Guy Armitage
Guy founded Zealous to help organizations efficiently create opportunities for their communities with intuitive submissions management software. He is the author of “Everyone is Creative“, serves as chair of arebyte, and is a former trustee of Firstsite.
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May Update: What’s New This Quarter
A jam-packed May update: it’s been a crazy year, and we’re not even halfway through! As Zealous races towards 10,000 users, more opportunities listed than ever before, and some seriously tasty site upgrades. We thought it was time to share the exciting things happening at Zealous (with a few spoilers of future plans thrown in…
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Diversity in the Creative Industry: Why It Always Matters
This engaging panel discussion focused on the much talked about theme of diversity in the creative industry. Quotas for BAME professionals, positive discrimination, sustainability and box ticking culture were explored in the liveliest and most interactive panel discussion of the day. Hosted by Roger Robinson (Musician, Writer & Performer) with Anne Morrison (Chair, BAFTA), Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway (Founder, Artistic Directors of the…
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Why we need more women in film
When was the last time you went to the cinema, and one of the films being screened was directed by a woman?Chances are, this is a rare occurrence. A recent study carried out by the European Women’s Audiovisual Network has concluded that in Europe, only one in five films are directed by women, despite 44%…
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Boost Communication Strategy With Personalisation
In a world of information overload, unique communication strategy is hard to come by. Generating specific individualised communication rather than stock generic automated messages is crucial! This conversation focuses on personalisation as a positive filter in communication strategy. Chaired by Mik Scarlet (Journalist, BBC) with Jon Little (Product Manager, Kew Gardens), Antony Robbins (Director of…
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Discover the Most Effective Audience Engagement
What’s the best way to master audience engagement? Learn from the pros. Learn from the best of the best as professional marketers, PR pros and strategists debate about the most effective audience engagement practices. Chaired by Teresa Potocka (Founder & CEO, The Potocki Communications Company) with James Walker (Head of Marketing, Channel 4), Jeremy Waite…
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How Technology Empowers Artists in the 21st Century
In the 21st century, technology empowers artists. The brave new world of technological innovation and the possibilities technology can offer to all talented people to become as accomplished artists as they want to be was explored in ‘The Birth of New Mediums’, a panel discussion featuring Ghislaine Boddington (Creative Director of Body, Data, Space), Sebastian…
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How Can Data Create New Creative Experiences?
Meet Holition, master crafters of digital experiences. They create new creative experiences by seamlessly bridging the digital and physical worlds and championing a future where any data becomes a potent dialogue for all to understand. Tommy Howard (Lead Creative, Holition) and Marcus Belcher (Lead Graphics & Web Software Engineer, Holition) lead this exciting talk. Zealous X Talks Day…
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Reinventing the Arts: The Impact of Technology in the Arts
What’s the future of technology in the arts? Established arts institutions and their curators are often confronted with the knowledge gap when showcasing digital artwork. Reinventing The Arts explores in detail how technology is impacting creativity, and the areas where art and tech intersect to create something new. Tim Plyming (Director of Digital Arts &…
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Explore How Public Space is Used to Promote Creativity
Public space and the way it is used to promote or obstruct creativity was explored in “Making Space” at Zealous X Talks. The panel featured Kirsten Dunne (Senior Cultural Strategy Officer, Mayors Office), Dr. Rebecca Ross (Creator, London is Changing) and Ksenia Zemtsova (Co-Founder, Unlimited Productions), and was hosted by Nick Ewbank (Founder, Nick Ewbank…
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Innovate Your Way Towards New Funding Models in the Arts
With London losing more than 50% of its live music venues and only a small percentage of public funding supporting Visual Arts, this panel explores new funding models and the importance of artists/creatives acquiring entrepreneurial skills. Hosted by Susan Jones (Writer, The Guardian) the talk featuring Dr Martin Smith (Adviser to the CEO, Ingenious) and Sarah…
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Grow: Exploring Creative Achievements and Challenges in the UK
Explore creative achievements and challenges in the UK, public funding opportunities, future plans and more! In the next couple of weeks, we will be sharing 30 inspirational podcasts of the talks, panel discussions and keynotes, from the Zealous X Festival. Expect great discussions on Creativity, Technology, Education and Entertainment, including policymaking, cultural integration, marketing, design, the…
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Zealous X Video Podcasts: Reminded and Re-Inspired
Empowering artists through video podcasts, coffee and pastries… There’s a real spring in our step this week. It’s lighter in the morning, the rain has abated (for now), and the new coffee shop by Zealous HQ is keeping us fully stocked with caffeine and croissants so we can focus on the important tasks at hand…
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How to List Your Creative Opportunity
