Call for applications: Business Acumen for Artists course in Cape Town

BAA is intended to teach creative professionals the basics of business so they can create and run their creative enterprises.

The course is intended for singers, actors, designers, photographers, poets, ceramists and illustrators. Interested creatives should apply here. The tuition fee is R7 500 ($540).

“Delegates develop key business skills from how to manage their finances to negotiating decisively when pitching a product and pricing an idea,” the academy said.

“This is a profound and practical investment for artists and creative professionals who will emerge more confident about their creatively commercial aspirations and be much better equipped to work creatively without being as vulnerable to exploitation.

"The course is practical in nature. After all, the power in entrepreneurship is the 'ship' part. Without a product or service to take into the world as an offering, it remains at the level of a dream.

"BAA works with each creative to hone and develop their offering into something which can be shipped and sold by the end of the programme.”

Delegates will be taught a product- or service-generating methodology, which will help them concretise their idea into a sustainable offering by the end of the programme.

The application deadline is 23 August.

For more information, email the Cape Town Creative Academy at [email protected] or call +27 (0) 21 201 1150.

View the original call here.