What Universities have done for us

12 April 2012

London's universities are joining forces to make public their unsung contribution to the capital's thriving cultural life.

Nine institutions including the University of the Arts, King's College and Birkbeck will invite the public to a festival showcasing what they do.

Poet Andrew Motion and author Blake Morrison will take part in events during the week-long Inside Out Festival from 19 October. There will be about 40 concerts, workshops and talks on subjects from portraiture to contemporary attitudes towards the Holocaust.

Sally Taylor, director of the London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange, which is hosting the festival, said: "There are a lot of really interesting things that the universities are contributing to London life that most people are unaware of."

A curtain-raiser will take place on 12 October with Michael Portillo chairing a debate at Kings Place entitled "Art: what's it good for?"

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