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Owen McFadden & Homewerk Audio Workshop Key Takeaways
In October 2025 we collaborated with Homewerk and radio and audio producer Owen McFadden from WhyFi Productions, who drew on his experience of creating award-winning audio for BBC Radio Ulster, Radio 4 and more, to give insights into the basics...
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Design Stories Motion Graphics Showcase at the Belfast Stories Building
Design Stories was a collaborative project with Belfast School of Art Year 2 Graphic Design students and Belfast Design Week with support from Golden Studio which engaged local design students in a placemaking and communication project. This project featured an exhibition of printed posters from the Design...
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Islands of Design Popup Exhibition
As part of Irish Design Week 17th – 21st November 2025 with Belfast Design Week we co-organised and co-curated a pop-up exhibition in Belfast School of Art featuring the work of 10 emerging designers working in different design disciplines. We...
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Creative Health Northern Ireland: Co-creating a Policy Framework for Northern Ireland Event
Last Tuesday I was lucky enough to attend the Creative Health Northern Ireland: Co-creating a Policy Framework for Northern Ireland event, so much great information to take away and thought provoking conversations that hopefully can inform some of our programming at...
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WE Innovate Programme Final Queen’s University Belfast
Last Monday night I had the privilege of attending the WE Innovate Programme Final Queen’s University Belfast after working in a small way with some of the programme finalists. It was great to see all the final pitches and the...
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Blick Creative Roundup
Our latest roundup of funding and opportunities for NI Creatives 01 . Blick X Belfast Design Week Design Hothouse Residency Design Hothouse is a new Blick Shared Studios X Belfast Design Week collaborative residency, that will support two emerging designers...
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Design Hothouse Residency
We are looking for 2 emerging designers of any age, student, graduate or self-taught or working in industry for less than 2 years working, studying or practising within any design industry for our new part-time design residency Design Hothouse. ...
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Womenfolk X Kitsch Sisters Belfast Design Week Workshop
For Belfast Design Week we had a fab collab workshop for creative women with Kitsch Sisters Belfast all about making a commitment to your creativity then printing or embroidering it onto a tote bag as a reminder of the promise...
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Gallery545 Exhibition Opening La Roche House
Lovely evening on Friday at the beautiful La Roche House for Blick resident Francesca Biondi Gallery 545 latest exhibition opening You can still pop in and view the exhibition this week, see details below Gallery 545 Group Exhibition: Contemporary Art...
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Innovate UK Creative Brunch Top Takeaways
In October 2025 Innovate UK Business Growth very kindly hosted a brunch event for NI creatives in our Hill St studios. At this exclusive session we heard from Innovate UK directly, who explained that they can look broadly for creatives...
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Meet The Resident: Lorna McFall User Interface (UI) & User Experience (UX) Designer within the Video Games Industry
In our latest Meet The Resident we get to know one of our new residents at our Hill Street Studios, Lorna McFall a User Interface (UI) & User Experience (UX) Designer within the Video Games Industry. Tell us a bit...
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An Interview with Maureen Selina Laverty
Ahead of her creative talk for us as part of Belfast Design Week Maureen Selina Laverty has done this brilliant interview for us on her path to becoming a designer, her recent move back to Northern Ireland from Norway and...
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Retail Ready Insights for Creatives from Rachel McIlgorm Founder of Story Box NI
Our third and final blog sharing insights from the Retail Ready Fieldtrip for Ulster University Enterprise Placement Year Students we hosted in October 2025. We previously shared some of our best insights from the day from Linzi and Emma, today...
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Event Management Course – Rural Community Network
Throughout the month of March on behalf of the Rural Community Network, in the beautiful Hill of The O'Neill & Ranfurly House Dungannon we had the best time facilitating a series of 4 training sessions to support participants to have...
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Retail Ready Insights for Creatives from Emma Jackson founder of Hunter Paper Co
Our second blog sharing insights from the Retail Ready Fieldtrip for Ulster University Enterprise Placement Year Students we hosted in October 2025. We started the day in our Hill Street studios before visiting Born and Bred, Hunter Paper Co and...
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Belfast Design Week 01 – 07 May – Fringe Contributors Open Call
“Season” marks a new chapter for Belfast Design Week: a time of renewal, growth and transformation. After years of gathering in November, we’re shifting our festival into a brighter moment of the year, when spring edges toward summer and inspiration...
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“Season” marks a new chapter for Belfast Design Week: a time of renewal, growth and transformation.
