Creative & Cultural Industries Festival 10am – 6pm
A free interactive event for students, employers and practitioners.
- Focussing on the launch of the Creative Choices website in a day-long event bringing together students, employers and practitioners
- Organised by students for students
- Supported by Faculty Academic staff and the Employability Link
- Activities across a range of Creative Industries
Employability Fair - Brough Hall - 10am-6pm
Many stands with employers, agencies, advisors & creative industries practitioners:
Skillset
Creative & Cultural Skills (Creative Choices Website)
Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust & Business Gateway
Scottish Institute for Enterprise (SIE)
SIE Winners 2005 - Galloway Falconry (with Birds of Prey)
Enterprise Screen Productions (ESP)
Inland Revenue
UWS Innovation & Research Office - Finding Funding & Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
sale of work - student union refectory (storie street) - 10am-6pm
UWS Student T-Shirts with Steven Sherlock Artwork
Miss Coco (Chocolatier)
Sunshine Gallery
Loving Luxuries (Gifts)
Tempest Jewellery
Lilly Wiggler Couture
Rural Polish Female Folk Artists
Also taking place on the day
Launch of the Scottish Video Games Archive - Brough Hall
Of special interest to computer games students and developers. Enjoy trying out some of the first computer games to be developed.
Launch of TuDocs.biz - Brough Hall
21st Century Creative Recruitment Website
Commercial Music - Dragons Den
Commercial Music students will be pitching their ideas to a panel of industry practitioners for their expert feedback.
News Day
3rd Year UWS Journalism Students will be running a newsroom and will produce a newspaper on the Festival.
Scottish Poetry Corner
Book a personal poetry reading while relaxing with a cup of coffee in the Library Learning Space. (10am - 2pm)
Contact: Raewyn.Riach@uws.ac.uk
Festival artwork created by Steven Sherlock, 4th Year Digital Art Student, UWS School of Creative & Cultural Industries
workshops
Participate in workshops around small business start-up, freelancing, enterprise and entrepreneurship and get advice from industry experts.
You can also book onto a programme of sessions including music business, performance, illustrated talks, poetry, speet pitching, creative workshops, and more.
SHOWCASES
No need to book on these... just turn up and enjoy!
There will be live music in:
Student Union Refectory - 1pm-2pm
Caffe Luna from 7pm-9pm
Students' Union (Over 18s only) from 9pm-11pm
'Safety Net' - a short play by 3rd year UWS Performance Students - Student Union Refectory - 12-12.30pm
Click here to download a printable programme of events to help you plan your day!