Creative Futures

Work as an artist. Develop your networks. Build your creative future.

We believe every young artist should have the opportunity to get the support they need to achieve their professional aspirations. Our Creative Futures programme enables you to reach your potential, giving you the skills, networking opportunities, studio space and professional business support you need to turn your passion into your creative career.

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Meet Ella

Ella is exploring puppetry and the merging of animation and live-action film-making and wants to make you wonder and chew over our relationship with animals. Read more

Meet Leeza

Leeza is exploring the concept of home through fusing live storytelling and performance poetry with video. Read more

Meet Kitty

Kitty is exploring a series of visual art forms to tell unheard stories of people with dyslexia. Read more

Meet Joe

Joe is using immersive music, film and storytelling to explore climate change. Read more

Meet Dean

Dean is making experimental music and industrial dark atmospheric techno and is excited to explore ASMR. Read more

Meet Nick

Nick is exploring through theatre the idea that our thoughts and behaviours are a presentation of our unconscious mind. Read more

Meet Anna

Anna is exploring interconnectivity through different processes and materials - from making collages with maps, to sewing tree roots patterns on shoes, it's all about lines and connections. Read more

Meet Melissa

Melissa uses embroidery and appliqué techniques to represent different cultures and countries she has visited and how they connect her to her friends and family. Read more

Meet Sam

Sam will be looking deeply at the self and connections. He'll be exploring this through internal portraits and sculptural plant pots. Read more

Meet Aliyah

Aliyah shows us how to make a socially acceptable cup of tea. On Creative Futures, she'll explore identity & culture through performance, visual art, sound and installation. Read more

Latest

Good Grief: Film Making Workshop

Have you experienced bereavement and do you want to share your experience to help others? This workshop gives you the opportunity to work with film-makers to produce a short film about grief to be screened at Good Grief Bristol, a new festival to help people talk, think and learn about grief.

18th - 20th February
10am - 4pm
14-19 year olds
The Station, Silver Street, BS1 2AG

Exhibition Design Course

16-25 and want to learn more about Exhibition Design? Want to get practical experience and push your creativity further?.

28th Jan - 26th February, 11am - 4pm
The Station, BS1 2AG

Art & Printmaking

11-14 and want to create your own prints to take home? Learn about design, colour and stencilling.

Wednesdays, 15th Jan-25th March, 5-7pm
The Station, BS1 2AG

Abigail Robertson - Space

In this exhibition Abigail explores her relationship to the space and environment she's surrounded by, with a focus on the materials and methods used to translate these ideas. .

July 2020
The Station, Silver Street, BS1 2AG

What we do

Creative Youth Network helps young people, no matter what their background or circumstances, to reach their own potential.

Contact us

Get in touch with us to find out more about our youth centres, arts programmes, or services. Creative Youth Network: 0117 9477948

Who we are

Creative Youth Network is a registered charity based in Bristol, in the South West of England. We are youth workers, professional artists, freelancers, volunteers and campaigners. We help all young people to reach their potential and live fulfilling lives, by building secure, positive relationships with them based on the unique needs of each person.