After years of gathering in November, we’re shifting our festival into a brighter moment of the year, when spring edges toward summer and inspiration feels fresh in the air. This is a season of emergence: of ideas, of people and...
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Blick Creative Roundup
Our latest roundup of funding and opportunities for NI Creatives 01. Belfast Stories Community Grants A new fund has been launched to support cultural heritage projects across Belfast. It is anticipated that the fund will provide ten small grants...
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Retail Ready Insights for Creatives from Linzi Rooney founder of Born and Bred
Way back in October last year we organised a Retail Ready Fieldtrip for Ulster University Enterprise Placement Year Students. We started the day in our Hill Street studios before visiting Born and Bred, Hunter Paper Co and Story Box NI...
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A DIY guide to Basic Events Management
Next month we are delighted to be delivering a series of 4 training sessions to support participants to have more confidence when organising rural heritage events for the Rural Community Network. Focus will be on encouraging the participants to build...
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February Creative Roundup – Funding and Opportunities for Creatives
Our latest roundup of opportunities for NI creatives 01. Techstart Regional Innovation Challenge Techstart Ventures invites entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas to apply to the Regional Innovation Challenge, a Northern Ireland–wide grant competition designed to support founders at the...
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Belfast Stories – Belfast School of Art Year 2 Graphic Design Students X Belfast Design Week Collab Site Visit
As part of our work for Belfast Design Week which is happening this May we have been working with Belfast School of Art Year 2 Graphic Design students on a project that will be showcased in the Belfast Stories building...
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6 Key Lessons From Illustrator Lauren Kelso’s Creative Talk
Illustrator Lauren Kelso shared her creative story with us back in May. Here are 6 Key Lessons from her creative talk. 1. Find something that makes you unique Find something in your creative work or idea that is unique to...
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January Creative Roundup – Funding and Opportunities for Creatives
Our latest roundup of opportunities for creatives in Northern Ireland 01. Four Nations International Fund Arts and culture thrive on international collaboration and exchange. The Four Nations International Fund helps artists and creative practitioners from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and...
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6 Key Lessons From Juliette El Fouly Founder of Le Contour Contemporary Candle Company’s Creative Talk Last March
Juliette El Fouly founder of Le Contour Contemporary Candle Company shared her creative story with us back in March last year. Here are 6 Key Lessons from her creative talk. 1. You are not your business To cope with...
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2025 – Some of Our Favourite Bits
Some of our favourite bits from 2025! 01. Nurture Programme One of our favourite bits of 2025 was our Nurture Programme where thanks to the kind support of Belfast City Council we were able to support 4 emerging artists to...
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Christmas Creative Roundup: 12 Shops & Markets you still have time to visit to support local creatives this Christmas
For anyone who hasn’t finished (or started) their Christmas shopping our latest Creative Roundup features 12 markets and shops you still have time to visit to support local creatives this Christmas 01. Portview Christmas Market Portview Christmas Market is a...
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Creative Roundup – Opportunities for Creatives
Our latest roundup of local and international funding, support & opportunities for NI creatives 01. Illustrators North Smile Please Exhibition Illustrators North are super excited to announce that they are doing their very first Illustrators North Annual exhibition celebrating...
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Last Month at Blick – November!
November was another busy month for us at Blick. We started the month by facilitating a Finance Fair for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland on Friday 7th November in the MAC. On Wednesday evenings we hosted Homewerk Project for...
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The Arts Council of Northern Ireland- Self-Care Workshops for Individual Artists
We are delighted to be taking part in this exciting series of free Self-Care Workshops for Individual Artists being organised by The Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Taking place on the 7th November we will be delivering one-to-one 30 minute...
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Creative Roundup – Opportunities for Creatives
Our latest roundup of local and international funding, support & opportunities for NI creatives 01. Individual Artists Digital Evolution Awards Programme Objectives Upskilling NI artists in the use of new, emerging and immersive technology Creation of excellent Digital Art...
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Ciaran Crudden Founder of The Last Brand Creative Talk Pics
Some pics from our last creative talk with Ciaran Crudden founder of The Last Brand sharing his creative story!
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Ulster University Enterprise Placement Year Retail Ready Fieldtrip Pics
Some photos from our Retail Ready Fieldtrip for Ulster University Enterprise Placement Year students that we led on Friday 10th October, starting in our Hill Street studios before visiting Born and Bred, Hunter Paper Co and Story Box NI With...
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