Factory Academy in collaboration with One Giant Leap

Foundations In: Business X Creativity

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Date
17 Feb - 9 May 2025
Tickets

This course is two days per week

Monday (in person at Aviva Studios): 10am – 5.30pm

Friday (in person at Aviva Studios): 10am – 5.30pm

You will also need around 3.5 hours per week to work on tasks outside of the course.

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Are you a practicing art professional, musician, freelancer or creative looking to power up your creative business?

Factory Academy and One Giant Leap present a new part-time course that will introduce you to the fundamental entrepreneurial skills needed to make your practice work for you! 

What will I learn?

Over 12 weeks you will develop an entrepreneurial mindset and learn the essentials of:

  • Defining and connecting with your audience
  • Diversifying income streams
  • Brand activation
  • Pitching
  • Intellectual Property
  • Managing your finances and tax


This brand-new course is designed to empower creatives and artists from a range of disciplines by providing learning content that will stimulate entrepreneurialism. Your learning will combine expert advice with real-world examples and practical exercises. You will be provided with multiple perspectives on a range of topics through the inclusion of industry speakers, guest artists and mentoring sessions.

Over the 12 weeks you will work to apply and test your newly acquired skills in order to develop a blueprint for a business plan to activate your next steps towards a successful career as a practicing creative.

This course is in person at Aviva Studios on Mondays and Fridays 10am–5.30pm. You will also need around 3.5 hours per week to work on tasks outside of the course.

About One Giant Leap

One Giant Leap opens doors and bridges the information divide through programmes and bespoke opportunities that serve to empower creatives to go higher, further, faster. 

Founder Alisha Kadri has over 10 years of experience leading on creative and educational programmes for the likes of  L'Oréal, Mugler and Santander. She has also managed fundraising programmes across the UK for organisations such as Manchester International Festival, University of Salford and One Dance UK.

Alisha is passionate about driving transformational change across the creative industries by championing the voices of marginalised groups across her work. 

Who can apply?

  • Creatives, artists, freelancers, and professionals working in the arts, culture, and creative industries 
  • Individuals or businesses looking to improve, grow and develop new approaches to their business model that will ignite long-term success
  • Greater Manchester residents aged 19+ who are currently unemployed or working part-time and earning under £20,888

Foundations in: Business x Creativity is designed to empower creatives and artists from a range of disciplines by providing learning content that will stimulate entrepreneurialism. We understand that people from a Global Majority background, those who have disabilities, are gender non-conforming or may otherwise face societal prejudices are more likely to have to overcome barriers in the workplace and beyond, therefore we are particularly keen for this course to give opportunities to those people.

FAQs

This course is free to attend.

Key dates

Applications open: Friday 13 December 2024

Applications close: Thursday 13 February 2025

Course dates: Monday 17 February to Friday 9 May 2025

How to apply

Complete the application by following the link below.

Got any questions? Contact us by email at factory_academy@factoryinternational.org.

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