BA Arts with Community

Programme Overview

BA Arts with Community is a three-year programme for artists who want to explore performing and/or production arts in community contexts. Whether you are a performer, writer, musician, dancer, storyteller, production artist or filmmaker, this programme will encourage you to develop your own artform, facilitation practice and voice, as a socially engaged practitioner.

It is ideal for self-determined learners who are motivated by the positive impact that that the arts can have. Students will investigate the performing and/or production arts creatively, collaboratively, and ethically, with a range of people and settings, all underpinned by practice, theory and research.

We will continue to update the RCS website as the course continuously develops. In the meantime if you would like to know more about studying this programme, please email our Recruitment & Admissions Team: hello@rcs.ac.uk

Applications for BA Arts with Community close on January 29 2025, applications are made via UCAS Conservatoires. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach out to us. Students applying from within the UK will have all the funding available to them as they would for any UK-based university.

Programme Content

BA Arts with Community is a practical course underpinned by theory and full of playful experimentation. Over 3 years, you will broaden and deepen your understanding of what it is to become a community-arts focused practitioner.

You will evolve as a community artist who is imaginative, creative, reflective and who can make change. As a self-determined learner, you will be able to understand people, communicate effectively, and problem-solve. You will learn to design creative projects ethically and sensitively with and for a range of people. By your final year, you will expand your leadership and (creative) autonomy, enabling you to make work in a range of contexts and settings.

Throughout the course, you will gain experience by experimenting in a safe and structured environment. You will explore and evolve ideas, learn to express your opinions and test theories practically.

You will have opportunities to engage with communities, community artists and cultural organisations, developing your own practice playfully, creatively and critically resulting in a developed safer praxis.

With us, you will develop your own artistic voice through exploring the fundamentals of creative, written, visual, spoken, and performed expression in a range of contexts. Our curriculum is playful, interdisciplinary and collaborative in its design.

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Please note, this course is subject to validation. You can still apply for this course while it is being approved.