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    Guest blog: Artisum – setting creativity free!

    In the next of our occasional series offering practical advice to creatives, Tim Bellamy of Artisum accountancy firm, writes for us about looking after the financial side of your business. Financial aptitude is not a trait we readily attribute to most creative types, and the...

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    The Death of Creativity

    Everyone knows the old cliché of the starving, penniless artist. He might be living in a bed sit and selling his drawings on the street, but he loves what he does; never faltering in his ambition and raw passion for his beloved craft. But he’s...

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    Guest blog: The legalities of starting and running a creative business

    For a change this week we bring you a guest blog by a lawyer. No, don’t click out again! It’s important stuff! There are loads of legal pitfalls out there for small creative business owners so here’s an overview from Dominic Higgins at Contact Law....

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    Blogger’s night at Kiehl’s Nottingham

    The lovely folks at Kiehl’s Nottingham held a blogger’s evening on Wednesday 23rd January, celebrating their secret weapon in the beauty world; Midnight Recovery Concentrate. Now we’ll be honest, this isn’t something we normally cover at Creative Towers but we’ll try anything once so our...

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    Guest Blog: The Thrill of Waiting up for the End of the World

    A visit to Creative Nottingham from Kirsty Fox! Bucking the national news trends of doom and gloom, Nottingham has felt abuzz the past couple years with independent creative projects coming alive. From mixed creative nights hosted by MIMM, to new music platforms like Nottingham Rocks,...

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    Guest Blog: The Sillitoe Trail

    This year, the BBC and the Arts Council have teamed up to create The Space: a new multimedia experimental arts platform. It consists of 53 individually funded projects, incorporating dance, film, literature, theatre and music, and aims to re-imagine how the arts and the media...

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  • Guest Blog – Why I Randomly Love Nottingham by Al Booth

    Guest Blog – Why I Randomly Love Nottingham by Al Booth

    Firstly, before I introduce myself, I feel the need to make a declaration: I don’t live in Nottingham. Now, writing for a site that promotes all that is going on in Nottinghamshire, and yet not actually living in the area, could be seen as something other...

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    The Importance of Being Persistent – Guest Blog

    In terms of qualities for being creative and producing great work (whatever your discipline) there are few more valuable than persistence. When I first started making films, I read a book about the craft of writing and directing – one of the first lines of...

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    Don’t Pigeon Hole Yourself

    I think that it’s fair to say that the majority of us (myself included, of course) hold a certain perception of ourselves that we define ourselves by. For example, you might see yourself as ‘the organised one’, ‘the forgetful one’, ‘the creative one’, ‘the funny...

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    Taking a Bath

    My last couple of posts have been on rather heavy and psychological subjects (humility/ego in creativity and avoiding fear of success and self sabotaging), so I decided that this post should focus on something more practical. In a world that is continuously go-go-go, where deadlines...

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