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Comment by Abscraft on June 24, 2010 at 5:51pm

With these Hands-5th evening get together
Our June "With These Hands" meeting for all Wirral creatives will be 7pm on Wednesday the 30th of June at the Green Community Shop and Centre in Oxton.


The Green Community Shop and Centre, 49-51 Christchurch Road Birkenhead, United Kingdom

Bring a plate of food to share, whatever you like to eat, bring a plate, cutlery and a glass. Bring a bottle (screw top only) to share. The room has tables and chairs and tea and coffee available. I will make a collection for use of the room for The Green Community Shop and Centre.

Lots to discuss.....murals, Biennial INdependants, The Big Draw, Studio Tour.....just let me know if you have any announcements to make.

Comment by Abscraft on June 24, 2010 at 5:50pm

Anyone else doing the Feel Good Fairs?
http://abscraft.blogspot.com/2010/06/feel-good-fairs.html

Comment by Karen Podesta on June 2, 2010 at 8:42am

Club Geek Chic presents In Conversation with Ian St John

Anfield legend Ian St John is to be the next guest in the spotlight of Club Geek Chic’s innovative ‘In Conversation’ series.

The event will take place on Saturday 5th June in the magnificent Concert Room of St. George’s Hall.

The evening continues the series that saw Liverpool personalities Janice Long and Mike McCartney interviewed in the splendour of the Anglican Cathedral, with performances from legendary local acts such as China Crisis, Ian McNabb (The Icicle Works) and Ian Prowse (Pele, Amsterdam).

St. John transferred to Liverpool in 1961 as their record signing and was a member of Bill Shankly’s legendary team of the 1960s. He played a key role in some of LFC’s greatest victories, most notably his winning goal in the 1965 FA Cup Final.

He went on to become one of Britain’s best loved TV pundits as one half of ITV’s ‘Saint and Greavsie’ with Jimmy Greaves and more recently has made essential listening for any LFC fan on Radio City’s ‘Terrace Talk’.

Ian will talk about his upbringing and early football career in Scotland, his relationship with Shankly and his ongoing love of LFC and the city.

As ever, the interview will be interspersed with live, acoustic versions of the interviewee’s five favourite songs performed by an impressive line-up of Liverpool artistes including Jamie Murphy (Space, Dust), vocalist and songwriter Neville Skelly and the fantastic Merseysippi Jazz Band!

Audience members will also have the chance to take part in a Q&A section at the end of the event.

Tickets for ‘In Conversation With Ian St. John’ are £15 and available in-store at St. George’s Hall Heritage Centre, by calling 0151 225 6909 or online at www.clubgeekchic.eventbrite.com
Doors 7pm

Comment by Dave Thackeray on May 24, 2010 at 8:59am

Hey!

You're thinking of a Community Interest Company. There are many benefits to this company setup but naturally it has its own set of conditions and bureaucracy.

Check this site out for more info. And good luck!

Comment by ArtOnSilk on May 24, 2010 at 12:31am

Does anyone know anything about 'Community Enterprises'?
I am a member of The Art & Craft Guild of Lancashire, and the guild is hoping to open its own gallery shop to exhibit and sell the diverse range of members work . . . . . if we get funding! . . . . that's another story!
Would being a community enterprise be of help to us? If so, how do we go about it? . . . . . we keep coming up against brick walls, any ideas?

Visit the following links for more info or contact me Paula/Artonsilk
http://www.artandcraftguild.co.uk/
http://guildgalleryshop.blogspot.com/
http://www.burscough-wharf.co.uk/

Comment by Abscraft on May 21, 2010 at 1:33am

With These Hands 4th evening event
for Wirral visual creative types - artists, designers and gallery owners

Date:
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Time:
19:00 - 21:00
Location:
The Green Community Shop and Centre, 49-51 Christchurch Road Birkenhead, United Kingdom

Bring Food to share

Comment by Cliff James on May 19, 2010 at 1:59pm

Free Invitation and opportunity to get involved with the UK's ONLY Brazilian-style carnival this year.
Liverpool Carnival Company is opening up the invitation to everyone who loves samba celebration and dancing in the streets to join in with the party. If you want an opportunity to enjoy or photograph this year's spectacular Liverpool Carnival, or to help with stewarding, driving the floats, dancing, drumming or volunteering in any way, get in touch with us at: carnivalcompany@aol.com or rogerconga@aol.com.
The main Carnival is Saturday 17th July, but there is a whole month of events planned this summer.
For more details, visit: www.carnival.org.uk or join the Facebook group at:
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22157496629&v=wall&ref=ts
See you at the Carnival!
Cliff

Comment by Frank Collins on May 13, 2010 at 5:00pm

Liverpool Design Festival

The Design Show: 19th – 21st November 2010

CALL FOR ENTRIES
The Call For Entries application pack can be downloaded from HERE

Alternatively, if you want a pack emailing to you please email Frank Collins with your contact details and the pack will be emailed or posted to you.

