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A freelance career in the creative arts
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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Liz Smith. It was first published in November 2021.

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The material acknowledged below and within the course is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course:

Images

Introduction and guidance

Course Image: Chamille White; Shutterstock.com

Week 1

Figure 1: Aaltazar; Getty Images

Section 3: Nastco; Getty Images

Section 4.1, Case Study 2 photograph: Kaca_Studio; Getty Images

Section 5: AEQAI; http://aeqai.com/ main/ 2018/ 02/ the-material-girls-exhibition-xoxo-at-the-museum-of-human-achievement/ mg7/

Section 6: Nuthawut Somsuk; iStockphoto.com

Week 2

Section 1: Roman Samborskyi; 123RF

Section 2: Csaba Toth; Getty Images

Section 3: patpitchaya; Getty Images

Section 5: Anchiy; Getty Images

Week 3

Section 1: PeopleImages; Getty Images

Section 2: BrianAJackson; Getty Images

Section 3: LoveTheWind; Getty Images

Section 4: fizkes; Getty Images

Section 5: dageldog; Getty Images

Week 4

Section 1: marchmeena29; Getty Images

Section 3: Jirsak; Getty Images

Section 4: bernardbodo; Getty Images

Section 4.1: AndreyPopov; Getty Images

Section 4.2: Diamond Dogs; Getty Images

Section 5: ronstik; Getty Images

Week 5

Section 2: PIKSEL; Getty Images

Section 4: PATCHARIN SAENLAKON; Getty Images

Week 6

Section 1: Martin Leitch; Getty Images

Section 4: gustavofrazao; Getty Images

Section 5: Pheelings Media; Getty Images

Week 7

Section 1: Rawpixel Ltd; Getty Images

Section 2: PIKSEL; Getty Images

Section 3, Figure 1: MattZ90; Getty Images

Section 4: newsfocus1; Getty Images

Section 5: AndreyPopov; Getty Images

Section 6: SeventyFour; Getty Images

Week 8

Section 1: andreygonchar; Getty Images

Section 2: andresr; Getty Images

Case study

Week 7

Theatre for Life CIC: Michelle Smith, Theatre for Life CIC – Changing lives through the Arts; Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Videos

Week 2

Video 2: courtesy of The Latimer Group; The Latimer Group

Video 5: courtesy of Catherine Villeminot; the Cat and the Silver Fish; https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=J7zYMKhl2s0

Week 3

Video 2: courtesy of The Growth Hub

Week 5

Video 4: courtesy of Expert Market; https://www.expertmarket.co.uk/

Week 6

Videos 2 and 3: Arts Council England; www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/

Video 4: courtesy of Ariel Hyatt, Cyber PR

Week 7

Video 2: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; HMRCgovuk

Video 3: Courtesy of Social Enterprise; https://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/

Video 4: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.; Intellectual Property Office

Video 6: Video used with kind permission of Federal Management https://www.federalmanagement.co.uk/

Week 8

Video 2: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.; Business Wales/Busnes Cymru

Video 3: courtesy of Invest Northern Ireland; https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/

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