AMPLIFY | Workshop/Skill Series
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Accounting for Artists & Small Creative Businesses.
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Emporium Creative Hub and ACMI-X’s August Workshop dug into the nitty gritty of accounting for Creative businesses. Covering a number of topics such as:
What Business Structure is right for your business
Business Tax Essentials
Navigating tax incentives for your business
Incentivising employees and profit share arrangements
Plus any questions you might have.
Leading the session was Meredith Fannin of Darkwave Consulting a vibrant Chartered Accounting Firm in Melbourne who specialise in Professional Services for creatives.
Join us on Wednesday 24 August at 12pm for this deep dive into Accounting specific to the needs of the Emporium Creative Hub and ACMI-X residents/community.
About Meredith Fannin Chartered Accountant, Registered Tax Agent, and Certified Xero Advisor
Meredith has been working in public practice accounting her entire professional career. She commenced Darkwave in 2006 and specialises in all Accounting and Tax aspects of the Music, Arts, Film, Media and Entertainment industries. Her experience in this field has resulted in Meredith being selected as an expert witness and forensic accountant in several legal cases, as well as being a sought after speaker at industry conferences and workshops.
Note-Taking Workshop with Libby Butler
When: Saturday, 14 May, 10am–4pm AEDT
Where: ACMI X, Level 4/2 Kavanagh St, Southbank VIC 3006
Tickets: $30
If you've heard of a script co-ordinator or notetaker and thought "What is that... and how do I do it?", then this one-day workshop is for you. It aims to ease those nerves and provide an overview to the whole note-taking business, while arming you a positive mindset that makes it all worthwhile.
We’ll be covering the kinds of notes you’ll be required to take in TV Development, from brainstorming notes to episodic plotting notes. We’ll go through a list of do's and don’ts; from writing everything down verbatim (including private/inappropriate jokes) to being too editorially confident. We’ll discuss how to make content pages, sub-headings and avoid repetition. We’ll workshop how best to get your voice heard in the room, and we’ll discuss how to navigate the tricky issue of proving yourself without giving your gold away.
Created and run by writer/script producer and ACMI X resident Libby Butler.
Branding Workshop with Brent Nolan of Blunt Agency
Joining us for the March Amplify Workshop/Skills Series was Brent Nolan, founder and director of Blunt Agency who lead us through why you need to think about your brand strategy and the specific steps you need to take to execute it effectively.
The Blunt Agency core brand workshop helps business owners, arts organisations, creative studios, consultants and entrepreneurs understand the importance of developing a brand strategy, and how building a brand can assist with their business growth.
In undertaking this brand workshop prior to marketing, creatives will learn a framework of actionable, core steps to brand themselves and their creative business. Through practical examples including content creation for marketing, the brand workshop will illustrate why each stage is vitally important in positioning a creative brand with target audiences.
To rewatch this fantastic workshop please visit:
https://vimeo.com/693401844
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About: Brent Nolan
Director of brand agency- Blunt Agency, Brent has over 20 years industry experience working with leading Australian brands across creative and strategy.
He is passionate about enabling business to understand and connect with more of the people their brand serves, helping brands be more direct, relevant and human.
Brent has established a niche following of over 4,700 marketers on LinkedIn. As a LinkedIn Creator he shares insights on business, brand strategy, creative, design and technology.
NFT Discussion with Marc-O-Matic
Our February discussion in the Amplify Workshop/Skills Series explored the complexities of creating NFT art.
Joining the panel in this discussion were:
Seb Chan - ACMI’s Chief Experience Officer, ACMI X resident Marc-O-Matic who is an Australian Artist, AR/VR Auteur, Animator & Technologist and Aditya Vasudevan who is a Solicitor at Arts Law
The session will feature some background around the metaverse, virtual land and decentralised economies at large. Then Marc-O-Matic will share his own experience creating and selling NFT art, and then we will hear from Aditya about legal issues surrounding NFTs.
About: Marc-O-Matic
Marc-O-Matic is an Australian Artist, AR/VR Auteur, Animator & Technologist fusing traditional mediums like Illustration with 3D Immersive AR/VR Media, creating elaborate story-driven Creations made explorable through Virtual & Augmented Reality. His approaches to experiential analogue/digital Art & Storytelling have showcased internationally throughout the US, Japan and South Korea, including Siggraph, Adobe MAX, Saatchi Art and South by South West.
Since the start of the Covid Pandemic in 2020 Marco started diving into the Crypto Art and NFT space expanding his work into blockchain and metaverse platforms creating virtual worlds, animated artworks and digital wearables for an emerging decentralised economy. Two years on his work has earned over 1 million US made from NFTs, and is featured across some of the most notable NFT marketplaces including Super Rare, Makers Place, Decentraland including festivals in the US like Art Basel Miami and NFT NYC.
About: Marc-O-Matic
Marc-O-Matic is an Australian Artist, AR/VR Auteur, Animator & Technologist fusing traditional mediums like Illustration with 3D Immersive AR/VR Media, creating elaborate story-driven Creations made explorable through Virtual & Augmented Reality. His approaches to experiential analogue/digital Art & Storytelling have showcased internationally throughout the US, Japan and South Korea, including Siggraph, Adobe MAX, Saatchi Art and South by South West.
Since the start of the Covid Pandemic in 2020 Marco started diving into the Crypto Art and NFT space expanding his work into blockchain and metaverse platforms creating virtual worlds, animated artworks and digital wearables for an emerging decentralised economy. Two years on his work has earned over 1 million US made from NFTs, and is featured across some of the most notable NFT marketplaces including Super Rare, Makers Place, Decentraland including festivals in the US like Art Basel Miami and NFT NYC
Legal Workshop with Roxanne Lorenz of Artslaw.
Emporium Creative Hub and ACMI-X are excited to announce the first of their new FREE workshop/skills series, designed to level up your creative business.
We are kicking things off with some essential learning on legals for creatives. We will be joined by Roxanne Lorenz, Senior Solicitor for ArtsLaw, Australia’s independent national community legal centre for the arts, a not-for-profit providing free or low cost specialised legal advice, education and resources to Australian artists and arts organisations across all art forms, on a wide range of arts related legal and business matters.
Join us on Tuesday January 18 at 1pm for this deep dive in legal fundamentals specific to the needs of the Emporium Creative Hub and ACMI-X residents/community.
About: Roxanne Lorenz, Senior Solicitor
Roxanne Lorenz is a solicitor at Arts Law where she advises artists and organisations on a range of legal areas; most commonly intellectual property (copyright, moral rights and trade marks), contracts, confidentiality, consumer, defamation and insurance laws.
Roxanne understands the commercial realities for creators and creative organisations protecting their intellectual property. Prior to Arts Law, Roxanne worked at the Australia Council for the Arts (the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body), the Brisbane Festival (one of Australia’s leading international arts festivals) and Queensland Theatre Company (Australia’s third largest and Queensland’s flagship theatre company).