Baltic Creative's Bloom Festival returns to Liverpool in March

Baltic Creative has announced that Bloom Festival will return to Liverpool on Thursday 6 March 2025.

Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, and Kim McGuinness, Mayor of North East England, will officially open Bloom Festival at Camp and Furnace in the Baltic Triangle.

The full-day event is set to be a powerhouse of inspiration, support, and collaboration for businesses working in the North’s booming creative and digital industries.

Bloom 2025 will kick off with a panel discussion, led by the mayors in conversation with Caroline Norbury OBE, chief executive of Creative UK, and Jude Kelly CBE, chair of One Creative North, focused on the themes of collaboration and the power of cross-regional partnerships.

‘One Creative North: Stronger Together’ will explore current policies, future trends, and topics including economic growth, infrastructure investment and innovation. Centred around the power of pan-Northern collaboration, the session will focus on the key regional priorities for advancing the creative, digital and tech sectors in the North of England.

The event will also feature a keynote presentation from author, presenter and business consultant, Mark Shayler, and panel discussions on film, TV and video game production; the next generation of the creative workforce; and the role of placemaking in creative ecosystem development.

Liverpool John Moores University returns as the headline sponsor for this year’s Bloom, with Civic Engineers sponsoring the ‘Creative Placemaking: People, Places and Possibility’ panel. The after party will be hosted at, and sponsored by, BOXPARK.

Baltic Creative has been instrumental in the regeneration of the city’s Baltic Triangle for more than 15 years, now boasting a portfolio of over 100,000 sq ft of commercial space tailored to businesses in the creative, digital and tech sectors.

Through considered investment in placemaking and initiatives like Bloom, the community interest company actively nurtures and sustains the growth of the regional creative economy.

Bloom is also supported by Growth Platform, the Liverpool City Region’s business support service, which champions creative and digital businesses across the city region.

Lynn Haime, CEO of Baltic Creative, commented:

“We’re delighted to have secured a stellar line-up for this year’s Bloom, with regional mayors and representatives of One Creative North and Creative UK leading us into what we know will be an inspiring day of collaboration and connection for those working across the creative industries.

“Last year’s event was a great success, featuring a range of engaging presentations and panel discussions, but this year, we’re going bigger and better. I’m proud that this event can provide a platform for influential leaders to come together, highlighting the vital role that creativity and innovation play in shaping the future of the North.”

For more information on Bloom 2025 and to explore the line-up, please visit www.baltic-creative.com/community/bloom-2025-in-liverpool

Tickets for the event are available to book via Eventbrite.