The Avant Garden is a movement aimed at inspiring and enabling the growth of talented young creatives looking to break into their industries, and budding professionals needing nurture. The vision of us Gardeners is to ‘graft’ together these ‘seedlings’ with more established members of their industry, and an interested and engaged public, thereby gaining exposure, extending their ‘roots’ and provid
ing the means for them to not only grow, but blossom. We provide unique and exciting opportunities for exposure and collaboration through networking, two things which we believe to be fundamental to success in creative circles, and rarely offered to up-and-comers. We’re bridging an important gap, and having fun while doing it! As young, cash-strapped creatives ourselves we know the difficulties of penetrating the industry and succeeding financially in it. Consequently, rather than concentrating on cash flow; we have re-directed attention back to where it should be: on marketing people and passions – these are our product! Have a look for yourselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg_bQ5MgDMY
The Avant Garden is founded on five key principles:
Passion: it is what got us started, keeps us going, and what we hope to ignite in you. Collaboration: we bring together creative practitioners, entrepreneurs and interested publics to maximise each other’s strength and potential. Unconventionality: we’re different, we like it. We don’t sell services, promises or things: people are our product. Consequently, we trade in talent. This is our ‘creative currency’.
