The Wild Wild West – Part 5 of Dream, create and make money in the arts.
If creating your own event is too much right now and the big festivals are just scary then look for an already established smaller event, exhibition or competition. You can find them by searching online.
Some Suggestions
Writing Contests try here
Visual Artists and Photographers try here
Local adult college competitions and your local council or county arts centre – google them!
Local gallery needing work to show? Go around and ask.
Small competitions and requirements- check the Arts Council website or get on their email list
IdeasTap have a great roundup of competitions here
So join Shooting People and enter one of their compeitions as a filmmaker
Make a film in 48 hours in London
The BBC Writers Room
Google open mic nights if you are a singer or songwriter or comedy nights, go and speak to the promoter about booking a small spot. These are just a few I found in a few clicks of my mouse.
Time Out
open mike nights in the UK here
In Nashville performing your songs
Write a novel in the month of NovemberNanowrimo (This is brilliant, I have dont this twice and completed two novels – yes they are stuck in my drawer but they are coming out soon for final edits – I have to walk this talk I am giving you all 😉
Join local Communities & Spheres of Interest online
Check Twitter and Facebook and follow local companies and relevant organisations,
Get on the newsletters and blogs for your relevant art form eg ….see what is worth aiming for.
Do some research in your local sphere and see what communities on and off line you can join.
Linkedin have Groups, so find the relevant one.
I have started a group called the Business of creativity
. but there are illustrators, writers, actors ones eg Creative designers and writers
Google competitions and submissions requested for your relevant artform
Use Google blog search to find relevant blogs http://www.google.com/blogsearch
Again make a choice, I will enter the photographic competition this summer with the best work I can do, perform my song into a local songwriting group, dance part of my new work at the next local street fair, read my new unpublished chapters at the library, do a 5 minute stand up set at the local comedy club and enter a local competition.
Read Crush It, that will get you in the right mindset
About this series – Being a Successful Creative – The Business of Creativity
This is a series of daily blogs for you on how to dream up, build, market and sell a creative event, gig, festival, book launch, cabaret night, exhibition of rude plastic cupcakes or whatever creatively inspires you. It is time to create and put on that play about your family, a series of drawings about hedgehogs, the album you have talked about making or the short film you always wanted to write and make.
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