The PIYN project involves aspiring artists and performers from Auckland's diverse communities, working with the best of contemporary UK talent, to collaborate, create and celebrate. The programme involves capacity building workshops, online and face to face collaborations and master-classes in creativity.

Come and join us for a free half day seminar on ethical trade, music and fashion initiatives with the directors behind UK’s successful Bottletop charity. Bottletop is dedicated to designing and producing ethically sourced and sustainable products in communities where they deliver education programmes, focusing on quality and local craftsmanship and generating sustainable trade and employment.

Oliver and Cameron are presenting ideas about creating income generation projects in economically disadvantaged communities, and the way in which bottletop showcases beautifully crafted fashion accessories from different cultures, to an international market. They will be presenting a track record of high profile collaborations with fashion houses as well as focussing on the impact which the “ring pull effect” has had on the communities in Salvador, Brazil.
Bottletop is dedicated to designing and producing ethically sourced and sustainable products in communities where they deliver education programmes, focusing on quality and local craftsmanship and generating sustainable trade and employment. Oliver and Cameron will also talk about the reaction they have had to their cross-cultural music projects – Sound Effects and the Bottletop Band.

We also asked Soulsista Aotearoa to play live beforehand. Come and join us for an inspirational afternoon.

 

Bottletop is dedicated to designing and producing ethically sourced and sustainable products, in communities where they deliver education programmes, focusing on quality and local craftsmanship and generating sustainable trade and employment in certain parts of the World. Oliver will also talk about the reaction they have had to their cross-cultural music projects, the Sound Affects album series.

Thanks to Helen Baxter from Mohawk Media for a fabulous Creative’s online toolkit session last Saturday.

As promised, we are loading up the workshop links under a creative commons license. The mindmeister toolkit maps below are an extremely invaluable, comprehensive and indepth look at online branding, publishing, social media & business structure.

As with all content in the PIYN project, it is to be shared and explored, for the empowerment of our diverse creative community.

Mindmaps:

Creative Business Structure

Creative Business Toolkit

Publishing with WordPress & Widgets

Social Media Masterclass

NZ Business Resources

Keep an eye out for another session with Helen later in the year.

 

 

The PIYN project kicks off this week with the visit of cultural icon Rosanna Raymond, who presents and performs with Pacific Sisiters at the Pacific Arts Summit before working with the Colab team on events at AUT Manukau and City campuses. Rosanna will be a speaker in the Pacific Arts Summit Pecha Kucha Night AND feature in the exciting Pacific Sisters SOUTHSIDE: EyeKonik event, as well as also delivering a workshop and two presentations through a residency with CoLab at AUT University’s Manukau and Wellesley campuses.

For more details about the event visit the Colab site, the PAS blog, or download the full PIYN programme here.

Helen Baxter (UK/NZ) has continued developing her online toolkit for creative practitioners in Auckland, with a focus on income generation, newly developed marketplaces, and developing an effective online presence.

The Creative Business Toolkit is a one day workshop for emerging artists and established practitioners, run as part of the People in Your Neighbourhood 2011 programme. A group of 25 creative entrepreneurs will learn about the tools used to run a modern creative company, and take a guided tour of online places to publish work and earn money.

Participants will be taken from blog start-up using the WordPress platform, focusing on PayPal and donation systems, event management, mobile streaming and social media marketing tools. They will leave with a fully functional WordPress blog, tooled with mobile, publishing and income generation functionality. The day will finish off with a social media masterclass, and participants will leave with a personalised strategy, action plan and toolkit for their creative practice.

To apply for this free workshop go to: http://piyn.net/questionnaire/

Please note that not all applicants will be selected for this workshop, but every applicant will be sent links to the workshop presentations and workbook.

Date: 21 May 2011 Saturday

Venue : Colab AUT.

AUT University, WT Building Wellesley St

Room: WE420
Date: 21-05-2011
Start time: 8:00 am
Finish time: 5:00 pm

Planning is in full swing now for this year’s version of the PIYN programme. The programme will run from May till July 2011, and will include capacity building workshops, online collaborations and creative residencies.

Guests confirmed so far include Pacific Sister and original Pacific Island Renaissance figure Rosanna Raymond, a continuation of Helen Baxter’s Online Creative workshop, an online music collaboration with The Roundhouse in Camden UK, the visionaries behind Bottletop, and we are working on also getting the Hip Hop Shakespeare company to NZ for a residency. Stay tuned for a full programme announcement in April 2011.

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