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JULY 2021 NEWSLETTER

Hello <<First Name>>,

It's a pleasure to bring you the latest news from the Creative Industries Clusters and Audience of the Future challenges, funded by UK Research and Innovation.

Read on for funding opportunities, events, launches, research, cutting-edge R&D projects and lots more from across the UK creative industries.

Plus, dates and location announced for this year's BEYOND20-21 October in Belfast. Sign up for updates and be the first in line for tickets, released soon.

Read on for all of this and LOTS more...
 
➤ Join UK House at Cannes Lions This Week **8 - 9 July**
BEYOND Belfast 2021 Dates & Themes Announced - Register for Updates 
➤ 
£750k Design Intelligence Awards 2021 Info & Apply **Apply by 9 Jul **
SXSW 2022: Apply Now to Participate via Panelpicker® **Closes 22 July**
 Immersive Arcade: The Showcase Volume 3 - Launching 9 July
 New Wallace & Gromit AR Experience Coming This Summer! 
 €144.5m Horizon Europe Funding - Info & Apply 
 Up to £29,250 Funding for Canadian & NI Screen-Based Projects
 Up to £50k PEC Call for Commissioned Projects **Closes 23 July**
 Creative Enterprise £25k New Ideas Fund & £5k Business Planning Grants
 Digital Placemaking Prototype Teams Launch Everything is Music
 Book Bristol + Bath Creative R+D's Hopeful Futures Seminar Series
➤ Royal Shakespeare Company's Dream Now Available to Watch Online
 Article by PEC Explores Role of Freelance Workers in Creative Industries

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

DON'T MISS: OPEN CALLS


£750k Design Intelligence Awards Prize Fund 

For start up and scale up entrepreneurs in the digital, service, creative and manufacturing sectors - enter the Design Intelligence Awards for an opportunity to win a share of the £750k prize fund. Free and easy to apply. Entries close 9 July.
 More information


£117k Canada-Northern Ireland Fund

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) and Future Screens NI partner, Northern Ireland Screen announce the reopening of their funding incentive for the development of screen-based projects between Canadian and Northern Ireland producers. The maximum contribution to each project will be £29, 250. Deadline 1 September.
 More information


€144.5m Horizon Europe Funding

New European research and innovation funding programme includes opportunities for the UK cultural heritage and creative industries, with over 144.5m euros available. Deadlines Autumn 2021 & Spring 2022.
 More information
 

£25k Creative Enterprise New Ideas Fund

The New Ideas Fund is offering grants of between £1-25k to creative practitioners and companies working in moving image. Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
 More information


Up to £5k Business Planning Grants 

These Creative Enterprise grants of up to £5k will support companies who work in moving image for storytelling, spanning film television, games and immersive, to build meaningful connections and create opportunities for business growth.
 More information

 

CREATIVE INDUSTRY NEWS

 BEYOND 2021: Creativity, Economy & Place

BEYOND 2021 is planned as a hybrid conference, offering our international community the opportunity to join us online for live and catch-up sessions, but also welcoming delegates and speakers to Belfast in person.

Taking the theme of place, the programme will explore how the Creative Industries are forming the heart of new vibrant cultural and creative economies. Leaders, researchers, policy makers, creators and artists will come together to understand how place impacts, influences and shapes these economies, the roles of identity and diversity in places and spaces, how creative technologies augment and connect places, real & virtual, along with many more ideas and considerations essential to the future of our creative industries. 

This lively two day programme welcomes 50+ expert speakers, with keynotes, panel discussions, think pieces and provocations, Q&As and a showcase of leading projects and research. Tickets on sale soonregister for updates and contact team@beyondconference.org for details on how to get involved.

 Register for updates

 
Design Intelligence Awards **Closing 9 July**

Calling UK start up and scale up entrepreneurs in the digital, service, creative and manufacturing sectors. Enter the Design Intelligence Awards for an opportunity to win a share of the £750k prize fund. Supported and judged by Innovate UK, Barclays Eagle Labs and China Britain Business Council this is a unique opportunity to get seen by global innovation leaders and accelerate your international growth ambitions with free trade support and connectivity. 

