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Alley Cats Films

Alleycats is a Derry based multi award winning TV and film production company, with offices in London and Belfast. We make a range of programming for the likes of the BBC, C4, and RTE, as well as selling internationally. We’ve just finished Helluva Tour, the biggest Advertiser Funded Project that C4 have ever undertaken, and are currently in production on a number of films, including Documentary Feature Project Children.

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Alex Synge / The First 47

The First 47 is the studio of Irish graphic designer and artist Alex Synge. The studio specialises in design for print, web and visual identity for a wide range of clients in the cultural, commercial and academic fields. As an artist, he has exhibited work in Dublin, London, Glasgow, Milan, New York, Chicago and LA. His work has been featured in publications such as Semi-Permanent and Faesthetic, as well as online on Booooooom, It’s Nice That and The Fox is Black. He also proudly runs collaborative illustration project Keep Sketch and is a founding member of the 100 Archive.

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Aoife Ni Thuama Keogh

Product Designer, mainly working on digital products across multiple airlines. In addition to her product design role Aoife co-owns an online magazine store called Iris

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Boulder Media

Animation and Production Studio

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C McKeown Copywriting & Editorial Services

A writer and editor with a broad range of skills and interests, Cormac specialises in explaining complicated subjects in straightforward language. His experience in the field began in 2001 with subediting shifts for the Irish edition of the Daily Mirror. Later, he spent five years as an editor and lexicographer at HarperCollins Publishers, where he was latterly head of content for English dictionaries, and five years as a financial copywriter at Martin Currie in Edinburgh. Since going freelance in 2014, Cormac has continued to focus on the financial-services sector but equally welcomes the opportunity to produce clear, engaging copy for clients in other industries.

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Emma Hall

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Joe Laverty Photography

Joe Laverty is a Belfast based architectural photographer, who’s understanding of the built environment and ability to capture the essence of space and place has seen him photograph Architecture & Interiors for a number of leading architects across the UK & Ireland.
A portrait photographer as well, Joe is a regular contributor to Freckle Magazine and The Thin Air and has portrait work published in the national press.

Joe also runs the portrait series ‘Humans of the Camino’.

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Komodo Learning

Komodo Learning developed and published an app for teaching young children maths and English.

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Belfast-based music magazine and supporter of creative culture

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It's the start of a new month and we are super excited to kick start the month by announcing our next Creative Talk which will be as part of our new Nurture Program with a local creative sharing their story. Speaker details coming soon!

Sign up now via the link in our profile for your free ticket! ✨️ 🌟
Don't forget it's the last week to apply for our new creative support program offering free workspace and support for creatives in Belfast!

Here are some of the features of the program

Creative Workspace - Each program participant will have 24/7 access to their own dedicated deskspace as well as use of shared communal facilities throughout the program. In addition they will benefit from the following support:

Monthly one-on-one mentoring sessions – for accountability with Blick founder Christine James

Monthly peer-mentoring group sessions with the other program participants – for peer support, learning, inspiration, community and accountability.

Quarterly finance mentoring sessions – to help with financial planning and advice with Blick and freelance finance manager Rosy James

Monthly industry specific skillshare training workshops for program participants – with current and past Blick residents and team members, sharing their skills and experiences with the program participants

Monthly online business resources, worksheets and exercises – to help you refine your idea, improve your skills and knowledge and for accountability and to establish your creative practice

Quarterly creative talks – by local creatives sharing their creative journey for inspiration and peer learning

Quarterly industry specific skillshare workshops – by local creatives sharing their expertise to improve skills and knowledge

Showcasing and promotional opportunities – on our website and social media and through presenting your work at a showcase event at the end of the project

Closing date: Friday 27th October

For more info visit our website (link in profile) or email christine@blickstudios.org

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It's the last week to apply for our new creative support program! We are offering free workspace and support over an 8-month period for 4 creatives in Belfast to help them develop their creative business or freelance practice! Visit our website or email christine@blickstudios.org for more info 

Closing this Friday!
Last chance to sign up for tomorrow's @creativemorning Fieldtrip on 'Designing Your Life Through Doodles & Drawings' at 12pm UK time!

