Tuesday 10th November 2009 10am – 4pm
Tuesday 1st December 2009 10am – 4pm

• A review of the Code for Sustainable Homes against current building technologies and how they can help meet local and national targets
• Learn about the latest thinking on what works and where
• Through a participatory workshop, develop a better appreciation of the challenges faced by colleagues in allied professions

With contributions from architecture and urbanism experts including Martin Cook from BRE, this event aims to shine a light on this crucial area of design and planning. It will clearly explain and make relevant a topic that can appear complex and confusing to many. This session is therefore suitable for those who are new to the subject and want to know more; as well as for planners, urban designers and architects who are already experienced in the design and delivery of sustainable architecture. Therefore it can be attended by both design and build or regeneration professionals and the many stakeholders involved in the planning processes.

Venue: Enterprise Pavilion, Arts University College Bournemouth, Fern Barrow, Wallisdown, Poole BH12 5HH

Fee for day to include lunch and refreshments £45*

For further information contact Stella Yates 07838 2324848 syates@aucb.ac.uk
To reserve your place contact Miriam Bowers 01202 363214 mbowers@aucb.ac.uk

* This event forms part of a programme of continuing professional development offering the potential to gain accredited units at Masters Level in Higher Education at the Arts University College Bournemouth. The cost of events has been subsidised through the support of Higher Level Skills Development Fund from HERDA SW (Higher Education Regional Development Agency in the South West)

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Training in Digital Imaging, Leadership and Management, Project Management, Service Design and Sustainable Design will be delivered from September to November in Bath, Bournemouth, Bristol, Falmouth and Taunton.

Each training day usually costs £350 to attend, but thanks to the South West Design Forum securing financial support from the Higher Education Funding Council for England, this series of training days are being subsidised and each day only costs £120. And if you register for all five days the price is £500.

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills, trainyour staff and grow your business potential. It’s also agreat way to meet colleagues in the industry. Choose from

Project Management
Digital Imaging
Leadership and Management
Sustainable Design
Service Design

Get a list of dates, course information and locations here

We would love for you to complete our very short and anonymous survey. You can write as little or as much as you like - venting is more than welcome, because if we don’t know what you want then we can’t help!

In particular we would like to know:

What functions/capabilities would you like from the site?

What do you believe could improve the local arts community?

What sort of topics or advice would you like to receive, or would like to see covered in training/talks/workshops? What would be beneficial to you as an artist and help you sell/exhibit your work successfully?

…and any other comments, suggestions, requests or ideas?

Remember: the survey is 100% anonymous, so please say what you think! What is missing in the Poole/Dorset area for artists? What would you like to see more or less of? What’s good about the local arts scene and how could this be improved further?

Please also bear in mind that The Ideas Factory is aimed towards the applied arts and crafts sector so we are particularly interested in thoughts regarding this area.

We really look forward to hearing your responses and hopefully taking as many suggestions, ideas or criticisms on board so that we can work with these. We have close ties with many local arts organisations and would be happy to pass on any popular requests, comments or interesting suggestions to the appropriate people.

CLICK HERE to take The Ideas Factory survey!

Whilst not strictly in our craft remit, a very good friend of the Ideas Factory is recruiting local musicians for a fantastic new project and as we know the world of art and music so often cross-over, we are keen to spread the word:

Probably the best known example of a Musicians Collective in Britain is the band Bellowhead. As it says on their website, ‘Blending folk, rock, ska, jazz, soul and world music influences with dashes of English Music Hall and cabaret, the 11 musicians of Bellowhead play more than 20 instruments, six of them sing and their arrangements are already the stuff of legend.’

Of course a new collective has to start somewhere - and the starting point for us is deciding to get together every week to play live music - and putting out this invitation for you to join us.

Once the music starts to flow it might well lead to us writing our own numbers, working on arrangements, discovering fusions of different styles of music - I love celtic beats, latin and world music as well as the folk, rock, funk and jazz most people play - and then we’ll probably go on to arrange gigs and studio recording sessions when the time is right.

But all that is for the future.

Right now I’m looking for a small group of committed musicians to be at the musical core of this project.
If you are interested, contact me at liveandopen@googlemail.com.

Find out more on facebook - musicians collective.

