Do you have the skill and imagination to design sustainable archive-based services which can make a valuable contribution to democracy, to learning, history and culture within the communities they serve?

Screen West Midlands is delighted to invite archivists, archive rights holders and producers with experience in film or television, social media, web design, games, mobile and location based services to participate in an intensive 3 day ‘creative lab’, organized in collaboration with the Crossover Lab with a specific focus on developing innovative digital archive projects.

“Our archives hold the stories of our past and therefore play a unique role in building understanding and learning for our future. It is important that public archives are easily accessible, whether that is in physical buildings or online, so that the benefit is spread to as wide a range of people as possible.”

This event will be held between March 3-5, 2010 in the West Midlands.

Crossover is an international programme designed to explore the creative and the commercial challenges of developing content and services for digital media. The lab process brings together creative professionals from diverse disciplines – including film and TV production, animation, games, theatre, web design and new media – to share understanding of a rapidly changing mediascape, to form new interdisciplinary collaborations and generate ideas for projects.

To find out more and to apply for a place, please click here.