The service will offer one-to-one sessions in professional development, with a focus on self-knowledge: the key to making the right decisions for you in your creative life and enjoying a healthy balance between creativity and your personal life.

In order to provide the best possible service, Louise has asked that you complete a short questionnaire. You can do this by telephone, meeting or requesting a copy via email. Please use the contact details below.

Email – info@louiserutkowski.co.uk

Mobile  – 07759472970

Developing the capacity to ‘think differently’ is at the very heart of the programme.

For more information please visit

http://www.uws.ac.uk/courses/pg-courseinfo.asp?courseid=786

In September 2010, Reverb Scotland will be holding an event to find out what disabled musicians in Scotland want from Scottish Arts Council/Creative Scotland, and what they want from the organisations that support them.

Fore more information please visit:

http://www.getaplan.org.uk/?location_id=555

Keith Harris is currently the Director of Performer Affairs for PPL and chairman of Music Tank as well as being Stevie Wonder’s manager.

This event will take place in Studio 1 of the City Halls Glasgow on Monday the 9th of August at 5pm.

To register your interest in attending this event please email us at caroline@smia.org.uk

Scotland’s leading music business night, Born To Be Wide, is to host a series of seminars and showcases, to take place in Edinburgh on Thursday 8 April. The Wide Days event will see key music industry figures participate in a series of daytime panels at  the Shanghai club, as well as being treated to some of the hottest local talent in the evening.

Veteran music managers Keith Harris [Stevie Wonder], Rab Andrew [Texas, Primal Scream] and Bruce Findlay [Abefeldy, Simple Minds] are confirmed for a seminar  about music management. And organisers of Scotland’s largest music events T In The Park, Rockness, Wickerman and The Edge, will explain how to get on to a festival bill in a discussion chaired by the BBC’s Vic Galloway.

A seminar titled What Next? includes the founder of the world’s largest independent digital music company, The Orchard, and an expert in online promotion. It will provide suggestions for how musicians, managers and labels can best use technology and highlight how they should respond to existing trends.

“To get to see such an amazing line up of speakers would normally involve paying hundreds of pounds to attend a conference, or at the very least taking a three hour train journey to Inverness for Go North,” says Wide Days co-organiser Olaf Furniss. “Our aim is to make this accessible to people by keeping the price low and hosting it on their doorstep.”

Tickets are £30, but for members of the Musicians’ Union or anybody ordering before March 21, they will be available for £20.

Furniss adds that the advice given out on legal panel, which includes former Sex Pistols and Bryan Ferry lawyer Steven Fisher, is likely to be worth several hundred pounds alone. The panel is supported by the Musicians’ Union and Fisher will also host a presentation about partnership law, a legal area which bands ignore at their peril.

In the evening the seminar guests will be taken on a tour of Edinburgh and its venues, where they will be treated to a selection of emerging Scottish acts, before being invited to play their favourite records at the closing party. Free tickets will be made available for the gigs and closing party from Friday 19 March.

SEMINAR VENUE

SHANGHAI, LE MONDE,

16 GEORGE STREET,

EDINBURGH

EH2 2PF

SEMINAR TICKETS –

£30 [£20 for Musicians’ Union members]

Available from www.eventzi.com/borntobewide

SEMINARS

-HOW TO GET ONTO A FESTIVAL BILL

Helen Chalmers [Wickerman], Dave Corbett [The Edge, T In The Park], Rob Hicks [Rockness, Belladrum], Stuart Nisbet [Hogmanay Edinburgh], P.C Rae [Slottfjell, Norway]

-I AM THE LAW – ESSENTIAL LEGAL ADVICE

Dawn Barraclough, Murray Buchanan, Claire Thompson

-WHAT NEXT? PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE

Scott Cohen [The Orchard], Ruth Daniel [Unconvention], Andrew Dubber [Birmingham University], Will Page [Chief Economist, PRS]

- SPEAK TO THE MANAGEMENT

Rab Andrew [Texas, Primal Scream], Mark Bailey [Woodenbox], Keith Harris [Stevie Wonder], Bruce Findlay [Aberfeldy, The Silencers, Simple Minds]. Moderator, Vic Galloway [BBC Scotland]

-Keynote Q&A

Gavin Bain, author of California Schemin’ an account of how two young Dundonians convinced the London record industry that they were rappers from California.

Born To Be Wide was launched in February 2004 to provide a meeting place for those involved or interested in the Scottish music scene. A diverse range of musicians, journalists, promoters, label owners and friends of music, invited to play their all-time favourite records unless they were by Morrissey or Joy Division.

Since April 2008 the night has hosted seminars covering subjects such as How To Get A Gig, Unveiling The Mind Of A Music Journalist, How To Get On The Radio, Music Management, and a Norwegian-special titled Play Norway. In February it celebrated its 6^th birthday with a special German night which included a seminar, a live show by Berlin band Jeans Team and a DJ set by the Consul General.

Past Born To Be Wide guests have included members of Teenage Fanclub, Idlewild, The Fire Engines, The Beta Band, Belle & Sebastian, Josef K and Broken Records, as well as Irvine Welsh, Kristin Hersh, Pat Nevin, Laurence Bell [Domino Records], Norwegian Consul, Mona Røhne, and the producers Owen Morris and John McLaughlin.

Contact:

Olaf Furniss, borntobe_wide@yahoo.com, www.borntobewide.co.uk

SMIA board member Dougal Perman, from Inner Ear, has put together the event, comprising three seminars on podcasting, blogging and social networks, following on from the seminars that he and fellow board member Greg Kane, from Hue and Cry, presented at Scotland on Tour and Showcase Scotland.

For more information, and to sign up (for only £10 for the day), visit the Hands Up For Trad website:

http://www.handsupfortrad.co.uk/promoting-web.html

To promote the organisation, and encourage participation, Amb:IT:ion Scotland is running a series of roadshow workshops around the country. The first one is at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness on Thursday 18 March. SMIA board member Dougal Perman is presenting a seminar about online promotion with his colleague Andy McColgan. The seminar, entitled See and be Seen, Hear and be Heard, will be a practical session taking participants through how to use a suite of freely available online services as part of a social media marketing strategy. Dougal and Andy delivered two related seminars at Scotland on Tour and Showcase Scotland during Celtic Connections.

The event also features a keynote speech by freelance writer and consultant to the BBC, Bill Thompson, advice sessions from the Intellectual Assets Centre and New Media Scotland, amongst others. For more information on the event, and to register, go to their Event Brite page:

getambitionroadshow-north.eventbrite.com/
getambition.com/
innerear.co.uk/events/getting-digital-roadshow-north/

Registration is free and Amb:IT:ion Scotland welcome SMIA members.