D&AD Portfolio Surgeries provide the most promising final year students with the opportunity to showcase their work to leading creative professionals and get invaluable face-to-face feedback and advice. Professionals from across the UK will host these sessions and students from D&AD University Network courses in the North West of England can apply to take part.

To coincide with the D&AD Global Student Awards Call for Entries Season, D&AD will be giving an inspirational lecture and screening of D&AD Global Awards and Student Awards winning work from previous years. This event will provide the opportunity for student entrants and tutors to ask any questions before preparing their final work for submission. This is a must-attend event for all Higher Education students and tutors.

Dick Powell is one of Europe's best-known product designers. Since forming Seymour Powell, with his partner Richard Seymour, in 1984 the consultancy has risen to a commanding position on the international stage, with clients as diverse as Renault, Ford, Minolta, Tefal, Casio, Tumi, JCB, Dualit, Unilever and Nokia. Dick will be reviewing his career and revealing his inspirations.

D&AD Workout is a creative training programme designed specifically by creative practitioners for the ideas people working in advertising and design agencies. D&AD will be running a free Workout taster session on 21 February with professional creative trainers Mandy Wheeler and Luke Sorba. In two and a half hours you'll experience what D&AD Workout is really all about. There will be games and creative thinking exercises that will help you recognise what can block you creatively - and how to remove those blocks. There will also be the opportunity for you to tell us what you need to know, and we'll help you navigate your way through our brochure and find the best courses for you.

This session aims to give you the tools to express yourself in presentations in an engaging way using your natural creative talents.

For this event a 10% discount is being offered. D&AD Members, Associates and Elected Associates receive a 20% discount on all Workout sessions. Contact Nia Evans on 020 7840 1130 for details.

The D&AD Global Awards Nominations Screenings are an international affair, with the aim of encouraging simultaneous worldwide discussion about the D&AD Global Awards Nominations. If you are interested in holding a screening at your agency or in receiving a limited edition DVD

Hillman Curtis is the Principal and Chief Creative Officer of hillmancurtis.com, inc., a digital design firm in New York City. His expert and innovative design solutions have garnered him and his company the multiple Communication Arts Awards of Excellence, the One Show Gold, Silver and Bronze, the South by Southwest Conference 'Best Use of Design' and 'Best of Show', the New Media Invision Bronze, a Web Award, How magazine's Top 10, and multiple Webby Awards.

To book tickets (£12 D&AD members, £15 non-members, £6 students) call 020 7840 1124 or 020 7840 1127.

This session aims to give you confidence in your writing skills and fire up your enthusiasm for the written word, and to improve your ability to write great copy that executes the advertising idea.

Contact Nia Evans on 020 7840 1130.

More information to come.

...Are the D&AD Advertising Workshops, which are about helping you get your first job in the creative community. They help you put a strong portfolio together by presenting you with the opportunity to work on briefs set by leading creative practitioners. Workshops in the North West and North of England will be held from February to March (Winter) and August to September (Summer) 2007.

For further information see www.dandad.org/education/workshops.html