Find your people. Get your work seen.
Meet North East creatives. Give people a way to discover your work, hire you, buy from you or get in touch.
There's so much good work being made up here. Too much of it stays in its own little corner.
I started the NAMI Creative Network to help more people see the artists, musicians, photographers, makers and independent businesses working right on their doorstep.
The directory gives that work a place to be found. The rest is about helping people meet, share opportunities and back each other.
02 / Why join
Good work deserves to travel further than your own feed
A post can vanish by lunchtime. Your profile stays in the directory, where someone looking for what you do can find you later.
Get your work seen
Your NAMI network profile shows what you do, where you're based and where people can find more of your work. It stays there after a post has disappeared down the feed.
Find your people
Have a look around the directory. You might find someone to work with, learn from or simply have a coffee with.
Be easier to recommend
When someone asks me for a photographer, designer, maker or local business, your NAMI network profile gives me somewhere useful to send them.
03 / Who belongs here
If you're making something up here, you belong here
You don't need a huge following or a perfectly polished feed. If you're making, building, filming, playing, painting or running an independent business in the North East, I'd like to know about it.
04 / What it can open up
Your NAMI network profile is where it starts
Put your work somewhere people can find it. Then I can help with features, introductions, roundups and chances to meet the people behind the names.
Showcase opportunities
I feature and share members' work so it reaches people beyond the same old circle.
Network roundups
Emails with people to follow, things happening locally and opportunities worth a look.
Events and meetups
A chance to meet the people behind the work, not just their Instagram handles.
Local referrals
A NAMI network profile I can pass on when someone is looking for what you do.
The directory is live, and there's room for your work in it.
Make a NAMI network profile people can find. From there, I can keep an eye on what you're doing and put you forward when the right thing comes up.
05 / Join the network
Join the NAMI Creative Network today
Tell me what you do, where you're based and how you want to appear in the directory. I'll turn that into a NAMI network profile people can find and share.
What happens after you join
- What you send becomes your NAMI network profile in the live directory
- People can find you in the directory by what you do and where you're based
- Your profile can link to your Instagram and website or portfolio
- You will get links to the WhatsApp community and Facebook group
- I can keep you in mind for features and introductions when there's a good fit
It's free to join. Your NAMI network profile may take a little time to appear after you submit.
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