Five events delivered across England for students interested in careers in the screen industries.
Discover! Creative Careers is the free to access, industry-led, national programme working to inspire and inform young people aged 11-18 about careers in the creative industries. Lead delivery partner ScreenSkills, working closely in partnership with the Adobe Foundation, has coordinated and funded five regionally-based events for young people to get hands-on with animation, games, events, documentaries and music.
In a bid to tackle skills shortages and to widen the pool of talent that the creative industries attract, the Discover! Creative Careers Programme provides opportunities for employers to lift the lid on jobs and pathways in the creative sectors. Through in-person events including workshops at workplaces and schools, as well as virtual opportunities, employers inspire the next generation of filmmakers, product designers, TV producers, advertisers, animators and dancers, amongst other key creative professionals. Funded by Adobe Foundation and led by the programme’s lead delivery partners ScreenSkills, the series of events across England have given young people the chance to get up close with a range of careers.
This week we will be sharing highlights from those events on our blog. First up is the first event which took place in Rotherham.
Discover! Creative Careers with Adobe Foundation : DocFest in Rotherham – November 2024
Kicking off the series of Adobe Foundation funded events, Year 9 children from Dinnington High School invited Sheffield DocFest to host a screening at the school as part of their Growing Pains programme; a series of international documentary film screenings. Curated by Chloë and Cait, two young film programmers from Rotherham, the film was screened in the school and discussed by a panel as part of Discover! Creative Careers Week 2024.
Margaret Burgin, Head of Careers at ScreenSkills who is a Sheffield resident said: “It’s great to be able to work with local partners in to give more information to young people about the range of careers in screen and the creative industries.”
A total of 23 students took part in the event.