Diversify Your Creative Income with Brooke Scobie
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5 July 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Applications Close 5 July 2024 10:00 am

Synopsis
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5 July 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Surviving and thriving financially as a creative practitioner usually means doing more than one thing to make a living – but where to start, and what to do? Creatives are usually adept at a range of skills, and with a little brainstorming and guidance those various talents can be turned into diversified revenue. Becoming less reliant on a single source of income, whether that’s a job or government funding, can also open up abundant creative and commercial opportunities for savvy creatives and arts organisations. Diversify Your Creative Income is an interactive workshop that discusses the various ways that creatives can make money, and includes practical exercises to help inspire and shape some new ideas. Participants will learn all the following, with a focus on arts practice and creative industries:
- Where to start? The breakdown of a Revenue Model that works for a range of activities.
- Defining your Core, Complementary and Supplementary offerings.
- Using a Skills Audit to help inspire new ideas and ways of thinking about making money.
- The ‘Cheat Sheet’ – a collection of tried-and-true ideas including online sales, passive income, productifying a service, selling experiences, education, mentoring and more.
- The Testing Process, and how to identify whether or not these ideas are actually “good”.
This workshop has been designed by creatives for creatives and includes practical activities. Please note: This is event is at 12pm AEST (Sydney/Melbourne time) and 2pm NZ time.
Host(s)

Brooke Scobie
Brooke Scobie (she/they) lives on Darkinjung land as a queer First Nations single mum, writer, podcaster, business mentor, and dedicated artist manager. With over 15 years working in the community services sector and a half-decade within the arts, Brooke seamlessly marries their passion for creative expression with a profound understanding of the needs of community.They have been published widely as a poet and writer, clinching 2nd place in the 2020 Judith Wright Poetry Prize and nominated as a finalist in the 2023 David Unaipon Award. She is a fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs and holds diplomas in Creative & Indigenous Writing and Management, augmented by an Associate Degree in Applied Social Science.Her entrepreneurial spirit was evident when she founded and ran Kitty Demolition Beauty Services for over 5 years, expanding its reach from Sydney all the way to Cambodia. Through personal challenges and triumphs, Brooke Scobie’s work continues to resonate, leaving an indelible mark across multiple sectors.Qualifications:Diplomas in Creative & Indigenous Writing and Management, Associate Degree in Applied Social Science