Arts and Festivals Management (Joint Honours) (Hons) De Montfort University

Overview

Key facts to study the Arts and Festivals Management (Joint Honours) (Hons) BA course at De Montfort University

• Links with the Leicester Comedy Festival have provided students with the opportunity to organise and run a venue, manage the acts and promote events. The festival founder is DMU alumnus Geoff Rowe. 

• In your final year you can be part of the team producing, programming and running the high-profile annual  Cultural Exchanges Festival. Previous events have featured inspiring guests such as Benjamin Zephaniah, Grayson Perry, and Meera Syal. 

• Gain meaningful international experience through DMU Global. Students have benefited from trips to Amsterdam, and New York, where they saw a rehearsal and behind-the-scenes of Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Manhattan’s Lincoln Center. 

• Valuable real-life experience is offered though a placement module with a professional organisation. Students have previously worked with the Joseph Papp Public Theatre in New York, Universal Music, Curve theatre and Glastonbury Festival. 

• Our graduates are highly practical individuals who are equipped with business planning, engagement and delivery skills, which are hugely attractive in the arts sector. Graduates hold key positions across a wide range of industries and roles, including The Barbican, Ballet Rambert, Wembley Arena and the BBC. 

Graduate careers

• Our graduates are highly practical individuals who are equipped with business planning, engagement and delivery skills - all hugely attractive to employers in the arts sector. Many go on to forge successful careers in music, theatre, TV, film, charity sectors, community arts organisations and education.   
• Recent graduate destinations include the South Bank Centre, Save the Children, the prestigious Ambassador Theatre Group, the National Theatre and Arts Council England.