The scoop from the Scoop, part 6
Technical rehearsal, dress rehearsal, first performance and then a downpour! It all happens with Medea this week.
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The scoop from the Scoop, part 5
Fourth week of rehearsal, rehearsals move to the Scoop itself, and everyone is starting to feel the pressure.|0 comments -
Inkslinger: How i got started in writing
I always wanted to be a writer. Actually, that’s not the whole, both-barrels truth. I wanted to be a successful writer, but I rather hoped that the success part came as standard.|0 comments -
The scoop from the Scoop, part 4
It’s been a tough week. We’ve had cuts to one of our shows, an injury to a cast member, and the arrival of puppets and child actors.
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The scoop from the Scoop, part 3
It’s been a rather bitty week this week in rehearsals, as the second week on the Scoop shows traditionally are. Phil (the director) has only spent part of the week working with us as he is also working on another two shows Naked Boys Singing and F**king Men, which have opened at the Arts Theatre in the West End.
So this week’s rehearsals have been split between Phil, myself and Joe Fredericks.|0 comments -
The scoop from the Scoop, part 2
The first day of rehearsals on a new show is always an exciting and apprehensive few hours. Meeting a new set of people, learning their names, taking in a lot of personal information and hearing about how we will be spending the summer.
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The scoop from the Scoop, part 1
Ally Holmes is currently associate director and choreographer on two forthcoming productions at the Scoop Amphitheatre on London’s South Bank.
Working with the acclaimed director Phil Willmott, she will blogging for us over the next few weeks about the challenges involved in mounting outdoor productions based on themes from Greek mythology, with a cast that includes small children.
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Hay wire: the closing weekend
The sun is back, after a brief absence, and people are back out on the grass. Sophie is drinking Pimms. Elena is eating cherries and ice cream. Books are being read, and compared. There is some knitting. Another tough day at the Hay Festival.|0 comments -
Hay wire: A performer’s-eye view
I come to Hay for fun. But to assuage my guilt (surely no one should be allowed this much fun?) I try to do something resembling work… This year I was asked to chair three events within ‘Hay Fever’, the children’s programme.
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Hay wire: Some like it hot?
There are many advantages to Hay being in a relatively remote setting (compared, say, to the Edinburgh Book Festival, which takes place in the city’s Charlotte Square in the middle of its Festival season).
One of the advantages, and one that I like the most, is that many performers loiter for a while, spend a day or two here and – what’s even better – go to each other’s events. It makes for a very collegial atmosphere, I think.
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Hay wire: Politics, etc.
The programme here at Hay is huge, and as it’s grown over the years has come to span well beyond the merely literary – yes, there are novelists and playwrights and poets, but there are also events on an environmental theme, discussions with scientists and historians, musicians and magicians and stand-up comedians, journalists and religious leaders and politicians and celebrity gardeners.
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Hay wire: The biggest handshake
On Friday I'm doing an event here at the Hay Festival, titled “How to wield a pen more lucratively than a sword.” Although I’ve never intended to don a weapon for money, ‘lucrative’ apropos my writing is something I don't quite achieve either. Or do I? After all, what is lucrative – making enough to live on? If I do achieve this, how do I do it?|0 comments -
Hay wire: Making Hay...while the sun shines
The first 24 hours - Friday 22nd May- Saturday 23rd MayWhen you wake up to have breakfast with Thomas Keneally, Alexander McCall Smith and Jim Naughtie, you know you are at the Hay Festival.
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Hay wire: Hay day 1 - come rain or shine
There’s something missing. What could it be?
Most of the usual Hay Festival ingredients are present and accounted for in their usual abundance. Huge field packed with multiple marquees in a beautiful valley on the English-Welsh border? Check. Enormous programme of distinguished speakers milling contentedly around in a highbrow-but-friendly sort of manner? Check. Thousands upon thousands of eager visitors, exchanging tickets for über-sold-out Alan Bennett events like contraband and queuing to buy rather posh venison burgers? Check. So what is it that's missing?
… Wait, the rain! Where is the rain?
