1. Bristol Creatives Flyer Competition Winner
2. Bristol Creatives Free Networking Event
3. St. Paul's Carnival – Call to Artists
4. Southbank Bristol Arts Week 2007
5. Celebrating Sanctuary Open Art Exhibition: Call to Artists
6. Attracting Investment into your Creative Business
7. Bristol Media Show & Tell
8. Jamaica Street Homeless Hostel Hoardings Graffiti Project
9. German Festival – Call to Artists & Musicians
10. Help Save Grants 4 the Arts From The 2012 Olympics
11. Bristol Creatives Privileges

1. Bristol Creatives Flyer Competition Winner

Bristol Creatives is pleased to announce that Janine Partington is the winner of the Bristol Creatives flyer competition. Janine's fantastic enamel panel was judged to best answer the brief and will be used on a new flyer and poster that the competition judge and sponsor Out of Hand is printing.

The flyers and posters will be distributed throughout Bristol and the surrounding area to help promote Bristol Creatives, its members, the Event Calendar and Creative Directory to the public. The idea is to make the Bristol Creatives website the place to go to if you are looking for an artist, maker, photographer, performer, etc or if you want to find out what art and design courses, exhibitions and events are going on in the city.

There will be an exhibition of the best entries at the next Bristol Creatives networking event – for more information see below.

Visit winner to see Janine's winning entry. You can see more of Janine's work at the Southville Centre as part of the Southbank Arts Trail on 11 & 12 May 2007.

2. Bristol Creatives Free Networking Event

Date: 22 May 2007

Bristol Creatives will be hosting a free networking event at The Pierian Centre on Tuesday 22 May. You are invited to come along to find out how to make the most of your free Bristol Creatives membership - how to use the News, Event Calendar and Creative Directory facilities, to discuss the future of Bristol Creatives and to meet and network with other creative people. There will be two sessions one running from 10.30am to 1.30pm and the other from 2pm – 5pm.

Email sally@bristolcreatives.co.uk to find out more and to book a place on one of these sessions. Please note spaces are limited, so first come first served.

3. St. Paul's Carnival – Call to Artists

Date: 7 July 2007

This year St. Paul's African & Caribbean Arts Association will celebrate the 40th St. Paul's Carnival under the theme of ‘Rebirth'. Having taken a year out the organisation has restructured and has secured increased funding for this years event.

If you would like to support this years event as an artist, volunteer or wish to be involved in a sub-group contact Pax Nindi, the Artistic Director on 0117 944 4176 or visit www.stpaulscarnival.org for more information.

4. Southbank Bristol Arts Week 2007

Date: 12 –19 May 2007

Don't forget to get over to the ever popular and biggest yet 5th annual Southbank Bristol Arts Trail on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 May. Pick up your Passport Guide to the event at The Southville Centre on Beauley Road.

This years arts trail is being extened into a seven day showcase of all forms of art and performance in venues throughout Southville, Bedminster and Ashton.

For more information and details of venues and opening times visit www.sbaweb.co.uk

5. Celebrating Sanctuary Open Art Exhibition: Call to Artists

Deadline: 18 May 2007

The Pierian Centre is proud to present the third successful year for Celebrating Sanctuary - an open exhibition of artwork by and about Asylum Seekers and Refugees. This will be one of many events to be taking place during Bristol's National Refugee week 2007, a week when the Centre is dedicated to a full programme of events by and about Asylum Seekers and Refugees. Part of Bristol's National Refugee Week - 16th to 24th of June 2007, this exhibition will be curated by Helen Wilson.

Artists working in any medium can submit to take part. Artwork of all descriptions (visual, written, film, installations etc) by and about Asylum Seekers and Refugees, Schools projects or work resulting from workshops with Asylum seekers and refugees are all welcome.

For more information visit bristol creatives

6. Attracting Investment into your Creative Business

Date: 23 May 2007

Learn proven techniques in researching and writing successful grant applications. Participants will discover how to build a relationship with a funder, what funders look for in an application, tools and techniques to enhance the quality of an application and what successful applications have in common.

This event costs £25 and takes place at the Assembly Rooms in Stroud. Contact Frances Meredith on 01452 417227 or email glos@artsmatrix.org.uk for more information.

