Modules

This part of the course features eight modules that build entrepreneurial skills and business acumen with topics from: How to spot opportunities, leading strategic initiatives, to learning and improving from experience.

Module 1

"How to Spot Opportunities"

The purpose of this module is to encourage performing artists to recognise opportunities on a local and national level and develop the confidence to approach those who are influential in providing opportunities.

Module 2

"Developing Creative Ideas"

The purpose of this module is to enable a performing artist to think creatively so that they can further develop the opportunities that are presented to them.

Module 3

"Keeping Motivation and Focus"

The purpose of this module is to provide performing artists with techniques to put effort and focus into following their professional passion and create value for themselves and others even when dealing with setbacks.

Module 4

"Financial and Economic Fundamentals"

The purpose of this module is to provide performing artists with approaches to find funding options and elaborate and manage a financially sustainable budget for their value-creating activities.

Module 5

"Inspiring & Engaging Others"

The purpose of this module is to encourage performing artists to ask for and rely on the support of their networks to promote their work.

Module 6

"Leading strategical Initiatives"

The purpose of this module is to provide performing artists with methodologies to look for opportunities or to come up with ideas and take the initiative to add or create value in activities that both respond to communities’ needs and fulfil learners’ artistic goals.

Module 7

"How to Collaborate with Others"

The purpose of this module is to recognise the varies networks and agencies that are available to performing artists and understand the importance of collaborating with others to grow in their career.

Module 8

"Learning & Improving from Experience"

The purpose of this module is to provide performing artists with processes that can help them recognise, reflect, and judge achievements and failures building on their previous experiences and interactions with others so they can improve their abilities.