Cracking the Safe – A free seminar on funding, finance and income-generating initiatives for artists, groups and creative businesses.
Artists, designers, performers and writers are invited to attend a special seminar this Spring which promises to unlock the secrets of securing financial investment. The seminar, called Cracking the Safe brings together special guest speakers and expert panelists who will offer unique insights into ways to finance your ideas and fund your projects.
Emma Wilcox of Arts Council England (ACE) South East will talk about Grants for the Arts, ACE’s open access funding scheme for artists and arts projects, as well as the newly launched Artist’s International Development Fund which will support artists to travel, explore and collaborate internationally.
Henrietta Norton is Co-Founder of We Did This, a website which enables artists and groups to access ‘crowd-funding’. A relatively new phenomenon, crowd-funding is the process of pitching your project to many people and offering each of them an incentive to invest a small amount in making it happen.
Emma and Henrietta will be joined by Maxine Horn, CEO of Creative Barcode, a revolutionary system for creative people to sell, license and protect their ideas, and Simon Frost, CEO of Portsmouth-based, Parity Trust who offer community investment and ethical business finance packages locally.
Paola Campari-Moss, Director of event organisers, Cibas said: “Cibas has offered advice, support and professional development training, to creative professionals in and around Portsmouth for the past 6 years. Cracking the Safe is a timely intervention during a period of cut-backs and closures allowing creatives a chance to look at alternative funding for their ideas and businesses.”
So, if you’re looking for the code to crack the safe — whether it’s attracting sponsors for your short-film, funding for your festival or investment in your new business idea — this event could provide the key to the success that you’re looking for.
By the way, the cost of attending the seminar won’t break the bank, as it’s free of charge.
Cracking the Safe: funding, finance and income-generating initiatives for artists, groups and creative businesses will take place at Aspex Gallery, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth on Thursday 26 April (6-8pm). Visit the Cibas website (www.cib.as) for full details and to book your place or call 023 9284 6232.
Presented by Cibas and Aspex Gallery and supported by the University of Portsmouth.
I was really overwhelmed by last years response to my little project to spread bunny related goodness in the Springtime. So I have decided to do it again! Ooh la Lapin also celebrates its second birthday the same day and I didn’t even realise, its got to be a good sign?
The rules are simple. Make something bunny related (I normally stitch some) and leave it out and about on April 1st with a little tag with your email and the words ‘Ou est le lapin?’ on it. Make sure you take a little photo and log your bunny. You can email me the photo and they will all be featured on the website.
On Wednesday 21st of March 2012, SouthseaDIY present some of the best bands in the country right now.
Apologies I Have None straight up deserve to be huge. With their new release’ London’ due out on March 19th and the beautiful single ‘Clapton Pond’ out later this month, their ever developing sound just gets better and better.
Great Cynics have been very busy. Becoming a full band, touring the US, making a great record (Don’t Need Much) and causing a whole load of people to take notice. Their infectiously positive songs get in your head and stay there.
One Man Team Dance. Just you wait. Citing Armando Iannucci and whiskey amongst their influences, this two piece know what time it is.
Grab all the info over at the Facebook event page HERE.
2012 is going to be an amazing year for Britain. Not only is the country hosting the Olympics, but the Queen is celebrating her Diamond Jubilee – an incredible sixty year reign! To celebrate, the government has declared two extra bank holidays this year and Portsmouth is going to be making the most of them!
After a very successful collaboration with Portsmouth Historic Dockyard for the hugely popular Victorian Festival of Christmas, Louise Whitmore owner of Love Southsea and Abigail Pallant-Sidaway owner of The Boutique Market are joining forces once again for this brand new event – Victorious Vintage at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
Together with Ben Mills, James Ralls and Andy Marsh, owners of Little Johnny Russells, this vintage festival will take place over the Jubilee Weekend on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd of June 2012. This is the perfect time to have a wonderful celebratory fun-filled festival as there will be two bank holidays on the Monday and Tuesday straight afterwards. Not only that, but it is also half term for schools that week.
Entry onto the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard site will be FREE from 10am-10pm (standard ticketing to attractions will still apply).
During this time the public will have access to an array of beautiful vintage stalls throughout the Historic Dockyard, colourful characters from different eras, live bands on the main stage in Victory Arena, a secondary stage with acoustic acts throughout the day. On both evenings there will be a main headline act – names TBC but already include Dodgy, The Lightning Seeds, The Bog Rolling Stones, The Silver Beatles and Mark Morris from The Bluetones, plus other well-known bands from the region all compered by Nick Courtney.
More details will follow shortly but for now you can read the write up from today’s news HERE
The ever busy and fabulous Georgina Giles will be throwing a crafty Spring Tea Party at Like a Tea Tray in the Sky on Sunday March the 11th. Afternoon tea and hand stitched patchwork, what’s not to like if your a seasoned crafter or a total beginner?
