Partners present
Artsmart partnered with a wide range of organisations to bring you a series of exciting events. Our partners shared their knowledge and gave you the latest updates about their services and products that can help you progress with your practice and career.
HMRC presents… Advice for the newly self employed
1.30 - 2.15pm, Friday
HMRC gave the audience the lowdown on responsibilities towards paying Tax and National Insurance when starting your own business. As well as giving the audience lots of information, guidance and advice they also aimed to give them the confidence to get it right first time.
Blurb presents… A beginners guide to self publishing
2.45 - 3.30pm, Friday
It's becoming easier and easier to self-publish. The audience learned how to create their own book professionally and easily using Blurb's bookmaking platform, Booksmart®. This seminar provided a quick and simple overview of the platform, bookmaking tools, and gave tips and advice on how to market and sell your book. Blurb enables anyone to design, publish, share, and sell commercial-quality books.
British Library Business & IP Centre presents… How to use our services to succeed
4 - 4.45pm, Friday
Centre Manager Neil Infield reviewed the unique content and services offered by the British Library Business & IP Centre to existing and aspiring creative entrepreneurs. The Centre supports entrepreneurs, inventors and small businesses from the first spark of inspiration to successfully launching and developing a business.
IdeasTap presents… Creative funding and opportunities
5.15 - 6pm, Friday
Do you need funding, career development, advice or creative collaborators? If the answer is yes, IdeasTap, an arts charity set up to help young, creative people, can help on all fronts – whatever field you work in. James Hopkirk, Editor of IdeasTap, joined us to share his knowledge and talked about the types of funding, live briefs and other opportunities available at IdeasTap
Design Trust presents… How to market yourself on a zero budget
10.30 - 11.15am, Saturday
As a new creative graduate, how do you start marketing yourself so that potential clients know you’re there? This workshop was a practical session on how you can start marketing yourself and your products and services on a very limited budget. Design Trust talked through the main marketing strategies and discussed lots of marketing tools and actions you can use by yourself. There was plenty of time to ask questions too.
London Design Festival presents… How to showcase yourself to the world
11.45 - 12.30pm, Saturday
The London Design Festival knows a few things about how to showcase work. A creative festival featuring hundreds of events in London annually, it demonstrates the capital’s pivotal role in global design. Don't miss this opportunity to find how you can reach international markets, future clients, and the press by being part of the London Design Festival.
PleaseFund.Us presents… How to fund your creative idea
1.30 - 2.15pm, Saturday
Getting funding can be challenging. Lucky that digital innovation has supplied us with a brand new way of raising money! PleaseFund.Us gave an introduction to crowdfunding, discussing this risk-free method of fundraising and how almost any creative idea can become a reality. They told the audience the do's, the don'ts, and the absolute musts.
Meanwhile Space Presents… Using empty spaces for new ideas
2.45 - 3.30pm, Saturday
How can you make the most of the empty spaces in London? The audience found out from Meanwhile Space how to gain access to unused spaces in order to experiment with new ideas, hold exhibitions or run a temporary studio. The audience heard more about the Meanwhile Connect service along with information on identifying empty spaces, the limitations, dealing with administration and working with the costs.
twenty%extra presents… Brand You
4 - 4.45pm, Saturday
You are a creative super star but the world doesn’t know about it yet. So how you can let them know? Developed and delivered by creative agency twenty%extra, this session helped the audience learn how to develop their own proposition and create Brand You, to help them get out there and promote themselves. The event helped them to strategically communicate what exactly makes them special.