2020 DAZED ACADEMY PROGRAMME A SERIES OF FREE TALKS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Dazed HQ, 2nd Floor, 2 Arundel Street, London, WC2R 3DA
Tuesday 3rd March (6.30pm–7.30pm) HOW TO STAND OUT AS A WRITER WITH THOMAS GORTON, EDITOR DAZED DIGITAL AND CLAIRE MARIE HEALY, EDITOR OF DAZED The importance of tone of voice, finding unique stance and how to pitch
Tuesday 7th April (6.30pm–7.30pm) HOW TO RUN ‘A PROFESSIONAL’ INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT WITH VANESSA HSIEH, DAZED’S SENIOR INSTAGRAM EDITOR Building an engaged community, figuring out your aesthetic and tone of voice, planning vs. reacting and fighting through the noise
Wednesday 6th May (6.30pm–7.30pm) HOW TO GET A JOB IN FASHION WITH EMMA HOPE ALLWOOD, DAZED DIGITAL’S HEAD OF FASHION How to build a CV, get the right experience, build your knowledge, networks and point of view Tuesday 2nd June (6.30pm–7.30pm) HOW TO PUBLISH A BOOK WITH DAZED MEDIA’S FEATURE EDITOR AMELIA ABRAHAM How do you get started? From inception to publication, agents to marketing and PR come and find out what it takes to get your first book published Tuesday 7th July (3pm–4.30pm) DAZED OPEN DAY Come find out what goes on at Dazed Media. Led by Communication Executive Marc Macdonald and Marketing Assistant Charlotte Forsyth, you will hear all about Dazed Media, meeting team members from across AnOther, Another Man, Dazed, Dazed Beauty and Nowness who will present what they do and take questions from the audience
Tuesday 4th August (6.30pm–7.30pm) LEARN ABOUT THE LESSER KNOWN ROLES IN MAKING A MAGAZINE WITH DAZED’S ART DIRECTOR JAMIE REID, PHOTO EDITOR CHIARA MUSONI AND ALEX BROWN FASHION AND BEAUTY ACCOUNT DIRECTOR AT DAZED MEDIA Find out about the lesser known roles in making a print magazine come to life. You will hear from those working behind the scenes on how a magazine really comes together, from sales, to design, to production Tuesday 8th September (6.30pm–7.30pm) HOW TO MAKE YOUR FIRST SHORT FILM AND DISTRIBUTE IT FOR ONLINE VIEWERSHIP WITH THE VIDEO TEAM AT DAZED MEDIA If you are a keen film-maker looking to get your work out there come down and hear about industry techniques on making your first film and how to build a strategy around the digital distribution Tuesday 6th October (6.30pm–7.30pm) WHAT DO CREATIVE AGENCIES DO IN 2020? WITH DAZED STUDIO’S CREATIVE DIRECTOR FRED PAGINTON, SENIOR CREATIVE STRATEGIST IZZY FARMILOE AND CLIENT SERVICE DIRECTOR SIMONE SEBASTIAN Come down to find out what it’s like to work at a creative agency. You will learn how to respond to a brief and pitch an idea putting your creative ideas to the test Tuesday 10th November (6.30pm–7.30pm) HOW TO BE A GOOD FASHION ASSISTANT WITH OGUN GORTAN, DAZED’S FASHION COORDINATOR Find out the skills, dos and don’ts and tricks of the trade to become a great fashion assistant Tuesday 1st December (6.30pm–7.30pm) DOES YOUR ART HAVE A VOICE? WITH ASHLEIGH KANE, ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR AT DAZED Come and hear ways you can communicate your work, give it a voice and pitch it to the people and partners that will get your art and photography the audience it deserves