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Interactive Futures

Now in its sixth year, Interactive Futures is a large gaming expo based in the district that showcases the latest developments and opportunities in the video game industry. It brings together the UK’s games community, games enthusiasts, the next generation of games designers, and creative powerhouses. The event highlights key issues facing the industry, shines a light on career opportunities and provides a platform for networking and collaboration between businesses – home to industry leaders including Playground Games, EA Sports and SEGA HARDlight.
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Let’s Talk Games

Let’s Talk Games is a FREE educational games conference dedicated to providing expert insights into the art and design of video games. It has taken place at the Royal Spa Centre, Leamington Spa, in 2023 and 2024. Whether you’re curious about breaking into the industry or wondering what discipline to study, the annual conference is an essential event for any student eager to dive into a career in the games industry.
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The Fold: Creative Mixers

The Fold, Leamington, host monthly Creative Mixers, which bring together a network of like-minded, creative individuals to collaborate, share and learn from industry experts and peers.
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TEDxLeamingtonSpa

TEDx is a grassroots community run initiative launched to honour TED’s original mission of ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’. TEDxLeamingtonSpa provides a global platform for our community’s ideas. Ideas curated, coached, staged and filmed in our community, have been viewed over 10 million times online, making us one of the UK’s most watched events with a volunteer team that is often showcased for its excellence within the global TEDx community. The team also hosts regular screenings of annual TED Conferences providing opportunities for inspiration.
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Pechakucha Leamington

PechaKucha’s 20x20 presentation format restricts speakers to showing 20 chosen images, each for 20 seconds only. In total speakers have just 400 seconds to tell their story, with visuals guiding the way. PechaKucha means “chit chat” in Japanese. Three million people have attended PechaKucha events worldwide. PechaKucha Leamington is incredibly popular and has a loyal following of attendees and speakers. Royal Leamington Spa’s PechaKucha has now been running for over 5 years and has so far had 2,450 audience members enjoy the joys of others’ stories, journeys and adventures. The event itself has been on a journey, first starting out at the local Irish Club in Leamington, over to 1 Mill Street and now based at The Fold - one of the newest additions to the creative quarter, perfectly situation in our town, a co-working space and community hub, designed for imaginative and innovative events.
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Spark

The Spark Symposium has been a key event in Warwick District’s creative community since its inception in February 2020. Over five years, it has attracted more than 2,000 participants from across the district’s four towns and beyond, with the goal of turning creative ideas into action and promoting the growth of the creative sector. The symposium has hosted 42 panel discussions featuring over 100 influential speakers on topics pertinent to the local creative industries. It has also offered more than 15 professional development workshops, designed to meet the needs of the sector, along with several artist commissions. The event’s marketplace allowed local creative individuals and organisations to showcase their work, while free lunch and refreshments fostered networking opportunities.
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The Arts Society Royal Leamington Spa

The Arts Society Royal Leamington Spa (TAS RLS) is part of a leading national arts education charity which brings people together through a shared curiosity for, and appreciation of, the arts. The Arts Society’s vision is the belief that the arts have the potential to enrich peoples’ lives, and this is at the heart of everything we do. Founded in 1993, and with over 550 members today, they are an inclusive, sociable and friendly organisation, providing education through their lectures where world class speakers share their specialist knowledge. They preserve heritage for the future through volunteering. As a charity, they give financial support to local artists, makers and projects through community grants, and they organise events that give both social and educational benefits to their members. TAS RLS believe that the efforts of TAS RLS create a better, healthier and more connected society.
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