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The third age: artists and retirement
Here’s a fact you might already know: working in the arts means you are twice as likely to earn less than £10,000, than anyone else in the UK workforce. For many workers this income is necessarily supplemented by a second or third job, for others it means spending most of the time uncomfortably close to the poverty line.
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What is the meaning of what I do?
When thinking about creativity, or thinking creatively, there is an implicit and explicit assumption that the product of such activity is something that has value and meaning, either to the person concerned, or to the wider society and culture, or both. Or sometimes it is anti-meaning in the context of radical artistic practice, but that’s still a type of meaning...
The debates about cultural value have been widely disseminated, by DEMOS, Arts Council England and others. But what about meaning?
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Fine mature art
Rosemary, an artist based in Cardiff, had been working in the Arts for over fifteen years when she made the decision to do a Fine Art degree. Read her experience of going back to study as a mature student.
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Creating ‘creatives’ – An HR professional's view
One year ago I was appointed as Head of HR for Twofour. I came from the public sector and the shift from a traditional, bureaucratic environment to a modern, flexible, fast-paced creative industry organisation was significant and exciting.
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Session 6: Paul Brown, Pandora & Slicethepie
The sixth session of Vortex was held at the central London office of Blyk, mobile content providers for 16 – 24 year olds. Paul Brown gave two presentations on his digital enterprises. He is MD, International of Pandora and board member of Slicethepie.
(Notes on the 5th session will be added shortly.)
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Changing tracks - entering the music industry
As part of my usual day I have sat down at my laptop with a cup of tea this morning and worked my way through the long list of daily music e-newsletters that have arrived in my inbox overnight.
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Reader, I crushed him.
Tenuous links between Jane Austen and post apocalyptic fiction, or MASH IT UP -
Open platforms are key to unfiltered creative presentations
A timely story about Apple reminds me that having unfiltered access is almost a requirement for online creatives.|0 comments -
Learning new media
I was asked to give a small talk about online sitcoms and other cross-media projects.|0 comments -
Holding back for 20 years
I finally managed to get down to the Bude Jazz Festival over the Bank Holiday weekend. What do I mean by "finally"? This year is the 21st annual festival and I've been aware of it (my father has played there every year from the get go) for all of that time. But I never actually made it until now.
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Putting the 'pro' in procrastination
In order to focus, Christian regularly prunes his web feeds and information inlets in a desperate attempt to make some headspace. As far as actually getting things done though.. He is still looking for a system.|0 comments -
Being you
Video online is growing at an alarming rate. Steve Lawson talks about some ways we can use it to our advantage -
Steps to sustainability
I suppose I am an unusual design management consultant. Although my background is in Product Design my services focus on improving the skills and processes used by small design businesses, which often lack the staff, time and expertise to develop new clients.|0 comments -
The joy of fragmentation.
The world of the arts and media is changing. From broadcasting AT an audience, we are increasingly shifting to facilitation conversations and interactions around the content, be it news, music, art, literature or television/video. Steve Lawson thinks this is a good thing. here's why: -
Practice makes perfect
I was inspired by reading Christian's post on meditation to share a bit of my practice with you. I got this from Julia Cameron's book The Artist's Way. You'll have to ask her where she got it from :) She calls it "The Daily Pages" and Ill let you have a look at how she presents it, but I wanted to share my experience of it and how and why I think it helps me. -
Meditate to create
Festival season is almost over but there is still time to find your inner hippy and let go of your noisy mind in order to focus on finding a creative solution. Or just to relax. -
Extending the reality
The digital channels allow the story to be extended beyond the programme. -
An archive is nothing if you can't navigate it
You need to keep your media under control, even those from years in the past, because you never know when one picture can make the difference. -
Skill set and match
Putting your skills to better use often means identifying the skills first. Start with what comes natural. -
Training Creativity
When I was interviewed for the post of Training and Development Manager for the Creative Pioneer Programme I can remember being asked whether I thought that creatives required particular approaches or training techniques. I answered very emphatically “No”, and while I still stand by that answer, my answer is now "No, but".|0 comments -
Improvising your creativity
You might agonise for hours over a single line of text - but improvised comedy has only seconds to jump from joke to joke. Can the creative at home learn from the skills of improv?|0 comments -
Creative copying
The fear of plagarism stops a lot of creative people from allowing influence to jump-start their creative path. Steve Lawson suggests a new game to help.|0 comments -
Creating rabbit holes
"Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible"
With apologies to Lewis Carroll and Bob Hoskins.
