What does success mean today?

In a world of rising costs and shrinking support, what does it mean to succeed as a creative today?

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  • Sunday, 14 December 2025

  • V&A East Storehouse

    Parkes Street, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Hackney Wick, London, E20 3AX
  • Art Explora Creative Studio 2, GF04

  • Free event

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This session challenges dominant metrics of success, centring inclusive, diverse, values-led alternatives. It creates space to reimagine legacy, impact, and sustainability for marginalised creatives in a shifting cultural and economic landscape.

This workshop incorporates a series of audio prompts, voice notes and recorded reflections sourced from East London’s talent, spanning the worlds of art, culture, creativity and community. 

Participants will listen, discuss and respond in real time, building a shared map of perspectives and articulating their own evolving definitions of creative success within the room and beyond.  

This event is for anyone living, working or studying in east London, aged 18+, emerging or established within the creative sector.

As part of the Ideas Exchange series of interactive talks, this event will be documented through film, photography and live artist interpretation.