WHO ARE WE…

In the highly competitive market of start-ups, Art Clubbers CIC is an award-winning arts organisation on the path of becoming one of the leading cultural companies. Championing and supporting budding creatives, Art Clubbers CIC has delivered extensive projects and programmes across public, private and third sectors to support underrepresented young Londoners access into the creative sector, as well as consulting businesses to embed diversity and inclusion is at the core of its activities.

As an organisation that is both culturally diverse and LGBT+ led, we occupy the creative and cultural sector like no other organisation. Our diverse team bring to the table a variety of lived experiences as budding creatives themselves, which continue to shape and mould our offers in innovative and unique ways.

OUR STORY 

After graduating from university in 2016 with a BA in Fine Art, Managing Director Ajay Pabial had found himself hitting a brick wall when trying to find work within the sector. Discovering that with many art graduates, University puts you on a pedestal, giving the impression that you can take on the world, now prepared for what the future may hold with a paper scroll in hand. The reality was far from it. Creative higher education, as with many, left him navigating the sector on his own. This needed to stop.

The curriculum of creative degrees was outdated and repetitive, having spoken to Alumni before and after, it was clear that we needed to embed content around navigating the sector, equipping graduates with employability skills and tools to establish themselves as artists, designers and makers – artpreneurs! Ajay believes that by creating a creative community we can address and bring reform to how creative education can align itself with the sector and embedding practical skills through their courses.

 In 2018, Ajay set up Art Clubbers CIC, a not-for-profit Arts Organisation with the initial hope to act as stepping stone into the industry, providing opportunities and support to allow young Creative's the chance to develop and build their skills and portfolios as well as put in to practice their talents in community focused activities and projects.