Everyone with a creative idea or embarking on a new business is invited to participate in Creative Entrepreneurs!

Creative Entrepreneurs is an ‘idea journey’ – participants will have the opportunity to develop their business concept from idea to draft business plan. Leading tutors will deliver four days of intensive training in Business Planning, Marketing, Copyright and Pitching culminating in a networking event – Entrepreneurs the Next Generation – with a panel of celebrity and successful young entrepreneurs discussing how they made their dreams become a reality.

This service is only free to residents of Tower Hamlets.

See here for more details

THE OPEN PRIZE for video painting

The Open Prize 2011: a competition dedicated to the Video Painting.

Following the success of The Open Prize for graduate artists in 2010, the 2011 Prize opens for submissions on 22 November 2010 from all UK-based practicing artists at all stages of their career.

Video paintings are filmed in a single long take with a stationary camera. They contain no edits or subsequent manipulation, thus suppressing the narrative styles common to our everyday encounters with moving image. There is no dialogue, no sound. The possible styles, themes and subjects explored by artists within these parameters are vast. The Open Prize’s intention is to uncover new, unique and exciting works through this platform by artists who have been drawn to the medium from a wide range of artistic fields and backgrounds.

From the initial applicants, 10 artists will be short-listed by Open Gallery and announced in July 2011.  The work of these artists will form a prominent exhibition at a high profile London Venue in October 2011. A panel of judges including Open Gallery curator Hilary Lawson will select the overall winner, who will go on to be represented by Open Gallery and receive a prize of £500 to help launch and support the production of their video projects.

For more information, submissions and contact details visit  www.openprize.co.uk or email openprize@opengallery.co.uk

In it’s third year the CREATE Art Award is sponsored by the Bank of America Merill Lynch and is a £40,000 commission.

The award can be the first phase of a larger commission and it can be for any art form – but must be participatory. The award is open for artists, producers, musicians, designers resident / working in any of the following boroughs – Hackney, Greenwich, Tower Hamlets, Newham, Barking & Dagenham or Waltham Forest – essentially the eastern boroughs of London!

The award must premiere as a part of the CREATE festival next summer, June – July 2011 but we are open to proposals from a wide range of art forms  - the main stipulation, aside from the geography, is that it must be participatory.

Last years jury included Iwona Blazwick, Whitechapel Gallery; Jeremy Deller; Arts Council London, Visual Arts and Bank of America Merill Lynch.

The deadline is 14 January – so very soon, but please do feel free to circulate to your contacts.

The link is for the application form and guidelines, and to find out more about the CREATE festival  - http://createlondon.org/2010/

You can also see info on Roam – by Robin Turner – last years CREATE Art Award winning commission.

The Abbey Scholarship offers an early career painter a full academic year (October to June) at the British School at Rome.

The Abbey Fellowships offer mid-career painters three months at the School during the same period.

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ART HK Exhibitor & Projects Coordinator

Reporting to Exhibitor & Projects Manager

Gallery Liaison
• Sales Support – to provide support to Fair Director and Exhibitor & Projects Manager in communications with galleries from responding to gallery enquiries to sales pack distribution and follow up, etc.
• Assist Exhibitor & Projects Manager with contracted gallery enquiries
• Manage all gallery records on FileMaker database, from target galleries to contracted galleries, ensuring information is up to date and easily accessible
• Provide support in executing contracted gallery updates
• Assist in correspondence between logistical partners and exhibitors (in conjunction with the Operations Director and Exhibitor & Projects Manager)
• Provide gallery liaison support onsite during setup/Fair opening hours/take down
• Undertake initiatives to ensure participating galleries have best possible experience at the Fair

Special Programs
• Assist Exhibitor & Projects Manager in liaising with key partners: Para/Site, Colour My World, 1a Space, Hong Kong Open Printshop, etc. to manage their participation in the Fair Projects
• Support Fair Director and Exhibitor & Projects Manager in communications with galleries regarding potential installations at the Fair
• Undertake any necessary research (in conjunction with Exhibitor & Projects Manager, Operations Director and galleries) regarding logistical requirements and costs
• Support Fair Director and Exhibitor & Projects Manager in communications with galleries and partners regarding potential performances, and ensure logistical requirements and cost responsibilities are clear (also in conjunction with Operations Director).

Other responsibilities
• Assist Marketing team (on occasion, and where necessary) to gather information from galleries which is essential to their participation in the Fair
• Proofing of various marketing materials involving gallery names and details (Fair Catalogue, Fair Map, etc.)

Languages: Fluent English required. Cantonese and Mandarin are an advantage but not essential

Location: The role is based in our offices in Hong Kong

To discuss further, please email Eve Share Banghart, Exhibitor & Projects Manager on eve@hongkongartfair.com

LSO Discovery, the Orchestra’s pioneering music education and community programme, is seeking an experienced Projects Manager to develop and manage the LSO’s extensive Young Talent programme alongside the Discovery concerts programme. The LSO’s vision is to identify and nurture the very best young performers, composers and conductors from a diverse range of backgrounds, and to offer them opportunities to develop their careers into the professional world. The LSO works in close partnership with top level training grounds, including all the London music colleges, as well as specialist music schools, conservatoires and universities across the UK.

LSO Discovery also programmes a series of events to complement the LSO artistic programme at the Barbican, this includes pre-concert talks and study days linked to LSO repertoire alongside a series of informal lunchtime concerts for the local community at LSO St Luke’s.

Download a job description and application form from http://lso.co.uk/jobsvacancies

The Art of Nurture competition is designed to support and encourage UK creative talent and has been developed by Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance in partnership with Arts & Business, a national not-for-profit arts agency.

The competition is offering the chance for students currently attending art colleges and graduates who have qualified within the last five years throughout the UK, to have their work displayed at prestigious galleries, used in national advertising, and to win cash prizes.

Working closely with leading practitioners to find new talent, the Art of Nurture competition is looking for the UK’s most creative artists, to give them the opportunity to present their work to the business world and the wider arts community, as the winning work will form part of Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance’s current commercial marketing campaigns.

How to win?

Provide a piece of visual art that would support and illustrate one of the following themes, which are the values Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance seek to have demonstrated by their staff in dealings with clients at all times:

We act wisely

We stretch ourselves

We take ownership

We succeed together

We make it simple

More info here