All seminars and groups are free of charge
Seminars
Summer 2008
GETTING BACK ON YOUR FINANCIAL FEET
Join us for a NEW workshop on dealing with financial challenges and learning how to better manage your money, possessions, and assets – anything you most value. Topics to be explored: Skills that make us better earners, better savers, better investors. What it means to be accountable to ourselves and our families, and how to create the best economic paths for ourselves. How to happily redirect our energies into low-cost activities. How to decrease levels of economic stress. How to “recast” economic trauma, learn from the difficulties, and convert the learning into possibilities and forward movement. How financial hard times make us feel trapped, even hopeless, and how to break that cycle. Based on years of research by Greg Hicks and Rick Foster, authors of the books Choosing Brilliant Health and How We Choose to be Happy, this groundbreaking program will outline and explore the nine behavioral choices and attitudes we need to effectively manage our finances and, in fact, manage all aspects of our lives. This is a full-day workshop with lunch provided. Participants must commit to the entire day. To ensure the most positive group experience interview is required prior to attending.
Friday, June 20, 2008, 10 AM - 5 PM
The Actors Fund, 5757 Wilshire Boulevard #400; Los Angeles, CA 90036
Info: 323.933.9244 ext. 13
Email: tabas@actorsfund.org
CHOOSING BRILLIANT HEALTH
Join us in discovering the secret to taking control of your life - even when you feel as though life is controlling you. Based on years of research by Greg Hicks and Rick Foster, authors of the books "Choosing Brilliant Health" and "How We Choose to be Happy" this groundbreaking program will outline and explore 9 behavioral choices the authors have identified that generate healthier, happier and more effective life. Among the many topics of exploration, you will learn: Enhance your sense of well being. Decrease your level of stress. Help you focus your passions and strengths. Recast grief, loss and emerge to a happier place. This program consists of a day-long workshop. Participants must commit to the entire day. To ensure a positive group experience a pre-group interview is required.
Saturday, June 21, 2008, 10 AM - 5 PM
The Actors Fund, 5757 Wilshire Boulevard #400; Los Angeles, CA 90036
Info: 323.933.9244 ext. 13
Email: tabas@actorsfund.org
HEALING ARTS
Hear from AWP members who have pursued education and training to develop therapeutic sideline and second careers including Massage Therapy, Pilates, Social Work, Personal Trainers, Art Therapy, etc. This event is open to all professionals in entertainment and the performing arts.
Wednesday, June 25, 4 - 6 PM
The Actors Fund, 5757 Wilshire Blvd., #400, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Info: 323.933.9244 ext. 50
Email: ltrotter@actorsfund.org
JOB SEARCH OVER 40
How do you approach the job search when you are over 40? Are there differences? How do you present yourself and where will your experience be welcome? Hear from some AWP members who have found work that values maturity and experience. This event is open to all professionals in entertainment and the performing arts.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 4 - 6 PM
The Actors Fund, 5757 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Info: 323.933.9244
Email: ltrotter@actorsfund.org
WORKING AS A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER
Meet representatives of an agency that hires actors to be substitute teachers in private schools. Learn how to apply, what they are looking for, and the kinds of opportunities that they have. This event is open to all professionals in entertainment and the performing arts.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 4 - 6 PM
The Actors Fund, 5757 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Info: 323.933.9244
Email: ltrotter@actorsfund.org
Regularly scheduled seminars/meetings
Summer 2008
Are you on the Fence with Life in the Industry?
This a free and confidential group open to all industry professionals between the ages of 27 and 60.The group offers an opportunity to explore with your peers the emotional, spiritual and practical issues of continuing your career in the industry. This is an 8 week group. To ensure a positive group experience an interview is required.
Wednesday, April 30 - June 18, 1:30 - 3 PM
The Actors Fund, 5757 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Info: 323.933.9244 ext 13
Email: tabas@actorsfund.org
ACTORS WORK PROGRAM ORIENTATION
An introduction to all Actors Work Program services, including group and individual career counseling, job training and education, financial assistance, and job placement services.
Every Monday, 1 - 2:30 PM
The Actors Fund, 5757 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Info: 323.933.9244 ext. 50
Email: ltrotter@actorsfund.org
WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD
Have you recently relocated to the Los Angeles area? If so, The Actors Fund invites you to join our monthly drop-in group. Connect with other newly transplanted industry professionals and network with your peers. Learn about local resources such as housing, health care and industry supports. No reservation is required.
1st Tuesday of every month, 1 - 2 PM
The Actors Fund, 5757 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Info: 323.933.9244 ext. 13
Email: tabas@actorsfund.org
RESUME WRITING WORKSHOP
Two opportunities each month to learn how to write a targeted resume and cover letter that present you as a viable candidate, whether you are developing a parallel career to supplement your professional income or transitioning to a new career outside the industry. These workshops are free of charge and open to all entertainment industry and performing arts professionals. Participants must attend an Actors Work Program Orientation before coming to the Resume Writing Workshop.
2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month, 2 - 4 PM
The Actors Fund, 5757 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Info: 323-933-9422, ext. 50
Email: ltrotter@actorsfund.org
JOB SEARCH
A great addition to your efforts to find sideline or parallel work to support your professional career, these bi-monthly meetings are the place to get support, job leads and referrals. We review specific strategies to boost your job skills and discuss job search techniques unique to people in show business. These meetings are free of charge and open to all entertainment industry and performing arts professionals. Participants must attend an Actors Work Program Orientation before coming to Job Search.
1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month, 2 - 4 PM
The Actors Fund, 5757 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Info: 323.933.9244 ext. 50
Email: ltrotter@actorsfund.org
NETWORK NOW
Learn how to increase your visibility and opportunities in the business and outside the business by meeting and talking to other Actors Work Program participants. This weekly meeting gives you the opportunity to explore potential contacts for jobs and organizations that are of interest to you, while building a strong network in the entertainment community. Participants must attend the Actors Work Program Orientation before attending Network Now.
Every Thursday, 2 - 4 PM
The Actors Fund, 5757 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Info: 323.933.9244 ext. 50
Email: ltrotter@actorsfund.org
GETTING AND KEEPING HEALTH INSURANCE
Weekly seminar for members of the entertainment industry and the performing and visual arts communities who want to know their options for obtaining affordable health insurance and health care in the Los Angeles area. Participants will learn to use The Actors Fund’s Access to Health Insurance/Resources for Care website (www.ahirc.org). Registration is required.
1st Wednesday of every month, 1:30 - 3 PM
The Actors Fund, 5757 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Info: 323.933.9244 ext. 38
Email: aking@actorsfund.org
PERFORMING ARTISTS' MEDICAL CLINIC
The Performing Artists’ Medical Clinic offers free medical services to low-income musicians, dancers, actors and other performing artists. It is staffed by doctors and medical students from UCLA and uses the up-to-date examining rooms and diagnostic facilities of the Venice Family Clinic. Prescription medicines and referrals to psychiatric services are also available at no cost. This service is offered twice monthly. Call The Actors Fund intake line for eligibility criteria and appointments. Income requirements apply.
3rd Wednesday of every month, 6 - 9 PM
Venice Family Clinic, 604 Rose Avenue, Venice, CA
Info:323.933.9244 ext. 32
Email: dkitowski@actorsfund.org
For more information, please visit www.actorsfund.org