Womenfolk
Supporting, celebrating and bringing together creative women freelancers, self-employed and small business owners in Northern Ireland
Womenfolk is all about inspiring and supporting women in Northern Ireland to have the courage and confidence to follow their creative dreams by providing opportunities for them to come together to connect, inspire, share knowledge and support each other.
It’s very simple, but also very effective. On the last Tuesday of each month we host a get together with a small group of self-employed creative women or women in the process of starting a creative business to chat about business and life. Each person will get the chance to speak. Sharing their monthly progress, plans for the following month, future goals and aspirations as well as any challenges they may be facing. This process gives you the opportunity to connect with and learn from like-minded creative women and helps with motivation, accountability, goal setting and planning.
There is no cost to joining the group, but to ensure commitment and suitability participants need to fill in a short online registration to secure a space.
Fill in the registration form below or if you have any questions about the group email christine@blickstudios.org
For other upcoming Womenfolk events please check out our events page
For our Womenfolk project for creative women, we are excited to have an ongoing collaboration with Kitsch Sisters Belfast. Working together on a series of workshops to bring together creative women in Belfast to meet and connect and explore their creativity.
To date we have hosted the following workshops:
- Womenfolk X Kitsch Sisters – A Creative Vision Board Workshop
- Womenfolk X Kitsch Sisters – A Creative Affirmations Workshop
- Womenfolk X Kitsch Sisters Creative Practice Commitment Workshop: Embroidered & Printed Tote Bag
- Womenfolk X Kitsch Sisters August Craft Month Workshop: Design Your Own Tiny Ritual Micro Embroidery Art Workshop
Aims and Objectives
To inspire and support women in Northern Ireland to have the courage and confidence to follow their creative dreams
To provide opportunities for creative women to come together to connect, inspire, share knowledge and support each other
To showcase and highlight current successful creative women as role models
HOW IT ALL BEGAN
Set up in 2017, Womenfolk is a project by Blick Shared Studios and one close to our hearts as Blick is an organisation founded and run by women. At Blick we host a variety of creative industry support and networking events and generally have more women than men in the audience, but sadly don’t see that translated into women-led businesses using our workspace.
OUR AIM FOR WOMENFOLK
To provide support, community and peer learning opportunities to empower more creative women with a passion for running their own business to make their dreams a reality.
HOW DO WE DO THIS
We offer opportunities for meeting and learning from other like-minded creative women at our events and workshops and through our online content, creative enterprise and mentoring programs.
OUR JOURNEY SO FAR
Since 2017 we have been involved in a number of different events and programmes including producing our first publication in 2019 which shares a selection of interviews with Northern Irish women designers. In 2020-21 we ran a creative enterprise programme for young women called Dig Deep which supported 27 young women over a 9-month period to start their own creative businesses. Over the years we have also hosted lots of different events, workshops and panel discussions as well as regular peer mentoring groups to give women creatives who run their own business or want to run their own business an opportunity to get together and learn from each other.
Industry Expert Videos
A series of industry expert videos created for Womenfolk
