 |
 |
 |
|
Home | About Us > Professional Development
|
||
 |
Professional Development The Alliance for Arts and Culture offers professional development workshops to help cultural workers and arts professionals gain the knowledge they need to succeed in their careers. To join our mailing list to receive updates and announcements on all workshops, please email info@allianceforarts.com with "workshop mailing list" in the subject line. Spring 2008 Workshops Taxes for the self-employed artist - March 12, 2008 Conducting a major gifts campaign - April 8, 2008
Emerging artists and early career arts administrators in all disciplines looking for assistance and feedback on moving their artist visions closer to a working reality. An interactive session to help guide an early artistic vision into a workable and sustainable reality. The workshop will cover personal motivation, research methods and reality checking and will lay the foundation for addressing proposal writing, scheduling and budget considerations. Participants are asked to submit specific questions upon registration that they wish to have discussed during the workshop. Facilitator: Barb Clausen is the founder and producer of New Works and has worked in Vancouver’s arts community since 1980. Originally trained as a visual artist, she later studied dance and has worked as a dance teacher, administrator and programmer. Barb initiated dance programming at the Firehall Arts Centre and has also programmed dance series at the Playhouse Theatre, the Waterfront Theatre and the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. Barb was one of the founders of The Dance Centre and spent four years as the Centre’s first Executive Director. She worked for three years as an officer at the Canada Council in Ottawa. In 1993 Barb founded New Works with a dynamic group of arts adminstrators. Workshop cost: $25 (+GST) Pre-registration and payment is required. 24 hours cancellation notice required to obtain full refund. The Alliance reserves the right to cancel workshops if registration is too low. Please phone 604-681-3535 or email info@allianceforarts.com to register. This workshop will be ideal for self-employed artists and craftspeople who have little or no experience preparing taxes. If you dread tax season, and put off thinking about your taxes until the last minute, then this workshop is for you. After completing this workshop, participants will be armed with the tools to be organized, track revenues and expenses and make tax preparation as painless as possible. Workshop cost: $50 (+GST) for Alliance members, $75 (+GST) for non-members Pre-registration and payment is required. 24 hours cancellation notice required to obtain full refund. The Alliance reserves the right to cancel workshops if registration is too low. Please phone 604-681-3535 or email info@allianceforarts.com to register. Conducting a major gifts campaign: A step-by-step guide This workshop will guide you, step-by-step, through the planning and implementation of a major donor campaign. You will learn how to make a case for your financial need, create a gift chart, recruit a campaign team, identify prospects, develop effective solicitation tools and make “the ask.” Real life case studies and examples will inspire you to create a major gifts campaign for your organization. This workshop will be suitable for development staff, executive directors, artistic directors, board members and volunteers with at least a year fundraising experience and whose organizations already have a base of individual donors giving on an annual basis. Facilitator: Andrea Seale is a Certified Fundraising Executive and Principal of Blueprint Fundraising and Communications (www.blueprintfundraising.com). She has worked in fundraising and communications since 1994. She has helped clients raise millions, build smarter fundraising programs and create lasting relationships with donors. She blogs about fundraising at www.thefundit.com. Her past arts and culture clients include: Ballet BC, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Chor Leoni Men’s Choir, H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Out on Screen, Public Dreams Society, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver International Writers Festival. Workshop cost: $75 (+GST) for Alliance members and $100 (+GST) for non-members Pre-registration and payment is required. 24 hours cancellation notice required to obtain full refund. The Alliance reserves the right to cancel workshops if registration is too low. Please phone 604-681-3535 or email info@allianceforarts.com to register. A workshop for artists and non-profit arts organizations seeking an introduction to financial statement preparation and cash flow projections. The workshop will provide an introduction to the language of accounting and will focus on four key elements: the Balance Sheet, the Income Statement, cash flow projections and what your board needs to know financially. Participants will leave the workshop with the skills required to create financial statements and also to manage cash flow projections. More importantly, participants will leave with the knowledge required to provide their boards of directors with information that will enable the making of timely and proactive financial decisions. Facilitator: Nigel Jones is the owner of Quantum Accounting Services Inc., a Vancouver firm Workshop cost: $50 (+GST) for Alliance members, $75 (+GST) for non-members Pre-registration and payment is required. 24 hours cancellation notice required to obtain full refund. The Alliance reserves the right to cancel workshops if registration is too low. Please phone 604-681-3535 or email info@allianceforarts.com to register.
Last Updated: Copyright © Alliance for Arts and Culture, 2006 |
|
 |
 |
|
