With our doors temporarily closed, we're bringing Creative Careers online, to help keep you feeling creative and engaged. In this first session, we explore how creatives have been adapting to challenges faced due to Covid-19, shout about fellow creatives whose work has impressed them recently, and look forward to what the future might hold. 

Featuring Stephanie McLaren-Neckles, director of community engagement agency, twenty%extra and co-founder of Let’s Be Brief; presenter Swarzy Macaly; Hayel Watenburg, co-founder of Word on the Curb, and musician, DJ Amadness.

We invited two artists from the Young Barbican network, Karimah Hassan and James Kite, to curate and facilitate a project with fellow Young Barbican collaborators, selected by them. They explored the theme of ‘being real online’, with each artist creating an artistic response to one of six topics, sharing their process and learnings along the way. 

Through creating remotely and online, the importance of kindness and care in collaboration is clear to see; something for us all to take forward into the future.

In our third Creative Careers project, Proper Leaders, we’ve once again collaborated with some powerful voices from across the cultural landscape, this time asking three game-changing young leaders - Shannie Mears, Keturah Cummings and Ellie Pennick - to share some reflections on their pasts, their presents and their futures.

For this Creative Careers session, we wanted to do things a little differently and make space on our platform to amplify the voices of Justice for Black Lives, an organisation we think are making a difference in the fight against racism and inequality. We hope that, through sharing the perspectives of some of the members of Justice for Black Lives, we are able to spark genuine debate and reflection amongst young people who wish to develop a career in the creative industry.