Creative Future Art & Writing Programme 2017 - 2018

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Art & Writing Programme September 2017 - March 2018

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Welcome to Creative Future Creative Future supports writers and artists who lack opportunities due to mental health issues, disability, identity or other social circumstances.

We are a bridge enabling people to move from the margins to the mainstream.

We are a catalyst for individual change, brokering creative opportunities to empower people.

Creative Future provides the support and professional development to enable people to use their creative talent to change their lives. We use innovative methods to bring new art to new audiences, putting art in unusual places and ensuring ease of access to our services.

We promote artistic excellence, encouraging diversity & inclusion in the arts by providing opportunities to under-represented artists. Unique in the breadth of people we work with and the depth of how we work with them, Creative Future works with those who are engaging with the arts for the first time up to the professional who needs support. We are experts at supporting people with mental health issues.

We look forward to seeing you soon.

Dominique De-Light Director

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CONTENTS ARTISTS’/WRITERS’ SHOWCASES Tight Modern 2018 Creative Future Literary Awards Showcase 2017

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FOR WRITERS Writing Drop In Reading & Performing Your Work Editing & Preparing Your Work For Submission Social Media For Writers Peer Support Writing Group Meet The Writing Organisations

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FOR ARTISTS Art Drop In - Brighton 2017 Art Drop In - Brighton 2018 Art Drop In - Crawley Instagram & Social Media For Artists Navigating The Art World What’s It Worth? Pricing Your Artwork Meet The Arts Organisations

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FOR BOTH ARTISTS & WRITERS Meet The Artist - Maria Amidu Meet The Writer - Penny Pepper Meet The Writer - Alan Morrison Meet The Artist - Aidan Moesby Developing Confidence - Creative Coaching Create Your Own Website 1:1 Social Media Sessions How To Write Individual Arts Council Applications Other Services

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ARTISTS’ SHOWCASE Tight Modern is a touring miniature replica of London’s iconic Tate Modern, showcasing 80+ under-represented artists in what we believe is the world’s smallest pop-up gallery.

The 2016-17 tour was a huge success, visiting Portsmouth, Redbridge, St Helens Merseyside and Brighton—seen by an estimated 150,000 people and featured on BBC South and ITV Meridian. Many thanks to all the artists who entered, our sponsors and partners.

We’re currently planning the 17-18 Tight Modern Award Winners Tour. As a result of reduced resources, we are unable to host a national competition this year, but you can still vote for which Award Winners you think should win the professional development prizes on offer.

Watch out for the Award Winners Tight Modern tour coming near you soon! Keep up to date and sign up to our newsletter at:

www.tightmodern.org.uk Tight Modern @TightModern

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WRITERS’ SHOWCASE The 2017 Creative Future Literary Award winners will be announced on 11 October!

Founded in 2013, the Creative Future Literary Awards is the UK’s only national literary competition specifically aimed at talented writers who lack opportunities and are under-represented in the publishing and literature world.

Twelve prizes will be awarded in poetry and short fiction, including £1,000 in cash as well as professional and artistic development support from leading organisations such as The Literary Consultancy, Penned in the Margins, Myriad Editions, The Poetry School and Penguin Random House Writers’ Academy.

The finalists will read their work alongside international best-selling author Kit de Waal and acclaimed poet, playwright and performer Sabrina Mahfouz. This showcase will be held at the Studio Theatre at the iconic Birmingham Central Library, as part of the Birmingham Literature Festival.

Date: Wednesday 11 October 2017 Time: 7:00-9:30pm Venue: Studio Theatre, Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square Broad St, Birmingham B1 2ND

This event is British Sign Language-interpreted.

‘Important Nothings,’ the new prize-winners’ anthology, will be available after the showcase. Book your free ticket and stay in touch for news about the 2018 literary awards at:

www.cfliteraryawards.org.uk CFLiteraryAwards @CFLitAwards

Photo: People Staring

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FOR WRITERS WRITING DROP IN Experiment with prose, poetry and scriptwriting in a safe, supportive and fun environment, and if you wish, share your writing with others. This drop in group is open to all levels of ability and focuses on different writing exercises each session.

