Design Swansea talk by performance poet Georgia Griffiths and marketing professional Lucy Beddall on creativity, finding one's voice and getting noticed.
Design Swansea #88 is at HQ Urban Kitchen on Thursday 12 November, with Georgia Griffiths and Lucy Beddall taking the lead. The whole evening is built around creativity and finding your voice, with a particular focus on people from working-class backgrounds.
Georgia Griffiths is an award-winning performance poet from the South Wales Valleys. She'll be giving a talk called Permission to Create, which draws on her own journey through poetry and an unconventional career: she won the England Poetry Slam, represented the UK at the Poetry World Cup in Paris, and took the 2025 Glastonbury Festival Poetry Slam. Lucy Beddall, of ten:15 marketing, will be talking about the art of getting noticed, drawing on more than 30 years in advertising, including her time at The Gate on campaigns for Investec, Legal & General, Universal Records and Scope.
Between the two, you've got a poet who's competed on the world stage and an advertising veteran who's worked on some of the biggest names in the business, both talking about how to get your work seen and heard. The night is designed as a workshop, so there's space to connect with other local creatives over drinks and a slice of pizza.
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Design Swansea is supported by MeeCreative, tcols.design, Waters Creative, Swansea College of Art, Gower College, Swansea University and Urban HQ. It starts at 18:30 at HQ Urban Kitchen (Urban HQ), 37 Orchard Street, Swansea, SA1 5AJ.
