Past events

Past Oxford Brookes University events

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Creative Industries Festival: Celebrity Culture Club: Screenwriting, Striking & Celebrity Culture

26 April 2024 - 26 April 2024

Explore the relationship between screenwriting and celebrity culture, including what the SAG-AFTRA writers strikes can tell us about power and change in the entertainment industry.

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Creative Industries Festival: The Woods Metaphor & Suppression of Female Voice in the Digital World

26 April 2024 - 26 April 2024

India Lawton delves into the metaphorical "woods of experience" within the digital realm, revealing traditional anxieties, dark recesses, and modern-day trolls reminiscent of fairy tales.

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Creative Industries Festival: An ABC of the Poetry Pamphlet: Adventure, Beauty, Challenge

26 April 2024 - 26 April 2024

Join a stimulating panel discussion on the value of the thriving shorter form of poetry publishing - the pamphlet.

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Creative Industries Festival: Surreal Queer Utopias

26 April 2024 - 26 April 2024

Fine artist Simon Foxall reflects on the ways queer artists disrupt the status quo, surrealism, reimagining society and its power relations.

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Humanature

25 April 2024 - 25 April 2024

Second Year BA Fine Art End of Year Exhibition.

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Creative Industries Festival: Oxford African Caribbean Histories on Screen

25 April 2024 - 25 April 2024

Screening of ‘Spaces We Made Our Own’ and discussion with creative lead Reuel-Eli James on film as a vital tool for telling and celebrating Oxford’s African Caribbean (hi)stories.

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Creative Industries Festival: Visual Futures: Power, Change, Identity, Representation & Persuasion

25 April 2024 - 25 April 2024

Learn about emergent trends for the future of media, technology, storytelling, world building and meaning making with Dr Bridget Dalton.

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The Kaleidoscopic Views of New Labour: Modern Public Policy as Mosaic, Collage, or “Assemblage."

25 April 2024 - 25 April 2024

Join us for this History Work-In-Progress seminar with Professor Glen O’Hara.

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Creative Industries Festival: Citizenship and Activism: Campaigning Skills Workshop

25 April 2024 - 25 April 2024

An interactive session with Laura Coryton for those who see inequalities like sexism, racism and other prejudices and want to know what they can do about it.

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Decolonising the Archive: Power and Change in the Cultural Heritage Sector

24 April 2024 - 24 April 2024

Join us for this Creative Industries open lecture, delivered by artist Faisal Hussain.