Join us for a fun and interactive workshop and use drawing and doodling to create your own mini zine you can carry around or stick on your wall to help inspire and motivate you to make better life choices to improve your health and wellbeing!
Here are some of the benefits you could experience from taking part in our Nurture Creative Incubation Program, which will provide free workspace and support for 4 creatives over an 8 month period:

- Support, community & motivation - from working alongside like-minded creatives in the free workspace and program activities

- Space to focus and work productively - as well as share ideas and inspiration in the free workspace and different program activities

- Support & accountability from monthly one-on-one mentoring to keep you motivated & on track with your creative idea

- Improved finance confidence & knowledge from quarterly finance mentoring

- Improved practical skills & knowledge from skillshare workshops with creative professionals and the different business resources and exercises provided

- Inspiration & motivation from hearing local creatives’ stories at the creative talks and workshops

- Marketing & promotional opportunities through sharing your creative idea through the Blick social media and website and at a showcase event at the end of the program

- Confidence & presentation skills from regularly talking about your work to the group and the public at the showcase event at the end of the program

For more information on the program visit our website link below or in profile or email christine@blickstudios.org

https://blickstudios.org/nurture-support-for-emerging-creatives/
As part of our new international collaborative project Design Your Life we are hosting a series of online design-led workshops to imagine, explore ​and create new habits and beliefs. 

- - DESIGN YOUR LIFE THROUGH DOODLES & DRAWINGS - - 

About the workshops

Design your life to improve your health and wellbeing through doodling, drawing and collaging in this interactive visual journaling workshop.

Use the power of doodling, drawing, cutting and sticking to help you look inward, reflect on your life and lifestyle and use the principles of design to help you redesign a healthier, happier life.

 

Workshop agendas

The Past. We will begin the fieldtrip by exploring our past. Examining past choices, habits and any regrets, or unprocessed thoughts or feelings we may be holding on to that are impacting our health and wellbeing.

The Present. In the second part of the fieldtrip, we will reflect on our current lives and lifestyles exploring the many different individual daily decisions and choices we all make which impact how we feel, our health and wellbeing, how we live our lives and almost everything that happens in our lives.

The Future. We will use design thinking principles in the final part of the fieldtrip to help us to imagine small, sustainable changes we can each make to design our future lives and lifestyles to improve our health and well-being.

 

What to know or bring to the workshops

Pen or pencil, crayons or colouring pencils
A minimum of 2 sheets of A4 paper
Optional: masking tape or washi tape, scissors, glue and magazine images

Workshop time and dates:

Online zoom workshop: 
Date: Monday 23rd September
Time: 11.45am - 1.00pm

Creative mornings fieldtrip:
Date: Tuesday 24th September 
Time: 12.00 - 1.00pm

You can sign up to both via our events and workshops website page (link in profile) ✨️ 

Workshop time and dates:

Online zoom workshop: 

Date: Monday 23rd September

Time: 11.45am - 1.00pm

Creative mornings fieldtrip:

Date: Tuesday 24th September 

Time: 12.00 - 1.00pm

Links to sign up for both are in our profile
On our new 8-month incubation program starting this October 4 emerging creatives will each get bespoke business support and free shared creative workspace in our new South Belfast studios. Each program participant will have 24/7 access to their own dedicated deskspace as well as use of shared communal facilities throughout the program. For more info on the program and support available visit our website (link in profile)
Our lovely Cotton Court studios, which are right opposite the Merchant Hotel in the Cathedral Quarter!
Applications are now open for our new creative incubation program offering 4 emerging creatives workspace and support to develop their creative idea over an 8-month period! for more info visit our website (link in profile)
We are very excited to announce a brand new project we have been working on called “Design Your Life”

An international collaboration between The Design ​Salon which we are a partner of alongside Karishma Kusurkar and Kylie Chan Illustration Design Your Life will feature an ​interactive installation at AIRSIDE Hong Kong and a ​series of design-led workshops to imagine, explore ​and create new habits and beliefs.

Design Your Life has been selected to be a part of ​the British Council’s SPARK 2024 Festival in Hong Kong ​which will take place this October.

More info coming soon!
NURTURE CREATIVE INCUBATION PROGRAM

An 8-month program to help 4 emerging creatives in Belfast establish their creative practice. Providing bespoke business support and free shared creative workspace in our new South Belfast studios. Each program participant will have 24/7 access to their own dedicated deskspace as well as use of shared communal facilities throughout the program. In addition they will benefit from the following support:

Monthly one-on-one mentoring sessions – for accountability with Blick founder Christine James

Monthly peer-mentoring group sessions with the other program participants – for peer support, learning, inspiration, community and accountability.

Quarterly finance mentoring sessions – to help with financial planning and advice with Blick and freelance finance manager Rosy James

Monthly industry specific skillshare training workshops for program participants – with current and past Blick residents and team members, sharing their skills and experiences with the program participants

Monthly online business resources, worksheets and exercises – to help you refine your idea, improve your skills and knowledge and for accountability and to establish your creative practice

Quarterly creative talks – by local creatives sharing their creative journey for inspiration and peer learning

Quarterly industry specific skillshare workshops – by local creatives sharing their expertise to improve skills and knowledge

Showcasing and promotional opportunities – on our website and social media and through presenting your work at a showcase event at the end of the project

 

Program dates:

1st October 2024 – 31st May 2025

For more info visit our website (link in profile) or get in touch!