The Depot’s ArtsLab workshops are designed for creative people seeking to develop their arts practice and generate income.

February & March Workshops:

New Media and Legal Issues One Day Seminar – 15 February  $30
New media expert Lewis Bostock demonstrates how to use social media networking to expand your client base and promote your work.  David McLaughlin, entertainment lawyer specialising in the field of intellectual property, advises and answers your questions on issues of copyright and privacy.

Vision to Viability Two Day Workshop – 29 February & 1 March ($80)
This interactive, intensive workshop will provide you with the tools to establish and maintain your creative vision.  You will learn about setting realistic and achievable goals, creative time management and speaking confidently and articulately about your arts practice. Guest speakers give practical advice on successfully taking on challenges and opportunities as a creative practitioner.

Business of Arts Three Day Workshop – 12, 13, 14 March – ($150)
An intensive and lively programme in which artists learn how to set themselves up as a business.  Practical knowledge and skills in GST, tax, costing & pricing structures, book keeping, marketing and writing a business plan are provided with manual and XL spreadsheets.

The programme is facilitated by experienced and entertaining company director Frances Denz.

ArtsLab workshops and seminars are held at Kerr Street Artspace, Devonport, Auckland.

To find out more about ArtsLab or to register your attendance please contact Lynn Lawton at pace@depotartspace.co.nz or (09) 9632328.

All Arts Lab seminars & workshops take place at Kerr St Artspace, Devonport

To find out more about Arts Lab workshops or to register your attendance please contact Lynn Lawton:
lynn.lawton@depotartspace.co.nz
PH:  09 963 2328

NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2011 WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS:

Arts Lab New Media and Legal Seminar – 16 November
One day seminar $30
Kerr St Artspace

A practical presentation on new media, print media and a discussion on legal issues for creative workers.

The new media segment is a presentation from media expert Lewis Bostock on how to use social networking sites to expand your potential client base, accompanied by real examples and facts and figures about how the world of media is shifting rapidly. Also how to use social networking sites to promote your work, exhibitions, live performances and films.

David MacLaughlin, a lawyer who specialises in the field of intellectual property advises and fields questions on issues of copyright and privacy.

Federico Monsalve has worked for a national and overseas media company and provides guidelines on how to write media releases likely to be noticed and published.

Arts Lab Creative Practitioners Two Day Workshop – 23 & 24 November
Two day workshop – ($80)
Kerr St Artspace

If you are serious about making a sustainable living in your chosen creative field, this two day intensive, interactive workshop provides you with the tools and skills to realise your vision.  Tools include exercises for setting realistic and achievable goals, identifying constraints to your goal achievements, time management and speaking confidently and articulately about your arts practice.

The workshop includes practitioners who share their experiences and offer solid advice on how to sustain yourself financially whilst maintaining your artistic practice.

Arts Lab Business of Arts Three Day Workshop – 28-30 November
Three day workshop – ($150)
Kerr St Artspace

The Business of Arts workshop is an intensive three day programme where artists learn how to set themselves up as a business. GST, tax, costing & pricing structures, cash books, competition, PAYE, depreciation are all explored in detail.

The programme is facilitated by experienced company director Frances Denz who demonstrates how to manage cash flow, predict income and expenses and looks at maximising earning potential whilst keeping overheads to a minimum.

At the conclusion of this workshop all participants receive a workbook plus Excel spread sheet templates for managing finances.

Arts Lab Job Search and Interview Skills Workshop – 7 December
One day workshop – ($30)
Kerr St Artspace

An indepth workshop on preparing your CV, portfolios and cover letters for maximum effect. Also get insight from the employer’s point of view, how the interview and selection process works with a focus on empowering you and developing your confidence in the job application process.

We look at questions asked in an interview and provide models for reply, how to write cover letters that communicate your suitability for the position, interview preparation, advice on show-reels and portfolios, responding to unsuccessful job applications and more. A valuable workshop to assist you in securing that wanted job.

