All upcoming events
Workshop: Finding Your Social Media Niche
This practical workshop, led by Lydia Cottrell of SLAP Collective, will equip you with the tools to start making engaging social media content to promote your work across multiple channels.
Creative Drinks
A monthly social for York’s creative community.
Come along to enjoy a drink, some street food, and meet some new people.
Whether you're a student, a young professional, a seasoned pro, or a retiree - all are welcome!
PhotoYork: A Film Photowalk Around York
Join us for a film only photo walk through York, the ticket price includes a roll of film and free developing and scanning!
Running Your First Event: 5 Things You Need To Know
Learn what it takes to run a successful event from an experienced event producer.
Workshop: Finding & Applying For Opportunities
A workshop for creatives who want to find opportunities and learn how to make their applications stand out.
Creative Drinks
A monthly social for York’s creative community.
Come along to enjoy a drink, some street food, and meet some new people.
Whether you're a student, a young professional, a seasoned pro, or a retiree - all are welcome!
Creative Drinks
A monthly social for York’s creative community.
Come along to enjoy a drink, some street food, and meet some new people.
Whether you're a student, a young professional, a seasoned pro, or a retiree - all are welcome!
Creative Drinks
A monthly social for York’s creative community.
Come along to enjoy a drink, some street food, and meet some new people.
Whether you're a student, a young professional, a seasoned pro, or a retiree - all are welcome!
Creative Drinks
A monthly social for York’s creative community.
Come along to enjoy a drink, some street food, and meet some new people.
Whether you're a student, a young professional, a seasoned pro, or a retiree - all are welcome!
Creative Drinks
A monthly social for York’s creative community.
Come along to enjoy a drink, some street food, and meet some new people.
Whether you're a student, a young professional, a seasoned pro, or a retiree - all are welcome!
Creative Drinks
A monthly social for York’s creative community.
Come along to enjoy a drink, some street food, and meet some new people.
Whether you're a student, a young professional, a seasoned pro, or a retiree - all are welcome!
York Creatives Christmas Party 2024
A Christmas Party for York's Creative Community.
Always a sell out event, always a blast!
Get tickets.
York Photographers: Meet & Show
For our third meet we'll be gathering at Orillo Studios (just off Heslington Road), where you'll have the chance to present work to your peers and ask for feedback (if you want it).
Positioning Yourself as a Freelancer to Agencies & Others
A workshop on wow to stand out from the competition.
Creative Drinks
A monthly social for York’s creative community.
Come along to enjoy a drink, some street food, and meet some new people.
Whether you're a student, a young professional, a seasoned pro, or a retiree - all are welcome!
Free Legal Clinic for Creatives
How confident are you in navigating the world of intellectual property, contracts, and disputes with clients?
• Do you know who owns the copyright on the work you create for your clients?
• If your client takes your work and repurposes it without asking, are you within your rights to ask for more money?
• Are you able to use a piece of work you’ve made for one client and repurpose it for another client?
To get the answers to these valuable questions and more, come along to our legal clinic on Thursday 21st March with Crombie Wilkinson.
York Photographers Meet Up II
Join us on a photo walk across town and network with your fellow photographers.
Creative Drinks
A monthly social for York’s creative community.
Come along to enjoy a drink, some street food, and meet some new people.
Whether you're a student, a young professional, a seasoned pro, or a retiree - all are welcome!
Workshop: Making Your Work Accessible
Accessibility is a vital consideration within arts and culture, with all funders now asking for evidence that you have attempted to mitigate access barriers when putting together shows, exhibitions and performances.
This workshop is designed to get you thinking empathetically when it comes to access needs, and will give you a range of first hand perspectives to learn from.
WORKSHOP: How To Talk About Your Business
Build deeper, more authentic connections, and turn more of your audience into potential clients.
York Contemporary Artists Crit Group
This is a safe space for York based Visual Artists to receive critical feedback from their peers, to share and discuss their work.
