Bristol Creative Industries

We are very excited to announce our first Bristol in person keynote event for 2025 and it’s a big one! 🙌 Did you know that Bristol has its very own Amazement Park in Wake The Tiger? 🌟 This immersive world of adventure combines purpose, storytelling and art in a way never seen before. Since opening in summer 2022, the attraction has gone from strength to strength, more than doubling in size and hosting sell-out events. On 28th January in Wake The Tiger’s Guildhall, co-founder Graham MacVoy will share the journey of this latest venture, going from festival builds at Boomtown to creating a world-first attraction, including how funds were raised, balancing resources and creating another world in a warehouse in St Philip’s Marsh. > Early bird Bristol Creative Industries member tickets are available until 30th November at £30 +VAT > BCI member tickets from 1st December are priced at £40 +VAT. > Non-member tickets are £65 +VAT. All tickets include a buffet lunch and refreshments. Join us! Register at https://lnkd.in/e74V5efq Alli Nicholas Shonette Laffy Clare Leczycki Lis Anderson FCIPR Heather Wright Tom Bowden-Green Tom Harber Adam Millbank David Darke Marissa Lewis-Peart Kate Sikora Gail Caig Julian Davis #bristol #bristolevents #bristolbusiness #immersive #immersiveexperience #creativeindustries #creativesector

The Bristol Creative Industries team, including our brilliant board directors, got together on Tuesday for a strategy meeting and Christmas lunch 🎄 We have exciting things to come in 2025 for our members and the wider region’s creative sector. Big thanks to everyone who has supported us this year, and merry Christmas! 🎅 #Bristol #Bristolcreatives #Bristolcreativeindustries #creativeindustries #creativesector Alli Nicholas Lis Anderson FCIPR Heather Wright Shonette Laffy Clare Leczycki Kate Sikora Adam Millbank Dan Martin Marissa Lewis-Peart Tom Harber David Darke Tom Bowden-Green Gail Caig Steven Coombe AMBITIOUS JonesMillbank Noble Performs Atomic Smash | B Corp aer studios

Last month we ran our signature AI for Creatives workshop in Bristol with the Bristol Creative Industries. We were massively oversubscribed so we are putting on another workshop in January with a bigger capacity - come and join Jules Love on January 30th at Origin Workspace. In the half-day course we show you how you can work with AI to reveal new levels of creativity we couldn't dream of before. There's a big discount for BCI members. Register for your place before they run out again! Nab your place: https://lnkd.in/ecRFkB9t #ai #course #creative #brand

🎬 We are delighted to announce the first Bristol Creative Industries Screen Industries Meetup at Nine Tree Studios in Bristol on 30 January. The last five years has seen huge changes across the industry, from the relocation of production hubs to the growth of AI, and the impact of social media on short form content. It’s time to take a look at where we’ve come from, where we are now, and what we think could come next. Alongside food, drinks and networking, we’ll be joined by a brilliant panel: ✅ Vanessa Bewley, programme leader and senior lecturer on BA filmmaking at University of the West of England ✅ Mark Hill, executive TV consultant and ex-head of RDF ✅ Joe Churchill, digital commissioning editor at Channel 4 ✅ Natalie Brereton, TikTok and social media consultant Tickets are only £5 (+VAT and Eventbrite fee). Register here: https://lnkd.in/eEgiCuUi The event is supported by West of England Combined Authority We want this event to reach as many people in the screen industries as possible, so please share this post and tag relevant contacts in the comments. #bristol #bristolevents #screenindustries #filmindustry #filmandtv #tvproduction #filmproduction #screenindustry #creativeindustries #tvindustry Alli Nicholas Shonette Laffy Clare Leczycki Lis Anderson FCIPR Heather Wright Adam Millbank David Darke Tom Harber Tom Bowden-Green Marissa Lewis-Peart Julian Davis Kate Sikora Gail Caig Bristol Film Office Bristol UNESCO City of Film UWE Filmmaking Film Hub South West Russell Jones Elle Dimond Sarah Smither SISTALAND Nikita Dare JonesMillbank Film & Video

Big thanks to everyone who has completed the jfdi and Opinium New Business Barometer survey. You're helping our network get closer to securing an exclusive members-only event that will share the findings and interpretation of the survey. We are close, but we still need more survey completions to qualify. If you haven’t done so already, please fill in the survey here: https://lnkd.in/gtZktVFX Other reasons to take part: 👉 Six chances to win a spot on jfdi’s ‘Get New Business Fit’ workshop in 2025, worth £770 each. 👉 Two chances to win a set of five omnibus research questions from Opinium, worth £1,250 each. 👉 A donation of £5 to The Trussell Trust food bank charity on your behalf. 👉 Get a competitive edge that will help build for success in 2025. #jfdi #Opinium #newbusiness #NewBusinessBarometer #creativeindustries Alli Nicholas Shonette Laffy Clare Leczycki Lis Anderson FCIPR Heather Wright Kate Sikora Tom Bowden-Green Tom Harber Adam Millbank David Darke Julian Davis Marissa Lewis-Peart Gail Caig

