LYC Creative Taster Session

Date: Wednesday, 27 August 2025
Event: 5.30 - 7.30 PM
Location: Lighthouse Project Space, Unit D, North Level 1, New England House, Brighton, BN1 4GH(map)
Tickets: FREE. Booking Required

Come to one of our free creative taster sessions. Meet the programme mentors and the LYC team. Ask any questions you may have and learn about the different creative disciplines you might explore on our LYC programme.

What is Lighthouse Young Creatives?
Lighthouse Young Creatives (LYC) is a six-month programme for 16-25-year-olds in Brighton and Hove that gives you the tools you need to kick-start your creative career. LYC is about pursuing your interests and ideas for your own creative project and supports you with mentorship, creative masterclasses, business sessions, and opportunities to curate events. We cover photography, video and filmmaking, music, VR and design, with dedicated mentors to help you bring your ideas to life. You’ll have access to equipment and a £200 budget for your project costs.

When does the programme run?
October 2025 - April 2026. Every Wednesday 12.30 - 4.30 pm

Where does the programme run?
Central Brighton

Why?
LYC is an opportunity to explore your creativity and start your path towards a creative career. Meet other young creatives, collaborate, learn the skills you want and get your project made, all with support from mentors and industry professionals.

How?
If interested, attend a taster session to learn more or check out our FAQs here.

Eligibility:
LYC is about increasing access to the creative industries. Our eligibility criteria exists to make sure we’re helping to do that for people who face barriers to access.

These barriers might include, but are not limited to: 

• Low income and/or from a low income or working class household
• Struggling to engage with formal education or training
• Unemployment or under-employment
• Unstable housing
• Drug or alcohol misuse
• Gender
• Disabilities
• Ethnicity
• Neurodiversity
• Care leavers
• Young carers
• Other identified barriers

Applications for the Lighthouse Young Creatives 2025-26 cohort:

Open: Tuesday, 22 July 2025.

Deadline: Tuesday 9 September 2025, 12.00 pm, midday. Unfortunately, we are not able to consider late applications.

[Apply here from 22 July 2025]

ACCESSIBILITY

This event will be held on the ground floor, level access, of Lighthouse Project Space, Unit D North Level 1, New England House, Brighton, BN1 4GH (map)

We have step-free access just to the left of our space. The step-free ramp is 1 metre wide, after the ramp you reach a blue door please use the 'Lighthouse' doorbell, one of the team will come to let you in and you will then go through a door that is 34 in / 86.5cm wide and after that another door in to the space that is 33.5 in / 85cm wide. There is an accessible toilet in the space on the same floor. We have one accessible parking space that must be booked in advance. For further information email info@lighthouse.org.uk or call 01273 647197.

Watch our video on the step-free access at Lighthouse Project Space here. We are fundraising to adapt our entrance, so that everyone enters our space through the same door.

PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO DURING EVENT

Please note, that this event will be photographed/filmed. If you prefer not to be photographed please speak to a member of the Lighthouse team. The photographs and film we capture at our events are used for marketing and promotional purposes for our programme only and are stored securely.