The Creative Industries Federation has urged the government to ensure that the creative industries and arts are a "priority sector" in Brexit negotiations, in its election manifesto which is being distributed to all political parties and Federation members. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Creative Industries Federation has unveiled a "blueprint" for UK economic growth. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tony Hall, director-general of the BBC, has announced a new collective creative partnership, Culture UK, as part of the urgent call for the arts and creative industries to pull together. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Baroness Gail Rebuck has called for the needs of the creative industries to be "truly recognised” by government following prime minister Theresa May's speech. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
London mayor Sadiq Khan has vowed he will stand with the creative industries "every step of the way" to ensure their interests are "defended" during the upcoming Brexit negotiations. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has pledged £50,000 to Creative Access and undertaken to double its intake of fully funded Creative Access interns in a bid to help the agency continue its work to increase diversity in the creative industries. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bonnie Greer, Tessa Jowell and Valerie Amos demand to know why government blocked Althea Efunshile from boardA dozen of the most respected female figures in the arts and creative industries, including Bonnie Greer, the former culture secretary Tessa Jowell, Valerie Amos and Gail Rebuck, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Creative Access is a charity which provides opportunities in the creative industries for young people from under-represented BAME backgrounds. Its c.e.o. Josie Dobrin talks to Natasha Onwuemezi. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The creative industries need to make the most of the UK's voice and influence in discussions over the digital single market and copyright framework while it "still has a seat at the table", and exploit the "major opportunities" of non-EU export markets, representatives of the industries have said. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Clarissa Pabi on how learning from and pioneers and peers across the creative industries has helped her. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Creative industries insiders are being invited to contribute to a government inquiry into the implications of Brexit on the creative industries and the digital single market. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Withdrawal from the EU would lead to "suffering" in the creative industries, according to an open letter signed by 220 thought-leaders in the literary world, including 2015 Baileys winner Ali Smith and Granta editor Max Porter, recent winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Leading publishing figures, including Waterstones m.d James Daunt, chair of Penguin Random House UK Gail Rebuck, author Philip Pullman and poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, have signed a letter to say they believe leaving the European Union would "severely weaken" the UK's creative industries. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Brexit will lead to “gross uncertainty, legal challenge and mess”, former business secretary Vince Cable has told the IPG Conference today in a discussion about the creative industries and business. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
"There is a neat parallel between the best way to design a systems landscape, and the best way to design a network of people." All ears? Me, too. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate c.e.o. Jamie Byng, literary agent Juliet Mushens, Goldsboro Books’ owner David Headley and author Malorie Blackman are among the shortlist for the publishing and writing category of the h.Club 100 campaign to find the most influential and innovative people in the UK’s creative... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Creative Scotland is providing £100,000 funding to support 10 full-time, year-long traineeships across the creative industries. The programme aims to support the employment prospects for people aged 20-30 who are interested in developing a career in the arts and culture industries. It will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer Bridget Minamore, whose interests cover "hip-hop, climate change, feminism and football", has been chosen by the Hospital Club's new charitable foundation as part of its Emerging Creatives programme. The private members' club for the creative professions has marked its 10th anniversary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Publishers Association (PA) has appointed Brean Horne as policy and communications executive. Horne joins the PA following an internship at the BBC. She studied law at Sussex University, and comes to the PA via Creative Access, which provides opportunities for paid internships in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Glasgow Women’s Library and the Wigtown Book Festival are among the organisations receiving funding for the first time from Creative Scotland. The two groups join a number of other literature and publishing organisations awarded regular funding for the period covering April 2015 to March... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]