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Social enterprise as a tool for promoting diversity in the arts
Culture Minister Margaret Hodge wants arts organisations to be social enterprises that can reduce their dependence on public funding - seems like a good idea so what's stopping us?
In a recent interview with editor Catherine Rose at Arts Professional www.artsprofessional.co.uk, Culture Minister Margaret Hodge called for arts organisations to be social enterprises, increasing their resilience and reducing their dependence on public funding. Sounds like a good idea, doesn't it?
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Shifting skills - developing creative and digital businesses
What skills would the ultimate creative leader need to possess in order to manage change and facilitate growth?|0 comments -
Stick your 5-year plan
Watching the annual ritual of the opening of the A-level results envelope on the news, I realised that this year is 25 years (ZOMG!) since I went through the same process. I wasn't one of those jumping up and down with excitement. I wasn't one of those going "I just know I'm going to fail" and then whooping with joy with three 'A's. No, I knew I was not going to do "well" and I was right.
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Other paths to creativity
According to his school he could have been a farmer a philosopher or a politician. He ended up in engineering. In this post, Christian explores some other paths to creativity. -
Deltas and watersheds - creative transitions
It is a truism, if not a cliché, that the only constant is change. From the Tao Te Ching to today’s change management ‘gurus’, the wisdom is that stability is a reassuring illusion. It is equally well acknowledged that, no matter the sector in which you work, there is no longer such a thing as “a job for life”.|0 comments -
Be short, be great
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Charting change - new roles for creating the future
Institutions today face a tough journey across the competitive landscape. Accelerating avalanches of change, digitisation and globalisation, are engulfing those who are not agile enough to exploit insights, creativity, innovation and design.|0 comments -
Creative managers
When I started working as an arts manager many years ago, there were few training courses. Like many others at the time, I graduated with an arts-specific degree, with seemingly two possible vocational routes, performance or teaching within the formal sector. Not prepared (or good enough) for the rigours of either option, I stumbled accidentally into the clutches of a music organisation.
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Preparing to be spontaneous
Sounding natural, making sure anythign creative flows well, is a basis of one function... Preparation. Ewan takes a look at how he gets himself ready for his 'spontaneous' interviews.|0 comments -
Incubating creativity
My role at the South West Regional Development Agency (RDA) is to help build the most effective kind of innovation centres. I am required to assist in the development of those projects that will have the most significant impact on the regional economy.|0 comments -
Blogging the job hunt
So how do you get started in the ad business? A lot of hard work, some luck and being in the right place at the same time.|0 comments -
So what do Tiggers do?
Writers write. Painters paint. Singers sing. Photographers take photographs. We all know this, but it's amazing how easy it is to forget. If you want to be a somethinger you have to do something – and talking about doing it doesn't count, you have to roll up your sleeves, and do whatever the equivalent is for you of sitting down at a blank page or canvas.|0 comments -
Working for free; working for friends
It doesn't take long after you begin working in any kind of creative field (music, photography, writing, editing, film etc.) before someone comes along offering you 'exposure' and 'experience' in exchange for unpaid work. Steve Lawson explores another way of looking at the area of pro bono work -
Creative portfolio workers: changing every day
Forget working on our work – we need to work on the way in which we work or we’re going to die young and never get anything useful done.|0 comments -
Employment to self-employment
My time of employment at various photographic agencies was rewarding, hugely educational and I learnt a hell of lot, very quickly! It offered support and a unique social network, because of the competition between agencies and rival photographers.
