How to start your own arts event (with little-to-no budget!)

No resources? No problem! Here’s how to turn your ideas into a reality and create, program and develop your own event, series, party, festival, platform or project.
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The Boon Companion’s immersive art event Clinic of Regrets. Photography by Sarah Walker

Sometimes when we dream up a big, bold, creative idea, we can quickly shut it down with concerns over budget, logistics, audience development, building a team or fear of failure.

Such worries combined with a shrinking funding pool for arts projects and events federally, it’s understandable our ideas for an event, series, party, festival or project often remain just that.

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Madeleine Dore
About the Author
Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer and founder of Extraordinary Routines, an interview project exploring the intersection between creativity and imperfection. She is the previous Deputy Editor at ArtsHub. Follow her on Twitter at @RoutineCurator