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My artefact that represents my time at Stryx would be this flyer for their Calm and Creative Yoga classes. Because one of my roles at Stryx was distributing these flyers and I had to keep in mind whilst at Stryx to be Calm and Creative.

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I would plan Stryx and the JQ Lates events such as Stay and Play and Baby Sing Political.

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I was creating the logos and posters for JQ Lates using a specially curated colour palette

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I was also Social Media Managing the JQ Lates instagram and the Stryx Gallery and Stryx Cafe accounts too.

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My primary role at Stryx was to Event Manage JQ Lates for Stryx's event.

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The operational layout of Stryx consists two Directors and an Assistant to the directors, however, each member of the management team run the business around their children's schedules which are the same. They split their time between both locations, but they work together at both locations. Therefore there is either two managers or no managers on either site between 9am-4pm, they spend two days a week at the JQ location which is only open Tuesday-Saturday. In my opinion this isn't the most effective way to manage a business because it means that there isn't someone to manage or oversee everything. Additionally Stryx is understaffed because of the lack of coordination of the management team, they often have to call in favours with collegues, rather than hire an additional member of staff.

I already had event management skills and curatorial skills however, I further cemented those skills. I have learnt a lot about social media management especially as a new skill. I gained skills to do with taking care of vunerable members of the public such as children and elderly people. I became a problem solver when it came to working around issues, for example when the childcare didn't arrive for the stay and play event I stepped in to set up and run the sensory activities for the children.

These skills will help me in my future career because I want to be either an events manager or a curator however, dealing with the public is useful in any career but especially events management because they will be my clients, therefore source of income. Social Media Management will aid my business in the future because I can be my own social media marketing team. Additionally, problem solving can help with both curation and event management by helping see the answers that no one else on my team can see.

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A skill gap I have is event planning because I haven't had as much experience doing it as much as managing events. In order to bridge that gap, I will plan events my own events such as my major project and manage the events too. If I manage and plan my own events, I will improve my employability by being able to do both planning and managing events at the same time.

Although I used to work in a team fairly regularly I am no longer used to it and would rather be in charge. To fill this gap I would work in leadership roles but as part of a wider team with my major project.

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Part of my role at Stryx was managing JQ Lates, I can now confidently say that I have skills in Event Management.

Overseeing Stryx's events for each edition of JQ Lates.

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Over a few days I designed a poster for the April JQ Lates with all the listings and creating a new colour scheme for the posters.

I also created there map with all the listings to link to all the social media accounts and posters. However, one of the businesses isn't on Google maps so I had to just use their address which could be misleading.

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After the first JQ Lates we decided the deadlines for applications however, the deadline for April was just after the March event. Because of the lack of sign ups we extended the deadline by a few days. In my opinion we should have extended it by a week to get more promotion in for new businesses to sign up. We extended the deadline by three days which worked in our favour because a few people did sign up.

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I have learnt how to curate things that aren't necessarily art but more like table layouts especially whilst working in a team.

Because these events aren't my project I feel that in a group setting my voice isn't heard.

The Stryx events include a specially curated cocktail however, with lavender featuring so heavily in the promotional imaging this would have been better to match the promotional images to the actual images from the event.

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School of Jewellery/Rock and Roll Brewhouse

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School of Jewellery/Rock and Roll Brewhouse

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The School of Jewellery hosted a DJ event earlier in the evening which coinsided with the end of classes for students so they had a very popular event that then guided people towards Rock and Roll Brewhouse.

Rock and Roll Brewhouse then had a band playing after SOJ which worked out well because there was a large number of students in the bar.

The band playing thanked JQ Lates which opened up a discussion about JQ Lates to an audience who were perhaps only there for the music or the bar.

I used my time at Rock and Rollbrewhouse to take pictures and videos to use on social media.

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Alex from Ivy and Rose Gifts was hosting a Bring Your Own Booze (BYOB) pottery painting class at the Goodsyard. However, the event got cancelled due to not enough interest in the event. Due to the timing of the event being so close to Mother's Day and before pay day. Pottery painting more recently has become a popular event for Mother's Day. Additionally there is a pottery painting studio in the JQ, which has gotten really popular recently, they also offer free drinks and snacks while you're painting which aleviates the need to BYOB.

Ivy and Rose Gifts also stayed open late in addition to the cancelled event and did do a fair amount of sales.

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Stryx Gallery was hosting a spring Bouquet Collage making workshop in the gallery which included cakes, biscuits and cocktails. I arrived to set up the event with the other girls where already getting things ready. Because there was no clear table plan or design it took far too long to put one table and 7 chairs up. However, as this wasn't my event I couldn't say my piece. Additionally both girls don't know how to make cocktails, which I don't understand why I don't get asked to help after repeatedly offering. The results end up having to be fixed by me anyway. If they had continued to try and make the cocktail stronger by adding more alcohol they would have broken the law.

The event name was unclear in my opinion 'Create your own Flower Bouquet Collage Workshop' and I think this is why the event wasn't as popular as the previous event. Additionally the ticket prices had gone up and only included one cocktail compared to the previous two. The event also used found materials such as magazines, colouring books and leaflets so the price increase didn't make sense to me

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I created this post for Calm and Creative to promote the event on instagram, as well as links to the tickets.

I have also started making posts to promote each event for Stryx on their cafe account. However I have a lack of images for the posts. I find it difficult to promote an event for children if most of the time these events aren't photographed to protect the children's privacy.

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Stryx is hosting a weekly yoga class at Stryx and in order to promote the event I was sourcing organisations to send leaflets to from a bank of organisations that Stryx had given me. This was rather difficult because some of the organisations had either closed, had no address, or their name on the spreadsheet was wrong.

