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Sunday 5 February 2012
Blog posts in the 'Competition' category
Thursday 26 January 2012
Ideas Fund Innovators now open for submissions
If you're aged between 16-25 and have a creative project that could do with a cash injection, this is the fund for you. We’re offering 10 projects £1,000 each to help get them off the ground.
This round of Innovators is open until 22 March 2012, so make sure you get your entries in before then.
In the past we've funded everything from dance and film projects to music videos and photography collectives. Whatever creative field you work in, we'll consider your application.
We're looking for projects that are inspiring, original, innovative and that we think you can deliver. Visit the website and read application tips from previous winners and download our PDF about creating a project budget.
So here’s the boring bit. You MUST read the Ts&Cs in full before you apply – we get loads of applications we have to make ineligible because people haven’t read the terms.
You must be aged 16 to 25 on the closing date (22 March 2012) and be resident in the UK. Your project must take place between April and December 2012. For more information and details on how to apply click here.
Monday 16 January 2012
Wednesday 4 January 2012
Student designers wanted for new Creative Times Design Brief series
Creative Times is looking for articulate and ambitious student designers to take part in a series of five design features, devised and coordinated by Manchester-based graphic designer Dan Shannon, to be published on the site in the first half of 2012.
Thursday 15 December 2011
Win over £5000 worth of advice & support to help your company grow internationally
The Exporting for Growth Prize - UK Trade & Investment is looking for the UK’s best new export ideas and on 10 November launched ‘The Exporting for Growth Prize’ competition.
Tuesday 22 November 2011
Arts Council England Invitation to Tender
WE PLAY, the North West’s cultural legacy project for London 2012 and the Cultural Olympiad and the Northwest Steering Group for the 2012 Games wish to commission the design and build of a single destination website, that consolidates the London 2012 offer for the England’s North West.
The website will increase public awareness of all official 2012 activity in the region, with a special emphasis on the diverse and high quality cultural offer made possible through the Cultural Olympiad. More specifically, the site will bring together audiences from a variety of backgrounds and interests to engage them in Cultural Olympiad events and other official London 2012 activity.
For full details and downloads of tender documents click on the link.
Tuesday 1 November 2011
Creative England receives Regional Growth Fund investment
The Government has announced Creative England as one of the successful bidders to receive investment through the second round of its £1.4 billion Regional Growth Fund.
Creative England has secured c.£5 million RGF funding for ‘Digital Champions’, a private sector-led scheme providing development funding and market expertise to small creative and digital businesses working in cross-platform content and services.
‘Digital Champions’ will provide match funding and additional support to creative and digital SMEs in the North and North West, Birmingham and the West Midlands, and the far South West, areas identified as vulnerable to public sector job losses and with lower levels of enterprise and private sector growth.
Funding will help high potential businesses in these areas overcome market barriers and gain competitive advantage from the continued explosion in demand for cross platform content.
Thursday 27 October 2011
Film Culture Fund now open
Creative England’s Film Culture Fund is now open for applications, with a total of £490,000 delegated Lottery funds from the BFI to distribute in its first round.
The Fund is looking to support the provision and interpretation of both specialised and mainstream film in England, by investing in: - audience development within the film exhibition sector- film education activities which are linked to and support film exhibition infrastructure (e.g. cinemas, film festivals, film societies and other platforms)
- the acquisition, preservation and conservation of and access to regional screen heritage
Applications are invited from cinemas, film archives, film festivals, mobile cinemas, film societies and other eligible organisations working in the English regions outside of London.
Awards will range from £2,000 - £50,000 depending on the project. Funded activity can include programming, education, reaching under-served audiences and regional screen heritage.
Thursday 6 October 2011
Sheffield's Sensoria festival calls for submissions
Now in its fifth year, Sheffield’s festival of film, music and digital is calling for submissions.
Sensoria, the UK’s festival of film, music & digital, will be back for nine days of fun and festivities from 21 – 29 April 2012. The festival crosses musical genres and has celebrated everything from Americana/folk, indie and electronica through to rockabilly.
