1–2:30 pm PT/3–4:30 pm CT /4–5:30 pm ET 

ABOUT THIS SERIES

The world of work and meaningful connection for people over 50 is challenged by a number of factors such as ageism. The Career Center's Creativity Doesn't Age Speaker Series invites guest speakers who have knowledge and commitment to addressing strategies for our community to connect and engage in creative ways. Topics highlighted by our speakers are relevant to arts professionals at all ages and stages of their lives and careers.

Is your creative career in need of a refresh? 
Are you open to exploring new artistic opportunities? 

If you are interested in considering different ways to enhance multiple aspects of your creative self in your career, this is an event not to be missed.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER

Yvonne Farrow is an Arts Manager with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) Performing Arts Division (PERF) and specifically serves as Project Manager overseeing the Vision Theatre Performing Arts Center from its renovation through its reopening. Farrow was recently honored by the Los Angeles Association of Black Personnel with the 2023 Trailblazer Award. Formerly a concert dancer and model, Farrow was an award-winning actress, choreographer and filmmaker. She was also co-partner in the production company Twinbiz, writing, directing and producing original projects for stage, television and film, with an emphasis on social justice. Yvonne received her Master’s Degree in Arts Management at Claremont Graduate University. Yvonne is also a published author and has written several articles on the arts.

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2–4:30 pm ET/1–3:30 pm CT/11 am–1:30 pm PT

This workshop is offered nationally. Please adjust for your time zone.

This workshop aims to help you maintain financial health and well-being when dealing with the challenges of managing debt as a creative professional. We discuss tools and strategies for managing debt with episodic income, including negotiating with creditors, the pros and cons of various forms of debt relief and how to navigate the impact of your debt on your credit and cash flow. We focus mainly on revolving (credit card) debt, but will also touch on installment debt (mortgages, student loans, etc.).

This interactive workshop is designed to provide information, resources and support for entertainment industry professionals with all levels and types of debt. Following the main presentation, we will address as many of your questions as possible.

***Please note that this workshop is not recorded. You must attend live to participate.***

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10 am–12:30 pm PT / 12–2:30 pm CT / 1–3:30 pm ET

PREREQUISITE: Must have attended The Career Center Orientation | Weekly on most Mondays & Wednesdays

This workshop is highly interactive and includes activities and discussion. For the best learning experience, we strongly recommend signing into the workshop from a laptop or desktop computer. 

Are you unclear on how to authentically articulate your art/work/life story when you are networking? Are you unsure how to connect the dots of your career story when juggling multiple jobs, transitioning into a new field or building your business?

Discover a simple formula for telling a holistic story that captures the attention of your audience.

In this workshop series, you will:

•    Clarify your personal brand
•    Discuss the elements of effective career storytelling
•    Explore how to craft your story to engage your audience

This workshop will be exercise intensive—so please come prepared for a deep dive experience!

*The training is TWO sessions long—RSVP only if you are able to attend both dates 6/22 and 6/29

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10 am–12 pm ET/9–11 am CT/7–9 am PT

This workshop is offered nationally.  Please adjust for your time zone.

The Entertainment Community Fund Financial Wellness Program seeks to engage, educate and empower performing arts professionals about the role of money in their lives.

This three-week experience builds on the concepts introduced in Intro to Financial Wellness and focuses on developing a healthy relationship with money and practical money management skills as a creative professional. Participants will learn and begin to implement specific strategies for organizing expenses, planning with multiple and/or episodic income, managing and eliminating debt, saving, investing, aligning professional and financial goals, and more.

The Managing Cash Flow Intensive covers the same concepts as our six-week Managing Cash Flow workshop at a faster, condensed pace. Those who complete all three sessions of the Intensive will be invited to continue their financial wellness journey by participating in monthly meetings of the Financial Wellness Graduate Mastermind.

Prerequisite: 

Porter Square Books and Harvardwood are delighted to welcome Logan Steiner, author of After Anne, and Eliza Knight, author of Starring Adele Astaire. Harvardwood Executive Director Laura Frustaci will interview the authors. This event will take place on Thursday, June 29 at 7pm at Porter Square Books (25 White St. Cambridge, Ma 02140).

Logan Steiner is a lawyer by day and a writer by toddler bedtime. Her writing explores motherhood and the creative life. Logan also writes a Substack newsletter called The Creative Sort. After graduating from Pomona College and Harvard Law School, Logan clerked for three federal judges, spent six years in Big Law, and served for three years as an Assistant United States Attorney. She now specializes in brief writing at a boutique law firm. Logan lives in Denver with her husband, daughter, and the cranky old man of the house, a Russian Blue cat named Taggart. 

