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WINTER/SPRING 2010 — MAIN INTERVIEW FEATURE:

Creative Stoke interviews the successful local sports artist Paine Proffitt.
Paine's work is on permanent display at the national Museum of Rugby, and sells to collectors around the world.

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PROJECT SPOTLIGHT:
Creative Approaches to Local Issues was a successful £100,000 arts project in our city, funded by Advantage West Midlands.
 Stoke-on-Trent's
ten Community Forum areas each undertook a pilot art project,
in which a community group worked with a local artist
to express a local issue, and they then developed
their ideas through creative collaboration over several months.
Creative Stoke now has a gallery of 100 project photographs and
the free full-colour project publication to download.

Photo Gallery &
PDF Publication...

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EVENTS PREVIEW:
Forthcoming events.

Happening in our area during 2010:
The Stoke Your Fires 2010 festival of animation features many big-name masterclasses, as well as youth, community and outreach events in animation.
The VFX Tutor at Escape Studios, Lee Danskin, will be leading a masterclass on 25th February 2010. See the Stoke Your Fires website for full details, and the rest of the 2010 programme.

Full events listing...

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NEWS OF NOTE, elsewhere in the press & media:

Nov 2009: BBC
Return to Planet Stoke

Oct 2009: The Birmingham Post
Passport to new trade in U.S for ceramics firm

Oct 2009: The Telegraph
All fired up in North Staffordshire

Oct 2009: Paid Content UK
Local bloggers compete with newspapers

Sept 2009: AWM
Ceramic Industry Forum launches the 'New Pathways Project', a pioneering £2.6 million initiative

Sept 2009: The Telegraph
Museums race to raise cash for Staffordshire Hoard

Sept 2009: AWM
Regional minister opens Genesis Centre for start-ups, at Chatterley Valley in Stoke-on-Trent

Aug 2009: Financial Times
Festival will lift fortunes of Stoke's ceramics industry

Summer 2009: Green Places
Can arts stoke community fires?

June 2009: The Guardian
Stoke's £10m Wedgwood Museum wins the £100,000 Art Fund prize for new museums and galleries

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