Tuesday 7th December 6.30pm
RCA Café Kensington
In response to widespread budget cuts by the Coalition government, students at the Royal College of Art are holding a late-night skill-sharing event at the College’s Student Union café in Kensington from 6.30pm on Tuesday, 7th December. A cold snap of unprecedented cuts to arts and humanities education and a proposed rise in tuition fees is upon us. As artists and educators, the land before us lies wasted and frozen. Unless we unite and fight.
The evening will open up networks and collaborative efforts by students, staff and artists – marry up thinkers and doers, join working hands with working solutions. A parliamentary vote on whether to lift the cap on university fees is set for Thursday, 9th December. The time for debate is over. We all know where we stand. We all know what we stand to lose. We need to resist. Now.
The Royal College of Art is the UK’s only postgraduate art institution. Its reputation is unparalleled – its teachers are masters in their craft and it draws its students from all walks of life. Uncapping university fees will put the College’s unique culture and legacy out of reach to all but the wealthiest students. Studying for an MA at the RCA is serious business. If the Coalition gets its way, it will just be a business.
Add your voice, bring big ideas. We know it’s bloody cold outside – warm us with the heat of political anger, not hot air. Come ready for action, not reaction.
artsagainstcuts 
a great and important action..wish I could be there.
keep on keeping on.
RCA Society Debate – Art Education
The RCA Society will be launching a further “From Floor to Sky” ‘www.fromfloortosky.org.uk’ debate as part of the Society’s celebration of the 40th anniversary of the student action ‘RCA Re-Defined’ (‘Yellow Paper’ 1970) and our ongoing series of discussions about the future of art and art education – ‘Fine art & design education is dying’ 1992. The Society supports all actions that questions art and design practice and its education.
Full support and would be there if I hadn’t an emergency, frozen in and just sorted, but not enough time to get across London now,,,would do well to consider what we did in 1971 with RCA-Redefined, it needs re-defination even more, particularly in this crisis which wont be solved by making the people pay for the crimes of capital…it’s in our hands, the only bog society, is the community of shared interest, the common cause of humanity against the parasites that exploit us, education is for liberation, not to provide factory fodder, even in the state ideological apparatuses…let me know how it’s going, how long and when I can come in and discuss the relationship of the events of 1971 to now?
…that should have read “big” but bog, is probably right…..