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'This Time of Year', Derbyshire CD for Ben's Den charity

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 03:00 AM PST

  • Christmas Charity Single : 'This Time of Year' has been launched by Ben's Den Derbyshire Building Society Fundraising. The launch took place on November 30th @ Ilkeston FC Bar and Function Rooms.
    Added: 19 December 2012
  • Festival of Funding on Thursday 24th January 2013 between 10.00am – 1.00pm, in Derby
    Added: 19 December 2012
  • The Start programme offers funding and support to arts venues for them to develop relationships with local schools in deprived areas. Start is a grant-giving programme set up by The Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts to enable schoolchildren to experience the very best of the arts by introducing them to their local cultural venue.   
    Added: 17 December 2012

  • Peak District Artisans, annual search to find the most talented young artists is now underway, as they launch their 2013 Young Artist of the Year competition

    Following the success of last year's competition - which attracted entries from throughout the Peak District and beyond – the group has increased the maximum age limit to 25.

    Added: 17 December 2012
  • Improving Provision and Development for Young Disabled Dancers
    Added: 17 December 2012

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Green Shoots in Winter

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 03:54 AM PST

green shoots of plants

Seeking the Sun by Scott Robinson www.flickr.com/photos/clearlyambiguous/43124966/

Since the launch of the Creative Quarter (CQ) at the end of September, there have been a number of followup meetings and things are starting to stir.

New College Nottingham (NCN) held a "two-day extravaganza of art, design, music and innovation in and around its city centre campus" during the first week of December. As their press release said:

Celebrations began with NCN's Creative Careers Conference at Broadway Cinema with a series of talks given by creative experts including local graffiti artist, Dilk; textile designer, Alison Willoughby; and scriptwriter, John Murphy. Professional dancer, Richard Winsor – star of the Streetdance 3D movie and the Swan in Matthew Bourne's renowned ballet Swan Lake – led a contemporary dance workshop

NCN was also the site of a visit by the European Commission vice president Antonio Tajani who seemed pleased and impressed by the Creative Quarter initiative:

I am here because I totally agree with your strategy in favour of new industry, SMEs, young entrepreneurs and also for jobs… I proposed to Nottingham City Council to be the pilot project and to present your model in Brussels before the summer as the model for the third industrial revolution – after the carbon, after the oil, Nottingham.

Also in early December, Antenna hosted the visit of another politician, Nick Clegg, who was similarly full of praise. Some video clips from this visit are on the Post website.

Biocity, with 10 years of incubation of life science businesses, is another key player in the Creative Quarter. There is a good interview with Toby Reid, their director and member of the Creative Quarter Board, in LeftLion recently.

Finally, there is an evolving CQ group, meeting from time to time, in the Lace Market, led by "Ambassador for Creativity in Nottingham's Creative Quarter", Rikki Marr (@RikkiMarr). Anyone is welcome at their meetings, have a look at their twitter stream, @CQNotts, or their Facebook page for dates, times, and places. You don't have to join Facebook to read their page. [Note that the meeting on Friday, 21 December has been cancelled.]

Are you involved in CQ initiatives not mentioned here? Tell us about them in the comments, or do us a guest blog post – write to editor AT creativenottingham.com

John is one of our team of bloggers. He can be reached on john AT creativenottingham.com and followed on Twitter @johnwithbeard
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