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Guest Blog: Day Last

And so I come to the end of my guest blogging fortnight. It’s been very cool and I’ve enjoyed it a lot. Maybe if I’m good I’ll be able to come back and pester you all again. Sorry I haven’t blogged as much this week, it’s been kinda busy and there’s always a [...]

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Links round-up: geeks, gardens and more

Image by Macoto Murayama

Digital tutors needed

Do you have skills to offer in film, graphic design, illustration, games design, audio production or other areas? Leicester’s Quad Studios are looking for tutors to provide professional training, creative projects and one-off events.

Booking now open for Digital Futures 2010

Two whole days devoted to the digital economy along with workshops [...]

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Guest Blog: Gaaargh Day Two

Ahoy there! It’s pirate and story writing week for me and so far progress is slow… that’s rather disappointing. Unfortunately it’s proving to be a busy week at work and the evenings are rather full, predictably, with MissImp related improv action.

Captain Pigheart

A tiny recap. I write short pirate stories under the [...]

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Guest Blog: An expanding little world

Well I guess this is my last piece as ‘Guest Blogger’ on Creative Nottingham, but I hope you’ve enjoyed an insight into my little world. Of course, when I say ‘little world’, it’s a world that’s constantly expanding with new opportunities opening up every day, not only in film, but also in the computer games [...]

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Guest Blog: Born to work with communities

The title of this blog isn’t exactly my words, but a line that was included in a recent email I received from the COO at Monumental Games. Not being one to blow my own trumpet; and why would I when you can employ someone to blow it for you, working with any community, whether its [...]

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Creative Nottingham Image Competition Now Closed

Our Art & Design Image Competition is now closed to new entries! The Creative Nottingham team will be going through all the designs and selecting which four will appear on our very first postcard marketing campaign over the next few days and will announce the winners very soon! You can check out all the entries [...]

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Introducing Steve Best – Our New Guest Blogger

A warm welcome to our new Guest Blogger Steve Best from Monumental Games and aPint Film Productions, the film production company behind the short horror film ‘Ay Up Me Duck of the Dead’. Steve will be joining us for the next two weeks, we asked him 10 questions to get to know him a little [...]

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Links round-up: Look again

Image of Nottingham’s Trent Bridge by Views of Nottingham

See what it’s like on the other side: Living with Illegals film Screening 4th August, 7pm

What’s it like to experience life as an illegal immigrant? This screening and discussion event at the New Art Exchange explores the realities.  

See into the future 1 - GameCityNights#6 round-up

The plural of TARDIS [...]

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Guest blog: 19.28

Nottingham is wet, but that’s not why I’m leaving. I was just reading the brief for the guest blogging spot for creativenottingham.com, which explicitly advises you to keep it Nottingham-focussed, before jumping on a train out of creative Nottingham, which is possibly not the best start. But y’know, please understand I’m going away for a [...]

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Introducing Iain Simons of Game City – Our new Guest Blogger

We’re thrilled to announce our new guest blogger, one of the brains behind Nottingham’s GameCity Festival. As is tradition, we asked Iain 10 questions to get to know him a bit better.

Who are you ?

Iain Simons, I direct the GameCity festival.

What brought you to Nottingham?

University – I studied on the now-defunct Contemporary Arts course at [...]

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