7. Bristol Media Show & Tell

Date: 14 May 2007

Come along to the launch of a new monthly event for Bristol Media members in the screening lounge at The Picture House. It's called SHOW & TELL and each will feature an illustrated talk about new or ongoing work - be it film, tv, animation or website - with one or more members of the production team on hand to explain the project's background and the challenges they met/overcame. A sort of CSI: PRODUCTION in fact, with opportunities for questions.

The series starts with a coup - a sneak preview + anatomy of the new BBC celebrity-led series SAVING PLANET EARTH, with producer PAUL APPLEBY. The show starts at 6.30pm prompt and includes previously unseen footage from PLANET EARTH.

FREE ENTRY: The Picture House, 44 Whiteladies Road, BS8 2NH, No need to book, first come first seated. For more information contact pam@bristolmedia.co.uk

8. Jamaica Street Homeless Hostel Hoardings Graffiti Project

Date: 15 May 2007

Following the success of the 'outdoor gallery' on the hoardings adjacent to Jamaica Street Studios where five pieces of work have been created so far this year. The Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft (PRSC) are organising another ‘outdoor gallery' this time on the 150ft long hoardings that have recently been put up in front of the Homeless Hostel on Jamaica Street, whilst the building is being refurbished. PRCS have decided to split the hoardings into 'frames' each approximately 12ft long and are inviting artists to come along to paint them on a first come first served basis. The frames should be available for painting from Tuesday 15 May. There will be some work to be done in preparation, in particular, painting and fixing battens to form the frames - help would be appreciated. Unfortunately, there is no funding available and the cost of paint and other materials will be met by PRSC and the artists that take part.

For more information visit www.prsc.org.uk/

9. German Festival – Call to Artists & Musicians

There is going to be a German Festival in Bristol on the weekend 22/23/24 June. The organisers are looking for arts/crafts/musicians and food stalls to take part in this event which will be happening on Castle Green in the centre of Bristol.

If you are interested email stephen@triebwerk.co.uk or visit www.myspace.com/folksfest

10. Help Save Grants 4 the Arts Funding From The 2012 Olympics

'Stop the chancellor using Lottery money to plug the funding gap in the 2012 Olympics. If this goes ahead at least £900m will go from Big Lottery, Sport England, Arts Council and Heritage Lottery much of this money would fund projects within the local voluntary and community sector. Services to disadvantaged people will be directly affected by the loss of this funding, people who will have no opportunity to benefit from the Olympics directly but rely on local services provided by the voluntary sector.'

This is opposing the reallocation of resources to the Olympics of which the 35% reduction of grants for the arts is a part. To submit your name to this petition click on this link petitions.pm.gov.uk/lotteryolympics/

It has already passed the minimum requirement of 200 signatures to get an official response from Number 10 when the petition closes on 16 September 2007. If it gets to 40,000 signatures it would make it into the top 5 most popular petitions on the site! Currently, the petition in the number 4 spot is ‘Continue funding for the Royal Air Force Aerobatics Team'. Surely in the arts world we are able to gather a similar if, not larger number, of supporters.

Very popular petitions seem to generate responses from the Prime Minister prior to the petition closing, so this really is a great way to draw attention to our widespread concern and opposition to the proposed 35% reduction in Grants for the Arts funding.

Do forward this on to colleagues, friends, and collaborators encouraging them to add their name to the petition.

11. BRISTOL CREATIVES MEMBERS PRIVILEGES

Don't forget that your free membership of Bristol Creatives entitles you to post your own articles and announcements in News, details of forthcoming events, courses, gigs and exhibitions in the Event Calendar and list your business in the new Creative Directory. Just visit Bristol Creatives and log in and select 'create content' under your name on the right hand side of the screen, then choose from one of the following options:

forum topic - to create a new topic for discussion in the Forum
local event - to create an event to appear on the Event Calendar
member directory listing - to list your business in the Creative Directory
story - to create an article for News

Email sally if you have any problems logging in.

Please forward this E-bulletin to anyone who might be interested and suggest they join Bristol Creatives so that they can benefit from the free membership facilities mentioned above and can subscribe to future E-bulletins.