Learning and Courses Is there something you have been wanting to teach yourself? Is there something you should practice and get better at? Do you need to read some theory? Perhaps now is a good time to do an online course? Keep on the look out for others wishing to exchange skills What is free and what provides you with a qualification? Is now the right time for you? If not keep this as a backup idea for when it might be. Also, what skills and knowledge do you have that you c

EmR Fitness - Gisborne EmR-FITNESS offers a small personal group training environment where individuals are encouraged to work hard and in turn see the results. Training with EmR-FITNESS gives you that energising start to your day, making you fall in love with fitness again.

Exercise What is your usual plan? Can this still happen now? Does it make you feel good and get the endorphins going? Is this something you need to do as part of your practice? Do you do it alone or with others? How can this keep happening? If it’s something you want to start, there are lots of great artists doing online dance sessions, or singing, or yoga etc., on Instagram and other platforms. Check it out. What could you share?

Earth Decline - Castlemaine Christopher Hine from Earth Decline creates jewellery, sculptures and clothing which are all one of kind from ethically sourced materials.

Self-care • How to take care of yourself when things already feel super tight on the budget front. Now looking forward things feel even more stressful so self-care has jumped up to the top of the to do list every day. • Things like haircuts, grooming, skin care, sunscreen, all come at a cost – what is your plan moving forward. • Authors are doing readings online for you and your kids everyday. • People share music and other online collaborations with each other, what would wo

Here and Now Counselling - Castlemaine Rhys provides counselling that is based on the idea that the client's interpersonal issues will eventually emerge in the therapeutic relationship. Therapy becomes less talking about issues and more working with them as they happen, in the here and now.

Pooling Resources and Sharing This has been mentioned a lot, as artists you know how to make things brilliant on limited resources this is how many of you make art. You know how to take things other people don’t want or need and how to up-cycle, recycle, share cycle… this will be so much more important as you move forward with limited income options. Start an artist co-op . Let’s look at what everyone can share or start a share page or join a buy nothing group in your communi

Orryelle - Castlemaine Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule is an esoteric artist in many media, including painting, writing, sculpture, sound, film, and performance art. He is the writer-director of Australian-originating Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Company who have presented many major original productions in Europe/UK/US/Aust. Orryelle is interested in the ensoulment of objects through aesthetic obsession, the merging of mental, spiritual, and emotional relationships with creativi

New ideas, Projects and Pitching Artists have an incredible way of creating even more profoundly under extreme circumstances, emotionally or globally… now might be a good time to think about the ways we all give ourselves time for new ideas to emerge. Perhaps it is time to return to that gem of a project that we have left for too long. Or even pitch an idea about audience development in these strange times.