Writing and talking about your practice / Écrire et parler de sa pratique
- Free Business Card Templates
Canva is an online design and publishing tool with both free and paid plans. - Vistaprint
This resource provides design templates and consultations for creating a business card.
- Concordia Student Success Centre’s résumés & cover letters resource
The guides and templates provided by Concordia University are available for download as a PDF file. - Hamilton Arts Council’s guide for writing an artist CV
This is an informational guide with tips and templates for writing an artist CV. - How to Write an Artist’s CV in 10 Steps
- Art Volt’s writing workshop: biography, project statement & artist statement
This video workshop by Jessica Auer provides a framework within which emerging artists can develop their writing skills in order to compose texts that are typically used to accompany artwork and artist dossiers. - Hamilton Arts Council’s guide for writing an artist statement
- Art Volt: Networking in the Arts
This video workshop by Kakim Goh, aims to define what networking is and why it is useful.
- A guide to working with clients
This practical guide by the late design and technology studio HAWRAF shares the best learnings about working with clients and setting up successful relationships. From understanding your value, screening and following up with potential clients, writing proposals to getting the job. - Client discovery call
This guide by studio HAWRAF helps you run your freelance client discovery calls smoothly. It suggests types of questions you could ask during the call to better understand a client's goals, needs and challenges. - How to tell the story of your creative work
- The Machinery: Promotional Tool for Selling a Production
This template allows you to enter all the relevant promotional information related to your performance/producion when approaching presenters: Title, description, duration, audience, maximum house, etc.
To access any resources provided by The Machinery, you will need to join their community and create a free online account. If you have questions you can email them at info@machineriedesarts.ca
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- 10 mostly free ways to learn French in Montreal
- Digital Theatre Words
Digital Theatre Words (DTW) is a project focusing on new theatre terminology and currently has 24 languages online.
- The Machinery: Bridging the Linguistic Gap
This tool provides a lexicon of French-language terms often used in Montreal's arts sector.
To access any resources provided by The Machinery, you will need to join their community and create a free online account. If you have questions you can email them at info@machineriedesarts.ca
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- The Machinery: Networking Tips (Improving French)
This tool provides helpful tips and tricks to help you connect with folks in the performing arts milieu. It includes suggestions on where you can network and tips on connecting with the French-speaking community.
To access any resources provided by The Machinery, you will need to join their community and create a free online account. If you have questions you can email them at info@machineriedesarts.ca
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- The Machinery: Tips on Employment and Improving Your French
This tool provides suggestions on how to get started when wanting to improve your French, or search for a job in Montreal.
To access any resources provided by The Machinery, you will need to join their community and create a free online account. If you have questions you can email them at info@machineriedesarts.ca
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- The Machinery: Press Release Structure
This is a template for a press release that allows you to write down the pertinent information to be transmitted in connection with a performance or an event. The different sections of the template allows you to structure the information you want to send to the media.
To access any resources provided by The Machinery, you will need to join their community and create a free online account. If you have questions you can email them at info@machineriedesarts.ca
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- The Machinery: Sample Email to a Politician
This template provides an outline of what to include in a correspondence to a politician.
To access any resources provided by The Machinery, you will need to join their community and create a free online account. If you have questions you can email them at info@machineriedesarts.ca
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- The Machinery: Press Reviews
This tool helps you assemble a synthesis of press articles (paper, web...) for your organization, a particular project, yourself, etc. The tool is a way to quickly take note of the press coverage that you have received.
To access any resources provided by The Machinery, you will need to join their community and create a free online account. If you have questions you can email them at info@machineriedesarts.ca
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- Otter
Otter.ai can generate transcripts as well as live closed captioning. - Temi
Speech to text captioning service by AI. Temi is an affordable AI-powered English audio-captioning service with a 90-95% accuracy. It comes with a free trial and with no subscription. - Rev
Speech to text captioning service by a human. Rev is a multilingual (English, French, etc.) audio-to-text transcription service made by a real human. - Maestra
Subscription-based speech to text captioning service. Maestra does automatic transcription, subtitles and captioning in more than 50 languages. Those subtitles are embedded in your video content.
Writing Workshop: Bio, Artist & Project Statements
Atelier d’écriture: biographie et énoncé artistique
This video workshop by Jessica Auer provides a framework within which emerging artists can develop their writing skills in order to compose texts that are typically used to accompany artwork and artist dossiers.
