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Digital Week line up announced

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

October 12, 2009 | 3 min read

The official line up of events for Digital Week have been announced in order to showcase the digital creative work going on in the region.

Taking place in November across Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Scarborough and Sheffield, the week long line-up will have a particular theme given to each city and will also examine and discuss new technologies in every area the of digital and creative sectors and will culminate with the DADI awards, in association with Leeds Live it Love it.

Leeds will host events on sound and music, and will look to celebrate the city’s music scene with seminars including a round table event on 9 November entitled ‘Audio evolution: Music in the digital age’ which will see four views from specialists in the sector about how music can survive the digital boom and stand up to giants such as iTunes and the pirate traders.

Old Chapel Studio and Sponge Studio will work together for Leeds LEGI programme Sharing the Success, which will see the launch of a one-off album of Leeds based artists entitled Us & Them.

Sheffield will host discussions looking at the role of 3D technology in design and architecture as well as a workshop examining 3D technologies in the gaming world.

Social media will be the focus in Huddersfield with new media clients set to discuss the best use of social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Whippet on the Wire, Flickr and Audio Boo.

Scarborough will be looking at the advancement of digital on-screen with Woodend Creative Space and the Scarborough Digital group hosting an evening of film screenings which pioneered the digital movement, while Bradford will host both the Bradford Animation Festival and the Bradford Gaming Festival in conjunction with Digital Week. It will also host BarCamp which will involve more than 130 attendees from Yorkshire and across the country who will link-up live to BarCamps in the US, Canada and India to look at new developments in film, animation and digital media and offer a special guest speaker which will be announced nearer the time.

This will all culminate with this year’s DADI awards being held for the second year running in Leeds, recognizing the most creative digital agencies in the UK.

Leanne Buchan from organisers Holbeck Urban Village said: “It is great to see so many areas running events even though we are only in our second year – Digital Week has already gone region-wide and is a celebration of the digital strides Yorkshire is making as a whole. Although it’s been a tough few months for many industries operating in a tough financial climate, it is the creative and new media sector that has continued to grow and Yorkshire is still at the forefront of this with more than 13,000 creative/digital industry businesses in the region. Digital Week is our chance to both showcase and celebrate Yorkshire’s continuing role as a key creative hub.”

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