Photo: Luke Currie-Richardson and Tjarutja Dance Collective.
The Mill is facilitating a series of professional development workshops at The Mill, Adelaide, with dance industry leaders from BlakDance QLD.
Workshop 1: Intro Yarn, April 21
Getting to know each other, discussing each others practice/creative goals, about BlakDance, the organisations history, programs, how we operate and work with artists.
Workshop 2: Business Basics for Independent Artists, April 28
Business Basics for Independent Artists - the decision to set up as a business, minimum things needed to apply for funding, enter contracts etc, auspicing vs self-managed.
Workshop 3: The First Nations Dance Ecology, July 28, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
A workshop on how new work is funded and developed, overview of the sector, who is making work, where is it being produced, the different business models/structures in which artists are making work e.g. independents, companies and collectives presented. BlakDance will be delivering this workshop online from Brisbane.
Workshop 4: Managing Cultural Protocols, September 8, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Merindah Donnelly (Wiradjuri) Co-CEO & Executive Producer and Kate Eltham Co-CEO & Business Director from BlakDance will be facilitating the workshop and will have guest speaker Olivia Adams (Wulli Wulli) who is Associate Producer and Associate Artist at Blakdance.
Workshop 5: Grant Writing/Producing skills, November 3, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Co-CEO & Business Director Kate Eltham from BlakDance will be leading this workshop about grant writing and producing skills.
This program is supported by:
