ARTSELERATE SA is a unique program specifically for creative practitioners and arts professionals that combines all the benefits of a business incubator, start-up accelerator, creative collaboration and networking opportunity. The outcome is a fast and practical approach to business and strategic planning specifically for creatives making their own work.

ARTSELERATE SA helps participants devise practical goals for their business and creative careers, with realistic options ready to be implemented after the course, and it creates a continued connection with other creative professionals through a guided peer support program and ongoing connection to experts.

Dates: (you must be able to attend all dates listed below
Friday 2 May and Saturday 3 May 2025 - 9-5pm both days
Friday 30 May and Saturday 31 May 2025 - 9-5pm both days

Download the Brochure for more information.

You must be a resident of South Australia and over 18 to participate.

WHO IT'S FOR
The program designed for creative practitioners at any stage of their professional development - it’s a safe and structured melting pot of experiences, attitudes, and ideas to get your planning done!
You could be…

An individual artist or maker from any area of the creative industry
A recent graduate or fledgling freelancer just getting started
Someone representing a small creative organisation or arts not-for-profit
A leader from a mid-sized arts or screen organisation who doesn’t have the financial resources to hire a consultant or participate in a more expensive program

We welcome creatives who are based in South Australia from any area of creative practice. Ideally, you are committed to improving your professional and creative capacity and developing your business and marketing skills in an accelerated way, using a practical methodology. You also need to be engaged, enthusiastic, and willing to commit to participating in the whole program. That means all the in-person workshops and in-between meetings.

We actively encourage applications from people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people living with disabilities, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent. We also welcome people of all genders.

YOUR PROGRAM FACILITATOR
Monica Davidson is an award-winning expert on the creative industries, who began her professional life as a freelance journalist and filmmaker. In 2014 Monica completed her Masters degree in Screen Arts and Business at AFTRS, and was appointed as the first NSW Creative Industries Business Advisor by the Department of Industry. Shortly after she founded the social enterprise Creative Plus Business, which is dedicated to educating creative people about small business and marketing skills. In 2019, Monica was awarded the QUT Creative Enterprise Australia award for being a Creative Trailblazer that “advocates, mentors, donates, educates and advises within Australia’s creative economy”. Monica continues to work as a writer, filmmaker and occasional performer.

WHAT'S CREATIVE PLUS BUSINESS?
We’re a social enterprise dedicated to educating creative people and arts organisations about business skills. We help through sharing practical knowledge in a fun and irreverent way, and everything we do is designed to help creatives to feel more confident and comfortable about the entrepreneurial aspects of their creative practice. We believe that a bit of naughtiness, tempered with a kind heart and a big dose of professionalism, is the key to helping creative people understand the boring basics of business.

Logos of Creative Plus Business, Office for Small and Family Business, and the South Australian Government — ARTSELERATE SA has been made possible with a grant from the Office of Small and Family Business and the South Australian Department for Industry, Innovation and Science.