Support children and young people to connect with creative careers
HEY Creative is championing creative careers to young people across the Hull and East Yorkshire area during November.
From 18th – 22nd November, join HEY Creative in championing creative careers to young people across Hull and East Yorkshire!
As part of its commitment to supporting an inclusive arts and cultural sector across the region, HEY Creative's leading a creative careers awareness campaign from the 18-22nd November 2024 to align with Discover! Creative Careers Week.
This is a national week of focus where each year thousands of young people get to connect with creative careers through resources, activities in their schools, communities and online.
We know, from a recent Careers Student Voice report, that young people in Hull & East Yorkshire don't feel confident about exploring a creative career.
But we also know that arts and culture can offer a great career right here in our region - and that non-creative businesses need a future workforce that can embrace creativity to solve problems, communicate effectively and innovate.
Can you help us champion creative careers from 18th - 22nd November?
Here’s 5 ways you can get involved:
1. Join the Discover! Creative Careers mailing list
Register here to keep up-to-date with all the information and ways to get involved.
2. Showcase creative careers in upcoming activity
Could you share how important creative skills are at upcoming business activities? For example, you might be hosting an event or speaking on a panel where you could champion the need for creative skills in your industry.
3. Learn more about creative careers
This 25-minute recorded presentation, specifically for those in Yorkshire and the Humber, focuses on film, TV, visual effects animation and games. Learn more about other creative careers here.
4. Support the campaign
Creative careers are fulfilling, meaningful and vital to all parts of the economy - but they're currently not being valued properly.
Could you write a blog, share a short video message or use the Discover! Creative Careers toolkit to share your support for the campaign?
5. Sign the Hull & East Yorkshire Creative Charter (if you've not already!)
The Hull & East Yorkshire Creative Charter is a free to sign, free to deliver tool to shout loud about the impact and importance of arts and culture in Hull & East Yorkshire. Find out more here.
What else is happening in Hull & East Yorkshire for Discover! Creative Careers Week?
Alongside urging businesses to champion creative careers and creative skills, HEY Creative is:
- Connecting with educational professionals to champion creative careers and get involved with activities and resources
- Encouraging arts and culture organisations to showcase opportunities and resources that will support children and young people to connect with creative careers, we are:
- Shouting loud in the press and public about the importance of creative careers, including by delivering 10 inaugural Creative Careers Showcase Events in specifically selected schools across the region, in collaboration with Generation Hull and East Riding Cultural Education Partnership.
