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ALL EVENTS

  • Theatre & Visibility | Workshops
    Theatre & Visibility | Workshops
    Multiple Dates
    Sat 10 May
    10 May 2025, 09:30 – 04 Jul 2025, 23:30
    Bolton, Creatives Now: Unit 16, The Market Place, Bolton BL1 2AL, UK
    A Summer Term theatre course for young people exploring what it means to be seen and heard. Through movement and devised theatre, participants will unpack who gets represented on stage and why. This is a space to create bold, original work that reflects real stories and challenges stereotypes.
  • You Unmake Myself | Art Workshops
    You Unmake Myself | Art Workshops
    Multiple Dates
    Sat 07 Jun
    07 Jun 2025, 12:00 – 05 Jul 2025, 15:00
    Bolton, Creatives Now: Unit 16, The Market Place, Bolton BL1 2AL, UK
    Join us for a series of collaborative art workshops where individuals come together to create a large-scale group painting. We’ll explore personal identity, shared experience and the space between. We'll reflect on difference, resonance and what it means to be together.
  • Belonging is a Social Construct | Preview
    Belonging is a Social Construct | Preview
    15 Jun 2025, 15:00 – 18:00
    Bolton, Creatives Now: Unit 16, The Market Place, Bolton BL1 2AL, UK
    This summer, Belonging is a Social Construct invites artists, writers and creatives to explore what it means to belong through the lenses of culture, resistance and representation. In a time of shifting identities and contested spaces, this exhibition asks: who gets to belong, and on what terms?
  • Andrew McMillan: Belonging In/Out
    Andrew McMillan: Belonging In/Out
    28 Jun 2025, 17:00 – 18:30
    Bolton, Creatives Now: Unit 16, The Market Place, Bolton BL1 2AL, UK
    Join award-winning poet Andrew McMillan for an intimate reading and conversation with journalist Hadley Stewart, as they explore the complexities of belonging, queerness and community. Part of the Belonging is a Social Construct preview event, McMillan will share work from his acclaimed collections.
  • National Saturday Club Screening
    National Saturday Club Screening
    09 Oct 2025, 10:00 – 12:00
    Bolton, The Light Cinema, The Market Place, Bolton BL1 2AL
    As part of Bolton Film Festival’s youth strand this autumn, Creative Now presents a special screening of short films created by members of our National Saturday Club. These powerful, youth-led works explore identity, creativity, and belonging through fresh and original perspectives.
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