PLAT4M: Business & Development Programme for Artists and Musicians

21/02/2012 to 31/07/2012

Moving you towards a sustainable career

What is Plat4m?

Plat4m is an intensive 6-month professional development programme specifically designed to meet the needs of artists who are culturally, linguistically or ethnically a minority in Hertfordshire and it will support artists at any stage in their artistic career. All art disciplines welcome.

The programme will help you to identify and remove professional barriers, as well as develop your arts practice into a sustainable career. Plat4m will provide artists with:

·         Tools and business knowledge to produce an 18-month Research and Development plan

·         An opportunity to receive commissions for collaborative projects, with other artists on the programme 
Key skills that you will learn include:

• Defining your artistic practice into a commercially sustainable career, without losing artistic integrity
• Business skills and resources to develop your ideas and increase your financial independence
•  Understanding what funders are looking for in project proposals to build your confidence to complete funding applications.
• Enabling and encouraging you to think like an entrepreneur

Modules will include

• Vision and finance
• Project and event management
•  Marketing and audience development
• Business and legal frameworks
  
• Strategic planning and time management  

How much will it cost?

• £140  for World Arts Platform artist registered members
• £250 non-members

Membership of World Arts Platform is FREE. Please visit register via our website

If you would like to discuss a payment plan or you have concerns about your ability to pay the fee please contact orode@worldartsplatform.org.uk

The course is subsidised by World Arts Platform, a non-profit making programme. The participants’ fees will cover the cost of course venue hire, which will have to be paid in advance. Due to this fees will not be refundable once Plat4m has begun.

Where will it take place?

Most of the sessions will take place in Stevenage at:

Stevenage Arts and Leisure Centre, Lytton Way, Stevenage, Herts SG1 1LZ

For an information pack and Expression of Interest form Email orode@worldartsplatform.org.uk

Contact
orode@worldartsplatform.org.uk


Venue
Stevenage Arts & Leisure Centre
Lytton Way
Stevenage
SG1 1LZ
http://www.stevenage-leisure.co.uk

Directions
Public transport: http://www.stevenage-leisure.co.uk/CentrenbspLocator/StevenageArtsampLeisureCentre/tabid/345/Default.aspx
By road: http://www.stevenage-leisure.co.uk/CentrenbspLocator/StevenageArtsampLeisureCentre/tabid/345/Default.aspx