ABOUT

As Described is a creative video company established in 2007. We provide services for Video Production, Live Events and Creative applications, covering the music, arts and corporate industry. We have travelled worldwide working with clients such as Portishead and Beardyman. We also designed and install www.thegeminateproject.com

Belinda is founder of Cultural Agency Collective, a consultancy supporting creative arts and social enterprise organisations with business performance. Drawing on experience from the private, cultural and entertainment sectors, her ethos centres on building collaborative working relationships to drive sustainable commercial, cultural and social impact. Belinda has worked across the UK and internationally, coaching, facilitating and delivering hands-on support to innovative changemakers.

Creative Arts East focuses on engaging those communities or its members who face geographical, physical or other barriers to participating in the cultural life of their area in high quality, stimulating arts and cultural activities.

Their artistic aims are to inspire people to expand their individual creativity, broaden their cultural horizons and join together to create culturally rich, diverse and inclusive communities.

Creative Enterprise Generator focusses on the creative entrepreneur, giving them the skills and confidence to own and lead their organisation, ensuring its best chances for success and growth

Chris Shutt has had a ton of experience working with UnLtd, The ReCreate project, Google and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Their mission is to provide creative entrepreneurs and cultural organisations with the support they need in order to achieve their ambitions to become sustainable, ‘investment ready’ businesses.

They provide a range of tools, finance options, business support and marketing channels designed to improve resilience, drive income generation and maximise their commercial potential.

Eastern Angles provide professional rural touring and site-specific theatre with a focus on new writing, new audiences and the development of new talent. Since forming in 1982, Eastern Angles have blazed a trail across East Anglia over 30 plus years and expanded to national tours and Edinburgh Festival residencies.

Eastern Angles also commission new plays, provide workshops for schools with professional actors and directors and create community performances.

The Eastern Enterprise Hub is a social enterprise that supports entrepreneurs of any background and experience by working with them in real time as they grow their enterprise.

To date it has supported over 1,000 entrepreneurs who have driven business growth and employment across the East of England, through the creation of new enterprises and social enterprises.

The Hub supports creative industry entrepreneurs to grow, develop and sustain their businesses through innovative action-learning, peer to peer and business advice programmes.

FilmFixer make location filming simple and sustainable, securing benefits for client communities.

Every major London TV and film production has booked into at least one of FilmFixer’s client locations over the past five years. They manage efficient, profit-making services for one third of London boroughs as well as Screen Suffolk’s complete solution on behalf of all the nearby county’s district councils.

FlipSide was founded in 2013 by Liz Calder, Genevieve Christie, Louis Baum and John Christie and grew from the desire to bring the riches of Latin American and international literature and arts to East of England communities.

FlipSide is inspired by its close relationship with FLIP in Brazil – (Festa Literartia de Parati) the country’s foremost literature festival, which was co-founded by FlipSide co-director Liz Calder in 2003. With its close connections with international arts organisations and relationships with writers, publishers and artistes from all over the world FlipSide’s work includes the vibrant FlipSide Festival as well as schools, community, literature and arts events.

Gecko is an award-winning and internationally-acclaimed physical theatre company, led by Artistic Director Amit Lahav and based in Ipswich.

With an expanding ensemble of international performers and makers, Gecko works across diverse age groups, nationalities and forms. The company tours nationally and internationally and continues to develop strong partnerships around the world.

Beyond the stage, Gecko aspires to open the doors on their process via every possible avenue, be it digital, in schools or through one-to-one relationships with their audience.

Gecko is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.

Grow My Small Business Ltd provides the ‘behind the scenes’ digital marketing consultancy service to local leisure, lifestyle, tourism and arts organisations, managing online activity including web, email, content creation and social media management.

Grow My Small Business Ltd provides business consultancy to small businesses looking to grow, as well as start-ups. This includes working with clients to prepare a digital marketing and communications strategy and action plans aligned to the business aims.

Julia Lawrence is Deputy Director of London Connected Learning Centre and within cultural organisations in East Anglia (Aldeburgh Productions) and London (SBC, London Sinfonietta and various ensembles).   In her CLC role, she has overseen the CLC ‘s transition from being entirely grant funded up to 2011 to being a fully traded service turning over c900k.

She has led consultancy projects with the Royal Opera House, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.

Kriya Arts is a cutting edge arts and production company with a passion for making creative and innovative work in a wide variety of mediums. Their aim is to make the world a more compassionate and extraordinary place.

Kriya Arts is plugged into a large network of highly skilled individuals from all areas of the performing arts industry, who can be tapped into to help you with any kind of performance production. Nothing is too grand, crazy or impossible. Limitations are seen as challenges and not problems.

Martin has a multi-discipline approach to his work, as a practicing artist, company director and consultant to business.

Martin has been Director of Creativity & partner @ Spinach, an international qualitative research agency and Artistic Director of dA dA dUMB Productions, a UK & international touring performance company. He is currently an Associate Director of The Map Consortium & Head of the Agile Solution Centre for Better Business Partners.

Clients include PwC, Investec, Unilever, Peterborough Council, BBC, Royal Opera House and the V&A.

Menta is a not-for-profit social enterprise that provides free, impartial one-to-one advice and support for start ups, emerging and existing businesses and for those considering self-employment.

Over the past 30 years Menta has helped thousands of entrepreneurs launch and run thriving and profitable businesses throughout Suffolk. Their mission is to help our clients start and grow their businesses, improve their performance and encourage them to realise their full potential.

