Our July event is all about CREATING WITH THE COMMUNITY Hear from creative and cultural guest speakers, who are having a local impact and doing creative business, by creating with and for the community. The event is an opportunity to chat with other creatives and includes a chance to shout-out about your own work and needs. Informal and open to all. Guest speakers include Annie Bacon, Producer at Bedford Creative Arts in conversation with Maria Anastassiouan, an artist currently working with Bedford Creative Arts on a creative community programme in Bedford, as well as 5 minute talks from songwriter and musician Kristine Wilkinson Hughes of Wonderfuel Productions and Erica Roffe of the Bedpop Record Shop. *Creating with the Community (Houghton Regis) took place on 15th June at Creative Bedfordshire creative networking. If you work in the arts, run a creative business, are a freelance artist, actor, producer, maker or musician (or commission them), or are just curious, this network is for you. Creative Bedfordshire monthly events take place across Bedfordshire. Creative Bedfordshire is delivered by Bedford Creative Arts and is free of charge to attend thanks to the support of Central Bedfordshire Council and Bedford Borough Council.

1. 06th July 2017 7 - 9pm Bedford
Supported by
WELCOME TO
CREATIVE
NETWORKING JULY
Creative Networking is delivered by Bedford Creative Arts and is free of charge
to attend thanks to the support of Central Bedfordshire Council and Bedford
Borough Council.

2. WHAT IS CREATIVE
NETWORKING?
Creative Bedfordshire monthly networking events take place across Bedfordshire and
bring together creative people to network and develop their businesses. Who is new?

3. If you work (or aspire to work) in the arts, run a creative business, are a freelance artist,
actor, producer, maker or musician (or commission them), this network is for you.
WHO IS CREATIVE
NETWORKING FOR?

4. WAYS TO
KEEP IN TOUCH
Register for updates: www.bedfordcreativearts.org.uk
Creativebedfordshire CreativeBeds CreativeBeds Creative Bedfordshire

5. CREATING WITH THE
COMMUNITY (Part 2)
We have inspiration from three creative and cultural guest speakers, who are having a
local impact and doing creative business, by creating with and for the community.

6. CREATING WITH THE COMMUNITY (Part 2)
follows on from CREATING WITH THE
COMMUNITY (Part 1), which took place in
Houghton Regis, in June 2017.
CREATING WITH THE COMMUNITY (Part 1)
View the Part 1 slideshare https://www.slideshare.net/CreativeBedfordshire

7. Maria
Anastassiou
An artist-filmmaker
currently working
with Bedford
Creative Arts on
projects in Bedford
www.mariaanastassiou.tumblr.com
Annie Bacon
Producer at
Bedford Creative
Arts
www.bedfordcreativearts.org.uk
IN CONVERSATION
TONIGHT

8. We are a very friendly network. We are chatting about what we are in to and what we are
up to. It’s all about understanding each others skills, collaborating and voicing our
needs. We are not pitching at each other. Relax and enjoy the evening.
SAY HELLO

9. Kris Hughes
Musician + song writer.
Lives in Bedford.
The 3 C's: Creative
Connections through
Community
www.wonderfuelproductions.com
Erica Roffe
Publishing + Cultural
Events Management
Lives in Bedford.
The evolution of a pop
up shop
www.bedpop.co.uk
SHORT TALKS

10. Your chance to tell us about your work and needs.
SHOUT OUT

11. OUR HOST
Sandra Dartnell
Associate Producer for Bedford
Creative Arts
Self employed Customer
Experience Consultant
at ThinkingCX
Sandra has been self employed
for 3 years, and works on how the
key point of value can be
communicated to customers.
Sandra lives in Leighton Buzzard
@SandraDartnell
…for the
last time

12. SPEAKERS
Give it up for tonight’s speakers

13. OUR SPEAKERS
Maria
Anastassiou
Maria discusses her
artistic practice as an
artist and film maker,
with us tonight
www.mariaanastassiou.tumblr.com
Annie Bacon
Maria is in
conversation with
Annie Bacon,
Producer at
Bedford Creative
Arts
www.bedfordcreativearts.org.uk

14. Clubhouse in Queen’s Park 2017, Julie Myers and Maria Anastassiou, Commissioned by
Bedford Creative Arts

15. In Situ Cinema 2016, Julie Myers and Maria Anastassiou, Commissioned by Bedford
Creative Arts

16. In Situ Cinema 2016, Julie Myers and Maria Anastassiou, Commissioned by Bedford
Creative Arts

17. Animating Environments Winter 2016-17, Julie Myers and Maria Anastassiou,
Commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts

18. Julie Myers and Maria Anastassiou, Commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts
In Situ Cinema
In July 2016 a group of young residents living in Bedford’s Queen’s Park took to their
local streets in a film-making project about the place where they live.
Over a period of four weekends they worked with artists Julie Myers and Maria
Anastassiou to explore their neighbourhood and create a magical and irreverent film
about life on Chester and Carlisle Roads.
From revealing hidden spaces and favourite places for play, to collecting the
neighbourhood’s sounds and memories from residents young and old, the film
explores the two roads with the children as our guides.
The scenes reflect thoughts and ideas the residents have about their home. The
defunct telephone box becomes a silver birch tree, the concrete wall separating the
estate from the recreation ground becomes a magic gate into the park, speeding
cars vanish and gardens become places for adventure.
Find our more and watch the film
http://bedfordcreativearts.org.uk/projects/in-situ-cinema

19. Julie Myers and Maria Anastassiou, Commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts
Animating Environments
Bedford Creative Arts worked with Maria Anastassiou to develop the programme and a
second film making project entitled Animating Environments. Through a series of film and
animation workshops in November 2016 and February 2017, the young residents delved
deeper into their ideas about the hidden spaces and built up world around where they live.
They explored the use of cut-out collage stop-frame 2D animation techniques using both
found and drawn images, combined with simple sound effects, to create colourful, vibrant
worlds inspired by their two streets.
Several short films were made including ‘The Wall’, a film exploring the wall separating
Carlisle Road from Allen Park, and ‘The Bug Hotel’, another film on the building of a bug
hotel on the unused green space on the corner of Chester and Carlisle Road.
This project will continue in 2017 as we embark on a year-long inter-generational film
project with artists Julie Myers, Maria Anastassiou and the residents of Chester and Carlisle
Roads.
Find our more
http://bedfordcreativearts.org.uk/projects/animating-environments-queens-park

20. Julie Myers and Maria Anastassiou, Commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts
Clubhouse in Queen’s Park
A new commission by Julie Myers and Maria Anastassiou
Find our more
http://bedfordcreativearts.org.uk/clubhouse

21. We are a very friendly network. We are chatting about what we are in to and what we are
up to. It’s all about understanding each others skills, collaborating and voicing our
needs. We are not pitching at each other. Relax and enjoy the evening.
SAY HELLO

22. OUR SPEAKERS
Kris Hughes
Musician + song
writer.
Lives in Bedford.
The 3 C's: Creative
Connections
through Community

23. A coffee...an introduction

24. Scratching backs...

25. Ask around the town...

26. Shouting about it...

27. Moving ahead...

28. Writing about creativity and growth at both our conferences - #CB2015 and #CB2016.

29. OUR SPEAKERS
Erica Roffe
Publishing + Cultural
Events Management
Lives in Bedford.
The evolution of a pop
up shop

35. Your chance to tell us about your work and needs.
SHOUT OUT

36. We are looking for a small test group to use and feedback on prototype.
TEST GROUP

37. We are looking for a small test group to use and feedback on prototype.
Working title
CB ‘Find a face’

38. We are looking for a small test group to use and feedback on prototype.
Working title
CB ‘Find a face’

39. • BUSINESS NEWSLETTER
Business advice and information from Bedford Borough Council
http://www.bedford.gov.uk/business/business_support_and_advice.aspx
• ACCESS TO FINANCE
• START UP SUPPORT

40. • LET’S TALK BUSINESS
Business advice and information from Central Bedfordshire Council including a one
page summary of business advice sources with links to each
http://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/business/timebank/news-events.aspx
• BUSINESS TIME BANK
• BUSINESS TOOLKIT

41. BUSINESS
GROWTH SUPPORT
Velocity provides networking with other businesses and cutting edge information /
guidance on a range of growth themes. They hold a number of free workshops across the
South East Midlands area.
www.velocitybusinesssupport.com/

42. CULTURE
CHALLENGE
The Culture Challenge is a project devised and led by Bedford Creative Arts to enable more young
people to experience and make arts and culture. Designed for and with teachers it provides a directory
of creative and cultural providers that are experienced at working with schools. Artists, cultural
organisations, and schools can become Culture Challenge members.
Become a member http://bedfordcreativearts.org.uk/culture-challenge/

43. SIGN-IN AND
DEMOGRAPHICS
Please complete them before you leave tonight

44. CREATIVE
NETWORKING
SEPTEMBER
Register at www.bedfordcreativearts.org.uk
7th Sept 2017 7 - 9pm Bedford
Supported by

45. THANK YOU.
ANY QUESTIONS?
LIKE TO BE A SPEAKER?
WANT TO FEEDBACK?
samt@bedfordcreativearts.org.uk
Sam Turton – Associate Producer, Creative Bedfordshire
Tell us how we have helped you…

46. samt@bedfordcreativearts.org.uk
Sam Turton – Associate Producer, Creative Bedfordshire

47. SAY GOODBYE
sandra@thinkingcx.com