Meet A Maker production

Setting up Meet A Maker

  • When someone is developing, building or exhibiting their art project at Mediamatic, this is a good chance to have them host Meet A Maker consultation.
  • Open the discussion with the artist.
  • Send the following details to them:
    • Introduce the concept: the idea of Meet A Maker is for artists/makers who are looking for inspiration, feedback and/or new perspective their project/. This is where the "maker" comes in. They can give artistic consultation outside of the art school bubble. 
    • Schedule: Each consult is 30 minutes. The maximum consults is 4 per Meet A Maker day, with usually 15 minutes between the consults. We usually plan one consult per month during the week day, typically in the afternoon. 
    • Payment: We pay 50€/consult. So the total they can earn is 200€ per Meet A Maker. They can send an invoice to administratie@mediamatic.nl.
    • Tickets: At the moment we price the consultation as following: Artists/Students discount 7,50€ | Full price 10€. The reason why we price the consult is because we were noticing that people who signed up often did not show up.

Production

  • Bio: write a bio page for the artist if there isn't one already.
  • Event template website: Make an event template for the Meet A Maker. You can just edit the information about other Meet A Maker templates. 
  • Event template Stager: this is a general introduction to how to make an event template on Stager. However, Meet A Maker is a bit different. Each time slot it's its own event. Therefore you have to create 4 different template where each template is for one time slow. Here is how to do it:
    • Main information:
      • Title: name each event as "Meet [artist name] at [time slot]. For example "Meet Ruchama Noorda at 16:15-16:45". 
      • Times: Make sure the times are within the time slot (Production start, Doors open, Program start will all be the same start time).
      • Event type: Meet-up/Convention
      • Event lead: Workshop
      • Project type: 05: Eigen Programmering
      • Spaces: At the moment outside, so I tick "Dijksgracht (straat)", but this can change to indoor location at some moment. 
    • Tickets:
      • Total number of tickets: 1 (because this is one time slot)
      • Ticket types: Full price (9.00€) and Artist / Student / Stadspas (6.50€)
      • Ticket shop & design -> Event available in: "Meet A Maker" 
    • Now repeat for each time slot!
  • Planning: plan the dates in Stager, publish them on the website (instructions are similar to how to publish workshop event), make a facebook event, and on the Events Google Calendar.
  • Before each Meet A Maker: 2-3 days before check attendance, and send participants a pre-mail (see other Meet A Maker templates in Stager for reference.)
  • Communicate with artist: email the artist whether there are participants and when they will be coming.