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=UWS Creative Choices Festival=

Schedule:
Creative & Cultural Skills and Skillset, the sector skills councils for the Creative and Cultural Industries Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust (PSYBT) & Business Gateway Scottish Institute for Enterprise (SIE) and SIE Winners 2005 - Galloway Falconry (Bringing Birds of Prey ) Enterprise Screen Productions (ESP) Inland Revenue UWS Innovation & Research Office –Finding Funding and Knowledge Transfer Partnerships || 10.00-6.00pm || Employability Festival || Brough Hall || Open to all || **Express Yourself** Give the industry what it wants...this session will help you reflect on your skills, experiences and attributes as a basis for industry standard CVs, showreels and portfolios. || 10.00 -10.40am || talk || Brough Committee Room || X 60 || If you are considering working in the creative industries this presentation will provide you with an introduction to Cultural Enterprise Office (CEO) and the support they provide, including the Starter for 6 enterprise development programme. You can find out more about accessing the information, advice and events CEO offer by attending this taster session and hearing about the experiences of a CEO client and how the service has helped them translate their creative talent into a successful business. || 10.50-12.20pm || Talk/ Demonstration || Brough Committee Room || X 60 || The presentation by Alan Murray – Business Gateway and Lyndsey Little – PSYBT will cover all aspects of setting up and developing a business and will take approximately 30 minutes including questions. || 12.30-1.00pm || talk || Brough Committee Room || X 60 || Colin McMurtrie will give an overview of employment, self-employment, registering a Limited Company, registering for VAT, where to go for further help and guidance, a brief overview of VAT, Tax and National Insurance || 1.10 – 1.40pm || Talk || Brough Committee Room || X60 || **Don’t Just Google It.....** Some specific industry careers resources......this session looks at information and resources to help explore the creative and cultural industries labour market. || 1.50-2.45pm || Talk || Brough Committee Room || X60 || SIE wants to help students in Scotland discover their entrepreneurial talent and start up their own ventures. Their mission is to help create new student businesses and social enterprises This workshop will concentrate on the skills required to generate customers and interest in ventures that participants may have in the future. The talk will include ideas on ways of finding business in the first stages of start-up ventures, elements of promotion and ensuring repeat business for business growth. || 2.50 - 3.50pm || Talk || Brough Committee Room || X 60 || Thrive is a series of membership-based networking clubs in Scotland designed to help grow your business. || 4.00-4.30pm || Presentation || Brough Committee Room || X 60
 * **Employability Festival 10 – 6pm UWS Brough Hall & Brough Committee Room Entrance to UWS at High Street** ||
 * **Employability Festival**
 * 17 x stands of employers, agencies, advisors, creative industries practitioners, sale of work including:**
 * **Anna Selwood, UWS Employability Link Careers Advisor**
 * **Cultural Enterprise Office (CEO) is Scotland’s specialist business support and development service for creative business and practitioners**
 * **Business Gateway Lanarkshire provides advice and support to start up and growth businesses in Lanarkshire on behalf of Scottish Enterprise**
 * The Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust assists young people in business by providing funding, support and advice.**
 * **Inland Revenue:**
 * What You Need to Know to be Self Employed**
 * **Colin Dewar, UWS Employability Link Careers Advisor:**
 * **Scottish Institute for Enterprise:**
 * Business Generation Workshop**
 * **THRIVE:**
 * Growth for Business:**