Fee: Dates:

£3 suggested donation per session Fridays 2017: 15 & 29 September, 13 & 27 October, 10 & 24 November, 8 & 22 December 2018: 5 & 19 January, 2 & 16 February, 2, 16 & 30 March, 13 April

Time: 10:00am-12:00pm Venue: Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton BN1 1AF Tutor: Lisa Fulthorpe is a freelance writer who has written for television, (C4’s Smack The Pony and BBC’s Doctors), BBC Radio, and film (London Film Festival). She was a runner up in the BBC talent award and a script reader for the Film Council amongst others. Her plays have been recently performed at the Camden Fringe Festival. She has also been a Theatre Critic for London’s What’s On Magazine. She was co-founder of Scriptease (www.scripteaseuk. wordpress.com), a script development group based in Brighton. She now works at Brighton Film School.

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READING & PERFORMING YOUR WORK Access your audience in another way and reduce your anxiety of public reading.

Get your work off the page and into their ears! Run by an experienced performance mentor with an actor on hand to demonstrate how it should be done, this workshop will give you the confidence to deliver your work in public.

Fee: Date: Time: Venue:

£40/£20 concessions Thursday 5 October 2017 10:00am-4:00pm Conference Room, Community Base, 113 Queens Road Brighton BN1 3XG

Tutors: Sara Clifford is a playwright, drama practitioner, trainer and lecturer.

She currently lectures at the Central School of Speech and Drama and has been a trainer for Creative Partnerships. She has written over 20 plays which have been performed at Soho Theatre, York Theatre Royal and Nottingham Playhouse. For more information see www.saraclifford.com Mark Wilson is a published playwright with work for both the stage and BBC Radio 4. He is also a theatre director and a qualified coach working in schools and universities on confidence building and the creation of effective teams.

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EDITING & PREPARING YOUR WORK FOR SUBMISSION Get your work ready for publication or competitions. Learn the art of editing, redrafting and polishing, increasing your chances of success. This workshop will show you how to get work ready for submission via a series of fun exercises.

Please note: part of the workshop will include editing your own writing, so please bring a hard copy of a piece of your writing. However, if you don’t have a piece of writing to work on, the tutor will provide a writing sample for you to work with.

Fee: Date: Time: Venue:

£20/£10 concessions Wednesday 31 January 2018 1:00-4:00pm New Writing South, 9 Jew Street, Brighton BN1 1UT

Tutor: Pat Winslow has over 20 years’ experience delivering creative writing workshops to vulnerable adults and marginalised communities. Pat has worked as a writer in residence in a prison and two hospitals.

She has extensive experience of running workshops in schools as well as in further and community education.

For more info, please see: www.patwinslow.com

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SOCIAL MEDIA

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WRITERS

Learn the basics of social media for writers. Get yourself seen on Twitter and Facebook, learn to post on Instagram, and access the websites that can publish your flash fiction. Make contact with other writers. This workshop is aimed at beginners to social media.

Please note: You MUST have a general understanding of computers to attend this workshop (if you are unsure if you are suitable for the course please contact the tutor via Creative Future). Please ensure you have an email account set up and access to your emails on the day.

Fee: Date: Time: Venue:

£20/£10 concessions per session 5 December 2017 & 19 February 2018 2:00-4:00pm IT Suite, Jubilee Library, Jubilee Street, Brighton BN1 1GE

Tutor: Erinna Mettler’s first novel, Starlings (2011), was described by one critic as doing for Brighton what The Wire did for Baltimore. She is a founder and codirector of The Brighton Prize for short fiction and of the spoken word group Rattle Tales. Her stories have been published internationally and short-listed for the Manchester Fiction Prize, The Bristol Prize, The Fish Prize and The Writers & Artists Yearbook Award. Erinna’s new short story collection on the theme of fame, Fifteen Minutes, will be published by crowd-funding publisher Unbound in 2017.

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PEER SUPPORT WRITING GROUP

Are you an emerging/intermediate writer looking for a mutually supportive group? This workshop will support a group of poets and/or fiction writers to share their work and get positive, constructive feedback from like-minded peers and an experienced writer/facilitator.

Over three sessions, the facilitator will create a welcoming and safe, supportive environment for sharing, feedback and discussion. Following this, the goal is for the group to continue to meet on its own.

