Join us for a day of inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, and one-to-one mentoring from industry pros.
Get top tips from creative professionals, have your CV or portfolio looked at by experts, level up your networking game and loads more.
Whether you’re just starting out or looking to take the next step in your career in the creative industries, this event is for you!
Making It: Creative Futures Festival is co-programmed with Tate Collective Producers who are supported by Gucci through Gucci Changemakers London.
Programme
Ticketed Events
CV Clinics (1:1s) with Creative Access*
Taylor Digital Studio
11.00-15.00 (9 slots per 30 minutes)
Book a 10-minute one-to-one with the Creative Access recruitment team to get feedback on your CV or portfolio. With years of experience working with leading creative employers, they know what employers are looking for and are ready to help. Bring your CV to find out how best to showcase yourself and get tips on how to improve it.
*Requires a free ticket. A limited number of tickets will also be available from the Manton Information Desk on Saturday, 7 March, on a first-come, first-served basis.
Future Connections with Dazed Club*
Workshop
Room 8
14.00-15.00
Making connections within the fashion and wider creative industry is one of the most important parts when at the start of your career – creating opportunities to collaborate, finding out about new openings and roles you didn’t yet know existed! This session will be an introduction to understanding how the best networks are formed, and a chance for you to get to know everyone in the room in a fun and low-key ‘speed friend-ing’ format.
If you want to find your next collaborator, idea for a creative project, exchange early career experiences, and get some advice from the Dazed Club team, then this is for you.
*Requires a free ticket
Building Together: The Power of Artist Collectives*
Talk
Clore Auditorium
11.30-12.30
Join this panel discussion with Adeche Atelier and Jasmine & Decarla, chaired by Wingshan. This talk will highlight the value of building creative work collaboratively and offer practical advice on how to navigate working as an artist collective.
*Requires a free ticket
Youth Programme Collectives: In Conversation*
Talk
Clore Auditorium
13.30-14.30
Join us for an in-conversation with Amelia Oakley from Whitechapel Gallery and Lucy McVeigh from V&A East, chaired by Kiera, Tate Collective Producer. This discussion will explore the importance of youth collective programmes in creative institutions, and how this work impacts young people before, now and into the future.
*Requires a free ticket
How to Fund your Project with Nancy Hitzig*
Clore Auditorium
Talk 15.00-16.00
1:1 Advice 16.00-17.00
Funding plays a crucial part in any creative role, including freelance work. Join this workshop to get insight on when, where and how to apply for funding, and the types of funding applications exist. Led by an expert that can give wider insight across the landscape.
*Requires a free ticket
Drop-in Events
Tate Staff Mentoring
South Duveens
11.00-13.00, 14.00-16.00
Want a career in a creative organisation but not sure what the options are? Speak to staff from different departments at Tate, to better understand the variety of roles that exist across galleries and museums. Tate staff can share what it’s like to navigate the creative industries from their own experiences, to help you get a better idea of your own career goals.
Expect representatives from Learning, Photography, Archives, HR, Security, Art Handling, Volunteers, Fundraising and Publishing.
Meet the Tate Collective Producers
South Duveens
11.00-13.00, 14.00-16.00
Come and speak directly with a few Tate Collective Producers to find out more about the Tate Collective Producer programme and how to apply (applications now open until 15 March).
Secure the Bag with UAL: Creative Shift
Workshop
Clore Studio
12.00-13.30, 14.30-16.00
If you’re struggling with the idea of a normal 9-5, join this talk to hear more around how to make some bank by turning your creativity into freelance work.
Networking and Promoting Yourself as an Emerging Creative with Creative Lives in Progress
Workshop
Duffield Room
14.00-15.00
Join creative careers resource Creative Lives in Progress for an interactive workshop on all things creative careers, making connections and self-promotion. The team will talk you through how Creative Lives can help support you on your career journey, before sharing some top tips on how to promote yourself as an emerging creative.
Come on down to chat with the team, learn more about the industry and connect with fellow emerging creatives.
DIY-ISM: Badge Making and Community Building with The Working Class Creatives Database
Workshop
North Duveens
14.00-17.00
Come hang out with the directors of the Working Class Creatives Database and celebrate the power of doing it yourself! In this hands-on workshop, you’ll design and make badges in response to prompts about your ambitions, your practice, and the barriers you face.
This workshop is all about DIY-ISM as a tool for confidence, connection, and collective action. Let’s make, speak, and build the communities and structures we want to see together!
