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

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!

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

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.

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.

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. 

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

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.

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!