🌳 Here's our monthly round-up of the brilliant work being done by the creative industries across the UK to tackle the climate crisis.

Anything we've missed? Please let us know & we'll try to include it in our next update.

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⚡️Our newsletter for the UK creative industries is out today.

It's packed with news, research & opportunities from UK Games Fund Gina Jackson OBE Ukie BPI Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre BAFTA Games Matt Stark Innovate UK BFI CreativeEquals Culture, Media and Sport Committee + more.

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A festival exploring fashion through the lens of social and environmental justice gets underway today.

Imagining Possibilities is hosted by the
Centre for Sustainable Fashion Centre for Sustainable Fashion, a research, education & knowledge exchange centre at University of the Arts London.

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Our Creative Industries are thriving but we can always do more to support them.

It was great to meet with @peterbazalgette & the chairs of the Creative Industries Council working groups to discuss new opportunities to grow these brilliant sectors.

🎓 UK universities are among best in the world to study the arts, the latest QS Top Universities ranking reveals.

UK institutions inc Royal College of Art University of Oxford The Bartlett Royal College of Music top rankings for architecture, music, performing arts, English and art & design.

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You've picked the headliner, planned the promo and scouted a venue

And now a grant of up to £3500 from DCMS and the PRS Foundation can help emerging promoters bring it all together, supporting you as you build your career, contacts and experience

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🎧 The new season of BFC's Fashion Forum podcast/vodcast has launched, featuring conversations with designers & the broader creative community.

In Episode 1, fashion journalist Lauren Cochrane talks to menswear designer Martine Rose.

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Sheffield-based Sumo Group are offering a free leadership programme for games development professionals from indie studios across the UK.

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The projects include the transformation of a Grade II-listed dockyard building into a digital production studio & the reinvention of a Glasgow pipe factory as a cultural centre.

📺+🎮 Innovate UK is bringing together professionals from the #unscriptedTV & #games industries for a one-day workshop aimed at sparking new collaborations on content for multiple platforms.

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A rented flat transformed by an artist over 33 years has been granted Grade II listed status after a campaign to save it.

Ron’s Place is the first ‘Outsider Art’ environment to be listed in the UK.

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.InGAME - the initiative to drive growth & innovation in Dundee’s games cluster - has drawn to a close.

To mark its impact, InGAME has created a collaborative toolbox designed to guide studios through the lifecycle of R&D projects.

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As the expansion of film & TV production facilities in the UK continues, RIBA Journal talks to British Film Commission UMC Architects & PRP about the challenges faced by architects when designing studio spaces.

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Two of Belfast's largest live music festivals - Belsonic & EMERGE BELFAST - generated over £30 million for the economy in 2023, according to research by Chris Carey & TJChambers.

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The Hay Festival is inviting submissions to The Platform, an open call for creatives aged 21–28 to submit new work to be showcased at the festival, including performance (theatre, dance, street), poetry, digital art, film, audio, music, and literature.

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Rishi Sunak: Sunderland? It could be the Hollywood of the north

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💸 Here's our monthly round-up of funding opportunities for UK creative organisations, businesses & freelancers for March.

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Creative professionals and organisations are invited to host workshops or panels during a national Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

The initiative, hosted by London Arts and Health & Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance, runs from 20 to 26 May.

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🌍 New research from the Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre takes a deep dive into the export performance of the UK’s creative industries - and what can be done to ensure its continuing success.

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