It's free, easy to apply and entries close on Fri 9th July (*use UK applicants Invitation Code R398-2724992 when applying*). For more information, contact John Mathers, Chair of UK Judges at john@britishdesignfund.co.uk or visit https://en.di-award.org/.

 Awards info and apply  

 
 UK House @ Cannes Lions: Join Aardman, EA Sports, Bridgerton, RSC's Dream & more.

UK House open its virtual doors from Thurs 8th July - Fri 9th July at Cannes Lions, to celebrate UK Creativity. The UK House programme at Cannes Lions 2021 will be headlined by UK winners at this year's Festival, featuring trends from Lions Live 2021, with sessions from UK jurors, networking, and master classes on exporting creative services. 

FREE to attend - register for insights, networking and incredible music to celebrate the best of UK Creativity. Speakers from Aardman Studios and Royal Shakespeare Company will share insights into their cutting-edge Audience of the Future funded projects, Dream and The Big Fix Up.
 

 8 Jul, 2:10pm: Aardman Presents The Big Fix Up

Step into the wonderful world of Wallace and Gromit. Hear from Cannes Lions award winners, Aardman Studios on how to take an iconic brand to new audiences. This is a session not be missed! 

➤ View schedule

 9 Jul, 12:30pm: Making Dream a Reality

Dream by RSC brought performance and gaming technology together to explore new ways to experience a live immersive performance. Take a glimpse into the audience of the future with RSC and FX Digital.

➤ View schedule

Celebrating the best of UK advertising, art, immersive technology, music and innovation, UK House is for thinkers, makers, and investors around the world. It offers the chance to meet and hear from leading UK experts, connect with future collaborators, researchers and funders, explore UK Creativity and engage in a global conversation on innovation, creativity and opportunity.

UK House is supported by partners including Arts Council England’s Future Art & Culture, British Council, Department for International Trade, UK Advertising Export Group and Audience of the Future Live. 

➤ Book your FREE place at UK House - Cannes Lions

 
Immersive Arcade: The Showcase Volume 3 Launching 9 July

Immersive Arcade: The Showcase is the first national collection of the best of British virtual reality (VR) and 360 experiences is back soon for its third volume. The showcase is designed to reimagine these celebrated productions and immerse visitors within them. The project has been commissioned by UKRI, as part of the Audience of the Future challenge. Launching on 9th July, the showcase will be free to download and full information on how to access is available here.

 Read more and access info

 

PanelPicker® Open To Speak At SXSW 2022


The SXSW PanelPicker® is now open for proposals to speak at next year's event. Every year, SXSW receives thousands of speaking proposals from innovators and thought leaders from around the world. These speaking proposals provide a small (but significant) glimpse into how the rest of the world is approaching all kinds of creative endeavours as the human race begins to rebound from the ravages of the pandemic. 

PanelPicker® is FREE to enter and closes on 22nd July 2021. The SXSW community will be able to browse proposals, leave comments, and vote to help shape the event during Community Voting from 10-26 August. Speakers receive a Platinum badge for the event, and a global platform for their ideas.

➤ Submit proposal: PanelPicker®
 


CREATIVE CLUSTERS NEWS 

Welcome To BEYOND Belfast...

Professor Paul Moore, Director, Future Screens NI, reflects on this year’s conference theme 'Creativity, Economy, and Place' in this blog article, sharing his thoughts on why Belfast is the perfect location to explore how imagined spaces as much as real ones shape our place in the world and how “the Creative Industries bring that crucial mix of creativity, art, humanities, science, design and engineering which leaves them better equipped than most sectors to drive transformation – economic, social and cultural.”

 Read full article 

 
Hopeful Futures Seminar Series - Starts July
 

Run by Bristol + Bath Creative R+D, Hopeful Futures aims to convene a global conversation about how a better future can be developed by exploring sustainable growth, alternatives to capitalist economies, inclusion, responses to climate emergencies, and responsible innovation. 

