Apple

Head of Cultural Programming | Today at Apple | UK & France 

Head of Cultural Programming | Today at Apple | UK

Studio-Coles

Studio dedicated to hybrid events within the creative industries, trends, insights, and thoughtful cultural partnerships powered by Jade Coles. Selected clients include Ark Co-living, Kindred, Art fund, Future Strategy Club & Atelier 100 - As a founder, I've also chaired and hosted a number of panels for UAL, Old Vic Theatre, and Peckham Rise, A program to support local entrepreneurs.

Founder

Soho House & Co

Creative Producer across a variety of internal campaigns and initiatives, launches and editorial. Highlights include the launch campaign for Soho Skin, Re-launch of the Soho House Magazine, Raven Smith at Farmhouse, Joe Wickes for Lululemon, First look photo shoots for Copenhagen and Soho Home, at home, featuring Courtney Love. Special Project Manager for the Soho House App: Live streaming experiences pilot.

Senior Creative Producer

Creative Entrepreneurs

A brand-new, global meeting place for creative people from every industry, across the creative sector. This is a first-of-its-kind, online membership experience for anyone who has a creative business – or wants to start one.For the CE team, I oversee the strategic design of the community events including their public and members programmes, I work with a selection of partners on their perks and benefits section, write articles and round-ups for the CE journal, and curate their Founder Member community.

Events, Partnerships and Community Consultant

The Wing

Designed the launch programme and subsequent monthly programme at The Wing London, A five-story townhouse in the heart of Fitzrovia. Highlights of the 6-month programme of events included Caroline Criado Perez, Girl New York, Emma Dibari, Naomi Shimada and Dawn Butler MP as well as a number of high profile brand activations in the lifestyle space including Hello Fresh, Facegym and Missoma.

Head Events Curator - The Wing London

The Collective

Working within the Growth and Brand Department at The Collective to 'Bring the best of what's happening in London to our members living rooms'  I design, create and produce our buildings long term cultural programming, partnerships and creative commissions strategies as well as overseeing offsite audience building events and launch event activity. As well as vision setting I manage a team of four (Brand Partnerships Manager, Cultural Programme Associate, Creative Content Producer and Events Intern) as well as working closely with our customer experience teams and community teams. This year, I have commissioned a number of 'never done before' projects for the brand including a very exciting scent project that aims to bring together a 'collective scent' and a sound design project with University of the Arts Londons MA cohort. The Collective believes the event programme is the perfect, visceral manifestation of the brands core value 'Be More Together' and so the programme is the cornerstone to our wider content across social media, blog posts, in the press and beyond.

Head of cultural programming and special projects 

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Freelance cultural event programme maker, creative producer, content creator, event and project management for multiple clients in the hospitality, lifestyle and cultural sectors including The Collective Living, Mason + Fifth, Wembley Park, Emergency Exit Arts, Summerhall Curated @ Ed Fringe, HER Stories, Almeida Theatre, Lost Village Festival's Institute for curious minds, Gaggle Productions,  The Southbank Centre, Adaptive Labs + Norn.

Freelance Consultant: Cultural Event Programmes & Special Projects Lifestyle, Arts + Culture 

Bompas & Parr Studio Ltd

Senior Project Manager for world class studio Bompas & Parr. My role sat between the experience design and catering departments. Key clients included Haagan Dasz, Manhattan Loft Gardens, Hendricks, Marguerite London, Riposte, Levis, The Mondrian and internal strategic projects such as The British Museum of Food and the Food Film Festival.

Senior Project Manager: Experience Design and Catering 

Shoreditch House and Soho Works Members Events Programme

SOHO WORKS is an international network of 24/7 workspaces from Soho House & Co, designed and equipped to support a membership of individuals and businesses in the creative industries launching in November in the Tea Building; Shoreditch.

Senior Members Events Manager; Creative Industries, Enterprise and Culture

Curating/booking/managing events for Shoreditch House: Over 30 events a month across the whole cultural spectrum including Music, Literature, Trends, Marketing, Innovation, Film, Art, Design, Urbanism, Architecture, Business skills, Life Coaching and everything in between.

Arts and Culture Events Programming Manager; East London

Development and management of one of our core growing demographics for the group; My position runs throughout all of our UK sites for the worlds only global members club and global creative community. 

In 2012 I worked on a year long project with YCN (Young Creative Network) to launch their new professional award, which would be judged and hosted in London, New York and Berlin. The point of contact for this creative partnership, we were successful in our aims to engage the design community in those areas through events, PR, and a mentoring scheme which matched winners of the professional award with winners from the YCN student awards. The pilot for this scheme was titled 'working lunch' 

Long/Short Term project management, Content creation, Events programming and Management, Establishing and maintaining credible relationships with appropriate future thinking brands and people, Ideas Generation, Networks, Communities, Creative Thinking.

U27 Membership, Marketing and Events Manager; UK

GAGGLE PRODUCTIONS

"Vivacious, visceral, spectacularly indignant" **** The Guardian
“They take girl power to a whole new level” Daily Mirror
“Beyond description” The Times
“Other should follow their ambitious, creative lead" Time Out

Founded in 2009 as a punk choir Gaggle were immediately included in NME’s Top 50 Most Innovative Acts. They have developed into one of the most exciting performance companies in the UK, gaining critical acclaim across their diverse body of work, including opera, pop records, video, apps, pop ups, immersive theatre and comedy. Commissions include Southbank Centre, Royal Albert Hall, ICA, Women’s Library, Fig 2, Almeida Theatre, Bicester Village, TopMan, Channel 4 and BBC Radio 4, with performances at festivals and arts venues across the UK and Europe. Gaggle’s music has been released by Transgressive Records and was part of the 2012 Paralympics opening ceremony as well as sessions on Radio 1, Radio 3, Radio 4, 6Music, XFM, NTS & Resonance.

Creative Producer

Two new sessions are coming up for Today at Apple, each celebrating creativity and storytelling in their own way. Tonight, artist Lakwena joins curator Kobi Prempeh in conversation to explore her bold visual language, recent exhibition, and how iPad supports her practice. Then, on Saturday, in honour of International Day of the Girl, artist Maliha Abidi will lead a daytime Procreate workshop, guiding participants to create postcards dedicated to the girls they wish to support, remember, or honour – including their own inner girl, Links in the comments should you like to pop along:

Jade Coles

Dedicated Cultural Programmer | Curating Powerful Events Rooted in Values, Creativity & Community Engagement

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