The Emergency Room: an Arts Emergency podcast

S2 Ep4. Our Guide to Creative Collaboration

🎙️ 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/20a4b18984 [https://wordstew-magazine.kit.com/20a4b18984]Find out more about Arts Emergency: https://www.arts-emergency.org [https://www.arts-emergency.org]Find out more about The Emergency Room Podcast: https://www.arts-emergency.org/podcasts/the-emergency-room [https://www.arts-emergency.org/podcasts/the-emergency-room]

S2 Ep3. Community within Design

🚨 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.

S2 Ep2. Surviving & Thriving in the Music Industry

🚨 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.

S2 Ep1. Craft, Courage and Creative Survival

🚨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.

S1 Ep5. How do artists use archives in their work?

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 [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbUE5Yk5TbEhTUXJEdVktZXRUc01VUnNqbEZYQXxBQ3Jtc0ttVmlTN016RXYwMTFzd2JmaTVTdlh6NEN6OXI1M3pFcWo0dEtRX1Zfc05zSmdsd2tTV1BZVFZjSWNMUi1WeVhYd3B4VlV6dnMwNFJHMTdWTWdwV3E0Z2x0MXlPY1ZLdnpJOXNsWDlyNWZITFBmdER3Yw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.arts-emergency.org%2F&v=s6zpXonBGq4]