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Creative Futures 2016 live blog: That’s all folks!

We’ve finished our live blog coverage of our Creative Futures 2016 event. The week has flown by and we’ve been busy meeting and interviewing guest speakers from the creative industries.

Thank you to all of our hard working live blogging team and to the organisers of this inspiring event, including our careers team and Zone Glyndwr. It has been a whirlwind of activity, with tips and advice on working in various careers in the creative industries shared by experienced professionals. It is an event which Wrexham Glyndwr University should be justifiably proud of.

We will be uploading some further blog posts from our students over the coming week, reflecting on the event and what we got out of it, but that’s it as far as our live blog coverage goes.

Thanks for stopping by for the ride - and roll on next year’s Creative Futures event. 

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Creative Futures 2016: PR agency director Tracy North talks about working in PR and the media

Tracy North from digital PR agency Outwrite talks to our Creative Futures 2016 live blogging team about working in PR and the media. Tracy was one of our spe...

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Creative Futures 2016: Doodle Planet's Dave Setter on working in illustration

Dave Setter shares his thoughts on careers in illustration as part of Creative Futures 2016 at Wrexham Glyndwr University.

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Creative Futures 2016: Kristyna Baczynski on illustration and creating comics

Kristyna Baczynski talks to our Wrexham Glyndwr live blogging team about working in the illustration and comic creation industry.

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Creative Futures 2016: Linda McCarthy on making stop motion films

Wrexham Glyndwr graduate Linda McCarthy from Tiny Elephants Studio is interviewed by our Creative Futures 2016 live blogging team. The topic of her Creative ...

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Be Yourself

Greg David, Animator/cartoonist

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Be Passionate

Greg David, Animator/cartoonist

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Presentation is Everything!

Greg David, Animator/cartoonist

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A Nice Animated Short to End the Week

For the last event of Creative Futures, Greg David showcased some of his brightest and best animated videos over the past 20 years.

Having ties to San Francisco, Japan and India, Greg and his recently established company Planet Sunday have made pieces of work for corporations, individuals and “Kindie” rock groups across America. If you’re not sure what Kindie is, think of any children’s show theme song and you’ll get a feel of what sort of music they produce.

His company has been commissioned to produce videos for a client in America who wanted to bring a lifelong idea of his to life. So naturally Greg and Co. did with tremendous success.

Having lived and breathed in the industry, Greg has taken his passion for cartoons - with special adoration for the works of Chuck Jones and his work on Tom & Jerry and the Looney Tunes characters - and made them his life’s work.

Whether you’re a child of 4 or 40, watching cartoons that have been curated specifically for your own viewing pleasure ranks up there as one of the best ways to close out an inspiring, thought-provoking and exhaustive week.

Thank you to each and every one of the guest speakers this week, especially those who were gracious enough to go on camera for us.

Thank you to Glyndwr University for hosting the event, through a week consisting of rain, snow, sun, wind and every thing the God’s could throw at us.

And thank you to Angela Ferguson for the cakes and shortbread!

- James Wright

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Creative Futures 2016: Diversity in news

Vidar Hjardeng MBE from ITV gave a fascinating talk on diversity in news as part of Creative Futures 2016.

Vidar spoke with great passion for his subject area of diversity and also took time out to hold a Q and A with the audience at Wrexham Glyndwr. One audience member asked him what his proudest moment in his career in diversity had been.

He said: “Actually, it is the fact that now diversity is an integral part of the ITV strategy. It’s not an add on.”

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Creative Futures 2016: Wrexham Glyndwr student Richard Griffiths is one of the team producing content for our Creative Futures 2016 live blog. A huge thank you to all of our volunteers for their hard work over the course of the week. More still to come today. Creative Futures draws to a close later this afternoon. It’s been a fantastic atmosphere and we’re very proud of our students and colleagues for what has been an inspiring week.

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Creative Futures 2016: PR in the Local Region

Tracy North, chief PR consultant and 3rd Generation Journalist was the first talk for the final day of Creative Futures this year (outside the keynote address of course).

Offering up case studies from her own career as examples, Tracy clearly knows what it takes to grow in the business. Having worked with clients like Jones Bros. in Ruthin among many others, Tracy and her company outwrite have worked hard to make a positive impact for local companies looking to expand their reach.

A lovely chat with her afterwards also gave us an insight into what being a 3rd Generation Journalist can mean for your career. Can the name bring an advantage to your career, opening doors early and the likes? Or would it serve as a disadvantage; having to constantly live in somebody else’s shadow purely because you’re related to them?

Apparently, it’s had a mixture of the two. Yes, the upbringing has helped her understand the world before ever applying for a job there and yes the name has brought her a few clients and early experiences. But in contrast to that, with having a journalist mother, she saw it as “not being a real job”. Not to say that it isn’t a real job though, but it’s something your mum did - not something you necessarily want to do.

Admittedly, she’s had some fun with it though including most recently coming to a university in North Wales to give a speech on PR at a Creative industries event. Not sure what that might have been though.

- James Wright

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Creative Futures 2016: Some of our hardworking Wrexham Glyndwr live blogging team, working at the coalface of creativity all this week. Thank you to legendary Hacienda DJ Graeme Park for taking this photo. We love our job. :-)

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Creative Futures 2016: Live blogging fuel :-)

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Creative Futures 2016: Our live blogging team are busily uploading pics and posts about today’s events. Great atmosphere and top team work guys.

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Creative Futures 2016: Tracy North from digital PR agency Outwrite explains why PR and reputation management are as important as ever in an age of digital media communication. Thanks to Rich from our live blogging team for this photo.

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