creative coast blog

story on cc member andy copland’s new business venture in the evening news - read it here.

in case you hadn’t noticed, scarborough literature festival is in full swing. thursday is scarborough writers day with involvement from several creative coast members. festival website here. the festival brochure and logo has been designed by cc members electric angel design.

’shine on’ with stuart cameron of crescent arts will now take place on wednesday 30th april at 6pm. venue: the merchant, eastborough, scarborough.

Spend an evening with Stuart Cameron, the new DIrector
of Crescent Arts. Stuart comes to the East Coast of
England via Indonesia, Burma, Sri Lanka, Turkey and
Egypt with the British Council in business and learning
skills training. What does the dawning of a new Crescent
hold for Scarborough? Come and find out.

wednesday 16 april 6pm . upstairs at the merchant, eastborough, scarborough. free.

the following might be of interest to cc members:

JOB ADVERT
Post Title: University Foundation Award Tutors
Location: Centre for Lifelong Learning, Scarborough Campus

The Centre for Lifelong Learning invites applicants to join a panel of part-time tutors to teach on the University Foundation Award (UFA) Programme. Read the rest of this entry »

..and we’re celebrating. the next creative coast event is our 2nd birthday party. starting at 7pm at bar2b in scarborough with food and creative cake decorating (yes, really!) and running into the evening with live music from 9pm.

the event is open to the public from 9pm so do invite your friends (or invite to become members and be there from 7pm!)

wednesday 20th march, 6pm at the merchant (upstairs).

creative coast members will ‘pitch’ their business, an idea or a piece of work - in 5 minutes. it’s friendly, useful and good fun. if you want to pitch get in touch with adrian - only 2 places left. everyone welcome to come, listen, learn and lend moral support.

Community Art Skills

What is it?
* Community Art Skills is a quality-assured short course offered by The University of Hull @ Scarborough which is open to all

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…in the evening news. click here.

February’s Creative Coast is ‘The 5 Minute Pitch’ - a chance to show to other CC members what it is you do. It works like this… everyone gets 5 minutes to stand up and talk about their work, perhaps show some examples, do a little bit of performance - whatever is appropriate to what they do. It’s so simple and yet so useful - it’s amazing how little people actually know about each other despite probably having had many conversations in the past.

If all that sounds little unnerving then there’s no need to worry. Read the rest of this entry »