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Pathway Four: Business Skills

May 11, 2012 by Steven Sparling 1 Comment

The fourth pathway is called Managerial Tools & Leadership Skills by Lisa Sonora Beam. I find that a bit of a mouthful, so I think of it instead as Business Skills. This is where you have the most capacity to learn, grow and develop your business. The other three pathways are about taking stock of […]

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Pathway Three: Value & Profitability

May 10, 2012 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Today is where we start to look at how market forces affect your ability to be successful in making a living out of your art. It’s important to point out that as an artist you have a right to produce any art you wish. We all need to express ourselves creatively. Just can’t expect other […]

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Four Pathways of the Creative Entrepreneur – Path One: Heart & Meaning

May 8, 2012 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

There’s a great book by Lisa Sonora Beam which I highly recommend: The Creative Entrepreneur – A DIY Visual Guidebook for Making Business Ideas Real. Find out more about her here. She has this great way of looking at the Creative Entrepreneur by separating four pathways. Each pathway is an exploration in and of itself; […]

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Reality vs fantasy

May 4, 2012 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

I spent the afternoon recently with an actor acquaintance. The summer previously, he had done a very nice job at a very prestigious outdoor summer theatre. On paper, it seemed like a dream job: great show, great cast, good director, nice venue. I was jealous. So imagine my surprise to find out he really didn’t […]

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Quote

May 3, 2012 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going Beverly Sills

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A Creative Career -vs- A Creative Life

May 2, 2012 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

One of the concepts that I want to explore on this blog is how to be creative for your entire life. What I am calling “creative sustainability.” So much of our creative training, whether art school, drama school, music school etc (and since I went to all three, I think I have an idea of […]

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Offhand comments

May 1, 2012 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

(this is another post I found buried which never got published. It’s from a few months ago “Your voice sounds tired.” it was an off hand remark after I was trying to vocally warm up at 7:45am before heading out the door to teach all day and do another performance of my show. How am […]

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Weaning off the Teat

April 27, 2012 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

One of my portfolio of jobs is that I teach singing at the London College of Music. This is a three year musical theatre training programme and I teach students across all three years. The current graduating class started with me last year and I have been teaching them now for two years. This year […]

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How to work for free (without losing your shirt!)

April 25, 2012 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

It’s raining, it’s pouring and this old man is (hopefully) scoring. Off to have a meeting with a young editor of a new, local online magazine. One of those ‘grand ambition, no budget’ type organisations. They had a post on Gumtree (or Craig’slist – I always get them mixed up) which was looking for young […]

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Advance Warning

April 25, 2012 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

I saw this sign on my way to teach the other morning and it made me stop and take a picture. I love that we need advance warning of when we will have fun, as if it’s somehow detrimental to our health or such a low priority that it needs to be scheduled into the […]

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