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CONTENTS

1. EASTON & ST WERBURGHS ARTS TRAIL – SATURDAY 30 JUNE & SUNDAY 1 JULY
2. THEATRE BRISTOL OPEN SPACE – SATURDAY 21 JULY
3. ASHTON COURT SECRET GARDEN – CREATIVE WORKSHOPS
4. TURN YOUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INTO PROFIT
5. CREATING MORE BUSINESS FOR YOUR BUSINESS
6. SPIKE ISLAND PRINTMAKERS SUMMER SCHOOL
7. DESIGN MATTERS TRAINING EVENTS
8. THE NEW ENTREPENEURSHIP SCHOLARSHIP
9. BRISTOL STORIES - FREE WATERSHED SCREENINGS THIS WEEK
10. WARNING: EMAIL SCAMS TARGET ARTISTS
11. BRISTOL CREATIVES MEMBERS PRIVILEGES

1. EASTON & ST WERBURGHS ARTS TRAIL – SATURDAY 30 JUNE & SUNDAY 1 JULY

This year artists, makers and performers in Easton and St Werburghs have joined forces, holding their annual arts trails on Saturday 30 June & Sunday 1 July. There will be art installations and creative interventions connecting the two communities that sit either side of the M32.

EASTON

Over 85 artists, makers and performers will be taking part in group art exhibitions, performances and workshops at the Easton Community Centre, Silai for Skills and Kebele Community Cooperative. There are also art exhibitions in open houses, gardens, cafes and in St Marks Road Baptist Church.

The Easton Arts Trail programme includes a diverse range of free adult and children’s creative workshops including Brazilian Percussion with Bacana Arts and Willow Weaving with Eastside Community Garden Centre at The Trinity Community Arts Centre, and Calligraphy, Glass and Tile Painting, Egyptian Dance and ‘Carnival of Animals’ workshops at the Easton Community Centre. There is a range of free textile workshops taking place at Silai for Skills too.

The Easton Arts Trail will also include art interventions, live music, live art and street art in the streets and alleyways of Easton. This free event is open to everyone. Visit www.eastonartstrail.co.uk for full details of artists, makers and performers taking part and to download the event map and music, workshops and performance programmes.

ST WERBURGHS

This year's trail features over 50 artists, all with local connections. With 22 venues including houses, studios, the community centre, the city farm café and the local primary school. There will even be art in the park and on local allotments.

The art trail includes a wide range of artwork such as pottery and ceramics, sculptures, jewellery, drawings, photography, textiles, mixed media and much more.

Look out for the Diamond Shaped Flags outside all the venues. You can pick up a brochure with details of all the venues and the map either from local shops before the weekend or from the venues during the art trail.

2. THEATRE BRISTOL OPEN SPACE – SATURDAY 21 JULY

Following the Bristol Old Vic's recent announcement of closure for emergency refurbishment, and in order to provide a neutral space for people to talk about the situation for Theatre in Bristol, Theatre Bristol is holding an Open Space event at Circomedia, Portland Square in Bristol on Saturday 21st July 2007.

Open Space has been used productively all over the world. It will be a dynamic open-ended event that enables a self-organising group to use its collective imagination to deal with complex issues and it will achieve this in an incredibly short space of time. A strong point of Open Space is its ability to unite groups of enormous diversity. To that end they are encouraging all participants.

For more information visit www.theatrebristol.co.uk for more information.

3. ASHTON COURT SECRET GARDEN – CREATIVE WORKSHOPS

This year Ashton Court Festival is creating a new area called Secret Garden, it will be a community/family/creative/alternative area with a more chilled out atmosphere. An alternative to the full-on music orientated stages that have previously dominated the festival. As well as having a tipi with acoustic music, spoken word, and hopefully a ceildh, there will also be a healing area, community garden/allotment input, storytelling and a labyrinth. The organisers also want to set up a marquee for art workshops. If you're interested in running creative workshops at the festival then they’d like to hear from you. This project is being run on a shoestring with payment of guest passes and expenses only.

Contact Linda Westmoreland at lin.west@btinternet.com for more information

4. TURN YOUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INTO PROFIT

Date: Monday 2 July, 10.00am – 4.00pm

Are you a visual artist wanting to know what your ‘Intellectual Property’ is and how you can profit from it? What are Copyright, Design rights, Patents, Trademarks and Licensing? How do I define and protect my Intellectual Property assets?

