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We will be live in Bristol with GYDA Leaders Janusz Stabik and Robert Craven on Wednesday 5th July. This free full-day session is an opportunity to experience peer-learning with GYDA Mastermind with expert insight and a group that you can enjoy and trust.

The day will include roundtables, hotseats, group activities, expert presentations and networking all in an environment in which to share, compare and explore strategies for the next phase of your agency.

Join your Bristol GYDA crew by registering for your spot today!

This event is free and is for Agency Leaders only.

Probably the most inspiring little film night in the world. Join us in Bristol for an evening of learning, stimulation, collaboration, entertainment and general filmmaking joy!

This is an exclusive opportunity to:
– Hear a guest keynote by Hayden Brown, Producer of Dirty Jack Co, followed by a Q&A
– Watch a compelling short film by a talented newcomer.
– Enjoy food and drink in the gorgeous Square Club bar.
– Network with other attendees and share ideas for upcoming projects.
– Enjoy live entertainment from Bristol’s vibrant music scene (TBC).

The Tabb Filmmakers’ Shindig is your chance to get inspired and get involved! We want to encourage you to make your film projects happen, with this opportunity to hear from professionals who have been there and done it already.

At TMW Unlimited, one of our core agency values is Stay Curious. That means we actively seek out the new and the unusual, finding inspiration everywhere in the world around us.

There’s no better place to uncover what might be about to shape change than SXSW, the world’s largest knowledge sharing festival. That’s why we’re sending our strategy team to Austin, Texas: to get to grips with the cutting edge in tech, social media, politics and anything that might be key to determining our future.

When they return, they’ll be sharing their findings, and analysing what that could mean for people, brands and society.

What exactly will that include? Well, it’s too soon to say. Last year, we heard about everything from the reality of NFTs and freedom of speech, to the rise of sex tech and whether eating insects might be key to a sustainable future.

Expect to hear the weird, the wonderful, the terrifying, and the optimistic – all wrapped into one event. Plus some drinks and nibbles too.

We’re bringing together a group of brilliant female B Corp founders to discuss and share lessons and insights useful for all businesses.

The speaker panel includes four female business founders and leaders who have successfully taken their businesses through the B Corp certification in the last few years:

In this 1-hour interactive discussion, we’ll explore the positive impact the certification can have on your business, challenges of the certification process itself, and why the current B Corp cohort in the UK lack diversity.

We hope you’re able to attend and look forward to hearing from you, book your place below.

 

If you’re aged 19+ and you want to study for a degree in a creative subject but don’t quite have what it takes yet, we’re here to help. Join us on 3rd April from 4 PM to find out more.

Access Creative College offers Access to Higher Education courses within music, media, events and games. With 30 years of experience, seven centres nationally and a wealth of strong industry links, we believe we’re the best place for you to study this September.

Access Creative College Bristol is open for you to drop in from 4 til 8 PM on Monday 3rd April.

Whether you’re returning to education after a break, or want to upskill your existing career, this is your chance to explore our centre, try out our tech, meet our talented staff and find out what we can offer you!

Use the buttons below to register and find out more about Access to Higher Education courses.

For autistic creative people seeking to see, know and be yourself, beyond pathology paradigms, media stereotypes and past selves.

When the revelation “I am autistic” doesn’t come with systemic change, a vision for solutions, an accurate and positive way to communicate differences, a way to feel seen and understood, and tangible support, the initial excitement can give way to feeling stuck.

Disillusioned, lost, and overwhelmed with what isn’t working. Masking is a systemic issue; the world is still the world. But most of all: The habitual self you developed in response, is the only self you know how to be.

Register for this workshop to find out how to:

Feel SEEN
Get unstuck
Find YOUR way

Believe you are worthy, and to assert yourself accordingly
Trust yourself, and start believing and acting like the future you want is possible for you.
Make progress on your creative dreams.

No longer downplay yourself, or see yourself in other people’s eyes.
Let go of internalised ableism and shame.

Know your specific roadmap for HOW to do life, that doesn’t involve burnout and overwhelm.
Feel worthy to finally start being yourself, fully expressed.

Use hand painted gouache paper to create an A3 paper cut illustration of your favourite scene, building or flowers in a wonky, bold way. You will be using loose shapes to create a layered collage.

