Pitching your artistic project

To articulate your project, initiate collaborations, conclude contracts or to sell your work, it is essential to present your projects in a clear and attractive manner, how do you make your project stand out?

Phase(s)

Pre-Production

Subject

Promotion, Project management

Target groups

Artists, Creative and Cultural Professions, Trainers/Coaches

Sectors

for all sectors, photography, visual and graphic arts, music, webdesign, dance, media, performing arts

Level of experience

for all levels, Beginners, Intermediary, Experienced

Prerequisites

Your project is already defined

Description

How do you draw someone's attention? How do you showcase its specificity and ensure its authenticity? How can you ensure that the communication maximizes your chances to achieve a concrete result? This training aims essentially at strengthening your oral communication skills (face-to-face interview, talking in front of a group, informal encounters, etc.)

Content

Establish efficient communication
Present and highlight your project
Practice active listening
Public speaking

Method

Role play and simulation in peer group contexts.

Objectives

Quality presentation of your projects during discussions, meetings
Effective public speaking, to communicate effectively

Results

To be able to present your project clearly and in a few words
To share public presentations
To be able to express yourself creatively

Resources

Basic equipment (computer, video projector, flipchart, wifi).
bibliography
training script

Evaluations

Questionnaire to be filled out by the participants (given and collected at the end of the session) digital capture prior to session and after session

Support material

Communication exercices, Concrete exercices on the participants projects, Some written checklists, tests and tips, Choice of communication platform

Other related recommended resources

Session power point

Duration

6 h

Participants

10 to 20

Course language(s)

Français, English

Trainer

Giles Agis

Personal curriculum

This Curriculum was developed with funding from the EU programme ERASMUS+ as Strategic Partnership in the field of Vocational Education and Training.

This curriculum reflects only the authors’ views; the European Commission and the ERASMUS+ national agencies are not responsible for any use that may be made of the informations it contains.

RiF is based in Lille/France and has been working on local cultural development, sustaining innovative artistic and cultural projects, and organising events since 1990.

Brouhaha International is a registered charity, nongovernmental and professional arts organisation that operates in local, regional and international contexts. Brouhaha International is committed and focused on celebrating diversity and widening participation within the arts, engaging with a wide range of individuals, groups and organisations.