Creative Industries Workshop - Audiovisual HUB

The University of Porto together with the Catholic University of Porto, under the umbrella of ADDICT – the Agency for the Development of the Creative Industries in the Northern Region of Portugal, and in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin, will be hosting the 1^stAnnual Creative Industries Worskhop (CIW2010). This will take place in Porto, from the 16^thuntil the 18^thof September 2010.

One key objective at the CIW2010 is to lay the groundwork for a Creative Industries Global Network. This Creative Industries Network is to be action oriented to develop “business-to-business” strategic alliances across creative industries located in mid-sized cities worldwide.

While the Creative Industries Network will be most concerned with fostering business-industry collaborations, it will also be concerned with searching for and fostering creative activities and talent across the network. It is envisioned that the Creative Industries Network will be open and largely self-organizing with the goal of sharing and leveraging creative talent, technology, and other assets for action oriented business initiatives.

The CIW2010 will invite cities with a relevant work in the audiovisual and new media sectorto participate. This eventconsists of closed work sessions, where the representatives of the participant cities are asked to think of actionable business opportunities and will focus on emerging and revolutionary new and creative media production technologies, co-production possibilities, and innovative film distribution capabilities. On the 16th of September there will be an open conference on "Creative Cities and the Audiovisual Sector".

It is envisioned that the Creative Industries Workshop will be held annually at different locations of network members. The CIW 2011 is being planned to occur two days before SXSW 2011, in March 2011, in Austin, TX (http://sxsw.com/) and to be the larger roll out and announcement of the Creative Industries Global Network.

• North of Portugal, Michael DaCosta Babb (ADDICT)
• Austin, David Gibson (IC2 Institute - UT AUSTIN) and Jim Butlet (City of Austin)
• Bristol, Mehjabeen Price (South West Screen)

• Black & White Festival Showcase, Marta Reis
• Fish: Global Sishi, by Mark Hall
• Embargo, by António Ferreira

For further information please contact ciw_porto@addict.pt