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Creative Careers

What is Creative Careers?

Creative Careers is an event aimed at students and their teachers to demonstrate what the creative and cultural industries have to offer.

Students would attend seminars and see active demonstrations from a wide range of creative professionals, and visit a marketplace where education providers, creative organisations, local business and agencies signpost them towards possible creative careers.

 

Creative Careers Aims:

The aims are to:

  • Introduce young people to a diverse range of creative careers through demonstrations, seminars, exhibition and active engagement.
  • Raise the aspirations of young people and the understanding of teachers about employment and opportunities in the arts, cultural and creative industries.
  • Offer young people considering their further/higher education options a chance to see, experience and listen to creative professionals and to think and reflect on their career paths.

The ‘marketplace’ – a lively, busy and inspiring place where students are greeted by a range of creative practitioners and companies, local further/higher education settings and creative and cultural organisations. Here they watch and contribute to the creative work, interact with the practitioners and get a real feel for what the work involves. Also, gather information on opportunities available, from school to creative employment. It involves variety of artists, from traditional craft makers to those working with cutting edge technology.

At the ‘seminar space’ students are able to break out into smaller groups and seminars are delivered by creative professionals from different creative industry areas with a wide range of backgrounds.

A number of organisations and businesses have participated in the past to display their organisation’s / business’s work, chat with students and teachers and profile the varied opportunities available to young people with creative ambitions, within the creative industries.

Through contributing, Creative Partners:

  • Have the opportunity to network with other creative professionals from the region
  • Talk and offer advice to young people
  • Help achieve a core objective: to raise young peoples’ awareness and aspirations with regards to creative employment
  • Are a part of a unique and extremely worthwhile creative event.

Creative Junction have run this event a number of times in the past for various schools and colleges: contact the team if you’re interested in finding out more.

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