This seminar and workshop series aims to bring together leading experts, thinkers, and doers in the field of futuring, development, economy, and more, for an online programme of in depth public seminars.

 Dates and booking
 


Everything Is Music Now Live!

CRACK and Landmrk - one of Bristol + Bath Creative R+D's Digital Placemaking Prototype teams recently launched Everything is Music, a sonic tour of Bristol and Bath. Music lovers are invited to explore the stories of Bristol and Bath’s iconic music scenes through this location-based digital museum project. Taking you on a tour of music through the ages, it celebrates over 250 locations with stories from St Pauls’ sound systems, to a pub in Nailsea connected to The Wurzels’.

 Access the platform
 

Innovation Manager Vacancy at UAL

University of the Arts London is recruiting an Innovation Manager to support Knowledge Exchange activities. The role will involve developing and managing innovation-focused activities (including Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and contract research). Applications due by Sunday 11 July.

 More info and apply

 
Canada & NI Reopen Co-Development Incentive

The Canada Media Fund and Future Screens NI partner Northern Ireland Screen announce the reopening of their funding incentive for the development of screen-based projects between Canadian and Northern Ireland producers. Now in its fourth consecutive year, the Canada-Northern Ireland Co-development Incentive for Audio-visual Projects funds the co-development of television projects in the drama, documentary, animation or education genres, or digital. The maximum contribution to each project will be £29,250. Deadline 1 September.

 More info and apply

 
PEC Call For Commissioned Projects

PEC are interested in commissioning work related to three themes; Climate Change, Post-Brexit Opportunities and Challenges, Digital Opportunities and Business Model Innovation. There is no minimum or maximum value, but any proposals over £50k are unlikely to be accepted. Deadline for expressions of interest is 23 July.

➤ Read more

 
Artists Announced For Ocean ARTic Residency!

MASTS, Blue Action and Creative Informatics have announced the two artists who will take part in their Ocean ARTic artist-in-residency programme, exploring marine climate data. The 6-week Residency will be completed by July 2021 with the expectation for two new artworks to be commissioned for launch ahead of the UN COP26 climate conference in November 2021.

Composer Michael Begg and environmental artist Eve Mosher will work with marine scientists to explore climate change data, producing new work to raise awareness about changes in the Arctic and potential consequences closer to home.

➤ Read more
 

Plugging The Data Gap: Freelance Workers In The Creative Industries

The Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the lack of available data on the self-employed and freelance workforce, and this gap is particularly acute in the Creative Industries. Although well documented nationally this gap became apparent at a local level during mapping exercises carried out by Creative Informatics and Clwstwr. This article by PEC describes some of the issues that are creating barriers to understanding the Creative Industries workforce, especially the self-employed and freelancers.

 Read article

 

Screen Yorkshire Launches FLEX - UK Creative Development Hub For Agile Storytellers


This ground-breaking development hub for screen talent from across the UK is providing an opportunity for writers, producers and directors to explore story in an inspiring and progressive, platform neutral, space. Applications are now open to Screen Yorkshire's brand-new FLEX programme, developed in collaboration with the Screen Industries Growth Network. FLEX is a physical and online space for the best of the UK’s emerging creative talent to form agile storytelling partnerships. 

Applications are open to writers, directors and producers to apply as individuals, writers may also apply as a writing duo. A minimum of one member of the creative team will be from Yorkshire and the Humber. The deadline to apply is 12 noon Thursday 22 July 2021.  

 Find out more and apply

 

AUDIENCE OF THE FUTURE NEWS

New Wallace & Gromit AR experience Coming This Summer!


Following the successful launch of The Big Fix Up, immersive storytelling venture Fictioneers have teased news of their exciting new city-scale AR experience coming to Bristol, Cardiff and San Francisco this summer. 'Fix Up The City' will use the power of Augmented Reality and hyper-precise digital scanning to transform the three cities into a virtual stage. 

 Follow @thebigfixup on TwitterInstagram and Facebook for more!

