If you are looking for creative opportunities or ways to get into the creative industries in the UK, you can download documents or click on links here that we think are helpful.
“Don’t Make A Scene” is a resource shared by Anna Moulson at our January LOOKOUT Futures talk.
It’s a complete field guide on putting on gigs, aimed at those interested in building a career in events production.
During our session with Jamie Wyld and Moritz Cheung in February 2022 they shared a bunch of resources for anyone looking to build a career and connections in the film and video industry. Below is a full directory for you to explore.
First shared during our LOOKOUT Futures talk in January, Anna Moulson from Melting Vinyl has prepared and found documents for anyone wanting to make a start in music promotion. You can view the full set of documents below.
The resource pack is filled with great websites to visit to further your understanding of making a start in the events industry.
My Fantastic Place celebrates nature connection through creativity and is a project with Imprint and Great Ormond Street Hospital Arts and is supported with an Arts Council England National Lottery grant.
They invite patients from Great Ormond Street Hospital, families and staff to share what they love about their favourite places in nature using different creative ways to explore and tell us what’s special about them.
Fantastic Places can be real or imagined, places you know or would love to visit.
Learn more here.
Performance makers Fevered Sleep recruit people to join their team every year, and have met lots of wonderful people along the way.What they notice every time we recruit is that there are some key skills that help some job applicants to stand out, which not everyone is aware of. We hope these tips help.
Taking Care aims to show People United’s participatory arts methodology and capture their working process from a range of perspectives.
Launching on 6 Jan 2020, the Drama Geezers will share brand new drama games and ideas once a week on a Monday via their YouTube channel. Promoting playful classrooms, this resource is aimed at people working with primary school children.
More info here.
Inspiring the Future has a wide range of free resources to support you with planning activities using volunteers. These resources have been created with teachers and schools around the country and include:
Just how hard is it to have a play picked up, staged and made profitable on the fringe? Lyn Gardner goes behind the scenes of The Amber Trap from its announcement to press night and got an exclusive look at putting on a show in a part of the industry where all creatives need to make miracles happen
For the first time the new Ofsted framework requires schools to develop their pupils’ cultural capital. In this blog post the Cultural Learning Alliance provide a quick summary of some of the history, academic thinking and definitions of this key term.
If you’re starting uni soon and are doing a theatre degree, especially if you’re working class, I have something to say that I wish someone had said to me… (thread)
Access to Work is a resource that helps to create a more accessible work environment. It provides grants to remove barriers that disabled people face in undertaking paid employment. Disability Arts Online has written this guide to interpret the Access to Work rules and official guidance with specific advice for the arts and cultural sector.
Following a nine-month evidence synthesis and scoping exercise undertaken by the PEC team leading on work in skills, talent and diversity, from the Work Foundation at Lancaster University, this evidence review outlines the most pressing skills and diversity challenges facing the creative industries, identifies critical gaps in the evidence base, and seeks to shape a shared and dynamic research agenda.
More information here.
The Durham Commission on Creativity and Education is a collaboration between Arts Council England and Durham University that aims to identify ways in which creativity, and specifically creative thinking, can play a larger part in the lives of young people from birth to the age of 19, both within and beyond the current education system. You can download the full report by clicking here. Or find a helpful summary from the Cultural Learning Alliance here .
This website brings together careers information and opportunities from creative organisations in one explorable directory.
This website shares training, funding and work experience opportunities in theatre across the UK.
We’ve compiled a list of useful newsletters, people to follow on social media and websites for young people who are starting out in the arts. Download the document here.
A briefing document outlining why arts education is a social justice issue published in October 2019
Click here for an article published in September 2019 on 5 non-graduate ways into the arts.
Click here for a report written in July 2019 called ‘Self-Made Sector: Working in the creative industries.’
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