This seminar is aimed at helping a broad range of creatives find ways of taking much greater control of their potential earning power, by not only understanding what ‘Intellectual Property’ is but also utilising that understanding profitably.

This is a practical, informative event, with group participation and discussion. It costs £25, call Angie Thoms on 0117 314 4610 to book a place.

5. CREATING MORE BUSINESS FOR YOUR BUSINESS

Date: June 28, 9.30am -3.30pm

How do you generate more sales and find new markets for your creative products and services? And how can you improve your marketing without spending more money?

With a focus on creative businesses, this workshop provides the tools and opportunities for you to:

•Make your product more attractive to potential customers
•Explore new ways of finding more customers – including overseas!
•Build more sales through effective communications
•Share challenges and solutions with like-minded colleagues

This seminar costs £25, to attend, please email ed@arbutusinnovation.com or call 01386 751516.

6. SPIKE ISLAND PRINTMAKERS SUMMER SCHOOL

Dates: Mon 30 July – Fri 3 August, 9.30am - 4.30pm

Introduction to printmaking - taught by a range of experienced tutors, this summer school covers all the print processes, giving you an introduction of what is possible within relief-printing, collograph, screenprinting, monoprinting and etching.

This course costs £250.00, call 0117 929 0135 for enquiries or to book a place.

7. DESIGN MATTERS TRAINING EVENTS

Design Matters is a programme of events, which aim to help designers and design companies in Bristol take their businesses to the next level:

Design your Future - Thursday 5 July
What’s Your Brand? - Friday 6th July
Clients are Only Human - Friday 5 October
How to Make Money While You Sleep - Weds 31 October
People Potential - Wednesday 24 October

These events have been subsidised by SWERDA and ACE, SW allowing ArtsMatrix to offer them to you at only £55 per day. Contact ruth.staple@artsmatrix.org.uk for more information about these events or to book places.

8. THE NEW ENTREPENEURSHIP SCHOLARSHIP

Deadline: Monday 6 August, 9am.

Are you thinking about starting a business or becoming self-employed? In selected areas of Bristol and Bath the New Entrepreneurship Scholarship could offer you Business Training & Advice, a grant of up to £1,500 and the opportunity to gain a Business Start-up NVQ Level 3 Qualification.

The next programme starts in September 2007. Applications must be sent in as soon as possible (no later than 9 am on Monday 6 Aug 07). To find out if you qualify and how to apply please contact Moira Hibbard on 0117 944 5330 or email moirah@brave.org.uk.

9. BRISTOL STORIES - FREE WATERSHED SCREENINGS THIS WEEK

A week’s celebration of the 150 stories made during two years of the Bristol Stories project, which enables groups and individuals across the city to tell their many stories about Bristol. Each day, this week a selection will be presented at a free matinee screening and will focus on the following themes: People, Place, Communities, Creativity and History. Monday's theme is People.

For further information on the programme visit www.bristolstories.org. These screenings are free - please collect a ticket from Box Office on the day.

10. WARNING: EMAIL SCAMS TARGET ARTISTS

There are a number of email 'art scams' doing the rounds at the moment - it seems like a lot of local artists have received scam emails purporting to want to buy several paintings/pieces of art in one order from several different email accounts.

Please be suspicious of anything that seems even a bit too good to be true, such as buying more than people normally do, especially in one go. This is likely to be some sort of cheque scam, so don’t waste your time.

11. BRISTOL CREATIVES MEMBERS PRIVILEGES

Don't forget that your free membership of Bristol Creatives entitles you to post your own articles and announcements in News, details of forthcoming events, courses, gigs and exhibitions in the Event Calendar and list your business in the new Creative Directory. Just visit Bristol Creatives and log in and select 'create content' under your name on the right hand side of the screen, then choose from one of the following options:

forum topic - to create a new topic for discussion in the Forum
local event - to create an event to appear on the Event Calendar
member directory listing - to list your business in the Creative Directory
story - to create an article for News

Email sally@bristolcreatives.co.uk if you have any problems logging in.

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