This group is limited to 10 places and is by application only. Please submit: •

Writing sample – 500 words prose or excerpt / 2-3 poems

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Short description of your writing experience and why you want to do the course (2-3 paragraphs)

The deadline for applications is 30 October 2017.

Please send your application to operations@creativefuture.org.uk or by post to Creative Future, Community Base, 113 Queens Road, Brighton BN1 3XG. Fee: £40/£20 concessions Dates, time and venue (Brighton-based) will be mutually decided by the group.

Facilitator: Claudia Gould has taught Literature and Creative Writing for over 20 years. She’s a published novelist (Benjamin the True, Kahn & Averill) and short story writer (Jesus in America and Other Short Stories, Utah State University Press).

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MEET

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WRITING ORGANISATIONS

A free event for writers looking to broaden their knowledge of available writing and development opportunities.

There are so many opportunities and creative development activities out there.

Do you know about them all? Come to this informal event and meet the South East’s writer’s organisations. Hear from New Writing South, Survivors’ Press, Waterloo Press, Disability Arts Online, Words of Colour and Creative Future about opportunities on offer. There will be a chance to ask questions and speak individually to them. Come along and find out what they can do for you.

Fee: Date: Time: Venue:

£3 suggested donation Tuesday 31 October 1:30-3:30pm Conference Room, Community Base, 113 Queens Rd, Brighton BN1 3XG

This event is British Sign Language-interpreted

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FOR ARTISTS ART DROP IN – Brighton 2017 This is a relaxed and friendly class, open to all abilities. Over the course we’ll cover the basics of drawing using still life, portrait models and life models as well as exploring a wide range of different artistic processes including drawing, mono printing, collage and acrylic painting.

Fee: 2017:

£3 suggested donation per session Thursdays 7 & 21 September, 5 & 19 October, 2, 16 & 30 November, 14 December Time: 3:30-5:30pm Venue: Unit 10, South Level 5 New England House New England Street, Brighton BN1 4GH Tutor: Mary Martin studied Fine Art Printmaking at Brighton University, graduating in 2014. She has since been working at Draw as a tutor and session leader. Her artistic practice is currently based on highly detailed observation drawing and etchings/dry points. For more info, visit www.marymartin.info

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ART DROP IN Brighton 2018 This is a relaxed and friendly class, open to all abilities. Over the course we’ll cover the basics of drawing using still life, portrait models and life models as well as exploring a wide range of different artistic processes including drawing, mono printing, collage and acrylic painting.

Fee: 2018:

£3 suggested donation per session Wednesdays 3, 17 & 31 Jan, 14 & 28 Feb, 14 & 28 March, 11 April Time: 3:30-5:30pm Venue: Cornerstone Community Centre Church Road, Hove BN3 2FL

Tutor: Maria Kuipers is an abstract painter who has won a prize from the Georgia Museum of Art and for her West Pier Art project. She facilitates expressive workshops where participants explore different approaches and techniques to painting and drawing. For more info visit www.axisweb.org/p/ mariakuipers

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ART DROP IN Crawley Art at Crawley Library is a beginner to intermediary drop in group open to everyone (under-represented and disabled people get priority booking). The sessions will include fun exercises to loosen the hand and focus the eye. Session content is decided within the group with guidance from the tutor.

Fee: Dates: Time: Venue:

£3 suggested donation per session Fridays - 22 September, 6 & 20 October, 3 & 17 November, 1 December 2:00-4:00pm Longley Room, Crawley Library, Southgate Ave, Crawley RH10 6HG

Tutor: Maria Kuipers is an abstract painter who has won a prize from the Georgia Museum of Art and for her West Pier Art project. She facilitates expressive workshops where participants explore different approaches and techniques to painting and drawing. For more info see www.axisweb.org/p/mariakuipers

Many thanks to Brewers for providing free arts materials.

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INSTAGRAM & SOCIAL MEDIA

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ARTISTS

Are you new to social media? Do you want to understand the ins and outs of promoting your art on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, but are not sure where to start?

This 2 hour workshop will provide you with an introduction to social media and an overview of the available platforms. Suitable for complete beginners, the workshop will explain how to set up accounts, participate in online communities and promote your work, particularly Instagram.

Please note: You MUST have a general understanding of computers to attend this workshop (if you are unsure if you are suitable for the course please contact the tutor via Creative Future). Please ensure you have an email account set up and access to your emails on the day. Please bring digital files of your artwork or access to them if stored on the web (e.g. Dropbox).

