Calendar for 2008
This page contains all the forthcoming dates for the Link Up programme in 2007/8 and is updated as new events are confirmed. To receive regular updates please email the Link Up Team at linkup@shapearts.org.uk.
Please make sure you register for events at least one week before.
Upcoming events
Where Now? Building your career in the arts
23 July 2008
This one off event on 23 July will bring together professionals from across the arts including theatre, visual arts, television and creative writing:
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Yinka Shonibare, international visual artists, awarded the Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth Commission in June 2008.
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Jeff Banks, Director and Chief Executive of Theatre Resource, which specialises in disability arts and social inclusion. He also continues to work creatively as a theatre director.
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Vidar Hjardeng is a journalist by trade with over 20 years experience as a television producer. Currently Political Producer and Diversity Advisor for ITV.
Through presentations and workshops these and other speakers will deliver practical advice and workshops on how to find your first job and get it, how to keep your practice going and how to move up the career ladder.
BOOKING ESSENTIAL
Email linkup@shapearts.org.uk Tel 020 7424 7335
Advice and Guidance Sessions
April to September 2008
Personalised individual advice and guidance sessions to expand your employment skills and / or develop your artistic practice.
Over 40 mentors are now trained with the Link Up programme. Between them they represent a huge range of skills in a wider variety of arts practice, including film, visual arts, music, creative writing and more.
Contact Link Up now to discuss your interests and requirements and arrange an individual session on a one to one basis with a trained mentor.
BOOK direct with Liane on 020 7424 7335 or email linkup@shapearts.org.uk
Employers Event
September 2008 (Date to be confirmed)
This relaxed summer’s evening of speeches and Q and A is designed to make the processes of employing deaf and disabled people easy to understand. Shape and some inspiring guest speakers will take you through the sometimes confusing legalities and into the realisation that this area of HR shouldn’t be an intimidating or difficult process.
It is easy to put provisions in place to ensure everyone has access to employment, and Shape is funded to help you do so! So come and enjoy the National Theatre’s stunning river views, share an evening with Shape and ensure you are up to date with your disability policies, or take the first steps towards your, newly mandatory, Disability Action Plan.
Contact the Link Up team to be the first to be notified for this forthcoming event.
This project is funded by the London Development Agency (LDA): the Mayor’s agency for sustainable economic development.