Sensoria is now looking for exciting new work in the realms of music, film and digital – this can include fiction features or short films with an innovative soundtrack or score, music related biopics, music documentary and truly exceptional music video. Films should have been completed after 2009.
Tuesday 20 September 2011
Art Fund announces schemes worth £1million
The Art Fund has announced details of schemes worth £1 million, aimed at boosting collections and curatorial expertise across UK museums.
As part of its commitment to boost funding to museums and galleries by over 50% by 2014, the Art Fund today announces that six museums and galleries (including one partnership) have secured a share of £600,000 funding from RENEW – the scheme that will enable museums and galleries to build new collections of fine, decorative or applied art.Wednesday 6 July 2011
Postgraduate wins UK writing prize
Joining a long line of published authors, postgraduate student Kim Moore has won a national prize for her poetry.
Kim, a student on our MA in Creative Writing, was awarded an Eric Gregory Prize by the Society of Authors, worth £4,200.
Kim's poetry has been published in the Times Literary Supplement, and she has performed her poems alongside Carol Ann Duffy at the Royal Exchange Theatre.
Tuesday 28 June 2011
Create the next Family Guy?
Vision+Media is looking for innovative ideas in comedy and animation and has limited development funding to develop short taster tapes maximum 10 minutes.
If you are an SME in the northwest with a proven track record in broadcast or digital/gaming in either animation or comedy (ideally both), willing to work collaboratively with other north west talent, then Vision+Media would like to hear from you.
Deadline for applications is Friday 1 July.
Monday 14 March 2011
The Guardian Student Media Awards 2011 has now launched
If you are a NUS card holding student and you want to break into the media why not enter and take the first step in launching a successful career.
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Launch of The Marketing Society Northern Awards 2011
After its highly successful debut last year, How-Do is pleased to announce the launch of The Marketing Society Northern Awards 2011, an initiative which will once again highlight the creativity and demonstrable achievement of the marketing industry in the North.
Launched in 2010, The Marketing Society Northern Awards brings together companies from across the region to showcase best practice and acknowledge the current and future successes of leading marketers. In the process, the awards dinner itself on 29 June, is again likely to see the largest single gathering of senior marketers across the North in 2011.
In 2011, the awards will feature a total of 19 categories, covering a wide range of sectors, including leisure and tourism, retail and food & drink. Awards will also be made for specific discipline categories including social media, mobile marketing and low budget campaigns. CSR and Sustainable/Green categories have also been added to this year’s awards list.
Tuesday 1 February 2011
Heatherwick voted Designer of the Year
MANCHESTER MET alumnus Thomas Heatherwick has been voted Designer of the Year by the influential Wallpaper magazine.
Thomas, a graduate of the university’s acclaimed three-dimensional design degree course, was praised for a series of inspiring projects last year including the new design for London buses and the UK Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010.
The 40-year-old, hailed by Sir Terence Conran as 'the new Leonardo' for his ingenious fusion of art and engineering, was made an Honorary Doctor of Arts in July 2007.
Seed Cathedral
In 2010 his ‘Seed Cathedral’ at the Shanghai Expo won the prestigious international Lubetkin Prize from the Royal Institute of British Architects. The six-storey cube-like structure is pierced by 60,000 transparent acrylic rods that each contain a seed.
The Wallpaper judging panel included artist Marc Quinn, composer Michael Nyman, architect Mario Bellini and musician and designer Pharrell Williams.
Thursday 4 November 2010
Win an iPad in Creative Lynx's App competition!
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where there wasn\'t an app for that? Well win this competition and Creative Lynx will solve that problem for you and you could bag yourself an iPad in the process.
Monday 23 August 2010
Enter the UK's Digital Entrepreneur Awards Now
The Digital Entrepreneur of the Year Awards (DEAs) celebrate the best of a rapidly growing industry and are the only national stage dedicated to the recognition of online business excellence.
Enter now to become a digital entrepreneur of the year!
The DEAs are free to enter, just choose the categories most relevant to you and complete three simple questions.
The deadline for entries is 17 September 2010. For more information and to apply visit www.digital-entrepreneur.co.uk