🎙️ Hosted by Selina Candengue & Ummi Hoque

✨ Joined by Ben Tibbits

Arts Emergency Youth Collective members Selina and Ummi sit down with writer and features editor, Ben Tibbits, to unpack the realities of building a creative career. From freelancing and juggling side hustles to navigating networking, degrees and imposter syndrome, Ben shares an honest look at the path behind the bylines. Whether you're a student, recent graduate or balancing a day job while pursuing your creative ambitions, this conversation is packed with practical advice and reassurance that there's no single route to success.

Check out Ben Tibbits on Instagram @tibbitsben (work for Wonderland, Man About Town and Rollacoaster)

The Emergency Room is an ongoing podcast series where members of the Arts Emergency Youth Collective host open and honest conversations with professionals from across the creative world.

Find out more about Arts Emergency: ⁠⁠https://www.arts-emergency.org⁠⁠

Find out more about The Emergency Room Podcast: ⁠⁠https://www.artsemergency.org/podcasts/the-emergency-room

🎙️ Interview by Georgia Madden & Louis Shepley

What does it mean to be a young creative right now? Youth Collective members Georgia and Louis sit down for a genuine conversation about their personal journeys, professional struggles, and the creative freedom they are looking for.

The pair discuss imposter syndrome, comparing lives of peers, what opportunities they've managed to take and create, and exceptions within life. Both being from Northern England they reflect on the inspiration and love they've found in their surroundings, and sharing projects they've done big and small. 

Georgia and Louis share their honest takes on the lack of opportunities within the creative industries, how they'd like to have the space to take more risks, and how ultimately, they want to hear more daft questions.

Check out Georgia work here - https://www.sheenamation.com/

Read about Louis award success here - https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/architecture/news/stories/title,1542375,en.php 

The Emergency Room is an ongoing podcast series where members of the Arts Emergency Youth Collective host open and honest conversations with professionals from across the creative world.

Find out more about Arts Emergency: ⁠https://www.arts-emergency.org⁠ Find out more about The Emergency Room Podcast: ⁠https://www.artsemergency.org/podcasts/the-emergency-room

🎙️ Interview by Gen Hemeson & Fisola Kelly-Akinnuoye

Join Youth Collective members, Fisola and Gen as they share their guide on the art of creative collaboration with peers.

The pair reflect on their experience as collaborators in the Youth Collective, on Wordstew literary magazine’s first issue - ‘Reconnect’ and in their own practice as creatives working in graphic design, image production, theatre, literature and more. The conversation explores the why, how and what of creative collaboration with tips on how to initiate and execute your own collaborative projects.

Check out Wordstew: https://wordstew-magazine.kit.com/20a4b18984Find out more about Arts Emergency: https://www.arts-emergency.orgFind out more about The Emergency Room Podcast: https://www.arts-emergency.org/podcasts/the-emergency-room

🚨 The Emergency Room: Community within Design

🎙️ Hosted by Yusuf Uddin & Louis Shepley

Join us for a conversation with Kevin Green & Taiye Ige from STORE STORE, a shop and educational space that hosts a weekly After School Club for young people. Participants learn with practicing artists and designers to develop their own products, learn practical skills and build portfolios in art, design and architecture. 

Kevin and Taiye shared the story behind STORE STORE, explaining how they turned a retail space into a hub for community-led design. They also reflected on the lessons learned from running their After School Clubs and offered invaluable advice for the next generation of makers.

Kevin and Taiye talked about how STORE STORE started, why it's necessary to have programmes like this to equal the playing field and share advice for young creatives.  

🚨 The Emergency Room: Surviving & Thriving in the Music Industry

🎙️ Hosted by Scarlett Smith & Georgia Madden

Join us for a conversation with Georgia Davies of The Last Dinner Party, hosted by members of the Youth Collective. Georgia shared tips on finding like-minded creatives, gave insights into entering the music industry, told us why TLDP are activists as well as artists, and talked about what the future looks like for the band.

We’re joined by:
✨Georgia Davies -  Bassist from The Last Dinner Party, a 5-piece Baroque pop, rock band from London. Formed in 2021, The Last Dinner Party have two studio albums, their debut Prelude to Ecstacy (2024) reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, they are BRIT award recipients and have toured across the world. The band has established a reputation for using their platform for social and political activism, particularly surrounding Palestinian rights, political censorship in the music industry, and supporting grassroots venues.

The Emergency Room is an ongoing podcast series where members of the Arts Emergency Youth Collective host open and honest conversations with professionals from across the creative world.

🚨The Emergency Room: Who gets to make? Craft, Courage and Creative Survival?

🎙️ Hosted by Selina Candengue & Ummi Hoque

This episode explores what it really takes to build a life in making — financially, emotionally, and socially — and how community spaces like Blackhorse Workshop challenge who feels allowed to enter that world in the first place. It becomes a conversation about creative survival, not just creative success.

We’re joined by:

✨Jo Clarke - Director of Blackhorse Workshop. She is an artist and maker with 20 years’ experience in the non-profit sector, leading creative community-based programming, mainly in East London. She has worked in social enterprise and cooperative development, and is the founder of London Green Wood CIC. She’s also a Trusteeat Rosetta Arts, with a focus on community participation.

