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Cheeky Fest provides opportunities to connect with, learn from, collaborate with other humans via our Mighty Network. Network with artists, businesses, creatives, curators, entrepreneurs, performers, promoters, teachers, ...

Empower, encourage & inspire others by connecting, engaging, listening & sharing

Share your curiosity, experience, ideas, knowledge, network, questions

Help people feel valued as a part of society - increase self confidence

Replace fear with knowing that you have a supportive community

Be valued by other people in a safe collaborative, social space.

Achieve bigger goals that you couldn't achieve on your own

Inspire each other by sharing experiences, lessons, stories.

Connect, communicate & collaborate with other humans.

Navigate your challenges together with vulnerability

Empower & encourage people by sharing theirs.

Improve on & offline communication skills

Find how you coexist with the rest of society,

Be part of something bigger than yourself

With 3 year Degrees costing £30K+ and MAs costing around £10K & expenses in the UK, many feel unable to Study or do so and take on huge debt. Cheeky Education will provide education in the creative & performing arts for MUCH less than the £10k/year you'd pay at a traditional university by facilitating skills sessions & workshops across all aspects of the creative & performing arts lead by other members of our community. 

Get better at what you do, whether you're an actor, artist, blogger, choreographer, composer, dancer, designer, director, engineer, entrepreneur, filmmaker, musician, painter, photographer, producer, poet, teacher or writer.

Cheeky Fest offers education + training through practical workshops & discussions in areas such as artist management, business / entrepreneurship, event management & production, fundraising, marketing & social media,

Gain experience in the arts, business / startups, education, events,

Earn enough money through your passion to support yourself

Opportunities to develop & apply your skills & passions

Are you relying on Benefits or doing a job you hate?

Are you a student looking for paid placement(s)?

Fairly paid employment within the arts

The Cheeky Foundation will support artists, creatives through grants, enabling them to share their work at Cheeky Fest ; Facebook / LinkedIn / Twitter.

Cheeky Ventures will give entrepreneurs an opportunity to share their arts startups and connect with clients, customers & partners.  A platform for & access to invest in human centred arts startups; opportunity to share ideas & connect with potential partners, clients & customers; @CheekyStartups, Facebook & LinkedIn.

Cheeky Fest will be a beautiful, bold, bright, collaborative, colourful, creative, daring, dramatic, dynamic, educational, empowering, encouraging, engaging, enthralling, ear/eye opening, expressive, inspiring, international, invigorating, joyous, participatory, public, progressive, reciprocal, reflective, social, thought-provoking annual Festival.

Conventional approaches, definitions and rules within the creative & performing arts are celebrated, challenged & tested. Audience members can intermingle with artists / creatives & performers - blurring the boundaries between audience and artists.

Opportunities to curate part of Cheeky Fest.

We all have mental health, but we don't all have mental illness. Many people have mental illness at some point in their life.  Mental health issues such as depression and bipolar disorder are a terrible thing if left untreated.  Cheeky aspires to raise awareness or, provide safe space(s) for people to share their challenges and provide resources to help artists, creatives, entrepreneurs & performers to manage their mental health.

In May of 2019 a musician I played with between 2004-12 took his own life after struggling with bipolar disorder.  A number of famous musicians and artists have taken their lives as a result of mental health issues.  What mental health resources are specifically aimed at artists?

I have struggled with depression at various points, and have family members with their own challenges. I have 2 friends who live with forms of psychosis / schizophrenia.  

Are artists such talented and creative communicators because of trauma and difficulty in life? Do artists have particular mechanisms or processes or brains/minds to understand & manage mental health?  In our shared experience here at Cheeky Fest, we have come to recognise that there's often a correlation between creativity and mental health.  As a society we need to create and maintain timely access to support for those who communicate life's stories through their own creativity.  We can come together and support struggling artists so that they live rather than survive and keep entertaining & delighting everyone.

We aim to raise awareness of and provide resources to manage mental health; a number of famous musicians have committed suicide as a result of mental health issues. We are committed to active listening, advocating, educating, and supporting people through the arts. We remain focused on ensuring that help is at the ready for people struggling with their mental health. We want to approach any stigma attached to & raise awareness of and provide resources to manage mental health; a number of famous musicians have committed suicide as a result of mental health issues.