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NEED PERSONAL ARTIST COACHING?

I AM A
PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
- Surviving and Succeeding the World of the Arts
by gilli moon

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gilli moon's WORKSHOP ON CD: "ARTIST EMPOWER: THE PATH TO ARTIST EMPOWERMENT" - A step by step audio workshop on exploring your creative talents, and pursuing excellence as a professional artist.

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"Intention is the most important factor in creating change. Thoughts are powerful. By merely thinking an idea, you have set the seeds for it to come to fruition."
- GILLI MOON

I AM A
PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
- Surviving and Succeeding the World of the Arts
by gilli moon

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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others."
- NELSON MANDELA

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... direction, goals, personal attention...

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Gilli's workshop and book will certainly change the thinking of any professional artist who may doubt themselves or their art, who may feel pressured by the industry, or may feel the hardship of the roller coaster ride.

I AM A
PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
- Surviving and Succeeding the World of the Arts
by gilli moon

read about BUY

group workshops for artists

Step by step workshops on exploring your creative talents and pursuing excellence as a professional artist.

"we live in a time where entrepreneurial excellence is paramount.
it's time for artists to take control of their own destiny..."
gilli moon

Gilli Moon hosts workshops encouraging, motivating and providing solutions for artists and arts business professionals. Artist eMPoWeR Workshops are gilli's focused group sessions that provide energy, learning, inspiration, tools and steps for Artists. Includes lecture, group participation, collective thought and interaction. She also runs personal 1 on 1 coaching sessions. She believes in personal empowerment, taking on a brave sense of self, defining success on one's own terms and the pursuit of excellence. Need a talent coach? More details about Gilli's coaching

Gilli Moon hosts workshops encouraging, motivating and providing solutions for artists and arts business professionals. Artist eMPoWeR Workshops are gilli's focused group sessions that provide energy, learning, inspiration, tools and steps for Artists. Includes lecture, group participation, collective thought and interaction.

eMPoWeR Workshop - the Path to Artist Empowerment
Rockstar Performance Workshop - A workshop for musicians, singer/songwriters and singers who want to get solid advice and practical techniques on how to OWN the STAGE, DELIVER a GREAT SHOW and ROCK THE HOUSE. 1 day workshop
Doing it the Indie Way Workshop - A rockstar guide for DIY Indie Artists to master their Marketing, Touring & Promotion
Become a Creative Explorer Workshop - A power-packed workshop to unleash the creative explorer in you.
Defining the Artist Within - A workshop for artists who want to explore who you are, what you want, and how you can get it. 1 day workshop
The Successful Artist Entrepreneur – the ins and outs of getting out there as an artist in the business of music.
Songsalive! Songcamp - intensive co-writing sessions with other songwriters. 1 day workshop
Tips and Tools on how Songwriters can Network - how songwriters can create business success for their songs.

eMPoWeR Workshop
the Path to Artist Empowerment

For artists of all genres who’ve chosen the professional path, practical steps in harnessing one’s creative abilities to succeed and survive in the Arts and enjoy one's artistry at the same time, gilli's MPWR workshops combine a self-empowering practical guide in surviving and succeeding in the Arts with key business principles and spiritual nourishment. Topics covered include music production, promotion, marketing, touring, image and artist development, surviving the industry, staying motivated, defining success on one's own terms, how to develop the right relationships, overcoming obstacles, and many more. Whether you are a musician, singer, actor, dancer, painter, writer, or just a creative nut that wants to do more with your "art and craft" this workshop is for you.

Topics include:

artist development
* affirmations and positive motivation
* understanding who we are and who we want to become
* defining our image, story and goals
* defining your creative strengths and ambitions.
* being a business
*the Three O's: Optimism + Organized = Opportunity
* discovering your competitive advantage and uniqueness
* goal making and defining success
* the realities of the entertainment and arts businesses
* stage presence, performance, image defining, relationships
* the importance of education, training and finding resources
* exercises to overcome obstacles, torments of the mind

creating success and goal defining
* creating specific goals to get the results you want.
* Defining Success on your own terms
* creating and projecting your 10 year plan through visualization, strategies and writing.

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Rockstar Performance Workshop
A workshop for musicians, singer/songwriters and singers who want to get solid advice and practical techniques on how to OWN the STAGE, DELIVER a GREAT SHOW and ROCK THE HOUSE.

