Courses in July 2010

A+M offers a series of one-day courses to enable artists and arts organisations to achieve their full creative and business potential. There are currently a number of courses planned for 2009. 

Please look through our archive and let us know if you would like further information about any of our listings.

31 March 2006

This three day masterclass workshop will be run by Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie and will aim to kick-start the participants into the world of screen dance.

22 December 2006

This course is part of the DART (Developing the Arts through Regional Training) project and is only for artists and arts workers based in Greater Manchester.

08 March 2007

This practical one-day workshop will demonstrate how to generate consistently high levels of the right kind of traffic to your own website, rather than having to rely on more casual visitors, employing simple and low-cost promotional techniques.

21 March 2007

How do you know whether your project has been successful or not?  What does success mean?   This course will enable you to find the answers to those questions for your own projects and activities and equip you with the skills required to develop appropriate monitoring and evaluation plans.

28 March 2007

This one-day course is aimed at individuals, companies and venues who want to go beyond day-to-day tactics and really get to grips with the important marketing issues facing their organisation.

26 April 2007

Increasingly partnerships are at the heart ofarts projects, often involving working with all kinds of organisations outside the arts sector.  This course will look at every stage of the partnership process, from the original idea through to monitoring and evaluation, and offer practical advice and guidance on how to achieve successful outcomes when working in collaboration or partnership.

14 June 2007

Ensuring the participation of children and young people in projects that affect them is important, but it can be difficult.  This course has been designed to help organisations that have a responsibility for children and young people’s participation or those whose work involves interaction with young people, especially in arts projects.

20 June 2007

Running one-off workshops or series of classes for adult interest groups can provide professional artists with an additional income stream and also extend their creative practice.  If you are thinking of using your artistic skills (whether singing, painting, dance, ceramics or any other artform) in this way, then this course will help you think through the issues and plan and prepare for future work.

26 June 2007

An entry level and user-friendly introduction to the concept of business planning.  This course will start with your vision of where you want your business to go, and help you work through what you need to do to get there, what problems you may encounter on the way, and what resources you will need.

14 July 2007

Increasing the participation of children and young people in projects that affect them is important, but it can be difficult.  Poorly delivered consultation can lead to frustration or failure and may be interpreted as tokenism or, even worse, manipulation.  This course is designed to give you practical help to carry out successful consultations with the under-18s.

17 October 2007 09.45am - 4.30pm

An increasing number of local authorities and property developers working on business and residential sites are offering public art commissions both permanent and temporary across a range of artforms.
This highly practical course will help local authority officers across many departments to understand the issues around all aspects of the delivery of public art.

22 November 2007

How do you know whether your project has been successful or not? What does success mean? This course will enable you to find the answers to those questions for your own projects and activities and equip you with the skills required to develop appropriate monitoring and evaluation plans.

Participants will have guidelines and a range of techniques to help them monitor and evaluate creative projects.

29 November 2007

Are you organising something … perhaps a performance, exhibition, festival, sales/marketing campaign or a funding drive? This course will enable you to plan, budget, set up and deliver your creative projects successfully.

Participants will have step by step guidelines and a range of tools to enable them to deliver professional projects that work efficiently and can be monitored and evaluated effectively.

06 December 2007

A day’s course that gives you advice on where to look for support, what makes your work attractive to funders, how to identify funding opportunities, budgeting and tips for writing successful proposals.

12 December 2007 09.30am - 4.30pm

Often a daunting task, raising money can be less of a lottery if a coherent strategy and methodology are used from the outset. This one day workshop looks at the different ways of raising income to fund a project or organisation and how to select relevant income streams for your aims.

31 January 2008 9.30am - 4.45pm

Do you want to build, or improve, a website for yourself or your organisation? This two-day course introduces you to ‘Dreamweaver’, the industry standard web design software.

24 June 2008

This is an information-rich event to give artists and arts organisations a comprehensive overview and specific hints and tips on what they need to consider when setting up a website.

24 June 2008

This is an information-rich event to give artists and arts organisations a comprehensive overview and specific hints and tips on what they need to consider when setting up a website.

08 July 2008

An entry level and user-friendly introduction to the concept of ‘selling yourself and your work’. This course will start with an overview of marketing and selling truths and move on to how an artist/arts worker can apply them when developing their own personal presentation skills.

17 September 2008

The course provides advice, guidance and helpful hints to artists who would like to work on creative projects within community settings, youth groups etc.  It will also be relevant for arts development officers who support artists working in these areas. This course is not intended to address the content of individual workshops, but will focus on the skills needed to approach and begin work with organisations in a community setting effectively and successfully.

15 October 2008

Everybody’s doing it, but why? And are they doing it right? These dynamic and practical workshops will show you simple steps to enrich your website and ensure that your potential customers/audience can find it easily.  Spend the morning finding out how to cater for Google’s spiders and robots when they come calling so that they rank your site highly.  Stay on for the afternoon and learn the best and most economical ways to set up your blog/podcast, what you need to consider when devising the content, and how you can maximise the use of your blog entries. All jargon explained in a friendly and hugely informative day.

12 November 2008

The aim of this training event is to ensure that individual artists and arts workers know what they have to do to meet the demands of legislation regarding children and vulnerable groups, and to provide guidance and tips on how to do this.

21 January 2009 09.30-4.30

The course is being developed for artists who wish to design and deliver workshops. It will be suitable for workshops in different settings - schools, youth, community and/or adult leisure.

18 March 2009 09.30-4.30

This training is free to Arts Development Officers, artists and arts organisations living/working in the Greater Manchester area as part of the DART programme .

Two linked training events on consecutive days that will support solo artists and freelancers to develop and move forward in their work and improve performance. These days offer a great opportunity for professional development, reflection and focus on specific issues for participants, and action planning to deal with issues. We highly recommend that participants attend both days, but it is possible to attend one or the other.