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Jason Byrne talks about being creative
Irish comic Jason Bynre is currently on stage at the Edinburgh Fringe, but how does a comic renowned for improvising create material? -
Understanding innovation, mind and heart
Have you ever tried to sell a particularly imaginative, creative or innovative idea into or within a large organisation? What was the reaction?...
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There's always an audience
Like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, your work will find its own way - or how Japanese Outsider Art and bad Alan Rickman movies still leave plenty of room for you and your work. -
Making your own adverts
If you want to work in the advertising business, what's stopping you just making your own ads for your book? But take care, sometimes your creativity can lead to results you don't expect.|0 comments -
The myth of success
Steve Lawson has managed to maintain a career in music for over 15 years without once becoming remotely famous. (His sole terrestrial TV appearance remains his 4 seconds on Songs Of Praise. Wearing a skirt, miming electric bass - unplugged - in a field.)
Here he shares a few thoughts on the myth of success in the music industry.
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Feeding the creative mind
Blogging at its best is a free-flow of creative ideas, direct from the mind of the writer. Christian Payne explores what happens when you get paid to blog, and offers some thoughts on 'keeping it real'. -
Leading creativity: moving to the board
My proudest entrepreneurial activity having toppled out of the painting department at St. Martin's School of Art in the summer 1986 with an average BA Hons, was D Stress, a warehouse club attracting some 400 to 600 revellers once a month from midnight until the small hours.|0 comments -
Making it pay
Any creative venture needs income, including those online. It's always worth remembering that only three groups can pay you... yourself, your audience, or a sponsor. -
Creative sharing
One of the best things about working in a Creative industry is the way people share information around. Steve Lawson shares his experience of creatives sharing ideas, where everybody wins... -
Multiple choice leadership quiz: can you identify a good leader?
My daughter, who is five and attends a state primary school, was recently asked to do an exercise in class in which the children had to identify who might make a good leader and why.
The choices were characters out of children’s stories. See how you get on...
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Misttakes are fine
Seriously.
We all do it. Hell, some magazines and newspapers are only in circulation because celebrities seem to make nothing but mistakes. And just like the cheap headlines in the tabloids you need to exploit mistakes. Don't beat yourself up over them as there will be idiots a plenty happy to do that for you. Learn from them certainly, but from time to time you'll be surprised where those mistakes take you.
The key is experimentation.
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Telling stories...
With any creative venture there are two things that your potential audience engage with - the actual creative entity and the story that is told about it. More often than not, the story comes first.|0 comments -
Encouraging diversity at senior levels in museums
Workforce diversity is one of the main issues facing museums and galleries in the UK. There isn't enough of it.
Everybody signs up to addressing the issue, government departments prioritise it and governing bodies (who are mostly more white and middle class than the staff) encourage it but progress is slow.
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You know you're mad when...
Hugh MacLeod's book How to be Creative is slated for publication on Valentine's Day next year. Hugh wrote about its genesis and his current take on his own creative journey the other day. It's so interesting to watch how our stories evolve. How we understand our lives differently in the light of different experiences. That's one of the things that's always interested me about blogging - how snapshots of self understanding emerge and are captured over time. I wrote about the importance to me of this self-dialogue three years ago and it's still true and fascinating for me.|0 comments -
Structure as your starting point
Once you have an idea, how do you build it into something creative? Here's a basic idea on structure to provide you with some ideas on going from the first spark to the final product|0 comments -
Why Advertising?
Do you watch Mad Men? If not, why not? A superb series from the writer of The Sopranos, focusing on the supposed glamorous world of New York Advertising at the start of the 60's, where the Ad Men were giants and the women were secretaries and housewives. -
Creative ventures - making it pay.
So many creative ventures end up dead-in-the-water, not because the idea was bad, but because the logistics were ill thought out. - Steve Lawson shares from experience some hard-won lessons. -
The choice of creative commons
There is a halfway house between public domain and a fully copyrighted work - the Creative Commons licence. What does it do, and how can it help you promote your creative work?|0 comments -
Thinking or doing?
I'm musing a lot about what Creative Leadership means and the difference between thinking and doing.
