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Community Site Launch Event Glasgow

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 from 5:45 PM to 9:00 PM (GMT)

Glasgow, Glasgow City

Community Site Launch Event Glasgow

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NESTA Glasgow Event Invitee Ended Free  

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NESTA Banter in Glasgow Connecting New Businesses

NESTA is launching a new community site for Start-up businesses and those supporting them. We want you to be part of it - we'll be sending you your membership details when we launch on March 1st.  

To celebrate this launch we are organising NESTA Banter: a Networking event for you to get to meet the other members of this community face to face and virtually – yes, we are getting a bit technical and will be hooking 5 cities up with video link ups.  This is a chance for you to get a sense of the rich community you are an important part of, and it will have presentations and showcases from members of the community. There will also be a chance to banter over drinks and nibbles. 

Who's speaking

We've scoured our little black books for the most lively and interesting speakers, including NESTA awardees and other inspiring creatives.

Check them out:  

·         Lizzie Jackson – BBC community guru

·         Ian Gouldstone – BAFTA award winning animatorGavin ·         Richard Brown – interaction designer working on sophisticated and immersive human computer interactions

·         Rose Kane – Designer who has developed an innovative bread baking technique

·         Chris Murphy – described as "a William Morris for the digital age" by Creative Review

·         Hannah Campion – Fine artist who combines underwater photography and industrial spray guns

·         Richard Taylor – runs ‘to what end’ a challenging creative practice excited by worthwhile ends

·         Laura Williams and Nina Belk – Service design duo who run Zest Innovation

·         Kiaran Khan – made-to-measure ethnic evening and bridal wear designer

·         Gaylie Runcimen – runs an award winning digital media and animation company rm-star 

Showcase

We will be putting together a show real of work from members of the community which we will be showing on the night. If you have images of your work or animations or films you have produced then please email them to:Meaghan.Macdonald@nesta.org.uk by the 6th March.(Please send 2 or 3 images of work and no files larger than 1MB)If you have any queries about this people contact Meg on: +44 (0)20 7438 2689

 

Alternatively if you are feeling adventurous the event is also taking place in the following cities: Belfast, London, Manchester and Newcastle

When & Where



Glasgow Lighthouse
Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and The City
11 Mitchell Lane
G1 3NU Glasgow
United Kingdom

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 from 5:45 PM to 9:00 PM (GMT)


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The Coproduction Roadshows are jointly hosted by the Coproduction Practitioners Network NESTA, nef and a range of partners across the country including Scotland's Futures Forum, the Welsh Assembly Government, SPICE, Coprodnet, Governance International, Birmingham University and Timebanking UK.