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Hello

Welcome to our Student Voice Festival 2026 Homepage!

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Across two weeks you will have the opportunity to meet your peers and share your thoughts and experiences on being a student at OCA. You will hear from Operational and Academic staff and take part in a variety of activities and events. 

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The Programme can be downloaded here or viewed below.​

6 - 17 July 2026

We hope you get involved!

If you have any questions or concerns please email studyevents@oca.ac.uk

Save Your Spot

  • Thu 16 Jul
    Online Talk
    16 Jul 2026, 09:30 – 10:30
    Online Talk
    Join OCA Alumna Sharon Butler for this event. Part of our Student Voice Festival 2026.
  • Thu 16 Jul
    Online Event
    16 Jul 2026, 12:00 – 14:00
    Online Event
    What does it mean to analyse a work of art, and how can this process inform and enrich your own creative practice? Part of our Student Voice Festival 2026.
  • Thu 16 Jul
    Online Performance
    16 Jul 2026, 18:00 – 18:45
    Online Performance
    Join us for an evening of music featuring performances and presentations from students on OCA's BA (Hons) Music programme. Part of our Student Voice Festival 2026.
  • Fri 17 Jul
    Online Event
    17 Jul 2026, 14:00 – 15:00
    Online Event
    Join us for this event facilitated by Andrew Conroy. The people at the 'table' will offer their take on the AI revolution, before turning everything over to the audience. Part of our Student Voice Festival 2026.
  • Wed 15 Jul
    Online Event
    15 Jul 2026, 18:00 – 19:00
    Online Event
    Hear from OCA students on their experience of attending OCA Governance Groups. Part of our Student Voice Festival 2026.
  • Wed 15 Jul
    Online event
    15 Jul 2026, 14:30 – 15:30
    Online event
    Since graduating with BA (hons) in Photography at OCA, Sarah Jane Field has followed a hugely dynamic and eclectic path, and describing her as ‘a photographer’ wouldn’t do justice to her range of interests. Part of our Student Voice Festival 2026.
  • Wed 15 Jul
    Online Event
    15 Jul 2026, 12:30 – 13:30
    Online Event
    For this year’s OCASA Summer of Sustainability a group of participating tutors, from across OCA courses, is going to hold an online ‘round-table’ discussion about what sustainability means to them, their practice or their specialism. Part of our Student Voice Festival 2026.
  • Wed 15 Jul
    Online Workshop
    15 Jul 2026, 11:00 – 12:00
    Online Workshop
    Join OCA Textiles tutor and practitioner, Faye Hall in a relaxed session looking at Dr Edward de Bono’s infamous ‘Six Thinking Hats’ as an approach to critiquing your creative work through 6 different lenses itemised by colours and thinking processes. Part of our Student Voice Festival 2026.
  • Multiple Dates
    Wed 15 Jul
    Online Event
    15 Jul 2026, 09:30 – 10:30
    Online Event
    OCA tutor Nina Milton will introduce (or help you return to) a relaxing and fun way to discover your writing self. Part of our Student Voice Festival 2026.
  • Tue 14 Jul
    Online Talk
    14 Jul 2026, 18:30 – 19:30 BST
    Online Talk
    Join Martin Hoare and Bryan Eccleshall for a presentation and discussion of Martin's BA Hons Drawing graduating work.
  • Tue 14 Jul
    Online Event
    14 Jul 2026, 13:00 – 14:00
    Online Event
    Join OCA's Librarian Richard Cleverley for this event. Part of our Student Voice Festival 2026.
  • Fri 17 Jul
    Online Workshop
    17 Jul 2026, 10:30 – 12:30
    Online Workshop
    This will be a relaxed and fun online session for all students of any discipline to explore how research can fuel your creativity. Part of our Student Voice Festival 2026.

View the highlights of our
OCASA Student Experience Survey 2026

THE OCA STUDENT ASSOCIATION

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