{"id":310,"date":"2021-10-05T14:49:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T13:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/?p=310"},"modified":"2021-11-10T11:42:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T11:42:36","slug":"live-talk-with-kevin-grist-of-sparked-echo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/2021\/10\/05\/live-talk-with-kevin-grist-of-sparked-echo\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk and Q&amp;A with Kevin Grist of Sparked Echo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparkedecho.org\/\">Sparked Echo<\/a> is a Grass-Roots organisation based in Chatham who deliver digital and site-specific work, using technology, music and art to connect with communities.<\/p>\n<p>Co-director Kevin Grist is a digital composer working with experimental music and recorded sound as a tool to tell contemporary stories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_gmail-p1\"><b>Creating the future<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_gmail-p1\">For Kent&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ces\/empfest\/index.html\">Employability Festival<\/a>, Kevin talked about his journey from freelancer to festival director and more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His career story forged before and after his degree in Music Production, from Brighton to Medway.<\/li>\n<li>Why and how he set up not-for-profit arts company SparkedEcho and ended up directing a digital festival in North Kent.<\/li>\n<li>How to get a \u2018foot in the door,\u2019 and what he looks for when hiring other creatives.<\/li>\n<li>Why you shouldn\u2019t be afraid of \u2018creating future\u2019 trends and \u2018taking risks\u2019 in the fields of art and immersive tech.<\/li>\n<li>The ingredients of sustaining a successful creative career<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kent students can watch the recorded event <a href=\"https:\/\/moodle.kent.ac.uk\/2021\/mod\/panopto\/view.php?id=346921\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sparked Echo is a Grass-Roots organisation based in Chatham who deliver digital and site-specific work, using technology, music and art to connect with communities. Co-director &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/2021\/10\/05\/live-talk-with-kevin-grist-of-sparked-echo\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25727,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}