Making It: Creative Futures Festival

Event date: 12 April 2025 at 11.00–18.00

Location: Tate Britain

Don’t miss out on this unique day of inspiration and advice about creative industry careers!

Creative Access is excited to announce Making It: Creative Futures Festival in collaboration with Tate.

Join us for a day filled with career talks, hands-on workshops, and one-to-one mentoring with industry pros across the art world, TV & film, journalism, publishing, theatre and beyond. There’ll be live DJs, art installations, networking, and the chance to check out Tate Britain’s permanent art collection.

Get top tips from creative professionals, have your CV or portfolio looked at by experts, level up your networking game and much 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...

The whole day is free to attend but some sessions will be ticketed. Click the Apply button to read the full programme and book your place at ticketed sessions.

Sessions include:

Talks

• Making Waves in the Art World
• Money Talks: How to pay the bills as a creative
• Youth Collectives 101

Mentoring

• Creative Industries Speed Mentoring
• Tate Staff Speed Mentoring
  

CV Surgeries

• CV Clinic Live
• CV Refresher 
  

Workshops

• The Networking Lab
• Cosy Comfy Creative: Bedroom Studios

This event is aimed at people who are under-represented in the creative industries. This includes, but is not limited to, individuals who identify as Black, Asian, or from other ethnically diverse backgrounds, or people of any ethnicity who belong to the following under-represented groups: disabled people, individuals with the characteristic of gender reassignment, individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, carers and asylum seekers.