Creative Arts Resources

Thinking of upskilling your creative practice?

These workshops were produced in 2020 but remain a handy resource for creatives.

Check out the recordings on YouTube:

• Going digital: website or social media? Choosing the right option for you - Sabrina Lunn
• Expanding your reach: workshops, online events and more - Natalie Martin
• Creating high quality images of your work using your smartphone - Mollie Vaughan
• Studio tour video basics: using your mobile device - Josh Conn
• Options and opportunities for creatives selling online - Fiona McPherson
• Writing about your work for promotion, funding and other opportunities - Stacie Bobele
• Getting that grant. Learn how to be more competitive for grant funding - Harriet Gaffney
• How to budget for arts grants - Gretchen Gibson

Our Stories Series from 2020 played host to a number of live and pre-recorded events that provide insight into creativity and the creative process. The stories we tell each other and the world help shape our understanding of our environment and our place in it.

Check out the recorded conversations on YouTube:

• Unfurling Surf Coast Artists: Julie Dyer in Conversation with Mark Trinham
• Journey through Wadawurrung Country Post Edit
• Ochre and Water: Sally Groom and Corrina Eccles
• Mentorship & Collaboration: Miranda Jarvis and Iris Walshe-Howling
• Sunday Sessions: What's the Point of Public Art?
• The Making of the Surf Coast Arts Trail
• PORTAL presents: Theatre Matters Within and Beyond the Surf Coast
• Art, Activism and Place
• Where to Now? The Future of the Arts on the Surf Coast
• PORTAL presents: The MAC A community-driven arts centre
• Stories - Surf Coast Arts Trail
• PORTAL presents: The FLOAT Project