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Creative Futures Talks
School of Creative Industries / Creative Futures / Creative Futures Talks
Encouragement and insight to make your creative career a reality!
The creative industries span advertising and marketing, animation, arts and culture, crafts, computer games, design, fashion, film, social media, textiles, TV, video, photography and more.
They generate £21.2bn in turnover every year, and people employ over 2 million in the UK. The creative industries are an important part of the West Midlands too providing around 50,000 jobs, and generating over £4 billion “gross value added”.
The industries are exciting, vibrant and developing all the time, providing huge societal benefit, and creating new jobs in response to new technology and ideas.
Creative career pathways can be quite unique. A great way to understand the opportunities available and how to start you career is to hear from people working in creative fields.
ArtsFest Online is joining up with Creative Futures on a series of career talks where creatives will share insider knowledge on forging a career pathway within the arts.
The talks are led by professionals working in the creative industries, many Wolverhampton graduates. Join us to hear about their career journeys so far, the challenges they have faced and how they made it happen. You will get the chance to hear from people from a wide range of roles, from self-employed designers/ artists to those working in large organisations and there will be a Q&A which is a great opportunity to have your queries answered by those working in the field.
Our talks take place on Wednesday's at 2pm and are free to attend.
Please also visit our webpage for more information on careers www.wlv.ac.uk/careers and check out our other general careers events such as our weekly careers bites and hangouts www.wlv.ac.uk/careers/events
Our Creative Futures online events are taking a break during the summer but will be back in the autumn! In the meantime why not watch some of our recorded talks?
Recorded Events
![A crowd of models on a fashion runway displaying various outfits](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/LM-CQB.jpg)
![Four stacked issues of BENEFICIAL SHOCK film magazine](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/GS-cqb.jpg)
Online Talk with Gabriel Solomons, Editor & Designer
![Steve Sharp wearing a button-down shirt and tie, standing in front of and to the side of framed artwork on tables and shelves](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/SS-CQB.jpg)
Creative Futures: Steve Sharp, Head of Art and Design at Pegasus Academy
![Profile photograph of Abidah Shah on a white background](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/AS-CQB.jpg)
Creative Futures for International Women's Day: Aabidah Shah, Photographer
![Kayleigh Ditchburn looking towards the camera with several pieces of artwork on the wall to her right](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/KD-CQB.jpg)
Creative Futures: Kayleigh Ditchburn, Arts Therapist
![Side-by-side black and white profile photographs of Amber Davies and Will Morris](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/WM-&-AD-CQB.jpg)
Creative Futures: Will Morris and Amber Davies, Product Designers
![Graphic of three people rendered in black and white on an orange background, each holding a pose](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Eighty3-CQB.jpg)
Creative Futures - Eighty3 Design, Web Design and Branding
![Nick Cohen smiling at the camera in front of a pair of curtains](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/NC-CQB-1.jpg)
Creative Futures - Nick Cohen Creative Director, Writer and Maker
![Naomi Jacques photographed with her face pointed downwards](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/NJ-CQB.jpg)
Creative Futures - Naomi Jacques Glass Artist
![Two people in matching VOiD Applications t-shirts sitting on a bench](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Void-CQB.jpg)
Creative Futures - VOiD Applications Web Design
![David Longworth sitting in front of a square window and looking into the camera](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/DL-CQB.jpg)
Creative Futures - David Longworth Exploring Careers at the BBC
![Jason Fenandes smiling at the camera with his arms folded and resting on a desk with a MacBook laptop](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/JF-CQB.jpg)
Creative Futures - Jason Fernandes, 3D Designer & 3D Design Lecturer
![Lynsey Harris looking towards the camera, framed pictures on a blue wall in the background](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/LH-CQB.jpg)
Creative Futures - Lynsey Harris Designer Maker
![Reece McKenzie looking into the camera and smiling](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/black-history-month/RM-CQB-2.jpg)
Black Representation in Musical Theatre
![Collage of book covers surrounding the heading: ALL THE WRITING SELVES WE HAVE TO BE](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/All-the-writing-selves-CQB.jpg)
All the Writing Selves We Have to Be: A Career in Writing
![Collage of illustrations for fashion and textiles, various patterns depicted next to mock-ups of models wearing them on dresses](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Fashion-CQB-3.jpg)
Your Future: Fashion and Textile Careers
![Chris Day, Black History Month 2020, Wolverhampton School of Art, University of Wolverhampton](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/black-history-month/chris_day.jpg)
In Conversation: Dr Max Stewart with glass and ceramic artist Chris Day
![Three Paul Cox illustrations: a boy sitting on a windowsill after climbing up on a ladder, an older man taking the boy out with butterfly nets for each of them, and a piper playing in front of the boy and a dog](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/Paul-Cox-27th-CQB.jpg)
In Conversation: Dr Louise Fenton and Artist Paul Cox
![A piece of glass artwork by Allister Malcolm, round and comprised of several swirling patterns](/media/departments/faculty-of-arts/images/artsfest/AM-Content-block-Quarter.jpg)
In Conversation: Dr Max Stewart and Glass Artist Allister Malcolm
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