Online: Pitchface: The Creative’s Guide to Pitching

No matter your work as a creative professional, someday you’ll have to present your ideas to others, with courage and the power of persuasion. But how?

Pitching is a necessary part of creative practice, whether it’s discussing an idea for a work, talking to funding bodies about a project, or persuading a client to accept a proposal. It’s fraught with legal and marketing challenges and needs to be approached in a thoughtful and strategic way.

Pitchface is a relaxed workshop that provides practical advice on how to tell your best story while protecting your ideas, and shares simple tips and tricks to build lasting relationships with the people who can help bring your ideas to life.

Participants will learn the following, with a focus on arts practice and creative industries:

– Preparing for the Pitch – Making sure you, and your idea, are both ready for the process.
– How to put an idea together in a practical, shareable form for a pitch, including assets.
– How to put an idea together in a practical, shareable form for a pitch, including assets.
– Tips for presenting live and in person, online and in writing.
– Understanding the vulnerabilities of pitching and how to protect yourself legally.
– The all-important Follow-Up, and how to make sure the pitch is just the beginning.

This is not a workshop where participants will be expected to practice their own pitch, but they are most welcome to share their own experiences and ask all the questions they like.

What do I get?

Participants will receive a curated selection of resources that can be used for a variety of different funding applications, including:

– A practical Workbook to assist with the interactive elements of the workshops.
– Lifetime access to a Dropbox folder jam-packed with additional resources and helpful links.
– Access to additional free webinars to supplement the material covered in the workshop.
– Information on how to access further one-to-one business advice, mentoring and support from one of our creative industries business specialist advisors.

Who is presenting?
Monica Davidson – Monica Davidson is an award-winning expert on the creative industries, who began her professional life as a freelance journalist, performer, and filmmaker. Monica has a Masters degree in Screen Arts and Business from AFTRS, and was appointed as Australia’s first Creative Industries Business Advisor in 2013. In 2016 Monica founded the social enterprise Creative Plus Business, an organisation dedicated to educating creatives about small business skills, financial literacy and marketing.

What is CREATIVE PLUS BUSINESS?
We’re a social enterprise dedicated to educating creative people and arts organisations about business skills. We help by sharing practical knowledge in a fun and irreverent way, and everything we do is designed to help creatives to feel more confident and comfortable about the entrepreneurial aspects of their creative practice.

Accessibility: if you have any access requirements, please email hello@creativeplusbusiness.com

Cost: Registration is AU$47 incl gst. No Booking Fee is charged for registrations to our workshops.

This workshop will take place online and is open to anyone in Australia or internationally. You will receive a link to the workshop in an email from Creative Plus Business prior to the workshop.