Community through peer support groups and communities is, according to the report "When Music Speaks" (2024), essential for improving mental well-being and sustainable working life in the music industry.
That's why we at the Danish Composers Association, together with the Association of Visual Artists and the Danish Musicians' Association, have set up a network for just that!
The network group is a free development course for you who want to create fertile ground for new business opportunities through a balanced and sustainable artistic life. In the group, topics such as mental health, self-management, conditions and rights and much more are discussed - facilitated by a trained process manager.
MORE ABOUT THE PROCESS
As a participant, you get a safe community and the opportunity to discuss shared experiences across artistic disciplines.
Working as a freelance artist offers creative freedom, flexibility and diversity in tasks. But it can also be a big challenge to have to balance and prioritize the amount of work tasks alone, to create a healthy economy and at the same time create time and profit for your private and family life, and where is the line between work and private life?
If you want to sharpen your freelance career, your professionalism and want to create a balance between work life and private life, input to manage your finances and your time and thereby create new and concrete opportunities for action, then you must read on.
The Association of Visual Artists, the Danish Composers' Association and the Danish Musicians' Association are now offering a total of 12 places in a network group in collaboration.
For the first time, the course is also interdisciplinary, so the talks and groups are a mix of musicians, music creators and visual artists. It provides the opportunity to share various lived experiences, hear about the different conditions and be inspired across the board.
So hurry up and register now.
YOU GET THAT
Through the shared experiences of the participants, you get the opportunity to work with the essential aspects of working life as a freelancer and thereby arrive at important insights that give you new options that can support a healthy and balanced freelance career.
TRUST
You get the opportunity, in a safe space, to talk openly about the joys and challenges of an independent freelance working life.
COMMUNITY
We work with joint dialogue and group work and all participants bring themselves and their working lives into play. The basic tone of the course depends to a large extent on the group's common realizations that arise in the dialogue with the other participants.
We go in depth with the following topics throughout the course, which is based on the Working Life Prism.
· Professionalism
· Mental health
· The industry
· Terms / Rights
· Healthy body
· The whole life
· My business
· Self-management
2 topics are worked on per session. Each topic is introduced by the process manager, Helene Simonsen, who introduces the team to the necessary knowledge, theory and research that is linked to the topics. As a participant, you are expected to work on homework and test new initiatives between each meeting.
The tools, including the Working Life Prism, have been developed on the basis of research within the working environment and have been developed by ARON - Center For Sustainable Working Life for Velliv Foreningen and are targeted especially at artists who work independently and as freelancers.
TEACHER
Helene Simonsen has a Diploma in Management and runs the company Keynote, where she uses music in her work with leadership and organizational development. In spring 2023, Helene has been certified as a GRO process manager at the Center for Sustainable Working Life. Helene is a trained flautist from Det Kgl. Danish Conservatory of Music and the Swedish National Orchestra Academy and since she graduated in 2005 she has worked as a freelance musician in various orchestra and chamber music contexts.
COURSE INFORMATION
The course takes place over 4 times in 2024:
The 10st of October
The 28st of October
November 14th
On December 02st
and is held at the Danish Music Association, Sankt Hans Torv 26, 2200 Copenhagen every day from 09.00 – 15.00.
REGISTRATION
You register with your respective trade union or association.
A total of 12 places in a network group.
As a member of either the Visual Artists' Association or the Danish Musicians' Association, it is free to participate. We charge a no-show fee of DKK 300 per time.
Registration no later than 20 September.
Registration and/or questions can be directed to stud@bkf.dk.