Creative Coalition Virtual Festival | November 9-11
CLAIM YOUR FREE PASSWe have a jam-packed three days with more than 50 different events. Explore the full programme here and plan your visit.
Welcome to Creative Coalition 2022. The Rt Hon Nadine Dorries MP opens the festival with a welcome address and discusses the power and potential of our world-leading sector.
How we can collectively reimagine our narrative, take control of our own stories and, empower and support others to take up space?
Musician and artist GAIKA fuses grime, dancehall, R&B, and hip-hop, with lyrics questioning political systems and social injustice.
Join leading creative institutions as we explore the need to look within to create cross-industry impact and change.
Our Pigeonholed series interviews some of the most ground-breaking creatives in the UK, who refuse to be put in a box.
Brought to you by YouTube
A performance by one of the UK’s top beatboxers and is a driving force of street style and culture, Kimmy.
Join the conversation with activists pioneering change across the creative industries.
Brought to you by TikTok
An electrifying and socially conscious set from musician and performance artist, Love Ssega.
Creativity is the answer to reimagining the future. It is vital to all of our lives, from our wellbeing to our economy. How can we make the case for creativity as a tool for tomorrow’s discoveries, innovations, and experiments?
Fran Sanderson | Director, Arts & Culture Investments and Programmes, NESTA
Brought to you by Audience of the Future, UKRI
From our partners in Taiwan comes a feast on the senses – enjoy a specially curated showreel of TAICCA’s world-class talent. Brought to you by TAICCA.
Brought to you by TAICCA
Cross-sector creativity is critical to building a better future. Join us to hear our speakers talk about the amazing projects they’re realising with hundreds of creatives from science, technology and the arts as part of UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK, and vote to decide which challenge you want them to solve.
Kim-Leigh Pontin l Digital Technologist, Creative Director, Nexus Studios
Brought to you by UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK
An hour a day of interactive workshops, masterclasses and talks with leading creatives. Brought to you by Sky Arts. This will be a fun and relaxing session that will offer attendees tips for generating ideas, using sketchbooks and visual diaries and finding ways to retain spontaneity and humour in your work. Delivered by Ruby Elliot (a.k.a Ruby Etc.)
Brought to you by Sky Arts
Let yourself be seen. Connect with people, ignite fresh ideas, and find the teams to transform those ideas into opportunity.
Annette Mees | Artistic Director Audience Labs Visiting Senior Research Fellow in Culture and Creative Industries
Brought to you by Sky Arts
Join Caroline Norbury in conversation with the Managing Director of YouTube to hear his visions of the future of our creative industries
How can we rethink and redesign our economy, our values and our investments for a fairer, more prosperous world?
The foundations of setting up your company – from protecting your IP, the key financial metrics to measure and how to fund your ambitions.
Brought to you by Creative Enterprise
There are more than 263,000 working class people missing from the creative sector workforce. How can we ensure all voices are heard?
Brought to you by YouTube
If you are a freelancer, join us as we discuss ways to support good mental health whilst navigating your freelance career.
Brought to you by The Freelance Bible & SOLUS
Join an ‘In Conversation’ event with a panel of our expert Creative Enterprise mentors. Learn what made the businesses they supported a success, the challenges and gain insight on the line between mentor and coach.
Brought to you by Elevate
One in three creatives are freelance. How do we make sure freelancers are supported, protected, and enabled to thrive?
Brought to by by Zipcar
Sophie will be joined by Andrew Ogun (moderator) who will be discussing themes around diversity, cultural democracy and Sophie’s role as the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
Each year 70,000 new jobs in the creative industries attract talent. Join industry change makers discuss how to pave the way for these future makers to thrive.
Ameena Badley | Artist Manager & Accelerator Participant 2020
Brought to you by YouTube
Calling all aspiring creatives! Join experts in guiding you to turn your creative passions and piqued interests into sustainable careers.
Brought to you by School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University
Join us to hear about the steps we are all taking in different spaces and places to support creative freelancers in Scotland, some activity is long overdue and we are coming together to join up our approaches, share learning and create opportunities. An informal and informative session but also lots of fun, something we all need right now.
We’re still putting barriers in front of disabled artists and workers. How can we create better ways of working that provide equality to all.
How can homegrown creators capitalise on international opportunities? Let’s talk investment, business models, embracing technological change!
Brought to you by Argonon
Ellen Renton reads poems about ableism, albinism, and disabled joy from her pamphlet An Eye For An Eye For An Eye.
Are you looking for the funds to take your project to the next level? Investors, grant givers, and sponsors will reveal all.
Black Lives Matter shone a light on institutional racism, how can we now sustain meaningful change in the creative sector?
Brought to you by YouTube
The Department of Education ranks creative subjects as low strategic importance. So what are the skills of the future?
Brought to you by FutureLearn
This session will be themed on ‘Regional Impact Investing’ with a special focus on the north / north-east, featuring a 5-member panel which will include Creative UK Investment Managers, regional focus investors, and a spotlighted company.
