Music
The University’s lively and
diverse music scene is
tremendously popular with
the local community.
Audiences across all age
groups flock to the
lunchtime and evening
concerts, jazz, opera,
orchestra and choral
events, not forgetting the
student union’s club nights.
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Exhibitions
The University’s rich
programme of exhibitions
including the Duncan of
Jordanstone Annual
Degree Show adds a real
buzz to the city’s cultural
quarter. From the most
contemporary of art to
fossils from the
extraordinary eclectic
museum collections, there
is always something
interesting on view. Last
year the Cooper Gallery
alone registered 21,000
visits - an average of 140
per day.
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Dundee Book Prize
Scotland’s biggest book
prize - the £6,000 Dundee
Book Prize launched by
the University and the City
of Discovery Campaign -
has stimulated tremendous
interest locally and
nationally. An impressive
clutch of new novels
published as a result has
launched several new
writing careers. For the
second competition
unpublished novels on the
theme "discovery" are
invited by 31 August 2001.
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Scottish Design Awards
The School of Design
picked up two awards at
this year’s Scottish Design
Awards which attracted
over 400 entries. One of
the superb new facilities at
the University’s Visual
Research Centre within
Dundee Contemporary
Arts - the Scottish Artists’
Book Centre - won the
product Design Award for
the two members of staff
involved in its design,
Roland Ashcroft and
Jeanette Paul.
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Cultural Quarter
The University has helped to create
the ‘cultural quarter’ of the city based
on the Contemporary Arts Centre
and Rep Theatre. This artistic role
extends beyond the local community.
Nigel Johnson, School of Television
and Imaging, was invited by the
National Museum of Photography,
Film and Television in Bradford to
create an entrance work for its
‘Wired Worlds’ gallery that has
subsequently won the Design Year
2000 Award. Intriguingly the ‘Digital
Gateway’ mimics visitors’ shapes and
movements as silhouettes of pixelated
points of light (see front cover).
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