Networking for your creative career
Networking can play and important role in building relationships with people in Edinburgh that will support your creative career.
Networking opportunites such as
- coffee meetings
- engagement sessions
- industry conferences
could lead to valuable contacts that will help you with discovering potential opportunities.
English Classes across the city
Networking sessions are a great opportunity to practice speaking English as well. The Council and other local partners provide multiple opportunities for learning the English language if required. This page provides more information about English for speakers of other languages:
Organisations to support your networking journey
For some, networking can feel daunting, but you don’t have to feel alone in your networking journey. Organisations, such as, Creative Edinburgh and City of Edinburgh Council are committed to ensuring you find inclusive networking events that are suitable for your arts practice and creative ambitions.
Contact us and we will find a group you could join, or browse our networks list and register for upcoming events.
- Creative Edinburgh: Creative Circles (all art forms)
- Creative Lives (theatre, crafts and artists of colour)
- Edinburgh Performing Arts Development (all art forms)
- Capital Theatres (theatre makers and producers)
- Dance Base (surgery sessions for dance artists)
- Drake Music Scotland (disabled artists network)
- Scottish Black and People of Colour Writers Network (writers, poets, storytellers)
- Neuk Edinburgh (neurodivergent artists)
- Visual Arts Scotland (contemporary fine and applied arts)
- Craft Scotland (makers)
- Geek Girl Scotland (computing and gaming)
- Edinburgh TV Festival: The Network (film)
- Manipulate Artists Network (animated film, puppetry and visual theatre)
- BE United (music, events, learning opportunities)
- Scottish Contemporary Art Network (visual arts)
- Imaginate (theatre for children and young people)
- Edinburgh Chartered Architects Network
- The Scottish Games Network
- Advertising Association UK
- Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) UK (digital media and advertising)
- Data & Marketing Association
- Screen Scotland (film, television, and digital content)
- BAFTA Scotland (moving image)
- PACT (independent television, film, digital, children's and animation media)
- British Institute for Interior Design
- Association for Contemporary Jewellery
- Contemporary British Silversmiths
- British Institute of Professional Photography
- Association of Photographers
- Publishing Scotland
- Association of Independent Music Producers
- British Phonographic Industry
- UK Web Developers Association
- ScotlandIS (digital content)
