Stimulating and diverse, Arts and Festival Management offers exciting career opportunities in the cultural and creative industries. You'll gain practical, theoretical and professional skills required to successfully manage cultural and artistic activity in a variety of fields and organisations. Combining creative, management and academic skills, you’ll learn to debate ideas in culture and society, interpret financial statements and government arts policy. You’ll undertake a placement module working at an arts organisation or festival in the UK or abroad. Past placements have included:

Work placements and practical projects are embedded at every stage to ensure you acquire practical and professional skills. This course has an excellent employment record; students have gone on to work in artistic programming, education, policy, marketing, press, events, fundraising and administration. Graduates are working at prestigious institutions including: AEG Live Anna Freud Centre BBC British Museum Camden Arts Centre Dulwich Picture Gallery Glastonbury Festival Great Ormond Street Hospital Haven Hospices London Symphony Orchestra NACRO English National Ballet School National Theatre Open City Oval House Theatre Sadler’s Wells Wellcome Trust Many students begin successful teaching careers on graduating from the degree and others progress to further study at MA and PHD level in a range of subject areas. LSBU is committed to supporting you develop your employability and succeed in getting a job after you have graduated. Your qualification will certainly help, but in a competitive market you also need to work on your employability, and on your career search. Our Employability Service will support you in developing your skills, finding a job, interview techniques, work experience or an internship, and will help you assess what you need to do to get the job you want at the end of your course. LSBU offers a comprehensive Employability Service, with a range of initiatives to complement your studies, including: direct engagement from employers who come in to interview and talk to students Job Shop and on-campus recruitment agencies to help your job search mentoring and work shadowing schemes.