New Year Financial and Healthy Working Habits for Artists and Creative Freelancers
Event
New Year Financial and Healthy Working Habits for Artists and Creative Freelancers
28 January 2025
2:31 pm
Castlefield Gallery / Online
Castlefield Gallery Associates January 2025 Event Update!
Due to unforeseen circumstances, please note changes to the 28 January 2025 Castlefield Gallery Associates event. Find out more below.
Hosted by Helen Wewiora, with contributions from artists Maz Hedgehog and Elizabeth Wewiora
This event is for Castlefield Gallery Associates only.
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It’s January, so start the year with a refresh and reset on your financial health and working habits. Join us for a session focused on artist finances and healthy self-management.
The artist, storyteller, and finance specialist Maz Hedgehog will contribute to a session for Castlefield Gallery Associates covering everything from good financial planning, budgeting, and key considerations when pricing your work and setting fees, to dealing with tax. The session will also encourage us all to ‘eat the frog’ when it comes to those financial and administrative tasks we likely put off but if tackled can realise positive results.
Hosted by Castlefield Gallery’s Director & Artistic Director, Helen Wewiora, Maz will contribute through a series of pre-recorded easily digestible tutorials. Between each tutorial, attendees will have the opportunity to discuss the session content with one another and the guest-artist in attendance Elizabeth Wewiora. Elizabeth will also share some top tips for healthy and effective working practices. She and Helen will facilitate discussion on balancing multiple roles and busy workloads, especially concerning artist and creative freelancer ‘portfolio careers’.
Those in attendance will be invited to submit questions for Maz to respond to after the session that they feel haven’t been answered. Further details about this will be shared at the event.
The session will be recorded in full. After the session, this recording, each of Maz’s tutorials and their summary Top Tips document, will be posted to the Castlefield Gallery Associates resource area on the gallery’s website. Maz will respond to follow-up questions after the event. Their responses will also be recorded for sharing via the Associates resource area.
More about Maz Hedghog
The quickest way to describe Maz is that they are a “storyteller”. Whether writing poetry collections, plays and essays, editing anthologies, performing on stage or screen, speaking on panels, leading workshops or knitting on their sofa, Maz is interested in stories.
Everything Maz does is an attempt to weave together narratives, to make sense of the world around them. Within this, Maz is interested in power, agency and community. Their work investigates the ways these overlap, intersect and contradict. Maz aims to tell stories about people who are not often seen in the tales that are told and retold.
Maz’s experience working with individuals, small businesses and charitable organisations — as well as years of experience as an arts freelancer — means they understand the pressures of staying afloat in a challenging economic environment.
Brilliantly, Maz understands that everyone comes with their own experiences around money and maths, so they prioritise comfort and accessibility. Maz’s no-jargon approach means that whether you’re a fully qualified finance director or haven’t touched a calculator in a decade, Maz will make sure you’re up to speed on everything you need to know.
More about Elizabeth Wewiora
Elizabeth has been a visual artist, curator-producer and educator who for over 14 years specialising has specialised in socially engaged approaches to practice. She is currently undertaking a PhD (practice-based) at the University of Salford and is the MA Programme Leader on the MA Art and Design programmes at the University of Salford. Elizabeth is the Head of Social Practice at Open Eye Gallery and coordinates the UK Socially Engaged Photography Network. Elizabeth balances her roles alongside an active artist and curator-producer career. Her studio is at Paradise Works, Salford.
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