ONE
BIG
DAY
FREE EVENT
FRIDAY 20
SEPTEMBER
CALLING WEST YORKSHIRE ARTISTS & CREATIVES!
Interested in the arts? Feeling creative?
Want to kickstart or develop your creative business or career?
Join us for a day of:
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Talks and Q&As with industry professionals
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Taster workshops in a variety of creative activities
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Learn about funding, marketing & setting up in business
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Meet and chat with successful creative businesses in The Arcade
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Live music stage, with open mic slots throughout the day
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Food and drink from The Arcade café
AT BYRAM ARCADE, WESTGATE, HUDDERSFIELD HD1 1ND
Full list of events and your opportunity to register below...
MUSIC STAGE [1pm - 5.30pm]
Hosted by Under Wraps
1pm: Open Mic
1:30pm: Sophie
2pm : Gremlin (DJ)
2:30pm: Nadia Amini
3:30pm: Cezza Sean
4pm: Mason Whittle
4:30pm: Open Mic
TALKS
An opportunity to hear from some of our most experienced industry professionals offering advice on progressing in the Creative Sector. Each talk is followed by a Q & A.
(All presentations will be given from the rehearsal space on the third floor in the Arcade.)
12.30pm - 1pm
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND
Stephen May, Relationship Manager, gives an overview of what ACE can offer and how to access funding for the arts.
1pm - 2.30pm
ANNA BREWIN - Intellectual Property Expert
How to protect your creative ideas.
Intellectual Property refers to creations of the mind, including designs, images and artistic works. Find out how you can protect your own creative works from being ripped off or stolen.
3pm - 3.30pm
INCLUSIVITY & REPRESENTATION IN THE ARTS
Joe Sproulle is an actor with Down’s Syndrome and part of Dark Horse’s ensemble. His credits include Line of Duty, Casualty, and The Gallows Pole. Joe delivers masterclasses in inclusive practice to creative organisations and educational institutions with a theatre profile.
He’s joined by Dark Horse’s Artistic Director Amy Cunningham, and together they’ll shine a light on the importance of inclusion and diversity in the arts.
ENTERPRISE TOURS
If you are interested in starting your own arts business, why not speak to people who have already succeeded? We can offer you a short tour around Byram Arcade where you can meet some of the arts business owners. They will offer you advice, tell you three things they wished they’d know before starting plus lots of insider tips.
Enterprise tours will start from the front entrance of Byram Arcade at
1pm, 2.30pm & 4pm
CREATIVE ACTIVITIES & TASTER WORKSHOPS
We are offering a menu of creative taster workshops. Have a go at something new and find out more about the many creative offers within Kirklees, including drama and theatre, arts and crafts and music.
Workshops will be held from the third floor, LAB Room
12.45pm - The LAB
Find out a bit more about our LAB courses. Thirty minutes of fun, drama based, personal development activities.
1.45pm - West Yorkshire Print Workshop
Join West Yorkshire Print Workshop to get your fingers inky and learn about traditional letterpress printing. You'll get to handle historic type blocks and learn how to use a traditional printing press, to create your very own mini print!
2.45pm - Chol Theatre - Imaginary Communities Introduction Workshop
Discover the magic of Imaginary Communities, Chol Theatre's flagship story-making process with co-creation at its heart. Imaginary Communities enables every participant to co-create an imaginary world; taking on their own unique character to explore their ideas through setting, characters and plot.
Chol is a dynamic and socially conscious theatre company based in Yorkshire. We work with children and young people from early years to early career. Our approach is entirely collaborative, working in everyday community and educational settings to co-create stories that are rooted in communities and local heritage.
3.45pm - PACE (Participation in the Arts and Creative Economy)
Would you like to get more involved with the creative industries? Find out more.
PROGRESSION EVENT
Find out about the variety of opportunities you can access and get involved with from a whole range of arts organisation with a chance to sit down and have a one to one chat about your specific needs.
ARCADE CAFÉ
If you haven’t eaten at the Arcade Cafe, you’re missing out!
The café will be open all day with their usual selection of drinks, cakes and fabulous food. Check out their menu here
