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Business School course for ARTISTS to succeed
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max kaizen · Cape Town (South Africa) · Jul 30th, 2007 5:36 pm · 44 votes · 11 comments
 
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The University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business is one of the world's bravest business schools. Their Executive Education unit is recognised as one of the world's Top 10 in their class!
Heather Ford (head of iCommons) was on the faculty to present at Nomadic Marketing: one of the innovative new programs the GSB have introduced to their offering on the practical application of social media for business (it was a hearty success & the next will be in October).

Running courses for those that shake up the minds of those in corporate silos may seem a comfortable gig. What has that to do with iCommons?

Elaine Rumboll the visionary director of the Exec.Ed unit, herself an artist, has embarked on a pioneering course to help strengthen the foundational business skills that those working as creatives often miss out on. And it stunts their success. The struggling artist meme must end. This is a great place to start.

The course - Business Acumen for Artists - is subsidised by the university, all lecturers and mentors offering their expertise and time over 13 weeks ..for free.. and all monies raised go to building up an artists node that has been an incubator for some of South Africa's top talent like Pieter Dirk Uys and Freshly Ground. the Observatory Community Centre.

Are you an artist, writer, director, filmmaker, musician, designer or working as a freelance creative (or you know one) in Cape Town, South Africa?

This course will help set you up and set you apart in the competitive global market.

This is a life changing and valuable chance to get the finest guidance and skills from the rich generous resource over this program.
Grab this opportunity with both hands.. booking closes soon!
Mail Lisa Maddison or call her: (021) 406.1380

Our blog with more indepth news here
Our Facebook event here - please help spread the word to nurture artists and strengthen creative culture

tags: cape-town south africa education art artists freelance creatives capetown


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This rocks, Max. I would love to volunteer to facilitate sessions - and this really fits with what we've been wanting to do in Cape Town with artists of the Armchair Theatre community in Observatory. Looking forward to hearing more!
Heather Ford · Johannesburg (South Africa) · Jul 27th, 2007 4:42 pm
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Hi Max,
Great idea, It would be nice if artists could participate in the course that were not in Cape Town. Do you have plans for this to happen ? Does the course plan to run in other places or online ?

I really liked the idea that was created in conjunction with Icommons called NGO in a box www.tacticaltec.org . I wondered if Icommons and the open source movement might have an artist in a box in the future ? One problem I have been thinking about lately is how artists need to start using open source programs, rather than the ones that are in the market. I would like to record an album on open source software, yet I am not able to find much info around. I'm going to have a look through your site. Thanks.
Jamison · Oslo (Norway) · Jul 31st, 2007 8:03 pm
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Hi. Hopefully this will really enable people passionate about working as full-time creative to realise their dreams. Heather, would love to have you on board for a piece on Copyleft! Who knows, if it works and we get enough of a critical mass we can run the same process in JHB! Maybe even share some of our experiences during the process as an open source learning log. Will see what emerges... Elaine
erumboll · Cape Town (South Africa) · Jul 31st, 2007 11:45 pm
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Jamison - If you're looking specifically for audio recording and editing software, then I suggest you look at tacticaltech's, audio/video edition, which has all the software you need to record, edit, compress etc etc, and has very useful help guides too.
Rebecca Kahn, iCommons reporter (South Africa) · Aug 01st, 2007 3:31 pm
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Max, thanks for the interesting write up. I'm currently setting up the curriculum at a big Indian University and this article has given me an interesting idea.

Got to learn about Nomadic Marketing and it made for some very fascinating read. Thanks again, Max.

Kiruba Shankar · Chennai (India) · Aug 08th, 2007 6:02 am
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Awesome, Elaine! I'm really happy to help in this. Btw, for those who are interested, we produced this kewl flash curriculum a while back called 'Copyright, copyleft and everything in between'. Its being used at the University of the Western Cape and OpenLab - and I'd love to revisit it for specific audiences. Would love comments and suggestions!
Heather Ford · Johannesburg (South Africa) · Aug 08th, 2007 11:03 am
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Hello

We are in the third week of the programme. It has been an extraordinarily enriching and meaningful experience for me. I am including the online learning b/log that I have created for the programme. http://elainerumboll.com/
Hope some of the insights prove useful. E
erumboll · Cape Town (South Africa) · Sep 06th, 2007 4:12 am
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trox hmmm ... sounds a bit like self-advertising to me ... or am I just grown too cynical for all this arts & business stuff?
trox (International) · Oct 01st, 2007 11:46 pm
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hi trox.. can't find any details listed about you on your profile to connect in, but whether this is reassuring to you on not, no-one who is involved in this program bar the Community Centre benefits financially from this program.

I'm a fan of the process, celebrating the infusion of education to bridge the chasm of fear many artists experience around business. Thank heavens there are those who aren't jaded who take the effort to share the best of what they know to those who need it but would not be able to afford it. Well done again to Elaine.
max kaizen · Cape Town (South Africa) · Oct 02nd, 2007 3:51 am
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hey max and elaine

i wouldn't give any weight to trox's comment, which reveals only his/her own motivations, that username isn't associated with any actual contributions to this community so has 0 credibility

i can assure you that this community doesn't share that hermeneutic of suspicion

But I must add, so what if someone gives and engages in self advertising, when does art NOT involve telling about yourself?

its a great program, and i am pleased that others could learn about it here
Andrew Rens · Cape Town (South Africa) · Oct 03rd, 2007 1:34 pm
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Thank you so much for the feedback Andrew. I chatted to a couple of the students after your engaging lecture on copyleft and how artists can flourish in the commons within the safety of an evolving economic and legal framework.

PS. Mr Rens was one of the generous thought leaders who have given freely of their time and expertise to the students.
(Hooray! for those who give a damn about changing the shape of the world instead of just poking at it with sharpened sticks of cynicism).
max kaizen · Cape Town (South Africa) · Oct 03rd, 2007 4:38 pm
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