This workshop will provide you with an introduction to key concepts in intellectual property (IP) and help you apply them to your business.

During this workshop, led by our experienced business librarians, you will get an overview of all areas of intellectual property, with a focus on trade marks and copyright. This will include:

The main forms of IP

How to identify IP in your business

What trade marks and copyright protect

The value of IP for your business

Gain essential knowledge of tax, bookkeeping, and get expert advice on overcoming business challenges.

Strengthen your business with key strategies for marketing, sales, and building a balanced business.

Join us at the St George's Centre for day two of the Start-up and Grow programme where we will be focusing on marketing, sales, and building your business in a balanced way.

Build a strong foundation for your business with essential strategies for planning, cash-flow forecasting and pricing.

Join us at the St George's Centre for day one of the Start-up and Grow programme where we will be focusing on business planning and financial strategy to get your business off to a solid start.

From the creators of Lioness, The Amy Winehouse Experience provide an authentic tribute to the precocious talent featuring Caroline Lowe as Amy Winehouse plus a full backing band to recreate the authentic sound of this heady mix of jazz, soul and pop. With a full stage show showcasing the talent of this songstress will take you on a journey through the emotional roller coaster of her song writing, guaranteed to have you singing and dancing along throughout the performance.

"Weird? Very... but also downright inspiring" (****) - Rolling Stone

“Jeffrey Lewis is an amazing musician, and if you don’t know his songs you probably have a hole in your heart that can only be filled by his words… I did!” – Regina Spektor

“Jeffrey is the best pure songwriter I know of... 'Sad Screaming Old Man’… is one of my favorite songs ever written” - David Berman (Silver Jews)

On October 18th, 2024, the acclaimed blues singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jerron Paxton will release his next album, Things Done Changed on Smithsonian Folkways. Once described as "virtually the only music-maker of his generation—playing guitar, banjo, piano, and violin, among other implements—to fully assimilate the blues idiom of the 1920s and '30s” by the Wall Street Journal, the thirty-five-year-old’s latest collection is his first of all original songs.

Get ready to stomp that dance floor with Peter Flockhart from London’s Cactus Club as he introduces us to the welcoming world of country and western dancing and its unique place in the international LGBTQ+ community. 

With a particular emphasis on line dancing,  Peter will teach a mix of older dances that have stood the test of time and popular new line dances. 

Look to the East, Look to the West, the new album by Camera Obscura, is a revelation. The Tracyanne Campbell-led outfit, reuniting with producer Jari Haapalainen (Let’s Get Out of This Country, My Maudlin Career), have crafted an album that simultaneously recalls why longtime fans have ferociously loved them for decades while also being their most sophisticated effort to date.