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Upstart: Creative Careers Festival 2025

Wednesday 5 – Friday 7 November 2025

Welcoming everyone interested in creative careers!

Join us for a programme of workshops, talks, making sessions and a live podcast designed around the theme of Regeneration. Together we’ll explore how creative practices can renew, adapt and sustain themselves—both for individuals and for the wider sector. Learn, make, dream and test out strategies for building resilient creative careers.

You can also discover even more online at V&A South Kensington, V&A East, V&A Wedgwood and Sheffield museums.

Upstart has been co-programmed by a committee of young people, who have embraced Regeneration as a way to share tactics, demystify creative careers and imagine alternative models for the future of the creative sector.

Full schedule and links below:

Wednesday 5 November – Friday 7 November 2025

V&A Dundee
1 Riverside Esplanade,
Dundee, DD1 4EZ

Free, some events require booking in advance

A group of young people making crafts.

Wednesday 5 November

How to: Make Light Work with Many Hands (13.00 – 15.00, Robertson Studio)


How to: Write About What Matters (15.00 – 17.00, Weston Studio)


Thursday 6 November


Friday 7 November

How to: LoFi in the Age of AI Workshop (11.00 – 13.00, Robertson Studio)


How to: Print A Collective (13.00 – 15.30, Weston Studio)


What The Hat?! YPC Podcast (17.30 – 18.30, Juniper Auditorium)

Upstart Mindful Making

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