Amplify Skills Series
Emporium Creative Hub/ACMI X present a monthly skills series to level up your creative business.
Accounting For Artists And Small Business with Meredith Fannin (Darkwave)
When: Wed, 24 Aug 2022, 12- 1pm.
Where: Online, Zoom
RSVP (FREE): Access link
We'll be digging into the nitty gritty of accounting for creative businesses. Covering a number of topics such as:
- What Business Structure is right for your business
- Business Tax Essentials
- Navigating tax incentives for your business
- Incentivising employees and profit share arrangements
Plus any questions you might have.
Leading the session is Meredith Fannin and Andrew Elmore of Darkwave Consulting a vibrant Chartered Accounting Firm in Melbourne who specialise in Professional Services for creatives.
About Meredith Fannin
For over 20 years Meredith Fannin has been a fully qualified Chartered Accountant specialising in the Creative and Performing arts, Music, Film & TV, Media and Fashion industries.
Meredith’s educational achievements include a Bachelor of Arts (Hons), Master of Commerce and Graduate Diploma of Chartered Accountants.
Darkwave Consulting was established in 2006 by Meredith and her business partner Andrew, prior to that time she worked as an accountant and manager for a mid-tier accounting firm, gaining specialisations in accounting and tax for the creative industries, Business Structuring and Consolidations, International Tax and Business Management. Over the past 15 years since the establishment of Darkwave, the firm has grown from a small one-person office in Richmond to a multi-location business with staff assisting clients Australia wide.
Meredith’s focus is on helping creative businesses grow their wealth in both a commercially successful and ethically responsible manner, along with helping educate and nurture the next generation of accountants. Her firm has successfully mentored several staff members through the CA program and has been the long-term business accountant for several internationally successful artists, performers and musicians.
Meredith has volunteered her time to a number of not-for-profit organisations over the years, holding the position of Treasurer at Australian music youth organisation The Push for six years (2013 to 2019).
She is often engaged as a commentator on accounting and tax related matters in the creative industries.
Amplify Webinar: Note-Taking Workshop with Libby Butler
When: Saturday, 14 May, 10am–4pm AEDT
Where: ACMI X, Level 4/2 Kavanagh St, Southbank VIC 3006
Tickets: $30
If you've heard of a script co-ordinator or notetaker and thought "What is that... and how do I do it?", then this one-day workshop is for you. It aims to ease those nerves and provide an overview to the whole note-taking business, while arming you a positive mindset that makes it all worthwhile.
We’ll be covering the kinds of notes you’ll be required to take in TV Development, from brainstorming notes to episodic plotting notes. We’ll go through a list of do's and don’ts; from writing everything down verbatim (including private/inappropriate jokes) to being too editorially confident. We’ll discuss how to make content pages, sub-headings and avoid repetition. We’ll workshop how best to get your voice heard in the room, and we’ll discuss how to navigate the tricky issue of proving yourself without giving your gold away.
Created and run by writer/script producer and ACMI X resident Libby Butler.
About Libby Butler
Libby Butler is an acclaimed tv writer, director and script producer with a boutique production company, Heroine Productions, based in Melbourne, Australia. She has a one-hour period drama in development with CJZ and co-created the acclaimed short-form series Loving Captivity. Writing credits include The Heights (Matchbox/ABC), Neighbours (FremantleMedia) and Erinsborough High (FremantleMedia), which she also script- produced.
Past event
Amplify Webinar: Legal Workshop
When: Tue 18 Jan 2022, 1–2pm AEDT
We're kicking things off with some essential learning on legals for creatives. We will be joined by Roxanne Lorenz, Senior Solicitor for ArtsLaw, Australia’s independent national community legal centre for the arts, a not-for-profit providing free or low cost specialised legal advice, education and resources to Australian artists and arts organisations across all art forms, on a wide range of arts related legal and business matters.
Topics covered during the session:
- Arts law Introduction
- Legal issues that artists face and how we can help
- Artists rights basics including copyright fundamentals
- Moral rights 101
About Roxanne Lorenz, Senior Solicitor
Roxanne Lorenz is a solicitor at Arts Law where she advises artists and organisations on a range of legal areas; most commonly intellectual property (copyright, moral rights and trade marks), contracts, confidentiality, consumer, defamation and insurance laws. Roxanne understands the commercial realities for creators and creative organisations protecting their intellectual property. Prior to Arts Law, Roxanne worked at the Australia Council for the Arts (the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body), the Brisbane Festival (one of Australia’s leading international arts festivals) and Queensland Theatre Company (Australia’s third largest and Queensland’s flagship theatre company).
Past event
Amplify Webinar: Brand Workshop with Brent Nolan of Blunt Agency
When: Wed 23 Mar 2022, 1–2pm AEDT
Brent Nolan, founder and director of Blunt Agency, has designed a workshop to help creatives focus on their brand strategy and understand fundamental steps to execute your core brand effectively.
The Blunt Agency core brand workshop helps business owners, arts organisations, creative studios, consultants and entrepreneurs understand the importance of developing a brand strategy, and how building a brand can assist with their business growth.
In undertaking this brand workshop prior to marketing, creatives will learn a framework of actionable, core steps to brand themselves and their creative business. Through practical examples including content creation for marketing, the brand workshop will illustrate why each stage is vitally important in positioning a creative brand with target audiences.
Join us on Wednesday 23 March at 1pm for this incredible opportunity to lock down your brand.
About Brent Nolan
Director of Blunt Agency, Brent has over 20 years industry experience working with leading Australian brands across creative and strategy. He is passionate about enabling business to understand and connect with more of the people their brand serves, helping brands be more direct, relevant and human. Brent has established a niche following of over 4,700 marketers on LinkedIn. As a LinkedIn Creator he shares insights on business, brand strategy, creative, design and technology.
