TECH TRAINING: #StartupSouth Digital Skills Training For Creatives Powered by the British Council under the Creative Hub Programme

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As part of the West Africa Digital Inclusion Project and the Creative Hubs Programme, #StartupSouth is hosting the Digital Skills Training for Creatives – a project for artists and creatives to develop and improve their understanding of digital tools and platforms available to enhance the creation, production, distribution and exhibition of their artistic outputs.

Target Audience:

Artists and creative entrepreneurs within the age range of 18 to 35.

Artists and creative entrepreneurs include filmmakers, musicians and other music sector professionals, fashion designers and other professionals, performing artists, visual artists, architects, journalists and other broadcast professionals, advertising practitioners, publishing sector professionals and gaming or software designers and other practitioners.

Objectives

The objectives of the digital training would be for artists and creative entrepreneurs to:

Develop the ability to effectively use digital tools and channels to communicate, create content, transact, solve problems and be safe and legal online.

Increase their understanding of the various digital platforms that they can use at various stages in their artistic practice.

Improve their knowledge  to capitalise on the available digital tools to support their practice in the creation, production, distribution or exhibition of their work in digital spaces.

Date: September 24 – 26, 2018

Venue: TechCreek – opposite Pleasure Park by Airforce Junction – Aba Road, Port Harcourt

Only 30 Spaces available. Register (http://bit.ly/ss-digiskills) here to Apply. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Registration Deadline – September 9, 2018

About British Council

The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We create friendly knowledge and understanding between the people of the UK and other countries. We do this by making a positive contribution to the UK and the countries we work with – changing lives by creating opportunities, building connections and engendering trust.

 

About #StartupSouth

#StartupSouth is a Startup/Entrepreneurship ecosystem development project with a mission to educate, connect and attract investment to Startups in the South-South and South-East of Nigeria.

#StartupSouth Conference gathers founders, innovators and investors from across Nigeria and beyond to a city within the South-South and South-East of Nigeria, annually. We are inspiring a generation of young founders to build a highly scalable and investable businesses right within the region.  It is our believe that these businesses will in-turn accelerate the development of the region.

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