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A freelance career in the creative arts
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.

With special thanks to Terri Brown, Vanessa Cooper, Garima Dhawan, Rebecca Harling, Matt Katz, Cassie Leedham, Lucy Marcovitch, Zakia Rashid, Jessica Rowe, John Simpson and Craig Spivey for sharing their experiences as freelancers in the creative arts for this course.

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Images

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

Case study

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

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/

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