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Focus your creative practice by organizing your agreements and finances, with the help of artist Stuart Ward.
Sign up: https://freelance-admin.eventbrite.ca
6 hours total over 2 sessions, online // $42, or $30 with any VIVO Producer Membership
Session 1: Fri, Jun 19, 1pm-4pm
Session 2: Fri, Jun 26, 1pm-4pm
BY DONATION for those facing reduced income due to COVID-19
All times are listed as Pacific Time
Prerequisites:
If you're a new freelancer looking for help with the administrative requirements of your creative practice--estimates, proposals, contracts, non-disclosure agreements, budgets, invoices, expense tracking, scheduling--this workshop will give you a great introductory push-in-the-right-direction.
Stuart Ward is not an accountant, nor a lawyer--but he's a practicing artist and founder of a multidisciplinary team of artists and designers called HFour (hfour.ca), and he will answer your questions and guide group discussion clarifying how to implement these management tools and ideas to organize your professional creative practice, including video, photography, code, sound, and more.
Responding to participants’ needs, the format for this workshop will include a lot of open time for you to ask questions and work in groups to begin creating some of the admin tools & templates that are frequently used, with Stuart providing you assistance.
Each participant will present one of their works through a brief show & tell, to use as a starting point for the workshop exercises.
Not only will you waste less time fiddling with paperwork -- you'll also communicate more clearly with collaborators and clients, and have a better grasp of what you can make with your funds.
VIVO is located in the homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples in a warehouse space at 2625 Kaslo Street south of East Broadway at the end of E 10th. Transit line 9 stops at Kaslo Street on Broadway. From the bus stop, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight decline. The closest skytrain station is Renfrew Station, which is three blocks south-east of VIVO and has an elevator. From there, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight incline. There is parking available at VIVO, including wheelchair access parking. There is a bike rack at the entrance. The front entrance leads indoors to a set of 7 stairs to the lobby.
A wheelchair ramp is located at the west side of the main entrance. The ramp has two runs: the first run is 20 feet long, and the second run is 26 feet. The ramp is 60 inches wide. The slope is 1:12. The ramp itself is concrete and has handrails on both sides. There is an outward swinging door (34 inch width) at the top of the ramp leading to a vestibule. A second outward swinging door (33 inch width) opens into the exhibition space. Buzzers and intercoms are located at both doors to notify staff during regular office hours or events to unlock the doors. Once unlocked, visitors can use automatic operators to open the doors.
There are two all-gender washrooms. One has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The other is a single room with a urinal and is wheelchair accessible: the door is 33 inches wide and inward swinging, without automation. The toilet has 11 inch clearance on the left side and a handrail.
To reach the bathrooms from the studio, exit through the double doors and proceed straight through the lobby and down the hall . Turn left, and the two bathrooms will be on your right side. The closest one has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The far bathroom is accessible.
Specializing in live video performance, exhibition, and projection mapping, Stuart Ward has created installations for fashion shows, club nights, festivals and art spaces. His current artistic interests include 3D projection mapping and multi-sensory experience works, collaborating with musicians and other performers. In 2008, he founded Hfour, a multidisciplinary team of artists and designers who collaborate using video, light, code, architecture, and sound to create unique immersive installations for events, conferences, public spaces, festivals, and museums.
