FAIR P(L)AY #4 - Closing the Gap

You're #opentowork, now what’s next? You are entering a space where you can define yourself as a creative professional or designer. What are you even? And what are the rules of the road when negotiating your value? Do you know how much your work is worth?

Join us for a conversation about the many hard lessons designers and creatives have had to learn about commissions, fair practice, negotiating and invoicing. Before doing work ‘for visibility’ or getting ‘nightmare commissions’, we’re here to increase emerging creatives' access to tools to build resilience for those starting their professional careers.

As part of the Dutch Design Week 2024 in Eindhoven, EUNIC Netherlands is happy to present the fourth event of its Fair P(L)AY series. DutchCulture helps host an action-oriented discussion on how to propel your (international) career as a creative or designer. We invite experiences from artists, practitioners, and cultural organizations. In the early stage of your design career, we invite you to listen, learn, and discuss your possibilities, needs, and ambitions.

FAIR P(L)AY #4 connects to Design Academy Eindhoven's Blueprints programme, introducing designers to the scope of creative practice in the Netherlands and Europe by involving local, national and international stakeholders who can share their knowledge of the wider systems and structures that design professionals can draw upon.

We make space for conversations about worst practices and learning and offer basic guidance necessary for international collaboration - where to find funding, networks, and legal support, vital elements not typically covered by education within the arts or design academies.

Date: Wednesday 23 October, 2024
Time: 16:00 - 19:00
Location: Foundation We Are, Torenallee 22-04, Eindhoven
Language: English

The event is free of charge, so you don't need a DDW ticket to join.

The event will kick off with a panel of 4 different creatives/designers with vast experience navigating a range of commissions in our shared European cultural space. Our moderator is Isabel Sheridan, a programme maker and moderator. Driven by a fascination for the latest developments in art, technology and identity, she makes and moderates programmes for a diverse audience. Isabel is currently impact manager at opera company Silbersee. Previously, she was a programme maker at De Balie, worked as a film and TV researcher for directors Sunny Bergman and the VPRO, and was an editor at the feminist platform Lilith Magazine.

Lorraine Hellwig is a European "post-artist" who collaborates as a portrait and reportage photographer with different media formats and takes part in exhibitions in and outside the traditional artistic white cube. Lorraine finished the manifesto "Y" in 2017, has been a monthly photo columnist for Freundin Magazine in 2021/ 2022, and is the founder of the FAKE FACTORY, a platform for collaborations in between design, science, art and activism. Lorraine participates in the Nouveau Grand Tour NL, a program dedicated to graduates coordinated by Institut français NL.

After the panel discussion, we offer the opportunity to get in touch with several organizations that help broaden your horizon and offer support in your next step as a creative professional. You can meet colleagues from the following organisations:

The British Council is the United Kingdom’s international organization for cultural relations and educational opportunities. This is an opportunity for you to learn about international opportunities offered by the British Council and to have your questions about collaborating in the UK answered.

If you have international cultural ambitions, DutchCulture can help you gain a footing on the international stage. We offer information, advice, and training on international cultural cooperation. Whether you'd like to expand your network via Dutch Embassies abroad, find a residency programme matching your artistic journey, or getting the right mobility funding for your project, we're here to show you the way.
 
The Creative Europe Desk provides advice on the subsidy schemes of the Creative Europe programme and offers support in applying. The Creative Europe Desk maintains close contact with the central organisation of the Creative Europe programme in Brussels and with the Creative Europe Desks in the other Member States.

FAIR P(L)AY is a series of events discussing sustainable remuneration practices in the creative and cultural sectors with perspectives of different kinds. It is an initiative by EUNIC Netherlands. Partners are Institut français NL, British Council Netherlands, The Embassy of Ukraine in The Hague, The Embassy of Greece in The Hague, Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond and DutchCulture.