Supporting the creative industries in Nigeria: creative intermediaries forum 

Date: 11th April 2019
Time: 10am – 4pm
Venue: Ikoyo (to be confirmed) ​

​Aims
This one-day workshop is aiming to bring together a range of stakeholders and intermediaries all working towards supporting the development of creative and cultural industries (CCIs) in Lagos and Nigeria. Creative intermediaries include profit and no-for-profit organisations facilitating a range of opportunities for creative individuals and companies such as: training and skills, space and business planning, access to finance and financial advice, access to markets, internationalisation and other opportunities.
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Long-term objectives
As part of the forum we hope to support creative intermediaries and facilitate communication and initiative across organisations, creating a local (and potentially national) network that facilitate information sharing for the benefit of creative and cultural industries and individuals. We hope to be able to facilitate this further via the creation of an app / web platform, after feedback from the participants

Who are creative intermediaries? Download our information sheet on CREATIVE INTERMEDIARIES. 

Research, ethics and recording:
We aim to audio-record the workshop in order to use the knowledge generated for academic research and papers. All information will be anonymised when transcribed and will not be shared with third-parties. We hope to publish also a blog and report about the initiatives that will be shared with all. If you are invited, you will be sent detailed information about the ethics guidelines followed by King’s College London.  

Organisers
The workshop is organised by Dr Roberta Comunian (Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London), Dr Brian Hracs (Department of Geography, University of Southampton) as part of the AHRC research network "Understanding and supporting creative economies in Africa'.