|| Laughter Lanarkshire Director, Laura Wallace, is a UWS graduate. She has developed laughter workshops, developed to help organisations in the areas of creativity, team performance and stress. This dynamic workshop is based on ‘Laughter Yoga’, incorporating mime and play. || 4.45-5.45pm || Workshop || Brough Committee Room || X 25 || Come along and see the Scottish Video Games Archive. This will be of special interest to any student or computer games developer in Scotland. At the launch event, as part of the Creative Choices festival @ UWS, you can enjoy trying out some of the first computer games to be developed. This is not just an opportunity to see some of the 200 + items in the archive but also have some fun ! || 12.15-12.30pm || Launch || Foyer Brough Hall || Watch and play || Relax with a cup of coffee in the learning space next to the main library and arrange a personal poetry reading by Raewyn Riach from the extensive Scottish Poetry Collection held by the University of the West of Scotland Open to all – pop in to the UWS Library between 10.00 and 2.00pm and book a personal poetry reading. || 10.00-2.00pm ||  || Library/ Learning Space || 10.00-2.00pm || A unique event, aimed at those hoping to work in the creative industries, gives people the chance to pitch their ideas directly to media producers. Leading film, television and radio producers and top writers, composers, directors and researchers will give feedback on your ideas for any medium and say how it can be extended across the new digital platforms. Open to all media students at all levels, the speed pitch will allow each participant the opportunity to pitch their idea(s) in a short space of time to a minimum of two producers in different media. Winners will pitch their ideas to currently commissioning producers. **Note** Stage 2 of the Pitching Event will take place at 3.15pm in the Witherspoon Building Lecture Theatre MOO4 – Entrance at Storie Street **remember to book your space on that session too!** || 2.00-3.15pm || Workshop || Library/ Learning Space || X 60 Booking required if you wish to pitch your creative idea.
 * **Laughter Lanarkshire:**
 * Laughter Workshop**
 * **Scottish Video Games Archive Launch UWS Brough Hall Foyer**
 * Entrance to UWS at High Street** ||
 * **Launch Event of the Scottish Video Games Archive**
 * **Creative Events UWS Library Learning Space**
 * Entrance at Storie Street** ||
 * **Book a Personal Poetry Reading:**
 * Scottish Poetry Corner**
 * **Creative Speed Pitching:**
 * Stage 1 - The Heats**

This event can also be observed. ||

(M004) Entrance at Storie Street || Business Pitching Workshop This workshop will focus on the pitching of creative ideas to secure project backing, funding and the ‘go-ahead’ needed to ensure that they happen. A workshop containing strong business ethic to ensure that students have the best chance of success when out in the competitive creative environment. ** || 10.00 -11.00am || Workshop ||  || X 100 || Pitches ||  || X 100 (sold out) || See www.uws.ac.uk/creativechoices ** || 12.45 – 1.20pm || Talk ||  || X 100 || Pitches ||  || X 100 || Creative Events UWS Employability Link || || This presentation will include information on the support work that surrounds many creative practitioners. The presenter will give examples of different ways that creatives can have an ‘unpaid’ career in the arts and crafts alongside another career. ** || 1.00 – 1.40pm || Presentation ||  || X 18 ||
 * Creative Events UWS Witherspoon Building Lecture Theatre
 * Scottish Institute for Enterprise:
 * SIE wants to help students in Scotland discover their entrepreneurial talent and start up their own ventures. Their mission is to help create new student businesses and social enterprises.
 * UWS Commercial Music - Dragon's Den
 * Music students will pitch their business ideas to a panel of industry practitioners and get expert feedback in front of an audience. ** || 11.15 - 12.30pm || Audience/
 * Loud and Proud
 * Music Hub – Renfrewshire
 * Pitching – Stage 2 ** – The Final (follow up to Speed Pitching event, held in the Library Learning Space at 2.00pm) ** || 3.15 – 4.30pm || Audience/
 * SimVenture Workshop - Business Game Session1
 * Designed by entrepreneurs and business experts, SimVenture is a simulation allowing people to explore the issues and challenges of running their own company- without the risks. The game closely reflect reality and the combinations of the many decisions that need to be made. This will enable users to experience the highs and lows of running a business in an engaging and interactive environment. ** || 4 x one hourly sessions between 10am and 2.00pm || Workshop ||  || X 8 each session
 * Skillset: CV Writing & How to Market Yourself || 11.10 –12.40pm || Workshop ||  || X18 ||
 * Voluntary Arts Scotland
 * A presentation on working in the voluntary cultural sector and voluntary sector in general.
 * News Day 3rd Year UWS Journalism Students will run a newsday and produce a newspaper on the Festival || All day || Newsday event ||  ||   ||

Entrance at Storie Street || Murder Stories Patsi Mackenzie, Executive for Gaelic Programming, STV Productions will talk about the project with Paul – from the first idea to the final broadcast. Paul and Patsi will highlight interesting issues around the telling of such a sensitive story, the ethical issues involved in drama reconstruction and the whole area of English speaking people working on Gaelic productions.** || 10.00 –10.45am |||||| Talk || Exclusive Space || X 60 || My Creative Choices Now working as the Strategic Arts Co-ordinator for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, on both building- based public art commissioning and participatory projects. Jackie will talk about her 'creative choices' - how she's developed her career and why changing direction has been so important in the evolution of her artistic/creative practice. ** || 11.00 – 11.30am |||||| Talk || Exclusive Space || X 60
 * Creative Events UWS Students’ Union
 * Paul Tucker, UWS Lecturer Broadcast Production and Patsi Mackenzie, Executive for Gaelic Programming, STV Productions:
 * Paul will talk about a drama documentary he made called "Peter Manuel – Deireadh an Uilc? (Peter Manuel - The End of Evil?)". A film about the notorious serial killer, one of the last people to be hanged in Scotland.
 * Jackie Sands, Artist/Strategic Arts Co-ordinator NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde:
 * Jackie originally trained and worked as a theatre designer & scenic artist. She worked in the area of theatre for six years then retrained as an art teacher. Jackie went on to retrained again in art and architecture - public art and architectural space.