Arts Lab Workshops & Seminars
The Depot
28 Clarence St
Devonport, AUCKLAND
Ph:  09 9632328

It’s tempting when times get tough to bury your head in the sand and hope for the best. So can Kiwi creatives afford to do that, or will they go the way of the moa? That’s the challenge presented at this year’s Survive & Thrive: Fuelling the Business of creativity event on the 14th of July. MC for Survive & Thrive 2011, and rather a creative guy himself, Te Radar says “The mixing of creativity and business to make a creative business is more complex than simply hoping she’ll be right. Sometimes she isn’t. ”

Held at The University of Auckland Business School, and now in its third year, Survive & Thrive 2011 includes a programme of inspiring speakers, intensive workshops and networking, and is all about helping creative, entrepreneurial people succeed. Candy Elsmore, Project Director from Arts Regional Trust, says building a business out of what you are passionate about can have its challenges : “It takes creativity, thinking and sheer hard work. It can mean looking at new ways of doing business, exploring new opportunities, getting new skills and making meaningful connections. Survive & Thrive is our way of enabling this to happen.”

At Survive & Thrive 2011 participants will speed network [the business version of speed dating] to make valuable contacts in a flash, as well as gain practical tips and tools from specialist advisors who will a sounding board for brilliant ideas and sticky problems. With a full programme of 10 workshops participants can explore their how to create more sales, tune into the marketing and promotion of what they are doing, undertake a ‘health check’ of their creative business, and learn how to self-manage for success.

If that isn’t enough an expo of innovative events, organisations and services means creatives can connect people and groups can help them on their mission to survive and thrive in today’s environment.

You’d be mad to miss it!

Release date:

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Further information:

More Information:

Arts Regional Trust Te Taumata Toi-a-iwi (ART)

The Awards encompass contemporary New Zealand painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, unique photography, and for the first time, video. The Awards are designed to encourage and develop the visual arts in New Zealand and to reward those producing outstanding work. They differ from other important New Zealand art prizes in that they aim to provide challenging opportunities and broadening experiences to the four major winners by way of residencies at  top-class international institutions. This year the Awards are being judged by three distinguished New Zealand artists – Philip Trusttum, Sara Hughes and Peter Gibson-Smith.

The Awards will be presented at the Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, on Monday 5 September. The Exhibition of Winners and Selected Finalists will be on display at the Pah Homestead from 6 September to 16 October 2011, before travelling to The Dowse where the exhibition will run from 29 October to 4 December 2011. A Salon des Refuses of the finalists not selected for the travelling show will be on display at the Pah Homestead from 6 September – 14 October 2011.

To enter the 20th Wallace Art Awards 2011, applicants must guarantee that the work is a one-off original, not of an edition, that was executed by the applicant in the 12-month period prior to 11 August 2011, when entries close. Entries must not have been exhibited in a public exhibition.

The Fulbright Wallace Arts Trust Award has a different judging procedure and requires a separate entry form. The requirements and entry date for this award closes at 5pm on Monday 1 August 2011.  Go to the Fulbright website for details and application form: www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nz-wat.html

Paramount Award Winners for 2009 and 2010

Sam Mitchell Janus (2010) Acrylic on perspex (diptych)      Marcus Williams & Susan Jowsey The Correction

(2009) Photographic diptych

PRIZES
Total Value: approximately NZ $165,000.00

1. WALLACE TRUST PARAMOUNT AWARD
Six month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York, plus a Bronze Trophy by Terry Stringer.
2. THE KAIPARA FOUNDATION WALLACE TRUST AWARD
Three month residency at Altes Spital, Solothurn, Switzerland
3. FULBRIGHT WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD
Three month residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, USA
4. WALLACE DEVELOPMENT AWARD
Two month residency at the Vermont Studio Center, USA
5. 1ST RUNNER UP AWARD ($2,000)
6. 2ND RUNNER UP AWARD ($2,000)
7. JURY AWARD (Non-monetary)
Discretionary prize as decided by the jury
8. PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD ($500)
As voted by exhibition attendees.

For more information about the 20th Wallace Art Awards 2011 please email enquiries@wallaceartstrust.org.nz or call 09 639 2010. The Wallace Arts Trust Offices are located at The Pah Homestead, 72 Hillsborough Rd, Hillsborough, Auckland.

The BNZ Literary Awards are for both aspiring and established writers.

