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.
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Aug 5
BLICK GRADUATE RESIDENCY PROGRAM
We are very excited following a long and tedious couple of years to be back this Autumn with some new ...
Aug 4
We missed a couple of weeks with the July holidays, but are back this week with some of what's inspiring us, along with some funding, support, ...
Jul 29
Sharing some wisdom today from @roryquiggillustration who until very recently was a resident in our Hill St studios for anyone thinking of starting ...
Jul 27
What one thing could you do today to push your business forward and get your week off to a positive start?
#mondaymotivation #creativestartup...
Jul 25
Earlier this year we had the opportunity to support Belfast illustrator @griffinillustration with space to paint an elephant as part of Elmer’s ...
Jul 21
We hope everyone had a lovely July break and a chance to enjoy the good weather.
We are back in the office this week and wanted to share this...
Jul 20
+ Dedicated Deskspace Hill St +
We currently have space for either two desks for a close team or one desk for an individual beside a window ...
Jul 7
Some #wednesdaywisdom to get you through the week until the July holidays from our newest Malone Resident @seasidebooksni
#wednesdaywisdom ...
Jul 6
MEET OUR COMMUNITY: MALONE RESIDENT ALANNA OFFIELD SEASIDE BOOKS
I love reading and I love books, I also like to support local creatives and...
Jul 5
Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend and not thinking about work. Here's some of the stuff inspiring us this week
INSPIRATION
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Jul 3
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Video of our lovely Main room in our Malone studios that's available to hire
Did you know you can hire out...
Jun 30
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Did you know you can hire out the ground floor of our Malone Studios. We have two rooms available to hire. Both rooms ...
Jun 29
Happy Friday everyone - to finish the working week here are some of our favourite things for creatives, upcoming funding and support, events, ...
Jun 24
Looking back today at some of our past events as we start to plan a new series of events and workshops for the Autumn. What kind of events would you ...
Jun 22
Here are some of the things that have inspired us at Blick this week
Slow Business Movement - we are starting to plan our new ...
Jun 17
This week we had a quick catchup with our newest Cotton Court resident creative freelancer @emanuela_mae_agrini_art who told us a bit about herself ...
Jun 15
Would you like to share a studio with us?
We have a lovely window desk with a big window and great natural light and view available in our ...
Jun 13
Here is a roundup of some of our favourite things for creatives, upcoming funding and support, events, opportunities and inspiration this week.
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Jun 10
Blick is all about community, our creative residents and the wider
creative community, but also the people who use our facilities for
various ...
Jun 7
Don't forget to take a break for the long weekend. It can be hard when you're self employed to justify taking time off to relax and rest and...
Jun 1
We have a new feature on our blog. Each week we plan to bring you some of our favourite things for creatives, upcoming funding and support, events, ...
May 30
Since the pandemic we have been very busy with new residents and behind the scenes work in the studios, but are planning to start picking things up ...
May 25
The Story of Blick... so far!
2007
BY CREATIVES FOR CREATIVES
Blick was set up by a group of creative entrepreneurs struggling to ...
Apr 25
We have one dedicated desk available at our Malone Studios starting from June 2022!
The desk comes fully furnished at £150 per month (no ...
Apr 21
We are delighted to feature @rhea_hanlon_art's artwork in our Malone Road studios atrium where it takes pride of place in this sunny breakout ...
Apr 14
Hill streets lovely breakout areas, where you can sit and have some lunch or a coffee away from your desk
#hillstreetbelfast #sharedstudios ...
Mar 31
Congratulations to our resident Dani McFerran, founder of award winning Graphic Design studio @doneanddusteddesign, as she was recently celebrated for...
Mar 28
Our lovely main room in our Malone studios is available for hire and we now have a special reduced rates for anyone wanting to make an ongoing ...
Mar 24