Make It Happen – July Series

Description

MAKE IT HAPPEN – 3-PART SERIES

Make It Happen is a professional and skills development program, designed and delivered by our General Manager Carl Sciberras, for creative practitioners and producers to refine their skills in making project or program ideas happen. Participants in the program are encouraged (though not required) to come with an idea at the ready and can utilise the skills developed throughout the program to consolidate a working project plan around their project idea. For this iteration of Make It Happen, the program is broken down into three focus areas and has been designed to progress from one workshop to the next, however, you can still undertake individual workshops for more focused skills development in any of the three key areas.

Workshop #1 – Context: systems and design thinking, program logic and theory of change

This workshop provides insight into how artists and producers can position their work within the wider landscape, to clearly understand how their work relates to the structures, trends and environments that impact them, and to use this knowledge to their advantage.

Workshop #2 – It’s all about relationships

This workshop focuses on the absolute necessity to prioritise people. All projects, no matter how small, require other people to care, to buy-in and, ideally, to advocate. We will explore strategies to manage critical stakeholders and to reach people through targeted marketing approaches.

Workshop #3 – Project management 101

This workshop is about the nitty gritty delivery of project design and delivery. Once you have clarity about what your project is, who is needed and where it fits in the landscape, then you have to actually deliver it! This session will provide all the basic principles of project management with an approach to create solid project plans to give you the confidence to get to work.

SCHEDULE

Friday July 5

• 12:30 – 3:30pm – Workshop #1

Friday July 11

• 12:30 – 3:30pm – Workshop #2

Friday July 18

• 12:30 – 3:30pm – Workshop #3

PRICES

Community Member workshop price (30% off) – $42* for 1 workshop, $66.50* for 2 workshops, $91* for all 3 workshops
Non-member workshop price  – $60 for 1 workshop, $95 for 2 workshops, $130 for all 3 workshops

*We highly encourage you to become a Community Member, when you become a member you receive 3 free classes (this covers the morning) and get 30% off workshops and class passes. To access the Community Member price you must first log in to your account, if you are joining our Membership program make sure you first purchase the membership to unlock membership access, then return to this page once you have logged in.

ABOUT CARL SCIBERRAS

‍Carl Sciberras DMC’s General Manager and is a producer, choreographer, performer, teacher and arts advocate from Western Sydney. Having worked in management and marketing positions for a range of performing arts organisations, and having produced the work of independent artists, Carl is adept at helping people navigate a range of creative business challenges. He has extensive experience in writing and assessing grant applications (as a peer at the Australia Council and an assessor for Create NSW and others), as well as in complex project management with a wide range of stakeholders. Carl effortlessly blends the ‘business’ side of company management, administration, planning and development and the ‘creative’ side as a maker and performer.

Carl is currently employed by Creative Plus Business as a Business Advisor, was recently on the Artform Advisory Board for Dance & Physical Theatre at Create NSW and has held various positions on boards and committees for local, state and federal government arts bodies and independent arts companies. In 2017, Carl was a participant in the Australia Council’s Future Leaders Program and in 2016 was awarded the City of Parramatta’s Creative Fellowship.