Power Up:
Creative Education Network
Come and join our creative network. Hear more about our ongoing creative programmes, meet the PiCL team and the practitioners and educators we are working with. Our network is a blend of in-person meetings, online discussions and focussed CPD activities. The CPD activities are run by creative practitioners are delivering high quality, engaging activity tailored and responsive to the changing needs of young people and the educators working with them.
Funded by
Power Up is generously funded by Arts Council England and the UK Government.
Upcoming Events
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PiCL Summer Power Up: How to Design, Plan and Deliver Engaging Creative Learning Workshops.
Thu 14 Aug 2025 6:00 PM - 8:45 PM
Fenton Town Hall, ST4 3AF
Kirsty Cotton is the director of Kreative Foundations, an alternative education and community development company in Stoke-on-Trent. With over 10 years’ experience, she has delivered projects using creativity for confidence and wellbeing, supported people into creative volunteering and employment, and helped to instil ‘creative foundations’ within all those she has supported, and continues to support.
Kirsty will be delivering a session to help you plan your own workshop – how to develop your creative talent into an engaging session for your group, meeting your objectives, targeting your group members and making an impact using your creative practice in action
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PiCL Summer Power Up: Fundraising - The basics - how do I fund my creative project? Where do I even start?
Mon 18 Aug 2025 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Online, Microsoft Teams
Isla Telford is leading this session, Isla is a creative producer and event director with a commitment to using art to invite equity of access to the public domain. Isla leads on fundraising, programme planning and project management, working closely with artists, community partners, and young people to transform concepts into artworks, events and workshops. Isla is a member of Without Walls Green Production consortium, and is Production Director of Six Towns Carnival.
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British Ceramics Biennial Private Tour
Wed 10 Sep 2025 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Spode Works Site, ST4 1BU
Private Tour of the exhibition and activity Round Earth Placescape
Join us for a special grand tour of the British Ceramics Biennial at the Spode Works site, plus the opportunity to experience a new workshop activity. Perfect for taking clay based inspiration back into the classroom.
4.30-6.30pm
Summer School Sign Up
Calling all early career creative practitioners!
We’d like your help shaping a series of creative workshops that could help you to get fully powered up and plugged into the creative industries and cultural activities happening here in Stoke on Trent and North Staffordshire.
We are curating a series of workshops to happen in August - if you’d be interested in attending and having a say in what those workshops could be please fill in the expression of interest form.