Creative Midlands East

Cuinamo: open space event planned, consortium gathered, arts space acquired and artists gathering/harnessing creativity #cpcplincs
Bethink_Arts: RT @little_kingdoms: As of next week, come down to Lee Rosie's, Nottingham for a cup of tea and to see some of my recent print work! htt ...
DMU’s Fashion Design graduate collections picked for royal catwalk show
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Fresh Thinking â€“ unique workshops for artists and creative businesses
Getting Published â€“ in a Nutshell. A step-by-step guide to publishing books and eBooks
Getting Published â€“ in a Nutshell A step-by-step guide to publishing books and eBooks
Cake, cake and more cake
Guest Blog – a Sidelong walk along the canal

Cuinamo: open space event planned, consortium gathered, arts space acquired and artists gathering/harnessing creativity #cpcplincs

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 12:18 AM PST

Cuinamo: open space event planned, consortium gathered, arts space acquired and artists gathering/harnessing creativity #cpcplincs

Bethink_Arts: RT @little_kingdoms: As of next week, come down to Lee Rosie's, Nottingham for a cup of tea and to see some of my recent print work! htt ...

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 11:43 PM PST

Bethink_Arts: RT @little_kingdoms: As of next week, come down to Lee Rosie's, Nottingham for a cup of tea and to see some of my recent print work! htt ...

DMU’s Fashion Design graduate collections picked for royal catwalk show

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 12:00 AM PST

1st Mar 2012 ⁄ East Midlands ⁄ Four De Montfort University (DMU) Fashion Design graduates will see their collections on the catwalk for The Queen and Duchess of Cambridge next week. Already making their mark in the fashion world, t...

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Posted: 29 Feb 2012 12:20 AM PST

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Fresh Thinking â€“ unique workshops for artists and creative businesses

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 10:33 AM PST

Following the success of â€˜Tell Your Storyâ€™ we now have six more dates for our innovative and inspiring workshops.

Internet Strategy
Everyone is focussing on Social Media. The point is to use a blend of tactics on the Internet – websites, blogs, email and social media – to get your message across effectively. This course shows how it can be a part of your marketing strategy – without spending your whole life doing it, demystifies these topics in clear and accessible language, and looks at how these and other low or no-cost online tools can become part of your marketing strategy.
Wednesday 7 March or Thursday 22nd March

Getting Published â€" in a Nutshell. A step-by-step guide to publishing books and eBooks
Getting Published will show you, step by step, how to take an idea, develop it into a manuscript, and then publish your book on Kindle (astonishingly easy) and then as a print book (not quite so easy!)
Wednesday 14th March or Tuesday 27th March

Tell your Story – How to write (and talk) about your work in a compelling way
Tell your Story is designed to help you write and talk about your work in a compelling way. Learn how to capture and articulate the stories you need to tell in order to hold the attention of your audience and potential customers.
Thursday 29th March or Wednesday 18th April

Getting Published â€“ in a Nutshell. A step-by-step guide to publishing books and eBooks

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 10:33 AM PST

This course will show you, step by step, how to take an idea, develop it into a manuscript, and then publish your book on Kindle (astonishingly easy) and then as a print book (not quite so easy!). This course is for anyone who wants to write a book (fiction or non-fiction) and get published.

Tutor, Pete Mosley will explore and illustrate each step in detail â€" with plenty of time for questions and answers. Every writer needs to establish their own preferred route to publication, and fully understand the tools, techniques and resources they will need to utilise. This course will help you plan your route.

Getting Published â€“ in a Nutshell A step-by-step guide to publishing books and eBooks

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 10:33 AM PST

Getting Published â€" in a Nutshell
A step-by-step guide to publishing books and eBooks

Cake, cake and more cake

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 07:24 AM PST

So as some of you may know, we here at Creative Nottingham love a good slice of cake. So it only seems right and proper that we give you a little insight into this month's Cake Eaters Anonymous meet.

With tickets selling out within a few days of them going up, guests truly had their fill with a staggering FORTY home-baked cakey delights.

The Larder on Goosegate was packed with hungry cake crazy's from 4pm. By 7:30pm, all that remained was a substantial amount of crumbs and a few scattered cake tins – they do say waste not want not!

One of the lovely brains behind Cake Eaters Anonymous is Sarah Woodhouse.

