LU Arts

Throughout the academic year, LU Arts offers a variety of opportunities to explore, participate in, and enjoy the arts.

In addition to the opportunities highlighted below, look out for one-off creative competitions where students can win prizes and have their work showcased.

London Arts Map

There is a rich and varied arts and cultural offer in the area surrounding the London campus. To help you find out what’s on offer, LU Arts has produced an illustrated arts map and guide to the local area.

Pick up your copy of the London arts map from reception or look out for a copy in your induction bag when you start at the University.

Do you have a creative skill that you could teach to others? Would you like to run your own arts workshop and earn money? Student arts workers receive free training in how to run successful arts workshops. On completion of this training, you will be added to the pool of arts workers who may be booked by LU Arts or other partners within the University to run an arts workshop for other students or staff. You will be paid for any arts workshops you run!

Are you a budding musician, writer, performer, or visual artist outside of your studies or research? The annual Arts and Music Scholarships recognise, reward and develop talent in any art form.

The scholarships are open to postgraduate taught and postgraduate research students. Each scholar receives a £200 cash prize and up to £500 in additional funding to help develop their talent further. This could be in the form of tuition, mentoring, subscriptions/memberships or purchasing specialist equipment. The deadline for 2025/26 scholarships is in late October.

LU Arts’ events programme features occasional online events, which may include artist talks, discussion events and short artist screenings. Most of these online events are part of Radar – the contemporary art commissioning programme run by LU Arts. Radar invites artists to produce new work in response to research that is taking place across the University’s two campuses. Online events are open to all.

Loughborough University library staff run a Book Club, which meets approximately every six weeks. The meetings are hosted in Pilkington Library in Loughborough but are hybrid meetings that any student or staff member can join. Meetings are advertised on the LU Arts’ ‘What’s On’ page.

LU Arts supports partners in London, such as the Student Experience Team, who deliver events and activities on campus. We fund arts materials and help come up with creative ideas! Students can also apply for funding for an arts event of their own.