Featured Video: Creative Masterclass
Latest Photos
Creative Networks: LAND OF PROMISE - The BFI National Archive
Thursday 29th January 2009
6.00pm until 10.00pm
Birmingham City University
Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, B4 7XG
LAND OF PROMISE
The BFI National Archive
Creative Networks welcomes Jan Faull, Archive Producer at the British Film Institute (BFI) who will introduce and explore
highlights from key documentary projects made possible through the BFI National Archive.
Increased access to our documentary heritage provides new opportunities for the content to be seen and re-evaluated by a wide audience.
Does history repeat itself? How do films from the 1940s and 50s relate to modern society? This is explored in Britain Recut – a series of short films made in association with Mosaic Films. Channel 4 hosted a competition which challenged
entrants to repurpose selections from public information films of fifty years ago. The four winning entries were transmitted in the Three Minute Wonder slot in May 2008 and form a fascinating look at life in contemporary Britain.
To join us for this FREE event, please email creative.networks@tic.ac.uk or call Dave Taylor on 0121 331 5400.
Alternatively, register online at our portal www.creativenetworksonline.com
Who are we?
Well, we’re a group of people who are involved in the creative and cultural industries in the West Midlands, UK.
We are setting up a lobbying and representative group for all of us who work in similar areas.That includes advertising, architecture, arts and antiques, crafts, design, digital media, designer fashion, film and video, music, performing arts, publishing, theatre, radio, tv and software, and applied arts for those involved in other ways that aren’t listed here.
Collectively we do a lot for the region.
The sector’s worth £1 billion to the region’s economy. And recent research has suggested that the region could see 250,000 new jobs in the creative and cultural sector over the next seven years. We also think that we make the place vibrant, interesting and an exciting place to live and work, too. But it sometimes feels as if issues that affect us as an industry are overlooked by people and organisations that have the power to help and support us to grow, as well as those responsible for many areas of what the West Midlands is all about. To date there’s nobody speaking for us collectively to make our opinions heard. We’d like to see that change so we’ve set up Creative Republic to be that voice.
Site hosted by The Adhere Creative Ltd