‘Growing Pains: A Remedy’
Tuesday 22 March 2016, 2pm - 5pm
Stromness Library, (John Rae Room), Warehouse Buildings, 2-12 Victoria Street, Stromness, Orkney, KW16 3AA

Book online here: https://growingpainsstromness.eventbrite.co.uk

Running a creative business is addictive - there is always more to try, new ideas to explore and projects to develop. Growing your business allows you to confidently pursue these exciting new opportunities to strengthen your profile, expand your range of customers and generate healthy profits. But with so many things to juggle, where do you start? And once you have started how do you keep up momentum?

Growing Pains is a half-day workshop to help you identify how to effectively and efficiently grow your creative business.

Over the course of the workshop you will explore what growth means to you and your practice, and identify the resources you need to make it happen. By the end of the day you will have made a start on your own personal growth plan.

There will be plenty of opportunity to chat and exchange ideas with others, including hearing from inspirational speakers from the creative industries, who will share the story of successfully growing their businesses.

Whether you work in Writing and Publishing or Craft, Fashion and Textiles, this workshop is aimed at business owners who recognise the professional and personal rewards to be gained from growth and want to:

• Identify the potential for growth within their own business
• Gain confidence to manage and resource growth
• Start or develop a personal growth plan
• Find inspiration from a successful creative practitioner

The workshop is being delivered by trainer and ceramicist [www.carolsinclairceramics.co.uk] Carol Sinclair [www.sinclairwilson.co.uk] and independent project manager and events producer Helen Voce [https://uk.linkedin.com/in/helenvoce].

SPEAKER PROFILE

Joining us for this event is writer L G Thomson, she was born in Glasgow and grew up in modernist new town experiment, Cumbernauld - known to the world at large as the setting for Gregory’s Girl! Since graduating from art school she has worked in a variety of places including museums, remote islands, a large police station, a small shed, and a medium-sized croft.

She won a national writing competition and was short-listed for the Dundee Book Prize, but took a break from writing to raise her daughters, home-educating them for several years.

She has settled in Ullapool, on the north west coast of Scotland, where she writes Thrillers With Attitude. http://www.thrillerswithattitude.co.uk/

She has published three books - noir thriller Boyle’s Law, crime thriller Erosionand post apocalyptic thriller, Each New Morn. The sequel to Boyle’s Law -Boiling Point - will be published this spring.

How to Book:

This event is fully sponsored by Emergents so is free for businesses to attend, but please book in advance.

You can book online here: https://growingpainsstromness.eventbrite.co.uk

If you have any queries about the event, please contact Avril Souter at Emergents on [email protected]

This workshop has been developed, produced and delivered by Sinclair Wilson & Voce for Emergents (www.emergents.co.uk).

‘Grow’ image : Anna Garforth

The work of XpoNorth Crafts, Fashion & Textiles and Writing & Publishing through Emergents is funded by HIE (through European ERDF funds) and is a key part of HIE’s support strategy for the creative industries in the Highlands and Islands.