Music Freelancers Day - Building Your Business

Launchpad, together with the Business & IP Centre Leeds City Region and Leeds Libraries present a day of talks, panels, workshops, presentations and networking to support those building a freelance career in music.

Location: Business & IP Centre Leeds, 2nd floor Leeds Central Library, Calverley Street, Leeds, LS1 3AB

The day will run as follows:

12pm - 1pm

Welcome - Networking Lunch & Drinks (provided)

1pm - 1.45pm: Panel - Establishing a Freelance Career

Our Freelancers Day starts with a panel discussion on how to navigate embarking on freelance careers, the stepping stones to becoming freelance, how to balance different types of work and feeling confident in dictating your own work schedule. Speakers work in a range of background within music, from production, composition, performing, events, and technical services, across the recording, Film / TV and live sectors.

2.00pm - 2.40pm

Presentation / Workshops on Managing Finance

3.00pm - 3.45pm

Keynote - Jez Willis, Utah Saints (Writer, Producer, Manager, Performer)

4.00pm - 4.45pm: Panel - Building Your Networks

Freelancers Day continues with a panel discussion on how to build your networks, create new relationships, reach new clients, collaborators, customers, audience and sustain your career as a freelance music professional. Featuring speakers from a range of backgrounds within music, including event production, live sound and tour managing, music education, performing and composition.

5.150pm - 6.00pm

Networking Round Table

Facilitated "meet the org" networking and workshop activity.

The event is free to attend, but places are limited and you must register in advance.

If you would like to find out about more events and opportunities to support the regional music sector, please check out Launchpad's resources page here.

For more events from Leeds City Region Business & IP Centre, please follow them on Eventbrite here.

Find out access information and more about the venue here: https://www.leeds.gov.uk/libraries/central-library

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Launchpad is an emerging talent development program that  supports artists and emerging professionals throughout Yorkshire, delivered by Music Local, a not for profit organisation that supports and develops place-based music support systems and infrastructures, tailored to the needs of individual music communities. We work with regional music communities to support Music:Leeds, Bradford Music Network & Music:SouthYorkshire and are supported by Youth Music and Arts Council England using public funding from the National Lottery and as a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner as well as additional local authorities and partners.

The Business & IP Centre Leeds City Region, in partnership with Leeds Libraries and the British Library, is inspiring a thriving community of new and existing business owners across Leeds and beyond.

The Business & IP Centre Leeds City Region is free to use and open to everyone. Whether you're just starting out, have a brilliant idea you want to discuss, or want to take your business to the next step, we're here to help. Find out more.

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