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Our fifth club meeting was held on the 3rd of November, Thursday at Cezayir Restaurant and Henry Volans, who is the head of Faber Digital, one of the leading publishing houses in Britain, made a discussion to share his experience on publishing, literature and to answer your questions. The discussion was conducted by Aslı Perker who is an author and a journalist.
 
Followed by the discussion, the winners of Young Creative Publishing Award was announced. Please click here to check the photos of the discussion and the award ceremony.
For further information about the programme run internationally creativeconomy.britishcouncil.org
For further details please email arts.info@britishcouncil.org.tr
Creative Economy approaches the arts as a business which can both sustain individual artists and lead to wealth creation in the economy of whole countries. In order to help the development of this area, British Council Turkey office has been actively running award programmes for 2 years.
So far, we have organized 10 Young Creative Entrepreneur Awards in the following sectors: Design, Fashion, Publishing, Interactive Media and Screen. Finalists went to the UK to attend the sector tour which included visits, seminars, international fairs and shows that provided an opportunity for the finalists to have meetings with UK contacts for commercial or collaborative purposes.
The programme of Young Creative Entrepreneur Awards has been running in Turkey since 2008. From this programme there emerged a network of entrepreneurs from across the creative industries. After the YCE clubs in the UK and Poland, now British Council Turkey will fashion this network into a more formal structure which is known as Young Creative Entrepreneurs Club.
We are aiming to develop a network of these entrepreneurs to provide a forum for an exchange of ideas, to stimulate opportunities for collaboration and the dissemination of information. Through regular meetings with guest speakers and panel discussions together with informal networking opportunities and online forums, members can share stories, seek and provide advice and offer mutual support.
We will continue our meetings in the following months with speakers from different creative sectors.
Our 4th club meeting was held on the 23rd of June, Thursday at İstanbul Moda Academy (İMA) and Penny Martin, who is a writer and curator of fashion and photography; the Editor in Chief of The Gentlewoman magazine and Professor of Fashion Imagery at London College of Fashion, made a discussion to share her experience on fashion industry and answered questions. The discussion was conducted by Gamze Saraçoğlu who is a young and successful entrepreneur in the fashion sector as a fashion designer.
Our third club meeting was held on the 3rd of March and Ellah Allfrey, who is a passionate champion of international literature and the deputy editor Granta, the international magazine of new writing, shared her experience on publishing and literature and answered questions of the enthusiastic audience with Elif Bereketli.
Please click here to watch the video of
Ellah Alffrey's discussion!
 She is deputy editor Granta, the international magazine of new writing. She was previously Senior Editor at Jonathan Cape, Random House, having started her publishing career at Penguin Books. A passionate champion of international literature, she has published works in translation by Simone de Beauvoir and Fernando Pessoa and distinguished writers including Ngugi wa Thiongo and Chinua Achebe (in Penguin Modern Classics), Dinaw Mengestu (named as one of the New Yorker magazine’s ’20 under 40’ writers to watch), and the Orange-Prize shortlisted Evie Wyld. She has worked with writers across literary fiction and history including Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, Sara Wheeler and Bettany Hughes. She was a 2010 judge on the Caine Prize for African writing.
Elif Bereketli is responsible for the editorial decisions of İdefix which is the largest online book retailer in Turkey and in charge of the content for Sabitfikir.com which is the online literary magazine of Idefix
The second club meeting was held on the 23rd of September and during the meeting Cemil Türün, who is the pioneer of web technologies in Turkey with his works at Yogurt Computer Technologies, had an interview with Daljit Singh.
 Daljit Singh is an independent creative director and founder of Digit, one of the world’s longest established digital agencies. Daljit built Digit and its reputation by vigorously implementing an R&D programme exploring notions of simple-human-interaction connecting people through technology. This informed Digit’s work and inspired and galvanised clients to strive for the best, most striking creative solutions. Digit’s work has been recognised with a D&AD Black Pencil Award, Design Week Best of Show and two BAFTA’s amongst many others for clients ranging from Motorola, Shell, Nokia, Microsoft, Habitat, National Gallery and Wallpaper. Digit became part of the WPP network in 2005.
Working with young creative establishments going through nascent growth Daljit differentiates a unique positioning and offering based on the team’s strengths. This perception has lead him to shape relevant educational courses and stay on board as an external examiner. Daljit is an enthusiastic industry participant and has engaged as a board advisor with The British Council Design Advisory Group, The Design Council, INIVA Board of Directors, National Youth Theatre and is now on the Onedotzero Board of Directors. Daljit has recently been invited to join The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and was featured in The FT’s Top Creative 50 minds for two consecutive years.
An active entrepreneur Daljit is currently developing his own British Indian food brand Mr Singh’s which began with the successful launch of Bangras - his late grandfather’s 1940s sausage recipe.
For more information you may visit the following sites
www.daljitsingh.com
www.daljitsingh.posterous.com
www.bangras.com
Our first club meeting was held on June 23, 2010. During the meeting, Andrew Senior; Senior Expert Creative Economy at the British Council, had an interview with Paul Priestman who is one of the most successful design entrepreneurs of the UK.
 Paul Priestman’s working career has been spent running his own business which he started when he left the Royal College in 1985. He is the founding director of Priestmangoode, a multidisciplinary design group creating world class designs for leading airlines, train companies and hotels, and intelligent and inspiring design for everyday products and services.
From their award-winning design for the interior concept for the new Kingfisher Airlines to launch design concepts for the Airbus A350 and A380, Priestmangoode leads the international field in aircraft interior design designing for many of the world’s leading airlines and aircraft manufacturers including Airbus, Boeing, Lufthansa, Malaysia Airlines and Qatar Airways. Priestmangoode is currently working with Turkish Airlines to completely re-brand their fleet.
Priestmangoode's work has been exhibited extensively throughout the world and has received design awards and won major international competitions for their design work in the Far East, Europe and the USA.
www.priestmangoode.com
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