Fee: Dates & Times: Venue:

£20/£10 concessions per session Friday 3 November 2017, 2:00-4:00pm Friday 23 February 2018, 1:00-3:00pm IT Suite, Jubilee Library, Jubilee Street, Brighton BN1 1GE

Tutor: Niamh Hicks is Creative Future’s Digital Platform Manager. She manages all of our websites and promotes Creative Future’s activities across various social media accounts. Niamh teaches 1:1 Social Media with Creative Future’s service users, using skills developed through her background in marketing and social media. Outside of Creative Future, Niamh manages a number of social media accounts, both for arts organisations and businesses.

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NAVIGATING

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ART WORLD

Through a mixture of presentation and exercises, this one-day seminar demystifies the art world and provides concrete ideas for how you might enable your work to get under the radar of people most pertinent to your practice. For emerging artists through to more established artists looking to refresh their knowledge, it looks at: •

The ecology of the art world from the artist-led space to international art fairs via public institutions and commercial spaces

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The roles of curator, gallerist and commissioner as well as other key players in the art world

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The strategies and tools you can use to promote your practice and approach galleries and curators

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Establishing and making best use of your networks

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Identifying local and national exhibiting opportunities

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The background to setting up your own exhibitions

Fee: Date: Time: Venue:

£40/£20 concessions Monday 20 November 2017 10:00am-4:00pm Green Room, Phoenix Gallery, 10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton BN2 9NB

Tutor: Lucy Day is Director of A Woman’s Place Project CIC and a curator with many years experience of developing exhibitions in private, public and artist led spaces. She trained and practiced as an artist. She worked at SPACE studios for 5 years, leaving as a Director, to develop the Day+Gluckman curating partnership in 2006. Their current project A Woman’s Place, received funding from the Arts Council of England and the National Trust to undertake a programme of arts events and commissions 2017 – 2018. Alongside her curating career, Day has supported artists and arts organisers. through mentoring, workshops and organisational change, working with a-n, Artquest and elsewhere. She is also a lecturer, writer and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

For more information, visit www.lucyday.co.uk

These sessions have been updated from a programme originally developed with a-n, The Artists Information Company.

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WHAT’S IT WORTH? Pricing Your Artwork Through a mixture of presentation and exercises, this half-day seminar looks at the value of your practice from pricing your artwork to fees you might charge: •

Contextualising your art practice and career stage in relation to your potential market

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Identifying your motivation

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Understanding your audience

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Local, national and international factors

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Pricing beyond the object

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Formulas, toolkits & the benefits of research

Fee: Date: Time: Venue:

£20/£10 concessions Monday 26 February 2018 10:00am-1:00pm Green Room, Phoenix Gallery, 10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton BN2 9NB

Tutor: Lucy Day (see p.14)

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MEET

THE

ARTS ORGANISATIONS

A free event for artists looking to broaden their knowledge of available arts opportunities.

There's so many opportunities and creative development activities out there.

Do you know about them all? Come to this informal event and meet the South East’s arts organisations. Hear Fabrica, Photoworks, Towner Art Gallery, ONCA, Brighton University, Phoenix Gallery, Devonshire Collective, Blue Monkey Network and Creative Future talk about what opportunities are on offer. There will be a chance to ask questions and speak individually to organisations' staff. Come along and find out what they can do for you.

Fee: Date: Time: Venue:

£3 suggested donation Tuesday 6 February 2018 1:00-3:30pm Conference Room, Community Base, 113 Queens Road, BN1 3XG

This event is British Sign Language-interpreted

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FOR BOTH ARTISTS & WRITERS MEET

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ARTIST/WRITER SERIES

This series showcases underrepresented writers and artists and how they got their work ‘out there’. They aim to inform and inspire and give you the opportunity to meet practicing professional artists and writers.

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THE ARTIST Maria Amidu

Maria Amidu is interested in the social relationships between people mediated by things, usually objects and places. She is drawn to what is hidden, obscured and less obvious in varying historical and contemporaneous collective situations and makes works to try and substantiate these lived experiences.