Trevann Fanthorpe
11 Victoria Crescent, Parkstone
Poole, Dorset BH12 2JQ
Tel: 01202 735758

Email: trevann.fanthorpe@ntlworld.com

The space will be a home for film, music, theatre, dance and visual art exhibitions and the best bit is that YOU can get involved! By offering them something (making a pledge) to help them develop the space, in return they will offer you a ‘2nd birthday’… ie. your event run in the space. For more details on this exciting new communal project, visit the 2nd Birthday website (like us, they’ve recently had a fabulous new make-over!!)

This Summer, 2nd Birthday have some fantastic projects in the pipeline entitled ‘Sideshow’ and are looking for artists, whatever their medium, to get involved. This is their call-out:

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SHOP WINDOWS

Working with our friends at Bournemouth Creatives we will be opening up shop windows across Bournemouth for artists to show and sell existing work.

Please send examples of your work via e-mail to elanormcbay@yahoo.co.ukThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

DEADLINE: 8th July 2009

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2ND BIRTHDAYS ABANDONED BUILDING

We are taking over a sad abandoned building. This space is not your average space.  Awkward and vast, visitors will be led through the building to wonder at what has been created.

The space will be open from morning to night for 2 days during Side Show and will include new art work which places an emphasis on interactivity and experience.  There are a number of opportunities…

We have £2000 to commission new site responsive art work in any medium.  We are interested in ideas… from tiny installations to huge hanging sculptures or group activities so let us know what you would like to do with a proposed budget.

Our lovely friends who have pledged their stuff to make 2nd Birthday happen can propose their 2nd Birthday event…. really this can be anything!   We have a small amount  or money to help set these events up so let us know what you would like to do.

Please send your proposals via e-mail to info@2ndbirthday.co.ukThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or via post to:

Please note: we will not return your submission, as we will keep it in the 2nd Birthday database.

DEADLINE: 8th July 2009

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BEACH HUTS

On the Bournemouth seafront we have some beach huts crying out for a bit of an artistic makeover…

Let us know what you would like to do…

Please send your proposals via e-mail to info@2ndbirthday.co.ukThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or via post to:

Please note: we will not return your submission, as we will keep it in the 2nd Birthday database.

DEADLINE: 8th July 2009

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SIDESHOW BROCHURE DESIGN

We are currently designing our brochure for Sideshow and in the participatory style of 2nd birthday we are looking for your help!.

We’re going to make a brochure to advertise all the events above, we’re thinking black and white line drawings -  imagine David Shrigley mixed with a carnival, a circus, freak shows, think quirky, quick, observational… Wait, that is David Shrigley. Anyway you know what we mean.

Send us your designs for our festival guide and we’ll publish the good ‘uns.

Design Notes: The brochure will be A6, so make sure you’re drawings will work on this size. Keep it black and white!

Outcome: The joy of having your credited artwork published in 2000 brochures.

Please send your drawings via e-mail to info@2ndbirthday.co.ukThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or via post to:

2nd Birthday, PO Box 7171, BOURNEMOUTH, BH4 0ED

Please note: we will not return your drawing, so send a COPY!

DEADLINE: 8th July 2009

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What are you waiting for?! Get in touch with them!

The exhibition fills the gallery with a stunning array of work by students from the Applied Art & Design Foundation Degree (FdA), Hot Glass Techniques courses and City & Guilds.

The exhibition is open for public view on:
Thursday 18th June 10am - 4pm
Friday 19th June 10am - 4pm
Saturday 20th June 10am - 4pm
Monday 22nd June 10am - 4pm
Tuesday 23rd June 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 24th June 10am - 9pm
Thursday 25th June 10am - 4pm

The original website mock-up plan

We hope you agree that the new design (that you’re looking at right now!) is more colourful and modern.

We had a lot of problems with the old site, from switching servers, changing designers and without planning it in detail from the outset. Having spoken to people and asked them what they would like from a website, we found that the most recurring requests were for ease-of-use, featured artists, maintaining focus on the craft sector only, write-ups of our public talks and workshops, simple how-to resources, regular event updates and a regular newsletter that without bombarding inboxes.

Hopefully we are now well on our way to providing the above and would like to see the site flourish as a reliable guide to what’s on, who’s-who and advice for local artists and users.