Facilitator - Natalie Murphy-West

This one-off course is an introduction to equipping participants with practical knowledge and confidence to navigate fees, contracts, and working conditions within industry-standard and unionised environments.

Participants will learn where to find rates, how to negotiate fair changes, and interpreting contracts. Emphasis is placed on worker awareness—understanding personal boundaries, valuing your labour, and identifying what conditions and compensation are acceptable to you.

Facilitator - Una NicEoin

This course offers a practical introduction to producing theatre, designed for early-career producers, artists, and theatre-makers who want to better understand how shows are developed, managed, and delivered. Focusing on the producer’s central role in bringing creative ideas to life, the course explores the core areas of producing: financial management, people management, and production delivery. Participants will gain both strategic insight and practical tools to support sustainable, well-managed theatre projects.

Facilitator - Martin Price

This course is designed to introduce you to live event mixing in a hands-on, real-life situation, working in a venue with performers, microphones, and a PA system. Whether you’re a complete novice interested in a career in live sound, a musician wanting to better understand how to set yourself up on stage, or a DAW-based producer curious about the live side of audio engineering, this course provides a practical and accessible entry point into live audio. Across three sessions, participants will build core technical knowledge, apply it in a real venue environment, and reflect critically on their learning.

Facilitator - Alan Meban

This course provides a practical introduction to live streaming for artists, performers, organisations, and content creators who want to broadcast events professionally and creatively. Participants will learn how to plan, set up, and deliver live streams that are engaging, reliable, and appropriate for different audiences and platforms. The training combines technical skills with creative and production considerations, supporting participants to confidently live stream performances, talks, workshops, and hybrid events.

This practical training course introduces you to the creative and technical foundations of immersive video, focusing on 180° video. Designed for artists, filmmakers, and digital storytellers, the course balances hands-on experimentation with critical reflection, supporting learners to confidently plan, capture, and evaluate immersive video content. Across three structured sessions, participants will move from core concepts and tools through real-world filming, concluding with a reflective review that consolidates learning and supports future development.

Shona will talk about her life in the cultural sector, the hurdles jumped, lessons learned, moments of despair and joy and why she would do it all again. She will answer questions and is happy to give helpful insights on her experience of delivering festivals and events both home and abroad.

Facilitator - Elspeth Vischer

DIY Filmmaking: a crash course! Learn how to make the most of the film studio in your pocket. This course will provide a background and practical skills to shooting a 'no-budget' DIY short using your mobile phone/ iPads. Across three sessions participants will learn about DIY and radical filmmaking styles and approaches, come up with and design a '2 minute masterpiece idea' shoot and edit it together! This course will provide expertise in how to bring an idea to life quickly and effectively and a starting point for developing camera and editing skills!

This practical training course introduces you to the creative and technical foundations of audio field recording. Designed for artists, producers, musicians, and storytellers, the course balances hands-on experimentation with critical reflection, supporting learners to confidently plan, capture, and evaluate environmental sound recordings. Across three structured sessions, participants will move from core concepts and tools through real-world sound recording and post-production mixing and mastering, concluding with a reflective review that consolidates learning and supports future development.

This practical training course introduces you to the creative and technical foundations of immersive audio recording and post-production for the contexts of 180 and 360 video production. Designed for artists, producers, filmmakers, and digital storytellers, the course balances hands-on experimentation with critical reflection, supporting learners to confidently plan, capture, and evaluate immersive audio content. Across three structured sessions, participants will move from core concepts and tools through real-world spatial sound recording and post-production mixing, concluding with a reflective review that consolidates learning and supports future development.