Growing Pains In The Arts
Getting good at fundraising, marketing and governance
Presented by
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra & Arts Tasmania
About the program
The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, with support from Tasmanian Community Fund Board and Arts Tasmania, is offering a series of skill development seminars for Tasmania’s small-to-medium creative sector. The program is geared to organisations and practices that are presenting great work but faced with constant issues of sustainability and wondering how to get the next thing off the ground.
Over eight separate modules, participants will be able to bring real-life working situations to the table and walk away with a suite of tools and concrete plans to help their practice or organisation. The program is designed to build skills in important areas of revenue generation and governance.
Importantly, participants will have the opportunity to spend time with and learn from each other, and become part of a rich and diverse alumni group with the potential to change the outlook of the Tasmanian arts and cultural sector.
Who should attend?
The program is open to all organisations and individual artists working in performing and visual arts and the wider creative industries. It will suit those responsible for managing arts and cultural organisations, and early-to-mid career arts and creative industries managers. It is also open to post-graduate and final-year students studying creative industries disciplines.
Each module will address key principles of fundraising, marketing, communications and governance and provide time to discuss and workshop current issues.
COURSE CONVENORS & MODERATORS:
Caroline Sharpen and Samuel Cairnduff, TSO
DATE/TIME |
MODULES |
PRESENTER |
Monday 12/10 5.30 – 7.30 pm |
Building Philanthropic Support for your Creative Practice |
Jane Haley, Ten Days on the Island |
Monday 19/10 5.30 – 7.30 pm |
A User’s Guide to Festivalisation – or how to make your work festival-ready |
Tony Bonney, Festival Consultant |
Monday 26/10 5.30 – 7.30 pm |
Beyond ‘build it and they will come’ - Building audiences for your work |
Sam Cairnduff, Director Marketing TSO |
Monday 2/11 5.30 – 7.30 pm |
Public Support for the Arts |
Presented by the team from Arts Tasmania |
Monday 9/11 12.00 - 2.00 pm |
Financial strategy for small-to-medium arts organisations |
John De Paoli, CFO TSO |
Monday 16/11 12.00 - 2.00 pm |
How to engage with your Members of Parliament and advocate for your work |
Hon Andrew Wilkie MP, Member for Clark |
Monday 23/11 12.00 - 2.00 pm |
Creating and leveraging value - knowing what you have and how to make the most of it |
Adam Blake, Co-COO Blundstone |
Monday 30/11 12.00 - 2.00 pm |
Role of the Arts in Place Branding and Promotion |
Todd Babiak, CEO Brand Tasmania |
COURSE FEES: FREE, thanks to support from Arts Tasmania and the Tasmanian Community Fund Board.
MORE INFORMATION/BOOKING:
For more information please contact Shaunagh O'Neill - ph: (03) 6232 4411; email: ONeillS@tso.com.au - or BOOK NOW
Special acknowledgment to Dr David Rich, TSO Director 2008-2020, TSO Chair 2015-2020.
Growing Pains In The Arts was assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts.

