BKF course: 3 workshops on a meaningful and sustainable working life

Create a meaningful and sustainable working life as an artist

Get the courage, strategy and tools to create a financially sustainable and meaningful working life as an artist and creative.

The purpose of this workshop course, consisting of 3 interconnected workshops, is to identify a meaningful and sustainable model for working life as an artist, where there is a balance between the artistic, financial and personal aspects. Including an increased understanding of the exchange of value that takes place between artist, collaborator, customer and audience.

Workshop 1: Create a meaningful and sustainable working life as an artist

Workshop 2: The price and value of the artistic work

Workshop 3: Well-being and priorities in everyday life as an artist

 

purpose: The purpose of the training is to give participants an increased understanding of the business side of their artistic work, and thereby strengthen their abilities, competencies and courage to create a sustainable and meaningful working life as independent artists. This course has a particular focus on creating clarity around how value is exchanged between artist and audience/collaborator/customers, in a way that is sustainable on both the financial, mental and artistic levels.  

Audience: This course is designed for BKF members, with a special focus on artists in the middle of their careers. Graduates will also be able to get a lot out of the course, but there is an expectation that the participants are more or less clear about what they would like to do with their artistic practice and working life, as the course has more focus on how Working life can be structured and composed to create the framework in which the individual thrives best.  

Teacher: Signe Sylvester from The Creative Business

 

Workshop format and content 

Each workshop lasts 3 hours including breaks, and consists of: 

• Professional presentations from teachers. 

• Exercises, with guiding questions, models and associated theory 

• Discussion groups where participants can share experiences, knowledge and support each other in their learning.  

• Summary at the beginning and end of each workshop to ensure a common thread. 

 

The workshop process:

Workshop 1: The artist's complex working life 

Focus: The purpose of this workshop is to identify a meaningful and sustainable model for working life as an artist, where there is a balance between the artistic, financial and personal aspects. Including an increased understanding of the exchange of value that takes place between artist, collaborator, client and audience.  

 Goals:

• Clarification about customers, audiences and partners. 

• Articulation of value creation and mapping of revenue sources. 

• A visual model that describes a working life with a balance between time and finances. 

 

Workshop 2: The value of artistic work 

Focus: The intention of this workshop is to give participants concrete tools to articulate the value of their artistic work, as well as to understand how value is exchanged with customers, partners and audiences. 

Goals:

• The ability to articulate the value of artistic work. 

• Increased clarity about customers, audiences and partners 

• Mapping the value given/received in projects, sales and collaborations 

 

Workshop 3: Well-being and priorities in everyday life as an artist 

Focus: The purpose of this workshop is to define which frameworks create well-being and job satisfaction for the individual artist, as well as to identify and prioritize the tasks that motivate and create development in the artistic working life.  

Goals:

• Clarification about one's own well-being and motivation in working life. 

• Goals for the coming year. 

• Planning of everyday tasks. 

 

Course information:

Time and date:

12 November 2026, at 09.30-12.30 – workshop

19 November 2026, at 09.30-12.30 – workshop 2

26 November 2026, at 09.30-12.30 – workshop 3

 

Registration deadline: No later than September 1th with a short motivation to contact@bkf.dk

Place: Copenhagen

Payment: 400 kr for BKF members including a light meal. (1.200 kr for non-members)