Alternative Arts Funding: How Do I Fund A Project?

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Guy Armitage
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Money’s hard to come by. Luckily, there’s always alternative arts funding. Peter Culshaw (Editor, The Arts Desk), Matt James (Grants Advisor, Wellcome Trust), Thomas Walters (Co-founder & Head of Creative Operations, Billion Dollar Boy), and Dave Birss (Editor at Large, The Drum) talk about the challenges of funding your art, and how these challenges can…

Money’s hard to come by. Luckily, there’s always alternative arts funding. Peter Culshaw (Editor, The Arts Desk), Matt James (Grants Advisor, Wellcome Trust), Thomas Walters (Co-founder & Head of Creative Operations, Billion Dollar Boy), and Dave Birss (Editor at Large, The Drum) talk about the challenges of funding your art, and how these challenges can lead to new opportunities and inventive ways of gaining alternative arts funding.

Zealous X Talks Day 4: Alternative Money Panel Discussion

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Guy Armitage is the founder of Zealous and author of “Everyone is Creative“. He is on a mission to amplify the world’s creative potential.

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