DURING THIS year’s Edinburgh festival, Equity is running a series of free events and workshops between Aug 12 and Aug 17. The workshops cover topics such as: Professional Development Networking Staying Motivated A variety of opportunities are also available to meet...
By writer-director and author Brendan Foley Writing a book is a marathon, not a sprint. That makes the difference between the thousand people who think about writing a book and the one that does. Then, out of every thousand who actually do finish a manuscript, there...
BY WRITER-DIRECTOR AND AUTHOR BRENDAN FOLEY (NUJ/WGGB) WWW.FILMFOLEY.COM Writer’s block itself is just one ailment in a whole family that is more accurately called Creative Block. Dancers lose their creative spring. Musicians lose their groove and writers...
By writer-director and author Brendan Foley (NUJ/WGGB) www.filmfoley.com Like many of you reading this, I have a Facebook page with a smattering of friends and acquaintances. I also have a Twitter account languishing with not a single chirp, tweet or utterance to its...
By Brendan Foley (writer, producer and director working in books, film and TV) One of the biggest battles for people who make their living in the entertainment and media industries is that they get little sympathy from nine-to-fivers as both sides struggle to make...
THE FEU ‘Linking In and Meeting Up’ training workshop held at the Brewery Theatre in Bristol on July 2 received a round of applause from the audience made up of members of Equity, the NUJ, MU and Writers’ Guild of Great Britain. The first in a new series of FEU...
AS PART of ‘Six Summer Saturdays 2012’, Birmingham Hippodrome in collaboration with ‘Natural Theatre’ is offering a professional development performance opportunity for fifteen regional practitioners with an interest in expanding their knowledge and experience of...
A NEW e-course ‘Finance for Freelances’ is now available at www.feutraining.org aimed at helping freelance members tackle the key financial issues necessary to maintain a successful freelance career. Easy-to-understand, doable at your convenience and filled with...