Educational Programs

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

We offer our self-help legal workshops in the San Fra ncisco Bay Area, Santa Monica/Los Angeles Area and Sacramento.

Don't miss our Relax With Tax annual seminar, coming soon to a location near you!

Artists and arts organizations serve as agents of democratic involvement, innovation, and positive social change, and the growth of an empowered arts sector is essential to healthy communities. The goal of our Educational Programs is to provide affordable, quality legal and business educational workshops and seminars to empower artists throughout California at the earliest, stages of their careers and to offer continuing education throughout their working lives as artists.

Our workshops, seminars and training programs provide substantive legal and business information for the arts and entertainment communities. In an environment of reduced resources for the arts and rapidly escalating living expenses, artists need a working knowledge of the legal and business aspects of their profession in order to earn a living. C.L.A. has established itself as an excellent legal educational resource with affordable programs.

Coming soon: webinars on various topics which can be accessed from your location with a computer and a phone line.

Sample Workshop Topics

Working with agents and attorneys; negotiating between authors, co-authors, publishers and agents; copyright law and infringement ; and legal issues involved in adapting books to screenplays; gallery contracts and consignment issues; artist/agent agreements; public art projects, and negotiating contracts; book publishing in the digital age; employees vs. independent contractors; legal issues involved in starting nonprofit corporations; and business issues for artists of all disciplines, including musicians, filmmakers and writers.

Symposia on California Arts and Healthy Communities

We have also sponsored a series of Symposia on California Arts and Healthy Communities, which have been broadcast on Cable Access Stations throughout California, to build public awareness of the value of the arts. Please watch our Advocacy page for events and viewing schedules.

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