CIDS Focal Point Networking, January 14th, Manchester

Posted on January 15th, 2008 at 15:42

Popped down to Urbis in Central Manchester for a couple of hours yesterday evening, to attend a Focal Point Networking session, organised by the Creative Industries Development Service.

Four presentations by local creative businesses and artists (Tim and Matt from ManchesterOnlinePrint.com, mixed media artist Dinu Li, Chris from recent start-up film production company Serious Feather and Lauren, who's trying to sell her Manchester Stained Glass arts & crafts training business) was both preceded and followed by a couple of rounds of miscellaneous networking.

During which, I sat and had a good long talk with Gareth from Not Part Of - an event and festival which first ran as an alternative to the Manchester International Festival (although definitely not as a fringe event...) - whom I first met at the David Parrish T-Shirts and Suits seminar back in December.

I also got talking to Bernard Quinn from the Preston-based Northern Lights project, a provider of mentoring services to creative entrepreneurs and businesses across the North West; definitely something I'll be looking into in the future, as it sounds like it could be terrifically useful for a creative entrepreneur like me...

And I'll be attending the inaugural meeting of the Manchester Wordpress Users' Group at the Manchester Digital Development Agency tomorrow evening, which sounds like it has plenty of potential. Will report back on that one later in the week.

January 15, 2008 | Filed Under Out and About 

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