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Navigate your arts career in an ever-changing world!
The pandemic forced artists to pivot and find new ways of sustaining themselves for the last two and a half years. As we slowly transition into a post-pandemic world, now what? How do we continue to move forward and create in this new world? What knowledge did we gain during this time that we can use to make our artistic future more successful?
Emergence is a day-long conference for artists, focused on business skill-building and adapting artistic practices in this ever-changing world. Learn about business planning, diversifying your income streams, marketing and promotion, engagement and inclusion and the value of digital tools.
Emergence will help you maintain your artistic practice, give you new methods of sustaining yourself financially, gain the tools to promote yourself and inspire new work.
**This is a hybrid event! Tickets are available for in-person and online participation. Please select tickets carefully**
Catered lunch will be provided for in-person participants.
Schedule
10:00am – Welcome/Meet & Greet with RobYn Slade
Grab a coffee and meet and mingle with each other and your host RobYn Slade as we settle in for what is sure to be an inspiring day!
10:30am – Keynote Address: Set your compass, be ready for change – with Cate Friesen
When you meet someone for the first time, the question that’s bound to come up will be “What do you do?” Maybe you are a musician, a clothing designer, a visual artist, a business owner–but what does that actually tell anyone about you and why they should connect with you? Work with you? Buy from you? Even more important, what does that tell you about yourself and what drives you?
The question may be ‘what do you do? but the real answer is in the Why and the How of what you do. When you can explain that – to yourself and to others – you are grounding yourself in what you value, what you are passionate about, what makes you tick. It’s your true north. Cate Friesen brings her passion for story and her gift of engagement to the conference to help you set your own compass to build crucial connections and be ready for change.
11:10am – Business Planning: Do You Need to Backup? (workshop) with Yvette Hawkes
During the pandemic, many individuals started their own businesses from home. Maybe you’ve started selling vintage clothing online, or making earrings and selling them on Instagram. In your excitement to launch, maybe you’ve skipped over a few steps in the business planning process to make your creative venture legit. Let’s backup a little and talk about the start-up steps, checklist style – and see how many things you can cross off!
12:05pm – Income Streams (panel discussion) with Andrina Turenne, James Culleton and Cate Friesen
Due to much of the live performing arts scenes being shut down during the pandemic, many artists have been forced to pivot their practices or change artistic disciplines altogether. How to diversify what you are doing as an artist and still get paid. New jobs have developed, how can you get on the forefront of what’s happening and stay relevant.
12:50pm – Catered Lunch
1:35pm – Inclusion (panel discussion) with Jessie Pruden, Allison Yearwood and Yvette Cenerini
The global pandemic has forced us to take a much-needed break and examine the world we live in and the great discrepancies that exist. How can we bring inclusion into the work we do as artists from the beginning? How can we reach a greater and more diverse audience? How can we make spaces where everyone feels welcome and safe? And how do we advocate for ourselves when we don’t feel welcome or safe in a space?
2:30pm – Giving Your Brand Wings (workshop) with Heidi Hunter
3:25pm – Hybrid Events (panel discussion) with Dean Cooper, John Toews and Kyle Thomas
The pandemic forced us to all become a little too familiar with online video platforms like Zoom. Now that some events are happening in person again how can we keep things accessible for everyone? How can we satisfy the in person and remote? Hybrid events are the way of the future. How can we make a successful hybrid event?
Presenters and Panelists (more to be announced soon!)
Dean Cooper has been a media educator and video producer for over 30 years. He taught media production at RRC Polytech for 25 years, and was instrumental is starting the new Digital Film and Media Production program. An experienced voice-over artist, he also owns his own corporate production company and specializes in training, promotional, and live-stream video productions for his clients.
James Culleton is a Canadian contemporary multi-media artist and designer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He specializes in drawing, sculpture, and furniture design. His work has been exhibited throughout Manitoba, across Canada and into the United States.
As the driving force of The Story Source, Cate Friesen helps you discover and tell your essential stories, the ones that will move your work forward, and inspire others to act with you. She is a story catalyst, facilitator, trainer and keynote presenter who draws on over 30 years of experience as an award-winning CBC producer, singer-songwriter and performer, documentary maker and entrepreneur. Find out more about Cate at https://www.thestorysource.ca/the-story-force
bead ‘n butter is owned by Jessie Pruden, a queer, colourful Métis woman from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Beading runs in her family and when Jessie picked up the needle and thread for the first time, it felt ĺ́ike home. She is inspired by her family, friends, fashion, nature and the spirit of our Indigenous community. Putting a contemporary spin on beaded jewelry, she mixes bright, in-your-face colour with bold graphic design, creating special statement pieces for any occasion, and any person. Each piece is carefully designed and handmade in her little office by her and her small team of friends and family, overseen by her half-chihuahua, half-pug Bella, using glass Miyuki seed beads, and precious stones.
John Toews is the Event Coordinator at McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg. In that capacity, he has organized, promoted, executed, and hosted hundreds of events each year for over a decade. Starting in the Fall of 2020, the store began to incorporate virtual and hybrid events into their repertoire with all instore events simultaneously broadcast online. In 2015, John received an Honorary Membership award from The League of Canadian Poets. He currently serves as the chair of the Board of Directors of send + receive, an international festival of experimental music and sound art based in Winnipeg on Treaty 1 Territory.
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Emergence
November 19, 2022
10:00 am - 4:30 pm
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.
It is our intent that Creative Manitoba programs and events foster a supportive, nonthreatening environment for everyone to participate and share in - regardless of gender, ability, ethnicity or cultural differences. We ask that you please be welcoming and respectful of world views that differ from your own.