Eliza Knight is an award-winning and USA Today bestselling author. Her love of history began as a young girl when she traipsed the halls of Versailles. She is a member of the Historical Novel Society and Novelists, Inc., and the creator of the popular historical blog, History Undressed. Knight lives in Maryland with her husband, three daughters, two dogs and a turtle.

Laura Frustaci graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 2021 with a degree in English and a secondary concentration in Education Studies. Upon graduation, she received a travelling fellowship to live abroad and write in Edinburgh, Scotland for a year. While there, she completed her first full-length play. She now resides in NYC as an actor, writer, and avid reader, and she currently serves as the Executive Director of Harvardwood. 

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Finding the Right Mental Health Support for You is a one-hour workshop that addresses the interest in finding a therapist and how finding the right one can often feel daunting. The intention of this workshop is to demystify the big questions around mental health care, including the different mental health provider options, the cost of counseling, how insurance can work to ameliorate such costs, and what mental health options there are for those who might not be insured. This workshop is designed to give those in the entertainment industry an understanding of what types of mental health resources are out there, how to determine which ones might be a good fit, and how to access them.

More info HERE.

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The Ceramics Program supports the creative efforts of a wide array of artists in the Boston area - potters, sculptors, painters, etc. We pride ourselves on our community and we understand that many times, students wish to engage in thoughtful dialogue and critique on work outside of the classroom. In a hopes to promote further engagement between our community members, we have asked John Borstel and Catherine Stewart to introduce us to the Critical Response Process (CRP).

If you are doing creative work, you are experiencing feedback: invited or unsolicited, formal or casual, in dialogue with others or in your own head. Handling and applying feedback can be decisive in how we value our work, how we grow, and how we sustain a sense of community in artistic contexts. The Critical Response Process (CRP) devised by choreographer Liz Lerman in 1990, is a four-step process and toolkit of principles for guiding actionable feedback on creative works in progress. CRP emphasizes the power of questions and the potential of informed dialogue between an artist and a group of responders. It offers principles to animate generative conversations between creative collaborators and peers.

Participants in this workshop will learn CRP as a structured feedback method that leaves the maker eagerly motivated to get back to work. We’ll explore CRP’s principles of meaning, inquiry, and engaged/suspended judgment, and experience applications to enhance personal and collective learning, support peer dialogue and artistic conversations, and bring clarity and abundance to creative process. While this workshop centers craft and visual artwork, it welcomes people from all creative disciplines.

Workshop Fee: $150.00 for Adult Community and Harvard Graduate students; FREE for Harvard Undergraduates

***Those enrolled in Summer 2023 classes will receive a 25% discount code prior to registration!***

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In this dynamic workshop, longtime friends and collaborators James C. Watkins and Paul Andrew Wandless will demonstrate how they use alternative firing methods and printmaking processes to address the surfaces of thrown and hand-built clay work. While Watkins shares his throwing techniques for his vessel and platter forms, Wandless will share his screen printing and relief printing processes to transfer images and designs onto the clay surface. Both artists will present a visual presentation of their artistic careers and influences. Workshop participants can try out screen printing and relief printing on tiles provided by the Ceramics Program. Then, Watkins and Wandless, who co-authored the book Alternative Kilns & Firing Techniques: Raku, Saggar, Pit, Barrel, will demonstrate metal can saggar firing, aluminum foil saggar firing, and raku firing. If time allows, workshop participants may include bisque ware provided by the studio in these firings.

Both artists are featured presenters at the 2023 National Conference on Education for the Ceramics Arts (NCECA) in Cincinnati, OH!

Workshop Cost: $50 for Harvard College Undergraduates, $250 for adults and Harvard Graduate students enrolled in a course at the Ceramics Program, and $300.00 for those not enrolled in a course.

More info HERE.

Register HERE.

In this dynamic workshop, longtime friends and collaborators James C. Watkins and Paul Andrew Wandless will demonstrate how they use alternative firing methods and printmaking processes to address the surfaces of thrown and hand-built clay work. While Watkins shares his throwing techniques for his vessel and platter forms, Wandless will share his screen printing and relief printing processes to transfer images and designs onto the clay surface. Both artists will present a visual presentation of their artistic careers and influences. Workshop participants can try out screen printing and relief printing on tiles provided by the Ceramics Program. Then, Watkins and Wandless, who co-authored the book Alternative Kilns & Firing Techniques: Raku, Saggar, Pit, Barrel, will demonstrate metal can saggar firing, aluminum foil saggar firing, and raku firing. If time allows, workshop participants may include bisque ware provided by the studio in these firings.

Both artists are featured presenters at the 2023 National Conference on Education for the Ceramics Arts (NCECA) in Cincinnati, OH!

Workshop Cost: $50 for Harvard College Undergraduates, $250 for adults and Harvard Graduate students enrolled in a course at the Ceramics Program, and $300.00 for those not enrolled in a course.

More info HERE.

Register HERE.