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Musicplus: Skill Building for Musicians (5/16)
Join us at the East Bay Community Foundation in Oakland on Sunday, May 16 for Musicplus – a free seminar to sharpen your skills and network with other musicians and composers. The event is being presented by East Bay Community Foundation, Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, The San Francisco Foundation, and Future of Music Coalition, a nonprofit musician advocacy organization. This program is made possible with the support of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, LINC (Leveraging Investments in Creativity), The James Irvine Foundation, and The Wallace Foundation.
This event is SOLD OUT, but you can still participate. Tune into the live webcast from 12 noon - 6 pm PT (3 PM - 9 PM ET), Sunday, May 16 where you can watch all the main room programming, participate in an online chat, even ask questions! RYSE Media Arts Coordinator and Youth Movement Records' Protools Instructor Fred Thomas will be a featured panelist.
Today’s musicians and composers are faced with more demands on our time than ever. In addition to composing, recording and performing, we are now busy fundraising, marketing, crunching data, manufacturing CDs, booking performances, shooting videos…and tweeting about all of it to our fan base.
In one sense, this is a time of incredible opportunity. Musicians have more low-cost tools than ever to promote and distribute our work, even on a global scale. But these opportunities also breed questions: how do we participate? What are the most effective strategies, especially for my genre? Which tasks should musicians take on ourselves and where should we employ help?
- Sessions will cover:
- emerging technologies to promote and distribute your work
- hybrid business models and the new economy
- arts policy under Obama
- audience development 2.0: effective social networking and data management
- new licensing and revenue generation opportunities
- how to present your work to venues, audiences and funders
- regional funding and arts resources
- the basics of home recording
- touring, visas, and immigration
- Event includes:
- networking lunch
- practical workshops
- one-on-one health insurance consultations
- handouts and materials
- and… a cocktail party!
Event is sold out but we will have a live webcast available.Click here for more information.
