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Nurture Support for Emerging Creatives

26 September 2024

Deadline: September 27, 2024

 

An 8-month program providing bespoke meaningful business support within a nurturing creative environment to help 4 emerging freelance or self employed creatives to successfully establish their creative practice and to provide advice and inspiration to emerging self-employed and freelance creatives within the broader creative community in Belfast.

 

Nurture Creative Incubation Program

An 8-month program to help 4 emerging creatives in Belfast establish their creative practice. Providing bespoke business support and free shared creative workspace in our new South Belfast studios. Each program participant will have 24/7 access to their own dedicated deskspace as well as use of shared communal facilities throughout the program. In addition they will benefit from the following support:

  • Monthly one-on-one mentoring sessions – for accountability with Blick founder Christine James
  • Monthly peer-mentoring group sessions with the other program participants – for peer support, learning, inspiration, community and accountability.
  • Quarterly finance mentoring sessions – to help with financial planning and advice with Blick and freelance finance manager Rosy James
  • Monthly industry specific skillshare training workshops for program participants – with current and past Blick residents and team members, sharing their skills and experiences with the program participants
  • Monthly online business resources, worksheets and exercises – to help you refine your idea, improve your skills and knowledge and for accountability and to establish your creative practice
  • Quarterly creative talks – by local creatives sharing their creative journey for inspiration and peer learning
  • Quarterly industry specific skillshare workshops – by local creatives sharing their expertise to improve skills and knowledge
  • Showcasing and promotional opportunities – on our website and social media and through presenting your work at a showcase event at the end of the project

 

Program dates:

1st October 2024 – 31st May 2025

 

Apply here.

DEADLINE FRIDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER

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