RCA Society

RCA Long Night 'Stop the cuts'

Tuesday 7th December 6.30pm
RCA Café Kensington
In response to widespread budget cuts by the Coalition government, students at the Royal College of Art are holding a late-night skill-sharing event at the College’s Student Union café in Kensington from 6.30pm on Tuesday, 7th December. A cold snap of unprecedented cuts to arts and humanities education and a proposed rise in tuition fees is upon us. As artists and educators, the land before us lies wasted and frozen. Unless we unite and fight. The evening will open up networks and collaborative efforts by students, staff and artists – marry up thinkers and doers, join working hands with working solutions. A parliamentary vote on whether to lift the cap on university fees is set for Thursday, 9th December. The time for debate is over. We all know where we stand. We all know what we stand to lose. We need to resist. Now

RCA Society Debate – Art Education
The RCA Society will be launching a further “From Floor to Sky” ‘www.fromfloortosky.org.uk’ debate as part of the Society’s celebration of the 40th anniversary of the student action ‘RCA Re-Defined’ (‘Yellow Paper’ 1970) and our ongoing series of discussions about the future of art and art education – ‘Fine art & design education is dying’ 1992. The Society supports all actions that questions art and design practice and its education.