Rock stars or budding rock stars out there - ever feel like you want to brush up on how you deliver your show on stage without fumbling in front of an audience?

gilli moon, singer-songwriter and recording artist, is hosting a Rockstar Performance Workshop for those who wish to hone their stage craft. From owning the stage, to reaching your audience through your movements, voice, eyes and actions, to building your entire show on stage: This workshop is for all music artists who perform on stage in any genre or style of music.

Focus areas covered:

what to say in between songs and various other ideas on stage patter, rhubarb and meaningful story telling.
how to own the stage with your body - where to plant your feet, what part of the stage to move in, how to use the stage to your fullest potential.
delivering emotion through the body, eyes and voice during your songs.
how to reach tens, hundreds, thousands, and grab them in the palm of your hands.
working with band members. Great tips on keeping your musicians focused and you focused on them as well as your audience.
proper microphone technique and dealing with equipment, cables and stuff that gets in the way.
how to deal with difficult venues and stage limitations.
creating an entire show - from your first song to the last. The story, the movements, the songs all tied up in one package to blow the audience away.
off the stage - the 101 on arriving to a venue, loading in, performing and loading out, with helpful tips on the meet and greets with fans, industry personnel and others.

This workshop is very much a hands on, practical session focusing on your songs, your performance and your experience.

Gilli Moon’s Secrets to DIY Indie Marketing , Promotion and Touring Success Workshop
Define success on your own terms... professional artist development, staying motivated, how to develop the right relationships, marketing and promotional tools, and overcoming obstacles. Gilli Moon hosts an eMPoWeR Workshop to motivate you beyond creativity, into the business world of the Professional Artist. This workshop will help you take the next step with your artistry - guiding, motivating, encouraging and providing tools, tips and solutions to take your artistry into the world of the entertainment industry. Plus tips on indie promotional and marketing strategies to put philosophy into practice.

Doing it the Indie Way Workshop
A rockstar guide for DIY Indie Artists to master their Marketing, Touring & Promotion

My favorite workshop to conduct for indie musicians who just WANT TO GET OUT THERE. Topics covered include music production, promotion, marketing, touring, image and artist development, surviving the industry, staying motivated, defining success on one's own terms, how to develop the right relationships, overcoming obstacles, and many more. Practical steps in harnessing one's creative abilities to succeed and survive in the music business and enjoy one's artistry at the same time, with key business principles and spiritual nourishment.

Also included:

intensive career strategies
* learning the art of self-empowerment: getting out and doing it the Indie Way
* career building - how to get into your chosen career
* Developing a loyal fan base, including touring, mailing lists, websites and personality maintenance
* Developing your unique image for promotion
* Promotional strategies including postcards, flyers, retail and radio one sheets, Plus Merchandise and incentives ideas
* Marketing and distributing your CD as an independent artist - including - Radio, Touring, Publicity, Promotion, Marketing,
Retail and internet distribution

cd production and manufacturing
* Producing and packaging a CD inexpensively
* breaking down prices

performance development
* stage techniques
* establishing a strong stage presence
* microphones and stage props
* telling the story
* critical vocal techniques
* venue obstacles
* song prep for performance

Often the eMPoWeR Workshop and Doing It The Indie Way Workshop are combined.

Become a Creative Explorer Workshop
A power-packed workshop to unleash the creative explorer in you.

How far would you go to change the world? Who do you work for? Someone else's ambition? Fame? Recognition? Material possessions? God? Our lives are not meant to be wasted on just maintaining our lives. By that I mean, working hard and spinning your wheels just to maintain the status quo you have built: house (mortgage), cars, social life, 9-5 routine. There is more to our lives! Become a great explorer! Intention is the most important factor in creating change. Thoughts are powerful. By merely thinking an idea, you have set the seeds for it to come to fruition. How can you remove the maintenance clause of your life and become a great explorer? One way is to answer three important questions to yourself that is about your Intention. I call this exercise the Creative Explorer exercise. In the workshop you will discover a few important factors to clear away the cobwebs of your creative life and be able to answer three important questions: What have I created over the last year? What am I over? What am I going to create now? Exploration into the unknown can be a little scary, but it's the only way anything was ever discovered. Leap empty handed into the void. Read the article

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Defining the Artist Within

A one day workshop for ALL ARTISTS who want to explore who you are, what you want, and how you can get it

Whether you want to be a rock star, or a consummate artist, or both, you need to be clear and focused with what path you take and how you are going to promote yourself. But it all begins with who you are. This workshop helps artists become clear with their innate qualities, and how best to go about promoting that and capitalizing on that to create a successful career in the arts.

