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2016
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202Creates

June Co-working Day

JUNE 26 | 10AM - 8PM | free

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 Each month, the 202Creates team invites the District's creatives and entrepreneurs to work out of OCTFME's offices, meet fellow creatives & folks in our brand-new Residency Program, attend skill building sessions, tinker in our Podcast and Photography Studios, get drop-in support for specific business or legal questions, participate in feedback sessions, share thoughts and experiences during round tables, and more! See below for the full line-up of workshops & speakers we have planned throughout the day. Scroll all the way down for location info.

Union Stage Events

About this month's co-host: Union Stage is a new 7,500 square foot, 450-capacity music venue and events space set against the backdrop of the Southwest waterfront. Union Stage features emerging artists and old favorites with world-class sound and lights, three bars, full kitchen, and a welcoming ALL AGES atmosphere, all the time. 


Peter Lillis and Jon Weiss from UNION STAGE and BABE CITY RECORDS will be on site throughout the day to offer advice to anyone on anything Babe City or Union Stage related. There's a lot of crossover with best ways to utilize local venues to grow your music projects both on hometown and touring levels. Let's chat about it!

The rundown

10:00 AM

Arrive

Sign in, grab a desk, and mingle with fellow creatives & entrepreneurs. 

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Feedback Session: Gen2Gen Media

Join KAMILAH THURMON, founder of Gen2Gen Media, for a viewing and feedback session of two of her family video memoirs: a Tell Your Story memoir and a Holiday Story memoir. Gen2Gen Media creates video memoirs that capture and preserve your family's history. Passing down oral, family stories from generation to generation defines who we are, and so much of our families’ history is either unknown, forgotten or never disclosed. The Gen2Gen Media team is experienced in the art of storytelling by providing intimate interviews and detailed editing to produce a quality documentary. In this feedback session, Kamilah is looking for ways to distinguish her tone and style within each video package and ideas for advertising and messaging strategies. All are welcome to participate!

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Lunch

Join us for lunch provided by the kitchen at Union Stage. Yes, they present great music
AND great food!

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Being the Boss of Your Life 

Spend some time with career coach and GENERAL ASSEMBLY team member, JOY HAUGEN, to identify where you are right now, where you want to be, and build a tactical plan to achieve your goals and dreams.

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

The Business Side of Photography and Freelance Work

Making photography your business requires more than just creativity and artistic skill. Join NOE TODOROVICH with EXPOSED DC, KEITH LANE, JOHN HARRINGTON, legal expert HARDEEP GROVER, and others for a discussion about the business side of photography and freelance work, as well as topics like contracts, taxes, pricing, and more. During this session, you'll hear professional photographers share some of their experiences turning photography into their career and lessons learned along the way.

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

One-on-One Portfolio Reviews

During this session, photographers, models, fashion stylists, and make-up artists like you can share work one-on-one with industry pros KJ JOHNSON, DOMONIK JENKINS, and other expert guests to receive advice, ideas, and open discussion about your projects. Sign-ups for this session will be on-site via pen & paper and is first come, first served. 

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

How to Get Covered by Print News

Join WASHINGTON POST EXPRESS arts reporter, SADIE DINGFELDER, for tips and advice on getting your event/performance/band/creative business covered by local media. 

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Discovering the Right Kind of Capital for Your Creative Business

Does your creative business have a project that needs financing? Do you know the best way to get that financing that meets your specific business needs? From bank loans to online lending to crowdfunding to raising private equity – with all these options for securing capital, how can you as a business owner best determine what is right for you and your unique business? For almost 10 years ROD LOGES from ONE DEGREE CAPITAL has helped business owners identify and secure the right financing at the right time for thousands of projects. More importantly, he has helped business owners AVOID making potentially disastrous financial missteps, and even helped a few out of jams they inadvertently found themselves in. In this session you'll learn the following:


1) How the wrong capital at the wrong time damaged other local businesses and how to keep this from happening to you.

2) The 5 Key Questions to consider when identifying the right capital for your business.

