Part of the Haringey City Growth Strategy,
Creative Buzz will showcase Haringey's rich
and diverse landscape of creative businesses
and people and launch a series of initiatives
to support existing and emerging creative
businesses in the borough.
Haringey’s
Support Network for Creative Business and
Activity
Collage Arts (CA)
Collage Arts is a leading
arts development, training and creative
regeneration organisation based in Haringey’s
Cultural Quarter. For almost 20 years
the organisation has created opportunities
for greater participation in the arts
and creative industries for the whole
community. Collage Arts has developed
2 buildings for the artistic community
at The Chocolate Factory, housing over
160 creative businesses.
A tool kit of FREE professional
and business support services and resources
are available to people and creative businesses
living, working or situated in Haringey
once they have registered with Collage
Arts or Navigator.
The tool kit offers bespoke professional
development; networking and mentoring
opportunities; business advice and support
in project development, marketing, design
and promotion, events management; finance;
legal and other generic business-related
areas, project ideas and business opportunities
in the creative industries. It also provides
one-to-one advice and learning programmes
to people exploring careers in the creative
industries. The bookable resources/facilities
include the Creative Online Centre, the
Recording Studio including film edit suites,
MIDI music suites, live recording control
room with a large live room, internet
access and design media, meeting rooms
and Collage Arts venues, The Long Lounge
and Karamel Club.
Navigator, a new initiative from Collage
Arts, will open its doors in October 2005
to assist film, music, and performing
arts practitioners at all levels of experience
to receive accurate information about
current opportunities in the creative
industries and to provide the essential
exposure for those ready for industry
entry and career development. Based at
the Chocolate Factory in Wood Green, Navigator
has a dynamic business development team
of creative industries professionals,
who offer individually-tailored creative
and business advice, guidance and opportunity.
It will be available to literature and
visual arts practitioners in due course.
Creative and business mentoring, practical
workshops, creative labs, production and
technical awareness sessions, talent focusing
and industry networking are on offer to
North London’s creative community. Navigator
will also contribute towards or host a
number of mainstream industry events in
partnership with industry organizations
e.g. Association of Independent Music,
the North London Film Festival (NOLO).
Navigator offers creative people the
opportunity of meeting each other in a
creative business club environment to
develop their talent and career, attend
events or workshops, enjoy the social
scene and exchange ideas over a drink
or meal.
Euroart Studios and Gallery
Created in 2002, Euroart was originally
conceived as a provider of work spaces
for artists and makers, in three short
years it has evolved from 26 studio spaces
into a complex of 41 studios, a fully
equipped B/W photographic darkroom and
an art gallery with an exhibition programme
by national and international artists.
The studios now host some 45 creative
businesses who are recipient to various
business support services, such as, organisation
of annual open studios events, off-site
exhibitions and provision of information
on business & network opportunities,
and business mentoring. Euroart also provides
work experience opportunities to the volunteer
sector.
Jacksons Lane
Jacksons Lane is a Grade 2 listed building
and this year celebrates its 30th birthday.
It is a small scale performing arts centre
offering a range of services and fully
staffed 7 days a week, 10am – 11pm.
The Centre has an excellent track record
of providing courses across most art forms
and offers people the opportunity to experience
a range of tasters (drama, singing, Capoeira,
static trapeze, Flamenco, Mi Salsa) and
then maybe go to the next level. All tutors
are highly experienced and are able to
advise anyone who wishes to pursue a career
within a particular art form. The Centre
is regularly contacted by the casting
agencies and has gained a strong reputation
for supplying further and higher education
course students (such as Laban or Middlesex
University). Many volunteers work with
the Technical Department of Jacksons Lane
Theatre to gain experience and a greater
understanding of what they want to pursue
professionally.
Mountview Academy of Theatre
Arts
This year Mountview celebrates its 60th
anniversary. From its beginnings as a
flourishing amateur theatre society, Mountview
has grown over the last sixty years into
Britain’s largest independent drama academy,
offering vocational education and training
for people wanting to work in the professional
theatre and its associated industries.
