Shakespeare got to get paid, son
Tell it, brutha!
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”
Samuel Johnson
You think Shakespeare did this for FUN???
Category Archives: Money
The Art of the Personal Income Tax Return
Got this in an email from Geist, who must be overcaffeinated, as they emailed me twice today:
Shakespeare has had too much coffee
You’re invited to attend
The Art of the Personal Income Tax Return
WRITERS, ARTISTS and other FREELANCERS!
Join Vancouver’s Poet Laureate, Brad Cran (who is also an accountant), for a 3-hour tour of the personal income tax return.
In this session you will learn how to live the freelance life and still save for the future, as well as:
- * basic accounting lingo
- * the structure of the T1 income tax return
- * what you can write off
- * options for reporting income from grants
- * how to account for income from self-employment
- * to incorporate or not to incorporate
- * the difference between an RRSP and a TFSA
- * how to speak to an accountant, prepare your materials and lower your accounting bill
This workshop is for artists, designers, cultural freelancers and proprietors of small businesses.
Brad Cran is a writer, photographer and long-time contributing editor to Geist. Read his work on geist.com.
Register at this page on Geist.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
1:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Listel Hotel
1300 Robson Street
Vancouver, BC
(604) 684‑8461
Workshop fee: $50 (includes a one-year subscription to Geist for yourself or a friend, or to donate to a Canadian public library) and remember, it’s tax deductible!
Who steals my purse steals trash
PR Job Posting for Vancouver Farmers’ Markets
Yes, ladies and gentlemen and the undecided, The Vancouver Farmers’ Markets are hiring an ecoflack and professional outreacher (treehuggers presumably encouraged) to reach out and touch someone, in fact many people, on their behalf. The Vancouver Farmers’ Markets are an award-winning and high-profile association of markets dedicated to supporting sustainability in food as well as promoting the great bounty of local BC farmers and associated producers. Here are the full details, heartlessly stolen from their website.
JOB POSTING
Public Relations & Membership Development Coordinator
Vancouver Farmers Markets
Are you a “People Person”? Are you great at generating public and media
enthusiasm, interest & support for worthwhile initiatives? The Vancouver
Farmers Markets (VFM) operate 4 busy neighborhood farmers markets in
Vancouver, which see about 12 000 people each week on Saturdays, Sundays and Wednesdays from May
– October. VFM’s Winter Farmers Market operates twice a month at a single location from November –
April. Coordinated by a small staff team from a central office, the award-winning Vancouver Farmers
Markets are ranked among the top farmers markets in Canada.
VFM is hiring a Public Relations & Membership Development Coordinator to advance our goals to inform
and engage the public, volunteers and donors in the growth and development of our city’s farmers markets.
This is a permanent, part-time salaried, core-staff position with strong potential for expansion in the future.
This position requires some availability for weekend and evening work throughout the year.
Job Duties:
The PR Coordinator will work with the VFM staff team & will develop the following three key areas of public
engagement:
• Public Relations/Communications – including creation of an annual communications plan, website
management, writing & sending press releases, media contact management & development, off-site
community outreach & public engagement events
• Membership Services Development – including membership sales & coordinating sales team,
renewal processing, membership newsletter & communications, membership database
management, development & implementation of annual direct mail campaign
• Volunteer Development – maintain and develop volunteer program, train & schedule volunteers to
be an enthusiastic team of VFM ambassadors at VFM markets, special events on site and around
town.
Required Skills, Experience & Disposition:
The successful candidate will have a minimum of 3 years of experience in/demonstrating:
- – public relations, media & public communications development & implementation
- – membership and/or constituency development including fundraising/direct mail outreach
- – website, social marketing & newsletter development
- – volunteer coordination & development; staff team management
- – excellent communications skills (written, spoken, phone, internet, in-person)
- – creativity & maximization of limited budget and human resources
- – excellence in approaching the public, asking for and building public support, motivating people to
- contribute time/money
- – high-level organization skills, detail-oriented
- – excellence in data and list management; comfort with Mac computers
- – excellence in program planning and implementation skills
- – taking initiative AND working as part of a team
Voted “Top Non-Profit for 2010” by the readers of Edible Vancouver magazine, the Vancouver Farmers
Markets is a busy, professional, creative, team-oriented work environment offering competitive wages and
benefits package.
