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 Calling all Budding Northwest Filmmakers & Photographers
 

 Open Call for ARTErra Artistic Residence in Portugal

ARTErra is a space for creativity in Lobão da Beira, a village in PORTUGAL, near Tondela, district of Viseu, and is now open to receive projects from artists.

 Dr Charlotte Frost of www.digitalcritic.org has put together a series of videos on how Creatives can use social media. The videos feature interviews with digital strategists and arts marketers, offering a number of useful tips and interesting blogs and websites to check out. Check them out here :
Part 1 How to blog: www.youtube.com/watch
Part 2 How to use Twitter: www.youtube.com/watch

Great opportunity for digital artists to publicise their materials online and to reach a wider audience.
 
Artists are asked to submit and sell their Books and Portfolio projects online.
This will be done through the VIZeBooks App Store in iTunes.
Visual Arts Publisher Angela Patchell is keen to publish new emerging art by emerging digital artists.

Please note that this is not a folly opportunity.

This article interestingly brings up the scope for creative businesses within digital technology; for example in terms of potential audience reach and scalability.

Read on for more detail on this interesting topic;

http://www.mycakefinancialmanagement.co.uk/blog/?p=2471

"Culture is the peak of human creativity and a source of collective strength. In my mind it is essential that our cultural diversity must be defended tooth and claw."
Poignant speech reflecting on the importance of culture and Europe's role in encouraging creativity, amongst many other insightful points... Have a read.

I came across the link below, on early morning trawls through the social networking sites (as is my usual task, in order to update myself on just a smidgen of what the world is getting up to).