You can create any type of subject matter for this workshop, what I find works best is buildings, flowers or a reasonably simple landscape.
Please bring a picture of your chosen image to work from in the workshop.

You can learn about colour theory and get an understanding of the varying colour schemes that work together. This workshop is suited towards beginners to experienced artists wanting to explore a different way of making collage, in my own artistic style.

This is a great workshop to unwind through the relaxing process of cutting and sticking collage.

All materials provided.
The workshop will be held in the Community Room at Zion Bristol, Bishopsworth Road, Bristol, BS13 7JW

On Thursday 30th March, we’ll be hosting our next Meet & Greet networking event!

This time, we’ll be focusing on the world of copywriting. This is a chance to meet a range of industry experts working in this field, learn more about their roles and ask questions. So if you’re a UK-based creative in the first year of your career and curious about this pocket of industry, be sure to sign up.

Come along to our first Bristol Networking Lunch, open to both the general public and Square Club members, this is your chance to get networking with the wider Bristol community!

This event is for you if you are looking to wider your connections across Bristol by meeting other Bristol businesses, and build contact with others who may be able to help you achieve your personal and professional goals.

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Running order

Arrival time is at 12pm into our lounge, where there will be a 30 minute drinks reception with standing networking. A buffet will then be served at 12:30pm in our Square Kitchen restaurant giving you the chance to build on earlier interactions. The event will end at 1:30pm, but you are welcome to stay longer or dip out earlier if needed. Your ticket will include one arrival drink, and a buffet.

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Tickets

Guest Tickets are £15 / Square Member Tickets are free, but are limited to one per company to maximise networking opportunities.

Women over 50 are the fastest growing demographic in the workforce, and a significant percentage of these woman are likely to be in senior/leadership roles, plus on the front line of client relationships. 25% of menopausal woman say it can have a ‘debilitating’ effect on their ability to do their job, but unfortunately due to lack of awareness and societal shame, this is issue is not acknowledged enough in the workplace.

What can you do if you manage a team that includes women who could be heading towards menopause if you know nothing about it, and wouldn’t have much of a clue how to tackle a conversation about it?

Thanks to recent high profile TV documentaries and regular coverage in the national news, awareness of the menopause and its effects has increased but the conversation needs to be opened up further. There are major employers who are flag carriers for menopause policy and benefits, such as Channel 4, and we can learn a lot from their work to date. However, what can smaller organisations do, perhaps with less resource or financial clout? Kinneir Dufort are more representative of BCI members and are starting to kick off this discussion internally – hear Head of Team Development Tamsin’s thoughts on what they are doing, and what more needs to be done.

Join Fi and Tamsin for this online session as they discuss why this is such a relevant topic for the workplace, why is it not spoken enough about currently, and what business leaders can do to address this and get the ball rolling. Further resources will be shared, plus there will be opportunities at the end for attendees to share their thoughts and ask any questions they may have.

This event was first run back in July 2022 and had a brilliant response, so we wanted to repeat it for those who couldn’t come along the first time, or for those that want to chat further again.

The session will be particularly useful for anyone responsible for people initiatives within their business (such as Founders, MDs, HR, Line Managers etc), as well as anyone with an interest in women’s wellbeing at work.

About Fi

Fi Craig is an executive coach and facilitator, and has spent much of her career as planning and strategy directors of creative agencies in the South West. She is skilled at having difficult conversations, and tackling thorny subjects with ease, humour and purpose. As a senior woman in agency-land, and as a coach to multiple senior women, Fi has seen how both the bias towards youth and the lack of even basic menopause-awareness can make the workplace especially challenging for older women, especially those at the peak of their careers.

About Tamsin

Tamsin Chambers is Head of Team Development at Kinneir Dufort.  As an organisation, Kinneir Dufort is motivated by Designing a Better World, and recognises that it can only design products & experiences for a diverse global society by having a team that reflects that.  Tamsin’s focus is about making KD a workplace where everyone can be their best, and this means ensuring that the environment, policies, ways of working and support strategies are mindful of as many different perspectives as possible.  In particular, Tamsin is keen to ensure that the experienced, valuable women who have often had to fight for their place in the Design Industry are not suddenly left suffering in silence when the menopause hits.

Tickets

This event is FREE for BCI members however registration is still required.

Non-member tickets are £25+VAT.

If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this event, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.