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East Lancashire Creative Industries Development (ELCID)
Business advice and support is available for creative businesses in East Lancashire through ELCID (East Lancashire Creative Industries Development), a support agency that helps creative businesses grow and prosper.
ELCID is a joint initiative between CEA (the Consortium of Enterprise Agencies) and the six local authorities of East Lancashire. The initiative is managed by Hyndburn Enterprise Trust, on behalf of CEA, however, you do not need to be based in Hyndburn to qualify for support. You can operate in any East Lancashire borough.
For more information about ELCID, go to www.elcid.co.uk
One of ELCID's major projects is its Creative Directory, which is used to promote the region's creative talent. Entry in the Directory is free to all creative businesses in East Lancashire. Click here to sign up.
ELCID also supports an information website for creative people in East Lancashire. The website, www.creativityworks.info, features news, courses, funding information, business opportunities and industry links.
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February 2007 |
CreativityWorks News |
No. 4 |
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CreativityWorks News is here to keep you informed with what's new in the creative industries in East Lancashire. It's your newsletter so please keep us up to date with your news, ideas and comment.
The newsletter highlights just a few of the things that are happening in East Lancashire at the moment. For more please visit the website on the links below. |
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CreativityWorks Awards 2007 |
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Application are now open for the 2007 Creativity Awards click here for the link that will take you to the forms. Categories for this years awards are:
Creative Space Award
Creative Learning Award
Creative Innovation & Promotion Award
Creative Development in People Award
Design Business Growth Award
Creative Student Award
The Awards will take place on the 17th of May at the Mechanics in Burnley.
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Design and print of Invitations, programmes and DVD for the biggest Creative Industry Awards Ceremony in Lancashire.
CreativityWorks, East Lancashire's creative industries resource, is holding their third annual awards in May and are seeking a designer for Invitations, programmes and DVD.
We are looking for a quote based on the design and print of 800 invitations, 300 programmes of half A4 size and 12 pages long and also a DVD of which the images will be provided. The purpose of the DVD is to act as projection for the night of the awards and will be of the nominees.
Invitations will be needed by the 23rd of March.
The theme that runs through CreativityWorks is the use of red and this will be a major factor on the night.
To accompany the quote we would also wish to see examples of previous work.
We would be willing to accommodate any in kind sponsorship deals which you may wish to deliver.
Please send through all quotes by the 16th of February to:
Creativityworks@ntlworld.com
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AN EXHIBITION BY HORSE & BAMBOO THEATRE
A selection of unique masks from Horse+Bamboo
1978-2006
January 10 - February 25
At Rossendale Museum
Opening Times
Saturday & Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 1-4pm
Whitaker Park Haslingden Road Rawtenstall BB4 6RE
01706-244682
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Platform Gallery, Clitheroe |
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New Traditions
Platform Gallery
The exhibition features artists who have brought traditional and rural crafts up to date. They are not all rurally based, but all have in common that their work is based on craft methods that once produced items essential to daily life. They have developed their products and methods to find relevance in todays market and lifestyle.
The exhibition includes furniture, textiles, knitting, wickerwork, wrought iron and leather goods...
This exhibition runs from Saturday 20th January until Saturday 3rd March 2007
Are you looking to start a business in the Creative and Digital industries sectors?? Do you want to work in Film and TV, Music, Performance, Radio, New Media, Multimedia, Publishing, Design, Advertising and PR, Architecture, Crafts, Fashion or Photography? If this sounds like you, then Creative Lancashire and CreativityWorks will soon be working with Inspiral, the specialist Creative and Digital Industries business support organisation, to help you get up and running.
We offer a free business diagnostic to assess and help you to refine your business proposition, as well as practical assistance with understanding how best to pitch your products and services to the market.
Want to know more? Contact Jez.rhp@ntlworld.com
or call 01254 660360.
What happens when star-crossed lovers like Romeo and Juliet don't die, but live to fight the world?
This is Charlotte's story. At the age of seventeen she fell in love with an actor, was locked in her bedroom by angry parents, escaped and eloped with her lover to Gretna Green. That was only the beginning of a life packed with adventure. She joined a travelling theatre, tramped all over the northern counties, had seventeen children, lived to the age of ninety and wrote her own story, which was lost for two hundred years.
If you know a good story, which threatens to be lost, we want to hear from you. We are looking for poetry, prose, fact, fiction, and photos depicting and celebrating the lives of people living in rural Cumbria, the North Pennines and Lancashire, who have an amazing tale to share and deserve some recognition of their lives.
More info click here
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Arts Council Funding Seminars
Time: 2 - 4pm
Date: Tuesday 13 February 2007
Venue: Tudor Room, Burnley Mechanics, Burnley
(Now fully booked but please register interest for the future)
Time: 10am - 12pm
Date: Friday 16 February 2007
Venue: Blackburn Central Library, Meeting Room 2, 1st Floor
Time: 10 - 12pm
Date: Friday 23 February 2007
Venue: The Mary Hindle Resource Centre, 12 Bury Road, Haslingden
Arts Council England, North West, national development agency for the arts and lottery distributor is holding an introduction to the Grants for the arts funding programme. Caron Wint, Diversity Officer, based at the North West office in Manchester, who is working with the local authority officers, organisations and networks in East Lancashire to encourage and support BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) individuals and BME-led organisations and groups to raise awareness of and access to the arts funding programme.
