United in Art
A FREE online festival on Sunday 5 July, celebrating creativity from young voices across the UK, shaped by Artswork’s Youth Board
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About the festival
Sunday 5 July
11:00 - 18:00
Held on Zoom
Suitable for young people aged 11-25
United in Art is a free online festival created by young people, for young people, shaped by Artswork's Youth Board.
This one-day event is designed to celebrate creativity from young voices across the UK.
United in Art is one of the ways Artswork's Youth Board share their voices with the world.
What’s on?
Explore our exciting festival line-up, filled with creative workshops that encourage understanding, bridge differences, and celebrate stories that make communities vibrant:
Protest Zines: 11:00 – 12:30
Spend 90 minutes with creative practitioner Angela Chick, exploring the ways you can use homemade zines to share your unique voice through words, images, and drawings, while designing and creating your own Protest Zine!
Angela Chick is an artist and zine researcher who is interested in human connection and kindness. She has an extensive multidisciplinary practice spanning comics and zines to collaborative animation and painting.
Illustration: 13:00 – 14:00
Join award winning young painter and illustrator Ashton Attzs to discover how to approach illustration, develop your own style, and create your own work of art.
Ashton Attzs is a UK-based illustrator and painter. Her paintings and digital illustrations are colourful and vibrant celebrations of the everyday person and quotidian life. Attzs’ work is bold, joyful and unapologetic both in style and message; often representing the LGBTQ+ community and queerness.
Poetry: 14:30 – 16:00
Work collaboratively with flo poet Woodzy to create a one-of-a-kind poem alongside a live illustrator
(All participants will receive a copy of the finished poem and illustration)
Woodzy is an award winning Flo Poet, 3x TEDx Speaker and Emcee Specialist.
As seen on BAFTA winning TV show "Life And Rhymes" also on Sky Sports "Fight Night" Live at Wembley Arena.
Woodzy was always destined to become a Poet, being born on World Poetry Day. From studying at the Brit School, to opening for the likes of Stormzy, Dizzee Rascal, John Cooper Clarke and more. Performing at Festivals such as Wilderness, Latitude, Pub in the Park and more.
Appearing on platforms like BBC1Xtra, BBC Radio London, SBTV and more. Reaching over 1 million views on his poem "90s baby"
Having had poems commissioned by the like of The Tower of London, Sky Sports, Four Seasons Hotel, Beefeater Gin, TONE enterprise and more.
Woodzy captivates his audience with witty wordplay, incredible use of language and relatable topics.
His debut poetry collection “Peace. Full. Thirty” Was published on March 21st 2024. This book celebrates Woodzy’s 30th birthday having 30 of his poems able to be experienced in a new way.
Aside from performing, Woodzy facilitates a variety of workshops in Schools, Colleges & Workplaces. Looking to change people's perspective on poetry.
Woodzy continues to work on upcoming projects as one of the Flo Poets. He is the Founder of Poetry & Music experience “Writer’s Block”. Constantly looking to help grow the Worldwide poetry community and change the world one poem at a time.
Jay Neville (Illuscribe) is a live illustrator, visual storyteller, and professional doodler based in Stockport. Working with organisations across the UK, he captures conversations, ideas, and shared experiences as they unfold, transforming them into engaging visual records that help stories stick and spark new connections.
Our Experience: Getting into the Creative Arts Q&A Panel: 16:30 – 18:00
Chaired by Kaia Allen-Bevan from Youth the Gap
Curious about getting into a creative career but unsure where to start? Join our panel of photographers, filmmakers, and visual artists to hear their journeys and ask the questions you’ve always wanted to.
Cleo is a British-Cypriot queer multi-disciplinary artist and co-creator. Cleo is an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and has performed across the UK and Europe and recorded on albums with an array of incredible artists including The Moulettes, Miryam Solomon, Huw Marc Bennett and Allysha Joy. Cleo is also a multi-genre DJ and producer who has two monthly shows on Voices Radio and Sister Midnight FM and is also a co-founder of the gender minority DJ collective Drum & Babes. Cleo’s practice is rooted in mutually-agreed values, love ethics, abolition, co-creation and the belief that everyone can be an artist.
I am a freelance Film Maker and Photographer based in Brighton with over 15 years experience.
I work predominantly in the performance and visual art world specialising in performance to camera, production shots and documentation as well as creating promotional material for Theatres, Museums, Galleries and events. My focus is on authenticity and the unseen.
I also enjoy taking portraits, dabbling in a few music videos and I do enjoy a talking head video every now and then too.
Instinct and accident are probably the two most important approaches I use - I see every project as a collaboration built on trust, curiosity and potentially the unexpected.
I am a queer women, who is also a mother. This is something that I am proud to identify as and believe helps me understand certain nuances in projects I work on and the people I work alongside.
I first exhibited my art works at the age of eighteen. I am now sixty-one.
Appearing on BBC series: Home is where The Art Is (2020) resulted in many painting commissions listed on my website.
I am a member of Skylark Galleries-Southbank- London and Oxford Sculptors Group.
I retired from part time primary school teaching in 2025 and I work part time in the education department at Reading Museum.
After Art college I moved to South London where in addition to my art work I began writing and performing poetry. I moved to Reading sixteen years ago.
My children’s picture book has been adapted into a musical – The Princess and the Peacock, most recently performed at Greenwich Theatre in April this year. I have also worked on other theatre projects.
I love story-telling and problem solving. I am inspired by folk traditions in music and art. I particularly enjoy collaborative projects in the arts.
Book
Book your place onto these exciting creative workshops below:
FAQs
FAQ’s about the United in Art festival
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All workshops are free to attend, but you'll need to register so we can manage numbers and ensure the best experience for everyone.
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All sessions have been tailored to support young people aged 11-25
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Once you book, you will receive a Zoom access link in your Eventbrite confirmation email that will grant you access to the workshop at the scheduled start time. Zoom is free to use, and no account is required to join the session.
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If you've booked a place and can't make it, please email us on [email protected] no less than 1 day before the event so we can reissue your place.
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Yes - you will need a stable internet connection to attend the workshops.
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All sessions are designed to use materials that you are likely to have at home. For all sessions, please have a few sheets of blank paper / notebook, and a pen or pencil to hand. We will email in advance if there are materials that would be helpful for you to gather before the workshop.
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Yes - we will be using live closed captioning to increase the accessibility of the sessions.
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Members of the Artswork team will be present throughout the workshop and will identify themselves to all participants at the start of the session. The workshops will be set up so that participants cannot directly message one another at any point during the session. Artswork operates robust Safeguarding practices, which you can view here: Artswork Safeguarding Policy & Procedures | Artswork
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It's preferable for participants to have their cameras on at the start and end of each session, especially when we invite everyone to share their work on screen. However, there is no requirement to keep cameras on in order to take part.
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No, this is a live event only and we will not be recording sessions to share publicly, though images of the artwork may be shared.