Chris Hill | CEO, Northcoders
Jordan Dargue | Investment Director, North Invest, Fund Her North
Matt Browning | Investment Manager, Creative UK
Richard Charney | Investment Manager, Northstar Ventures
Brought to you by Investment Team – Creative Growth Finance
We explore why bullying and harassment is still so prevalent across the creative industries. What are its impacts? How we can eliminate it?
Brought to you by YouTube
How can we better evidence the value in creative skills, in both the creative industries sectors and beyond, and make a stronger case for investment?
Rachel Nicholson | Head of Institution, Backstage Academy
Brought to you by The Open University
Want to scale up your enterprise? Look no further – we’ll cover recruitment, company culture, and diversifying income routes.
Join Sky Arts each day for an interactive hour of workshops, masterclasses and talks with leading creatives.
Join the Rt Hon Keir Starmer MP for a keynote address on his vision for the future of the creative industries.
Brought to you by Creative UK
So you think you know your film and tv trivia? Want to win some fantastic prizes? Join us to battle your way to victory! Come share your film quiz victory or swap fun screen facts in the Crew Night Quiz Networking
Come share your film quiz victory or swap fun screen facts in the Crew Night Quiz Networking!
Creativity will design a greener future for everyone by imagining a world that does not yet exist. The big questions – how, and when? Here.
Putting the creative industries on the map – Introducing the Creative Economy Atlas Cymru
Brought to you by Creative Cardiff
Streamed from the Rainforest Biome at Eden Project, Cornwall, explore how leading Creative Practitioners approach making work about the Climate Emergency
Brought to you by ERDF Cornwall
What does that mean? Join this dynamic discussion to add your voice to how we can harness the full potential of the region’s creative Sector.
Brought to you by SYMCA
From musical theatre to presenting TV – join us as we uncover how Michaela’s colourful career has led her to a passion in conservation.
Brought to you by Zipcar
What interventions, partnerships and investments are required to lay the ground for a thriving cultural centre in regional towns and cities?
Brought to you by the Cultural Development Fund Network
Place and purpose: Creating games with social and commercial impacts and what that means for the UK Games Fund and Cornwall Games.
This session goes to the cutting edge of creativity to see how a new generation of technologies from gaming and VR are transforming the way we make things. The session focuses on advances in screen technologies industries and asks how these are changing how we tell stories, are transforming the audience experience, and altering the economics of theatre and film.
Brought to you by Audience of the Future
Showcasing the innovative cross-sector projects born out of the West Midlands – inspiration for creative SMEs experimenting with new tech.
The metaverse represents ongoing shifts in digital infrastructure. But how does it impact artists and cultural institutions, and how do we actively engage with it?
TikTok’s Rich Waterworth in conversation with Dazed Media’s Ahmad Swaid about the future of the creative sector in the UK and TikTok’s role within it.
Ahmad Swaid | Head of Content, Dazed Media.
Brought to you by Tik Tok
The UK wide Skills Review is underway – how can we develop a fully diverse and sustainable workforce across the country?
Brought to you by Filming in England
About the team: 👾 ☕️ 💻 This event is part of the Tea and Tech program a community of technologists dedicated to exploring how XR and new technologies can support businesses in Cornwall.
Digital technologies are revolutionising the creative industries – bridging barriers and broadening opportunities for the next generation.
What opportunities are there for the creative community to get involved at local level in initiatives like the Cultural Development Fund?
Brought to you by the Cultural Development Fund Network
An exploration of how the BBC and other broadcasters are working with production companies to engage with sustainability across fact and fiction. Led by Gaby Hornsby with members of the Cornish TV and Film industry. – another Planet focused session.
This session will introduce you to the world of virtual production and explore how the technology can transform content production in the creative industries. Following an introduction on virtual production, Jim Farmery (XPLOR’s Development Director) will lead a panel discussion with leaders and innovators in the virtual production field. This session is hosted by XPLOR in their brand-new Centre for Virtual Production. Based on Production Park in Yorkshire, XPLOR is the world’s first research and innovation centre for entertainment technology and production. Production Park is a campus where industry, education and innovation come together in the creation of live experiences.
Explore your creative motivations with Sharath Jeevan, author of Intrinsic, a manifesto to reignite our inner drive.
Brought to you by WardWilliams Creative
Session explores the principles, practise and culture of the writer’s room in TV development from the US to the UK.
NFTs and their future as a new way to finance, distribute and monetise your screen projects.
John Newby | Technical Director TZ Connect GmbH
David Rickard |
What does the future of the creative industries look like? Have your say in this unique opportunity to join Minister Lopez in discussion with industry leaders.
Join Sky Arts each day for an interactive hour of workshops, masterclasses and talks with leading creatives
Why don’t we talk about it? Fehinti Balogun and Complicité ask this urgent question, a vital new digital performance about the climate catastrophe, sharing his personal journey into the biggest challenge of our times.
Let yourself be seen. Connect with people, ignite fresh ideas, and find the teams to transform those ideas into opportunity.