THE
COURSE
NON LINEAR is a full-time, 13 week intensive training course led by well-known creatives across music, art, design and film.
The course enables East Londoners aged 18 – 24 to unlock your talents, to incubate ideas, and grow your creative capacity so you can land a role in the creative industries or start your own business. There is a heavy emphasis in the course on filmmaking as a mechanism to harness and explore your creativity.
Over 13 weeks we will get you in touch with your inner creativity from ideation, storytelling, financing, entrepreneurship, filming, creating podcasts, how to make a killer job application and how to respond to a brief.
You will have masterclasses with industry professionals, technical skills-based workshops, guest lectures, inspirational bite-sized industry talks, fascinating field trips as well as a considerable time working within creative businesses to help them solve the real world creative challenges they face.
The course curriculum is co-designed and co-delivered by Barking and Dagenham College and A New Direction supported by University College London.
You can check out the work from past graduates here.
A New Direction is an award not for profit organisation generating opportunities for young people to develop their creativity.
The course is also supported by The Mayor’s Fund for London and the Creativity Works programme which is funded by the Citi Foundation, and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
The inaugural course took place from 18th September - 15th December 2023 and was held at Barking and Dagenham College Rush Green Campus, Dagenham Rd, Dagenham, Romford RM7 0XU and on location at some of our partner organisations and creative businesses listed below.
