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30th July 2010:

INVEST IN STOKE

Stoke-on-Trent City Council launched a new Investor Development Service on 30th July 2010, at the Genesis Centre at Chatterley Valley. This new dedicated service employs three investment development officers and a manager. The service aims bring inward investment to the city and its region.

21st July 2010:

MORE HOARD ITEMS

Nineteen more items from the Staffordshire Hoard are now on public display for the first time, at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent. The latest pieces on display include gold mounds, sword pommels, fragments of a shattered drinking horn, and parts of a silver helmet.

27th May 2010:

POTTERY FIRM THRIVES
Stoke-on-Trent pottery design firm Emma Bridgewater has announced a 40% jump in annual profits. It plans to expand in the city, and aims to to double sales in just three years.

1st Oct 2009:

£2.6m NEW PATHWAYS LAUNCHED
The Ceramic Industry Forum (CIF) has launched the £2.6m New Pathways Project, to encourage collaboration, innovation and diversification in the interiors and lifestyle market. The project will give businesses access to free expert advice intended to help them unlock new overseas markets in interiors and lifestyle, or explore new innovative technologies. Firms interested in finding out more about the initiative should contact the Ceramics Industry Forum in the first instance on 01782 415210.

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Featured project: AirSpace. Photo by Creative Stoke

Recently added to the Directory: Richard Pekar.

FEATURED SPACE:
AirSpace Gallery.

AirSpace is a new contemporary art gallery sited in the centre of Stoke-on-Trent.

Part funded by the Arts Council and supported by Fine Art students at Staffordshire University, this 3500-square-foot Victorian building opened as a gallery in May 2007 — conveniently opposite the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.

There are also six artists' studios at the rear. Gallery space can be hired, and there is also a show window which faces the street.

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FEATURED CREATIVE:
Richard Pekar.

Burslem-based Richard Pekar, founder of the North Staffordshire Hungarian Association, has made a film of his father's heroic escape from the horrors of socialism. In 1957 his father crawled through miles of frozen mud, barbed wire and land mines to escape, and eventually settled in Stoke-on-Trent. The Last Train to Budapest was made for £10,000, with a £6,000 National Lottery grant. It's accompanied by the book Hungarian Blood. The film will be shown at Staffordshire University Film Theatre in August 2010. There are plans for a DVD release.

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Northwood Park : a park user makes her photographic self-portrait in the newly-refurbished park.

A member of Stoke band Friends of Ken checks out the new bArts web site at the launch event.

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.

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EVENTS PREVIEW:
Forthcoming events.

Happening in our area during Summer/Autumn 2010:

The Crewe Lyceum Theatre professional stagecraft workshops; free Stoke-on-Trent Social Media Surgeries at SHOP in Stoke old town; Staffordshire Open Studios weekends and workshops across the mid and north of the county; Staffordshire University's Portfolio Development consultations days; and three Urban Vision learning trips.

Plus all the local late-summer festivals and fairs you can eat!

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NEWS OF NOTE, elsewhere in the press & media:

August 2010: BBC
Leek's new £8m theatre and artists' studios is funded by local entrepreneurs

August 2010: This is Business
Burleigh Pottery saved as a working pottery

June 2010: ITV News
Inspiring new film from North Staffs,
Last Train to Budapest

June 2010: Independent
Emma Bridgewater profile

May 2010: Times
Peter Cheeseman obituary

May 2010: IET
Profits soar at Stoke-on-Trent pottery firm

Jan 2010: This is Business
Middleport Pottery saved by major investment offer from Prince's Regeneration Trust & English Heritage

Nov 2009: BBC
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