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What If Leeds…the video

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At the What If consultation event on the future of Leeds they showed a video created by volinteers at Oblong.

If you were not there to see it, or would like to see it again, here it is:

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/19267856]

Your thoughts, comments and observations would be very welcome.

Creatives and Cuts – the Big Leeds Debate

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Yorkshire has experienced the fastest growth in employment than any other region, however …

With all these cuts and changes what next?

  • Arts Council – 29.6% cuts over three years
  • Design Council – made a charity
  • Film Council – scrapped
  • NESTA – made a charity
  • Higher Education – 40% cuts over four years
  • Yorkshire Forward – scrapped
  • Local Councils – 28% cuts over three years
  • Business Link – scrapped
  • Almost 200 quangos – scrapped

What does all this mean for the future of the Creative, Cultural and Digital industries of Yorkshire?

‘Creative Networks’ has pulled together a senior-level panel to discuss exactly that.

Confirmed speakers include:

Sally Joynson – Chief Executive of Screen Yorkshire

Cluny Macpherson – Regional Director of Arts Council

Cllr. Adam Ogilvie – Chair of Leeds Cultural Partnership

Katie Stewart – Leeds City Region (Local Enterprise Partnership)

This event will be of vital interest to anyone working within or across the creative and cultural sectors in Yorkshire today. Short presentations followed by an open Q&A session

**Thursday, 25th November 2010**

6pm – Registration & Hot Food

7pm – News & Pitches

7.15pm – The Big Debate

8.30 til late – Networking in the Café Bar

Leeds College of Art, Blenheim Walk, LS2 9AQ

This event is free to creative, digital and cultural industry professionals.

If you would like to join us, please contact Creative Networks on 01422 399444

or email Bridget at bridgetm@leeds-art.ac.uk

Problems and Aspirations in South Yorkshire and Beyond

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I picked up this tweet from the inimitable and award winning Tom Bloxham MBE, Uber Prize Winning Guru of UK regeneration

Urban Splash’s refurb is turning one of the republic of Sth Yorkshire’s biggest problems into an aspirational address

Now ain’t that regeneration as it plays out here in the UK?

  1. Find a ‘problem community’ in an area with easy access to the city centre
  2. Refurb it to take it from a place where only the poor would live to an ‘aspirational address’.
  3. Replace a problem community with one that already has ‘aspirations’ .

The same recipe plays out all over the place.

Drive the poor people out, tart the place up.  Increase the property values and encourage the creative classes to move in.  Secure an immediate GVA increase, eliminate a whole bunch of costs, attract a community of shiny happy people and another award wining development is completed.

Everyone is a winner.  Developers, politicians, treasury.

Everyone except the displaced, who can no longer afford to live close to the city that is their home.  Who are driven out.  Who are economically excluded from the city.  Whose communities are broken up.

Regeneration is not economic cleansing.  It should be a process of inclusive community building.

Surely its time we awarded prizes for some other kind of ‘development’?

Dumb Strategy and State Funding

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I am hearing a lot at the moment from people and organisations that face a scary future because at some point in the past they chose (consciously or not) to develop a business model dependent to a very great extent, in some cases entirely, on public funding.

And right now that looks like a dumb strategy, because the development of mission, the pursuit of purpose, is regulated by a bureaucracy that makes political decisions about what to fund and when.  It decides how success will be measured.  In essence they are in control.

They hold the strategic reigns.

Progress School…

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Just about to embark on a new venture in Leeds called Progress School, providing ‘pay what you can’ professional and personal development.  Progress School offers:

  • A confidential and supportive environment in which to plan your personal and professional development
  • Time to develop a vision for the ‘ideal you’ and to learn more about the ‘real you’ – how you are perceived by others
  • Recognition of strengths and gaps – those potentials that you have not yet fully realised
  • A learning agenda – identify what you need to learn and how you are going to learn it to bridge the gap between ‘real’ and ‘ideal’
  • Access to a network of fellow Progress School members who will commit to helping you learn
  • A chance to experiment – to try out new behaviours and skills – to see if they work for you
  • Develop new practices that help you make progress

Progress School is designed to offer you a flexible process to support your development.  The more you attend the more you are likely to get from it – but there is no curriculum to follow – just a process of reflection and action to engage with.

Interested?  Book Your Place…Now

Prices start from free….