Creative Employability event
Terry Bamber
Sonita Alleyne
Guest speakers from Film, Media and Creative Writing industries held the Creative Industries Employability Event attended by people from across the UK.
Speakers included Terry Bamber and Sonita Alleyne.
Terry Bamber
Terry started his career as a 'runner' during the school holidays in 1969. His career has taken him from Carry on Columbus to Coronation Street; from Thunderbirds to James Bond. He has worked as a Production Manager on the past five James Bond movies, and was Production Runner on The Man With The Golden Gun back in 1974.
He has recently become part of Causeway Films Ltd.
Sonita Alleyne OBE, Chief Executive, Somethin' Else.
18 years ago Sonita founded her digital company creating things millions of people watch, listen to, and play with every day: interactive radio, games, branded content and talent management.
Somethin' Else is the UK's biggest production company, and in digital they're cross platform leaders. In talent they look after major TV and radio names. The company is known for young, spiky programming and has long been an entry point for young creatives going into the digital media production.
Sonita read Philosophy at Cambridge, then helped set up Apples and Snakes Poetry group in London, ran a Jazz promotion company bringing over radical performers like the Art Ensemble of Chicago, then set up a budding production company, which went on to be a major player in the creative industry due to its consistently fresh and youthful, yet saleable approach.
Sonita's career
- In 2000, she was given an Award for Excellence by the European Federation of Black Women Business Owners
- Sonita is the Chair of the National Arts Organisation: Sound and Music
- Sonita is a Fellow of The Royal Society of the Arts
- She has been a judge of the Sony Awards several times
- She was a Non-Exec Director at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) from Jan 2000 - Dec 2005 and a member of the National Employment Panel for four years up till May 2005
- In 2007 she was a member of the DCMS 2012 Culture and Creativity Advisory Group and sat on the Department's Better Regulation Task Group
- She won the Carlton Multicultural Achievement Award for TV and Radio in 2002
- She was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to broadcasting in November 2003.