York Photographers Meet Up
Join us on a photo walk across town and network with your fellow photographers.
This is York Vol. 29: Sink or Swim - PechaKucha Night
Join us for rapid fire talks from York's artists, creatives, adventurers, thought leaders and business owners, as part of an intimate crowd of curious minds.
Creative Drinks
A monthly social for York’s creative community.
Come along to enjoy a drink, some street food, and meet some new people.
Whether you're a student, a young professional, a seasoned pro, or a retiree - all are welcome!
Workshop: Bookkeeping and Tax for Creatives
Are you starting a new creative business venture and aren’t sure how to set up?
Or are you self employed and want to know how to complete your first tax return?
This session focuses on all aspects of setting up to begin trading.
York Filmmakers Mixer With BFI Film Hub North
Join us for an evening of networking with your fellow filmmakers and creatives.
Film Hub North will be on hand to explain the latest round of funding and development opportunities available through BFI NETWORK, and we'll be screening an example of a recently funded film, along with a chat with the filmmakers themselves.
York Creatives Christmas Party
A Christmas Party for York's Creative Community. Always a sell out event, always a blast!
Tech York x York Creatives present Art-Tech: What It Is and Why It Matters
Diana Kocheva will open the world of Art-Tech for you; describing what it is, where it's going, and why it's important.
Creative Drinks - November
Creative Drinks at SPARK:YORK on the first Friday of the month.
Come along to catch up with fellow creatives and make new connections.
Tickets £4 (£2 for NODE members)
Tech York x NODE Social
Join us this October as Tech York celebrates its first birthday, and NODE York hits the 6 month milestone.
This free event is open to all creative and digital freelancers, consultants and micro business owners in York and the surrounding areas.
Commercial Illustration, with Matt Saunders
Matt has worked with Apple, Disney, Pottermore, Airbnb, Penguin and Harper Collins, to name but a few of his clients across the publishing, design and advertising worlds.
He will share the journey that has enabled him to reach this point in his career at a young age, sharing insights he has learned from working within the industry that you can apply to your creative practice.
£1 members, £10 non-members.
Buy a ticket for Commercial Illustration with Matt Saunders here.
Marketing In Tech
Join us at Tech York as we explore business growth through a marketing lens.
This is a free event, reserve a spot here.
NODE Hub: Launch
Join us to celebrate the launch of the NODE Hub: a co-working space for York's creative and digital freelancers (first 6 months free!)
Production Design with Anna Pritchard
Join us for a presentation by ANNA PRITCHARD, Production Designer on GENTLEMAN JACK, BROADCHURCH & more!
Tickets £4 / £2 NODE members (using the discount code in your members area). Buy here.
Creative Drinks - September
Creative Drinks at SPARK:YORK on the first Friday of the month.
Come along to catch up with fellow creatives and make new connections.
Tickets £4 (£2 for NODE members)
How To Boost Your Digital Presence Through SEO
Discover how to harness the power of Google for your business, and climb the rankings without paying for ads.
Free for NODE members (£1 booking fee) / £10 non members.
Creative Drinks - August
Creative Drinks at SPARK:YORK on the first Friday of the month.
Come along to catch up with fellow creatives and make new connections.
Tickets £4 (£2 for NODE members)
Freelancing 101
This workshop will teach you how to position yourself as a freelancer, avoiding the common mistakes most people make.
You will leave knowing how to price your services, how to identify and reach out to potential clients, and how to track your progress in a way that gives you meaningful data.
Working with Charities and Social Enterprises
What do we need to know as freelancers to win work with charities and social enterprises?
Masterclass: Unlocking the potential of using Augmented Reality
The free workshop provides participants with a basic understanding of the capabilities of AR and how you can create content in both a 2D/3D manner using Adobe products (Aero and Dimensions).
By the end of the session, you will have started to create your own AR experience.
This is a free event by one of our partners. Reserve a place here.