Please contact Creative Skills on 01209 218879 or email admin@creativeskills.org.uk to request a booking form if you are interested in attending any of the seminars.

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Collaborative Working Workshop
Date: Wednesday 3rd March 2010
Venue: Tremough Campus, Penryn
Time: 9.00am to 4.00pm
Cost: £25 (without Creative Skills subsidy £120)

Commissioned and co-developed by University College Falmouth, this intensive one day workshop will not only cover numerous aspects of collaborative working including building trust, team dynamic, managing conflict, virtual team working and informal contracting but will also share best practice and the highs and lows of collaborative working.

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EU Funding for Creative Practitioners Demystified
Date: Wednesday 24th March 2010
Venue: New County Hall, Truro
Time: 12.00 - 4.30pm
Cost: FREE
Buffet lunch included

We all hear tales of mysterious European funds that are just waiting to be applied for, but as an individual or a small creative group it can feel is if they are only for men in suits and not for artists. This day is an opportunity to have European funding demystified. European funding can be a valuable way to enable projects and connections across Europe. Arranged by Cornwall Council's Europe Direct Information Centre, the half day event tailored to the Creative Sector will help you understand the funding that is available and how to apply. There will be helpful case studies from successful projects as well as speakers from EUCLID - an organisation that provides a range of European & international information, research & consultancy services, and Visiting Arts - who offer information, organise training and help establish opportunities to promote intercultural understanding for the arts.

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Unleash the Tiger
Building self-confidence
Date: Thursday 22nd April 2010
Venue: Melting Pot, Krowji, Redruth
Time: 9.30am - 4.00pm
Tutor: Carole Lomas, Business Adviser, Creative Skills
Cost: £25

Confidence is having a belief in your ability to succeed. Sometimes we begin to question that belief which results in a dip in our self-confidence. Using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), this one day workshop will give you options, tips and techniques to build and maintain your self-confidence for personal or professional growth.

Carole Lomas is your tutor and is a Master NLP Practitioner and has worked with creative practitioners for over 5 years.

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Self Employment Made Simple
Tomorrow's Creative Entrepreneur
Date: Tuesday 18th May 2010
Venue: The Melting Pot, Krowji, Redruth
Time: 9.30am - 4.00 pm
Tutor: Carole Lomas, Business Adviser, Creative Skills
Cost: £25

Do you aspire to be a creative entrepreneur? You have the creative talent but not sure what you have to do to earn a living from it? This one day seminar gives you guidance on the first steps to starting up your creative business covering registering as self employed, income tax, insurance and legal stuff, developing your ‘Big Idea' and keeping track of the £s.

Carole Lomas is a SFEDI accredited business adviser and mentor working within the Creative Industries.

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Can you put it in Writing?
Date: Tuesday 8th June 2010
Tuesday 15th June 2010
Venue: The Studio, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn
Time: 1.00pm - 5.00pm
Cost: £25
Do you dread having to write about what you do? Do you know what you want to say but find it hard to translate your ideas into words? These fun and informal workshops, split over two afternoons with a week in between, will help you explore how you can tell the world about your creative practice or business in a way that captures the essence of your creativity. Working in a group you will use creative writing techniques to find your writing voice, pinpoint the essentials of your message and adapt your words to effectively promote you and your work to different audiences. The format of the sessions, designed in response to suggestions from previous attendees, will give you time to use the tips from the first session to develop a piece of writing that will be critiqued and improved in the second session.

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