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Guildhall's energy was so unique and captivating… you're constantly discovering more versatility, truth, power and imagination in your acting

Amber James
BA Acting 2015

Amber James
The teachers are experienced, passionate, supportive and down to the very core committed to your growth as an actor

Nicholas Richardson
MA Acting 2016

Nicholas Richardson
At Guildhall, they don't hold your hand, but they're going to push you to become the actor that you want to be.

Daniel Adeosun
BA Acting

Daniel Adeosun
Studying at Guildhall is really cool because you are in a setting where the arts are valued by an entire community

Natasha Mbwana
BA Performance & Creative Enterprise

Natasha Mbwana
One of the best things about PACE is it's very experiential - you are not just thinking about the theory of it but you are actually putting in the work and you get to experience both sides of it.

Natasha Mbwana
BA Performance & Creative Enterprise

Natasha Mbwana
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BA Performance & Creative Enterprise

Guildhall School’s pioneering BA (Hons) Performance and Creative Enterprise (PACE) programme was established in 2015 as a joint initiative between Guildhall and the Barbican, through their shared Creative Learning division. Its aim was to train visionary, socially engaged, multi-disciplinary, autonomous artists. 

From the outset, the programme was closely aligned with the rapidly shifting UK arts industry and students were empowered to enter the industry with confidence upon graduation and disrupt pre-existing structural hierarchies, forging a more inclusive, collaborative industry for the future. 

PACE is a highly representative programme, training artists from a diverse range of socio-economic backgrounds; gender identities; ethnicities and sexualities. Its students are resilient, politically engaged and highly skilled in a variety of different disciplines, including theatre, music, film, dance, poetry and performance art. The students are supported by a world-class team of teachers and visiting artists who all work regularly in the professional industry.

In July 2021, PACE will close in its existing format to allow for new courses to be designed that will take forward PACE’s ground-breaking work within the School. These new courses will sit at the heart of Guildhall’s developing work around interdisciplinary; socially engaged and collaborative arts practice. 

Photo - Ali Wright
Photo - Ali Wright

Of Shadow and Light

Of Shadow and Light – a title inspired by a line from June Jordan’s poem Big City Happening – is a richly diverse festival of innovative, poetic and politically resonant performance works, created and performed by the graduating PACE class of 2021. 

Photo - Ali Wright
Guildhall PACE students in barican

Chapters Festival

In October 2020, the graduating BA PACE class of 2020 presented an eclectic festival of brand-new performance. From immersive soundscapes to spoken word and rap theatre, and from experimental short films to stand-up comedy, Chapters celebrated the plurality, politics and ferocious power of PACE.