How it works Listing a creative opportunity is quick and simple Simple Registration Creating your account takes no time at all. Add your listing Publish your creative opportunity and have it seen right away. Attract attention Get your creative opportunity seen by 10,000+ creatives. Measure the impact Measure engagement with your listing. COMING SOON “Zealous…
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Engaging Your Audience in Meaningful Ways
Welcome to Wednesday! Today the theme was Engage. Zealous X generated some great discussion on a variety of topics, including diversity in the creative industry and engaging online consumers. Check out the Panel Talks below to learn more! Rules of Engagement Wednesday opened with Teresa Potocka moderating the discussion. Panel members included James Walker (Head…
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Grow: Explore UK’s creative future
What a great Monday! Zealous X kicked off with a very event appropriate theme, Grow! Take a look below to find out what was discussed at the panel talks: The Road to Empowerment The morning started with some much needed caffeine which helped contribute to a wonderfully engaged audience. Issues such as diversity within creative…
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Creative Industry Opportunities with Sir Peter Bazalgette
Sir Peter Bazalgette, chairman of Arts Council England, is asked to talk about the challenges and opportunities in today’s creative industry opportunities. Zealous is honoured to have been granted essential development funds from Arts Council England (chaired by Sir Pet! This not only means that our festival’s actions and initiatives are going to be supported,…
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Zealous’ Social Media Takeover: A Good Kind of Hack
Zealous X doesn’t just promote creativity, contemporary art dialogues, interaction, diversity, inclusiveness, innovation: it is defined by them. It is a combination of all the above notions and their practical explorations. It pushes the boundaries of interdisciplinary art festivals’ operation and perception. On that basis the festival’s programme and activities could only be communicated effectively using an unconventional formula.…
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Creative Audience Engagement: How to Keep Them with You
]It’s been everywhere lately. From top publicists to notifications on social media the term audience engagement seems to be creeping in every aspect of our lives. It’s in the newspaper, on your smartphone apps and if you happen to work in Media, it’s in your Work-Bible too. The third day of Zealous X’s talks sheds…
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Evolve: Unlocking Our Brave New Digital World
With three panel discussions, an exciting keynote, two short films and loads of networking and synergy opportunities, the second day of Zealous X’s talks is providing you all technology enthusiast attendees with the essential tools to Evolve in the brave new digital world. We are all aware that the technological innovations that have been achieved…
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Grow, Evolve, Engage, Challenge and Learn with us!
We are all creatives, but do we know what that means in today’s world? In a forever changing and competitive environment it is becoming more and more complex to identify the challenges and source genuine opportunities in the creative industry. Zealous X has teamed up with seasoned experts across all the creative fields to address…
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Zealous X Winners announced soon!
This Thursday the 5th, we will be announcing the winning artists whose work will be featured at the 2016 Zealous X Festival. We were amazed by the quality of all of the submissions we received, and the judges have had a difficult time narrowing the selection down to only 105 artists. Looking at the final…
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UK Web Fest: Talk with Akua Obeng-Frimpong
This Sunday, the 25th of October, Zealous’ Head of Business Development Akua Obeng-Frimpong will join the UK Web Fest for a panel discussion about the opportunities and challenges of creating web series. Earlier this year the UK Web Fest held an open call via the Zealous platform to find a designer to create their e-invite,…
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Essential tips for UX/UI design
Today we introduce you to our awesome in house UI/UX designer, Chema Martinez. In June 2015 Zealous launched an open call for entries to recruit a full time designer for Zealous. Chema was the winner and started working with us in July. Here are some of his nuggets of design advice. If you are a…
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Zealous X Submission Deadline Extended!
We’ve had a remarkable number of submissions in every field, and we’re truly impressed by the quality of what we’ve seen. Give yourselves a round of applause! Now, if you weren’t able to submit by last night’s deadline, don’t worry. We braced ourselves for the flood of submissions over the past few days, and to…
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Unleashing Creativity at Zealous X
]Creativity has always been core to who we are and what we do, it has informed our need to create Zealous to bring the creative disciplines together in order to help creative talent find opportunities based on their portfolios; and support organisations in sourcing creative talent for jobs, exhibitions, competitions and more. The works we’ve…
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6 Essential Things to Market your Blog
Its not news that blogs are a great marketing tool. More and more creatives are taking advantage of blogs to promote their projects and expertise, but what does this mean for bloggers? Well, it means competition time! If you do a quick search online you’ll see an impressive number of active blogs. Whether you are…
