The Culture Unit is a unit under the Culture Center, Universitas Trisakti’s Office of International Affairs, Cooperation, and Culture. The Culture Unit serves as a coaching service regarding the nation’s culture to the campus (internal). It is socially educative for students, lecturers, and employees. Moreover, it also functions as an external service (external), that is, the public service for people outside the campus.

Building a national culture requires a long-term direction. Educated and trained academics realize culture to become supporters of the nation’s culture. Thus, the target of cultural development primarily includes the development of the nation, which means the realization of a prominent and competitive national character, and cares about high morality. It is expected that this cultural service can develop creativity and innovation in science, technology, and art by activating the “left brain” (language) and “right-brain” (art, music, creativity), which will form the “soft skills” of campus residents in Universitas Trisakti.

The Culture Unit functions to produce products that appear aesthetically pleasing (glowing) on the surface but are shallow in ‘messages’ (meaningless). In addition, from works of art, it is required to be able to lift symbolic values that play a role in evoking feelings (emotions). Emotional values are expressions of taste conveyed through works of art. In the process of art creation, all of these symbolic values are commonly portrayed in the word ‘expression.’ The media are very broad and diverse. It can be in the form of fine art, design (applied art), as well as motion and sound language (performance art). In essence, every human being, regardless of scientific background, including exact sciences, can express expressions (thoughts and feelings) that contain aesthetic and symbolic values through various media. However, what makes the difference is the level. This difference is influenced by birth factors and life experiences from the environment.

Guidance by the environment, in this case, the Culture Unit, is the key to success in increasing art appreciation for those who do not have an innate nature. The benefits of fostering the ability to express will positively impact taste, character, and behavior sensitivity. Moreover, they will activate the right brain.

Function of Culture (Unit)

1. Bridging artistic and cultural cooperation between Universitas Trisakti and various institutions, ministries, institutions, and embassies. For example:
2. Exhibition of Masks and Paintings in Cooperation with the Embassy;
3. Screening of Cooperation Films with Embassies;
4. Music and Dance Performances in Cooperation with the Embassy.
5. Serves as a forum for Summer Camp activities held by various overseas universities that wish to cooperate with Universitas Trisakti.
6. Help increases the creativity of campus residents in facing their retirement via the art training (batik making courses, recycling goods courses, drawing courses, painting courses, etc.), so that they can be useful for the lives of retirees in the future.
7. Help increase the creativity of campus residents in the campus environment.
8. Dance: includes traditional and modern dance types. (a tradition in the sense of various regional dance types), while modern in the sense of national/international contemporary dance.
9. Musical arts: regional music and international music.
10. Vocal arts: training for “solo” and “choral” types.