Name: Conversations about.. telling people about your work
Start: 2025-03-19T16:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-19T19:00:00+00:00
Location: 11 Haydock St

Join this conversation for artists where we will discuss ways of spreading the word about the work you are making with STAT magazine.
About this Event

"Conversations about... telling people about your work" will invite Pete Mercer who established STAT magazine in Leigh to share how they work. Starting points for discussion may include working outside of big cities, critical writing, establishing community support through individual sponsorship platforms like Patreon.

If you're wondering how to let people know about the work you're making, or the project idea that is brewing behind the scenes, then come along to this conversation event and work that out with the help of your artist-peers.

Artists Together: Conversations about…These regular events throughout the year are themed around an idea that is important to artists who attend regularly and hopefully are useful to people who just wish to join us for the one session.

We identify artists with relevant skills or experience on the subject and ask them to be peer-experts alongside someone from a regional organisation to create a rich space where artists can discuss, share and develop their practice.

If you have a suggestion for a theme for a future ‘Conversations about…’ event, please get in touch with us.

Funding credits

Artists Together is commissioned by St Helens Libraries and Arts, an Arts Council England funded NPO.

This Artists Together session is being held at Street and a Half as part of the Creative Development commission awarded by St Helens Council's Arts Service. This project is part-funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund with the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority as the lead authority and part funded through Arts Council England. We will work in partnership with St Helens Borough Council, Kindred LCR CIC, St Helens College, and St Helens Borough creative practitioners from December 2024 to March 2025.

For more information about the background to this work, visit this link:

https://platformartsthelens.co.uk/st-helens-creatives-development-programme/

Agenda

🕑: 04:30 PM - 04:45 PM
Welcome and sharing wall

Info: We’ll invite people to note down what they’d like to find out from the session and any experience of the topic that they might be able to contribute.

🕑: 04:45 PM - 05:15 PM
Case studies shared by peer experts and/or organisations

Info: Pete Mercer from STAT magazine will share experiences of founding and running STAT magazine.

🕑: 05:15 PM - 06:45 PM
Discussion time, knowledge shared within the group

Info: Conversations will continue within the group based on both the initial presentation and on what skills and experiences the people present have to share with each other. We'll take a break for refreshments.

🕑: 06:45 PM - 07:00 PM
Conclusions

Info: Time to swap contact details, summarise ideas for future ways to support each other, suggest future topics of discussion for Conversations about...