✨Lucy Martin - Creative Programme Manager (Schools and Young People). Lucy is an experienced creative youth practitioner and journalist who has worked with young people to produce documentaries, podcasts, and photography exhibitions alongside craft-based youth programmes. Having programmed and led multiple youth projects across East London, contributing to long term change for young people.Check out Blackhorse Workshop’s website. You can find a range of courses and events, studios, bookable open-access woodwork and metalwork workbenches, monthly memberships, and supported sessions led by expert technicians to help you get startedHere’s a network of open-access workshops across the UK. Whether your interests lie in ceramics or robotics, whether you consider yourself an amateur or a professional, you can explore the directory to discover an Open Workshop near you.

Are you interested in how artists pull from archives to create work that resonates with the now? This session is part of The Emergency Room – our online event series where members of the Youth Collective host conversations with professionals from across the creative world. 

🎤 Hosted by Amie Kirby & Freda Igiogbe

🚨 Joined by Alafuro Sikoki-Coleman & Jennifer Reid,

✨ Alafuro Sikoki-Coleman is an industrial designer and artist. She is the founder of Studio Sikoki, a design + art + research facility where she explores the dynamics between the object, user and the environment. Alafuro’s work analyses the construction of culture, history and identity of the individual, community and location. 

✨ Jennifer Reid, her work is rooted in archives and oral histories, it  braids nineteenth-century music with the present: teaching, performing, researching, sharing, advocating and supporting spaces for memory and making in the tradition.

The Emergency Room is an ongoing podcast series where members of the Arts Emergency Youth Collective host open and honest conversations with professionals from across the creative world.

Find out more about Arts Emergency: https://www.arts-emergency.org

Are you interested in how designers/architects use research to authentically advocate or represent certain communities? Join us for a conversation exploring this theme. This session is part of The Emergency Room – our online event series where members of the Youth Collective host conversations with professionals from across the creative world.

🎤 Hosted by Gen Hemeson & Louis Shepley

🚨 Joined by Mimi Dearing & Eva Jonas

Eva Jonas, a London-based visual artist, educator, and coordinator whose practice operates across multiple registers to examine how the body functions as a site of mediation in our experience, preservation, and enactment of landscape. 

Mimi Dearing, Artist & Creative Producer of Get It Done, a community arts organisation based in Manchester and South London that supports people through creativity, to come together and get things done.

The Emergency Room is an ongoing podcast series where members of the Arts Emergency Youth Collective host open and honest conversations with professionals from across the creative world.

Find out more about Arts Emergency: https://www.arts-emergency.org

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltRdh0LD1ng

Are you passionate about access and inclusion in the arts? Want to learn how to advocate for others in creative spaces? Join us for an open conversation about what it means to support each other in the arts and creative industries. This session is part of The Emergency Room – our online event series where members of the Youth Collective host conversations with professionals from across the creative world.

🎤 Hosted by Arisha-Jane Marsh & Fisola Kelly-Akinnuoye

🚨 Joined by Ash Cox, Alistair Charles Wilkinson, Simon Pollard

We’re joined by:

 Ash Cox is a freelancer specialising in visitor experience, digital engagement, access, facilitation, and producing. They have worked with organisations including The Octagon, HOME, the University of Salford, Contact, The Lowry, Dibby Theatre, and more.

Alistair Charles Wilkinson is a Creative Director working across football, live performance, heritage, and immersive storytelling. With over 15 years’ experience, he specialises in bold, co-created cultural work that activates imagination and centres care. Alistair was the first ever Creative Lead at the National Football Museum, and has led on artist development at The Old Vic and Punchdrunk. Through his company, Life’s a Pitch Projects, he collaborates with athletes, clubs, fans, and communities to explore football’s radical creative potential. Constantly in pursuit of excellence, Alistair prides himself on working with audacious, charismatic collaborators who aren’t afraid to drag mud through the carpets. They are also the founder of WoLab, a seven-year programme that supported 500+ artists to take creative risks. Alongside this, Alistair regularly works as a fundraiser, access support worker and wellbeing practitioner – always championing care, ambition and the structures that help artists thrive.

Simon Pollard is a freelance theatre director and acting coach for film and TV, working primarily in musical theatre. He is currently working on Blitz, directed by Steve McQueen, and runs a theatre company called Rebel Theatre. He is also an Education Associate for the Old Vic Theatre.

The Emergency Room is an ongoing podcast series where members of the Arts Emergency Youth Collective host open and honest conversations with professionals from across the creative world.

Find out more about Arts Emergency: https://www.arts-emergency.org

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltRdh0LD1ng

Join a creative conversation about how to tell stories across different art forms - from books to games, screenwriting to installations.  Whether you're into games, fiction, film or anything in between - this is a chance to hear how storytelling can evolve and connect across different platforms.

🎤 Hosted by Georgia Madden & Ayah Khan
🚨 Joined by Viviane Schwarz, Alan McDonald

The Emergency Room is an ongoing podcast series where members of the Arts Emergency Youth Collective host open and honest conversations with professionals from across the creative world.

Find out more about Arts Emergency: https://www.arts-emergency.org

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn0FqjwFsdk