Phase(s)
Pre-ProductionSubject
Legal and administrative mattersTarget groups
Artists, Creative and Cultural ProfessionsSectors
for all sectors, photography, visual and graphic arts, music, webdesign, dance, media, performing artsLevel of experience
Beginners, IntermediaryPrerequisites
NoneDescription
In this training, participants get an introduction to relevant financial knowledge for freelance artists. Legal forms, taxes, insurances, making contracts and writing invoices are covered. As an exercise, participants create virtual companies and write basic business plans for those companies.Content
- making a business plan
- applying for loans and fundings
- founding a new business
- legal statuses for freelancers
- legal forms of enterprises
- social insurance
- other insurances relevant for artists
- contracts and invoices
- calculation of costs and prices
Method
- Introduction / presentation of possible content
- Collecting questions/concerns/interests on post-its
- Input on developing a concept and a business plan
- Group task: Developing a small concept/business plan for an artistic service/company, estimating the costs
- Presenting the concepts in a simulation, trying to convince investors (played by the other participants and the coach)
- Feedback
(Lunch Break)
- Short lecture on most relevant legal forms for artists in Germany
- Lecture on rights and duties in German tax law
- Lecture on insurances
- Collecting costs that freelance artists/artistic enterprises will have
- Tipps for calculating, long-term financial planning, saving money and unexpected costs
- Q&A
Objectives
- to gain basic knowledge about finacial laws
- to know about possible legal forms for working as an artist or starting an artistic business
- to have an idea how to do financial planning, calculations and business plans
- to get basic insight in applying for loans and fundings
- to get an overview of what insurances might be relevant for artists and artistic businesses
Results
Participants will have a better understanding of financial laws, taxes and insurances, and will have the first tools needed for starting an own artistic businessResources
- Video projector
- Markers, pens and papers