Maria pays particular attention to the debates around social practice and the role visual art plays in activating change. She is interested in the lines drawn between arts practices that are motivated by and dependent on encounters and relationships with people, and practices that are not. She also worries/ wonders about the limitations and boundaries intrinsic to art making whilst simultaneously, embracing its ideologies and unknowns.

Maria is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, and exhibited nationally and internationally before pursuing a social practice. She has developed projects with a number of museums, galleries and organisations, including the Houses of Parliament, National Maritime Museum Greenwich, People United, Turner Contemporary, PEER, A New Direction, Parramatta Artists’ Studios, the V&A, Arnolfini, Bristol Royal Children’s Hospital, Iniva, the Foundling Museum, Hackney Museum, Metropolitan Archives, Horniman Museum & Gardens, and the 198 Gallery. Her work is in a number of collections, including the Pilkington Collection at the V&A Museum, London; the Arnolfini Collection Trust, Bristol; and the National Drawing Collection, Limerick. She has won a wide range of fellowships, grants and awards. For more info, visit www.mariaand.co Fee: Date: Time: Venue:

£3 suggested donation Tuesday 24 October 2017 2:00-3:00pm Conference Room, Community Base, 113 Queens Road, BN1 3XG

This event is British Sign Language-interpreted

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MEET

THE WRITER Penny Pepper Penny Pepper is a writer, poet and well-known rights activist. Her memoir First In The World Somewhere is published on 7 September by award-winning publishers Unbound. In 2018 Burning Eye Books will publish her highly anticipated first poetry collection.

She writes regularly for The Guardian and has appeared on Newsnight, Sky News, BBC Radio 5 Live, and on Radio 4’s Today programme. She was also a guest reader for her friend, much loved Silent Witness actor-comedian, Liz Carr on Radio 4’s With Great Pleasure, and a recent guest on Woman’s Hour, for their 70th birthday edition.

Her explicit taboo-breaking book about sex and disabled people Desires Reborn was published in 2012, and in 2013 she won a Creative Future Literary Award. In 2015 her one woman show, Lost in Spaces premiered at the Soho Theatre before going on a successful tour. She has also performed in Oxford, Edinburgh, and New York.

She is currently finishing work on her novel, Fancy Nancy, and starting a new one. She likes cats, is a music junkie and once won an Erotic Oscar.

Photo: Kaye Sayer-Mayer

For more about Penny, see www.pennypepper.co.uk Fee: Date: Time: Venue:

£3 suggested donation Thursday 23 November 2017 6:00-7:00pm New Writing South, 9 Jew Street Brighton BN1 1UT

This event is British Sign Language-interpreted

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MEET

THE WRITER Alan Morrison

Poetry has been a means of self-expression for Alan for over twenty years; it has been a medium through which he has been able to explore and try and make sense of his own obsessional mind, while also confronting in poetry some of the most challenging social and political themes of the times.

Alan will talk about how the personal and the political have always sparred in his poetry; of how the most authentic occupation he ever had was as a voluntary poetry workshop tutor in a psychiatric hospital; of the conflict between poetic occupation and conventional employment, and the 'occupational hazard' for many poets of intermittent or even long-term unemployment. He will read from his latest collection, Tan Raptures, which is themed around the welfare cuts and their catastrophic effects.

Alan Morrison is the author of several critically acclaimed poetry collections which include A Tapestry of Absent Sitters (Waterloo Press, 2009), Keir Hardie Street (Smokestack Books, 2010), Captive Dragons (Waterloo Press, 2011), Blaze a Vanishing/The Tall Skies (Waterloo Press, 2013), Shadows Waltz Haltingly (Lapwing, 2015) and Tan Raptures (Smokestack Books, 2017). He is editor of The Recusant (www.therecusant.org.uk).

He edited two ground-breaking anti-austerity anthologies, Emergency Verse - Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State (2011) and The Robin Hood Book - Verse Versus Austerity (2012). His poetry has been awarded grants from the Arts Council, the Royal Literary Fund and the Society of Authors.

For more about Alan, see www.alanmorrison.co.uk Fee: Date: Time: Venue:

£3 suggested donation Thursday 18 January 2018 2:00-3:00pm New Writing South, 9 Jew Street, Brighton BN1 1UT This event is British Sign Language-interpreted

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MEET

THE ARTIST Aidan Moesby As an artist, curator and writer, Aidan’s work is underpinned through conversations as practice-based research: real, overheard, visual, imagined, or virtual. At the intersection of the visual arts, wellbeing and increasingly, technology, he uses the locations he occupies as a ‘Live Laboratory’ to research, develop, test and make work.

