Creative Hubs: Report Launch & Discussion
Tue 01 Aug 2017, 2 pm
Creative Lab by Up
01 Luong Yen, Ha Noi
From the organizers:
A variety of exciting new creative spaces are popping up in Vietnam’s major cities. Examples include Toong, Manzi, Hanoi Creative City (in Hanoi) and Factory, ADC Academy, Dreamplex (in Ho Chi Minh city). They are making art and culture more accessible and providing spaces for homegrown creative enterprises to thrive. They are part of young but thriving creative economy in Vietnam – a sector which worth billions of USD and has been a global success story of the twenty-first century.
The British Council has been working closely with a network of Creative hubs. In 2014, the British Council launched the first ever report about local creative hubs. It recognized nearly 40 active hubs across Viet Nam, and highlighted the significant contribution of these hubs to the local community.
Come and join us to learn more about these exciting spaces, current local policies and some lessons learnt from Europe for creative hubs development in Viet Nam.
You will meet three creative hubs including the Creative Lab by Up in Hanoi, the Danang Business Incubator (DNES) in Da Nang, and Toa Tau in Ho Chi Minh City and hear about their exciting works in connecting creative people and the community, and how they are promoting innovation and creativity.
On this occasion, the British Council will also present two important research reports, both commissioned as part of a series of actions in support of the development and sustainable operation of creative hubs in Vietnam. The first report is the Creative Hubs: Experience from Europe, Lessons for Vietnam, 2016, by Professor Andy Pratt from City University London. The second report is the Review of Regulatory Framework for Creative Hubs in Vietnam, 2017, recently conducted by Vietnam National Institute of Culture and Arts Studies.
For registration, please email to us at [email protected] before 28 July.
About the organizers:
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. Using the UK’s cultural resources we make a positive contribution to the countries we work with – changing lives by creating opportunities, building connections and engendering trust.
We work with over 100 countries across the world in the fields of arts and culture, English language, education and civil society. Each year we reach over 20 million people face-to-face and more than 500 million people online, via broadcasts and publications.
Founded in 1934, we are a UK charity governed by Royal Charter and a UK public body. The majority of our income is raised delivering a range of projects and contracts in English teaching and examinations, education and development contracts and from partnerships with public and private organisations. Eighteen per cent of our funding is received from the UK government.
For more information, please visit:
British Council Creative Economy
British Council Vietnam Arts
British Council Vietnam Arts and Creative Industries resources
Hanoi Grapevine:
Hanoi Grapevine is an independent and not-for-profit online platform that aims to support the Vietnamese art scene by connecting local artists and art spaces with their audience. In 2014, the platform was identified by the British Council as a pioneering and major virtual creative hub in Vietnam.
Hanoi Grapevine provides bilingual content in English and Vietnamese of high-quality art and culture events in the contemporary cultural landscape in Vietnam, together with art reviews, artist interviews, news of Vietnamese artists’ activities overseas, exhibition photos and introduction of indie films, as well as open calls for creative practitioners. We also provide addresses of cultural institutes and art spaces as well as artists’ websites and contacts.
Creative Lab by UP:
Creative Lab by UP has the vision to build a strong and large community of DIY-ers, makers included technology startups, DIY lovers, creative people, designers, artists… together they can learn and implement their creative ideas. Since then, generating high-value products and contributing in the development of creative industry in Vietnam and nearby region.
Creative Lab by UP is formed and developed with three main goals:
1. Provide a venue for testing, using specialized equipment, high-tech equipment, and modern machines for creative start-up and makers community.
2. Organize, provide space for organizing classes, workshops in DIY, IOT, creative arts, fashion…
3. Build a community of innovative start-up groups, inventors and self-discovery makers who are always eager to make practical products with high applicability.
Location: Creative Lab by UP, Container Zone, No.1, Luong Yen, Creative City Building.
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