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Arts Matrix Creative Development and Enterprise - Workshops & Individual Consultations
Spring/Summer Season 2008
Are you an artist or creative professional working in the South West? Are you looking to develop your career or grow your creative business?
Whether you’re running a creative enterprise, thinking of setting up in business, or looking at how to develop your career in the arts, ArtsMatrix advisors can help you design a plan to achieve your potential.
We provide development opportunities for professionals across the creative sector. That means designers and dancers, architects and actors, poets and painters, musicians and magicians, as well as creative entrepreneurs.
Creative Development Workshops
Our Spring 2008 season launches with a series of small group workshops (up to 12 people per session) across the South West.
These sessions will enable you to:
Clarify your creative and business goals
Identify your skills, strengths and expertise
Design a plan to achieve your aims
Network with other creative professionals
Full details of the workshops – dates, locations and how to book – are below.
A place at a half-day workshop costs just £15.
Looking for tailored advice?
If you’re looking for in-depth guidance on developing your career, starting a new enterprise or growing your business, then book a one-to-one session: an initial session lasts two hours and you can book as many follow-ups as you need.
Focusing on your specific needs, this session gives you a chance to discuss in detail your professional, creative and business goals and design a plan to achieve them. An initial session is £30 and follow ups are £20.
Guidance from Creative Specialists
Most of our advisors have run – or still run - their own creative businesses and all of us understand the challenges of making a living from creativity.
Here’s just a taster of what South West artists have said about ArtsMatrix:
“The session was extremely helpful, useful and productive. Plenty of information given and leads
to potentials in the creative sector. An excellent service.”
“Excellent, well structured, brilliant advice, ways of looking at problems and problem solving.”
“Information I could only find from somebody who has worked in the creative sector.”
“ArtsMatrix helps artists make their dreams come true”
This sounds great – when can I come?
Workshops run April to July. These are confirmed dates in May:
Thursday 15th May
9.30am – 1pm
Gloucester
glos@artsmatrix.org.ukFriday 16th May
10.00am – 1pm
Bristol
bristol@artsmatrix.org.ukFriday 16th May
tbc
Devon
devon@artsmatrix.org.ukMonday 19th May
tbc
Wiltshire
wilts@artsmatrix.org.ukThursday 22nd May
tbc
Plymouth
plymouth@artsmatrix.org.ukWednesday 28th May
tbc
Devon
devon@artsmatrix.org.ukWednesday June 4th
1 - 4:30
Taunton
somerset@artsmatrix.org.ukThursday June 26th
Wednesday June 9th
1 – 4:30
Glastonbury
Yeovil
somerset@artsmatrix.org.uk To book a one-to-one session, just contact one of our offices – we have advisors based across the South West region. And if you live on a border between two counties, you can choose the nearest office – or call our central office on 0117 915 0190 or
info@artsmatrix.org.uk for advice.
Bristol & Bath:
bristol@artsmatrix.org.uk tel. 0117 915 0182
Devon:
devon@artsmatrix.org.uk tel. 01626 830533
Dorset:
dorset@artsmatrix.org.uk tel. 01202 853642
Gloucester:
glos@artsmatrix.org.uk tel. 01452 417227
Plymouth:
plymouth@artsmatrix.org.uk tel. 01752 666731
Somerset:
somerset@artsmatrix.org.uk tel. 01626 830533
Wiltshire:
wilts@artsmatrix.org.uk tel. 01249 714529
The money bit – what does it cost?
First consultation (2 hours): £30
Follow up consultation (1 hour): £20
Package of 4 sessions booked and paid in advance (5 hrs): £85
Group creative planning workshops (half-day): £15/person
These are subsidised rates for people living or working in the South West region. The South West includes Bristol and Bath, Cornwall, Devon (including Plymouth), Dorset (including Bournemouth & Poole), Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire. Similar services are provided in Cornwall by Creative Skills; Cornish residents are also welcome to access ArtsMatrix.
Group bookings
We offer a range of organisational development, business planning, and professional development planning services to larger organisations, teams and artists groups: Please call our head office for further details and rates: 0117 915 0190 or info@artsmatrix.org.uk
Artists and Creative Businesses based outside the South West
We welcome enquiries from clients living and working outside the region. As ArtsMatrix currently receives no funding to operate outside the South West, rates for those outside the region are as follows: First session (2 hours) £90; follow up sessions £60/hour. Creative professionals from outside the region can attend our Creative Planning Workshops for £30 per person.
Note: This is a new programme of work subsidised by Arts Council England, South West. If you have benefited from ArtsMatrix services in the past under previous funding streams, you are more than welcome to return to work with us again. The subsidised rates above apply to all.