3) 4 practical, usable steps you can take now to ensure your business is attractive to any lender when you seek financing at the right time.

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Lettering Jam Session with Samantha Testa

At last! A place where you can come chat with other lettering enthusiasts, hone your skills, use new materials, and get tips from DC based lettering pro & 202Creates Resident, Samantha Testa! This Jam Session will be tailored to YOUR needs and is good for someone who has taken any of Painted Palettes' Intro to Lettering classes, other introductory lettering lettering classes, or self-teaches themselves on the side. You don't have to be great at lettering yet to join this jam session - you just have to know the basics and have a desire to practice and/or ask questions. 


To reserve space for this session click this LINK!


THE PRESENTERS

See below & learn about the folks who will be sharing their knowledge throughout the day.

 Each month, the 202Creates team invites the District's creatives and entrepreneurs to work out of OCTFME's offices, meet fellow creatives, attend skill building sessions, get drop-in support for specific business or legal questions, participate in feedback sessions, share thoughts and experiences during roundtables, and more! See below for the full line-up of workshops & speakers we have planned throughout the day. Scroll all the way down for location info.

Speakers

 Each month, the 202Creates team invites the District's creatives and entrepreneurs to work out of OCTFME's offices, meet fellow creatives & folks in our brand-new Residency Program, attend skill building sessions, tinker in our Podcast and Photography Studios, get drop-in support for specific business or legal questions, participate in feedback sessions, share thoughts and experiences during round tables, and more! See below for the full line-up of workshops & speakers we have planned throughout the day. Scroll all the way down for location info.

CaShawn Thompson

Founder, #BlackGirlMagic

Phil Martin

#MakePortraitsNotWar

Emily Haight

#5WomenArtists, National Museum of Women in the Arts

Mara Kurlandsky

#5WomenArtists, National Museum of Women in the Arts

Mauricio Castro

 Photographer, ChunkyGlasses.com

Gina Genis

Freelance Photographer, ginagenis.com

Yusha Assad

Artist & CEO, With Great Care

Graham Smith-White

Founder/Creative Lead, The Infinite Goodness Agency

Kristi Love

Fashion and Lifestyle Influencer

Jamaal Lamaaj

Visual+Graphic Design Artist

 Raji Rankins

Fashion Developer, Workforce Specialist

Christine Steiffer

Director of Finance and Logistics, UXPA DC

Maryann Lombardi

OCTFME/#202Creates

Tyrone Littman

Engineer, 202Creates Podcast Studio

Laura Hatcher

U Street Music Hall Photographer

Will Colbert

U Street Music Hall Photographer

Tia Ellis

U Street Music Hall Photographer

Troy Gerhardt 

U Street Music Hall Photographer

Nandi Henderson

U Street Music Hall Photographer

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Starting your own business and picking the right niche in no time

 Each month, the 202Creates team invites the District's creatives and entrepreneurs to work out of OCTFME's offices, meet fellow creatives & folks in our brand-new Residency Program, attend skill building sessions, tinker in our Podcast and Photography Studios, get drop-in support for specific business or legal questions, participate in feedback sessions, share thoughts and experiences during round tables, and more! See below for the full line-up of workshops & speakers we have planned throughout the day. Scroll all the way down for location info.

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

allen saunders

Noe Todorovich

Independent Photographer

Executive Director, Exposed DC

Speaking on:

"The Business Side of Photography and Freelance Work"
 

 

Joy Haugen

Career Coach

General Assembly

Speaking on:

"Being the Boss of your Life"

Sadie Dingfelder

Arts Reporter/Journalist

Washington Post Express

Speaking On:

"How to Get Covered in Print Media"

Hardeep grover

Attorney with Tresquire Legal Services

President,  The South Asian Bar Association Of Washington, DC

Speaking on:

"The Business Side of Photography and Freelance Work"

Dominik "Domo" Jenkins

Photographer

Domo Jenkins Photography

Speaking on:

"One-on-One Portfolio Reviews"

