Cave Hill Campus & UNEARTE partner to promote cultural exchange
22 November 2022
The UWI Cave Hill Campus has entered into a new partnership with the National Experimental University of the Arts (UNEARTE) of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela as part of its plans to increase cultural education, training and artistic collaboration.
The two institutions signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Tuesday, November 22, which solidified the framework for cooperation in the fields of arts and culture.
Under the agreement both parties will promote the exchange of students, professors, researchers, and artists in the fields of performing and audiovisual arts, music, dance, theatre, and museums.
Addressing the event at the Jacqueline Wade Conference Room, Principal of the Cave Hill Campus, Professor Clive Landis said this new agreement will contribute to the cultural enrichment of both institutions.
“We eagerly look forward to the cultural and artistic exchanges between our students, faculty and staff, and their counterparts at UNEARTE. We know that this partnership will nurture wide-ranging knowledge and training, and artistic pursuit and practice in all its forms, methodologies and expressions.
“In particular, we hope, with the assistance of UNEARTE to strengthen our current pedagogy in the various disciplines with the training of arts professionals in Music, Theatre, Dance, Audio-Visual Arts and Arts Education, and in the innumerable studies of culture,” Landis said.
Principal of UNEARTE, Dr. Tibisay Lucena, said her institution was proud to partner with the Cave Hill Campus.
“We are honoured that this instrument of cooperation is being signed today with an institution of the importance of The University of the West Indies and in particular with the Faculty of Culture, Creative and Performing Arts, whose Dean, Professor David Akombo, has been an enthusiastic and active promoter of this project.
“We are also honoured that it is with Barbados, for its more than half a century of independence and recent conversion to a Constitutional Republic, under the leadership of its Prime Minister Mia Mottley, and for the inauguration almost a year ago of its first female President, Dame Sandra Mason,” Dr. Lucena stated.
Professor Akombo also welcomed the signing, saying that his faculty, the campus’s newest, remains committed to contributing to the social, cultural and creative economies of the people of Barbados and the wider Caribbean. He also noted several opportunities for the further development of students.
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