Student based art fair/convention, completely curated by students. Would include live drawing collaboration space, small showcase space (gallery type area), tables for stalls/students work.
What service do you propose to provide?
- A platform for other creatives our age, to have the opportunity to show the public and peers their work
- Local networking
- Seminars/demonstrations from established professionals or peers
- An opportunity to buy/sell artwork or do trades
Who will benefit/make use of your services?
- Creative students from the area/surrounding institutions
- Leeds/the local creative community
- Local businesses looking for fresh talent
- Any creative practitioner who attends - they will have to opportunity to show off their work, talk to possible clients, arrange collaborations
- Venue
What are the aims of your proposal?
- Bring together local creatives - especially ones our age
- Create discussion around what is illustration?
- Break down the boundary between professional practitioners and students eager to establish their own practice
- Showcase the talent in the local creative community
- Promote conversation about design, illustration etc
What are the expected outcomes of your proposal?
- Hold a convention
- Have people visit
- Arrange for a practitioner to give a talk or demonstration
- Get other students involved (setting up their own tables etc)
- Make money
How will you measure your success?
- Footfall - if people actually show up for the experience
- Media coverage - any tags on instagram, twitter etc?
- Feedback - did people actually enjoy the convention and the services we provided?
- Profit - breaking even would be good too, we don't want to loose money on this
- Did we enjoy ourselves?
What problems can you foresee?
- Funding for venue cost, insurance etc
- Advertising - will have to be substantial to get the right amount of footfall
- Organising crew/volunteers - it will be hard to maintain the whole event by ourselves
- Food/drink services - are there any health and safety things we need to check out first?
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