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Conference Venue: Sheffield CIQ
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The Conference takes place in and around Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter (CIQ), the UK's first urban regeneration zone explicitly dedicated to creative industries.
Our principal venue is the
Showroom Cinema
, part of Sheffield Media and Exhibition Centre which includes the Workstation.
There will be tours and sessions in
Red Tape Studios
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Persistence Works
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Site Gallery
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Yorkshire Media Production Agency
, and the Drum (part of the former National Centre for Popular Music).
The conference party will take place in the
Millennium Galleries
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More about Sheffield CIQ at the
CIQ Agency
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The Showroom / Workstation
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The Showroom is one the UKs biggest independent cinemas, the Workstation is a cultural business centre housing sixty-five companies working in cultural and media industries. The two represent a unique interaction of production and exhibition, an innovative blend of business and culture, public and private investment - plus theres a bar.
The tour outlines the organisations development history and how its various elements fit together and support, enhance and complement each other. And you get to walk along some very long corridors.
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The Showroom /Workstation Media Centre
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Red Tape Studios
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Red Tape Studios was set up in the early 1980s by Sheffield City Council in partnership with local bands The Human League, Comsat angels, and Cabaret Voltaire. Red Tape supports the music industry in South Yorkshire by providing first-rate vocational training in an industry-based environment, giving students access to leading edge recording, music and information technology resources.
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Red Tape Studios
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Persistence Works
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Persistence Works in Sheffield is the UK's first purpose built fine art and craft studio complex. It provides a permanent new base for Yorkshire ArtSpace Society with 51 studios providing workspace for 68 artists and makers. Persistence Works also has spaces that facilitate the Society's business support services for visual artists and the exciting public activities that the Society offers.
The building has been designed by award winning Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects and provides Sheffield with a landmark building of exceptional quality. A number of commissioned artworks have been built in to the fabric of the building and the surrounding open space. They include exterior lightworks by Jo Fairfax and metal gates by Jennie Gill. Inside the Reception has a desk by Ashley Cartwright and a floor designed by Jasia Szerszynska. Throughout the building there are a number of door handles cast in aluminium from designs by Yorkshire ArtSpace artists.
The tour will last about one hour and take in viewing the building and some of the workspaces.
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Persistence Works
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Site Gallery
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Site Gallery is a contemporary art centre with a changing exhibitions programme backed up with a calendar of conferences, artists talks, eventsand short courses. Site houses the Imaging Technologies Innovation Centre, aproduction facility for still and moving image making whose focus is on commissioning new work, providing a base for residencies and offering an open access membership. The development of on-line activities, a bi-annual live art event and off-site projects further our mission to make opportunities for creative work and to present new work to new audiences.
Our policy is to present innovative, challenging and creative work addressing contemporary debates and issues within a national and international context.
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Site Gallery
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Yorkshire Media Production Agency
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Established in 1995, YMPA provides support to film, television, new mediaand games companies. Based in the Workstation at the core of the CIQ,YMPA works with partners throughout the UK and around the world. The aim of thecompany is provide a vertically integrated approach to film and media productionin the region, covering all aspects such as project and company development,production finance, mentoring and marketing and financial advice.
YMPA and ourItalian and Spanish partners have just launched CREA Net, an online network forcreative development. The site gives users access to potential collaborators andfinanciers throughout the world, replicating the normal work practices within anotarised system. The tour will incorporate a demonstration of CREA Net alongwith an overview of the company's history.
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Yorkshire Media Production Agency
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