21^st May - Visual & Applied Arts
Practice + the art of survival

Shortcuts to making your creativity pay.
Sharing information, guidance & support available through ARC in the South East

Thursday 21^st May 2009
6.30 - 8.30pm

Speakers:
Jonathan Parsons, Co-ordinator, Artists’ Resource Centre
Stephen Turner, Artist
Lorna Dallas-Conte, Creative Advisor

Host: Lorna Dallas-Conte
Music: DJ John Ashman playing lounge vibes

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Jonathan Parsons - ARC
Jonathan is an artist, writer and teacher. He has 19 years' professional experience as an artist and has been exhibiting internationally since 1997. He has regularly taught at a variety of art schools and universities since 1999 and has been arc Co-ordinator at aspex since 2005. He was selected for the British Art Show 5 and was one of the youngest artists in Sensation at the Royal Academy of Arts. Recent exhibitions include Shifting Ground (Angel Row), The Jerwood Sculpture Prize (Jerwood Space & Bay Art, Cardiff) and Art Out of Place (Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery). His work is represented in public collections in the UK and private collections around the world. In 2008 his architectural installation, Let Me Count the Ways, was unveiled at the new British embassy, Doha, Qatar. See www.jonathanparsons.com and www.nicodimgallery.com

Stephen Turner
Stephen Turner is a visual artist based in Medway, whose work has been shown widely around Britain. Recent projects include ‘Theatrum Mundi: performance architecture’ at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland, ‘Tree Rings’ at Fermynwoods Contemporary Art in Kettering and the art action ‘Seafort’ (where the artist spent six weeks in Isolation in a wartime tower eight miles off the Kent coast). He is a passionate supporter of creative developments in north Kent and is a Member of Regional Council for Arts Council England.

Lorna Dallas-Conte
Lorna has a true portfolio career, centred on her own creative and entrepreneurial practice. Lorna’s extensive recent work as a specialist creative business adviser in areas of regeneration in the South East and London (through the Creative Industries Advisory Scheme – CIBAS and other activities) has demonstrated her exceptional abilities. She uses her creativity to work with and through a vast number of creative practitioners, organisations and the public and private sector. Her work encompasses business creation, consultancy, raising finance, research, project management, facilitation, mentoring and training activity. She is known for her breath of knowledge, commitment to constant updating of professional information, her excellent networking skills, enthusiasm and energy. She is unusual in that she holds an ACIB as well as a MA in Design Studies.

Her own creative practice stands on the boundaries between fine, applied art, design and fashion. Inspired by land, sea and sky scapes as well as people she explores transformation through colour, texture and adornment. Her work is currently textile and jewellery based. She exhibits regularly and works to commission.

25^th June - FizzBuzzJazz
NETworking or NOTworking

The why, how and where of turning contacts into opportunities

Thursday 25^th June 2009
6.30 - 8.30pm

Speaker:
Tim le Lean, MD, Year One Consulting

Host: Lorna Dallas-Conte
Music: Live jazz

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Tim Le Lean - Year One Consulting
Tim le Lean is the managing director of Year One Consulting, a management consultancy providing expertise and support for teams and organisations in the creative and cultural sector. He has been working as a consultant, facilitator and coach for over 12 years. He sits on the executive board of Culture@Canterbury and is a member of Canterbury College’s Arts, Media & Publishing stakeholder group.  He is a regular speaker at student enterprise events and works on a pro-bono basis supporting young entrepreneurs in the creative and cultural sector.

Last year Tim organised the first FizzBuzzJazz event to provide a relaxed and enjoyable way for creative people to make new contacts and spot opportunities. Since then, FizzBuzzJazz has seen DJs rubbing shoulders with Lord Mayors, designers sparking with comedians and council officers connecting with performers, all to the conducive sounds of some of Kent’s most promising up and coming jazz musicians.

23^rd July - The Business of Film
Exploring opportunities in the film business

Find out how to be part of the region’s burgeoning film scene, from community filmmaking
through to the next Hollywood blockbuster.

Thursday 23^rd July 2009
6.30 - 8.30pm

Speakers:
Jenny Cooper, Film Commissioner, Screen South
Gabrielle Lindemann, Kent Film Officer
Jan Dunn, Director, Medb Films

Host: Lorna Dallas-Conte
Music: DJ John Ashman playing lounge vibes

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Screen South
is the Government-backed strategic agency for film and media in the South East of England. We aim to stimulate a successful, vibrant film and media industry and to promote the widest possible enjoyment and understanding of film throughout the region.

Kent Film Office
The Kent Film Office was launched in 2006 by Kent County Council to help film and television productions to locate in Kent. We offer a free one stop shop service helping production companies to find locations, crew, facilities and anything else they might need during their stay in the county.

Our website www.kent.gov.uk/filmoffice has a library of Kent locations on offer as well as a database of Kent crew and facilities that visiting companies may need to call upon.

