Future Artists are one, Saturday July 17th 2010.... 11.30am refreshments for a 12pm start....

Celebrating one year as digital thinkers, new media pioneers, film-makers and creative idealists, we would like to invite you to a FREE event to celebrate our 1st Birthday..... as part of our Digital Artists residency at the Zion Arts Centre in Hulme, Manchester,

Future Artists in Exile - Unconference and Picnic!

With social and political idea's in a state of flux, what effect does this have on the artists, story teller's, and the creative minded in this new media age?

With communities via the world-wide web, solving problems by creating tools both in the online and offline worlds, and with mass communication via social networks, meaning that 'stories', and the experiences of humanity, are now reaching way beyond the campfire.

does this make the old way of working in media still relevant today?

what is the alternative, is there one?

And what effect does this 'new wave' of thinking have on the institutions built FOR the creative communities in the north west.

With the likes of Media City, BBC North, Vision and Media etc, budgets cut, redundancies looming, all on the eve of a technological and creative revolution, with new story telling tools such as 3D, social media, and transmedia storytelling taking route, can the old way of 'doing' keep up? and if so how?

are we on the eve of something new? and what do YOU think this could look like, and what skills can YOU bring to YOUR community?

Join the conversation NOW on TWITTER using hashtag #futureartists and join in the conversation at the Unconference/ open forum debate on Saturday July 17th at the Zion Arts Centre, if there is sunshine, we are going to take the unconference outside, and picnic, bring a blanket, bring food to SHARE.....

Its time to leave exile and join us, without deviation from the norm... progress is not possible' Frank Zappa

'Future Artists are always up to SUMMAT' Joe O'Byrne (influential UK playwright, Actor, Director)

WHATS AN UNCONFERENCE? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference

ITS A FREE EVENT BUT YOU NEED A TICKET

Background on future artists

Future artists are Jenny Inchbald and Mark Ashmore : Est July 2009

Social Media http://www.facebook.com/futureartists : Twitter @Futureartists

Videos and Press on Future Artists

Website Http://www.futureartists.co.uk ,

World's first film distributed via mybook, http://media140.org/?p=3000

Project Praxis, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YL3VmE8sx8 http://menmedia.co.uk/news/s/1234545_help_create_a_film_about_tony_wilson

Cannes Interview at http://www.filmindustrynetwork.biz/future-artists-mark-ashmore-interview/

Future Artists are supported by the Zion Arts Centre, and are part of the RESPOND residency.

Future Artists are also supported by our local and global networks: 24/7 theatre festival, DNA Actors Resource, Shooting People, Mofilm, The Chook, Myebook.com, theatre network, SIAB studios, InfocusTV, Mubi.com, Salford Film Festival, Filmonik, Kino Film, thefilmindustrynetwork.biz, northern film network and many many more.....