This document outlines the schedule and topics for a series of creative start-up events taking place between March and June 2015. It includes information on creative job growth in the UK and resources on resilience and teaching creativity. The events will focus on dinner and drawing, networking, pitching, and communication and encourage participants to share their creative stories and learn from each other.

1. Start & Evolve
Creative Start Ups

2. Hello!

3. House Keeping
Fire Exits – Muster station
Toilets
Mobile phones
Photography
Ongoing...
24th
March 2015 Dinner & Drawing
24th
April 2015 Authentic Networking
22nd
May 2015 Pitching & Presentation
19th
June 2015 Creative communication

4. Creative Industries
CREATIVE EMPLOYMENT OUTGROWS
REST OF ECONOMY
The number of creative jobs in the UK rose by 66,000 to 2.62m in 2013
as creative roles grew faster than the rest of the economy.
One in 12 UK roles is now a creative job.
Official data released by the Department for Culture Media & Sport
recorded a 2.6 per cent rise in the number of creative economy jobs -
defined as jobs within the creative industries as well as creative roles
within other organisations - between 2012 and 2013. This compares to
the average 1.6 % increase in jobs across the UK economy during
the same period.
http://www.thecreativeindustries.co.uk/uk-creative-overview/facts-and-figures/employment-figures

5. BUT !
http://www.dacs.org.uk/latest-news/gavin-turk-on-the-importance-of-the-artists-resal?c

6. And...

7. Open To Create...
We are known for...
Growing robust and
sustainable
creative businesses
@opentocreate @annabsexton @lsbu_enterprise
#startandevolve #creativebusiness #beopentocreate

8. Companies

9. Projects

10. Clients

11. Take part of fully as you can...
and remember we are all different

12. Who are you & what’s your
flavour of creativity,
creative business?
How do
we find
out?

13. urn to the person next
o you...
hare your creative
tory so far...
Join your dots...
Practice listening 100% -
ACTIVE LISTENING

14. Now share with the
group...

15. Why are you here?
“Sometimes a person has to go back, really back
to have a sense, an understanding of all that’s gone
before them, before they can go forward.”
Paule Marshall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

16. Join your dots...

18. Creative cock ups...

19. Resilience
http://www.testyourrq.com/questionnaire/new/

20. Questions...

22. “Teaching creativity is not about
dishing out a set of instructions...
But much more about helping
students to identify the kinds of
situations or conditions they
need for this receptiveness to
occur.”
theconversation.com

23. Ongoing...
24th
March 2015 Dinner & Drawing
24th
April 2015 Authentic Networking
22nd
May 2015 Pitching & Presentation
19th
June 2015 Creative communication
Take part...

24. Anna B. Sexton
anna@opentocreate.com
020 7515 9451 / 07941 655 856
@opentocreate
www.opentocreate.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/annabsexton