Bern University of the Arts celebrates its tenth anniversary
The BUA is celebrating its birthday this year with special activities. Among other things, it is launching its own newspaper. At the corresponding media conference, Thomas Beck, Director of the HKB, also presented Andi Schoon and Thomas Strässle, the two new directors of the Y Institute.
The Y Institute for Transdisciplinarity has firmly anchored the idea of interdisciplinary work at HKB. The new management team would like to use the consolidation phase to focus the interdisciplinary studies even more specifically on the needs of the students, to promote the exchange between research and teaching at the BUA and to further strengthen the interdisciplinary Master's degree program Contemporary Arts Practice (CAP). The Y Institute is also involved in expanding the strategic partnership with Tongji University in Shanghai.
HKB students and lecturers, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, jazz musician Django Bates, conductor Xavier Roth and Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller will be among those taking part in the anniversary events.
The new HKB newspaper will be published for the first time at the end of May as a supplement to the Berner Zeitung and the "Bund". It will subsequently be published every two months, covering topics related to the BUA and providing a clear agenda of BUA events.
On September 1, 2003, the School of Music and Theatre and the School of Art, Design and Conservation merged under the umbrella of the Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH to form the Bern University of the Arts BUA. The institution currently has around 850 students and 500 employees from 30 nations. With over 500 events per year, the HKB is also one of the largest cultural organizers in the Canton of Bern.
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