Meetups & Things
Events
Art, design and cultural events on my radar, many of which we’ll be attending and covering for Creative Boom, including exhibitions, talks, festivals, press trips and conferences. If you have an upcoming event, please let me know.
International Assembly
International Assembly is an unmissable design and creative festival in Scotland, kicking off with an all-day creative conference in November. It promises to be a day of inspiration with some of the most exciting thinkers and makers in graphic design, branding, coding, animation, art, advertising and beyond…
Wes Anderson: The Exhibition
The first major retrospective dedicated to the work of visionary filmmaker Wes Anderson charts the evolution of his career, from his early experiments in the 1990s to his latest Oscar-winning masterpieces.
Miami Design Week 2025
Miami Design Week is the place where ideas, media, creativity, and all things design meet, from graphic to packaging design, and from product to architecture and urban culture…
Motion North 2026
Motion North is building up to a big two-day conference in February, and Creative Boom is proud to be one of its many supporters. Manchester-based, it’s a collection of motion designers, animators, filmmakers and VFX artists “residing in the upper regions of the UK” who gather to share their love of making things move…
Paradiso Festival 2026
Paradiso isn’t a conference. It’s a creative retreat. There’s no front row or back row. No VIP wristbands. Everyone’s in the middle of the experience. Five days of deep conversations, shared meals, honest learning, late-night memories, and creativity that flows into every part of life.
All Flows 2026
All Flows is set to take place between 13–15 May 2026 for its fourth edition, promising three days of creative inspiration and discovery. Speakers so far include: legendary photographer Martin Parr, founder of The Dots Pip Jamieson, creative director DINES, artist & designer Rob Draper, and cause-led branding and communications agency TEMPLO…
Northern Design Festival
Back for a third year, Northern Design Festival (NDF) 2026 promises to be a whirlwind of creativity and inspiration once again, as it celebrates creatives across the North of England. Founded in October 2023 by two friends, Antonia Arbova and Niamh Cartwright, the event, which is voluntarily run, is on a big mission to provide free and accessible opportunities…
Amsterdam Dance Event
Amsterdam Dance Event takes over the city this October, but few places capture its spirit quite like Volkshotel. Not your average hotel, it’s a creative hub where musicians, artists and free spirits share the same roof. Think underground recording studios buzzing with producers, ateliers filled with over 300 visual artists, and a building alive with ideas around the clock.
London Design Festival 2025
We’re heading down to London Design Festival this year, taking place 13–21 September. It’s always one of the most exciting weeks in the creative calendar, when the city transforms into a playground of ideas, installations, and inspiration.
Gab, Glasgow
A get-together for creative folk, Gab is a design event series in Scotland founded and produced by the wonderful peeps at Jamhot. It features talks from a mix of designers and creative people doing interesting things. And we’ll be at their next big event in Glasgow. We’ll be taking our camera along, too!
Green Man Festival
The Green Man Festival is an independent music, science, and arts festival held every year in mid-August in the Brecon Beacons, Wales. It started small…
Glastonbury 2025
Glastonbury, the world's biggest festival, returns from 25-29 June 2025, and this year, Creative Boom is attending to uncover the festival’s hidden artistic gems…
JOY Festival
Global creative and design studio Acrylicize is behind JOY, a major new two-day creative festival taking place on 19–20 June at their East London HQ, The Art House…
Birmingham Design Festival 2025
The BDF Conference returns to Birmingham this June for a two-day event dedicated to design, creativity, and this year's theme, Play. Each year, the team alternates between…
London Design Biennale 2025
The fifth edition of the London Design Biennale lands at Somerset House this June (5–29), with this year’s theme, Surface Reflections, exploring the ways…
D&AD Festival 2025
The D&AD Festival will cover jury insights fresh from its 2025 juries, creative excellence, tech and AI, best-in-class craft, design & advertising, BTS deep dives into the work and giving the people behind it a stage…
Northern Design Festival
Taking place this May in Lancaster, the second edition of the Northern Design Festival will bring together studios, strategists, and storytellers to tackle the creative industry's hidden barriers, one honest conversation at a time…
OFFF Barcelona 2025
OFFF, the global creativity festival founded in Barcelona in 2001, is gearing up for a monumental 25th anniversary celebration next year. Over the past quarter-century, OFFF has evolved from…
Our next adventure
We’ll be in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, this autumn for the first Bukhara Biennial (5 Sept – 14 Nov). Titled Recipes for Broken Hearts, it brings together local artisans with global names like Antony Gormley, Laila Gohar and Subodh Gupta, exploring art, craft and culture as a kind of communal healing feast.
Bukhara Biennial
We love getting out & about.
Armed with my mic and camera, I love meeting people and seeing creative work in the flesh. If you’ve got something coming up that you’d like me or any of my team to cover, please get in touch. We travel the world to create content and conversation around events that matter to creatives.
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From Miami, Barcelona and Tokyo to Sydney, LA, Riyadh, and Milan, we’ve covered it all – whether it’s a one-off art exhibition, a travel discovery trip, an art and culture festival or a creative conference. We’d love to be a part of it.
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