2gether08 last week was billed as a festival of ideas and action - a big conversation about how social tools can be used for social good and on the second morning, I was listening to two media giants (though neither of them would describe themselves that way)
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The importance of considering everything
The contemporary internet is made up of many computers, operating systems and web browsers. This has an impact on your design process for any new internet site, because checking for compatibility is key in the Web 2.0 world.|0 comments -
Kickstarting creativity
One of the great myths about any creative endeavour is that 'creative people' sit and wait for inspiration to strike, and then by virtue of their remarkable genetic make-up, generate hugely original creative work in a few moments, before wowing the world and becoming wealthy and famous. Steve Lawson begs to differ...|0 comments -
Chris Morris: creative ambassador?
A few weekends ago an old friend and I met up for the first time in fifteen years. He'd tracked me down via my website and was eager to catch up. For once I was too.
People from the past do appear from time to time and often there's a good reason that that's where they're from, but Steve and I had been in a band together (don't ask) and his friendship had been one of the things that made school life bearable. When I asked how he'd found me he replied, "I just googled your name and 'writer'. I figured that's what you'd probably be doing for a living".
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By way of introduction
Creative choices°? I'm only just learning, at the age of 43, that I can make choices at all, that I can decide what I do next in my work and in my life - and what is more galling actually is that I'm realising that I have been making creative choices all along, I just haven't been making them very consciously.
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Employ yourself
One of the scary things about attempting to turn your creative love into a career is the multi-tasking that is required to get it off the ground. You might be a fabulous musician, painter, graphic designer or writer, but turning that into a career...? Steve Lawson suggests a path...|0 comments -
The human element
<P>I saw <A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7463561.stm">this BBC story</A> a few days ago and was immediately caught by the opening line: </P> <BLOCKQUOTE > <P>"More than 20 years ago a generation of schoolchildren sat down to complete a questionnaire they were told would predict their future." </P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>There's a trick I thought. Human beings are really good at analysing the past and we occasionally try and learn from it, but prediction still tends to trip us up a lot.</P>|0 comments -
Investing in people
Over the last few years much attention has been focussed on the museum workforce. Do we employ a sufficiently diverse range of people, do they possess the requisite skills and attitudes and are they being developed to ensure that museums and galleries fulfil their potential?|0 comments -
Museum recruitment tips: attitude matters
Even after we have secured the crucial new entrant position in a museum, which pays, we will continue to apply for jobs at various levels over time.
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Job sites in the heritage sector
Working in heritage doesn’t necessarily mean a formal career in museums, artefact and architectural conservation or archaeology so how do you find what else is out there?|0 comments -
Shifting sectors: intellect books
When I reached the age of 50 I retired from my job as a university professor and decided to focus my attention on another part of my identity, being a publisher. I have been an armchair publisher ever since I entered secondary school education. But the transition into professional publishing has been both joyful and challenging!|0 comments -
Re-training creativity
When I was approached to contribute to this article series, my first thought was what could I possibly offer to a discussion on transition within the creative industries? Having left school at 16 and dropped out of teacher training college to start a family, I assumed my career choices were fairly limited...
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Creative advisors: the value of the advisory panel
You make lots of mistakes when you set up a small business – that’s inevitable. It’s how you learn. When I started up White Ladder Press with my partner in 2002 we made as many mistakes as anyone else. In fact I cringe when I remember some of the naive things we did back then.|0 comments -
Session 4: Kristian Segerstråle, CEO, Playfish
Social network sites are the new big thing (mobiles once were) so Playfish decided to use them as a new platform for gaming. The fourth session of Vortex centred around diving into the new waters of social gaming and exploring the massive ocean that is video/computer games. Bigger than music or Hollywood (Grand Theft Auto IV took over $500million in sales during its opening week), Kristian came to share his knowledge of the gaming industry to date.
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Kertching! local leadership and international impact
Wot I did on my holidays… amazing, isn’t it, how work follows you about?|0 comments -
Moving on up
For too long the museum sector has neglected people who are new to museum work and has left them struggling to develop their career alone.
