My Block

My Block celebrates and showcases independent businesses and culture and is supported by Innovate UK.

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Dig Deep

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.

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Rewriting The Narrative

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.

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Great Creators Podcast

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.

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The Time is Now

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.

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Flock NI

Flock NI is the new trading arm of Blick. Flock is a company that delivers multidisciplinary creative projects.

Flock brings together the creative talent involved with Blick to work on creative industry projects managed by the team behind Blick Shared Studios.

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Small Town Big Dreams

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.

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The Design Salon

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.

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Late Night Design

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

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Belfast Design Week

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.

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Womenfolk

Womenfolk is a project celebrating female design entrepreneurs in Northern Ireland. The project aims to encourage more women to start up their own design businesses through showcasing the profiles of Northern Irish designers, guest blogs, talks, workshops and meet ups.

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Blick Academy

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.

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Share 6

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.”

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NEST Creative Incubation Programme

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.

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The Burning Question

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.

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Eighty81 Club for Creative Startups

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.

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Graduate Entrepreneurs in Residence

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.

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25 Pop Up

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.

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Exhibitions at Blick

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.

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The Faculty

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.

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