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Leeds Creative Skills Festival

Join Launchpad and friends at Leeds Creative Skills Festival on Monday 18 November 2024 at Royal Armouries in Leeds.

Organised by Leeds City Council’s Employment & Skills Service, Leeds Creative Skills Festival 2024 returns for its third year this November.

This year, the event will take place in a brand new location – the amazing and culturally rich Royal Armouries in Leeds.

Get ready for a fresh experience filled with inspiration and discovery. Explore exciting career paths, unleash your creativity, learn from industry experts.  

 
 
 
 
 

About the event.

Everyone is welcome, you can stay as long as you like and the event is free to attend.

Find out about careers and skills to work in: 

  • Advertising and marketing 

  • Architecture 

  • Crafts 

  • Design (including product, graphic and fashion) 

  • Film, TV, video, VFX and SFX, 

  • IT, video games, software and computer services (creative tech) 

  • Museums, libraries, galleries and heritage 

  • Music, performing and visual arts 

  • Publishing  

  • Plus many more!

 

Exhibitors

All creative industries are welcomed as an exhibitor at LCSF24. Find out more below:

  • A unique exhibition opportunity in a culturally rich and prestigious venue, The Royal Armouries Leeds, during Creative Careers Week 2024

  • Job and Training Promotion – We can promote your jobs, training opportunities and other initiatives through our extensive communication channels

  • Promote your organisation and the industry

  • Provision for each exhibitor to have a dedicated space for your exhibition stand and branded pop-up banner, exhibition table and tablecloth

  • Option to purchase additional advertising space in the Visitor Guide

  • Option to secure additional demonstration space

 What exhibitors said about #LCSF23:

 100% of exhibitors said they would recommend exhibiting at the Leeds Creative Skills Festival to other potential exhibitors. Here’s a little of what they had to say:

  • This is a really engaging event, showcasing the best of the creative industries

  • It’s a great way to meet local talent

  • Great attendance from schools in which students showed real interest and passion in courses

  • Great festival for anyone wanting to connect within this sector

  • Excellent way to connect directly with young people

  • Exciting and engaging way to showcase creative careers

  • It’s a great opportunity to showcase your organisation but also a great way of meeting other creative organisations

 

What visitors said about #LCSF23

  • A great range of creative industries to be able to explore

  • Positively Great!

  • There is a range of opportunities, and you can learn different things like jobs you never even considered doing

  • It’s amazing for creatives who want to develop their own business or get into their industry

  • An engaging and interactive event that celebrates all things creative in West Yorkshire. A place to find out more about how you can grow your career in a dynamic and inclusive industry.

  • Wide range of exhibitors, excellent pre-visit info, easy to book

  • The festival is really good and helped me to find volunteer work so I can do something else on my gap year

  • It's fantastic to have such a big event showcasing creative and cultural talent, organisations and opportunities focussed on Leeds / Yorkshire.

  • Excellent opportunities and good connections made

  • I'm a careers manager of a local sixth form and so great to be able to easily bring groups of students to these events

Book your ticket for 2024 today

This event is part-funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. In West Yorkshire, the West Yorkshire Combined Authority leads the implementation of the Fund as part of the Mayor’s ambition to make West Yorkshire the best place to work, learn and live.

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