Please note: This event took place in Sept 2022
Where you are going with your creative practice and who can help you get there?
This is a workshop about values in the creative industries. None of us build creative careers alone. All creativity grows from networks of people, institutions and resources. We can easily just get focussed on chasing the money, the next job, the next commission. But maybe we can build more sustainable working lives if we understand the networks that support us more deeply?
Facilitators Jon Dovey and Tarek Virani have developed an approach to understanding these networks that they call cultural ecology. This workshop will support you in understanding your whole cultural ecosystem. We will do some mapping of the systems you inhabit and some thinking about the kinds of value exchanges that exist in your working environment. What are the values that drive work in your field of practice? How can you harness them to achieve sustainable success?
In addition, the workshop will dive into what it means to be resilient in what we understand as the creative and cultural economy. It will showcase recent research in this area and offer the chance to take a light touch resilience assessment, to better understand the sustainability of your practice. You’ll walk away with a useful diagnosis of where you are and pointers to things you could do next.
About Jon Dovey and Tarek Virani:
Jon Dovey was a filmmaker for twenty years working from analogue to digital video production in documentary and video arts. He has been an academic teaching production and media theory at UWE since 1995. He was one of the original Pervasive Media Studio members and has worked very closely with Watershed in the past ten years leading innovation programmes like Bristol + Bath Creative R+D. He is currently working on his third career as a Doggerelist Poet.
Tarek Virani is an Associate professor of Creative Industries at UWE and has been deeply involved in a number of areas within the creative and cultural industries in the UK and internationally for over ten years.
How to sign up
This workshop is FREE. To sign up please RSVP by email to talentdevelopment@watershed.co.uk. Places are allocated on a first come first served basis.
Bursaries
We recognise that taking time away from other work for professional development affects a freelancers ability to create income so we are offering a limited number of £50 bursaries for people experiencing financial barriers to participating. Please let us know in your RSVP if you'd like to request a bursary which will be paid to you after attendance at the workshop.