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SPRING 08 - FEATURED IMAGES:
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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HOLD THE FRONT PAGE!
6th June 2008:
£30m MEDIA CENTRE FOR STOKE-ON-TRENT
A new £30-million media centre is to be built in Stoke-on-Trent.
The first phase of a larger scheme, the centre will have four floors of offices & radio facilities on the top floor, a 200-seat auditorium to record live TV, a TV production centre, and cafe.
3rd May 2008:
£10m CERAMICS MUSEUM
A new-build museum to house the priceless
Wedgwood collection of art ceramics is nearly completed and is being fitted out
at Barlaston, on the edge of Stoke-on-Trent. £7-million of
National Heritage funding was secured,
and local architects Hulme Upright
Manning have designed the new building.
17th Dec 2007:
COUNCIL SLASHES MUSEUMS FUNDING
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has announced “a £500,000 cut in the funding the council gives to museums and libraries”,
according to the Sentinel.
Three jobs were axed at the city's main museum & art gallery in summer 07. At that time, the Museums,
Libraries and Archives Council (MLAC)... “said it believed a further 14 jobs could be cut at the museum”. The latest cuts come as Arts Council England moves to cease all funding
to 20% of its funded organisations by April 08.
10th May 2007:
'LIVE-WORK UNITS' FOR DESIGNERS IN BURSLEM
Burslem is now offering six new live-work
apartments for creatives, as part of a £850,000 commercial
initiative by Keynote. Rents start at £67 p.w. For rental enquiries phone: 0800 445567.
The units are near the School of Art,
the re-opened Queen's Theatre, and £2.4m of new retail units
for crafts makers & designers.
10th Jan 2007:
HOTHOUSE DESIGN CENTRE II OPENS
Stoke's
Hothouse Centre
has expanded into a nearby Grade-II listed building, the
Sutherland Institute. This has been refurbished at a cost
of £2.7m, to create 23 studio/office spaces
for design-based businesses, adding
to the existing 20 studios.
CREATIVE CLUSTERS:
Creative Stoke recently went to the
Creative Clusters
international conference in Brighton. Download
our report on how to develop
& support the creative industries ...
Download the report. (PDF, 580kb)
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PROJECT SPOTLIGHT:
'Creative Approaches to Local Issues' was a successful £100,000 arts project in our city.
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 summer 2008:
the Stoke Your Fires animation producer's festival, the opening of the new
£10-million Wedgewood Museum in Stoke-On-Trent; a digital media conference;
the Three Counties Photography Open at Keele University's art gallery; Embroidery in The Garden; the Stoke-on-Trent International Ceramics Festival; art & design graduate shows; and more...
Full events listing...
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NEWS OF NOTE, elsewhere in the press & media:
Architect's Journal
£30m media production centre for Stoke-on-Trent.
AWM
£250,000 funding for four new creative-economies business units in Burslem.
The Guardian
International architectural design competition for Stoke-on-Trent city centre.
24hr Museum
Stoke Gallery loans original Goya works to Spain.
The Guardian
"Dan Catt grabbed his digital camera, went for a walk near his home in Stoke-on-Trent, and ended up being hired by Yahoo"...
The Birmingham Post
£10m new ceramics museum for Stoke-on-Trent. Local architects appointed.
The Guardian
Stoke-on-Trent animation project touches children.
Daily Telegraph
Garden designers lead £100-million makeover at Stoke's Trentham Gardens.
KPMG News
KPMG study shows Stoke-on-Trent is the most cost-effective place to start a new business.
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