Sir Nicholas Grimshaw to Offer Mentorship to Aspiring Architects - NOISE Festival 2014 Extended Deadline

The NOISE Festival 2014 ‘Call For Entries’ is drawing to a close. Submissions need to be in by 6th July 2014 to have the chance of being reviewed by world-renowned British architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, who is set to rate up-and-coming architecture and design entries made to the arts website NOISEfestival.com.

“I am here to support the NOISE idea about encouraging young creative people to send in their work for consideration and judging; who I will help to pursue their careers and mentor at the end of the whole process” Sir Nicholas Grimshaw

NOISE Festival 2014 categories range over 14 creative disciplines including Architecture, Music, Fashion, Illustration, Comedy, Games, Fine Art, Film, and Design. The 2014 Curators are iconic role-models from the creative industries, and include prominent fashion designer Giles Deacon, games legend Ian Livingstone CBE (Tomb Raider) and acclaimed cartoonist Gerald Scarfe CBE (Pink Floyd’s The Wall). All will personally handpick their stand-out submissions.

See notes for full line-up.
Entering NOISE Festival 2014 is free and open to all ages via NOISEfestival.com.

NOISE Festival gives talented emerging creatives a positive, debt-free route into the industry. The NOISE charity ethos is that reward and recognition should be based on talent, to break down the barriers of postcodes, socio-economic status and lack of connections that often prove a stumbling block for the next generation of aspiring creatives.

Over the Summer, the Curators will be short-listing the entries. The best, undiscovered creatives are then promoted at the NOISE Festival 2014 showcase in the Autumn, at nationwide exhibitions, through media coverage, and in some cases professional/amateur collaborations, paid work placements or personal mentorship with the Curators or other leading creative companies.

Finding himself homeless in London in the 1960s, Sir Nicholas took advantage of a then Government initiative and founded a co-ownership housing scheme, becoming his own first client in the process. Grimshaw sees this as his breakthrough moment, as a young architect in charge of a substantial London scheme, through which he developed a standing in the industry.

“The most important thing is not to be proud; you have to take on anything whether it is a bus shelter or a bike store for a local school. There is nothing however small that you cannot use some design ability on.”

Grimshaw, behind famous designs including the Eden Project and London’s Waterloo International Terminal, a former president of the Royal Academy of the Arts and RIBA Awards winner, will exclusively offer one-to-one mentorship to the aspiring architects he most highly rates.

Throughout 2014, a monthly interactive webinar with a Curator is held for 8 festival entrants, and also broadcast live online. Running on a Q & A basis, the webinars offer further insight into making a success in the creative industries and act as a fantastic tool for advice from those that have made it in their fields. Sir Grimshaw took part in the Architecture webinar in April, which can be viewed here

ABOUT NOISE
NOISE Festival is a national arts charity, based in Manchester, that supports over 10,000 emerging creatives via the ePortfolio website NOISEfestival.com. NOISE provides innovative cultural arts events and projects enabling graduates, NEETs and disadvantaged creatives to develop from amateur to professional-level and break into the creative industries. Since 2005, NOISE has worked with globally recognised creative mavericks (Zaha Hadid, Sir Norman Rosenthal, Peter Saville, Stella Vine, Tom Dixon, Badly Drawn Boy) and international media partners (such as MTV, BBC). Funded by the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities, NOISE supports national arts, educational and grassroots community organisations to enhance their offering.

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The NOISE Festival 2014 takes place online, in the media and at exclusive events nationwide. The next generation of creative talent is selected by creative industry curators to take forward to the national Autumn events programme which includes exhibitions, retail events, creative careers conferences and professional / amateur collaborations. In addition to offering endorsement and tailored feedback, NOISE Curators will offer paid placements where possible to the best emerging talent selected during the short-listing process. Entry to NOISE Festival 2014 is free, via the creation of an ePortfolio on NOISEfestival.com. The festival is open to all ages. The call for submissions is open until 6th July 2014. Previous festivals have attracted a total international audience of 8.5million. NOISEfestival.com/Festival/2014 #NOISEfest14

NOISE Festival 2014 Curators
Brian Eno (Music & Arts), Giles Deacon (Fashion), Clive Barker (Moving Image), Sir Nicholas Grimshaw (Architecture), Ian Livingstone CBE (Games & New Media), Gerald Scarfe CBE (Illustration),Tim Marlow (Fine Art), Elaine Constantine (Photography), Tricia Jones, i-D Magazine (Print & Zines), Doc Brown (Comedy & Spoken Word), Thris Tian, Boiler Room TV (Enterprise & Underground Music), Jude Biddulph, Suck UK (Product Design), Andy Bird, Publicis (Advertising).

Please watch the interview series from here

> via noisefestival.com