It’s every creative’s dream to have an exhibition showcasing their artistic prowess, and unless you are represented by a gallery, bringing this dream to fruition can cost you money – lots of money.
Careers
My Day Job: Tash Montlake | Assistant Director and Music Photographer
Tash Montlake’s energy has been the driving force behind her success in documenting the South African music industry through her photography.
5 Podcasts every Creative Entrepreneur should plug into
From navigating the world of shares and investments to finding the right financial approach for your new business, put in your earphones, kick back and learn something new today. Here’s our list of top 5 podcasts we reckon creative entrepreneurs should listen to.
Creative Entrepreneurs: The party never stops with Amahle Jaxa from UNTIL UNTIL
Until Until is a music driven activations agency that works on brand activations, sponsorship acquisitions, event production, event compliance and brand building. Here we chat to Amahle-Imvelo Jaxa, one of the founders and seven members of the Until Until group.
The Creative’s Guide to winning the Investment Game
We’ve all been there before. You’re sitting with a group of your 9 to 5 friends, and the topic at hand is about savings and investments. The conversation turns to you and unfortunately, you’re stuck with a mouth full of teeth.
The Ghost of Unpaid Invoices: Best Practice Considerations for Clients and Freelancers
As part of our Nedbank Money Secrets series, Angela Weickl shares some of the best tools, policies and practices that can either make a freelancer’s life easier or complicate things far beyond imagination.
Opportunity: Red & Yellow Creative Business School’s 2020 Bursary
Red & Yellow Creative School of Business is offering a number of bursary opportunities available for their full-time programmes in 2020.
3 Factors to Consider Before Taking on a New Project
While industry standards are no longer a mysterious algorithm that eludes us, we often find ourselves not taking all factors into account when quantifying the value of our skills.
Open Call: Book Dash & Goethe-Institut workshops in JHB
Goethe-Institut and Book Dash are inviting professional writers, illustrators and/or designers from Sub-Saharan Africa to two workshops happening over October 2019.
Boss Up or Burnout: How to set Professional Boundaries with Clients
There are better and healthier ways of working as a freelancer. Fundamentally, they require a shift in the minds of creatives to get clients on board.
An open letter to the creative industry: Beginners are not free labourers
The creative industry has become increasingly infamous for paying creatives with ‘exposure’, and as a creative, you should not allow yourself to be lured by opportunities of free exposure, or promises of future collaborations
Creative Entrepreneurs : Lesego Mapeka of Epic Hikes Outdoor Movement
Epic Hikes was born from a wanderlust passion for the outdoors, adventure and the fulfilment attained in exploring them.
Meet the Curators | A3E Curation Day
‘A3E’ short for Artist Acceleration and Exposure Programme aims to give unrepresented, young and emerging artists[creators] a platform to present their work to an upscale audience.
A Creative’s Guide to Grants and Project Funding
It is important to note that not all funding is created equally. Which is not to say that some options are necessarily better, but it’s important to read the fine print.
Ralf Heuel, One of the World’s Top Chief Creative Officers is heading Down South
2019 Loeries OOH, Live & PR Jury President Ralf Heuel is Chief Creative Officer and Partner at Grabarz & Partner, in Hamburg – the ad agency he co-founded as a junior copywriter in 1993
