About the Event
Creative Business Basics was designed by creative professionals to help those just starting their enterprise, emerging artists, recent graduates, and curious freelancers needing a business check-in.
This one-day workshop provides an entertaining and accessible insight into the basics of small business or self-employment, and how to avoid common pitfalls that artists or creatives can fall into when starting their journey.
Creative Plus Business promise a safe space to ask questions; where the mysteries of creative business become a little clearer - all with a specific focus on arts practice and the realities of a creative life.
Some of the topics will include:
- Setting goals and creating a strategic plan
- ABN’s, including how to obtain one
- Legal structure, business names and licensing requirements
- Time management strategies, and adapting them to work for you
- Adapting a business plan template to your needs
- Understanding what to do next
Participants will not only leave feeling more confident in their ability to start a creative enterprise, they will also receive lifetime access to carefully crafted resources by Creative Plus Business, to continue providing support and guidance long after the event.
This event is catered with tea, coffee and a light lunch included in the ticket-price.
Location: Mandurah Seniors and Community Centre
Date: Saturday, 23 May 2026
Time: 9am-4.30pm
Cost: $62
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Accessibility: wheelchair accessible, open to accommodations for accessibility needs
Acknowledgements: this workshop is presented by Monica Davidson of Creative Plus Business as part of the City of Mandurah’s Creative Learning Calendar program.
Meet the Facilitator
Creative Plus Business is a national social enterprise, dedicated helping creative practitioners and arts organisations to develop and improve their entrepreneurial abilities, with a focus on small business, financial literacy, and marketing skills. Founder Monica Davidson is an award-winning expert on the creative industries, who has infamously never had a ‘proper job.’ She has worked as a freelance journalist, performer, filmmaker and has run a production company. Alongside her continuing creative practice in film, she mentors emerging and established artists on their freelancing journey through Creative Plus Business and through guest lecturing at NIDA and AFTRS.
