💰Cash & 🎨 Creatives: Addressing the 🐘 Elephant in the Room
✨ Real Opportunities Curated by Creatives + 💪 Financial Power for Creatives + 🎉 Big Platform Launch Coming Soon!
Hey, CounterCult Community!
Welcome CounterCulter- our newsletter is a “skip to what you want” type of newsletter so here you go!
THE MORE WE GROW, THE BETTER OPPORTUNITIES WE GET ACCESS TO AS A COMMUNITY. SO PLEASE SHARE THIS NEWSLETTER, IT REALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
UPDATES:
We know many creatives struggle with business, finance, and marketing knowledge. To help, we’re launching Financial Creatives—a new series in partnership with a finance expert and a creative entrepreneur.
What to Expect: Online Tutorials
Budgeting for Creatives
Navigating Taxes & Accounting
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
MORE INFO TO COME, but let us know if you’re interested!
🔥 Big News: Platform Launch & Event Announcement
We’re almost done with our creative LinkedIn and localized marketplace, built by the community, for the community. Free to use ofc because we know how it is.
To celebrate, we’re hosting an Alternative Holiday Market in Mitte, Berlin, on Dec 6
Bringing the underground to the city center to connect creatives and local talent.
We’ve partnered with big businesses to curate the best crowd for this launch party and creative market!
Mark your calendars—this is going to be huge!
More info coming soon!
Some visual updates of our platform dev in progress for you all :) (ITS A TEST AND IN PROGRESS BUT WE WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK)
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FEATURE
🌾 Rural Hackers in the Arts 🌟
Rural Hackers in Galicia is at the forefront of blending art and technology to support creative economies. As we prepare to join their residency in the spring, here’s why this initiative is crucial for rural and creative communities:
Collaborative Projects: Artists come together to create impactful work that engages local communities, fostering connections that can revitalize rural areas.
Fully Funded Residencies: By offering fully funded opportunities, Rural Hackers eliminates financial barriers, enabling diverse creatives to participate and contribute.
Driving Change: Their projects focus on real challenges faced by rural communities, promoting sustainability and innovation while enhancing the local economy
Why It Matters
CounterCult is thrilled to join the Rural Hackers residency to improve access to creative resources in rural areas. This supports our mission to empower creatives and strengthen the rural creative economy.
Investing in rural arts creates jobs and enhances community identity. We aim to learn how to better support these vital creative economies.
Learn more about Rural Hackers.
OPPORTUNITIES
Check out our daily instagram stories for more frequent and time sensitive opps like these:
🎨👩👧 Artists and Mothers Initiative 25K GRANT
- Community for Artist Mothers: A network supporting mothers who create art, providing a space for connection and advocacy.
- Grants and Resources: Offers funding opportunities specifically for artist mothers to help balance their creative work with parenting.
- Exhibitions Celebrating Art: Showcases the unique work and perspectives of artist mothers, highlighting their contributions to the art world.
🎨🌍 Goethe Institute Culture Moves Europe Open Call FUNDING
- Funding for Mobility: Supports artists and cultural professionals in Creative Europe countries for projects abroad.
- Project Duration: Individual projects last 7-40 days; group projects last 7-21 days.
- Application Deadline: Ongoing monthly until 30 November 2024
🏛️🎨 Glenbow Museum Artist Commission Open Call!
- What: Seeking artists for public art commissions in Calgary, with financial support to create new works for the renovated Glenbow Museum.
- Deadline: Submit by November 26, 2024 for some projects
- Funding: The commission is fully funded, supporting artists in enhancing accessibility and engagement with the arts in the community.
🎨✨ FUNDED USA McColl Center Artist Residency
-Fully Funded: Subsidized studios and modern equipment support creative development.
-Exhibition Space: Showcase work in a 5,000 sq. ft. gallery for community engagement.
-Community Focus: Promotes contemporary art and fosters artist-public interactions.
🌍🎨 Eco Aware Art Gallery: Open Call for Artists!
- What: An open call for artists committed to sustainable practices and eco-friendly art.
- **Community Engagement: Exhibitions aimed at raising awareness about environmental issues.
- Support for Artists: A platform dedicated to showcasing artists focused on environmental sustainability.
🇮🇳🎨India Art Fair: Designer in Residency Open Call
- Open Call: Applications are now open for the India Art Fair’s Digital Artists in Residence Programme, themed "Forces of Nature."
- Funding: This opportunity is fully funded, providing support for selected artists.
- Eligibility: Open to all practicing creatives—bring your vision for a sustainable future through art!
EVENTS
Check out our daily instagram stories for more frequent and time sensitive opps like these:
🎶🌟 Berlin Most Wanted Music Conference
- Most Wanted Music is a conference in Berlin that focuses on the music industry, bringing together artists, music professionals, and industry leaders to network, share knowledge, and explore new trends in music and culture.
-We have a booth if any of you musical creatives want to join us and get free/discounted tickets! Reach out to us if interested!
🎃🌆NYC Village Halloween Street Party (Sho’s fave NYC pick)
-When I lived in NYC, this was a cannot miss. If you go to the very start of the parade, you can join the performers. But you MUST be in costume.
🎃🌈Underground Berlin Halloween Events
-Check out a full list in the coming days of the best underground and queer events in Berlin by our very good friend Party Dyke
-See more HERE
🖼️🗺️ARTEL FEST NYC Street Art Traveling Collective
-Sho met a NYC street art collective and exhibited with them in their Berlin Pop-up and we ended up talking business. SO NYC and other location pop-ups coming soon with a future collab with them.
- In the meantime, check out their upcoming events if you want to connect the US to Europe underground scenes.
🔜💻💰COMING SOON: Online Workshops for Financial Focused Creatives
-Keep an eye out for this! We will most likely post them on YouTube and here on substack since there’s a new video feature!
🎉🛍️Holiday Market but it’s actually ALTERNATIVE LOCAL CREATIVES. A CounterCult Exclusive event.
-More details to come, but mark off Dec. 6 if you are will be in Berlin.
-Reach out to us if you want to be shortlisted as a potential creative vendor as space is limited.
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Well, that’s all for the next two weeks! If you want more opportunities and updates, more often, make sure to check out our stories and posts on INSTAGRAM, since we only feature our most curated picks in this newsletter.
Stay creative!
-Sho