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Creative Careers

Workshops, opportunities and resources

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Creative Careers are sessions aimed at those aspiring to work in the arts, creative industries or as creative entrepreneurs

If you're someone who works or wants to work in a creative industry, join us at our sessions that give you the chance to meet leading creatives and artists to discuss the state of the industry and how you can fit into it, shape it and make it work for you.

Creative Carerers is presented jointly by the Barbican Centre and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Sessions are announced regularly, so check back here or sign up to Young Barbican to keep updated. 

Creative Careers is open to all Young Barbican members and students at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Creative Careers Online

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Session 1: How've You Really Been?

With Stephanie McLaren-Neckles, Swarzy Macaly, Hayel Watenburg and DJ Amadness

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.

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Young Enterprise Lab

Young Enterprise Lab is a creative lab and community for emerging artists and creatives who are interested in developing their enterprise skills. Young Enterprise Lab will begin recruiting in spring 2020, alongside our annual series of Creative Careers open sessions for Young Barbican members. 

Participants in the Young Enterprise Lab will be supported by mentor Joseph Gray and the Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning team to hone and develop their creative ideas. Across the programme there will be opportunities for members of the group to pitch for seed funding for their business ideas, respond to live briefs and explore further pathways for formal training in entrepreneurship.   

        
 

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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.

Resources

Looking for some advice? Missed a session? Or just want to read about the many options available to young creatives starting out? Browse our range of articles and resources covering everything from finance and marketing to networking and putting on your first live event.

A Guide To...

In this series of articles, you'll find straight-forward guides to some of the practical and creative steps you can take to your career in the arts. 

Careers in...

Not sure where to start to achieve your goal career in the arts? Take a look through our series of articles exploring some of the many roles and career paths.