Creative Industry Career Development Days
Introduction
Creative Industry Career Development Days provide practical advice and inspirational insights from deaf and disabled professionals across a wide variety of art forms. These specialised events introduce professional development and signposting opportunities and are based around developing employment skills as well as artists’ individual practice. Each event focuses on a different art form or cultural group including; Visual Arts and Crafts, Music, and the Written Word.
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Yinka Shonibare, winner of the Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth Commission to speak at the FINAL Link Up Career Development Day on 23 July 2008! See below for how to apply for this unmissable event.
Programme outline
The format of the day includes:
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Presentations from established arts professionals
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Displays and information from specialist arts organisations
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Overview of the Link Up Mentoring and Advice & Guidance schemes
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Opportunity to discuss your interests and the Link Up programme
Speakers on the day will draw from their own experience to provide practical advice on furthering a career in the arts in London.
Speakers to date have included:
David Bower
David Bower, Artistic Director of Signdance Collective, who has a varied career as an actor (famously in ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’), dancer and director. At the ‘Performing Arts’ event in February 2007 David spoke about the importance of international working and collaboration in Signdance’s work, and previewed a presentation of their latest work ‘But Beautiful.’
Maria Oshodi
Also in February, Maria Oshodi, Artistic Director and Founder of arts production company Extant; recently awarded the Arts & Business Diversity Award for their innovative productions, spoke about her experience as a writer, working with organisations including the Royal Court Theatre, Channel 4 and Graeae Theatre.
Ben Cove
Ben Cove, studied Architecture at the University of Nottingham and Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, he is currently taking part in ACME’s Fire Station residency programme and studying part-time on the Masters at Goldsmiths College. Cove spoke at the ‘Visual Arts and Crafts’ event in May 2007, about how his career can be traced through a series of interconnecting opportunities.
Sophie Woolley
Sophie Woolley, writer, performer and actress who specialises in darkly comic character monologues spoke at the ‘Written Word’ event in July 2007. She has performed character monologues around Europe and Russia, had her short stores published in Sleaze Nation and The Idler and her one person play ‘When to Run’ is touring England in summer 2007.
Who should attend?
The day will be of interest to a wide range of deaf and disabled artists. From emerging and more established practitioners as well as those who would like to pursue an interest in the arts but are unsure how to begin.
Emerging artists seeking specific advice to maximise their employment potential or to develop their practice will receive first hand advice from professionals in their field.
For more established practitioners the day will offer an opportunity to put specific questions to arts organisations and advisors, and the opportunity to find out more about completing training to become a paid Mentor to the Link Up programme.
If you have an interest in exploring careers and opportunities in the arts but are not sure where to start, the event will provide you with a way to explore different interests and discover organisations that can support and advise you along the way.
When I went to the Shape event at Tate Modern I found myself in a room of like-minded people, creatives that were given a level playing field.
Zoe White, participant in ‘Visual Arts and Crafts’ event, Tate Modern, July 2007.
To apply
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If you have further questions please see ‘Eligibility/FAQ’ or ‘Contact Us’
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To apply to attend a Career Development Day, please complete the application form, downloadable here.
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If you would like to receive the form in a different format, or would like to complete it over the phone with a member of the Link Up team please contact us, see details in the ‘Contact Us’ section.
FREE programme with access and childcare costs covered.
This project is funded by the London Development Agency (LDA): the Mayor’s agency for sustainable economic development.