31 March 2009 09.30-4.30

This training is free to Arts Development Officers, artists and arts organisations living/working in the Greater Manchester area as part of the DART programme .

Increasing numbers of local authorities, other public agencies and property developers working on business, community and residential sites are commissioning public art, both permanent and temporary, across a range of art forms. This highly practical course will help those with commissioning responsibilities and artists who create the commissioned work to understand the issues around all aspects of the delivery of public art.

22 June 2009 09:30am – 4:30pm

This full day workshop is designed to give an overview of low cost Internet marketing opportunities available to business start-ups, entrepreneurs and small businesses.  It will provide delegates with information they need to make the right choices when planning a website, looking to generate substantial traffic to a website, and taking advantage of Internet advertising and communications tools.

29 June 2009 09:30am – 4:30pm

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flikr, Skype, Blogs, Podcasts, SecondLife, Messenger & Mashups - your potential customers/audiences are using the Internet in new and dramatic ways… the Social Internet is putting control into their hands, giving them new ways of communicating, new ways of learning, new ways of exploring.  

07 July 2009 9:30am - 4:30pm

Two linked training events that will support solo artists and freelancers to develop and move forward in their work and improve performance.  These days offer a great opportunity for professional development, reflection and focus on specific issues for participants, and action planning to deal with issues.  We highly recommend that participants attend both days, but it is possible to attend one or the other.

14 July 2009 9:30am - 4:30pm

Two linked training events that will support solo artists and freelancers to develop and move forward in their work and improve performance.  These days offer a great opportunity for professional development, reflection and focus on specific issues for participants, and action planning to deal with issues.  We highly recommend that participants attend both days, but it is possible to attend one or the other.

01 October 2009 09:30am – 12:30pm

This half day workshop will teach you the basics of what makes a well designed website. Your course leader will speak in everyday language, and use anecdotes from their own experience. Visual examples – such as live websites – will feature extensively.

01 October 2009 1:00pm - 4:30pm

This half day course will give you a good grasp of how to use Google Analytics to improve the performance of your website.

07 October 2009 09:30am – 4:30pm

This course is part of the new DART training programme , which is only for artists and arts workers in Greater Manchester

In this one day session, you will learn how you can take advantage of a broad range of free and low cost Social Media marketing tools.  Learn how they can be used as part of your audience/customer base development strategy, see practical examples of these tools in action, discuss what these technologies mean, good or bad, for your organisation.

08 October 2009 9:30am - 4:30pm

This course covers the basics of financial management for solo artists, freelancers, project managers and company administrators in a way designed to remove some of the fear finance can engender. Making finance fun might be taking it too far - less fearsome might be right.

14 October 2009 09:30am – 4:45pm

This course is part of the new DART training programme , which is only for artists and arts workers in Greater Manchester

The aim of this training event is to ensure that individual artists and arts workers know what they have to do to meet the demands of legislation regarding children and vulnerable groups, and to provide guidance and tips on how to do this.

21 October 2009 9:30am - 4:30pm

In this one day session, you will learn how you can take advantage of a broad range of free and low cost Social Media marketing tools.  Learn how they can be used as part of your audience/customer base development strategy, see practical examples of these tools in action, discuss what these technologies mean, good or bad, for your organisation.

10 November 2009 9:30am - 4:30pm

It will be an action packed day, providing the information you need to set your Internet marketing priorities and helping you to develop your own plan of action.  Bring your questions along; there will be plenty of time for discussion.

12 November 2009 09:30am – 4:30pm

This course is part of the new DART training programme , which is only for artists and arts workers in Greater Manchester

Participants will gain practical tips to help them when they start to work on their own workshops, as well as having an opportunity to work with other artists and designers to test out ideas and share experiences.

17 November 2009 09:30am – 4:30pm

This course is part of the new DART training programme , which is only for artists and arts workers in Greater Manchester

Discover how to have a healthy work/life balance, whilst being productive, efficient and professional as a freelance artist/manager. The day will focus on financial and time management, as well as exploring personal and professional ambitions.

25 November 2009 9:30am - 4:30pm

Discover how to have a healthy work/life balance, whilst being productive, efficient and professional as a freelance artist/manager. The day will focus on financial and time management, as well as exploring personal and professional ambitions.

01 December 2009 10:30am - 04:30pm

This course is part of the new DART training programme , which is only for artists and arts workers in Greater Manchester

A chance for established artists to reflect, re-focus and renew at a ‘mini-retreat’ which offers the opportunity to reflect on what you do; whether you enjoy doing it; how successful you are at doing it; and how you might change and develop your artistic and business practice.

02 December 2009 9:30am - 4:30pm

Gain knowledge and understanding of key project and company management tools and techniques. The day will also provide insights into the pitfalls to be aware of and strategies for coping with problems and the unexpected.

02 December 2009 09:30am – 4:30pm

This course is part of the new DART training programme , which is only for artists and arts workers in Greater Manchester

The course provides advice, guidance and helpful hints to artists who would like to work on creative projects within community settings, youth groups etc.  It will also be relevant for arts development officers who support artists working in these areas. This course is not intended to address the content of individual workshops, but will focus on the skills needed to approach and begin work with organisations in a community setting effectively and successfully.

01 February 2010 9:30am - 4:30pm

This one day seminar is focused on improving your rankings in the search engines, solving your search engine ranking problems and answering your search marketing questions.

24 February 2010 10:30am - 04:30pm

This course is part of the new DART training programme , which is only for artists and arts workers in Greater Manchester

If you have been doing project management for some time, you will have come across some thorny issues and also know which areas you find particularly challenging.  This day will be a chance to focus on those challenges and tackle them with a range of tools and techniques, in a supportive group environment.’