Breaking In: Your Introduction to Creative Careers

Breaking In is an accessible, interactive video platform designed to open doors to the creative industries and help you explore the many career pathways within them. Whether you’re a student, educator, or simply curious about creative work, the platform offers a structured yet flexible journey through nine distinct sectors; each one packed with insight, inspiration, and practical guidance.

What Breaking In Offers

Across nine sectors, you’ll meet artists, creatives, curators, and other professionals who either work for leading organisations across the Midlands or thrive as established freelancers. Each video introduces you to a real person in the field, sharing:

• What their job involves
• Why they love what they do
• How they built their career
• Tips, tricks, and honest advice for anyone starting out

You can explore the sectors in any order, and if one really grabs your attention, you can dive deeper with extended videos offering even more behind‑the‑scenes insight. After completing the platform, you’ll be guided to a curated set of follow‑up resources to help you take your next steps.

Flexible, Accessible, and Classroom‑Ready

Breaking In is designed to work in group settings, like classrooms or workshops, or individually at your own pace. All videos include captions, and the platform aligns with Gatsby Benchmarks 2&5, with additional signposting supporting Benchmarks 3&8.

If you’re using the worksheets, the full experience takes around 90 minutes, though 2 hours is recommended to give students time to explore the follow‑up resources. Educators can run the platform in a teacher‑led format, or students can navigate independently in whichever order matches their interests.

Try out Breaking In here

RicNic Associates launch new activity book in partnership with RAF Museum Midlands

From May to July 2026, Molly, Evie, Fizzah and Owen joined us in a new RicNic Associates programme, working to a live brief to create an activity book for RAF Museum Midlands, inspired by the museum and the mascot Twinkletoes.

The group worked to a brief to create an activity book to inspire local children to attend the museum, exploring content, branding, target audiences, how to work together as a team, and the museum’s history. They then visited the Museum with cameras and sketch pads to tour its collections, discover the tales behind them, and curate inspiring stories and objects to feature in the book.

“I was granted this amazing opportunity to work with RicNic and produce a colouring and activity book for the wonderful RAF museum in Cosford. Me and a team of wonderful young artists, created unique illustrations and activities to tell the unique historical stories. We worked together to fulfil the brief and ultimately created something we were all proud of.” – Owen Davies

The books have now been distirbuted to schools around Walsall, with a limited number available to pickup from the museum.