Help Hayden at The Pier is a LIVE music event put together by local musicians, DJs, promoters, business owners and people who care, to help raise funds for a little lad named Hayden!
“Hayden is a 3 year old local boy who has Cerebal Pulsy. He has just under gone an operation in America to help him walk and we’d like help pay for for the expensive after care that he now needs. Not only would this money help a little run around like every lil boy but also help ease some of the massive pressure his parents and family must be under.”
Tickets are just £6 so make sure you get involved and help in any way you can. For more information about Hayden please visit www.helphayden.co.uk and keep up to date on the fundraiser of at Facebook.
Many of us use Social Media in an attempt to benefit our businesses, but do we really know how to use it effectively? Are we making effective use of our time spent on Social Media? Does our activity on Social Media actually help our business? How would we even know?
To help answer these questions and many more, Divine Aesthetic has teamed up with leading Social Media marketing company IG Media Marketing to bring you an informal one day seminar designed demystify the world of Social Media and begin to make you think about how you approach Social Media and how best you can apply it for results within your business.
Tropical Storm Washi devastated the Philippines on December 16 and 17, 2011. The storm was not powerful in the traditional sense—it’s winds never surpassed 55 knots (100 kilometers per hour or 63 miles per hour) and it lacked the organization of an intense typhoon or hurricane. Nonetheless, Washi unleashed extremely heavy rain on northwest Mindanao and the resulting floods left hundreds dead or missing. The death toll from floods in the Philippines rose to 1,249 on Tuesday, more than a week after the disaster struck, with officials expecting more corpses to be found. Tropical storm Washi brought heavy rains, overflowing rivers and flash floods to the southern Philippines from December 16 to 18, sweeping away whole villages built on sandbars and riverbanks. More than 376,000 people were displaced by the storm and almost 55,000 are still huddled in crowded makeshift evacuation centres. The cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan received the most damage.
There is a large Filipino community in Portsmouth, many of whom work in the health services and at QA Hospital. Many have family and friends at the centre of the devastation.
To raise money for Filipino Hurricane Relief the event Love Mindanao has been set up by some Portsmouth creatives. Located at Groundlings Theatre on St Valentines Day the event will include an extraordinary range of arts and cultural contributions from around Portsmouth and Southsea’s arts communities. There will also be bands, singers, dance and theatre performances and workshop sessions, and an exhibition auction/sale of photography and art.
Entry will be £3 on the door and all proceeds will go to the fund.
The organisers are putting out a call for all artists, photographers, poets, or other creative individuals who would like to take part, please contact Los Dave or Diana Goss on Facebook via the Facebook event for more information.
For many, many people the word Chaos instantly brings back many, many years of amazing nights both at the pier and at The Wedgewood Rooms. As you’ll most likely be aware of Chaos went out with a huge bang back in November with it’s final night also being it’s 20th anniversary. Jon Jones has put together a great little documentary short film telling the story of Chaos, told by the people who were there from the very beginning.
As you may know each year we run a home brew competition in February where the winning brew has the opportunity to be brewed by Irving & Co Brewing Co. and sold around the city in the summer. Last year’s brew, the Strong Island Hopper Ale, was hugely successful being one of Inving’s best selling ales and selling out so quickly it went through a second brew run. This year’s winning ale is Dry Dock No. 1, originally brewed by Lee Immins, went on sale in some of Portsmouth and Southsea’s pubs over the weekend.
We spoke to The Hole in The Wall in Southsea who said the new ale went down a storm with it being their best seller on Sunday and with almost two barrels empty by the end of the Bank Holiday weekend. Those guys at the Hole in The Wall and their regular ale drinkers know their stuff so for us this was amazing early news with the ale.
To officially launch Dry Dock No. 1 we are having a launch party with the lovely souls at The Belle Isle on Thursday evening. The ale will be on full flow, come down and try a pint or two. As well as being on sale all around the city the ale will also be available in Chichester’s Belle Isle too, so you can drink it away from home for the first time too.
Just over a year ago, a group of Strong Islanders were sat on the Isle of Wight ferry on our way to the yearly Randonnee cycling event; 60 miles around the island spread across 5 checkpoints. Whilst on the crossing we couldn’t help but admire various enthusiasts and their custom team jerseys. Fast forward a year and it is my great pleasure to unveil the Strong Island cycling jersey. Made as a one off for the event, the jersey is our way of representing this city and all the values that come with it. Thanks to the combined designing efforts of Chris Ballingall and Tristan Savage, we were able to produce this clean, retro looking jersey that 11 of Southsea’s finest could wear to conquer the island’s endless hills. Well done chaps.
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