Get involved in the 2027 festival
Our Creative Thinking Festival is an international gathering of educators, students, and professionals from across the creative and education sectors.
It celebrates bold ideas, innovative thinking, and the power of learning to shape a better future.
By supporting our festival, your business, organisation or school joins a movement that is reimagining education, one that values curiosity, sustainability, and creativity with purpose.
We connect
We create connections between creative minds across industries and education, locally and globally, to inspire new ideas.
We show
We showcase and celebrate innovation that’s challenging the status quo.
We build
We’re growing a community of creative thinkers who push the boundaries of what’s possible.
We expand
We share best practices and collaboration methods to amplify the impact of creative thinking.
Education
What’s in it for you?
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The festival is a chance to try new things and take them back to your classroom. Discover approaches that nurture different learning styles, bring future skills like creative thinking and collaboration to life, and explore how AI is changing what good learning looks like without losing the joy of it.
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Share what's working, hear what others are doing, and build connections with creative minds locally and globally. The festival is a space for educators to unlearn, share perspectives and rediscover their own creative capabilities alongside people who get it.
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Experience how creativity, purpose and real-world challenges can meaningfully connect your teaching to industry. Walk away with new ways to hear and champion your pupils' stories and the confidence to tell your own.
“Learning through play… inspiring creativity and curiosity… the perfect way to spend the day!”
“We’re still getting education wrong and yesterday reminded me why!”
“I never expected to leave the room feeling inspired and truly excited for the education sector”
Industry
What’s in it for you?
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Recognised by HundrED as a leading global education innovation, our festivals bring together the people and ideas shaping a new future for learning and work.
This is your opportunity to align your brand with educators, changemakers and innovators who are defining what the future workforce looks like and to be recognised for backing purpose-driven, cross-sector change.
Get in touch to learn more about our sponsorship packages.
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Play a direct role in shaping what matters in the future workforce. Get involved to bring the power of the creative process directly into schools and education, and see the impact for yourself.
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Experience what happens when you sit around a table with diverse minds and actually create together. Industry leaders have the opportunity to collaborate with educators to solve real challenges and leave with ideas that don't stay in the room.
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We help you tell your story. Showcase your involvement, share the innovations you're backing and grow a community of creative thinkers who are pushing the boundaries of what's possible. This is an impact you can see, share and be proud of.
“The work they do with young people is phenomenal - at the cutting edge of opening opportunities for school-age students to expand their thinking”
“This changes their relationship to their future. What's possible. How their creativity can make a difference”
“In a room full of teachers, industry, Scottish Government, NHS partners and Scottish Agencies, there was a palpable energy!”
It’s easy to feel like small cogs in a wheel.
One voice.
One classroom.
One organisation.
But when we come together, across sectors, across systems, across roles, something powerful happens.
We begin to shape something bigger than any one of us. A shared code for the future of learning, creativity and work.
The Creative Thinking Festival is not a showcase. It’s a shared space to imagine what happens when we get it right.
Let’s rethink what education can be. Together.
Discover more about the dedicated team behind the festival that are looking to inspire the next generation of learners
Contact us
Got a question about the Creative Thinking Festival or interested in attending one of our future events? Get in touch.