What: Verbal Communications for Artists Workshop
When: April 10, 2010 (9:30am – 6pm)
Where: NYFA, 20 Jay Street, 7th Floor, in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood.
Registration and Fees:
Early Registration (through March 21): $100
Regular Registration: $125
This fee includes lunch as well as coffee and refreshments throughout the day. The event is limited to 24 participants to ensure personalized attention. Registration is on a first come, first served basis. Please register early, as our last workshop sold out in 36 hours.
Sign up now at: http://pdpverbalcommunications10april2010.eventbrite.com/
Workshop Description:
Designed and facilitated by Kirby Tepper, a Los Angeles-based communications specialist with extensive experience training artists in public speaking and leadership skills, the Verbal Communications workshop includes lectures, small group activities, role playing, hands-on exercises, and facilitated feedback on participants individual communication styles. By the end of this one-day workshop, participants will have identified their goals and objectives in order to more effectively and accurately represent themselves and their work; practiced how to be authentic and comfortable talking about their work in social situations; and learned how to craft an effective pitch when searching for funding or other partners. The workshop is appropriate for artists of all disciplines.
Workshop Policies:
- Participants must be available to attend the entire workshop.
- To ensure your spot, the workshop must be paid in full in advance.
- No refunds are available for this workshop.
- The capacity for this workshop is 24 participants.
Please visit the Creative Capital website for more information on the Professional Development Program, this workshop,
our leaders, and other upcoming PDP events at http://creative-capital.org/pdp.
If you have any questions, please contact Negin Salmasi, Workshop Manager, at negin@creative-capital.org.
Best wishes,
Alyson Pou
Director, Professional Development Program
About Creative Capital
The Professional Development Program was launched in 2003 to share with a broader community of artists the tools and strategies for improved self-sufficiency that were initially developed for Creative Capital grantees. This acclaimed program includes a diverse menu of workshops that helps artists to plan, promote and manage their careers to build toward long-term sustainability. With instruction in strategic planning, public relations and marketing, fundraising, and financial and time management, the Professional Development Program provides artists with the vital business tools to manage their practice so that creativity can flourish.
Creative Capital is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to providing integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing innovative and adventurous projects in five disciplines: Emerging Fields, Film/Video, Innovative Literature, and Performing and Visual Arts. Working in long-term partnership with artists, Creative Capital’s pioneering approach to support combines funding, counsel, and career development services to enable a project’s success and foster a successful and sustainable practice for its grantees. In its first decade, Creative Capital has committed more than $20 million in financial and advisory support to 325 projects representing 406 artists, and has reached an additional 2,700 artists through its Professional Development Program. For more information, visit www.creative-capital.org.
About the Workshop Leader
Kirby Tepper combines his experience as a performer, writer and therapist to help people acquire verbal communication skills in a variety of areas such as public speaking, fundraising, conflict resolution and presentation. He has maintained a long-running association with Los Angeles’s Center Theater Group/Mark Taper Forum, having worked with Carol Burnett, Sydney Poitier, John Lithgow and Lily Tomlin. Some of his other clients include Hyundai America, Washington Mutual, L’Oreal and Columbia University Law School. His acclaimed performances of his own music and lyrics have been presented everywhere from the Pasadena Playhouse to Carnegie Recital Hall. He has performed live in shows on Broadway (“On Your Toes”), on television (“Cheers,” “Wings,” “Kennedy Center Honors”) and at numerous regional theatres. Tepper is a psychotherapist at the Center for Individual and Family Counseling in Los Angeles.
