18 Bateman St
London, UK

Program for

7 July 2027

Friday

Friday

Friday

Main area

10.00

Talk

Kick-off and opening words

A short welcome to open the weekend, introduce the theme, and set the tone for three days of learning, making, talking, and meeting people offline.

Room 310

8 spots left

10.30 - 12.00

Elias Novak

Creative Strategist

10 Signal Studio

Workshop

Not so awkward filming day

Learn how to film yourself for content without becoming a fake internet version of yourself. Simple setups, prompts, framing, and habits for showing up more naturally.

Room 206

10.30 - 12.30

Mary Feld

Printmaker & Founder

Studio Offcut

Workshop

Print Your Own Manifesto Tee

A hands-on silk-screen printing workshop where participants create their own T-shirts using short statements, symbols, slogans, or visual ideas connected to their creative practice.

Explore nearby

12.00 - 13.30

Talk

Lunch time

Time to eat, decompress, compare notes, and meet people outside your own workshop room.

Main area

+ Livestream

14.00 - 15.00

Nina Voss

Founder & Creative Director

GW Office

Talk

Intentionally small, internationally big

A talk about growing from one person to a 10-person team in under a year. And why smaller teams can be better for culture, quality, margins, and long-term sanity.

Main area

+ Livestream

15.30 - 17.30

Jonas Reed

Moderator

+ 5 panelists

Panel

Is AI Killing Creativity - or Just Exposing the Boring Parts?

A moderated panel on whether AI is good, bad, overhyped, misunderstood, useful, dangerous, or simply unavoidable for the creative industry.

Pink Elephant

18.00

Social

Dinner at the Pink Elephant

A relaxed group dinner nearby for continuing conversations from the day.

Green Leaf Restaurant

18.00

Social

Dinner at the Green Leaf Restaurant

A second nearby dinner option for smaller groups, new introductions, and slower conversations.

Program for

8 July 2027

Saturday

Saturday

Main area

10.00

Talk

Second day kicks off

A short morning gathering to introduce the day’s sessions, picnic format, and evening plans.

Room 208

10.30 - 12.30

Clara Mendoza

Freelance Finance Educator & Founder

Soft Ledger

Workshop

Money Without the Meltdown

A practical workshop on tracking expenses, understanding your real costs, planning for irregular income, and making better money decisions as a freelancer or independent creative.

Room 312

10.30 - 12.30

Tomas Keller

Design Business Consultant

Studio Margin

Workshop

Price Your Work Without Apologizing

A practical session on pricing creative work, calculating your baseline, building offers, and understanding when low rates are quietly damaging your practice.

Outside

13.00 - 15.30

Talk

Lunch picnic outside

A long outdoor lunch with time to eat, meet people, join informal conversations, and take a proper break from the venue.

Main area

16.00 - 18.00

Designers, critics, and stand-up comics

Panel

Portfolio Roast ‘27

The most anticipated event of the year! A live portfolio critique with useful and not so useful feedback, filled with honest reactions, all with a twist of dark humor.

Mickey's Pub of Many Drinks

19.00

Social

Dinner and drinks at Mickey's

An informal evening meetup for food, drinks, and the kind of conversations that usually start after the program ends.

Program for

9 July 2027

Sunday

Sunday

Main area

11.00

Talk

Sunday kick-off

A slower start to the final day with coffee, recaps, and a look at the closing sessions.

Main area

+ Livestream

11.30 - 13.00

Adrian Vale

Consultant

A.V. Consultancy

Talk

Selling Creative Work

A lecture on the business of design, how to shape a strong sales pitch, and how to get your foot in the door with major companies while still building a mobile, independent creative life.

Outside

13.00 - 15.00

Talk

Picnic lunch

A final long lunch for conversations, new contacts, and closing the weekend without rushing people out the door.

Main area

15.00 - 17.00

Julian Hart

Author & Essayist

Talk

The Typewriter Method

A lecture on writing daily with a typewriter, working without AI input, scanning drafts back into a digital workflow, and using friction, noise, and repetition as tools for creative discipline. Includes a process for writing more clearly, more often, and with less dependence on digital prompts.

Main area

17.00

Talk

Closing words

A short closing moment to end the weekend, thank everyone involved, and send people back into their own creative work with new contacts, references, and energy.

July 7–9 · London, UK

See you soon!

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18B Community Lab by Hans EP.

July 7–9 · London, UK

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18B Community Lab by Hans EP.

July 7–9 · London, UK

See you soon!

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18B Community Lab by Hans EP.

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