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Workshops led by ROOTS Foundation
https://le.ac.uk/anglophone-caribbean/outputs/roots-foundation-workshops
Description of youth spoken word workshops led by ROOTS Foundation for the AHRC-funded collaborative project 'Representing Gender-Based Violence: Literature, Performance and Activism in the Anglophone Caribbean'.
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Big Band raise the bar
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/big-band-raise-the-bar
Talented students making up the University’s Big Band have wowed crowds and judges alike with their performances at the National Festival of Music for Youth.
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Desert Island Discs more than just a resource for good music
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/desert-island-discs-more-than-just-a-resource-for-good-music
On Wednesday 16 May Drs Nick Smith and Cathleen Waters from the University’s School of Arts will be discussing the results of their research paper which analyses the radio archives of Desert Island Discs. Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
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24-hour Summer Solstice walking challenge raises funds for refugee project
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/24-hour-summer-solstice-walking-challenge-raises-funds-for-refugee-project
Staff from our School of Arts undertook a 24-hour Summer Solstice walking challenge across Leicestershire in aid of a pioneering new project to resettle a refugee family from Syria to South Leicestershire.
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Leicester PhD student publishes book on traditional British ballads
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/leicester-phd-student-publishes-book-on-traditional-british-ballads
PhD student Kevan Manwaring from our School of Arts is publishing a new book based on his Creative Writing PhD research which will appeal to people passionate about folk music and storytelling.
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Figures from University feature on King Richard III Pall
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/figures-from-university-feature-on-king-richard-iii-pall
Figures from the University of Leicester feature on the pall that covered the coffin of King Richard III. The embroidered funeral pall was revealed at a reception service for the monarch at Leicester Cathedral on 22 March.
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Archaeologists create 3D interactive digital reconstruction of King Richard IIIs grave found under a car park
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/archaeologists-create-3d-interactive-digital-reconstruction-of-king-richard-iii2019s-grave-found-under-a-car-park
Archaeologists who discovered and helped to identify the mortal remains of King Richard III have created a 3D interactive representation of the grave and the skeleton of the king under the car park.
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Eddie Izzard brings Stand up for Europe campaign to campus
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/eddie-izzard-brings-stand-up-for-europe-campaign-to-campus
This event has been cancelled. See here for information. Eddie Izzard today (Monday 23rd May) kicked off a new campaign to visit 31 cities in the next 31 days in a bid to get young people to register for the referendum and vote to stay in Europe.
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Prestigious Japanese documentary features Leicester researchers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/03-nhk-documentary-genomics
Japanese broadcaster NHK will feature the University of Leicester in a documentary show ‘NHK Special’, which will focus on developments in genomics. The documentary will air on Sunday 5 May, with the show attracting audiences in Japan in excess of 10 million people.
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Community Collaboration at Kettles Yard
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/work-placement/community-collaboration-at-kettles-yard
Molly Stock-Duerdoth, MA in Museum Studies (Currently Learning and Engagement Coordinator, Glyndebourne Opera House.) Over the summer, I was lucky enough to have undertaken my placement as Community CoLAB Assistant Curator at Kettle’s Yard.