Creative Access is looking for someone to join its team on a 12 month paid traineeship in the Thrive team.
The trainee will learn about and get experience in all the different areas of the Thrive team including career support programmes, mentoring and employer training as well as the wider Creative Access organisation.
Through hands-on experience in our friendly and collaborative team, you'll gain valuable insight and skills related to organising events, managing programme delivery and setting up training sessions.
Emerging Creatives are people interested in working in the creative industries who are at, or near the beginning of their career in the arts.
Walk the Plank is one of the UK’s leading outdoor arts organisations with a reputation for creating innovative productions and performances which engage artists and communities in a wide range of outdoor settings.
You will learn by doing, shadowing others and gain experience working with different teams. For example, you will spend time working with Producers and Production Managers, as well as with our Marketing Department and working on Walk the Plank’s projects. You will be supported by a Project Manager throughout your time with us.
We are looking to develop the next generation of creative practitioners, especially candidates who feel they are:
Jermyn Street Theatre is offering a unique training and development opportunity for an early career director from a refugee or asylum-seeking background, to work at the heart of their exciting new production Little Brother.
The Assistant Director will support the Director, Stella Powell-Jones, in the delivery of Little Brother at Jermyn Street Theatre. This role is an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the creative process of producing theatre, working closely with the Director, cast, creative team, and wider production team.
This traineeship is offered in collaboration with Good Chance Theatre’s Stage Door programme. This role is open to creatives from a refugee or asylum-seeking background with lived experience of displacement.
Fee: £2000, plus additional Stage Door subsistence: £184 per week
Dates: Freelance, 3 April - 22nd May
Location: Jerwood Space & Jermyn Street Theatre (16b Jermyn Street, London, SW1Y 6ST)
Deadline to apply: midday on Wednesday 26 March 2025 at the latest.
For more information on the role and how to apply please visit our website.
The Work in Theatre course at Theatre Royal Brighton will take place Monday 7 – Friday 11 April 2025, 10.30am – 4pm each day.
This course is a hands-on work experience course for young people aged 14 – 17 years to find out about a wide range of careers within the theatre industry. The course will take the form of workshops, talks and demonstrations as well as specific guidance on routes into the industry for different roles. Participants will find out about and experience Marketing and Communications, Front of House and Customer Service, Stage and Technical including lighting, sound and wardrobe, Theatre Management, and Creative Learning. The week also includes watching a matinee performance of The Shark is Broken.
We have 16 places available for this course. The fee is £150 per person. The Work in Theatre programme is designed to help improve equal access to the industry for young people who are disadvantaged by their socio-economic background, additional needs, Black, Asian and ethnic backgrounds and those in care or previously in care and we are able to offer a limited number of free and subsidised places.
Any questions or queries please contact the email address below.
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.
Event date: 12 April 2025 at 11.00–18.00
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
Mentoring
CV Surgeries
Workshops
Join Gayathiri Kamalakanthan for a Word-Benders poetry workshop on Tuesday 26 March, 6-7.30pm.
Shelly Worthy Eveleigh (daughter of Alfred Fagon) is offering a mentorship for two Black British theatre practitioners to gain experience in theatre and circus festival production at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.
Shelly is the Stage Manager of the Outside Circus Stage and the Circus Field in the Theatre and Circus Area at Glastonbury Festival. She has managed these stages for 20 years.
Shelly facilitates communication across all creative and technical departments; acts as a right hand to the director; oversees sets, props, lights, and sound and supervises all technical cues during performances.
Under Shelley’s supervision mentees will:
Mentees will spend time in these different areas:
The Outside Circus Stage and Circus Field team’s job is to look after the artists so they can put on the best show possible. They are also responsible for helping the welfare of the public who are attending the festival.
Fee: This is an unpaid role however, travel and accommodation costs will be covered.
If you are aged 18 - 30 and interested in learning how to write and create short digital plays designed for social media platforms, we want to hear from you
Applications are open for National Young Writers 2025, a free online course delivered by Pentabus, the nation's rural touring theatre company, and award-winning production company Rural Media. Through collaborative and dynamic online learning, young writers explore how to write and produce brilliant short plays for digital platforms.
During the course, you will:
By the end of the course, you will have written and produced 3 short films that appeal to wide digital audiences and showcase your creativity. These films will be released across Pentabus' and Rural Media's digital platforms as part of a celebration of young people's writing in October 2025.
Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage and Writing East Midlands are looking for creative writers from the African, African Caribbean and Latin American Diaspora to submit short stories for the 2025 edition of BlackInk Writing Competition.
The initiative seeks to showcase new short fiction; applicants are invited to submit stories of up to 2,000 words for consideration. One winner and one runner up will be published in Issue 6 of BlackInk for Black History Month in October 2025.
This year, BlackInk Issue 6 is focusing on the theme Intersection: Diasporic Dialogues. The judges are particularly interested in stories that encompass this theme.
The aim of this fund is to support individual artists and organisations who have experienced barriers to accessing our funding. Creative Steps aims to address this by supporting artists and organisations throughout their journey, helping them with their professional, business and organisational development.
We believe it is crucial to support these individuals and organisations because it is a priority for us to increase the diversity of work being created, funded and celebrated in Wales.
Creative Steps for Individuals is focused on supporting your professional development. It is not about supporting the creation of new work or the delivery of an artistic or creative project. We want artists to identify exactly what they need to progress and professionalise their artistry, and to remain open to exploring different ways of doing this with us.
We recognise that everybody’s needs are different and that professional development varies from individual to individual. However, these are some of the things that your proposal could include:
You can also include the following:
