We are seeking Expert Practitioners, Passionate Learning Leaders, Critical Coaches, Teaching Artists, and more! Feminist Center for Creative Work is excited to continue our monthly professional development offerings, and furthermore, to diversify and expand our Rolodex. We look to transcend, adapt, and share healing within a world of changing resources and norms, opportunities, responsibilities, and affordability. Submissions close on Sunday, Sept 17 at midnight PST.

What are the skills we must learn and teach one another as we co-create the idea of work, if not livelihood itself, in our own image and shared interest?

 

We’re looking for you to

• Share your skills
• Share your passionate and novel approaches
• Share your strategies and frameworks for creative working and living 
• Experiment with radical co-education praxis
• Re-Envisions and/or Decolonizes the Theory and Practice of “Professionalism”
• Demystify Traditionally Exclusionary Creative Worlds
• Reconceptualize Autonomy and Action in Creative Economy, Community and Practice
• Propose Revolutionary Business and Interpersonal Models 

Or…

• Teach us how to do something cool (or, not so cool, but REALLY USEFUL—::taps mic:: any anti-capitalist financial advisors in the chat?)!

Or…

• Some combination/variation of the above and/or something we haven’t thought of yet! 

 

Anticipated Questions

What does a typical session look like? 

We’re looking for programs that run between 2 and 4 hours. Most of our leaders explain a little bit about themselves and their practice before getting to the how-to. 

Will I get paid? 

Yes! We pay above the creative market rate for these sorts of programs in arts and nonprofit institutions (although we may pay less than you might expect from a multinational corporation… but we may also pay more)! We pay commensurate with experience, but we also consider how experience and exposure are rigged, and work to shift and redistribute monetary and opportunity resources. Typically, we will pay you in the week following your event (assuming we have all the documentation/forms/invoices we need).

If I have a skill in a particular creative field, can I apply to show people how to do that? 

As we’re selecting, we’ll consider how widely applicable and useful the proposed event will be for our community and audience. We encourage you to think about how your approach has more generally applicable frameworks that can be applied across your medium, as well as others, if not a more general, universal approach to creativity and creative life in general. 

Here’s an example of what we would consider general, applicable, needful: 

Financial Advice for Creatives: a workshop like this applies to just about everyone in our network, and achieves the goals of our mission. 

Here’s an example of something that would be less applicable and useful for our audience: 

Coding Immersive Digital Art with C++ : a workshop like this requires particular knowledge and expertise, and is therefore less general and less needed among our audience.  

What if I’ve never taught something: should I still apply? 

Most of us have taught something and we don’t even realize it! It doesn’t have to be a formal presentation, or a well-trodden, already identified, skillset. We encourage newness and we’re excited to learn new things, and learn what we don’t know we need to learn yet… It makes sense that in pursuing this newness, some of our applicants may not have had the opportunity to facilitate/host this sort of program in a formal, public or funded setting.  

I notice somebody has already facilitated an event similar to the one I’m proposing. What should I do?

There are lots of different approaches for what would be considered a similar skill set. We encourage you to apply, but do as much research as you can to understand how your offering would be unique, and describe that with particular detail in your application. Yes, we expect you to do a bit of research, or have a working knowledge of our organizational history. See our Programs Archive.

What if I want to submit an event where people don’t learn or refine approaches, knowledge, skills, and frameworks around creative work?

The endeavor of this Open Call is sharing “How – To.” We thank you in advance for understanding our organizational and community imperatives by not submitting any work that does not match the open call descriptions. 

Use this form to nominate someone you’d like to learn from

Use this form to submit a professional development program of your own

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