This course is designed to enable you to develop a career in the arts and festivals sector but also combine your studies with either Dance or Drama. Reasons to study Arts and Festivals Management (Joint Honours) at DMU Arts and Festivals Management is the longest running degree course of its kind in the UK (established in 1979) with an excellent reputation for the quality of its graduates amongst employers in the industry The course has excellent links to the industry giving you top quality teaching from industry practitioners as well as invaluable opportunities for volunteering and internships You will have the opportunity to organise and run your own venue within the Leicester Comedy Festival, and then run the nationally recognised week-long Cultural Exchanges festival Joint honours degree courses allow you to study two different subjects, 50% of one subject and 50% of another You will draw on a range of interdisciplinary skills from teamwork, marketing and management theory, to fundraising, business planning, licensing, health and safety, programming and cultural policy. The course equips you with the practical tools and skills to become leaders within the cultural arena in theatres, music venues, galleries, museums, festivals and many more.

There are many career opportunities open to our graduates. You might work in a building-based arts organisation. For example our graduate Hayley White is now director of Hoxton Hall in London. You may be more interested in working in a freelance capacity, perhaps staging one-off events or festivals like our graduate Gareth Hughes who has set up his own successful events management company, or working for a large festival organisation as Laura Hellard did with Glastonbury. You might want to be involved with developing and implementing policy on a strategic level like our graduate Katie Smith who was appointed events co-ordinator for the Culture Company, helping to deliver the programme for Liverpool ‘08 Capital of Culture. The diverse opportunities that will be open to you on graduation do have one thing in common: they demonstrate that our graduates are desirable professionals who are successfully meeting the challenges of a dynamic sector.