Creative Campus, Kingsway, Chester

You will be surrounded by inspiration and like-minded students and staff at our Creative Campus, home to the CASC gallery space, our courtyard performance area, open access computer suites, a 200-seat lecture theatre, and designated seminar spaces featuring iMacs and projection facilities. There is also a well-stocked library and learning resource centre, study areas, and a café with its own Starbucks outlet. The creative atmosphere and the outstanding art, design, performance and production facilities will enable you to be your creative best, making connections and building networks that will support you through your studies and beyond. Within the departments, skilled technical staff manage an extensive equipment loan provision where you can borrow a large range of cameras, lighting, audio recording kits and more.

Creative Campus, Kingsway, boasts some impressive performance-based facilities including extensively equipped rehearsal and performance studios, an outdoor amphitheatre with a sprung floor, professional standard music rehearsal and recording studios, and an extensive range of high-quality open access sound and lighting equipment. With facilities like these, you’ll have all you need to flourish as a performer or producer.

If you are an art or design-based student, you will explore your subject in specialist studios and workshop spaces that reflect professional environments. Our highly skilled academic and technical staff are on hand to support the use of traditional and modern facilities and technologies. Virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D and digital printing and 360 filming, sit alongside traditional printmaking, dark room photography, metal, resin and plaster casting, stop motion animation, lighting studios, domestic and industrial sewing facilities and much, much more.