Event

Creative Space - Join the Debate

Date:

26th July, 2010 18:00:00 — 26th July, 2010 20:00:00

Price:

Free - register to attend

Venue:

Komedia, 22-23 Westgate Street, Bath , BA1 1EP

Posted by:

CreativeBath

Sector:

Other

Contact information:

Email:

emma@creativebath.org

Event overview:

Over 150 of you completed our creative space survey back in April, telling us about your workplace needs in terms of size, location and facilities.

Now it's your chance to come and find out about the results and what this could mean for Bath at a panel event on 26th July from 6pm at Komedia in central Bath.

We’ll be exploring various creative workspace models, from Bristol’s Paintworks to Bath Artists Studios, to see how these shared spaces meet your requirements and whether they off the solution to your needs.

You won't want to miss this chance to have your questions answered by developers and help us shape the future of Bath.

It’s all happening at Komedia in Bath on Monday 26th July.
Start time: 6pm for some early networking. The panel discussion kicks off at 6:30pm.

See below for more details on our speakers.

Click here to sign up to attend.

Tim Pain
Verve Properties (Paintworks, Bristol)

Tim Pain is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and with Ashley Nicholson, owns Verve Investments Ltd, a specialist regeneration property company based in London. It is Verve who has been responsible for transforming the former and partially derelict Central Trading Estate on the Bath Road in Bristol into a creative district now known as the Paintworks. This property is a testament to how mix use can really work and the scheme includes office and industrial use, live work and residential space along with a Café/Bar and Diner.

As a company Verve specialises in finding new and interesting uses for redundant buildings with industrial heritage and where ever possible aims to adapt existing buildings rather than demolish and build new.  Other schemes successfully completed include the refurbishment of: an 18th Century prison, a 19th Century textile warehouse, an Victorian Printworks and a Mid Century munitions store."

Amy Mason
Spike Design, Bristol

Amy Mason is the Coordinator at Spike Design, the creative-business incubator within Spike Island, Bristol. She is passionate about promoting creativity and entrepreneurship and enjoys fostering collaborations and new initiatives within the space.

Spike Design is the largest design incubator in the South West. Based within the acclaimed contemporary art & design centre, Spike Island, it offers a highly creative business environment in an open-plan studio/office space.
Tenants enjoy a full-service office environment including
broadband internet access, phones, fax, independent business support, access to high-profile industry mentors – and table tennis!

David Cobley
Bath Artists Studios

Bath Artists’ Studios (formerly Widcombe Studios) is Bath’s largest studio provider.  In addition to providing studios for nearly sixty artists, it offers courses in print, painting, drawing and sculpture, and a programme of talks, events and gallery exhibitions.

Originally Lyncombe Infants School in the Widcombe area of Bath, the studios were bought in 1996 and let on a friendly agreement between the landlord and local portrait painter, David Cobley.

They have since undergone many changes in both structure and status and, now a charity, were renamed Bath Artists' Studios last year, in recognition of their importance as the biggest provider of work spaces for artists in the city.

Janine Woodward
Ethical Property Company (Green Park Station)

The Ethical Property Company is a unique initiative in ethical investment. It buys properties and develops them as centres that bring charities, social enterprises, community and campaign groups together under one roof where they can share skills and ideas.

Ethical Property moved to Bath in November 2008, to take on the lease of Green Park Station: it now also manages the Friends Meeting House. Bath and Somerset is home to a number of social change organisations throughout the city, its market towns and rural areas.

In addition, we’ll hear from Tim Middleton and Mike Johnston from Bath Spa University on their search for creative space in Bath and why it's driven Artswork Media to Bristol.