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Contentious vs. safe museum displays
I’ve spent the last month in Ireland, where I visited the Free Derry Museum in Northern Ireland. It certainly couldn’t be described as museum of ‘neutral space’.|0 comments -
Session 3: David Ridings, Marketing Director, Current TV
It was a heavyweight session with key industry figures engaging in debate around digital marketing. Subjects from putting UGC at the centre of a TV station to how much people paid to download the Radiohead album were all on the table. Along with scones and cream. Subjects from 'putting UGC at the centre of a TV station' to 'how much people paid to download the Radiohead album' were all on the table. Along with scones and cream.
Current TV is a satellite and online channel (Sky 193, Virgin 155) born in the USA to the proud daddies, Al Gore and Joel Hyatt. It’s now launched a UK version and its marketing director gave us the lowdown.
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Aesthetica magazine: starting a creative business
We all have to start from somewhere.
Starting any business is a huge task. In my case, launching a national arts magazine has been one of the best things I have accomplished but also the most challenging.
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Format Shifting (Gowers Pt 2)
The entire UK music industry has recently tabled a proposal in response to the consultation ‘Taking Forward Gowers – Changes to Exceptions’. Our key response? An exception in copyright for ‘format shifting’, subject to a licence.
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Session 2: James Scroggs, VP Consumer Business, SpinVox
James Scroggs was the presenter for Vortex#2 and seems to have been involved in loads of things we’ve heard of. Before SpinVox, he was the Marketing head for MTV UK & Ireland, launching progs like Pimp My Ride and before that was behind the award-winning Stella Artois ‘Reassuringly Expensive’ campaign, ‘Stella Screen’. Mars’ ‘Work Rest & Play’ was an early account - Midas touch?
Anyway, he dumped all of that for a product that no-one has heard of, based in Marlow. More on that later…
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Creating the market: finding clients as a creative partnership
The question that I hate most in the world is: ‘So, what do you do?’
I should love answering this question because I run my own business doing something I enjoy and I am good at. The reason I hate this question is because I find it so difficult to answer.
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Motivating front of house staff
I’ve recently started a 12 month project as an NVQ assessor for front of house staff at Sheffield Museums Trust.
I’ve been assessing since 2001 and since then I’ve noticed a number of recurring themes - backed up by some research I did a few years ago - on what motivates front of house staff and volunteers in museums.
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From Study to Practice
Having graduated with a drama degree in June 2007, I find myself navigating probably the most extreme period of transition of my 22 years. Now, beyond the structure of the education system, I am suddenly exposed to both the challenges and rewards of the transition from student to self-employed practitioner in the creative sector.|0 comments -
A question of trust
I was gently perusing Google in search of current ways to define cultural leadership, as you do, and I came across a book review of a 1994 title, Leadership and the Culture of Trust by Gilbert Fairholm.
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Introducing the transition tradition
Transition Tradition is a company that supports creative individuals through key periods of transition. This specially commissioned series for Creative Choices highlights some of the major transitions experienced by creative and cultural leaders, from graduation into employment, new jobs, self-employment and business growth.|0 comments -
Creative industries: yes, heritage is in there
Everyone wants to be a creative industry so how does a cultural industry beset by stereotypes address its image?
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The AMA: what’s in it for me?
The Associateship of the Museums Association is a self led programme of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) which is worked through at a time scale and with goals controlled by the candidate.
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The healthy museum: report from critical connections conference
Last year I gave a paper at an arts and health conference in Leeds. The event was organised by Critical Connections - an arts and health initiative for Yorkshire and the Humber region - and the Arts Council, who published their prospectus for arts and health earlier this year.
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Why are there so few women national museum directors?
Diane Lees has just been appointed Director General of the Imperial War Museum. This is good news on two fronts. Firstly, she is an outstanding museum professional and, secondly, she is a woman.
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Seeing through the smoke-screen
Smoke gets in your eyes, so the song goes. What kind of smoke stops cultural leaders seeing the way to their goals?
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Gowers review
The intellectual world is discussing changes to copyright suggested by Andrew Gowers in a rather ambitious review of all Intellectual Property...
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Diversity: a brave new world?
