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Arts Council England, East Midlands AmbITion Roadshow
Friday 19th June, Broadway Cinema, Nottingham
Arts Organisations in the digital age
09.45am Registration Tea/Coffee
Main Foyer
Mezz Bar Morning session with chair: Peter Shelton, First Movement-Level Centre Main Auditorium 10.00am Get Thinking!
Welcome from Peter Knott, Director of Arts and Development, Arts Council East Midlands, who will give an overview of the Arts Council England’s new corporate priority strand, Digital Opportunity. 10.15am Introduction to the AmbITion project, the roadshow, and the world of digital development by Hannah Rudman of AmbITion
Hannah will give a speedy overview of the AmbITion project, explain the focus of the roadshow and talk about why digital development is essential for the arts sector. Explaining how changes in socio-economic and cultural behaviours affect the landscape in which we work, Hannah will show how digital developments create benefits and opportunities for any arts organisation. www.consultrudman.com
10.40am Keynote: Alex Fleetwood
Alex Fleetwood founded Hide and Seek, the UK’s first festival of social games and playful experiences, in 2007. As well as Hide and Seek, Alex has produced projects including The Eternity Man, a film opera for Channel 4, and The Soho Project, an ARG for the London Games Festival. He recently produced Last Will, the prototype of a hybrid real world / online experience with Punchdrunk and HP Labs. Alex is a member of the ACE delegation to SXSWi, sits on the London artists advisory panel for Artists Taking the Lead and is a member of the Courvoisier Future 500. www.hideandseekfest.co.uk
11.25am Comfort break & coffee
11.50pm Case Study: Antony Pickthall, Liverpool Biennial/ the Bluecoat
Antony from Liverpool Biennale will present a case study of the Bluecoat and the journey through digital development. He will outline the organisation’s journey, the results and the lessons learnt. www.biennial.com/www.thebluecoat.org.uk 12.30pm Questions from the floor and debate with the morning’s speakers. 12.45pm Lunch & Networking Mezz Bar 1.35pm Introduction to EM online social network http://www.getambition-em.ning.com and Get Immersed! Workshops and Seminars from the AmbITion team
Main Auditorium
1.50 - 2.50pm - Session 1 Get Immersed! Workshops and Seminars
2.55 - 3.55pm - Session 2 Get Immersed! Workshops and Seminars
Various locations (see over page)
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Parallel sessions looking at practical things you can do to turn your organisation into a Web 2.0 organisation. The sessions are run twice for one hour each. See overleaf for workshops and location.
Please see the workshop attendee lists if you have forgotten what you pre-booked! Get Immersed! Workshops and Seminars Social Media in Action Workshop Room 3
An opportunity to take your first steps in to social media. A hands on short workshop looking at tagging and feeding your website effortlessly, creating a page turning on line brochure, mobile live streaming and your very own voice to text service. This is a quick glimpse in to the potential of social media, and how the web can be integrated to work for you and your organisation. For the workshop you will require: Sign up to the Amb:IT:ion digital opportunities network (You will access your profile page during the workshop); Wi-Fi enabled laptop; Mobile phone capable of text messaging. www.pcmcreative.com 10 people maximum per session.
Participation 2.0 Masterclass with Julian Tait from Littlestar Main Auditorium
Social Media technologist Julian Tait, charts a journey through the online social space. Social Media offers new ways of sharing, communicating and collaboration with a plethora of applications and technologies available. The talk looks at why people use them, the potential they offer to individuals and organisations and how to manage it all. Julian runs Littlestar, a production company in Manchester and has been involved with running and setting up arts organisations for the last ten years. Currently he programmes the internationally acclaimed Futuresonic/FutureEverything Social Technologies Summit and is Co-Founder of Social Media Cafe Manchester. littlestar.tv 25 people maximum per session.
Digital Video for Beginners Masterclass Studio
If you’ve ever wanted to create digital video, this is the workshop for you. Lets Go Global, an Internet TV and digital video production company, will give insight into what content might exist in your organisation, and how you might capture and disseminate it! www.letsgoglobal.tv 10 people maximum per session.
Intellectual Property Advice Masterclass Room 2
OWN-IT will give an overview of the intellectual property (IP) issues around digital content and some of the solutions. Intellectual property advice from people who know that content and live experience is the business of the arts. www.own-it.org. 10 people maximum per session.