- Who am I as an artist? Getting real with my talents, my dreams, and what I have to offer the world
- Finding my competitive advantage
- Goal making exercises - bringing the dream alive
- Image defining - from concepts to concrete plans through creating the music, the art, the projects and how to present them - to executing the marketing and promoting of all of it.

Now's the time to start thinking about next year's plans: as an artist, you have the opportunity to reinvent yourself in every way - the way you are, through your persona, performances, promotion, online, marketing... everything you do and breathe.

Combines one on one interaction with all artists in the workshop, inspiring and revealing exercises, and feedback on songs and artist materials. At the end of this workshop, every artist will know who they are, what they want, and how they can get it.

What to bring: a song or two, with lyrics; the artist's promo kit and other items pertaining t the artist's image; writing pen and paper; An open mind. A pre-planned exercise will be assigned to participants in advance and will be brought to the workshop.

For all artists, whether musicians, singers, painters, actors or those wanting to define one's path and find clarity in how to present oneself to the world ... this workshop is for YOU.

intense, one-on-one time
with your artist within.
CHANGE YOUR IMAGE,
CHANGE YOUR MINDSET,
CHANGE YOUR LIFE: CREATE SUCCESS

November Mondays.

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Audio teleconference

The Successful Artist Entrepreneur
– the ins and outs of getting out there as an artist in the business of music.
The KEY TO SURVIVAL AND SUCCESS in the music business of TODAY is to be a unique artist, in charge of your own destiny. It means you need to be an artist entrepreneur. In order to be powerful as an artist, you have to be very business artist. You need to be very self driven and business savvy. You don’t need to know everything about the business (you can go to experts for advice) but you are in control. If you want it to be life long, you have to be a visionary. You have to be able to think outside the box and “feel” it inside. A lot of inner work is required. So while you are working on your craft and techniques on the outside, you have to work on your mindset on the inside.

* learning the art of self-empowerment: getting out and doing it the Indie Way
- What is music entrepreneurship?
- the importance of being a business person as well as an artist
- learning to use the left and right sides of the brain together
* career building - how to create your art/music business and be the master of your destiny
- Building a plan and executing it.
* Developing your unique image for promotion
* Promotional and marketing strategies

Songsalive! Songcamp
dedicated to the art and business of songwriting

gilli moon conducts an all-day (or half day), high powered, focused songwriting camp where songwriters and composers can gain valuable feedback on their music and collaborate in co-writing with other writers under the guidance of special Songsalive! songwriter mentors. Songsalive!, co-founded by gilli moon, is the largest international non profit organization for songwriters and composers. www.songsalive.org. The First half of the SONGCAMP is a song critique workshop, where songwriters gain feedback on their already written songs; followed by an intensive co-writing session where songwriters are split into groups under the guidance of mentors. They are then asked to write a brand new song in a short time period (from 1-3 hours). The Songsalive! Songcamp has been designed after many journeys, learnings and collective thought by Songsalive! president, Gilli Moon

Topics include:

song critique
* hit song writing tips & structure
* song listening session with feedback and critique
* co-writing session with other songwriters

Tips and Tools on how Songwriters can Network
How songwriters can create business success for their songs.

The importance of education, training and feedback
Career building - how to get the most out of your career as a songwriter
Seeing you the songwriter as a brand and commodity like Artists do. (building fans, promoting yourself and developing your unique image)
Tools on how to use Songsalive! to your advantage as a songwriter
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Why come to a gilli moon workshop?

Workshops are often one day intensive camps, or 1 to 2 hour seminar-style info sessions in various locations including within the context of music conferences Gilli participates in. As much as it's great to develop your craft yourself, and even in one-on-one sessions (Gilli offers coaching also), there is something magical about a group workshop where you can feed off others and share your progress. Gilli nurtures artists in small settings so that everyone feels special and noone goes home without having dug deep into their own psyche, dreams and goals. You leave with attainable action plans, a sense of satisfaction, confidence, joy and a "I can take on the world" mentality.

