The Place To Be! Saturday 3 March, 1-5pm
Creative Practice Seminars for Artists.
Practical toolkits for creatives with leading artists, arts organisations and arts professionals.
In Partnership with Goldsmiths and Lewisham Arts Services
£10 early bird tickets per seminar or £12.50 on the door.
Seminar Room, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, London SE14 6NW
Chaired by Rosalind Davis and Annabel Tilley, ZeitgeistArtsProjects
To book please go to www.ZeitgeistArtsProjects.com
Practical toolkits for artists: finance, marketing, writing funding applications and selling your work and using social media, with leading artists, arts professionals.
Networking, Blogging and Social Media, Making Applications, Writing Proposals & Arts Opportunities
Speakers: Jack Hutchinson, Rob Turner, Brigid Howarth (Lewisham Arts Service) , Matthew Couper, Deptford X, Julia Alvarez, (SLAM)
Arts Opportunities: Where are they? How to find then, fund them and get them seen.
Julia Alvarez: Goldsmiths graduate Director of Bearspace exhibiting emerging artists & South London Art Map www.slam
Brigid Howarth: Arts consultancy business and Lewisham Arts Services, with clients including the Arts Council, Silverstone Holdings Royal College of Art, University of the Arts, London, co-Director of museumaker
Matthew Couper: Deptford X. An annual contemporary visual arts programme Deptford X a festival of some best contemporary visual art in London with residency and commissioning opportunities.
Networking, Blogging and Social Media with Jack Hutchinson.
How to blog, tweet & network to:
· Promote and maximise your practice
· Build New audiences
· Expand and create supportive Peer Networks
· Get jobs and Get paid!
Jack Hutchinson is an artist, writer and critic. A specialist on the role of digital technology within the visual arts, he is Communications Coordinator for AIR and Editor for a-n and AIR. He is a regular contributor to Guardian Online and his writing has featured in including Dazed and Confused, Garageland, AnOther Man, Twin Magazine, a-n Magazine and Schweizer Kunst. www.jackjhutchinson.wordpress.com
Making Applications, Writing Proposals with Rob Turner
Rob Turner is an artist who works in the public realm. Over a 25 year career, Rob has explored his own creativity and engaged directly with the changing relationship between art and society through the creation of well over 100 public and community art works across the U.K.
www. rob-turner.blogspot.com
Tilley and Davis are both artists, curators and writers and the innovative partnership behind the highly successful DIY Educate programme, Show&Tell which provides artist talks, practical workshops & Seminars, one-to-one tutorials, and peer critiques (supported by Elizabeth Murton), placing them at the forefront of independent arts education.
Their artists professional development programmes focus on giving realistic advice and toolkits for the challenges faced by self-employed and portfolio career artists today as well as the opportunities: emphasising professional development, skill-sharing and networking.