|| Anatomy of a Project - Chic Murray Stuart Hepburn lectures Scriptwriting and Performance at UWS. He has been acting and writing screenplays professionally for over 20 years. ** || 12.00-12.40pm |||||| Talk || Exclusive Space || X 60 || My Creative Careers Choices In his earlier career at the BBC Peter worked on the two legendary serials by John Byrne, as producer of Your Cheatin’ Heart, and as script editor on Tutti Frutti. He also originated and produced The Justice Game and was producer and script editor on numerous other films and series. Peter lectures in Producing at UWS. He has been an independent producer for over 20 years. ** || 12.50 - 1.30pm |||||| Talk || Exclusive Space || X 60 || Advanced Song writing and Performance My Creative Journey Through Commercial Music My Creative Journey in Business Storie Street || ‘Safety Net’ |||| 12.00 – 12.30pm || Play |||| Refectory || Open to all || || Music |||| Refectory || Open to all ||
 * Stuart Hepburn, Scriptwriter:
 * Stuart is developing a Film for Television called Chic Murray and will discuss this unique project. His talk will be followed by a Q&A.
 * Peter Broughan Producer:
 * Peter originated, developed and produced Rob Roy (UA, 1995) ­ at $30m the biggest feature film made entirely in Scotland ­ and The Flying Scotsman (MGM, 2006), the remarkable true story of Ayrshire cyclist Graham Obree.
 * UWS Commercial Music:
 * Based in part on the creative hot-housing of the ‘Songhouse’, UWS will present a unique project where students worked for a week with industry professionals. Students took part in co-writing exercises, wrote to prescribed briefs and used free time for self-directed song development. Come along and see a short film and here some of the songs that the students wrote during the project. ** || 1.40 - 2.30pm |||||| Talk/Film/Music || Exclusive Space || X 60 ||
 * UWS 4th Year Student: Andrew McLellan:
 * Andrew will talk about the creative journey he has taken through the UWS Commercial Music BA course and talk about his work as a composer and film-maker. ** || 2.40pm -3.10pm |||||| Talk/Presentation of Work || Exclusive Space || X 60 ||
 * Gordon Richardson:
 * Music Promoter/Coffee Shop Owner/Entrepreneur, Gordon Richardson will talk about his creative journey in business, discussing the history of live music in coffee houses all over the world and how that culture has inspired his journey. ** || 3.15 – 4.00pm |||||| Talk || Exclusive Space || X 60 ||
 * Live Performances UWS Students’ Union – Refectory
 * Short Play by 3rd Year UWS Performance Students
 * Live Music |||| 1.00-2.00pm

Storie Street || Miss Coco (chocolatier) small business Feeona (stationery) small business Loving Luxuries (gifts) small business Tempest (jewellery) small business Rural Polish Female Folk artists || 10.00-6.00pm ||  ||   || Open to all || ** || 6.00 -7.00pm || Talk || P Block Lecture Theatre || X 200 || Corner of Storie Street & High Street || || 7.00 – 9.00pm || Acoustic Music ||  || Open to all || Storie Street** ||
 * Sale of Work UWS Students’ Union – Refectory
 * UWS Student T-Shirts – Steven Sherlock Artwork
 * Creative Industries Inspiring Practitioner Lecture UWS P Block Lecture Theatre
 * (as part of the UWS Inspiring People Lecture Series) ** ||
 * Inspiring People Evening Lecture Show : Author: Christopher Brookmyre
 * Bestselling Scottish novelist Christopher Brookmyre will be discussing the depiction of journalism and the media in his fiction.
 * Live Music Caffe Luna
 * Acoustic Music by the cream of the UWS Commercial Music programme
 * Live Music Students’ Union - Bar (over 18’s only)
 * Live Bands in the Students’ Union || 9.00pm – 11.00pm || Live Bands ||  || Open to all ||