This short course will help you develop your improvisation, ensemble and story making skills. Learning will take place in a playful environment where you can participate in improvisatory theatre games and narrative driven exercises to tease out the stories you want to tell.
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School offers a fun and nurturing environment in which to pursue your creative ambitions. The support and feedback available from your tutor will help you develop your natural talents and confidence in theatre acting.
This course is perfect for actors, writers and also teachers looking to upskill in devising for work with their students.
15% Student and Spotlight Discount available.
Every click, every website visit, every email delivered – it all has a carbon impact. In fact, it’s estimated that our devices, the internet and the systems supporting them account for about 3.7% of all global greenhouse emissions, similar to that of the airline industry. These emissions are predicted to double by 2025.
So how, when our goal is to drive clicks and increase impressions, do you balance that with sustainability?
Jaye will share the hidden cost of marketing for our planet and the challenges we face as we try to reduce our carbon impact while balancing our marketing success. There is no simple answer, but there will be practical advice to take back to your marketing teams.
This talk will be useful for Marketing Managers and Directors interested in making their marketing more sustainable, or wondering where to start with their digital footprint.
About Jaye
Jaye Cowle is the Founder and Managing Director of Launch, the happy performance agency. Based in the South West, Launch turned 10 last year and has scaled from a kitchen table business to a £2m+ agency with 27 digital marketing experts. A Google Premier Partner, Launch has just been named in the Campaign Top 100 Best Places to Work.
These Wake Up Call sessions are exclusively for BCI members – register your free place below!
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this member-only event, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.
These sessions take place every other Friday morning from 8.30-9am, for the BCI community to share their pearls of wisdom with one another. The half hour webinars will involve a 15 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute facilitated Q&A, with introductions from the BCI team.
Our community is full of such amazing talent so we’re giving members the stage to talk about things that excite them so they can inspire their peers. The sessions will be a mix of expert tips and tricks and case studies – the perfect opportunity to learn something new before the week is out.
Our usual online format is an interactive ‘meeting’ but for this series we’re running webinars so that it’s easy to listen in while prepping for the day ahead or while having your breakfast! Cameras and mics will be off but you can ask your questions through the chat box or submit them beforehand.
Please get in touch with Sian if you’re interested in speaking at a future session.
As busy professionals, especially as people managers or leaders, we are faced with constant demands on our time, resources and resilience. This can drain our energy, and, if left unchecked, lead to burnout. Coach and strategist Fi Craig will walk you through 3 short and practical exercises that will illuminate and track your levels of resilience, and provide you with some immediate practical actions for building and protecting this valuable leadership quality for the future.
Expect to do some thinking of your own in this session, so whilst it’s not essential, a notebook or voice memo would be useful!
This session will be ideal for anyone dealing with conflicting and changing demands, particularly those in leadership and management positions, who sometimes feels overwhelmed and needs some coping strategies to keep them motivated and supported.
About Fi
Fi Craig has spent 20 years as an agency strategist and director, and now supports agency leaders and teams as a coach, consultant, facilitator and strategist. She’s fascinated by behaviour and ways of working, and is a partner at leadership consultancy Form, and an executive coach at Good Thinking.
These Wake Up Call sessions are exclusively for BCI members – register your free place below!
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this member-only event, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.
These sessions take place every other Friday morning from 8.30-9am, for the BCI community to share their pearls of wisdom with one another. The half hour webinars will involve a 15 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute facilitated Q&A, with introductions from the BCI team.
Our community is full of such amazing talent so we’re giving members the stage to talk about things that excite them so they can inspire their peers. The sessions will be a mix of expert tips and tricks and case studies – the perfect opportunity to learn something new before the week is out.
Our usual online format is an interactive ‘meeting’ but for this series we’re running webinars so that it’s easy to listen in while prepping for the day ahead or while having your breakfast! Cameras and mics will be off but you can ask your questions through the chat box or submit them beforehand.
Please get in touch with Sian if you’re interested in speaking at a future session.
Keynotes:
Zillah Byng-Thorne: on the entrepreneurial transformation of media business Future, from mid-£20s million market cap to £1.5 billion in just a few years via powerful new business thinking.
Nigel Toon of AI specialists Graphcore: from local start-up barely 10 years ago to Unicorn company ($2.2bn latest valuation). He’ll be talking about how it will disrupt so many business areas – and will also provide legions of opportunities that AI gives entrepreneurs in virtually all sectors. Also exclusively unveiling his book on AI.
Plus:
Entrepreneurs’ Tales; EntreConf Forums (Funding, Exit-planning, Collaboration, Diversity, Marketing); Advice Clinics; and Insight pieces.
Also: the unveiling of the Finalists in the region’s first-ever awards for entrepreneurs, the EntreConf Awards.
Please join us for an informal networking lunch; we will provide an overview of what support is available to creative businesses through our virtual Eagle Lab ecosystem and our local Creative Industries team.
There will be a chance to ask questions and shape what future events and support look like as well as an opportunity to network with like-minded people.
Please RSVP to [email protected] and include any dietary requirements.
