Young Enterprise Lab
In spring 2019 we offered series of Creative Careers workshops and panel talks focused around enterprise. These events were open to Young Barbican members alongside a pathway of opportunities that will support young creatives with funding and further development opportunities with the Guildhall Creative Entrepreneurship programme. The events listed below are summarised on the Creative Careers blog.
Creative Careers: Connecting To Your Audience (Feb 27)
Creative Careers: Finding Your Voice (Mar 14)
Creative Careers: Resilience in the Arts (Mar 27)
Creative Careers: Putting Values into Practice (Apr 25)
Alongside this programme of events we developed Young Enterprise Lab, a pilot incubator programme to help young creatives develop their creative ideas. Members of Young Enterprise Lab are supported by mentor Joseph Gray and the Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning team to hone and develop their creative ideas. At the end of the programme there will be opportunities for members of the group to pitch for seed funding for their business ideas as well as pathways to more formal training through the Guildhall Enterprise programmes.
The Young Enterprise Lab has closed for 2018-19, but we will be making announcements about future Creative Careers sessions and the 2019-20 programme in Autumn 2019.
Sessions
Our previous session blogs
Connecting with your audience
This session, held at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Ben Lloyd-Hughes and Emily Berrington from Guildhall’s Creative Entrepreneurs programme blended drama and business. Through a range of exercises and games, they shared a series of techniques that can help young entrepreneurs make a good first impression.
Demystifying The Fashion Shoot
What exactly goes on behind the scenes to create the glossy photograph you see in Grazia, or a brand’s latest Instagram story? Over an evening scattered with Ugly Betty references, three senior practitioners from Warehouse shared their stories and answered questions in order to clarify the process behind a fashion shoot, plus give tips on how to get a place on set.
Finance for Freelancers
Dealing with your finances can be one of the most stressful parts of the job for creative freelancers. How do you know if you’re charging too much or too little? How do you politely chase an invoice? How do you write an invoice in the first place?
Consultant Remi Harris cleared it all up at a recent Creative Careers session as she gave an introduction to the financial side of being a freelancer.
Hear from the musicians
Following a career as a musician can take many paths and can involve different outputs – from heartfelt self-expression to commercial methods of making ends meet.
At an intimate winter Creative Careers session, a panel of musicians from the worlds of rap, choir, classical, and song writing came together to give an honest and open take on how to succeed in the music industry.
Curation
Curating an exhibition requires organisation, passion and a balance of commercial and artistic drive. But who has the right to decide what art is worthy of being looked at?
At a packed Creative Careers event, a panel of experts collected some thoughts on the purpose and power of curation.
October networking
The Creative Careers team gathered theatre and film professionals together for a networking session with a difference. These practitioners all spoke about pieces of work they had in development, and spoke about their work and their experiences.
This was followed by a casual hour of networking and swapping of lots of Twitter handles. Read about our speakers and their projects here.
Jobs and opportunities
Jobs and opportunities
Find out the latest jobs and opportunities in the creative industries from us and other organisations on our Creative Careers page.
If you would like to have your opportunity listed please get in touch with creative.learning@barbican.org.uk.
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Watch: Young Reviewers on Too Young for What
Is there a bit of Basquiat in all of us? Our Young Reviewers think so as they channelled their inner artists during 'Too Young for What', our day of free activities, art, workshops and performances inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat's creativity.
Watch: BA Performance & Creative Enterprise at Guildhall
The Performance and Creative Enterprise degree at Guildhall is aimed at artists from a range of music and theatre backgrounds who want to develop their performance, production, collaboration and leadership skills for employment in the arts industry.
Long Read: Too Young For What?
We examine the past, present and future of Jean-Michel Basquiat's legacy after a day of events, installations and special performances celebrating Basquiat's creativity
With thanks
Creative Careers is made possible through our generous supporters, who include City Bridge Trust, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, Barbican Patrons and donors to the Barbican Fund.