 

Wallace & Gromit: The Big Fix Up Shortlisted For Two Cannes Lions Awards


The 'Wallace & Gromit: The Big Fix Up' AR experience was shortlisted for TWO Lions awards at last month's Cannes Lions Festival, including 'Mobile' and 'Brand Experience & Activation', from 2100+ entries submitted across both categories. A collaboration between Aardman and Fictioneers (co-owned by Potato, Sugar Creative and Tiny Rebel Games), this recognition is testament to the groundbreaking work that pushed the boundaries of possibility within AR media and developing multilayered stories to capture the public’s imagination.  

 Read more 

 
'Positive Realities' Winner For Coventry UK City Of Culture 2021 Announced

Last year StoryFutures Academy announced the open innovation challenge “Positive Realities”, a partnership and a pathfinder project that would explore innovative new approaches to health and wellbeing for Coventry UK City of Culture 2021. The awarded team consists of Amrit Singh, Creative Director at Rebel Creatives and Nigel P. Harris, Creative Director at JellyBob, who are collaborating on a web-based augmented reality project called “Urban Jungle” that they will be prototyping in time for a series of outdoor events in Coventry this summer.

  Read more

 

Dream Now Available To Watch Online  


Relive the enchanting Dream experience and access behind the scenes content at dream.online. Inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the performance brings together gaming and theatre technology with an interactive score that responds to movement. A major piece of cutting-edge research and development, this project from Royal Shakespeare Company, Manchester International Festival, Marshmallow Laser Feast and Philharmonia Orchestra, explored how audiences experience live performance in the future. 

 Watch Dream.online now

 

NFTS Scotland & The Glasgow School Of Art: Artists Into Immersive Labs

Artists into Immersive will provide training and project development support in a series of virtual introductory Immersive Labs from StoryFutures Academy, The Glasgow School of Art and independent companies, for creative practitioners across all areas of Scotland. Attendees will learn about immersive production, the potential of VR/AR/MR and lots more. Course dates are from 28 July - 2 September, with applications due by Weds 14th July.

 More info and apply
 

Rocketmakers Showcase Real-Time Content Delivery Into 3D Worlds


Rocketmakers completed its Audience of the Future funded project with a showcase of Beam, delivering instant content updates to a variety of different 3D worlds. Using just the simple Beam web tool, Rocketmakers' partners on the project showed how easy it is to update assets in their 3D worlds instantly, from games to virtual retail, and art galleries to architecture.

 Watch showcase

 

StoryFutures Academy Are Looking For A Technician!


StoryFutures Academy are looking for a highly skilled, personable and enthusiastic technician to play a leading role in a team that facilitates creative and collaborative development of immersive story experiences through the provision of technical support, data management, operational skills training, and specialist advisory support to manage the delivery of innovation projects and coordinate engagement with creative businesses. Apply by 18th July. 

 Read More and apply now

 

ONLINE EVENTS

 

Horizon Europe Funding Webinar

 08.07.2021 | 10:00 - 11:30 (Online)
An information webinar to find out more about upcoming funding in the new European research & innovation funding programme, including many opportunities for the UK cultural and creative industries
 Register
 

UK House at Cannes Lions

 08 - 09.07.2021
Join UK House at Cannes Lions this week as they open the doors (online) for a very special two days of creative inspiration. Hear from inspirational speakers from companies including Aardman Studios and the RSC, on projects funded by the Audience of the Future programme.
 Register
 

Hopeful Futures Seminar Series 2021

 From July 
Run by Bristol + Bath Creative R+D, Hopeful Futures aims to convene a global conversation about how we can develop a better future by exploring sustainable growth, alternatives to capitalist economies, inclusion, responses to climate emergencies, and responsible innovation. 
 Register
 

BEYOND 2021

 20-21.10.2021 (Belfast and online)
To feature 50+ speakers with keynotes, panels, think pieces, Q&As, showcases and more - this year focusing on Creativity, Economy, and Place. Tickets on sale soon. 
 Register for updates
 

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