She said: "We were very excited to have our event this month sponsored by local digital crafting community DaisyTrail, as part of their 2012 drive to raise money for Tommy's. The event was a sell out and Larder on Goosegate was bursting at the seams with eager baking enthusiasts. We had some fantastic raffle prizes donated by DaisyTrail and the winner of best cake went very deservedly to some delicious passionfruit cupcakes. We're still waiting on a final fundraising total, but expect it to break our previous record for an event of the same size, with somewhere in excess of £350 raised for charity."

After the fantastic raffle (with apron prizes galore!) guests were also treated to the exciting news that next months meet will be sponsored by BMI Baby with a pair of free flights to be won.

Judging how fast tickets sold out this month when just cake was involved, we at Creative Nottingham have got a feeling the March event will be even more of a success.

To get involved or simply come along visit : http://main.cakeeaters.co.uk/index.html

Guest Blog – a Sidelong walk along the canal

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:49 AM PST

As part of my collaboration as Sidelong, we are thinking about our next creative walk for Nottingham, and we want suggestions!

Following the success of our first collaborative walk project, Dream Walking, as part of Light Night (see previous blog post), we are keen to create another walk with imaginative interventions in Nottingham. At the Light Night event, one of our participants, a young man named Angelo, was keen to help out with creating other walks and suggested that we do one by the canal. So yesterday I took a walk by the canal to think about this idea.

I have been doing a lot of projects walking by water recently. I'm currently working on a commission to produce a map of the River Nene in Northamptonshire (the map is due to be available 21st April) and as part of this project I have spent time boating, canoeing and walking along a stretch of that river. I walk a lot along the Great Central Way in Leicester, where I find most of my foraged fruit! I walked a route for a project in Derbyshire along the Cromford Canal. At one point the canal crosses the river, and further on it crosses under a road, so that you become aware of how it is cutting its own way through, right across other routes. I've also been doing a project by a canal in Kettering, walking as part of a group, where we floated a small armada of paper boats on the canal last month!

Canals in this country are rich with history, which I think may have been Angelo's original inspiration for this idea. But as an artist I am also interested in the impressions of places in the here and now, and what I can make of them.

Waterways have their own sense of navigation and geography. They cut through our usual notion of roads and pathways, and seem to exist as a different layer of mapping entirely, as a layer underneath our planned and mapped cities. I read a fascinating account by a writer in New York, trying to find evidence of the paths of New York's many underground streams, finding signs or memories of it everywhere but never actually finding the stream itself. Waterways seem to exist in their own parallel and sometimes hidden universe.

Even canals, which have been built by us humans, now seem to have a life of their own. Since becoming obsolete as major transport routes for goods, and superseded by roads and rail, the routes of the canals seem to have little relation to our habitual routes these days. They seem to take on a character of their own, a feeling almost of being suspended in time.

I walked Nottingham's Beeston Canal on a grey, wet day, the clouds heavy. I have often found that waterways are the domain of birdlife, and Nottingham's canal is very much so. The sounds of birds all around was remarkable. Again, as I have often found with waterways, once you are on the canal path you are almost transported away from the fact that you are in the middle of a city, but the sounds change and give an atmosphere of another time and place. Walking under the bridge near the Magistrate's court, the sound of the pigeons nesting in there is astonishing! Echoing under the bridge, I could see and hear distinctly tiny pigeon chicks squealing to their mother. I will go down and record it some time.

I also heard geese, blackbirds, piercing cries from a coot and the calls of seagulls. Their sounds intermingling with the sounds of industry.

There is something in the distinct architecture of the canal that I also like. The hard edge of the canal path with the softness of the sky-reflecting-water was beautiful.

I start to think that a walk along Nottingham's canal created by Sidelong might be something to do with the soundscape. Creating something that invites people to be attentive to the sounds and to weave some meaning from this.

Please post comments about this idea, I'd love to know your responses and what you think about the waterways – would you be interested in a Sidelong walk along the canal?

You can see our last walk for Light Night and follow our news on our Sidelong blog and follow us on Facebook.

About Joanna:

"I'm an artist working in the public realm. I undertake commissions, generate my own projects and am involved in arts education. I'm interested in mapping, walking, connections, public space, modes of travel, change, sense of place and looking sideways, using a wide range of media for temporary and permanent artworks."

Website: www.axisweb.org/artist/jodacombe

Blog: http://jodacombe.blogspot.com

Twitter: @JoDacombe

All images by Jo Dacombe

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