Emerging Artist Workshop Series - Build Your Arts Portfolio

Hey creatives 👋

Join us for this month's session for emerging artists: 𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑨𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝑷𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒐 📒

Be inspired and learn the necessary skills on how to create an arts portfolio as a multi hyphenate creative. Facilitator Sarah Carroll will take you through an immersive workshop and you will leave with practical skills to take into your own practice and showcase your arts practice with the world! 

Topics we will cover include: 

• How to write an artist bio 
• The basics of creating a website 
• Using social media to showcase your work
• How to build your artist networks and collect material of your practice
• Finding your unique brand 

The workshop will be held at Outloud headquarters, the Bankstown Arts Centre, Darug land from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm. 

Dinner will be provided (Vegan and Halal options).

We offer workshops for free to make sure everyone can take part, if you feel like you will get value out of this and can afford to, please consider making a tax-deductible donation.

Outloud's Emerging Artist Workshops are made possible with the generous support of the Waratah Education Public Ancillary Fund, the Scanlon Foundation, and the City of Canterbury Bankstown.

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About the Facilitator Sarah Carroll: 

Sarah Carroll is an award winning Pasifika, queer and neurodiverse writer, performer and producer based on Dharug Land (Western Sydney) currently working as development producer at Jessica Magro's Purple Carrot Entertainment via the Screen Australia Enterprise program. Sarah has two successful one woman shows under her belt, ‘Cherry’ (Sydney Fringe Award Winners and Hollywood Fringe Nominee) and ‘Unkissed’ (Shopfront – ArtsLab). They have participated in the AFTRS Talent Camp, Midsumma Pathways, Brand X Ground Zero, Accessible Arts NSW, Antipodes Theatre Winter Lab and Q Theatre Lab. Sarah’s writing work has been published with ACON (Stories Out West) and The Writing Zone as part of the Western Sydney University Writing and Society Research Centre. They have been on panels with the Blue Mountains Writers Festival (2023) Currency Press Playwrights Festival (2023) and Young Writers Festival (2022). Sarah strives to champion for underrepresented voices to be heard and create works that uplift and engage audiences in new and exciting ways – usually with lots of sparkle and sass.

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Getting there:

Trains

IMPORTANT INFO:

Please note the closure of the T3 Bankstown line between Sydenham and Bankstown to convert the line to Metro.

During this disruptive time, travel will be free for all passengers on the dedicated pink buses connecting Sydenham and Bankstown, known as Southwest Link:

SW1 (all stops) – Sydenham, Marrickville, Dulwich Hill, Hurlstone Park, Canterbury, Campsie, Belmore, Lakemba, Wiley Park, Punchbowl, Bankstown.

SW2 (limited stops) – Sydenham, Belmore, Lakemba, Wiley Park, Punchbowl, Bankstown.

SW3 (limited stops) – Sydenham, Canterbury, Campsie.

For more information on train times, visit Transportnsw.info

Buses

Bankstown Arts Centre is within five minutes walking distance from the Bankstown Bus Interchange. For train and bus schedules, visit transportnsw.info.

Parking

Parking around the Arts Centre is limited. We suggest taking public transport whenever possible. Limited free four hours (4P) parking is available at the community carpark located along Olympic Parade. Also, Marion Street Carpark, Dale Lane Carpark, Brandon Avenue Carpark and Greenfield Parade Carpark are within walking distance to the Arts Centre.