Our Story

how it all began

Set up in 2017, Womenfolk is a project by Blick Shared Studios  and one close to our hearts as Blick is an organisation founded and run by women. At Blick we host a variety of creative industry support and networking events and generally have more women than men in the audience, but sadly don’t see that translated into women-led businesses using our workspace.

OUR AIM FOR WOMENFOLK

To provide support, community and peer learning opportunities to empower more creative women with a passion for running their own business to make their dreams a reality.

how do we do this

We offer opportunities for meeting and learning from other like-minded creative women at our events and workshops and through our online content, creative enterprise and mentoring programs. We also offer opportunities for showcasing your business on our website and social media and through speaking opportunities at our events and workshops.

OUR JOURNEY SO FAR

Since 2017 we have been involved in a number of different events and programmes including producing our first publication in 2019 which shares a selection of interviews with Northern Irish women designers. In 2020-21 we ran a creative enterprise programme for young women called Dig Deep which supported 27 young women over a 9-month period to start their own creative businesses. Over the years we have also hosted lots of different events, workshops and panel discussions as well as regular peer mentoring groups to give women creatives who run their own business or want to run their own business an opportunity to get together and learn from each other.