Stop, Collaborate and Celebrate!
Cultural Enterprise Office and Creative Dundee have come together to create Stop, Collaborate and Celebrate. We invite you to leave the studio behind and come together to share, connect and indulge!
- A flurry of Pecha Kucha Night presentations all about collaborating! Hear from: Mark Hogarth, creative director of Harris Tweed Hebrides, part of the team that have been credited with transforming the unique heritage industry. Glasgow-based Illustrator of much goodness, Alice Dansey-Wright. Ben Spencer, VELOCITY Producer – a cultural response to the impact of Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games through a public art programme. Make Works own Fi Scott who has visited 120 factories in Scotland, to better connect the creative industry with making.
- Verity McIntosh from the Watershed in Bristol, will speaking about the Playable City project, Hello Lamp Post and Hack the Quartet, which looks at the city as a playable and social space.
- A hot dish and dessert from Dundee Rep’s Encore and a complimentary craft ale by local MòR Brewery.
- Sweet and tasty treats by Ms Battenberg’s Travelling Tea Room.
- Live music by St Kilda Mailboat, Seven Sons and The Onion Club brought to you by The Rusty Hip Collective.
- Fun festive activities created by RARA and the Pretty Vacant Showrooms during the night to get you in the Christmas swing!
Above: Part of the Playable City project, Hello Lamp Post, is an experimental, city-wide platform for play, encouraging you to speak to Bristol’s street furniture, who can speak back!
More on our speaker Verity McIntosh:
Britsol-based, Verity McIntosh is the Studio Producer at the Watershed’s Pervasive Media Studio and works closely with a community of 100 studio residents, including artists and technologists. Verity leads on the Playable City Award which invites creative practitioners from all disciplines to respond to the concept of a city as a personable, playable and social space.
More on our Pecha Kucha presenters:
Mark Hogarth is a politics graduate from Ayrshire in Scotland. Mark has been creative director of Harris Tweed Hebrides since 2008 and works as a branding consultant in fashion and textiles though the vast majority of his work is as part of the multi-award winning Harris Tweed team that have been credited with transforming the unique heritage industry. @harristweedtwit
Stop, Collaborate and Celebrate graphic design by Martin Baillie.
Cultural Enterprise Office is a partner in the Open Innovation Project funded through the INTERREG IVB North-West Europe Programme.
