Yes, it's a pop up office - a one day affair with a group of strangers who also happen to work in the digital/creating sector.
Jelly Liverpool as it's known is a concept that has been shipped in from New York where Jelly's have been taking place since the noughties. The concept is to give those people who work alone on a contract or freelance basis the opportunity to meet up, share expereinces, contacts and generally have a productive day.
Ignite Liverpool have put a call out for Inspiring speakers to take part in the 4th November event at Leaf Cafe. If you have never come across it before then it's an event of 14 speakers who stand up and present for five minutes at a time on a subject of their choice.
As the nights draw in why not light them up with some cool looking LEDs that glitter when you walk in the house...... If you don't know what I am talking about then it is definitely time for you to head down to FACT Liverpool this Autumn for some cool workshops.
It has to be said the easiest way for me to do this is a cut and paste job so here it is....
It's great to see that 2014 will see the return of TEDx Liverpool for the International Festival for Business in 2014. And it's set to take place on Saturday, 19 July 2014, so plenty of time to get it into your diary.
The 2014 theme will be "Home & Away" celebrating people living and working in Liverpool today as well as our 'expatriates' doing great things further afield.
We all know the typical format for Ignite Liveprool - take 20 slides and talk for 5 minutes about a subject that you are passinate about but now for the brave Ignite Liverpool have started a finale event for each evening where a VOLUNTEER is given an improvisational challenge. The challenge is to take twenty random unseen slides and tell a story throughout.
You can check out the first one presented at last months Ignite below by Alex Nursall, who took the topic of Canada as her Improv subject.
Basecamp Liverpool and Open Labs are staging an a new networking event for businesses at Baltic Creative Campus on 4th December at 5.30pm.
Liverpool skills swap aims to assist businesses to access resources they currently do not have or cannot afford, address a current skills gap, solve an existing problem, raise their company profile, gain access to industry contacts; access business support in areas such as accountancy, marketing, legal etc or access specific industry support in design, gaming etc.
NB - This event has been postponed
A quick reminder for all you lovely digital creative freelancers that Jelly Liverpool is on Thursday 5th December upstairs at Leaf Cafe on Bold Street.
Don't get too excited with the laser refence - you won't be building Star Wars light Sabres, this is practical stuff for designers and start-ups wanting to find out how laser cutting could help them get their product our there fast. The course is led by Def-Proc Engineering at Does Liverpool - the home of laser cutting in Liverpool
ACME/Kin2Kin are organising a Creative Marketing workshop whihc will give participants hugely valuable insights into marketing strategy and a range of effective marketing techniques to be used by creative and digital businesses.
Ever wanted to create an online events programme that's accessible from any device? I have and invariably will again in the future and this looks like a perfect peice of software to allow you to share your programme across different platforms.