Double edition!! Because Sam didn’t do last weeks newsletter 😬
✅ Creative career resources
✅ Initiatives & programmes for students
✅ Good-to-know local creative funding news
✅ Sam’s fave creative career news stories
📚 AMAZING resources about the creative industries…
Careers in all Creativity - Hotly anticipated Unpacking The Credits series has launched! Career interviews with with industry leaders from theatre, visual effects, art and design, music, publishing and architecture.
Careers in Creative Entrepreneurship - Cascade is a new resources hub for people growing creative micro-businesses. Students interested in entrepreneurship should look at the training & resources page for some gems.
Careers in all Creativity - MADE MCR have some amazing career interviews from their CHATTIN’ series with Manc creatives.
Careers in Arts & Craft - Watch Baltic’s archived catalogue of interviews with various different artists & craftspeople. Keep scrolling down!
Careers in Design - The Futur (american) has some very in depth and clear pages of information about careers in design. Worth a look.
Careers in Music - Have you seen the UK Music careers info pack? It has a fab list of careers, a map of employers across the UK & routes in.
🔥 FREE things to help students connect with creativity…
For primary - Put Skys’ Access All Arts week in your diaries! Download the free resources now in preparation for 19 – 23 June.
For primary - TinkrWorks have some STEAM activities, downloadable for free.
For ages primary & secondary - Enter this animal creative writing competition before July 28 & win prizes for your school.
For primary & secondary - 2023 Young European Heritage Makers competition opens on 1st Sept - get the date in your diary.
For primary & secondary - Festival of Play is back in July! A free creative careers & computing conference for students & teachers.
For secondary - Pitch a Programme competition from Channel 4 is ending on 31 May - winners get an exclusive experience day at C4.
For all ages - Have your students trying this Creative Challenge: Animate your Voice with Adobe’s for Education.
🤑 LATEST creative industries funding news…
Roundhouse is training 15k young people - Venue raised £8m in donations to build facilities for music, performance and production.
1m more jobs for creative industries with £50bn - Promise to earmark the creative industries as a “pillar of the economy”.
£600k to develop Berkshire film & TV crew - Resource Productions, Shinfield Studios & Uni of Reading have created the scheme.
£850k given to Scottish heritage projects - Part of a cultural commitment to create better places to live, work and visit.
£700k for 7 heritage protection projects - Projects must include activities that safeguard cultural heritage for future generations.
🚨 Creative career stories Sam’s interested in…
Culture minister outlines plan to promote creative skills in schools - By working with the creative sector to maximise opportunities of bootcamps & apprenticeships.
The UK to double its film stage space in 2 years - Studios springing up in the likes of Birmingham, Scotland & Hertfordshire.
AI will cause a ‘creative revolution’ - D&AD festival predicts AI will create more liberation than the industrial revolution and the inventions of the camera and the internet.
Sony lets filmmakers get hands-on with new equipment - First UK Virtual Production unit in Pinewood is open for testing.
Launch of satirical book about issues in creative industries - 60-page satirical manual highlighting the multiple barriers that young people from low socioeconomic backgrounds face when trying to get a job and succeed in the creative industry.
Leeds host of Cultural Style Week 2023 - Global celebration of fashion, music and shopping outside of London for 1st time.
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