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I started to remind businesses via email to remind them about signing up to April's JQ Lates event with some additional information about the event, I clarified for the bars and restaurants that I contacted that they didn't need to do anything for the event, just be associated with the event.

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I created this post for JQ Lates and Stryx to promote Styx's event for JQ Lates on Thursday which needed promotion. I used instagram's collaborate feature to maximise my audience by reaching the cafe and the gallery's audience using this feature.

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I started coordinating a Stryx Stay and Play event where we had to set up the garden for a gardening event and making sure it was health and safety compliant.

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I started drafting posts for the social media campaign with another volunteer. We have started promoting the businesses through the JQ Lates instagram account.

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I made sure to update my CV to make it relevant to the role I want to apply for.

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I had two Careers+ meetings:

The first one was about work placement and how to find it. I was recommended all of the placement availability for the Arts, Design and Media faculty, however, I found that not many of these placement opportunities weren't relevant for me. Therefore I didn't find this as useful as others because the roles I was looking for is quite specific and unique.

The second meeting I had was to work on my LinkedIn profile and how to network using LinkedIn. I have since being rejected from Castle Fine Art found someone to connect with the works there.

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Initially I was emailing galleries I want to work for in the future such as:

Castle Fine Art

Clarendon Fine Art

Colley Ison

Lux Gallery

General Office

However I received negative responses from all.

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I spent the morning buying a cocktail shaker and then going to Pan Pan in Digbeth. To meet one of the founders and ask her about event management.

I felt that this was really interesting because it was an in depth interview about event management.

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Because Stryx is a community space and is focused on fostering creativity with Mothers and Children so there are a lot of children in the studio and gallery. Despite this the doors to the gallery and cafe are open to the public, which leads to a certain level of caution needs to be taken. I have taken on somewhat of a security role by making sure the members of the public don't interract with the children in the gallery.

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After the meeting I used the original list of businesses I created to send out an email to all of them, what I didnt do last time was call the businesses, and I believe this was why we weren't as successful as we could be. After emailing each business individually, I found their phone numbers and called them to advertise the event.

I've had no responses yet but by my next session at Stryx, I might have some. If I haven't I will use my time at Stryx to go to each business and help entice them to join in.

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I had a meeting with both the directors from Stryx the following day about the event, after clearing up from the Sip and Paint at Stryx. We discussed the lack of sign posts and how another similar event took part that same night with very similar ideals. This meant we came to the idea of creating similar stencils to pressure wash into the street because it is a simple way to create sign posts. Additionally we will make sure that all the businesses have their sign posts and street lights.

I also believe word of mouth is an incredibly effective marketing tool, one of the places taking part has over 460 people at their disposal to come to the event and market it to their friends. This business had been signed up since the initial talks about JQ Lates so there was no reason for there to be a lack of people there, when I asked the students if the staff had mentioned it there was a resounding 'no.' I feel that despite this being the inaugural event more could have been done of their behalf.

In terms of marketing we have set a deadline for sign ups to ensure we can include everyone in the marketing online. Additionally the Stryx website will be updated with JQ Lates information and listings. In terms of other feedback there needs to be more time taken to set up the events and have stock taken of everything and where it is for ease of access.

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I arrived at Stryx to set up for their Sip and Paint event. My initial plan was to help set up and then go to all the events in the JQ to take images for social media. However, I had to help make the cocktails for the event as the event organiser was running behind, they also lacked the necesary tools to make cocktails, which gave me less time to go to take pictures.

I then made my way to every event apart from the RBSA Gallery because I didn't have enough time and their event had ended, I knew there would be a photographer there because it was one of the most publicised events and it was a photography event.

I felt that there needed to be more sign posts towards each event from the street as some were very hard to find. We had ordered lights for the event however they had not come in time and the businesses did not collect their A1 signs, although this had not communicated by Stryx or JQ Lates.

Since the first event Stryx have offered me a paid role and I would use this role to coordinate more of the event as this is where my skills lie and there is more of the team at Stryx wanting to work in Social Media Marketing.

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Last week I focused on creating Social Media

campaigns for JQ Lates with focuses on the individual businesses. As I had not set up the instagram account nor was it my account it was a difficult to manipulate the settings to my will. For example scheduling posts was unavailable because it was not a business account, the drafts would not save so I wasted my time creating the drafts but I also had to keep going back to my bank of posts.

Additionally some of the businesses had only given Stryx minimal information or links to their websites where there was no further information.

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This week I used Canva to compile a poster similar to the art map for Digbeth First Fridays using all the listings. I hated using Canva and in future would use the software I usually use for speed and accuracy. I had to find a map to pinpoint the businesses taking part which was difficult because most maps are copyrighted and I had no response from the library about a royalty free map. I thought this was redundant because the posters contained a QR code with a link to google maps with the locations pinned, which is far more user friendly.

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I spent the following week emailing and calling businesses that hadn't already applied via my bosses email.

Unfortunately none of these businesses replied. I think that emailing businesses is an outdated form of contact and more in person or calling is better. For the next JQLates I will focus more on contacting businesses this way to get them involved.

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After that I compiled a list of businesses to contact about JQ Lates on an Excel sheet and invite them to take part via email. I also compiled their distances to Stryx to then be highlighted on a map for the event.

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Additionally, I helped curate the mothership exhibition prior to its opening week. One exhibit in particular needed help with hanging their piece of work.

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I started looking for more local businesses and found Stryx. Although their work placement applications were closed, I emailed. They got back to me with an invitation for an interview.

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I have learnt how to use Canva to create posters for JQ Lates however, I didn't find it user friendly