News
We share news for people working in the Creative Sector – offering career progression, skills development, business development, or funding opportunities.
Advertise Your Creative Job Opportunity or Industry Event For Free
You can now advertise your creative job opportunity or industry event for free on the Creative Wakefield website.
Share Your Knowledge with Future Creatives
Pontefract New College are looking for creative professionals to share their experience of working in the creative industries with current students.
Call for Submissions: New Contemporaries 2023
Submissions welcome from emerging and early career artists who are final year students, recent graduates and post-grad students.
Wakefield Businesses Collaborate to Design Distillery at Tileyard North
Creative businesses from across the Wakefield District have been working together to create something for residents, workers and visitors to
Arts and Wellbeing: Review of the Social Value of Place-Based Arts Interventions
This work supports those funding and delivering arts and culture interventions to maximise wellbeing impacts.
Creative Industries and the Climate Emergency
The UK’s first review of the Creative Industries and Net Zero.
Backstage Academy and CAPA College Announce New Partnership
A brand-new partnership between two of the country’s leading Creative Arts organisations, based here in Wakefield district.
Unlimited Launch Artist Database
Unlimited have launched a database of artists on their website, putting artists publicly at the heart of the organisation.
Year of Culture 2024 – Update
Wakefield Council are pleased to share an update on the developing plans for a Year of Culture 2024.
£3.5m State-of-the-Art Live Events Facility to Open in Wakefield
The Hub will support the live events industry and a business support programme to assist small and medium enterprises.
Plans Unveiled for £1m Game-Changing Extended Reality Studio
UK’s first specialist innovation centre in the live events industry has revealed details of £1m Extended Reality (XR) studio in Wakefield.
Arts Council report highlights benefits of close ties between culture and tourism
An evaluation of the £4.2 million initiative delivered by Arts Council England and VisitEngland.
Community>Wakefield is launching!
The new place for services, activities, opportunities and events across Wakefield District.
Sign up for Axis Opportunity Finder membership
Membership designed to save artists time so they can concentrate on the creative side of their practice.
Build Back Fairer with the Creative & Cultural Skills podcast
This brand-new podcast explores the impacts and opportunities that may have been heightened by, or arisen, during the pandemic.
Westgate Heritage Action Zone virtual exhibition
Transforming one of Wakefield's most historically significant streets to positively change perceptions of the area.
Get involved with The Lived Experience Network
Advocating that access to creative and cultural opportunities is important for individual and collective wellbeing.
Our Earth, Your Choice – a new video game
One to One Development Trust are developing a new video game about looking after our planet.
Join the Next Stage initiative
Making the music industry more accessible for artists with access requirements.
Wakefield Council receives Capital Kickstart grant
Grant received from Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to support WX3 and Creative Wakefield.
Announcing partnership with Creative England
Creative England has come on board as a delivery partner for Cultural Development Fund business support programme.
Creative Wakefield Framework
This document provides an initial framework to guide Wakefield’s new Creative Compact, working towards a single vision for the district.
£3.5m state-of-the-art live events facility set to open in Wakefield
European Regional Development Funding has been secured to build an Innovation Hub in South Kirkby as part of Production Park.
Unhampered Reads – Baskets of creative inspiration free to borrow from your library
Borrow a themed Un-hampered Reads basket from Wakefield Libraries and see where the journey will take you. Allow you and
