My Block
My Block celebrates and showcases independent businesses and culture and is supported by Innovate UK.
My Block celebrates and showcases independent businesses and culture and is supported by Innovate UK.
Dig Deep was a creative enterprise support program that brought young women (18 – 30) from different backgrounds NI & BAME together in a supportive and nurturing environment over a 9 month period to help them build successful and sustainable creative industry businesses.
We’re excited to announce that we are creating a special 4-part audio documentary series exploring the experiences and personal stories of creatives during the Covid-19 crisis. We’ll be looking at how the last few months have impacted on the work, communities, networks and health of entrepreneurs, freelancers and workers within the creative industry sector in Northern Ireland. We want you – the listeners – to get involved too and we’ll be sharing some call-outs so you can add your voice and tell us your stories!
This project is funded by Future Screens NI and NI Screen as part of their ‘Rewriting the Narrative’ project and co-produced by Blick Shared Studios with Small Town Big Dreams.
Great Creators Podcast is a series sharing the diverse stories of design and entrepreneurship in Northern Ireland.
We’ll feature start-ups, community-led projects, and established businesses which together make up the rich innovation ecosystem.
This podcast is a project by The Graduate School at Queen’s University in partnership with Belfast Design Week.
Listen now via Soundcloud & Spotify
The Time is Now is a collaborative project with Creating a Space focusing on honest and meaningful conversation style events for early stage creative entrepreneurs still on their creative journey.
Small Town Big Dreams is a collaborative project between Blick Shared Studios, Karishma Kusurkar and Graeme Watson. A podcast celebrating Northern Ireland’s creative entrepreneurs and telling their stories.
A design collective for people in the design industry in Northern Ireland, to discuss projects and plans that are contemporary, cutting-edge and promote design locally and internationally.
A chance to see behind the scenes of some of Belfast’s most creative design studios and meet and connect with other design industry professionals
Belfast Design Week celebrates design in all its forms in an annual week-long series of events encompassing talks, workshops, pop-ups, exhibitions and interactive elements focusing on design.
Blick Academy is an ongoing series of events and workshops for creative industry start-ups, freelancers and small businesses all about sharing skills and knowledge within the creative community to help people start and grow their creative industry business. Previous workshop topics have included Crowdfunding, Pricing Your Work, Selling Online and Setting up a Website.
At Share 6, 6 creative speakers share their stories over 60 minutes on a theme with an audience Q&A at the end. Previous topics have included “Fashioning the future,” “Made in Northern Ireland” and “Going against the grain.”
The NEST program was a bespoke business support program we developed and managed for Eighty81 Creative Workspace in Derry-Londonderry for creative and digital start-ups. The program included affordable workspace, industry mentoring, business planning support and advice and business growth workshops over a 15 month period.
The Burning Question is a panel discussion with design industry leaders. This interactive event seeks to find out the human element behind businesses through the sharing of stories as well as advice and tips for creative entrepreneurs.
Eighty81 Club for Creative Startups is a community for startups, entrepreneurs and small businesses in Derry-Londonderry. It is a series of events including workshops, clinics and case studies with industry professionals sharing their skills and knowledge to help support creative and digital industry startups.
The Graduate Entrepreneurs in Residence programme in Belfast and Derry-Londonderry is designed to support newly graduated designers to develop their business ideas with the help of free studio space and mentorship from an industry expert.
25 is a design-led pop up showcasing and retailing independent design brands with products all priced at £25 or under, making it affordable for everyone. 25 Pop Up has been in Blick Shared Studios, Eighty81 Creative Workspace, Indigo Coffee & Gelato and Victoria Square.
Exhibitions at Blick include “The Art of the Comic” and “Failures” and aim to support creativity through showcasing local talent and highlighting important areas within creativity and entrepreneurship.
The Faculty is a collaborative project with Seedhead arts offering courses and workshops designed to teach you a new creative skill – be it photography, film-making, street art, flower arranging, stand-up comedy or creative writing.