Medb Films
Medb Films is a Kent based production company. The company was incorporated in 2005 by filmmakers Elaine Wickham and Jan Dunn, who merged their slate and resources to produce financially viable feature films for theatrical release. Since incorporation, the company has produced three feature length films, Gypo (starring Paul McGann), Ruby Blue (starring Bob Hoskins) and The Calling (starring Brenda Blethyn) and a handful of short films.

Medb Films also run Medb Independent Film Focus, a trainee initiative supported by the Kent Film Office, Arts & Business and Screen South, which has run three trainee shadowing schemes to date.

Jan is a writer/director who originally had a classical training as an actress at drama school in London. She began to make a move from acting into directing in the mid nineties. She is currently in post production with her third feature film in as many years, The Calling.

3^rd September - Creative Funding
Money for Nothing

How to get the best support from the public sector...
your options explained in simple, matter-of-fact terms

Thursday 3^rd September 2009
6.30 - 8.30pm

Speaker:
Gina Fegan, CEO, SEMN

Host: Lorna Dallas-Conte
Music: DJ John Ashman playing lounge vibes

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South East Media Network is a business led consortium providing strategic focus for the regions digital content sector, it exists to enable the South East of England's digital content businesses increase their share of the global market.

SEMN provides two way communications between businesses, policy makers and support organisations. It informs local, regional and national strategies and drives improvement in business performance. SEMN engages with organisations and key stake holders from across the supply chain to ensure that support for digital content businesses is integrated and easy to access. SEMN is backed by the South East England's Development Agency.

1^st October - Business, Creativity & Education
Transforming lives together through creativity in learning

How creativity in education & business can be key to the 21^st Century economy

Thursday 1^st October 2009
6.30 - 8.30pm

Speaker:
Esme Chilton, CEO, Future Creative

Host: Lorna Dallas-Conte
Music: DJ John Ashman playing lounge vibes

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Future Creative is a dynamic social enterprise organisation which acts as a creative agency throughout Kent and Medway.  We are the area delivery organisation for the three-strand national Creative Partnerships programme, and also develop and deliver a range of innovative creative learning and bespoke programmes.

Hear from Esme Chilton, Chief Executive Director about how Future Creative fulfils its mission statement to 'work collaboratively to inspire and promote opportunities for creative learning and innovation in education, with the ambition of developing imaginations, aspirations and skills for life. Seeking to enable young people and their communities to optimise their potential, make improved life choices and contribute meaningfully to their changing world.'

This event will be an opportunity for potential creative & cultural, education and business sector partners to network, as well as explore the meaning of creative learning through an exploratory, creative intervention with some of our creative practitioners.

19^th November - Design Practices & Architecture
Space: the final business frontier

Effective ways of working with design professionals to maximise business opportunities for everyone.

Thursday 19^th November 2009
6.30 - 8.30pm

Speakers:
Steve Rowland, Director, Made in Medway
Chris Lamb, CEO, Kent Architecture Centre
Alan Mitchell, Baynes & Mitchell Architects

Host: Lorna Dallas Conte
Music: DJ John Ashman playing lounge vibes

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Made in Medway
Made in Medway is a Creative hub for artists and designers in Medway. An online gallery, directory, archive and resource centre for art and design, fashion, photography, sculpture and mixed media. You are looking at the most
recent work submitted by artists and designers on our directory. We are constantly evolving to showcase the new and exciting work coming out of the Creative Industries in Medway area as well as highlighting news and events.

Chris Lamb - Kent Architecture Centre
Chris has recently been appointed as the new Chief Executive of the Kent Architecture Centre.

Chris worked in practice for several years as project architect on a range of arts, housing and education projects. Increasingly interested in urban design he explored the use of computer-based generative modelling and urban form, which led to the founding of a digital design company specialising in the development of 3D worlds and interactive media. This work also led to Chris becoming a visiting lecturer/tutor to many universities including the AA.

Chris was formerly the Executive Director of the Architecture Centre for the Humber . He established the organisation through a number of programmes to respond to the challenges of the region. During this period, he became a Director of the Architecture Centre Network.

Alan Michell - Baynes and Mitchell
Alan Mitchell trained at the Architectural Association and Kingston University. Having spent three years working in small practices including Branson Coates Architecture, he joined Powell Moya Partnership in 1990 before joining forces with Peter Baynes in 1997 to form Baynes and Mitchell Architects. Between 1997 and 2001, Alan also taught Architecture, on a part-time basis, at the University of Cambridge and University of Greenwich.

Baynes and Mitchell Architects are a relatively small practice, now ten years old and numbering six people in total. The practice is currently involved in the design of a wide range of commercial and residential projects, building up a portfolio of work with a reputation for meticulous attention to detail. They have extensive experience in the renovation of existing buildings and in the incorporation of modern elements into old and historic buildings.

Alan's recent experience includes the refurbishment and adaptation of Joiners Shop in the Historic Dockyard Chatham, numerous domestic refurbishment projects, for both private and commercial clients, including adaptations to a Grade 2* listed house designed by CFA Voysey, and the redevelopment of 1-3 Rawstorne Place London, which was awarded an RIBA prize in 2003.