Read some testimonies and feedback from Workshop participants on the right.

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Check out also Gilli's Artist eMPoWer Workshop on CD here

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gilli's workshop for artists..... wherever you are in the world, you can participate

Saturday February 27, 2010 - 9am

The 6th Annual Durango Songwriter's Expo/Santa Barbara Wine
Country

– the ins and outs of getting out there as an artist in the business of music.
The KEY TO SURVIVAL AND SUCCESS in the music business of TODAY is to be a unique artist, in charge of your own destiny. It means you need to be an artist entrepreneur. In order to be powerful as an artist, you have to be very business artist. You need to be very self driven and business savvy. You don’t need to know everything about the business (you can go to experts for advice) but you are in control. If you want it to be life long, you have to be a visionary. You have to be able to think outside the box and “feel” it inside. A lot of inner work is required. So while you are working on your craft and techniques on the outside, you have to work on your mindset on the inside.

The 6th Annual Durango Songwriter's Expo/Santa Barbara Wine
Country will take place Feb.25-27 at
The Santa Ynez Valley Marriott, and Songsalive! is an official sponsor of this wonderful event. We highly recommend all our songwriters to go.

The Expo is one of the nation's premier singer/songwriter events and with over 40 music industry pros and hit songwriter and registration limited to 200 attendees

The Expo is the ultimate networking bonanza. With a full slate of workshops, panels, listening sessions, showcases, and open mics you will get heard. For more info and to download the brochure go to www.Durango-Songwriters-Expo.com. There's lots of great information here call 970-259-9747 or 970-259-9747.

The Marriott has excellent rooms and there are other hotels in walking distance if you’re on a budget. Just search hotels in “Buellton, CA.”

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Testimonies and Feedback of Gilli's Workshops

"Great Rockstar Workshop. You've given me some great tools to work with eye control. And I'm going to put mirrors up in my new rehearsal room to practice with. I love the way Bruce Springsteen moves, so I'm going to borrow some of that from him and work it into my own. I think you covered everything that needed to be covered. It fit nicely into the time frame. Great workshop!"

"Very good. I liked the concept and approach and got taken out of my comfort zone several times, which helped a lot. Wouldn't change anything!"

"Great workshop as usual, Gilli! I learned a lot and had a lot of fun -Thank you!"

"I really enjoyed the Rockstar Workshop. I learned several things like how to move behind the piano. Also, the idea of being a bit flirtatious is great and it think will work well with songs. Having individual time was the best part. I have no real suggestion for the workshop it was great."

"Good coaching! The most important is to just do it. Thanks for the very important eye contact information and techniques. Good class, I learned also from others being coached. Good "out-of-box" session and the theatrical perspective was very important!"

"I enjoyed the day and have many thoughts that I can now put into more concise words! You have been an inspiration to me. I would have liked to have seen/heard everyone's stuff, but I am glad we took the time to really compute the exercises. Thanks again!"

"All I can say is thanks! This has given me the tools to move on with my career. I've learned a lot about myself I didn't know."

"This workshop was incredibly insightful & helpful. I feel spoiled. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. ... your presence is welcoming and accepting. Thank you for your honesty. I am very excited about the next step."

"I loved the day. I've developed now a clearer path and step, I can take what I want to do. Thank you so much. I think one of the things I gained that will stick in me is really a clearer belief in myself, that I can do this & I will. I definitely want to come to your next workshop and maybe to some individual consulting with you as well!"

"Overall -very good flow and timekeeping from beginning to end! I could not help but be drawn to this creative workshop..."

"I really enjoyed the workshop today. It was fun and I learned a lot. I definitely have a lot to think about! Thank you Gilli!"

"Great advice and nurturing environment (Image workshop). Sort of the swift kick in the ass I needed to get me back on track, refocus and reenergize."

"Great workshop. I still have a lot to figure out but this is a great start. Thanks for giving up yourself."

"I found this workshop necessary for me. It easily flowed and answered questions I had I think it was challenging and better to have "too much" material than not enough. Awesome!"

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