Our Time is Now Interview Insight: Tony McGaharan on taking risks to build confidence.
In this clip, Tony shares a beautiful story ...
Mar 28
We are so excited to share with you our last interview of this podcast series. Over the last 5 weeks, you have heard from such a range and diverse ...
Mar 27
Our Time is Now Tanice Samuels – What we Learnt
We wrote a short blog on what we learnt from our interview with Tanice Samuels. Tanice is ...
Mar 26
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a fashion content creator and influencer?
What an incredible week it has been to hear Tanice ...
Mar 24
Having the courage to leave a stable job and steady income to become a self-employed creative with @taniceelizabeth
In this clip, Tanice ...
Mar 23
What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever been through?
It’s so incredible to have heard so many stories of resilience within this project ...
Mar 22
Have you ever struggled with being your full self?
In this clip, Tanice shares her journey of working as a lawyer for 10 years before ...
Mar 21
Have you ever had people not believe in you?
Welcome back to another week of wonderful stories! We are so excited to kick off this week with ...
Mar 20
Don’t forget you can listen to the full hour long interview with Mel Carroll illustrator, designer and the founder and director of Usfolk ...
Mar 18
Looking for some St Patricks weekend entertainment and inspiration? Our 3rd 'Our Time is Now' full hour long interview is now available to ...
Mar 17
What piece of advice would you give your younger self?
This is a question that we always ask at the end of each interview. It’s always so ...
Mar 16
Do you think it’s important to put yourself out there?
In this clip, Mel shares his journey of how he got his first job creating logos. He ...
Mar 15
Have you ever struggled with your mental health?
In this clip, Mel shares with us his journey with grief, his mental health & how his ...
Mar 14
Have you ever used your art and creativity as an escape?
Happy Monday, everyone! We are so excited to start a new week with a new story! ...
Mar 13
Don't miss the full hour long interview we did with Linzi Rooney as part of our new video podcast series 'Our Time is Now'
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Mar 12
***New Blog & Full Interview Available Now***
We wrote a short blog on our website (with some of the highlights below) sharing some of ...
Mar 11
We are delighted that our 2nd full hour long 'Our Time is Now' interview with inspirational Belfast creatives is now live. This episode is ...
Mar 10
Our Time is Now Interview Insight - Linzi Rooney founder of Born & Bred sharing her experience with the pressure of social media
Have ...
Mar 9
Do women in business struggle with confidence?
Happy International Women’s Day!
We are excited to share this next clip where Linzi...
Mar 8
Our Time is Now Interview Insight Linzi Rooney: Jack of all trades, master of none.
In this clip, Linzi talks about her experience of going ...
Mar 7
We are so excited to introduce our next creative guest for Our Time is Now - Linzi Rooney who is the founder of Born & Bred @wearebornandbred_...
Mar 6
Looking for some Sunday inspiration? You can now watch or listen to @macystewartstudio's full hour long interview on her creative journey from ...
Mar 5
We wanted to share some of our favourite insights and some of the beautiful photos by @creatingaspace from @macystewartstudio Our Time is Now ...
Mar 4
Some inspirational weekend listening!
Macy Stewart's Our Time is Now full hour long interview is now available to watch or listen to ...
Mar 3
Have you ever been burnt out?
What an incredible week it has been hearing about Macy’s journey of starting out as a photographer.
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Mar 2
Not feeling respected as a woman
In this clip Macy shares how the film & photography industry is very male dominated & how she has ...
Mar 1
Do you struggle knowing your worth?
This is an important thing to work on when you are building a creative business. So often we can find ...
Feb 28
Have you ever struggled to find your passion?
We are so excited to kick off our new video podcast series ‘Our Time is Now’ in ...
Feb 27
Not long now until we share the full Our Time is Now interviews, but in the meantime here is a taster of what to expect. Amazing insights and honest ...
Feb 24