ADVICE, GUIDANCE & SUPPORT FOR CREATIVES FROM PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS, CREATIVES & PRODUCERS, DIRECT TO YOUR SCREEN.

The Sessions

The Sessions is a free, online lecture series for artists and theatre-makers, created in partnership with The Dukes Theatre in Lancaster.

With the aim of being genuinely interesting and always useful, The Sessions will help you to develop your creative thinking and practice, regardless of whether you’re just starting out in the arts or you’ve been in the business a long time.

You’ll get realtime insights and guidance from practicing industry professionals to energise your thinking; plenty of opportunities to ask questions, share experiences and exchange ideas; and you’ll always come away with evergreen practical tips to help you take actionable steps to developing your creative practice and a building a sustainable career.

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INTERSECTIONS, INNOVATIONS & INTEGRITY

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BENEFITS OF ONLINE LEARNING

Targeting Learning

Provides the opportunity to learn from other practicing artists and creatives about how to develop your creative practice by building technical knowledge, refining your critical thinking skills, and improving your approach to getting, making and sharing your work.

Accessible & Flexible

As long as you have access to an internet enabled computer or smart phone, you can learn whenever and wherever you are. It works around your learning needs and your life commitments, providing a more flexible, personalised and self-paced approach to professional development.

Eco-Friendly

Paperless and travel-free learning helps to reduce your carbon footprint and supports the environment.

Good Value & Affordable

Offers extraordinary value compared to physcial learning, eliminating transport costs and time whilst accessing high ticket expertise and learning resources for a fractional price.

12 BOOKS ABOUT INNOVATION & INTEGRITY IN CREATIVE PRACTICE

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12 Books About Innovation and Integrity in Creative Practice

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THE BOOKSHOP

I Didn't Do The Thing Today

On letting go of productivity guilt by Madeline Dore. If you've ever felt the pressure to do more, be more, achieve more, this is the permission slip you need to find your own way.

DIGITAL MINAMILISM: Choosing a focused life in a noisy world by Cal Newport.

A practical guide to cutting back on screen time and rethinking your relationship with social media.

YOU ARE A GLOBAL CITIZEN: A guided journal for the culturally curious by Damon Dominique

Explore your own identity within a global society to understand how the outside world impacts on what’s going on in your mind and vice versa.

MANIFESTO: On never giving up by Bernadine Evaristo

Personal and practical insights on why developing self-belief is so important + how struggle + disappointment can be good for a creative artist as long as you don’t give up.

WORK FROM HOME HACKS by Aja Frost

500 + easy ways to get organised, stay productive + maintain a work-life balance while working from home.

THE EXPECTATION EFFECT: How your mindset can transform your life by David Robson

Suggests our expectations shape our experience, uncovering techniques to improve fitness, productivity, intelligence, health and happiness.

THE PRACTICE: Shipping Creative Work By Seth Godin

A book about the importance of consistency to getting unstuck and finding the courage to make and share creative work.

WINTERING: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May.

A gentle exploration of fallow seasons, and how to embrace uncertainty in order to survive them.

TOGETHER: 10 Choices For A Better Now by Ece Temelkuran

Provides an inspiring manifesto for change and reveals fresh possibilities for the better world we might want to live in.

SABOTAGE: How to silence your inner critic and get out of your own way by Emma Gannon

Explores real-life stories of success and setbacks from leading cultural voices and offers ways to challenge self-sabotage.

BURNING QUESTIONS by Margaret Atwood

A collection of essays from on everything from debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young, to how to define granola.

THE WAY OF INTEGRITY: Finding the path to your true self by The Martha Beck

A four-stage process of how to read your internal signals to help you recognize what you actually yearn for and lead you towards your true path.

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