Our standard exhibition shell schemes, complete with power, lighting and name board, at 3m x 1m will be available and you’ll be able to purchase additional square metres to create bigger stands. We can also offer you a space only option allowing you to create and install your own stand.

The deadlines for applications and price points:
Apply before May 31st and if you’re selected you’ll qualify for the Early Bird Offer of a standard shell scheme of 3m x 1m at £250 plus £50 per additional square metre required.
Prices will revert to the standard charge of £350 per 3m x 1m shell scheme plus £50 per additional square metre required if you successfully apply after May 31st.
We welcome applications from group exhibitors and stand sharers conditional on all exhibitors on the stand being successfully selected by the panel.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Liverpool Design Festival was launched in November 2009 as a new annual design and contemporary craft festival in Liverpool. In 2009 the Festival incorporated, in its first year, over a dozen events in Liverpool city centre and wider Merseyside area and nearly 8000 people visited or participated in exhibitions, workshops, debates and talks and the Festival saw hundreds of designers from across the UK showcase their work.

The 2010 Festival, building on the success of the previous year’s events, celebrates and promotes quality design, encouraging an appreciation of craft and design by the widest possible audience, providing opportunities for participation, particularly by young people, in design and artistic appreciation whilst also supporting new and emerging practitioners.

The Liverpool Design Festival will run from the 18th November to 27th November 2010.

ABOUT THE DESIGN SHOW
The Design Show will be the signature event of the Festival and aims to showcase the best in contemporary design from the North West and the rest of the UK. It will present a selection of exciting and inspiring interior products, glass, ceramics, furniture, lighting, jewellery, textiles and fashion and will run from 19th to 21st November 2010.

The event will also welcome designers producing innovative new work and those that incorporate eco-design practices at the heart of their business. We offer an opportunity to launch new ranges in the UK and a high profile event that supports emerging talent and established designers.

JUDGING PANELS
For interior products and design and contemporary craft (including furniture, glass, ceramics, lighting, jewellery, textiles and wall coverings) our independent selection panel includes:
Maureen Bampton, Director - Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
Beatrice Mayfield, Maker Development Manager - Crafts Council
Frank Collins, Design Show Project Manager - Design Initiative
David Grimshaw, Programme Leader, 3D Design - MMU
Dick Mawdsley, Director - Utility
Claire Norcross, Designer - Jerwood Prize exhibitor

We also have an independent selection panel looking at specifically at designer fashion and fashion accessories (e.g. jewellery, other wearables and bags) including:
Joanne Watkinson, Head Buyer for mywardrobe.com
Kirsty Doyle, Luxury womenswear designer and winner Project Catwalk 2006 - www.kirsty-doyle.com

More judges will be announced soon.

OUR VENUE
The Design Show will take place at the Grade 1 listed St.George’s Hall in the city centre of Liverpool. St.George's Hall is widely regarded as one of the finest neo-classical buildings in the world and stands 169ft long and 74ft wide with a tunnel vaulted ceiling - the largest of its kind in Europe. St George's Hall is central to Liverpool's Cultural Quarter and is a key part of the area which is a designated World Heritage Site. It offers a ‘must see’ event to visitors and a not to be missed opportunity for designers to show and sell their work, promote their businesses and network with trade and public visitors in a breathtakingly beautiful setting.

MEDIA PROFILE
In 2009 the Festival generated the advertising value equivalent of approximately £130,000 in print, web and broadcast media coverage across 60 on and off-line publications, including The Guardian, Easy Jet Traveller Magazine, Big Issue, Your Move, BBC Radio Merseyside, BBC Radio 4, Liverpool Echo, Liverpool Daily Post, Lancashire Telegraph and sites such as Pure Design, Creative Boom and ArtInLiverpool.Com. The Festival will again expect to achieve press and media coverage at local and regional levels as well as attracting significant national interest in 2010.