CV Refresher Workshop with Creative Access
Workshop
Taylor Digital Studio
16.00-17.00
Already working in the creative industries? Looking to take your career to the next level? If you have 3+ years of experience, bring your CV to find out how best to showcase your existing experience and lean on your networks to supercharge your career.
Quiet Space
Millbank studio
10.00-18.00
Need a quiet room to take a break from the activities happening across the building? Reset your senses and recharge in this calm, access‑friendly space, designed for anyone seeking a moment away from the crowd.
Families programmes
Play Studio & Manton studio
If you’re bringing your children, make sure to check out Play Studio: Dream Worlds and Story Space: Rainbows to relax, play and explore art together. They’re open every weekend (and every day during school holidays plus Mondays and Fridays during term-time) from 10.00 - 17.00
Creative Access
Creative Access is a social enterprise dedicated to opening up access and providing career-long support for individuals from historically under-represented groups in the creative industries. They work with over 1,000 employers across film, TV, theatre, museums and galleries, PR, advertising, publishing, and beyond on recruitment, mentoring and training.
Dazed Club
Launched in 2022, Dazed Club is a worldwide community of 14,000+ young people aged 18-24, brought together by a love of Dazed, and a desire to break into the creative industries, create their own work and belong to a community.
Their community comes together on the Dazed Club app, at IRL events including talks, exhibitions and screenings, and through content platforming their work on our channels.
UAL: Creative Shift
Creative Shift delivers a programme of opportunities, working closely with industry partners to enhance students’ experience and professional development.
Their offers are student and staff facing and both in-curriculum and extra-curricular. Creative Shift focusses on working with students from underrepresented backgrounds, providing experiential opportunities to support their creative journeys.
Creative Lives in Progress
Creative Lives in Progress is a creative careers resource transforming how emerging talent access, understand and connect with the industry. Through practical advice, articles, entry-level opportunities and events, it works to improve transparency and representation across the creative working world.
@_creativelives
Working Class Creatives Database
Working Class Creatives is an arts organisation that confronts class based issues within creative industries. They facilitate a space that puts working-class creatives at the forefront; A space for conversation, connections, and sharing of opportunities, skills, and knowledge.
@workingclasscreativesdatabase
Wingshan
Wingshan is an artist and curator based in Nottingham whose work has spanned artist development, collective practice and alternative forms of learning. Since 2018, she has initiated and been part of several artist collectives rooted in mutual support, most notably Chaos Magic, an artist-led project space and peer network she led from 2020–24. She also produced Future of Futures at Nottingham Contemporary, a year-long young people’s collective project, and later worked as Artist Development Curator at Freelands Foundation.
@wingshan.ee
Jasmine & Decarla
Jasmine & Decarla curates interactive knowledge exchange to cultivate communal imagining. Our interdisciplinary research combines meandering storytelling and archival exploration, often embodied through workshops, artworks and experiences. Jasmine & Decarla acts as a connector so others can claim space in the worlds we collectively unearth.
Adeche Atelier
Adwoa Botchey and Solomon Adebiyi are the multi-award-winning creative couple behind Adeche Atelier, a research-driven studio that reimagines African mythology, folklore, and spirituality for modern audiences. Winners of the ITV bCreator Awards: Canon Best Original Content Creator and recipients of the All Things Africa Cultural Vanguard Award, they are celebrated for advancing cultural literacy and championing overlooked narratives. Their work blends fine art, education, and social media content.
Amelia Oakley
Amelia has been Curator: Youth Programmes at Whitechapel Gallery since 2021. She looks after the Gallery’s youth work including its flagship youth collective Duchamp & Sons, and other opportunities focused on supporting the creative development of young people through collaboration and co-curation. Her work centres on creating spaces rooted in joy, non-hierarchical organising structures, and championing exploratory learning and experimentation. She believes in the power of youth work to reimagine our world.
Lucy McVeigh
Lucy McVeigh is a Producer at the V&A East with 10 years’ experience as a Youth Worker. At V&A East, Lucy oversees the Youth Collective and strives to break down barriers to accessibility in the arts. As part of the Learning & Engagement team, she works with young and under-represented audiences. Lucy cares passionately about amplifying youth voice and underpinning her work with young people with the principles of Trauma Informed Practice and radical safeguarding.
Nancy Hitzig
Nancy Hitzig (she/her) is the Director of Development & Strategic Partnerships at the Design Museum and brings with her a world of global senior leadership and fundraising experience. As a consultant and facilitator, Nancy supported over 1,000 grassroots organisations and individuals to find innovative solutions in challenging times.
@nothingbuthitz
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