KJ Johnson

Manager

202Creates Photography Studio

Drop-in:

"One-on-One Portfolio Reviews"

kamilah thurmon

202Creates Residency Program

Founder, Gen2Gen Media

Sharing Work:

"Feedback Session: Gen2Gen Media"

keith lane

Visual Journalist

Keith Lane Photography

Speaking on:

"The Business Side of Photography and Freelance Work"

john harrington

Photographer/author


Speaking on:

"The Business Side of Photography and Freelance Work"

Kayona Ebony Brown

202Creates Residency Program

Artist/filmmaker/writer

Participating In:

"Feedback Session: Gen2Gen Media"

Samantha testa

202Creates Residency Program

Owner, Painted Palettes

Speaking on:

Lettering Jam Session with Samantha Testa

Rod Loges

Founder/CEO

One Degree Capital

Speaking on:

"Finding the Right Type of Capital for your Creative Business"

Jon Weiss


Union Stage + Babe City Records

Speaking on:

 best ways to utilize local venues to grow your music projects both on hometown and touring levels

ryan gordon

Director of Photography


Fairground Times

Participating In:

"Feedback Session: Gen2Gen Media"

Matt Ashton

Founder/CEO

Fairground Times

 

Speaking on:

"Feedback Session: Gen2Gen Media"

cheryl hawkins

Program/Production Coordinator UDC-TV

Founder, Prosperity Media

Speaking on:

"Feedback Session: Gen2Gen Media"

The rundown

10:00 AM

Arrive

Sign in, grab a desk, and knock out some emails before programming starts.

12:00 PM

Session: Blockchain 101 for Creatives 

What exactly is Blockchain? How does it work? How is it used? What does it have to do with me and my creative practice and/or creative business? Join Christine and Graham for a discussion on the uses of this emerging technology for day-to-day life as well as professional pursuits for creatives.

1:00 PM

Lunch

Thanks to our event co-host, With Great Care, there will be food catered by Ivy City Smokehouse!

1:00 - 3:00 PM

Drop In: Design Thinking | Online Accessibility & User Friendliness

Christine Steiffer is a user-experience designer and artist who loves getting to work with the creative community in DC. She serves as the Director of Finance and Logistics for the User Experience Professionals Association DC Chapter and volunteers as a human-centered design facilitator with Design for DC. She will be offering six 20-minute design consultations slots to creatives who want help to make their website or content strategy more accessible, user-friendly and impactful. 

2:00 PM

Roundtable: The Power of Digital Movements to Build Community

Join CaShawn, Emily, Mara, and Phil in a powerful discussion about the role digital movements play in building community. Conversation moderated by Maryann.

3:00 PM

Session: Hip Hop Verse - The Art, the Heart, and the Flow

Spend some time with Yusha in a session on how to write hip hop verses that match the beat perfectly, capture the audience, and express a clear idea.

4:00 pm

Feedback Session: Concert Photography

Mauricio Castro  will lead a feedback session with the photographers who participated in the U Street Music Hall Anniversary and 202Creates Concert Photography Class. They will share and discuss the photos they took, as well as receive feedback from those who listen. There's no experience necessary to give feedback!

4:00 PM

Session/Conversation: Fashion in Music

Come spend a little time with Raji Rankins in a conversation on recent trends, and how Hip Hop and Fashion work together to influence culture. 

 

6:30 PM

Lightroom Workflow Information Session

Gina Genis will lead a gathering of photographers to share info about how they use the photography editing software, Lightroom.

6:30 PM

Introduction to the Fundamentals of Drawing

Jamaal Lamaaj will teach creative techniques that open your eyes to understanding the basics of recreating anything you see by breaking down lines, shapes, and shading.

THE LOCATION

DC Office of Cable Television, Film, Music, and Entertainment

200 I (eye) Street Southeast Washington, DC


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 Co-working Day is located within walking distance of the Navy Yard metro stop. Street parking is very limited, so we recommend getting here via public transport and/or ride sharing apps.

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