If you need further details please contact:

Frank Collins
0161 834 3722
frank@designinit.org.uk

You can also sign up to Festival bulletins on the Festival website www.liverpooldesignfestival.com

Comment by David Parrish on March 1, 2010 at 10:21pm

Free networking event for creative businesses on 10th March 2010 from 6pm.

This event is being organised by the Kin2Kin network (www.kin2kin.co.uk) in partnership with the T-Shirts and Suits Creative Enterprise Network (www.creative-enterprise-network.com) and hosted at the fabulous Picket Warehouse (www.savethepicket.com ).

We will also be joined by Mark Lawler the newly appointed manager for Baltic Community Interest Company, who has kindly agreed to share the latest update on developments and opportunities for those interested in joining what is soon to be Liverpool’s hottest creative business hub.
The format of the event will be informal with the main focus on providing you with an opportunity to renew old acquaintances and make new contacts.
The evening will feature up and coming acoustic artist Molly Jones and we shall be providing complimentary refreshments and hot food (Scouse with a veggie option lovingly prepared by our friends at the Hope Street Hotel).

Wednesday 10.03.10
6pm-8pm
The Picket Warehouse
61 Jordan Street,
Liverpool
L1 0BW

This is a free event but you must register in advance.
Places will be limited and RSVPs accepted on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.
RSVP to rsvp@merseysideacme.com by Friday 05.03.10

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Comment by Frank Collins on February 25, 2010 at 11:42am

Photographing Your Work – seminar and studio shoot
A Design Initiative seminar and surgeries, PLUS 2 FREE product shots for your portfolio.
For Liverpool designers/makers.

Consultants:
Maureen Bampton, Director, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
Rory Lewis, Rory Lewis Photographer

Dates & Times:
Wednesday 17th March 2010: 10am to 12 noon: Seminar session.
Wednesday 24th March 2010: Studio photo shoots, allocated time slots.

Venue: Design Initiative conference room, Tea Factory, 82 Wood Street, Liverpool L1 4DQ (entrance via Milk and Sugar on ground floor)

Professional images of your work can often be the deciding factor in your products being selected for trade shows and exhibitions, selling your work online and having your designs creating a buzz in the media.

As call for entries time comes around again for this years shows we want to give Liverpool design businesses the best possible chance in making their work stand out from the crowd.

We have enlisted the help of multiple jury panel member and Director of Liverpool’s craft & design gallery Bluecoat Display Centre Maureen Bampton, along with Rory Lewis, experienced and talented local photographer, to make sure you get it right.

The Seminar
The session will explore:
- The importance of good images of your work
- What selection panels are looking for
- How to get your images right
- Basic do’s and don’ts

The Shoot
Delegates receive professional consultation and up to 2 basic portfolio shots from Rory (usual value between £30 and £50).
Note: Any products requiring more than basic white backdrop or over a size of 36” will be subject to a discounted charge per shot please see ‘Image Costs’ below for more information.

Cost: £15. Businesses in the Liverpool City Council area will be given priority.

Booking: Essential. Book by March 12th. Places are strictly limited.
To request a place email Elaine@designinit.org.uk including postcode, product type and reason images are needed, or call us on 0151 709 1566. In the event this session is oversubscribed places will be allocated on assessment of most potential benefit.

This event is possible thanks to support from Liverpool Vision.

Image costs
This package includes 2 portfolio images either free of charge or at a discounted rate.
2 images from Group A are provided FREE as part of the DI seminar package.
If your products are from Group B or C then you can upgrade one or both of your images by paying a reduced charge as indicated.
Any additional images (ie above 2) you require will be charged at Rory’s normal rate.

Image Groups:
GROUP A
Small or medium items up to 36”
Wood, plastic or jewellery products. No glass or illuminating products
White backdrop.
DI package: up to 2 shots FREE. (Normal price £15 to £25 each)

GROUP B
Large items above 36”
Wood, plastic, glass or illuminating products.
White backdrop
DI package: up to 2 shots at £10 each. (Normal price £35 each)

GROUP C
All other items, shot with superimposed backgrounds or specific concept as discussed in consultation.
DI package: up to 2 shots at £20 to £50 each. (Normal price from £45)

Cost Examples:
1 image from group A plus 1 from Group B would cost £10
2 images from Group B would cost £20
Prices for Group C products will be agreed in consultation with Rory Lewis.

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