This talk is ideal if you work in or own a creative digital business, or work with clients in the sector, and are responsible for client relationships, sales, procurement, contracts or compliance.
Rebecca advises many businesses in the creative and tech sectors and has a supportive and pragmatic style. She will be happy to answer your queries at the end of the session.
The talk will cover:
Tickets
Tickets are priced at £30+VAT for BCI members and £45+VAT for non-members. Book your place below!
This workshop will be held on Tuesday 13th June at Origin Workspace.
F*ckup Nights is a global movement and event series that shares stories of professional failure. Events across the globe get 3 or 4 people to get up in front of a room full of strangers to share their own professional f*ckup/mistake. The stories of the business that crashes and burns, the partnership that goes sour, the product that has to be recalled, stories like these will all be told.
At this launch event we have three fabulous speakers who are going to share their mistakes. No happy ending for any of these three stories!
Let’s change the narrative, let’s #ShareTheFailure and learn from it. This is the first of what is planned to be a quarterly event for 2023.
Tickets
Book your place via the button below! All tickets include a glass of wine or beer or two soft drinks plus some canapés (enough to keep your hunger at bay until later in the evening). BCI members can get £5 off any ticket price by using the promo code BCI when they book.
Timings
6:15pm – doors open & networking
7:00pm – presentations start. Each presentation is 10 minutes with 5 minutes Q&A
8:00pm – networking & canapés
9:45pm – close
This event is part of the Bristol Distinguished Address Series (BDAS). BDAS provides an opportunity to hear unique perspectives and insights from change makers, activists, entrepreneurs and people who have achieved amazing things in Bristol and beyond.
The Plimsoll Story – Carol Vorderman in Conversation with Grant Mansfield, Founder and CEO, Plimsoll Productions and Julian Bellamy, Managing Director, ITV Studios.
18:25 – Join the event online
18:30 – Event starts – welcome and introduction
18:35 – 19:10 – The Plimsoll Story – Carol Vorderman in Conversation with Grant Mansfield, Founder and CEO, Plimsoll Productions and Julian Bellamy, Managing Director, ITV Studios. This element of the event is a recording taken from a recent discussion as part of the 2022 Bristol and Bath Screen Summit.
19:10 – 19:30 – Live audience Q&A session with Grant Mansfield.
Grant Mansfield is the Chief Executive and Founder of Bristol-based Plimsoll Productions, one of the largest and fastest growing independent TV production companies in the UK.
Before launching the company, in September 2013, he spent three years in LA as CEO of Zodiak USA, leading a large creative team producing shows for a wide variety of US Networks. Previously, as Managing Director of RDF and, before that, Director of Programmes at Granada TV, Mansfield was the creative lead for two of the UK’s most successful production companies, producing shows as diverse as “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here”, “Coronation Street”, “Cold Feet”, “Ladette to Lady” and “Secret Millionaire”.
He began his documentary career at the BBC in Bristol where he created and produced some of the Corporation’s most popular documentary series, including “Driving School”, “Vets in Practice” and “War Walks”. At Plimsoll, Grant is a creative lead on many of the company’s shows including “Tiny World” (Apple +), “Hostile Planet” (Disney+) and “Handmade” (Channel 4)
Plimsoll Productions’ rapid growth has been recognised with several national business awards, including the Sunday Times Fast Track 100. Grant Mansfield has also been voted the Daily Telegraph’s SME Business leader of the year and awarded an honorary doctorate by University of the West of England where he is also a Board member and visiting Professor In 2019, Grant led a process to sell a minority stake in Plimsoll to private equity Group LDC and in 2022 he sold a majority stake to ITV in a deal valuing the company at £131 million.
To mark the 30th anniversary of UWE Bristol’s university status, and the first academic year of the University of Bristol’s first female Vice-Chancellor; Professor Evelyn Welch and Professor Steven West come together to talk to Clare Reddington, CEO of Watershed, about higher education in Bristol and beyond.
Reflecting on the impact of the past 30 years of Bristol as a dual-university city, examining the present situation for higher education in the UK, and looking ahead to what the next 30 years could bring, join us for this partnership event which will explore how the two institutions work together currently, and share more about plans for the future.
This event is part of the Bristol Distinguished Address Series (BDAS), brought to you by UWE Bristol in collaboration with University of Bristol.
Location
Register your FREE place and find out more information through the buttons below.
Easy Stride Band – A deft fusion of pop, soul, world and reggae to create upbeat, feel-good music, combining live vocal and guitar loops with deep bass and head-nodding beats!
Easy Stride Band’s catchy and vibrant sound comes from the minds of Joe Fleming, Noah Burton and Benny Brooke. Joe uses a loop station to layer guitars and vocals in real-time to form complex soundscapes, backed by Noah on drums and electronics while Benny lays down the big bass, forming a unique blend of melody and groove that refuses to be pinned down. Immediately captivating, this uplifting trio scream positivity and celebration, a sentiment which is echoed through the band’s performance style; their enthusiasm for the music shines through in their live shows and has engrossed audiences across UK venues and explains their popularity at festivals.
Tickets are £4 in advance, or £5 on the door.
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