For many of New Zealand’s famous writers, such as Frank Sargeson, Keri Hulme, Maurice Shadbolt, Charlotte Grimshaw and CK Stead, winning the main Award, the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award, was where it all started.

Entry categories

BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award category

For published writers – $10,000 prize money
Minimum length 1,000 words – maximum length 5,000 words

BNZ Novice Writer Award category

For unpublished writers – $1,500 prize money
Minimum length 1,000 words – maximum length 3,000 words

BNZ Young Writer Award category

For writers who are at secondary school – $1,500 for the student
and $2000 for the winner’s school
Minimum length 750 words – maximum length 2,000 words

Or if you’d prefer to post in your entry for the above categories, download the form PDF 180KB

BNZ Short Short Story Award

A shot story of a maximum of 150 words submitted via Facebook.

Meet the 2011 Judges

Owen Marshall – BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award Judge

Rachael King – BNZ Novice Award Judge

Penelope Todd – BNZ Young Writer Award Judge

Graham Beattie – BNZ Short Short Story Award Judge

Successful bands in the 21st century will not make their millions through album sales as they once did – the money these days is in live gigs and merchandising.

And the success of these two areas relies on communicating with fans and sustaining long-term relationships with them.

MusicHype.com is a Wellington start-up that rewards music fans through a managed promotional platform for artists and labels.

Like a digital label for independent artist fans, it rewards them for promoting, talking about and spending money on the bands they love. The MusicHype platform tracks fans’ activity across social media like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LastFM.

Only a year old, MusicHype was founded by experienced Canadian website developers Jeff Mitchell, formerly of ZeroOne, and Annabel Youens, who began her career at Abebooks.com and is now MusicHype’s chief marketing officer.

Neither had connections in music, but were approached by Dave Moskovitz, from tech incubator WebFund, to see if they could plug a gap in the music industry.

MusicHype is powered by the social commerce Appreciation Engine, a proprietary underlying technology, designed by Mitchell.

Fans can create an account and with the engine, MusicHype can track all their internet music activity.

“Everything that we do is opt in – it’s your choice of what you want us to track,” said Youens. “We don’t share that information, you can delete anything you want.”

Music fans were tired of being called music pirates, and MusicHype gave them more positive feedback for their online activity.

The Mint Chicks were MusicHype’s first client. It has also helped Crowded House with its Intriguer tour in America and is working with some of the large record companies, including EMI Music.

The company is completing a deal with its next client, Ben King, formerly of Goldenhorse, who has a new band, Grand Rapids.

“The Faintheartedness album is amazing and he is such a nice person – he’s exactly the kind of artist that we want to represent,” Youens said.

Whenever MusicHype was developing a promotion strategy, it was important that the fans could see that the promotion had been developed by the artist.

King’s promotion will involve chocolate and whiskey, two loves of his.

“Fans want tangible goods that have got some thought behind them,” said Youens.

MusicHype receives a service fee from artists for the campaign, or takes a revenue share from the campaign. Merchandising is another revenue source.

After a whirlwind first year, MusicHype’s second year is looking to be even busier. The Rutherford Innovation Fund has invested $600,000 in the company after an approach following last year’s Open Source Awards, where it was runner-up in the business category.

“MusicHype provides a platform for bands to leverage rapidly changing technologies and new business models by directly engaging with fans,” said Kenji Steven, director of NZ Capital Strategies, general partner of the Rutherford Innovation Fund, announcing the investment last month.

The Rutherford fund cash is enabling MusicHype to expand internationally.

Chairman Dave Moskovitz and Mitchell are recruiting in the United States for a CEO in Los Angeles.

“For us to move quickly in that market, we need someone with the connections and a music and technology background,” Youens said.

Mitchell and Youens will be moving to the new Los Angeles office, leaving behind their Wellington office where they have hired more people.

As well as building up connections with American bands, they will also be introducing Americans to New Zealand music.

From the New Zealand Herald  February 21 2011, author Gill South www.nzherald.co.nz

Auckland Fringe provides an open-access platform for performing and visual artists. Quite simply, anyone can be part of the Fringe – anyone can do any show they want, anywhere in Auckland!