What an amazing evening last Friday celebrating the graduation of this year's fantastic interns on the Bristol Creative Industries internship programme 🥳 Launched in partnership with Babbasa in 2023, the scheme gives young people from underrepresented backgrounds real-world experience in creative roles, alongside training from expert speakers. Some of those speakers, plus representatives of the agencies that employed the interns and other supporters joined us at Gather Round to hear outstanding presentations from the interns on what they have learnt on the programme. We are incredibly proud of them all. 👏 Big congratulations to our interns: Xiaomeng Pan | Fiona Bui | Holly Poon | Oghenewerhi Worhi Dumuje | Elma Hossain | Kaden Gardener | Inaz Hussain | Jan A. They are now looking for their next opportunity. If you have a role that you think may be suitable for these brilliant people, get in touch with internship programme manager Clare Leczycki asap before they get snapped up! Big thanks to: 🤩 The agencies who employed and supported the interns:  AMBITIOUS | Armadillo | Fox Collective | McCann Bristol | Plaster | Proctor + Stevenson | Taxi Studio | The Collaborators: Branding & Design | Oakwood Agency 🤩 Oakwood Agency | Sunhouse Creative Ltd | aer studios for sponsoring the programme, and boomsatsuma | Gather Round as our venue sponsors. 🤩 All the speakers for sharing their expertise and insights with the interns. 🤩 Syed Shamil Ahmed for the fantastic images. #Bristol #Bristolbusiness #Bristolevents #creativesector #creativeindustries #interns

This week is the last chance to sign up (deadline 8th December). If you work in the West of England creative industries and are (or employ) a future leader, this is the course for you. Bristol Creative Industries Research, Business and Innovation at UWE Bristol Tarek E. Virani Fliss Cargill

I'm so excited to be the 2025 keynote event host for Bristol Creative Industries, the amazing not-for-profit that supports the region's creative sector. We have a brilliant event to kick us off for the year on 28 January! Wake The Tiger is an immersive world of adventure in Bristol that combines purpose, storytelling and art in a way never seen before. Since opening in summer 2022, the attraction has gone from strength to strength, more than doubling in size and hosting sell-out events. In the attraction's Guildhall cafe, co-founder Graham MacVoy will share the journey of Wake the Tiger, going from festival builds at Boomtown to creating a world-first attraction, including how funds were raised, balancing resources and creating another world in a warehouse. If you're a Bristol Creative Industries member, you can grab a £30+VAT discounted early bird ticket until this Saturday. After Saturday, BCI member tickets are £40+VAT, with non-member tickets £65+VAT. All tickets include refreshments and lunch. Join us! Register here: https://lnkd.in/eQFKFMiK #Bristol #Bristolevents #Bristolcreatives #Bristolbusiness #creativeindustries #immersive #immersiveexperience Alli Nicholas Shonette Laffy Clare Leczycki Lis Anderson FCIPR Heather Wright Kate Sikora Tom Bowden-Green Adam Millbank Tom Harber David Darke Julian Davis Gail Caig Julian Davis Marissa Lewis-Peart

As part of this year's Bristol Creative Industries Internship Programme, in partnership with Babbasa and nine fantastic agencies from the BCI member community, the interns were tasked with working on a brief to develop material that could be used to educate, inform and inspire other young people considering a career in the creative industries. They did an absolutely brilliant job producing website and social media content, plus an outstanding film featuring interviews with creative industries professionals about how they got into the sector and their advice to young people. Read this in-depth case study outlining the interns' work, with examples of the material they produced including the final film: https://lnkd.in/eApub6hA You can also watch the film here: https://lnkd.in/e8WpfcbH Big congratulations to our interns Xiaomeng Pan | Fiona Bui | Holly Poon | Oghenewerhi Worhi Dumuje | Elma Hossain | Kaden Gardener | Inaz Hussain | Jan A. The interns will soon complete their placements and are looking for their next opportunity. If you have a role that you think may be suitable, get in touch with internship programme manager Clare Leczycki asap before they get snapped up! Thanks to our interviewees Robbie Masters from Proctor + Stevenson | Mayumi Kurosawa from Proctor + Stevenson | Shani Hawthorne-Williams from Mostly Media | Jonathan Adams from Purplefish | B Corp™ | Meri Wilson from Nomensa | Marissa Lewis-Peart, UX designer and Bristol Creative Industries board director Thanks to the agencies who employed and supported the interns: AMBITIOUS | Armadillo | Fox Collective | McCann Bristol | Plaster | Proctor + Stevenson | Taxi Studio | The Collaborators: Branding & Design | Oakwood Agency Thanks to Oakwood Agency | Sunhouse Creative Ltd | aer studios for sponsoring the programme, and to boomsatsuma | Gather Round as our venue sponsors. #Bristol #Bristolcreative #Bristolbusiness #creativeindustries #diversityandinclusion #diversity #interns #internship Alli Nicholas Shonette Laffy Lis Anderson FCIPR Heather Wright

💥 Bristol venue recommendations! 💥 I'm on the lookout for new venues to host workshops and talks for Bristol Creative Industries in the new year, we're a not-for-profit organisation so nothing too flashy! Or if your office has an event space/boardroom that you'd be happy for us to use once or twice a year, I'm all ears. Send me a DM or pop a link below with any suggestions 😊