Site or context-specific interventions serve as a catalyst for a socially-engaged conversation and personal or communal exploration. Discussions provide the core for the curation of public events, seminars and forums to specifically engage a non-art audience and explore the work in a wider context. This diversification and cross-pollination is integral to his overall practice.

Aidan is particularly concerned with language: literally in text-based pieces, objects as metaphor and the emotional and psychological language of spaces and location. He regularly participates in panel discussions, presents at conferences, guest lectures, and trains and facilitates groups and discussions.

Aidan will talk about his development as an artist from someone with no previous experience of making art to his current practice. He will discuss how developing sustainable long term relationships with organisations has been key to his practice rather than short term discrete works.

His practice is made up of several strands with an overarching unifying context within arts, health and technology. How do we manage this and keep the plates spinning? Making art is a small part of being an artist unless you have a studio with other people to manage things to allow you to just make work.

With so many demands and so little time how do we know what to focus on?

For more info, visit www.aidanmoesby.co.uk Fee: Date: Time: Venue:

£3 suggested donation Tuesday 13 March 2018 6:00-7:00pm Conference Room, Community Base, 113 Queens Road, BN1 3XG For map see page 5 This event is British Sign Language-interpreted

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DEVELOPING CONFIDENCE - CREATIVE COACHING

Drawing on a mix of discussion, creative exercises and reflection, this workshop is designed to develop the tools and strategies to see us through situations where we may not feel confident – from reading out loud to meetings to interviews.

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the time we leave we will have: A shared understanding of how stressful situations make us feel and act Understood how this is impacting on how we present ourselves Developed confidence in our ‘voice’ and what we want to say Practised using our strategies in different situations in a safe environment.

Tutors: Sara Clifford is a playwright, drama practitioner, trainer and lecturer.

She currently lectures at the Central School of Speech and Drama and has been a trainer for Creative Partnerships. She has written over 30 plays which have been performed at Soho Theatre, York Theatre Royal and Nottingham Playhouse. For more information see www.saraclifford.com Mark Wilson is a published playwright with work for both the stage and BBC Radio 4. He is also a theatre director and a qualified coach working in schools and universities on confidence building and the creation of effective teams.

Fee: Dates: Time: Venue:

£40/£20 per session Thursday 25 January & Wednesday 28 March 2018 10:00am-5:00pm New Writing South, 9 Jew St Brighton BN1 1UT

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CREATE YOUR OWN WEBSITE

Create a simple website to develop your on-line presence to boost your profile, increase the audience for your work and potential sales. This course will teach you how to create a simple website which can include an online portfolio of artwork or examples of writing that can be viewed from anywhere in the world, using easy-to-use online software (2017 course: wix.com; 2018 course: WordPress.com).

Please note: You MUST have a general understanding of computers to attend this workshop (if you are unsure if you are suitable for the course please contact the tutor via Creative Future).

To get the most from the course, please allow for 1-3 hours a week outside of the course for preparation work and please come with text and images and a basic idea for your website.

Fee: 2017: Dates: Time: Venue:

£50/£25 per course Tuesdays – 7, 14, 21 & 28 November 2017 Tuesdays – 6, 13, 20 & 27 February 2018 2:00-5:00pm Jubilee Library, Jubilee Street, Brighton BN1 1GE

Tutor (2017): Ady Griffiths is a web designer (www.createwebdesign.org). He has designed, managed and maintained websites since 2008 for individuals, organisations and charities and worked on projects for Same Sky, Creative Partnerships and Arts Council funded projects. An artist, designer and workshop leader since 2000, he enjoys sharing his skills and enabling them to achieve success by communicating creatively and effectively via computers and technology.

Tutor (2018): Kevin Halsall is a freelance web developer who designs and builds websites for small businesses, freelancers and charities.

He has taught web design and other computer related subjects for many years.

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1:1 SOCIAL MEDIA SESSIONS

Promoting yourself on social media platforms is vital in today’s online world.

