International Winners of YCE Music Award 2011 announced.

We are delighted to announce the international winners of the Young Creative Entrepreneur Music Award 2011. International winners have been selected in Argentina, Colombia, Denmark, India, Latvia, Mexico, Poland and Russia, ranging from a Grammy award winning producer to a classical artistic management/concert programming company to several promoters funding festivals with innovative brand/partnership funding streams. All will visit theUK from 11-18 May 2011. The winners are:

1. Fer Isella, Owner - Limbo Music (Argentina)  
http://ferisella.com/ 

2. Liliana Andrade, Director – El Parlante Amarillo (Colombia)  
http://elparlanteamarillo.com

3. Kalle Bremer, Director – Stella Polaris (Denmark)  
http://www.stella-polaris.dk

http://gaffa.dk/kontakt

4. Aishwarya Natarajan, Owner – Indianuance (India)
http://www.indianuance.com

5. Inese Saulaja, Copyright Manager – MicRec Publishing (Latvia)
http://www.micrecmusic.lv

6. Camilo Lara, Owner – Mexican Institute of Sound (Mexico)
http://www.myspace.com/mexicaninstituteofsound

7. Emilia Barabasz, Founder/Board Member – Fundacja Front Row Heroes (Poland)  
http://www.frontrowheroes.com

8. Yury Marychev, Owner/Director – One Music (Russia)
http://onemusic.ru

Congratulations!

About the award

The Young Creative Entrepreneur (YCE) Music Award recognises innovators in the international music business, highlighting the importance of entrepreneurs in driving forward the development of an independent, sustainable industry around the world. Run by the British Council, the programme identifies the next generation of leaders of the international music business and links them to theUKfor future business and cultural collaboration.  International winners are chosen through a selection process by the British Council and partners around the world, and all take part in a trip to build contacts with the UK; curated group meetings to give an overview of key industry issues, peer networking, access to senior UK industry figures, and attendance at The Great Escape festival and conference.

 Since 2006, 40 young music entrepreneurs from more than 20 countries have taken part in the award, building an active alumni network in the process, seeing the creation of new festivals, conferences, and bands travelling between theUK, Europe,India,Brazil,Chinaand beyond.

Interactive and Digital Stars of Tomorrow?

Again in Riga, Latvia, 4th YCE Club event, ‘Interactive and Digital Stars of Tomorrow’ took place on the 3rd of March as a follow-up event of International Young Interactive Entrepreneur Award (IYIE) 2010. (See also our blogpost about previous YCE club event in Latvia Martin Elbourne and Nigel Templeman in Riga, Latvia, 10 Feb 2011)

Craig Patton, the Managing Director, Business Development at R/GA was invited as a guest speaker to share his entrepreneurial experience and ideas, how to succeed in the future of digital and interactive sector. Ernests Štāls, the finalist of IYIE 2010 Award also shared his learning points he acquired during the UK interactive industry tour. In fact, Ernests was very impressed by the work and ideas of Craig Patton during this tour which leaded him to invite Craig for this event.

Interview with Craig Patton

Interview with Participants

 To view pictures, click HERE.

The Creative App Economy in China

The British Council China to hold event on The Creative App Economy:

Over the past year, the British Council’s China office has focussed their creative economy work within the interactive sector, including two previous UK speaker visits alongside participation in the International Young Interactive Entrepreneur Award scheme. BC China are now furthering their work within this area by hosting an event focusing specifically on the emerging apps economy within the UK and Asia, and how development in this area will affect entrepreneurs working within the industry.

The event will incorporate two sessions, in Beijing on Saturday March 26th and Shanghai Sunday March 27th, talks from Simon Oliver of Handcircus and Kevin McDonagh of Novoda, alongside a wealth of Chinese speakers from across the mobile industries.

This event hopes to share the experiences of a wide range of professionals working within this sector, exploring case studies and successful business models, offering an insight into financing, trends and development within the digital industry. 

You can pre-register HERE and read more about the event HERE.

 

 

 

Stay tuned for Creative Hotspots coming up on 24 Mar

More speakers are added for this 1 day event on 24 March in Tallinn, Estonia. Among others you will hear from :

This event will be streaming from the website stay tuned!

Mapping the Creative Industries in Vietnam

A mapping training programme on the Creative Industries in Vietnam is currently underway in Ho Chi Minh City. This training is co-organised by the British Council in Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh City Investment & Trade Promotion Center (ITPC) happening right NOW (21-23 March 2011).

To help identify the creative industries in Ho Chi Minh City and their potential to contribute to the country’s wealth, Mr. Richard Naylor, Head of Research of B.O.P. consultant Co. and Ms Vanessa Swan, CEO, Cockpit Arts  London, flew to HCMC as key speakers of the programme. (Click the links to see what they do!)

Mr. Tu Minh Thien, Director of HCMC ITPC said, “Our initial study shows that Ho Chi Minh City has the potential to develop creative industries. We hope that after the training, we will be able to do more activities to develop the industries.”

To read the full article click here.

Plumen001 won this year’s Brit Insurance Design Award!

We are delighted to bring  news that Plumen 001 created by design brand Hulger has won this year’s Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award. Plumen 001 is an energy saving lightbulb of an unconventional looping shape designed by  Samuel Wilkinson.

Plumen 001 uses 80% less energy and lasts 8 times longer than an incandescent bulb.

Here is an interview video with the winners, Michael-George Hemus(left, above) of Hulger and designer Samuel Wilkinson(right, above)  filmed by Dezeen. Michael-George Hemus is the managing director and founder of Hulger and he is also one of our UK Young Design Entrepreneur Award 2008 finalists. Contratulations Michael-George!

