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    Links Round-Up for Film, Animation, and Media

    Three links this morning, all centred on film, animation, media art. Fancy your short film or animation being seen by over 400,000 people in a month?  That is what is on offer in Mansfield, as the County Council explained in their press release: Mansfield’s new...

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    My creative workspace – Handmade for Little Rascals

    Have you ever finished making something (cake, cushion cover, really good soup…) and thought “you know, I really should make a business out of this!” I bet you never did get round to it did you? Well, in today’s Creative Workspace we meet Gaynor Hall...

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    Let’s Bring Mat Home

    The clever people at Culture24, a Brighton-based, non-profit, digital cultural publishing organisation, have come up with a new wheeze for Museums At Night (Thursday, 16 May to Saturday, 18 May this year, right in the middle, coincidently, of the Brighton Festival and Fringe). They have...

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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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    Stop! Undercutting your rivals is ruining your industry!

    The first money I ever made from sound work was £20. This was whilst shadowing the senior engineer who had decided for the last band that he would rather be propping up the bar than riding the faders. He left me in charge of the...

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    NottWords big weekend: it was (w)rite good!

    Nottingham’s Festival of Words is in full swing and this past weekend was the main event – two days of activities packed inside NTU’s shiny Newton Building. Armed with my weekend pass wristband, notebook and packed lunch I went along. The festival was there to...

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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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    Write on! Festival of words celebrates city’s thriving lit scene

    Nottingham’s first literature festival opens this weekend and all us bookish types will let out a hushed whoop of joy. You may not know that beyond the usual three big hitters – Byron, Sillitoe and Lawrence – the city has a thriving literary community but...

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    My creative workspace – Louise West

    It’s a nervous Louise who opens the door to me this morning. “It’s the beginning of the rest of my career today,” she says. Dramatic? Well yes. But if you were waiting for your MA results you’d want to convey just how important they were...

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    Gilardi and Newling open the year at Nottingham Contemporary

    Nottingham Contemporary is a fantastic institution, especially only having recently celebrated its third birthday, I was very excited for their first exhibition for 2013, which opened Friday 25th January. For this season, Nottingham Contemporary brought together two phenomenal artists, John Newling, who is from Nottingham...

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