FESTIVAL & CARNIVAL LAB

Full details for 26-27 applications coming soon!

Are you aged 18-35, from a Black Heritage background*? Are you interested in learning how to produce events? Do you want to help produce some of the best and biggest events in the UK?

Festival & Carnival Lab is back in 2026-2027, after 2 successful years in the running!

With our collective experience producing events over 30 years in the Festivals and Live Events Industry, we observed that the representation of people from Black Heritage communities in senior production was alarmingly low across the board in major festivals such as Glastonbury & our UK Carnivals; Notting Hill, St Paul’s and Hackney.

This course will offer 10 people the chance to develop their knowledge & skills in various aspects of delivering and producing live events

The course will run for 10 weeks in London. Once you have completed the course in full; you will be offered paid work experience at festivals and events (local and across the UK) - previous opportunities included: Glastonbury Festival, Download Festival, Boomtown Fair, Wilderness Festival, Notting Hill Carnival, Hackney Carnival, Secret Garden Party, Shambala, Great Get Together

We have selected an exciting team of well-experienced professionals, from all areas of the event industry to provide you with the skills needed to prepare you for work onsite; where you will have the opportunity to put into practice your ‘new knowledge’. Tutors will be from organisations including Continental Drifts, Glastonbury Festival, Global Carnivalz, Notting Hill Carnival & more!

The aim of the course and placements is for you to secure enough event experience on your CV, by the end of summer, to enable you to confidently approach production companies and carnivals for work.

You will have full support from all the partners presenting the course, guiding you through the whole process. They will act as mentors to give you the best chances of getting a good job in the event industry.

The course is completely free.

You will receive expenses at the event(s) you work at. 

If you are excited about events and love solving problems, working hard, working as a team and want to get involved at a senior level in production - this is the course for YOU!