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Welcome to Loughborough!

We'd like to welcome this year's Freshers to Loughborough - and welcome back to all the returning students. Find out more about what we offer and how you can get creative during your time here, no matter what you are studying.
Event

Tableaux Vivant

Join us across multiple campus locations and put on a VR headset. Prepare to be transported through a sequence of unusual spaces, collaged together into a surreal melancholic journey.
Event

Textile Futures: Conscious Communities (exhibition)

A poster exhibition of work by first-year Textile Design students is open from 14 September - 6 October. The brief was to design textile interventions to address problems or challenges faced by specific communities. Image credit: Kathryn Boyd
Opportunity

Arts Scholarships - applications now open

Are you a musician, actor, dancer, writer, artist or film maker? Do you have a talent in any other art form? Why not apply for an Arts Scholarship and take that talent to the next level? £100 cash prize plus support package, open to all students.
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Charnwood Forest Geopark Visiting Artists

Learn about the three UK-based artists given the opportunity to engage with Charnwood Forest Geopark and create engaging responses to the site.
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Performing arts

Find out what's available for you if you’ve an interest in the Performing Arts; from live events and NT Live screenings to performance societies, workshops and scholarships.

Music

Discover our music offer and how you can keep on playing and enjoying music at university; from music tuition and practice rooms to scholarships and societies.

Creative writing and spoken word

Find out about our popular Speech Bubble performance poetry nights, creative writing evening classes and arts scholarships.

Visual arts

Discover the Loughborough University arts collection, sign up to creative evening classes and find out about artists talks and exhibitions on campus.

Get involved

Explore the different ways you can get involved in the arts, whatever your level of interest and ability; with student societies and groups, evening classes, one-off workshops and discussion events.

Scholarships and funding

Learn about our annual arts scholarships, with cash prizes and tuition/mentoring, as well as student arts grants to fund your own creative projects and events.

Facilities

Find out where you can perform, rehearse and enjoy arts activities on campus.

Arts collection

Discover the university arts collection and its history, with artworks and public sculptures dotted around campus.

Radar

Our contemporary art programme, working with artists and Loughborough University academics to create new encounters between art and research.