Cowra Creative Business Day Offers Free Business Skills For Artists

Join Creative Plus Business and Arts OutWest for a day of learning, networking, and business building, designed for creative practitioners, artists, and small creative businesses.

Two FREE workshops, designed by creatives for creatives will run Tuesday 9 August at Cowra Regional Art Gallery.

The morning workshop ‘How to Start a Creative Business’ (10.30am-12.30) ooks at how turn your creative practice, hobby, or passion into a business. It covers aspects like setting goals, making plans, ABNs, structures, business names and licences, the legal steps to egistering your business, plus getting eady for managing the money and a bit on marketing and promotion.

n the afternoon (1.30-3.30pm) ‘Tax Time or Creatives’ is a workshop that covers he basics of how tax works for creative professionals, the intersection between ndividual tax and small business, and how key creative tax rulings dictate the unique place that creative practitioners hold in the tax world.

The workshops will be delivered by ndustry expert Monica Davidson from Creative Plus Business.

If you’re doing anything creative for money – from making products for markets, to artists teaching workshops o kids, to musicians booking gigs, anything creative that includes income – you’re in business. These workshops are a creative industry specific take on skills all people in business need,” said Arts OutWest’s Executive Director Kylie Shead.

These workshops are ideal for creative people, curious hobbyists, freelancers, established practitioners, creative businesses, and members of arts and heritage groups and organisations.

Creative Plus Business is an educational organisation with a focus on helping creative practitioners and arts organisations to develop and improve their entrepreneurial abilities, with a focus on small business, financial literacy, and marketing skills.

Arts OutWest is the regional arts development organisation for the NSW Central West.

All workshops are free but strictly limited to 20 places each. Registrations are required for each workshop. BYO lunch for networking with Arts OutWest and other local artists.

Book via: https://artsoutwest.org.au/cowra-creative-business-day-freeworkshops/

You will need a Service NSW login to register. For any questions please contact Arts OutWest on 02 6338 4657.

This workshop is made possible by NSW Business Connect, a dedicated and personalised NSW Government program that provides trusted independent business advice and events to help you start, run, adapt or grow your small business. Creative Plus Business is an approved independent provider for Service NSW Business Connect until 30 September 2025.

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