2025 / 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the launch of Community Arts undergraduate programme at Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. Since the programme recruited its first students in 1995, many hundreds of LIPA alumni have gone to enthuse, inspire and engage people in the arts, culture and creativity from all over the world, as a result of the practice and practitioners they encountered in their time at LIPA.
To mark this anniversary, ex-students and staff are organising a reunion for their peers and other interested colleagues to be held between 8 and 10 August 2025 at LIPA itself and across Liverpool. This reunion will coincide with the publication of “The Not-the-Reunion Reunion Anthology”, produced by Nick Owen Publishing (NOP) to mark the anniversary and which will contain memories, reflections and provocations from those students and staff who contributed to the development of the programme all those years ago.
The organisers of the reunion now want to invite artists, educators, policy makers, arts development workers, students – anyone and everyone – to submit an essay which provides a perspective and provocation on the history and future of community arts practice.
Three winning essays will be published in “The Not-the-Reunion Reunion Anthology: one of those essays will also win a £500 prize. The three winning writers will also be invited to read out their work at the reunion weekend.
You can download the application pack here:
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