Noise Festival
As I stood in one of the most ornate rooms in Manchester’s Town Hall sipping my free champagne, listening to Badly Drawn Boy strumming his guitar, I wondered how I had managed to get invited to an event like this. The answer was simple. I wasn’t invited, this was Noise Festival.
Free to any creative under the age of 25, whether your interest lies in architecture, fashion, moving image, music, graphic design or illustration, Noise Festival was the networking event that helps you to get a leg up in the industry. The two day festival was attended by over thirty creative organisations such as MTV, The SuperSuper, Amelia’s Magazine, Noki and the BBC to name a few. A number of designers and artists such as Stella Vine and the architect Patrick Schumacher, Zaha Hadids partner, were also on hand to review portfolios and to give invaluable advice to us, the wide-eyed designers of the future.
Tuesday evening was a definite highlight. The fashion show, styled by Dr Noki’s House of Sustainability label, was a showcase of fashion students and graduates creations. As the models strutted down the catwalk to jaunty dub step, it was Scottish fashion graduate Annabel Breens graphic tops and watch print leggings that were particularly impressive and eye catching. The evening finished with a set by Noise Festival success story The Jesse Rose Trip, followed by Badly Drawn Boy.
The whole event felt really well organised and the attention to detail was spot on. I left feeling totally inspired. The hardest thing is to get your work noticed in such a competitive industry but Noise offers everyone the chance to show off their work on a level platform and hopefully to potential employers.
If you didn’t make it to the event, you can still upload your work onto the Noise Festival website.
Hannah Murgatroyd
Photographs by Zuza Grubecka
