For the second annual Culture, Media & Creative Industries (CMCI) Winter Festival, we chose the theme, Reflections of Multi-Selves, to reflect the multiplicitous identities, ideas, and media that will be explored through the 15 events CMCI students have organised. From Vision 1829’s daring multi-media exhibition about the neo-colonial and neoliberal sentiments that still haunt King’s College London’s branding to Emotion Spectrum's artistic workshop focusing on expressing emotions through visuals, we hope people will gain new angles of multiple cultures, identities, and ideologies that coexist without being told what is right/wrong to feel and think from our festival. 

 

As such, we envision creating an experience of non-hierarchical, non-linear, “rhizomatic” (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987) existence for the audience during the festival. In other words, we aim to de-centre the notions of mono-perspective and hierarchical thinking that still silently inhabit our cultures by emphasising the multiplicity of our course through this festival. In order to achieve such an ambitious vision, we implement a respectful, flat, multi-perspective organisational model in the production of the festival. Moreover, we encourage the audience to interact with the events (and the organisers) outwardly and reflect on themselves inwardly.