Workshops

Wanting to start a porn practice and feeling a little overwhelmed on where to start? New to the industry and wanting the rundown before you dive in? This workshop gives an introduction to the indie porn ecology, and an overview of everything you’ll need to consider in your porn production journey.

Our industry is amazing, but it presents a set of unique and frustrating business challenges. In this 1.5 hr workshop, we’ll go over the basics to give you a bit of support and guidance as you get started. We’ll talk through business models, startup costs, basic legal compliance, fundraising, finding/working with performers and collaborators, forming a studio or collective, safety and consent on set, production, and getting your work out to festivals and distributors. We’ll also leave plenty of time for questions and discussion!

You’ll leave the workshop with a list of resources and a comprehensive overview of what you’ll want to consider as you build out your indie porn practice.

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Monday, July 22nd @ 6:30pm EST
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Sliding Scale $50-100, no one turned away for lack of funds
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Got a great idea, but no way to fund it? This workshop takes participants through different ways to think about fundraising, offering a range of different models and approaches to start from scratch and build support into sustained, substantial income.

In this workshop we’ll cover a range of fundraising options: “friends and family” support, annual campaigns and ask letters, crowdfunding, merch and product creation, giving circles, advisory boards, and more. Whether you’re putting together your first project that needs funding support or feel like you’ve exhausted every trick in the book, this workshop offers ways to think about income generation, not just as a means to make money, but as a way to identify and facilitate long-term connections and support.

Over the course of this 1.5-hour workshop, participants will receive resources around each type of fundraising model, brainstorm “outside the box” options as a group, and share and receive feedback on initial outlines of fundraising plans.

Thinking about creating a crowdfunding project for your work? Learn the basic best practices around project strategy, prep, creation, and management to help your project succeed.

In this 1.5-hour workshop, we’ll cover the different types of crowdfunding platforms available, and talk through which models work best for which kinds of products and projects. We’ll look at what you need to run a successful campaign, from strategy to assets to content calendars to mailing lists, and provide examples of both successful projects and common mistakes to avoid. In addition to looking at project prep, we’ll also go over campaign timelines and in-process strategies, ending with an overview of how to use your project wrap up to transition your one-time backers into supporters for life.

Participants will leave this workshop with resources and strategies to ensure that their next crowdfunding project will surpass its goal, as well as templates for supporter outreach, timelines, project outlines and more!

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Tuesday, February 27th @ 6:30pm EST

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Sliding Scale $50-100, no one turned away for lack of fundsSee our sliding scale guidelines here.

Unfuck your workflow to regain clarity and drive. Revamp the way you work with a handful of helpful organizational systems, intuitive tactics, and strategies for getting your best you when you sit down to work! In this 1.5 hour workshop, I share my tried and true methods for breaking down a maximalist workload into an easy workflow that motivates rather than overwhelms.

Whether you want to be more organized and productive with your art practice, small business, professional life, or personal projects (or more likely, all of the above!) these systems are a great way to get everything in order and move through your weeks stress-free.

You’ll leave the workshop with a honed to-do list system (think bullet journal, but more functional and less culty) mapped out for your personal workload, strategies for mindfulness and problem solving, and intentions set for your immediate future, next few weeks, and long term hustle.

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Whether you’re an artist, a founder, running a small business, or an individual wanting to be more in control of your finances, budgets and cashflows can feel loaded and intimidating. However, they also hold the key to financial sustainability and smart planning. In this workshop, participants will learn how to create a basic personal or organizational budget and cash flow, as well as smaller project-specific budgets.

Leaning in to embodied holistic business practice, we’ll address our spreadsheet and financial fears in order to master a basic budgeting practice, and feel clear, empowered, and in control of financial futures. Treating budgeting as an improvisatory practice, we’ll address misconceptions about how budgets should serve our planning process, and create a practice that we can feel good about—clear, informative, and free of budget fear!

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How can we use pleasure to guide our working processes and productivity? Beyond the basic bribing ourselves for tasks completed, how can we look to an embodied, pleasure-driven workflow to learn about what brings out our creative and administrative best?

In this workshop, participants will be led through a guided self assessment to learn how pleasure shows up (and hides away) in their work. After tuning in to their somatic relationships to their work, attendees will get to experiment with a range of different techniques that can invite pleasure, ease, and joy into their working processes, creating a more present and sustainable workflow.

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Being a dance maker necessitates deploying a wide range of business skills in addition to your creative work. This workshop will take attendees through the major administrative components of building a career as a choreographer or performer—fundraising, curation vs. self-producing, working with dancers and collaborators, paying your team, grants and residencies, developing relationships with curators, basic organizational systems for success, fiscal sponsorship, and more.

This workshop is designed to give dancemakers an overview of all the areas of administrative focus needed to succeed in building their dance practice. Participants will leave with a list of resources, as well as basic administrative templates including a budget, database spreadsheet, project timeline and more.

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