After a hugely successful first Fringe in 2009, the Auckland Fringe is back in February 2011 and artist registrations are now open!

Want to know more about Auckland Fringe?

The Fringe team are running FOUR information sessions across Auckland during September.  Come along and find out:

• What is the Fringe and how does it work?
• How do I get involved?
• What’s in it for me?

Fringe info sessions will be held:

Wednesday September 8, 11am

Depot Artspace, 28 Clarence St, Devonport

Thursday September 9, 6pm

The Basement, Lower Greys Ave, Auckland City

Monday Sept 20, 5.30pm

Mangere Arts Centre, Corner Bader Drive and Orly Avenue, Mangere Town Centre

Monday Sept 27, 6pm

Old St Michaels Church, Corban Estate Arts Centre

2 Mt Lebanon Lane Henderson

Or, if you’re ready to take the plunge right now, full information and online artist registration available at www.aucklandfringe.co.nz

Artist registrations close 5pm, October 15, 2010.

Don’t miss out!

No RSVP is necessary, however if you’d like more information please contact:

Sally Barnett

Auckland Fringe Director

director@aucklandfringe.co.nz

09 307 5092

Tuesday 28 september 2010 // Juice Bar, 144 Parnell Road // doors open 7.30pm, start 8.20pm // $9 cash doorsales

Pecha Kucha Night is an event in which presenters give brief presentations accompanied by 20 images, each of which is shown for 20 seconds. Presenters are usually from the design, architecture, photography, art, music and other creative fields. Giving a total presentation time of 6 minutes 40 seconds for each speaker, it’s hard to become bored.

First list of presenters:

• Drus Dryden // writing you poetry & making you breakfast // www.sensitiveboyfriend.com

• Josie Maskell // Spark Studios // All Access Visual Arts // www.sparkstudio.org.nz

• Toi Ora // Inspiring Wellbeing Through Creativity

• Uxbridge // Creative Arts Centre in Howick

• Robyn Hughes // Prison arts

• Giant Leap Foundation/Circus Kumarani // Deaf Arts/Circus Arts and more

• Sue Clark // Youthtown // Youth arts

• Maureen Lewis // Refugee and Migrant Services

• Laurel Belworthy // Depot Artspace // Multidisciplinary Arts Community

• Catherine Chappell // Touch Compass // integrated dance // www.touchcompass.org.nz

• Shealgh Coop // does wonderful things in Parnell

• Gill Warren // Farmers Market Manager

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Pecha Kucha is for content not profit! now happening in over 300 cities

www.pechakucha.co.nz

www.pecha-kucha.org

Pecha Kucha Nights in New Zealand are supported by MIG

Three events of interest to readers and writers wanting to get their work published:

One: Publishing Today and How to Get Published

7.30 pm, Thursday, 9 Sept 2010
A panel of experts to discuss Publishing Today and How to Get Published with particular reference to e-books.
Harriet Allan, Random House Ltd
David Ling, David Ling Publishers
Liz Allen, formerly Society of Authors
Bev Robitaille, self-publisher
Dorne Lonergan, Learning Network
Tim Durrant, Apple specialist

Two: How a booklet for demonstrators became a vital brick in the wall of our rights

7.30pm, Thursday, 21 October 2010
The Civil Rights Handbook, latest edition.  Tim McBride will describe how a back-pocket guide became a standard reference.

Three: My Life in Books

7.30pm, Thursday, 25 November 2010
How a Hawkes Bay bookseller became an international judge of books.  Hosted by Graham Beattie, formerly publisher  at Penguin and Scholastic, now blogger at
www.beattiesbookblog.blogspot.com

All events at Devonport Library, beginning at 7.30 pm with nibbles and drinks. Admission by koha/donation.

DEVONPORT LIBRARY, WINDSOR RESERVE, VICTORIA ROAD, DEVONPORT

Further details from Ian Free: (09) 445 2509, email:  i.g.free@clear.net.nz  and the Library DLA publicity Aug 2010

The evening will be led by artist Robyn Gibson followed by an opportunity for participants to have the floor to discuss their own work and projects.

Please feel free to bring your work and ideas to share.

28 Clarence St | Devonport
ph 963 2331
www.depotartspace.co.nz