MetaValue work with organisations to transform the way they deliver services and operate. Their methodology is about achieving the delicate balance between Service (what you do) and Production (how you organise). They take a growth-focussed approach to help organisations creatively look at generating new income streams and enhancing current income.

PW Productions is one of the West End’s most prolific and significant theatre producers, responsible for some of the most successful theatre productions in British theatre over the past 30 years. They specialise in high-quality production, management and bookkeeping/accountancy services for first-class plays and musicals in the West End, on tour throughout the UK and throughout the world.

SeaChange are an independent arts development charity dedicated to delivering outstanding opportunities for artists and communities through supporting, hosting, and delivering circus and street arts projects and events.

Produced by SeaChange, the Out There Festival is now the region’s largest free festival of street arts and circus and regularly attracts audiences in excess of 60,000 people.

SPF communications is a dynamic PR and marketing consultancy specialising in the arts, founded in Norwich in 2000 and led by directors Steve Forster and Steph Potts.

We provide bespoke, hands on PR and marketing for UK tours, London runs, Edinburgh Festival seasons and one-off events. We can also help with copywriting, deliver training, work with you to develop your Communications strategy or provide advice and mentoring for your own team.

Our international client list comprises large arts organisations, small companies, festivals and individual artists working in theatre, dance, music, visual and live art, poetry, books, film, heritage and more. Current and recent UK clients include hit show KlangHaus, poets Luke Wright and Francesca Beard, artists Bryony Kimmings, Joshua Sofaer, Bobby Baker and Louise Orwin, theatre companies Sh!t Theatre and Maison Foo, venues Cambridge Junction and Colchester Arts Centre and producing houses Fuel and SeaChange Arts.

Simon founded Noise Solution in 2009, combining 25 years experience as an internationally performing professional musician, with 20 years experience within local authority teams working 1 to 1 with vulnerable young people. Noise Solution has established itself as a sector leading social enterprise, statistically significant in impacting on the well-being of populations that other organisations sometimes struggle to engage with.

Self-sustaining, it operates on 100% traded income, with no reliance on grant funding. Using an innovative combination of digital narrative and arts provision centred around music, Noise Solution has established an international reputation for transformative provision driven and informed by sophisticated impact management. The organisation is both evidenced based, informed by a Masters in education undertaken by Simon at Cambridge University and practically orientated drawing on Simon’s experiences of delivery.

Sue has developed, advised, and created city-wide partnerships both within the UK & Europe, worked as a producer, writer, researcher and advisor. She has also mentored international film commissions on business development and economic sustainability.

Based in Suffolk, she has been working with local community groups and organisations, both public & private, advising them of how Suffolk can create and identify a creative screen industries network that would attract productions to work within the county and the benefits that can accrue as a result.

Sue has previously been the Director at Spread the Word; Director at Creative Partnerships; Senior Partner with Excite ( Mathilda Joubert); Chair of Trustees at Signals Media Arts; Cultural Services Manager at Brentwood Borough Council, and worked as a freelance consultant and advisor in both education and arts contexts.

Suffolk Artlink works to improve the quality of life of people of all abilities through taking part in engaging and inspirational creative activities.

They believe in the instrumental value of the arts and promote participation in high quality creative activities as a positive way of improving health and wellbeing. They have a reputation for delivering projects that engage people in the arts, collaborating with the best artists and cultural partners.

The Garage is a hub for performing arts located in Norwich which supports the creative journeys of artists, participants and audiences. The venue is an important creative hub for the communities of Norfolk and beyond, working with local and national partners to provide high quality theatre programming, participation, education and training for all ages. It is a place for everyone but has a particular focus on young people from all backgrounds.

Drawing on a background of punk, activism, fine art and club land, Pacitti Company spent 15 years making and presenting award winning international group and solo performance works for a range of theatre, gallery and site-specific spaces worldwide. In 2007 Robert created the SPILL Festival of Performance (SPILL), which is now recognised worldwide as the UK’s premier artist-led festival of radical live work, and has redefined what experimental live work can achieve. Pacitti Company offers two advisors to StartEAST.

Robert Pacitti, Artistic Director & CEO. Over 25+ years as an artist and CEO, Robert has built extensive knowledge development of artistic practice from initial idea, through making, and worldwide distribution. In 2007 he created the SPILL Festival of Performance, a large scale international festival: www.spillfestival.com.

Andy Brumwell, General Manager. Andy trained as a Management Accountant, heading up Finance, Risk Management, Compliance, HR and Corporate Real Estate departments across a career spanning 20 years at HSBC and Capital One Bank. Andy has worked for 7 years in the cultural sector, within charities and limited companies, bringing financial rigour, business planning skills and commercial experience to organisations.

UNIT, is a dance company that includes large scale commissions, touring dance projects, dance films, consultation work supporting companies own community or education offer as well as a range of educational/community projects across the Eastern region. Tom Hobden UNIT’s clients have included New Adventures, Ballet Boyz, Royal Ballet School, Laban, ISTD, Suffolk Art link and Dance East amongst others. Director Tom is an associate artist at Dance East, been the choreographer in residence at the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds.

Writers’ Centre Norwich’s mission is to put literature at the heart of contemporary culture. Through pioneering and collaborative projects they explore the artistic and social power of creative writing and literary translation.

They aim to produce, commission and curate innovative new work that stimulates debate and reflects the diversity of society, to create opportunities for writers and literary translators, supporting a diverse and vibrant literary ecology, and to develop diverse audiences and participants for creative writing, reading and literary translation.

In 2012 WCN led the successful bid for Norwich to be named as England’s first UNESCO City of Literature.