiles are some of the arresting images that make up Mongolian artist Tuguldur Yondonjamts's exploration into the fantastical stories and myths surrounding objects and practices from Mongolian history to our modern globally-connected culture. The artist is in residence at Arts Catalyst's Centre for Art, Science and Technology during September and October 2018, undertaking research and creating an evolving exhibition of work.
In the exhibition, Yondonjamts presents real, imagined, and interpreted landscapes through a variety of media. Key to understanding his work is the nomadic culture of Central Asia and its collision with the modern world. These themes and symbols are evident in the film that forms part of the exhibition, An Artificial Nest Captures a King, in which the artist enters and animates a fossilized crocodile and, in a Soviet-era car, journeys from artificial falcons’ nests on the Mongolian Steppes to the Gobi Desert.
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Opening reception: Wednesday 19 September, 18:30-20:30
Thereafter: open Thursday–Saturday, 12:00-18:00
Arts Catalyst Centre, WC1H 8DR
Admission free
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Become a Knowledge Quarter Partner
Partnership of the Knowledge Quarter is open to organisations within a one-mile radius of St Pancras that actively engage in the advancement and dissemination of knowledge.
For more information about costs and benefits please follow this link or contact Jodie Eastwood via email or on 020 7412 7116.
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