Many organisations that have done well out the latest Arts Council funding round are, perforce, keeping quiet until everything is confirmed and the dust settles.
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Psychedelic experiences as a board member
Toward the end of the summer, I was taken on as a board member of ‘Illuminate York’, the commissioning group behind the city’s yearly festival of cutting-edge outdoor artwork, exhibitions and performances.|0 comments -
What does copyright mean today?
“Everything has already been said but not by everybody” Karl Valentin (1882–1948), Dadaist comedian.
So the virtual world will be pleased to learn that I’m adding yet another voice to the blogging cosmos. At least there’s a novelty feature to my blog (on music, films, books, design, paintings etc) - a more positive approach to the c-word. It’s the basis of any creativity: copyright.
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Session 1: Dan Heaf, Interactive Editor, Radio 1
The tone for Vortex was set with a classy presentation from Dan Heaf, Interactive Editor of BBC Radio 1 (now Director of Digital Ventures, BBC).
None of us expected to be listening to a potted history of thought, from Greek tragedies to the Enlightenment, right through to the last series of Lost. But it soon became clear why Dan had won a Webby for Radio 1; he’s a thinker as well as a do-er (not an easy balancing act) and he works in a 40-year old institution…need we say more. Dan pulled a number of digital themes out of his bag...
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Vortex: Introduction and Member Profiles
Vortex is a creative exchange for digital executives working in the creative industries.
That sounds dry. How about, it’s a chat? Actually it’s more than that - it’s time to gripe, laugh, think, listen, discuss and possibly have ideas. To see things from angles we haven’t discovered yet. To swap rose-tinted glasses for blue ones, or yellow (depending on the day we’ve had).
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Emma Drew
Jo Martin
Mark Taylor
I am Director of the Museums Association.
I write a monthly blog for Creative Choices on the big questions facing my sector.
May Redfern
Kate Pugh
I'm Secretary of Heritage Link and I'll be looking at the challenges that so many of the small voluntary heritage bodies face.
Samantha Smith
Samantha Smith is the founder of Transition Tradition Ltd. She is now developing a national portal to promote the events, opportunities and communities emerging from the UK's creative and cultural hubs.
Nikki Chowen
A recent drama graduate from the University of Exeter, Nikki is currently facilitating drama workshops for a number of educational institutions across London.
Z_Stanton
Zoë Stanton is the co-founder of Uscreates, a creative consultancy that supports local organisations in delivering social change.
Cherie Federico
In 2005 Cherie decided to leave full-time employment to work on developing Aesthetica Magazine into a national publication. Now, in her role as Editor, Cherie is responsible for growing the content, circulation and reputation of the magazine.
Roni Jay
I started my career as a stage manager in the theatre for several years before switching - not entirely logically - to PR. I worked as a PR manager and then a freelance writer, and have written over 60 books on a range of subjects.
Masoud Yazdani
Masoud is the founding Managing Director and major shareholder of Intellect Ltd as well as a Visiting Professor at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He has been the founding editor of 3 journals - Digital Creativity, Artificial Intelligence
sizemore
I'm a writer and consultant.
Steve Lawson
Steve Lawson is a musician, teacher and journalist, combining all three with his love of all things webby to consult on the future of digital music for artists and record labels.
His music and writing can be found at stevelawson.net
Lloyd Davis
I'm a... pigeon-hole avoider. I work with a variety of social media in personal and organisational settings, I sing and play ukulele on the London Underground, I started the Tuttle Club, I hide my light under a bushel quite a lot.
Ewan Spence
Christian Payne
I would class myself as an independent media production professional.
Online I exist in more places as Documentally than I do as Christian Payne. You can find me mostly on Twitter, Seesmic and Phreadz.
My main passion is photography but I also dab
Jim Wileman
Jim is a freelance photographer
Gavin OCarroll
Gavin is 27, Northern Irish and has lived and worked in London. He studied a BA in Visual Communication at the Art College in Belfast then a Masters in Interactive Media at London College of Communication.
James Rait
James is an expert on the interaction of design, process and technology.
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