Aims of the workshop are to help participants:
- Understand Arts Council England's funding programme
- Complete the application form and budget for your activity
- Understand the assessment criteria
- Write the proposal
The event will provide an opportunity to:
- Learn about models of good practice
- Meet successful Grants for the arts applicants, local organisations, networks and artists.
- Signpost organisations who can assist you to develop your project ideas, support you to make your application and access other avenues of funding
- Learn about activities taking place in your area.
- Book one-to-one artform specific advice, for first time applicants.
Refreshments will be provided.
Please contact Charlotte Holden,
Arts Development Assistant, Burnley Mechanics 01282 664417 to book a place on the seminar by 5th February 2007.
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Digital Futures Conference |
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Digital Futures is a series of conferences, seminars, placements, training bursaries and networks funded by Media Training North West and supported by the industry across the region. The series will equip North West media and digital industries with the knowledge to compete and grow in a digital future.
DIGITAL FUTURES - Where creativity makes money
9.30am - 5.30pm Wednesday 7th February 2007 at Museum Science and Industry, Manchester
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9.30am - 5.30pm Thursday 8th February 2007 at Ewood Park, Blackburn
Digital Futures - Where creativity makes money is a free one-day conference for companies and individuals working in the digital content industries in the North West. Whether that's TV, film, games, music, advertising, design or the professional services that support them.
With a strong focus on commerce, Digital Futures provides a high-level platform to learn, network, meet talent, find opportunities and make deals. From MDs, CEOs and bright young talent, to advisors and investors, mavericks and academics, everyone in the sector will benefit from Digital Futures.
Demand is high for this free event. To find out more and secure your place, go to the website www.digitalfuturesnw.com and register now. Keep an eye on the website for updates on the programme and speakers.
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GroupHub Comes To East Lancashire |
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CreativityWorks have teamed up with GroupHub to present an event in Blackburn.
Group Hub deliver a series of bimonthly events for creatives in the Lancashire area. From design undergraduates to seasoned art directors and writers, GroupHub gatherings provide invaluable opportunities for networking, collaboration, pitch launches and professional development.
This will be the very first time GroupHub will be in Blackburn or indeed East Lancashire. To register interest for this event please email creativityworks@ntlworld.com with you name and email address.
Location is still to be confirmed but will be announced very shortly.
www.grouphub.org
Burnley's MP Kitty Ussher has welcomed East Lancashire's latest Panopticon, 'Singing Ringing Tree', which was officially declared open today by The Worshipful Mayor, Councillor Mohammad Najib, JP, and designers Tonkin Liu.
"The completion of 'Singing Ringing Tree' is a fantastic accomplishment for Burnley," she said. "Visually the design is stunning and it will act as a major landmark for Burnley, attracting visitors and boosting Burnley's tourist sector and economy. It is a true symbol of Burnley's emergence and regeneration and I would urge all local people to visit the attraction."
Panopticons, funded by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and the Lancashire Economic Partnership (LEP), is a visionary scheme to create a unique series of 21st century landmarks across East Lancashire, as symbols of the renaissance of the area.
Burnley's Panopticon is sited at Crown Point, which on a clear day commands a spectacular panorama of East Lancashire, including a striking overview of the town of Burnley, with the famous Turf Moor football stadium at its centre.
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Opportunity for Public Artists |
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Development of artwork for four new Health and Social Care LIFT centres in Salford.
This project is being commissioned by Salford LIFT Project Board (comprised of Salford City Council and Salford Primary Care NHS Trust (PCT)).
The new LIFT centres will be in Eccles, Pendleton, Swinton and Walkden.
These new buildings will accommodate Salford Primary Care Trust services, Salford Libraries and Salford City Council Customer Services.
More info
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In each addition of the CreativityWorks newsletter we profile an Arts Development Officer. Here Gillian Walsh of Rossendale introduces herself.
Rossendale's Arts Development is delivered by Rossendale Leisure Trust under their Lifestyles team, which also covers sports development and healthy lifestyle initiatives. Rossendale Arts Development work aims to encourage all sectors of our diverse community to participate in art and creative activities, which will lead to greater opportunities for all by exploring the varied and inspirational art forms, which exist across Rossendale.
Just to give you a flavour of what we do, in 2006 Rossendale Arts Alliance, a group of local artists, with support from Rossendale Leisure Trust, Mid Pennine Arts and Horse and Bamboo Theatre develop and deliver the first ever Children's Arts Festival in Lancashire, which was known as the K Festival. The 2006 K Festival was the prototype for an ambitious plan to create a major annual arts event in the magic valley of Rossendale aimed specially at children. Last year's programme has given everyone a taste of what is to come during 2007 - superb, high quality, distinctive, internationally recognised arts for children.
We also produce a free quarterly newsletter, which is known as Arts Across Rossendale, each edition contains information on past and future events, funding advice and contact details for organisations. The purpose of this newsletter is to disseminate information to both artists and the community, which works towards raising the profile of art and how it can be a driver for change across all sectors.
During the school holidays we also co-ordinate art initiatives for young people alongside sport and physical activities to offer local children a varied programme of involvement during their holidays.
Like all Arts Development Officers across the region, we have a complex role to play within our community, by working simultaneously at both strategic and grass root level, we all aim to support local artists, promote local venues and most importantly encourage more people to participate in creative activities.
If you would like to find out more about Rossendale's Arts Development work, please email Gillian.smith@rltrust.co.uk or telephone 01706 244671.
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