An exhibition which showcased the work of twenty creative start-up businesses was held at 51 Lime Street, Ouseburn (donated by Ouseburn Trust). The group (graduates of the Creative GLEAM programme) had their enterprising spirit put to the test in transforming a blank warehouse space into a maze exhibition, allowing them to demonstrate their business ideas in an interactive and unique way.
The Adventures Of... was an eclectic mix of art, design, dance, music and live performance in a variety of mediums. The exhibition was visually spectacular and allowed visitors to meet the faces behind the business ideas. Prospective clients, prospective suppliers, people thinking of starting their own business, supporters of enterprise, advocates of creativity and fans of Ouseburn came and joined in - it was a great opportunity to do some networking, have a drink and maybe think of starting your own adventure .....
The Enterprise: Roots & Wings
Creative Team
Alan Ramsay, Ed Blazey, Rob Kitchen, Jake Conrad,Katerina Brunclikova
 Roots & Wings is a Creative Management Company offering a wide range of services to the community. Their aim is to facilitate and nurture local talent in all its forms. Showcasing music and artistry, and provide professional and creative support to Newcastle’s communities through workshops in a variety of disciplines including creative writing, art music and digital design. They believe in connecting the arts through interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, offering a network of artists, dedicated to helping you grow wings, spread roots and strengthen your community through creativity.
 The Enterprise: Phoenix Creative
Ben Drury
 Ben’s passion is experience innovation – changing how people experience life. He loves to inspire, motivate, challenge and excite others. He has worked touring with theatre companies, designing internet banks, writing and directing stage productions, developing and delivering presentation skills and leadership training courses, managing small businesses and leading a youth centre. He has been described as ‘an inspiration’ and ‘a catalyst for others’. His business is Phoenix Creative, an experience innovation company! Phoenix Creative is a design agency specialising in customer service, bringing creativity to every area where people interact with an organisation. Phoenix Creative enables businesses to give their customers an awesome experience and a great story to tell!
The Enterprise: Wedding & Portrait Photographer
Jenni Moore
 Sharon has been taking photographs part-time for the past four years after training at Newcastle College. She has recently set up as a full-time photographer with funding help from North Tyneside Council and the Arts Council, specialising in wedding and portrait photography and occasionally events and fashion work. Her style is informal and relaxed – aiming to capture special images which will be treasured for years to come.
The Enterprise: Magpie Swap - The Clothes Line
Susie Rutherford, Rebecca Sloan, Rachel Charlesworth
 The Clothesline company wants to encourage people to make the most of the clothes that are already out there by swapping and exchanging them with others. If you bring something in, you can look for an item of similar value, maybe get a bit of cash for it, or credit towards taking away something else. Boys’ and girls’ clothes, bags, hats, shoes, belts, jewellery, anything like that. Website
The Enterprise: Photography
Rob Birrell
Rob is a commercial and advertising Photographer. His work covers a breadth of specialisms including still-life, product, location, architecture, portrait and landscape photography. He combines digital skills with traditional camera craft to create some weird and wonderful compositions with which to shock or amuse the viewer. Whatever Rob is working on he is dedicated to helping customers realise their vision and to promote their companies in the best possible light .
The Enterprise: Futuresight Technologies
Kamyar Mehran
 Currently, Kamyar is an Assistant Professor in the area of Nonlinear Dynamics and Intelligent Systems in Newcastle University. He devised a novel and state-of-the-art algorithms and a software based on that for financial time series analysis and marketing forecasting which can go to the route of setting up a Hedge fund investing on LSE, NYSE and TSE, Future Market, Oil Commodity Market and Forex Market.
The Enterprise: Theatre of the Free Voice
Sharon Facinelli
 Theatre of the Free Voice is an international experimental theatre company based in the North East. It’s aim is to break down preconceptions of voice, text and speech to reveal a truer communication through artistic expression. The company has two strands which are: the development of creative expression and practice through natural voice both for professional artists and local communities; to research and conceptualise methodology for this field through academic organisations. Their debut performance will be a performance of ‘Sacred & Profane’ which is an Anglo-Italian production devised and performed by T.A.M. (Rome, Italy and Theatre of the Free Voice). This will then be toured throughout the UK and Italy.
