Creative Women's Network - Radical Rest

Come join our Women Who Make - Creative Women's Network event; an opportunity to connect, chat & share with fellow creatives.

You're invited to join us for our gathering of Creative Women in business. Whether you're an artist, writer, creative practitioner, or simply someone who appreciates creativity, this network is for you!

Delivered in partnership with Platform Thirty1, this Women Who Make Creative Network event brings creative women together to explore radical rest as a collective, political and caring practice.

9.45am - 10am: arrivals and settling in

10am - 11.30am: introductions and Kate Oliver, radical rest

11.30am - 11.45am: break and a brew

11.45am - 12:45pm: radically resting!

1pm: close

Hosted at AMFREC, a female-led, up-cycled furniture studio and events space run by Ann Turner, set alongside woodland, the event offers a grounded, welcoming environment to slow down and reflect.

Guest speaker Kate Oliver, founder of Radical Rest, will share insights from her research and practice responding to widespread burnout across the cultural sector. Together, we’ll explore why rest has become so difficult for creative women, how exhaustion shows up in our bodies and work, and what genuinely supports resilience, beyond surface-level “wellness”.

Aligned with Women Who Make themes of self-empowerment, care, resilience and collective action, this gathering creates space for honest conversation, shared experience and permission to pause, recognising rest not as a luxury, but as essential to sustainable creative lives.

We welcome artists and creative practitioners but we also want to create space for women who use creativity in their role in different sectors - so whether you're a nutritionist with a creative mindset, accountant who supports creative businesses, community practitioner championing creativity - this event is for you!