Free informal event for performing artists, promoters and venues.

FREE (Tell Your Friends!) We would like to invite you to come down and join us for a night of music with DJs Le Rouge (Music & More) & Mr.B (Uniq Beat), featuring music, art, film and photography from the UK and beyond. Sponsored by Baltika Beer Myspace: www.myspace.com/nurturelounge Facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=735421887

FREE (Tell Your Friends!) We would like to invite you to come down and join us for a night of music with DJs Le Rouge (Music & More) & Mr.B (Uniq Beat) and DJ Nemo, featuring music, art, film and photography from the UK and beyond. Sponsored by Baltika Beer Myspace: www.myspace.com/nurturelounge Facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=735421887

A seminar for a new generation of Entrepreneurs. The idea for this seminar was built on the premise that Entrepreneurship is not seen as synonymous with ‘Urban’ culture despite there being a number of successful entrepreneurs identifiable as coming from or being influenced by Urban culture. We felt there was a need to celebrate those who have built businesses often against the odds, and at the same time inspire those who are in the early stages of doing so. We have selected a panel of acknowledged entrepreneurs who are close enough to their community to provide inspiration without alienation. At the seminar each speaker will present for a few minutes on their background and what they believe are the key ingredients of entrepreneurship. Then we will have a structured question and answer session followed by an open floor discussion where each panel member will lead a small group for more focussed debate. We’ll have music, and free food and drink to keep the energy levels up.

This one-day course offers an introduction to writing for the web, with practical exercises and discussion throughout. Learn how to make your users feel good about your website, your brand and the time they spend interacting with it. Topics: * • Why do I need to learn to write for the web – I can write already! * • About how people use the web * • Who is your website for? What will it offer them? How will they use it…? * • Structuring web content * • Engaging your users * • Writing for different types of user * • Managing content creation by multiple authors or contributors The course is aimed at anyone who needs to produce written content for websites, from journalists and copywriters to website and content managers. Technical expertise is not assumed. Lunch and refreshments are provided with this course. Cost: £175 (£125 concessions) To book and for full information of this course go to our website: http://69.89.31.94/~nmkcouk/2007/10/30/writing-for-the-web-full-day-course/

Transforming creativity into cold, hard cash has never been easy - ask Henri Rousseau, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Hans Christian Anderson if you want proof. All of them died in poverty, despite the brilliance of their work. In their day, the alternative to starvation for struggling artists was to find a wealthy patron such as the Duke of York to provide the income required to sustain their existence. But if your links with nobility aren’t exactly solid, then you might prefer to look to the Internet to find ways of earning some reward for your artistic endeavours. Push-button publishing and easy web tools that simply take a couple of clicks for even the least technical user to install onto their online place of business are opening up new models for distribution and sales. Anyone can become an e-bay entrepreneur, and the online auction house and the dozens of alternatives springing up every day have the potential to make it easier for artists to make money. They might also make things more complicated by giving too many choices, with conflicting terms of service and staying up to date with what’s on offer adding to your difficulties. With this in mind we …

Learn how to sell your music group or activity to young people and how to brand your organisation and events for success. With guest speakers provisionally from Making Music and Youth Music. This event will be particularly relevant to members of amateur/voluntary music groups, music leaders and anyone else involved in publicising groups and events.

Creative Networks welcomes the multi award-winning alto-saxophonist, composer and lyricist, Soweto Kinch, to our April event. Combining straight-ahead jazz with funky hip-hop and rap vocals, Soweto will explore the power of originality and innovation in his rise to prominence. Having a passion for jazz from an early age, Soweto joined the ‘Tomorrow’s Warriors’ development programme, for talented young jazz musicians, after completing his degree in modern history at Oxford University. Leading jazz artists Gary Crosby, Courtney Pine and Denys Baptiste became important mentors and future collaborators. Soweto is now a well-renowned jazz leader and pioneer in his own right, with a collection of accolades including two ‘Best Jazz Act’ MOBO Awards in 2003 and 2007. The event promises to inspire and challenge you to innovate in your creative approaches. To join us for this FREE event, please email creative.networks@tic.ac.uk or call Scarlet Scardanelli on 0121 331 5400 or 07969 226 693. Alternatively, register online at our portal at www.creativenetworksonline.com

Creative Networks invites you to ‘press the red button’ and join BBC Audio & Music Producer, Rhonagh O’Donnell, at our July event. Rhonagh’s keynote presentation will explore how she brings radio and music events to life - on ‘red button TV’ and online. Featuring examples from Glastonbury, Radio 2 presents Neil Diamond, Radio 4’s comedy Down the Line and The Afternoon Play, Rhonagh will discuss what does and doesn’t work when filming and producing for an interactive and increasingly on-demand audience. To join us for this FREE event, please email creative.networks@tic.ac.uk or call Dave Taylor on 0121 331 5400 or 07989 498 550. Alternatively, register online at our portal at www.creativenetworksonline.com

LET’S SELL RECORDED MUSIC! Four evening think tank discussion panels aimed at facilitating legitimate alternatives to unlicensed digital distribution. Part 3 - ‘Coalition Of The Billing’ What’s the best way to license these new digital distribution services? Labels are now ready to license as widely and flexibly as possible yet understandably wish to control the value they place over their rights, especially when ISP music services may one day provide their major income stream for recorded music. Might collective licensing through a mandated body enable the widest range of music to be legally available, from finished studio recordings to live bootlegs, radio sessions and mash-ups? Or is that incompatible with the business needs of rightsholders, leaving such content doomed to continue to exist unlicensed? How will future licensing vary between streams, on-demand streams and downloads when technology is increasingly causing the three to converge? How can we streamline and simplify the process for licensees, is it desirable or possible to create one-stop joint ‘master and composition’ licenses to make everything easier? Will labels increasingly extend vertically into the businesses they are licensing, such as MySpace, and how will monies track back to artists? SPEAKERS Keynote : Peter Jenner - Sincere …