It is widely recognised as one of Britain’s
leading drama schools and attracts students
from all over the UK and abroad.
The employment record of Mountview’s
performance graduates, in a notoriously
unpredictable industry, is a very good
82%. Among our recent alumni who have
achieved notable success are Amanda Holden,
Nick Moran, Maggie Williams (Redcaps,
Murphy’s Law), Kelly Price (Mamma Mia!)
Don Gilet (55 Degrees North, Babyfather),
Caryl Thomas (My Fair Lady, Family Affairs),
Paul Cattermole (S-Club 7) and Helen Latham
(Dream Team, Footballers’ Wives). Graduates
from Mountview’s Production Arts courses
have achieved 100% employment.
North London Performing Arts
Centre (NLPAC)
North London Performing Arts Centre provides
classes for children in all areas of the
performing arts. NLPAC’s track record
definitely reads like a success story.
It is now the largest children’s performing
arts centre in the country, giving nearly
2000 children across six boroughs the
chance to learn dance, drama, singing
and musical instruments. The wide variety
of dance classes include ballet, tap,
jazz, street, contemporary and hip-hop.
The teachers at NLPAC are chosen not
only for their exceptional teaching skills
and ability to communicate with young
people but also for their professional
experience within the performing arts,
be it dance, drama, musical theatre, pop
music or opera!
Students also get the opportunity to perform
professionally and have appeared in West
End theatre productions such as Les Miserables
and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; many TV shows
such as Eastenders, The Bill and Murphy’s
Law; numerous adverts and films (Billy
Elliot (all the ballerinas), Bridget Jones,
The Exocist, Harry Potter amongst many
others).
The Heron: College of North East
London (CONEL)
Only two minutes walk from Tottenham Hale
underground station, this stylish new
centre houses the kind of state of the
art facilities and equipment media creatives
dream of including Pro Tools Editing Studio/Off
air Radio Broadcast studio, a Logic and
Pro Tools Recording Studio and three Avid
editing suites.
The Centre offers local companies reductions
and if they are prepared to take a student
on work experience can have extra access
for free. The Heron offers training in
camerawork, Avid editing, Pro Tools, radio
skills, sound engineering, scriptwriting,
Dreamweaver and Flash. Each course is
accredited through The College of North
East London. About to launch is the Making
Waves initiative which aims to train forty
local women from Black and ethnic minority
backgrounds in music and video production
skills.
Tottenham Green Enterprise Centre
(TGEC)
Located in the Old Firestation at Tottenham
Green, TGEC provides affordable support
for all businesses including arts professionals.
It is currently working with 150 creative
sector businesses spanning film-makers,
dance companies, design and production.
It has helped many creatives to be successful,
not only with their Art but in their business.
New for 2005, TGEC has a really great
offer that helps audio visual professionals
promote their businesses. Working in partnership
with the CoNEL facilities at Heron House,
we will assist up and coming companies
build their business making samples of
their work then showcasing what they do.
TGEC Enterprise Services is that also
provides offices for businesses to rent.
Selby Centre
The Selby Trust is a multi purpose community
centre attracting over a 1500 people daily.
It’s three main areas of work are community
development, community economic development
and facility management.
The Selby Trust under its community economic
development remit works with a wide range
of established SME’s to improve business
processes, diversify income and capacity
build workforce to maximise sustainability
and growth. The Trust also has a start-up
programme, which nurtures business ideas
through a range of workshops, designed
to encourage enterprise, by embedding
basic business orientated good practice.
In addition to the above it also runs
a procurement programme aimed at established
or newly established SME’s, to help them
achieve approved provider status for the
local authorities, PCT’s and other statutory
bodies. The above work is complimented
by a staff development programme which
aims to improve SME skill base through
bespoke delivery methods.
