This two part workshop is created for emerging performing artists who wish to pave a path by learning to self-produce, promote your own work, and how to develop entrepreneurial skills to thrive in your artistic practice. Alongside creative talent, the development of these skills are vital to any artists’ success.

Saturday February 18, 2012
11:00am-2:00pm

Part I - Production & Promotion Basics
Production Planning, Team Building, Contract Writing
Creating Press Releases & Press Kits
Approaching the Press
Learning to Network & Market

Sunday February 19 ,2012
11:00am -2:00pm

Part II - Creating Financial Possibilites
Developing Entrepreneurial Skills
Production Budgeting
Alternative Fundraising Methods
Approaching the Private Sector

To register please contact: jenn@inlayers.ca
Before / After February 11, 2012
One day: $45 / $55
Both days: $80 / $100
2o Paricipants Max.

Arts Co-Lab
100 - 7th Ave. SW - Unit #4
(lower level of Arts Central)

This workshop will be hosted by Jenn Doan, an award winning choreographer, producer, dancer, yoga teacher, & dance
talk radio host. She began her dance studies at the University of Calgary and while finishing a BFA in Contemporary Choreography at Concordia University in 2007, began to self-produce her own work, primarily within the Canadian Fringe Festivals, with a co-founded dance theater company called Inertia Productions. Currently, Jenn is the co-artistic director of Woo Me Myth, a dance rock opera (DRO) performance company. The company produced The Duck Wife (2010), an Inuit myth based DRO touring across Fringe Festivals in Canada and receiving audience acclaim throughout. The work won Best Ensemble Performance, Best of the Fest, nominated for Best English Production, and made Centaur Theater's Top Ten Productions of 2010. Jenn has collaborated on many creative projects with vocalists, composers, filmmakers, visual artists, and theater artists. She co-choreographed ADDICTED (2009) with House of Dangerkat touring to NYC and Europe, produced Transfigurations (2009) at Dancers' Studio West with spoken word artist Moe Clark, and both the 1st & 2nd installment of inlayers: an interactive online dance creation. Most productions have been self-supported and only two out of six with small public funding support. Jenn has been a guest speaker at YES Montreal's 2011 Artist Conference and Quebec Drama Federation's 2011 Artist Symposium speaking on topics of Alternative Fundraising for Artists and Diversity in the Arts.