Afternoon session with chair: Peter Shelton, First Movement-Level Centre Main Auditorium 4.00pm Get Participating! Twitter Masterclass AmbITion team. 4.15pm Question Time & Plenary
A chance to debate with the workshop speakers, ACE and the AmbITion team about digital development and reflect on the themes of the day. 4.45pm Closing Remarks & Close
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Biographies
Chair Peter Shelton Peter Shelton is Strategic Executive of First Movement, and the leader of the Level Project which uses broadband to create digital collaborations between learning disabled people across the East Midlands. He has worked with First Movement for the since 1988, developing a range of technology research projects that have opened new opportunities for access to contemporary arts. He also led the development of the Level Centre, the award winning new creative hub of First Movement’s operations. He also has a long history in contemporary music and multimedia development. www.first-movement.org.uk Ambition Director Hannah Rudman Hannah Rudman of Rudman Consulting, is Project Lead of AmbITion. She advises on national cultural policy around digital development for England, Scotland and Wales, and speaks regularly at UK cultural sector conferences. She is currently also Specialist Advisor to the Scottish Arts Council; Specialist Advisor to the Mission Models Money programme; Specialist Advisor to IC:Innovative Craft; and a Project Mentor to the £1m Edinburgh Portal Project Pilot. Hannah is also Arts Professional’s “Harnessing IT” columnist; and on the boards of Milk With 2 Sugars and New Media Scotland. consultrudman.com Hannah has just founded Envirodigital – a change agency that encourages organisations to become environmentally sustainable through digital developments. Envirodigital is currently helping to establish the new National Theatre Wales. envirodigital.com Keynote Speaker Alex Fleetwood Alex Fleetwood founded Hide and Seek, the UK’s first festival of social games and playful experiences. As well as Hide and Seek, Alex has produced projects including The Eternity Man, a film opera for Channel 4, and The Soho Project, an ARG for the London Games Festival. He recently produced Last Will, the prototype of a hybrid real world / online experience with Punchdrunk and HP Labs. Alex is a member of the ACE delegation to SXSWi, sits on the London artists advisory panel for Artists Taking the Lead and is a member of the Courvoisier Future 500. www.hideandseekfest.co.uk Case Study Antony Pickthall Antony has been working in arts marketing since 1988. In that time he has been involved in the birth of both Arts About Manchester and Audiences London working for a wide range of organisations in the performing and visual arts. He started out as Press and Publicity Officer for the Library Theatre, Manchester and has worked in Scotland for the Byre Theatre, St. Andrews, in London for London Bubble theatre company and in Wales for the Centre for Performance Research. He came to Liverpool in 2007 to work on the re-launch campaign for the Bluecoat and has been Head of Marketing & Communications at Liverpool Biennial since April 2008. In his spare time he continues to write short fiction and plays and took a one man show to the Edinburgh fringe in 2006. He has a blog at www.antonpick.com; www.thebluecoat.org.uk; www.biennial.com
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Participation 2.0 Workshop Leader Julian Tait Director of Littlestar Media Production Ltd in Manchester, an organisation that develops and creates content and events across a wide variety of platforms, both on and offline. A passionate advocate for arts and it’s ability to inform, inspire and transform individuals and communities. Julian originally trained as a photographer working for national music magazines. He was a founder of Redeye -The Photography Network and an instigator of LOOK07 year of photography in Manchester. This culminated in The Democratic Image - Photography and Globalisation Symposium looking at whether digital technologies were enabling an equitable information culture. Bitten by the social media bug he co-founded the Social Media Cafe Manchester and is the programmer for the FutureEverything Social. littlestar.tv Intellectual Property Workshop Organisation Own-it Own-it, Intellectual Property Advice Service, provides free advice, resources and events on intellectual property for creative businesses, including copyright, design rights, trade marks, patents, branding, licensing, royalties and contracts. Membership is free and members can attend events, access event podcasts, templates of legal contracts, legal advice and book one-to-one IP advice sessions with lawyers. www.own-it.org Digital Video Workshop Organisation Lets Go Global Enabling creativity for all through digital technology. Lets Go Global is a pioneering community media project: an arts-led, internet TV channel run by and for the local and diverse communities of Greater Manchester. www.letsgoglobal.tv Social Media Workshop Leader Caron Lyon Caron has worked throughout the UK for theatres and theatre companies in production, technical and backstage roles learning her Photoshop, IT and Graphics knowledge working with designers, directors and stage management teams on stage shows. Studied Web Design with the NITLC (National IT Learning Centre) in 2002. She worked as an art-worker as part of the original Boots.com team before spending 12 months as Intranet Manager at Nottingham Building Society she now runs her own Web Design and Events company PCM creative. Caron was named Axis E-business practitioner of the year 2008 being recognised for her work within the Social Media and Web 2.0 field. She is also the virtual stage manager of Pilot Theatre’s Second Life presence. www.pcmcreative.co.uk The AmbITion Roadshow Team Ambition Project Lead Hannah Rudman [email protected] Ambition Project Manager Adrian Slatcher [email protected] Ambition Roadshow Digital Content Producer Chi-chi Ekweozor [email protected] Ambition Roadshow Producer Erin Maguire [email protected]
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Links
All these links are on your own online regional digital opportunities network! http://getambition-em.ning.com AmbITion’s website http://www.getambition.com Nottingham Creative Business Awards – for creatives in Nottinghamshire http://www.creativeawards.biz Nottingham Creative Network http://www.nottinghamcreative.net Our partners’ websites, who host AmbITion content: ArtsProfessional http://www.artsprofessional.co.uk Creative & Cultural Skills http://www.ccskills.org.uk ACE’s new website - keep your eyes peeled at http://www.artscouncil.org.uk See the Biographies sheet for the links to the workshop leaders’ websites. AmbITion Roadshow tag is getambition
Twitter hashtag for this event is #getambition Tags: We are using a number of different social network sharing community platforms including del.icio.us, flickr, Scribd, slideshare, blip.tv, viddler, YouTube, Qik. We will be aggregating them on the North West Digital Opportunities social network.
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