Event type: Workshop

Luma Creations exciting series of professional development sessions for Freelancers & Small Businesses in the Creative Industries returns!

The set of four sessions focus on four areas:

Tues 1 Nov – Learning how to market yourself and your business to potential clients and understanding that you have to market yourself differently in different situations.

Tues 8 Nov – Becoming Self-employed or setting up a business. What do you need to know and how do you decide which is best for you.

Tues 15 Nov – Understanding Funding and how to access grants in the creative industries.

Tues 22 Nov – Understanding Portfolio Careers. As a freelancer you often do a number of projects at any one time and take on a different role depending on what the job entails. How can you ensure you’re managing your work and your time.

Katumba are holding a set of community cultural workshops in the run up to their Halloween Carnival.

Participants will express their realities using oral traditions and ludic sharings. They will learn about positive and accessible changes, and collectively find solutions to be translated into pieces of music, dance, theatre and art that will then become part of the Carnival Parade.

The workshops are for all ages. You will be learning from professionals and creating your own prop, beat, and/or dance move for the big night.

Drumming

Workshops include Katumba Drumming & Movement tasters for new and aspiring performers. These workshops, including adults, family, and kids only sessions, are a great way to come and find out what the Katumba Drumming & Movement buzz is all about.

You will meet the founders, learn the Katumba beats and moves, and most importantly, have a great time.

They’ll take you on a journey of body percussion, drumming and movement to get your body ready to wear their drums!

This year they have an extra special challenge for Families and Kids, they will be building their own upcycled drum and performing with it in the parade. They can’t wait to get blown away by what they come up with, and they know they will be too!

Expect to feel uplifted, inspired, full of energy and wanting more.

Drumming is literally the beating heart of the parade, so head over to their Eventbrite page and book on to a drumming workshop now!

Then bring your skills along to the parade and feel empowered and ignited by joining the core drumming troupe. Feel the power!

BOOK FAMILY DRUMING HERE

BOOK KIDS DRUMING 8+ HERE

Lantern Making

Stay tuned for details of their Lantern Making Workshop where they invite everybody to create wonderful illuminations to light up the Parade as it pulses along the route.

BOOK LANTERN MAKING HERE

Dance

Plus Carnival partners Movema will be delivering a series of Dance for Diaspora workshops celebrating diversity through dance, creating safe spaces for us all to create and move as we prepare for the big night!

No experience is needed for any of the workshops.

Call out to Cyclists

There will be an epic illuminated mass bike ride as part of the Carnival Parade. All cyclists are welcome to join in, in fact, they insist on it!

Head to the cyclist’s workshop to get your bike Carnival ready, then hit the Carnival Parade in style.

Illuminated Bike Ride Workshop details will be announced very soon.

 

Liverpool Irish Festivalinvite you to meet their volunteer History Research Group, led by ArtsGroupie Director John Maguire.

Responsible for unveiling the research that now populates the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail’s site information, this group have been central to the Trail’s revitalisation, collectively spending 850+ hours on research! Closely linked with the development of this year’s book release –Liverpool Irish Famine Trail: Revive, the team discuss their findings and research activity in a presentation followed by a Q&A session.

The presentation intends to encourage new volunteers to join their friendly group and seeks community group engagement to help them RELEASE their findings into the Liverpool City Region. They can also answer questions and share our plans.

Please do attend to find out more and see how you and others can assist, either as a volunteer, community group, or project partner, that will help create assets that will enhance and protect the trail for future generations, adding to Liverpool’s cultural offer and in telling a globally important story.

For more information on the Trail visit liverpoolirishfaminetrail.com

BOOK FREE TICKETS HERE

Liverpool Irish Festival runs from 20th to 30th October. See the full listings of events HERE

 

LUMA Creations Director, Francisco Carrasco will chair a special panel event with three exceptional creative entrepreneurs Attila Olah, Nikki Blaze and Juliana Landim.

The event covers how they have negotiated and embraced the challenges of working in the creative sector. It will be an informal and lively discussion which will hopefully inspire and inform, and will include the importance of being able to do things differently, keeping up with the trends and changes in the industry, and in the world in extraordinary times and where you can join in, ask questions and meet other people starting or growing their own businesses.

You can book on this link for the FREE event – https://tinyurl.com/44nmm3c4