Brit Insurance Design of the Year Page
Plumen Website

Creative hotspots, 24 March, Tallinn, Estonia

Creative Hotspots is a one day event exploring new business models in the creative industries, including IT, new media, fashion, design, film and music. It will take place in Tallinn, Estonia on 24 March 2011.
How are creative entrepreneurs breaking new ground in the digital age?  What kind of business and policy support is needed to help companies to grow?  Join speakers from the world-conquering Estonian IT business Skype, the Finnish company Rovio behind the international #1 paid app Angry Birds, the quick growing UK start-up Audioboo, experienced investors like Jenny Tooth from Angel Capital Group, and leading thinkers like Jeremy Silver to discuss the changing face of business and policy in the creative economy.
The event will include inspiring keynote speeches and case studies, and workshops to share practical experience and advice.
Creative Hotspots is hosted by the British Council as part of our partnership with Norden and Tallinn Music Week.

For more information, please visit http://www.creativehotspots.eu/ 

To Register : http://www.creativehotspots.eu/?page_id=92

YCE Club event video from Latvia

Martin Elbourne and Nigel Templeman in Riga, Latvia, 10 Feb 2011

Martin Elbourne

Nigel Templeman

Another Young Creative Entrepreneur Club (YCE Club) networking event took place on 10th of February, 2011 at Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.

 

Martin Elbourne, one of the main bookers for Glastonbury Festival, creative director and co founder of the Great Escape in Brighton and Nigel Templeman, manager at Supervision Management that roster includes amongst others, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, White Lies, We Have Band, As Tall As Lions, e.t.c were invited to share their experiences and expertise related to music industry conferences and showcase events with Latvia’s music industry representatives and musicians.

Cultural Leadership International in London, 10 Dec 2010

#cli10 Martin Bright’s Introduction to the Fairness Panel from Amplified Group on Vimeo.

It’s taken us a while to post this, but we recently organised a symposium in London to bring together emergent cultural leaders from around the world with key UK and international speakers. Under the 3 key words – Freedom, Risk and Fairness, UK and international cultural leaders shared their work and progress in cultural leadership inspiring and bringing new fresh ideas to everyone there at V&A.

you can watch some video interviews and clips of the panel speaking here.
You can also listen to some insights from our participants who attended the symposium.

For more information about the event

http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-cli-news.htm

Clore Leadership programme comes to Shenzhen, 13-14 Jan 2011

 

The British Council and Shenzhen University, in partnership with the UK’s Clore Leadership Programme, co-organised the Lecture and Workshop on UK Culture and Creative Industry during 13-14 January 2011 in Shenzhen, China.

This 2 day programme well shaped the picture of UK arts and culture industries through lecture, case studies and panel/group discussion with four prestigious speakers Sir John Tusa, Chair of the Clore Leadership Programme, Sue Holye, Director of the Clore Leadership Programme, John Newbigin, Chairman of Screen England and of Culture24, and Erica Whyman, Chief Executive Northern Stage Newcastle.

YCE X-mas party in Beijing, 18 Dec 2010

Slightly late update but there was another YCE event in Beijing last december. Levy Qiu, Creative Director of Beijing Yeelink Interactive Technology Ltd, a finalist of IYIE (International Young Interactive Entrepreneur) 2010 has sent us a message about the event. 

 

At the party on late December last year, I strongly felt the sparkle of creative ideas when a bunch of passionate people get together. I can’t imagine that I could meet Anup(winner of IYIE award 2010) again in such a short period of time. Even though we are from different culture background, we have a same opinion on interactive field. During his stays in Beijing, we have exchanged many thoughts on the course of building our own career and we both are very much looking forwards to the future. Our conversation reminded me the inspiring experience I had in UK and also I miss 10 other colleagues very much.

Levy Qiu sharing his experience in the UK with Chinese YCEs

At the party, we presented our project and objectives to the guests and mentioned other young entrepreneurs as well. We also talked about our feelings about things we have seen in UK. Everything was much better than I expected. It is such a great platform UK embassy provided for us. I really hope I would meet other colleagues in the near future and I believe we will have so much to talk about by the time we meet.    – Levy Qiu from China

Anup, winner of IYIE 2010 talking to the Chinese audience

Creative Economy Conference in British Council Polska

Cool video from Poland about the Creaive Economy conference happened at British Council Polska!

British Council conference from ONOFFMEDIA on Vimeo.

UK Young Interactive Entrepreneur, Paul Croft on his trip to China

I am the co-founder and Director of Games at Mediatonic, an independent games developer based in Central London.

At the start of this year I was surprised and delighted to be chosen as the winner of the Young Interactive Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

As part of the application process I had the opportunity to go on a fascinating market tour of India and since the start of the year I’ve been attending the monthly meetings and YCE talks which have given me lots of insight into the creative industries both in the UK and globally.

As such I was very excited recently when I was invited to China with Jeremiah, a fellow YCE, to give several talks to coincide with the launch of the first ever Young Interactive Entrepreneur award in China.

UK Young Screen Entrepreneur, Anna Higgs in Dubai D-3

My third and final full day in the UAE with the YCE programme was all about focusing down on being an entrepreneur and kicked off with a business breakfast at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Foundation for Small and Medium Enterprises.  It was a good turnout and I was joined by Soniya Kripalani, a filmmaker and digital media specialist, whose film DO BUY – THE FABRIC OF FAITH was being screened that night as part of the final panel discussion.

I screened THE SPACE YOU LEAVE to the audience, as well as the trailer for THE PEOPLE VS. GEORGE LUCAS which are films at two ends of the spectrum in the documentary world, but I hope a good way of illustrating the variety of what can be done if you work with a range of creative people.