Position open until filled. Email your resume and cover letter indicating your relevant experience
with “PR & Membership Coordinator position” in the subject line to: tara AT eatlocal DOT org. Vancouver
Farmers Markets thanks all interested applicants, but only applicants chosen for an interview will be
contacted.
YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. PREPARE TO MEET YOUR MAKER.
Farmers Markets, Vancouver, B.C.
East Vancouver. West End. Main St. Station. Kitsilano. Holiday Market. Winter Market.
A Collective Response to arts cuts at the Gallery Gachet
Got this from the highly useful Instant Coffee email:
Restore Arts Funding Now
The Gallery Gachet Collective | A COLLECTIVE RESPONSE | FEB 5
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Curated by Lara Fitzgerald | Exhibition runs: 5th – 28th Feb | Opening
Reception: Fri Feb 5th, 7 – 10pm
Dance Party Celebrating the Arts: Sat Feb 13th, 8 – late (With support from
Art Walk 2010 and the Alliance for Arts and Culture)
Exhibition is part of Art Walk 2010, www.artwalkvancouver.ca
Gallery Gachet presents the exhibition A Collective Response, featuring The
Gallery Gachet Collective’s response to the current cultural landscape in
Vancouver. The exhibition showcases each artist’s reaction to the arts
funding cuts through their own art-making practice, celebrating and
reinforcing the importance of art as a critical means for achieving a
healthy and flourishing society.
A Collective Response aims to focus on the critical role of art in society.
In particular as a way of responding to contemporary issues. Vancouver is
currently undergoing a massive upheaval, and these changes affect all its
citizens profoundly. Gallery Gachet’s Collective Membership feels strongly
about the importance of community engagement and asserting a response to
these changes, and they believe that art provides a powerful and
significant channel for dialogue.
Based on the idea of Documenta (an international contemporary art
exhibition held in Kassel, Germany every five years), The Collective will
transform Gallery Gachet into a free speech zone offering both commentary
and critique of issues relevant to art and life in Vancouver at this
specific historical juncture. Thematically, the work addresses the massive
funding cuts that most arts organizations have received in BC, as well as
political priorities and how these precedents impact our cultural climate.
The Gachet Collective believes in the expression of art and culture as a
human right, and as a means for achieving social, cultural and economic
justice.
The link between A Collective Response and Documenta is one of intention
and spirit. Documenta is known as an exhibition that explores the
intersection between contemporary art and the current critical issues of
the time, inviting people from all over the world to convene, assess the
situation, and enact a dialogic process. Documenta began in the early
1950’s, and was developed as a response to the degenerate art politics of
the Third Reich. In contrast to other international exhibitions that
emerged from the World Fair models, the tradition behind Documenta is one
of theoretical grounding, and a sense of urgency in regards to the role and
meaning of art in society. Inclusivity and dissolution of elitism are
founding values of the festival; these beliefs are also woven into the core
of The Collective’s ideology and integral values that are unanimously held
by The Collective.
A Collective Response will feature multidisciplinary works from Gachet’s
twenty-one collective members, and represents not only the distinct
response of each individual member but also the unique energy and drive
behind The Gachet Collective as a whole.
Artists featured: Benitto, Sharon Burns, Sharon Smith, Kara Lee, Stephen
Long, Jay Peachy, Karen Ward, Bernadine Fox, Bruce Ray, Dylan Wolney, Quin
Martins, W.N. (Bill) Pope, Laurie Marshall, Robert Gardiner, Leef Evans,
Diane Thorn, Cherise Clarke, Lisa Walker, Ariel Kirk-Gushowaty, Geoff
Greene and Youngsin Lee.
Pay the Writer! by Harlan Ellison
You’re gonna love this. At least, you’re gonna love this if you’re sick and tired of being expected to work for free. Well, if you’re sick and tired of working for free and not phased by rampant, spittle-flecked profanity. I, myself, find it’s my metier.
Frankly, after that I’d be too SCARED not to pay him.
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