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Creative Entrepreneurship Day is a one-day virtual event that includes a keynote, panel discussion, and interactive breakout groups targeting personal branding, grant writing, financial planning, and mental health & wellness for artists.
This year’s theme is The Complete Creative. Focused on developing who we are as artists, diversifying portfolios, and learning hands on entrepreneurial skills, this day aims to help the developing artist create stability in their arts career. Creative Entrepreneurship is for artists of all disciplines looking to develop their skills and further their artistic practice.
Creative Entrepreneurship 2022 will be presented online via Zoom and is FREE for members of Creative Manitoba. Individual memberships range from $15-$25 per year. Click here to become a member.
SCHEDULE: March 12, 2022
10:00am – 11:10am: Artistic Vision with Debbie Patterson
Before the business plan and the promotion and marketing, there’s a brilliant artistic vision with a boatload of passion behind it. This is the fuel that powers your enterprise. Let’s refine it.
11:15am – 12:30pm: Breakout Session 1
Breakout sessions are opportunities to connect and discuss amongst each other in small groups. The conversation possibilities are endless! Come with questions and a desire to collaborate across disciplines and screens.
There are multiple breakouts for each topic led by different artists and community leaders. Please look over the bios below to help you choose which breakout sessions will be the most helpful for you and your career!
Financial Planning for Artists with Chris Enns
Are your finances a major source of stress? In this workshop, we’ll talk about the fundamentals of finance and tax basics for self-employed artists. We’ll work with tools that help connect your money to what really matters, manage money when your income is variable, and strategies to pay off debt/save for the big things you’re working towards.
Grants for Music and Film with Stephen Carroll and Brian Clasper
Are you a musician or filmmaker looking for funding for your upcoming project? Join Stephen and Brian from Manitoba Film and Music to help guide you through the granting process. Together, they’ll discuss where to find funding sources, budgeting and how to write a successful grant.
You’re on Mute – Authentic Branding with Heidi Hunter
What if there were a sneaky way to discover your brand? What if uncovering the unique position you hold in your artform is as easy as realizing that your brand is waiting and welcoming you. Heidi Hunter invites you to find that mute button and allow your business voice to sing. In this workshop, Heidi will invite participants to grab pen and paper (yep, it’s analog all the way, baby) and approach crafting your brand – not on the keyboard, not in a linear way, but through a sneaky playful manner through mapping, writing, and spiralling into what you do best…being YOU
12:30pm – 1:00pm: Break
1:00pm – 2:15pm: Breakout Session 2
Financial Planning for Artists with Chris Enns
Are your finances a major source of stress? In this workshop, we’ll talk about the fundamentals of finance and how to start building a financial technique. We’ll work with tools that help connect your money to what really matters, manage money when your income is variable, and strategies to pay off debt/save for the big things you’re working towards.
Show Me the Money (Multidisciplinary Grant-Writing) with Charlene Diehl
One of the brutal truths about pursuing your dreams of making art—in whatever field—is that you will have to steel yourself to enter the grant-writing world. In our breakout session, we’ll talk about some of the basic skills and strategies for writing grants: large-scale thinking about your career path, small-scale thinking about specific projects, getting (& keeping) your grant documents and dates organized, thinking carefully about what specific questions are asking of you, making realistic budgets, and handling success and rejection. Hopefully we’ll dispel some of the anxiety, and perhaps you’ll come out the other side with a sense of purpose and even some excitement!
How to Navigate Solopreneur Workloads and the Pressures of Social Media with Cori Jaye
Join artist and mental health advocate Cori Jaye Ettienne for a breakout session to discuss how to balance all that is expected of today’s solopreneur artists steering their own ships, as well as how to navigate the ever-growing stresses of social media and the never ending pressure to “keep up”.
2:20pm – 3:35pm: ‘Nurturing Your Arts Career’ Panel Discussion with Allison Yearwood, Jorge Requena Ramos Roken, Erica Daniels and Joanne Roberts
Join Allison Yearwood, Joanne Roberts, Jorge Requena Ramos Roken and Erica Daniels for the ‘Nurturing Your Arts Career’ Panel. Closing out CE Day, our speakers discuss their personal journeys through their artistic careers including arts administration, entrepreneurship, and how they diversified their artistic portfolios.
3:40pm: Closing Remarks
Presenters and Breakout Group Leaders
She was honoured with the United Nations Platform for Action Committee’s 2014 Activist Award and the Winnipeg Arts Council Making a Mark Award in 2017. She was twice shortlisted for the Gina Wilkinson Prize. She is a proud advocate for disability justice through her work as founding Artistic Director of Sick + Twisted Theatre.
She lives a wheelchair-enabled life in Winnipeg and in a cabin on the shore of Lake Winnipeg with her partner and collaborator, Arne MacPherson.
Stephen achieved international recognition as a member of the JUNO-nominated band The Weakerthans (Epitaph/Anti Records). After joining the group in 1998, he managed all of the business affairs and helped steer the group to fame. In 2009 he began managing the Manitoba band Imaginary Cities and went on to form Empirical Artist Services Inc. Most recently, he served as the General Manager of the West End Cultural Centre. Stephen was awarded Manager of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards in 2013, after garnering nominations for the award the two previous years. He is also active in the local and national arts community as a volunteer, mentor for artists, and jury member. Stephen was a member of the Board of Directors for FACTOR and currently serves on the Board of Manitoba Music.
In this capacity, he has participated in the investment of scripted and factual feature films, television series and documentary programs. Brian joined Manitoba Film & Music in 2008 where he began as a Location Services Coordinator before shifting over to programs to become the Development and Tax Credit Analyst where he reviewed the agencies’ Development Loans and processed applications for the Manitoba Film & Video Production Tax Credit. Brian is a graduate of the University of Manitoba and Capilano University where he studied film.
Along with her passion for storytelling, is her passion to work with Indigenous youth in her community by reconnecting them to their culture and identity. Erica currently runs a cultural program at the Broadway Neighbourhood Centre and mentors youth in video production. The beauty of her culture continuously inspires her work and motivation of sharing the knowledge of her elders for future generations.
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March 12, 2022
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Venue: Creative Manitoba - 4th Floor, 245 McDermot Avenue
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Cancellation policy
Creative Manitoba reserves the right to cancel or postpone any event where a minimum registration level has not been met. Participants registered for an event that is cancelled by Creative Manitoba will receive a full refund.
Registrants may cancel up to one week before the event to receive a full refund. No refunds will be issued to registrants who cancel within one week of the event start date. No refunds will be issued for registrants who do not attend.
Substitute participants are allowed in most cases, but not all. Please check with us ahead of time if you wish to send a substitute participant by calling 204-927-2787.
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