The Enterprise: Smartelligent Media
Ed Greenhalgh
 Smartelligent Media produce Adnote, a new and uniquely engaging on-campus advertising format. Adnote is a pad of notepaper which includes display advertising in the header or margin which is distributed hand-to-hand by merchandisers on campus. An ideal format for targeting students; because it’s free notepaper they rush to pick up your ad, stare at your ad for hours and keep the ad for months.
The Enterprise: Storydisc
Gary Linten
 Gary helps people to tell their life story, capturing it on film so they can share it with their family and pass it on to future generations.
The Enterprise: Jewellery designer
Laura Manning
 Laura is a designer/maker of silver and precious metal jewellery. Producing limited edition collections, bridal jewellery and work to commission. She offers jewellery making workshops, including a special day for couples wishing to make their own wedding rings. Using creative approaches to teach in schools and elsewhere.
The Enterprise: Tinderbox Events Ltd
Emma Ailes, Xede Schnurbein, Verity Bonney & Rona Askew
 Tinderbox Events is an Event Management Company that will capture your imagination! Debuting in Newcastle with The Advertures Of …, members of the Tinderbox team have previously worked on such prestigious projects as Fashion Rocks, the Edinburgh Hoog and Tate St Ives Festival. Currently they are finalists in The Journal Culture Club Awards in the category Best Event, Durham, for their pioneering project The Art Garden Festival, the Tinderbox team are a dynamic, vibrant and formidable team!
The Enterprise: Filtered Image
Stefan Krzysiak
 Filtered Image run by Stefan Krzysiak produces large scale photography work for both advertising and individuals. Stefan’s result of his background in camera work for television and film are distinctive in style and an exclusive feature in any setting.
The Enterprise: Jewellery Designer
Criss Chaney
 Criss Chaney designs exclusive jewellery. She combines glass and metals to achieve a simple yet beautiful piece that is perfect for those special occasions and comfortable to wear.
The Enterprise: Glass Artist
Karin Walland
 Karin is a glass artist. She resurrects glass, giving new life to scrap creating both art and design work. To her the empty bottle is full of promise of being reborn into unique art. Her work can be seen at exhibitions both indoors and outdoors and she works to commission, from tiny pieces to large sculptural work.
The Enterprise: Mother Dance Company
 Mother Dance Company specialises in creative collaboration producing work that inhibits spaces through film, installation and movement. They like what they do so want to share it through young mother community projects and work with cooperate businesses to introduce creativity into the workplace.
The Enterprise: Bollywood Chat
Ali Zaidi
 Bollywood Chat is the UK’s most popular Asian chat site. They offer advertising space targeted at young British Asians. Over the next six months they intend to attract users from countries around the world. They are also planning to introduce social networking tools for their growing numbers of users.
The Enterprise: Artist and Illustrator
Amelia Celeste Davies
 The emphasis of Amelia’s work is focused on the figurative. There are two strands to her work: the first is original artworks which she intends to exhibit at art galleries around the North East and further afield. The second strand is illustration work. Her customers for this strand will be publishers and design companies.
The Enterprise: Hotch Potch Arts
Glynis Manning
 Glynis set up Hotch Potch Arts as a creative community arts practice after having studied folk and traditional music and an MA in community arts practices. She works in partnership with schools to develop cross-curricular projects, encouraging creative thinking and learning through songwriting and music, often in collaboration with artists from different media such as visual arts. She also performs as an unaccompanied singer, and delivers weekend courses involving singing and songwriting, as well as community-based projects related to identity and place. She is an Arts Award Adviser eligible to support and assess young people undertaking the Arts Award.
The Enterprise: Trees are good creations
Robbie Humphries
 Trees are good creations was set up to bridge the gap between Maybe Myrtle Tyrtle and the world as a whole. Robbie realised that bands are not taken very seriously but record companies have more clout. The company acts as promoter, manager, booking agent and record company for the band, which is leaping from success to success.
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