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Creative Business Works Festival
10:00-20:00, Friday 10th February 2023
MacArts, Galashiels / Online



The Creative Business Works festival brought together creative businesses and freelancers from the Scottish Borders to discuss practical creative livelihoods, sustaining them, resilience and making the most of opportunities up ahead; including new initiatives from South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE), Codebase and Techscaler.



What



This seed event can helped to galvanise activity around skills development and retention, sustainable livelihoods, partnerships, youth employment, fair work, digital, exporting and more.



Who



The event was for Borders-based creative businesses with an interest in sustainable livelihoods, building capacity, exporting and who want to get inspired and raise their game with like-minded businesses.



Flora Collingwood-Norris



Solarcan



Alasdair Wallace



Jane Morrison-Ross



Moy Mackay



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Onwards



Creative Business Works: Onwards
15:30-17:00, Monday 20th February 2023
Online



Picking up key threads of sustaining business, building capacity and exporting emerging from the Creative Business Works Festival, Creative Coathanger were joined by creative business owners Rosemary Eribé of ERIBÉ Knitwear and Lesley Landels of Love Scottish Candles.


Introducing their Scottish-Borders based businesses, Rosemary and Lesley shared insights and reflected on their experiences to explore the key issues raised by creative businesses and freelancers who attended the festival. It was an opportunity for continued conversations with Borders-based businesses and practitioners following the festival, and to provide further support, signposting, inspiration and we believe confidence to take action.


Rosemary's mantra of 'working together for the benefit of everyone' resonates with the Creative Business Works project to bring together Scottish Borders creative businesses and freelancers to discuss practical creative livelihoods, sustaining them, resilience and making the most of opportunities up ahead.



Rosemary Eribé of ERIBÉ Knitwear



Lesley Landels of Love Scottish Candles



Creative Business Works



Creative Business Works project is inspired by the need to bridge the gap between the serious livelihood issues faced by professional rural creative practitioners / businesses, and the high growth opportunity of the creative sector identified by national and regional policymakers.


The project will bring together creative businesses and freelancers to discuss sustainable creative livelihoods and make the most of opportunities up ahead, with a particular focus on entrepreneurship, export, fair work and digital creative skills.


At the project’s core is the one-day festival of ideas that celebrates the creative industries in the Scottish Borders. The hybrid format event includes speakers representing a range of creative experiences, industries and organisations.



Freelance OPPORTUNITies



Through the project, Creative Coathanger can offer two freelance project opportunities:



Project Coordinator Assistant



Project Coordinator Assistant Supporting the Festival Producer with coordination of the Festival programme and delivery. Creative Coathanger seek someone new to working in event programming and production in the creative industries (whether a student / graduate / school leaver or changing their career / sector), the ideal candidate will have an interest in an aspect / discipline / practice of the creative industries, whether as a creator or consumer, and want to get to know more about the production of events with and for the creative industries.




Technical Venue Assistant



Recruited with MacArts



Creative Coathanger gratefully acknowledge funding for the
Creative Business Works project from the Scottish Government,
via the Scottish Borders Council’s Community-Led Learning and Development Fund



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