Kings Cross Environment

Showcasing your 2.0 Talent

CreateKX in partnership with Cockpit Arts

Wednesday 24^th October, 6.30 – 9pm

The Innovation Centre – conference rooms, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, Southampton Row, Holborn, WC1

Fee: £5 – payable via cheque. Please book via www.createkx.org.uk or email sian.james@bl.uk

You may be a skilled designer, artist or creative entrepreneur, but how do you successfully raise your profile and raise the saleability of your product via the www?

Web 2.0 can drive genuine business value and significant competitive advantage, encouraging social collaboration, two-way use of the Web, services that are open and re-purposable, concepts which turn into conversations.  But can you build and grow a real business with these ideas?

Join our experts, as they de-mystify technologies of wikis, mashups, on-line communities and social networking sites to showcase your work, raise your profile and grow your business.

This evening seminar will tackle the salient points of improving your creative business via new web technologies: From creating a virtual shop-window, growing your client base, exchanging ideas and sourcing new opportunities.

Speakers:

Colin Donald: Futurescape – http://www.futurescape.co.uk

Colin Donald is one of the Pricipals at Futurescape which focuses on the rapidly changing nexus between social networking, online video, digital media and marketing.  Futurescape has consulted for a range of media clients, including ITV’s Granadaand Carlton, Discovery Communications, Microsoft and First Resort.  Colin started the New Media department at Flextech Television (now Virgin Media) in the mid-Nineties, where he launched a series of award-winning Web sites to market Flextech’s televison channels. He was previously at the authoritative business newsletter Financial Times: New Media Markets and on the editorial board of media consultancy Informed Sources (now part of Mercer Management Consulting), analysing broadband content, models for commerce via TV and interactive TV. His ActiveTV column in Broadcast magazine analysed new media for the television industry.

Daniel Bower: eMomentum Ltd – http://www.emomentum.co.uk

Daniel Bower is Project Manager at eMomentum Ltd, a privately funded Internet company dedicated in investing in, and creating, remarkable websites.  Daniel oversees a portfolio of projects including the recently launched welovelocal.com, a social local search website that helps people find the best local businesses using reviews from people they can trust.  Daniel has contributed to a number of leading technology publications including eConsultancy and iMedia Connection.

Daniel’s interests include RSS, social media, and the role of the web in politics.

Katy Davis: Gobblynne Animation – www.gobblynne.com/index.html and http://www.myspace.com/gobblynne

Katy Davis is a Mixed Media Animator.  Her most recent music video “Gone Fishing” for the band Second Person has received a number of awards from film festivals around the world.  The video has been used by Cobra Beer in their recent sponsorship of ITV movies in the UK as well as by MTV in the advertising of their new MTV Flux music channel. Gone Fishing has been featured in the recommended music section on the front page of Google Video (February 2007), and more recently featured on YouTube and MySpace.  In February 2007 Katy was chosen for front page as “Director’s Choice” for the 4Talent Directory (www.channel4.com/4talent) and in May 2007 Katy was selected as one of the top 12 filmmakers short listed to direct a £1Million film as part of the MyMovie Mashup competition (www.myspace.com/mymoviemashup).

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E.T.A – Estimated time of Arrival

Free half term workshops and auditions

Monday 22 – Friday 26 October 2007
Every day 1-4pm @ the Camden Centre and Coram’s Fields

Are you aged between 13-25?
Ready to be seen and heard by a crowd?

This is an opportunity for you to showcase your talent working with the UK’s leading urban circus. Be part of a spectacular performance and parade on the 23 & 24 November 2007, to celebrate the opening of St. Pancras International. Baseline Circus invites all young urban artists and performers to a week of taster workshops and auditions.

For more information about the half term programme see:
www.basslinecircus.org

check the full Arrivals programme at www.arrivals2007.org.uk

• Costum making – make a costume for yourself or someone else to wear in the parade.
• Breakdancing & Contemporary Dance – drop in workshops and auditions for parts in the show
• Circus skills – stilt walking, acrobalance and tumbling.
• Parkour – ‘free running’ the art of street jumping, vaulting and climbing.
• Art boards – help create urban street art and be part of the site decoration.

For more information contact:

Sue on 07899771297
sue@basslinecircus.org

Kerry on 07788573199
kerry@basslinecircus.org

Venues:
Corams’ Fields: 91 Guilford Street, WC1
Camden Centre: Bidborough Street, WC1

Impressive looking local festival this coming weekend down the road in Bloomsbury or Kings Cross borders as the estate agents probably call it now.  Thanks to Sian at Create KingsX (who is fast becoming our arts correspondent) for the blurb below – you can also check out the festival website here:

19th – 21st October 2007

Come down and enjoy superb programme richly packed with music, dance, theatre, film, photography, literature and debate.

Following the amazing success of the Bloomsbury Festival 2006, this year’s Festival will again offer a range of public concerts and events, as well as open houses, debates and children’s activities throughout the area.

The three day programme will be drawn from leading national organisations, museums and galleries, and individual artists, designers and creatives located in the area, as well as a number of responses to the area from practitioners invited into it.

The festival will be open to everyone and the majority of activities within the programme are free.

With almost all its events and courses free, and funded entirely by local sponsorship, the Bloomsbury Festival aims to create a local network that is cross-disciplinary, and celebrates every aspect of life in this unique neighbourhood.

The area is still a training ground for a new generation of artists, architects and designers, and the Festival aims to showcase work that is made by people in the area, or by people with an interest in the area. It is led by Allied London, the re-developer of The Brunswick, who sponsored the first Festival in its entirety, and continues to be the headline sponsor in 2007.

Visit the website to check out festival listings, and to download a copy of the brochure…www.bloomsburyfestival.org