DATE: 24th-27th May 2013
TIME: 11am - 6pm
LOCATION: Camp and Furnace in Liverpool's Baltic Triangle.
PRICE: FREE

Liverpool Art Fair is an annual four day event which aims to showcase a wide range of affordable original art by a plethora of local artists; providing a unique insight into the region's creative talent and the opportunity for everyone, from seasoned collector to first time art buyer, to own their own piece of the Liverpool art world.

Liverpool Art Fair 2013 will take place from 24-27th May, at Camp and Furnace in Liverpool's thriving Baltic Triangle. Once again, this is an open submission event, and we are inviting all artists based within a 25 mile radius of Liverpool, to submit work for inclusion. Please visit the Submit page for details, and note the deadline for submissions is 9am on Monday 15th April.

To attend this thriving art fair please click here!

DATE: Thursday 30th April 2013
TIME: 6pm
LOCATION: Shown only to members - (Become a member)
PRICE: FREE

Come, meet likeminded people, have a drink, and lets discuss how we can work together to make this region even more fabulous! No set format - just make your own name tag when you get here, drop your business card into the box, grab a drink, and there will be our legendary "crap raffle" at some point in the evening.

Drop in whatever time you like - it gets busy after half 6 / 7ish

Come and "Meet a Mentor"

This meeting will be preceded by our now regular Monthly Drop-in Mentoring Clinic between 3pm and 5pm on the afternoon of each Meet-up session. This gives the opportunity for any individual in creative or marketing services (from fashion to web-design) to just "drop-in" and meet a Mentor to discuss - in confidence - any issue or question relating to their personal and/or business development with an experienced Mentor.

If you're looking for a Mentor to help you with either your personal and/or your business development, we'll find you the right one for you.

Further information on our NorthernSoho MentorMatch(TM) service can be found at www.northernsohomentormatch.com, where you can find all the details of how to find a suitable Mentor to help you with either your own personal or career development - and/or your own or your organisation's business development.


To attend this great event click here!

DATE: 30th May 2013
TIME: 10pm - 5pm
LOCATION: Cotton Court, Church Street, PR1 3BY, Preston
PRICE: £145.00

Get started with social media

Do you want to know what all the fuss regarding social media is about?
Do you want help getting started with social media for your business?
Do you want to take advantage of benefits like improved search engine ranking, better customer satisfaction and more business?

This course by 3ManFactory is ideal for business owners, freelancers and anyone responsible for customer service, marketing or PR within their organisation that want to take the first steps into social media.

Tom and Nathaniel will guide you through..

The benefits and reasons for having social media in your business
Examples of best practice
The anatomy of a Facebook Timeline
Creating your Facebook business Timeline
Setting up Facebook Timeline for your organisation
How to use Status updates effectively
Adding images, video, milestones and more to enrich your Facebook business Timeline
A tour of a Twitter profile
Tweet speak: Twitter jargon explained
Creating your Twitter profile
Who to follow on Twitter
What to tweet about on Twitter
A tour of Google+
Creating your Google+ profile
Using Google+ Circles
Setting up your Google+ business page
Examination of a LinkedIn account
Building your LinkedIn profile
How to build LinkedIn connections

Who are Nathaniel & Tom?

Tom Stables is a forward thinking, always ruminative, creative thinker with a love of business combining digital, graphic, web and social media design. Tom also lectures for Futures at the University of Central Lancashire, delivering the "Your Online Reputation" module. He is also the passionate creative brain behind the 3ManFactory training courses.

Nathaniel Cassidy is best summed up by his Twitter profile bio: "propaganda wizard @3manfactory | Loves: hats, gin, sunglasses & colour coding *warning may contain nonsense, opinion & errors" His input at 3ManFactory is in utilising interactive PR, social media, experiential marketing and event experiences. Nathaniel is the colourful, leftfield ideas man who likes to spend his time dreaming up ways to make buzz, chatter and noise both on and offline.

Tom and Nathaniel are experienced communicators and their workshops and courses always have a relaxed and easy going atmosphere. Watch out though as their passion for social media is contagious and next thing you know you'll be converting the rest of the office, your friends and family to the social side of the web.


To attend this informative event please click here!

DATE: Thursday 30th May 2013
TIME: 9am - 5pm
LOCATION: C2.03 John Dalton Building, School of Computing, Mathematics and Digital Technolgy, MMU, Manchester M1 5GD
PRICE: FREE



Qt is an application framework based on C++ which is used for the rapid development of software on platforms including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The course will demonstrate how to use Qt Creator, a cross-platform integrated development environment, for designing user interfaces and developing application code using a drag and drop approach. An understanding or an interest in programming is essential for getting the most out of the course. No previous knowledge of Qt or C++ is required. By the end of the course you will have the skills to develop simple Qt C++ desktop applications.

Qt is developed by Digia (http://qt.digia.com/) and this taster course will get students started on the professional short course material used by industry (the “Qt in Education” syllabus). The insights gained from this learning will enable students to self study other specific areas of interest using the additional materials provided by Digia.

Qt is described as the “most powerful cross-platform application and UI framework” currently used in industry.

The event will take place in the John Dalton Building in computer lab C2.03.

This course is part of the MMU Futures programme and you will earn 7 Bronze points.


For ticket to this amazing event: Click here!


For further details of MMU Futures events:-
http://www.mmu.ac.uk/students/futures/events.php