The Artist Boot Camp
The Artist Boot Camp will explore areas of career development, tools and resources and skill sets which can be used to build, expand and upgrade your artistic career. Participants will develop a step-by-step holistic strategy to apply a wide array of resources to achieve specific career goals. The Artist Boot Camp will give artists a chance to expand their thinking to identify and access tools and solutions, and implement the strategies they learn at the workshop
This intensive one day workshop uses an aggressive and rigorous curriculum to equip the artist, upon completion of the workshop, to "hit the ground running." The networking event immediately following the workshop will feature a power packed panel of industry professionals.
Participants will experience the workshop through lectures, hands-on activities, break-out sessions, one-on-one consultations and group discussions. Participants will leave with a 3, 6, 9 and 12-month action plan, CD of digital templates, workshop handbook, one-year After Care Package of resources and much more.
The workshop is designed to address areas for artists of all disciplines, however a portion of the workshop will focus on areas for those artists focused on careers in music.
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The Artist Boot Camp is designed to:
- Equip artists with tools and resources to become employable
- Clarify barriers to achieving skills or improving talents
- Identify short and long term goals
- Create a game plan to achieve goals
- Network with industry leaders
- Get connected to a mentor directly related to your goals
What You Will Learn In The Workshop
- You are a small business! How to access resources for your business. o Tax benefits, write-offs and tax tips for small business o How to fund your business o Assembling your business team and master mind group o How to access the digital payday that could be happening for your career and songs o How to access grants, fellowships and commissions for your music/entertainment biz o How important is having a web presence? Can you achieve success without a website? o What is the true purpose of a business card o How to get a winning press kit oHow to get noticed o Why you need an electronic press kit AND a regular press kit o How to use blogs, email-blasts; webcasts; teleclasses o What having a mentor(s) does for your career o How to avoid the trap of "becoming well-rounded" or "jack of all trades" o How to become a published songwriter o How to become a sought after teaching artist o How to earn money in your field o How to become a sought after background vocalist and session singer
What You Will Get For Successful Completion Of Workshop:
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Digital Artist Pack of Templates for Success (includes: business plan, goal sheets, performance riders and contracts; artist agreement; producer/artist agreement; gig sheets, time management sheets, resume template, bio template) o Industry Contact List of telephone, emails o Notebook with Workshop Handouts o Handbook of Jobs in the Entertainment Industry w/job descriptions o Goodie Bag of Giveaways o Assigned an industry mentor for 6 months o One follow-up progress meeting (via conference call or teleclass) o Participation in a 12-month bi-monthly "After-Care" teleclass for alumni of the workshop o 3, 6, 9 and 12-month strategic game plan with actionable steps to reach your goals o Coupons for discounts of related books, CDs, private consultations and/or private lessons by industry panelists oDiscounts on recording session to complete a Demo Recording o Discounts on photography session to complete your Press Portfolio oDiscounts on web design to complete your website or redesign your existing website
WORKSHOP PRESENTER BIO
LENORA ZENZALAI HELM, vocal musician, composer, lyricist, arranger, teaching artist, former U.S. Jazz Ambassador (1998-99) and MacDowell Colony Composer Fellow is a native of Chicago, Illinois. Helm's many achievements in music have spanned 25 years garnering her inclusion as a subject of biographical record for the 2005 through 2009 editions of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Women and Who's Who in the World. She just completed her fifth solo recording entitled, Chronicles of a Butterfly: A Story of Transformation, produced by renowned saxophonist Branford Marsalis and featuring Mulgrew Miller (pno); Doug Wamble (guitar) and Neal Caine (bass), due for release in 2009. A teaching artist for the last decade, she has served in arts organizations including Carnegie Hall, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Schomburg Center's Junior Scholar's Program, Def Dance Jam Workshop and Young Audiences New York. Since 2005, Helm is a Visiting Lecturer in the Jazz Studies and Voice Departments, teaching jazz and classical voice, vocal teaching methods, vocal ensemble performance and jazz vocal ear training, in the Music Department at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) in Durham, North Carolina. At NCCU, she co-directs their highly acclaimed NCCU Vocal Jazz Ensemble. Visible on the discographies of many internationally renowned musicians, Lenora can be heard on noted jazz recordings of saxophonists Dave Liebman, Antonio Hart, and pianists Donald Brown and Andrew Hill. Ms. Helm leads her own group, The Zenzalai Project, playing prestigious international festivals and concert venues. Helm earned her traveling and performing stripes on the road with many R&B, Pop and Jazz artists including Freddie Jackson, Michael Franks and South American pop star, Emmanuel. She is a member of the R&B vocal group SEPIA, with founder Marlon Saunders, and fellow members Arif St. Michael and Rosa Russ. Recent composition awards include the 2007 Encore Award and 2004-5 New Works Creation and Presentation Award for her jazz suite, Journeywoman: A Work in Progress both granted and administered by Chamber Music America and funded by the Doris Duke Charitable foundation. Notable film music credits include Ms. Helm's work featured in the film After Life by writer/director Lana, previewed and awarded in 2007 at the Arizona Black Film Festival and the Village D Cinema festival in Lisbon, Portugal. Helm is a SESAC writer and her publishing company, Baoule Works Music Publishing, is a SESAC publishing affiliate. She was the Artistic Director and is cofounder of the nonprofit youth music program HARMONY Program Inc., which simultaneously provided New York City underserved youth ages 9 - 13 with an instrument and weekly beginning music instruction, while training college music students as teachers from 2003-2008. Lenora is writing her first arts education book, a career book for entry level teaching artists entitled Start Your Own Edutainment Business: Making a Career as a Teaching Artist. Helm is past president and board member of International Women in Jazz, and has served on the boards of New York City Arts in Education Roundtable, and GRAMMY in the Schools.
You can visit Lenora Zenzalai Helm online at www.lenorahelm.com
"As a Teaching Artist for Carnegie Hall's LinkUP! Lenora Zenzalai Helm is outstanding. She meets her students where they are and takes them to new levels of musical listening, understanding, and music making. As one fourth grade teacher put it, "When Lenora is in the building, there is an electricity in the air. The students get so excited and all start to ask, "When is she coming to OUR class?"
Susan Medley, D.M.A. Manager, School Programs, Carnegie Hall, New YorkCity, NY
"Her performance skills and her strong, experience-based educational workshops and residencies provide substantive programming opportunities for presenters in a wide variety of venue settings..."
Stephen Barefoot, goingbarefoot, Inc., North CarolinaPresenters Consortium
"What sticks in my mind was Lenora's innate ability to captivate the students and expand their minds to appreciate Jazz!
Bonnie Smith, Executive Director, ColletonCountyArts Council, Walterboro, SC
"Lenora Zenzalai Helm is a highly imaginative, adventurous musician.... Singer, composer, arranger and lyricist, Ms. Helm uses all of her exceptional gifts to push the envelope and make very personal statements with her music."
Dr. Billy Taylor
"She is extremely talented, has an incredible range and is very versatile."
saxophonist/jazz educator, Dave Liebman
Full Day: $150.00 Half Day: $99.00
9 am - 12:30 pm Session I
pm - 5:00 pm Session II
Industry Panel 6 pm - 7:30 pm
Networking Schmooze 7:30 - 9 pm
Two locations/Two dates
9 am – 9 pm
Saturday February 7, 2009
Brecht Forum, 451 West Street (corner of Bank St.)
West Village, New York City, NY
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Hayti Heritage Center
Durham, North Carolina