Having an online presence and knowing how to market yourself on social media platforms will help boost your profile as an artist or writer. These 1:1 sessions will focus specifically on your own work and how to promote it across various social media channels.

Fee: Dates: Time: Venue:

£20/10 1 hour session per person (10 available) Book via digital@creativefuture.org.uk Creative Future, Community Base, 113 Queens Rd, Brighton BN1 3XG

Tutor: Niamh Hicks is Creative Future’s Digital Platform Manager. She manages all three of our websites and promotes Creative Future’s activities across various social media accounts. Niamh teaches 1:1 Social Media with Creative Future’s service users, using skills developed through her background in marketing and social media. Outside of Creative Future, Niamh manages a number of social media accounts, both for arts organisations and businesses.

HOW

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WRITE INDIVIDUAL ARTS COUNCIL APPLICATIONS

How do you secure funds for your art or writing project? Ashai Nicholas, Diversity Officer from Arts Council England will go through the application process showing how you, as an individual artist or writer, can secure funds from the Grants for the Arts programme.

Fee: Date: Time: Venue:

£3 suggested donation 19 October 2017 6:00-8:00pm New Writing South 9 Jew Street Brighton BN1 1UT For map see page 5

9 November 2017 1:00-3:00pm Conference Room Community Base, 113 Queens Rd Brighton BN1 3XG For map see page 21

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OTHER SERVICES

VOLUNTEERING We offer placements for those wanting to learn skills in art administration, event delivery, marketing & publicity, and artists’ support. For more information, contact us or visit our website and click on Support Us x Volunteer

WEBSITE Artists and writers can submit work for our website to promote and share their work. Visit our website and click Showcase x Online Gallery for more info.

Artwork: Photographs in focus, taken in daylight, flat to the lens. Please include title, size in cm, medium and price (plus 33% commission if sold).

Written work: Maximum 1,200 words / 5 poems per submission.

Note: We aim to keep the quality of work high so not all work is selected.

THE BIG ISSUE We can help you to submit your work to The Big Issue—and get paid if published.

Every week in the StreetLights pages, The Big Issue publishes work by homeless or vulnerably housed people—both visual art and creative writing.

GUIDES & RESOURCES We’ve published Pathway Guides for Artists and Writers to help guide your career, and have loads of other helpful tools on our website. Contact us or visit our website and click: Develop Your Skills x Resources & Advice for Artists Resources & Advice for Writers

If you’re interested in any of above contact us on:

info@creativefuture.org.uk or call 01273 234780

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SUPPORT US We provide enormous and valued support to talented people who lack opportunities and are underrepresented in the arts world.

We're a bridge from the margins to the mainstream, encouraging artistic excellence and professionalism, building confidence and skills.

We get results. Participants get exhibited, published and earn income. Many go onto further education, volunteering or employment. They redefine themselves as people with potential rather than people with problems.

FRIENDS @ 10 2017 is the 10th anniversary of Creative Future. Join us and help take our support for creative people who lack opportunities forward for the next ten years. Become a Friend for just £50/£25 concessions and get these rewards for 12 months as our way of saying thanks: •

Priority booking for all workshops/events

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10% discount on workshops/events where there is a fee

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20% discount on all publications

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10% discount on all prints/artwork

Contact us or sign up on our website at: Support Us x Friends@10

SUPPORT US £10 will buy a frame for the Tight Modern exhibition £20 provides a workshop place for a talented artist/writer £50 provides 1:1 mentoring from a professional £100 pays for a creative workshop £500 provides a national showcase for an underrepresented artist/writer Please visit our website and click Support Us x Donate or text CRFU10£+your donation amount to 70070 (i.e. ‘CRFU10£5’) 100% of donations come to us to directly support our charitable work. There’s no charge for the text message. You’ll receive a confirmation and the opportunity to add 25% Gift Aid at no extra cost.

We’d appreciate any way you can help.

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BOOKING INFORMATION Please visit www.creativefuture.org.uk and click Develop Your Skills x Workshops or call 01273 234780 or e-mail info@creativefuture.org.uk

FEES (where applicable) Our concessionary rate is for those with an income less than £20K p.a.

You can pay: •

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ACCESS We endeavour to ensure that our events, venues and services are accessible to everyone. If you struggle with travel costs, limited travel bursaries are available. Contact the office for further details or to discuss other access needs.

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