Ready to turn your producing into a thriving business?
This workshop is your essential guide to the small business basics you need, deliberately designed for creatives. We’ll cut through the jargon and get straight to the facts about planning, legal structures, managing time and money, and setting up foolproof systems to prepare you to run a creative enterprise with confidence. Learn how to professionalise your practice, protect your work, and build a sustainable career.
This is a hands-on session for entrepreneurial producers with a longer-term vision beyond the next show.
Monica Davidson is an award-winning expert on the creative industries, who began her professional life as a freelance journalist and filmmaker. In 2014 Monicacompleted her Master’s degree in Screen Arts and Business at AFTRS and was appointed as the first NSW Creative Industries Business Advisor by the Department of Industry. Shortly after she founded the social enterprise Creative Plus Business, which is dedicated to educating creative people about small business and marketing skills.
In 2019, Monica was awarded the QUT Creative Enterprise Australia award for being a Creative Trailblazer that “advocates, mentors, donates, educates and advises within Australia’s creative economy”. Monica continues to work as a writer, filmmaker and occasional performer.