How to be a Creative Producer: Marketing Yourself with Bohdan Piasecki

How to be a Creative Producer: Marketing Yourself

As part of Poet in the City Producers, Poet in the City presents How to be a Creative
Producer, a series of additional skills workshops for early-career producers designed develop professional skills needed to boost employability.

As an independent producer, how do you establish your own professional profile? Learn how
to build up your network of contacts, promote yourself effectively online, and use the power
of storytelling to tell your own story.

With Bohdan Piasecki, Poet and the Creative Producer for Birmingham-based engagement and insight agency Beatfreeks.

Who is this workshop for?

• Young people aged 16-30 or early-career producers of any age. 
• Alumni of producers development programmes looking to build on and develop skills
  learnt on the course.
• Anyone seeking to develop their professional skills at the beginning stages of their
  freelance careers.

Bohdan Piasecki

Bohdan Piasecki is a poet and creative producer from Poland based in Birmingham.
As a poet, he has taken his work from the upstairs room in an Eastbourne pub to the main
stage of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, from underground Tokyo clubs to tramways in
Paris, from a bookshop in Beijing to an airfield in Germany, from niche podcasts to BBC
Radio. In the UK, he regularly features at the country’s most exciting spoken word nights,
festivals, and readings. He enjoys the creative chaos of big field festivals just as much as the
composed concentration of literary events.

As a producer, Bohdan worked for 7 years as the Midlands Producer for Apples and Snakes,
and over that period devised and delivered many projects, from events to development
opportunities and more (examples include Hit the Ode, Level UP, Lit Fuse, Wordsmiths &
Co, Bright Smoke, Poets’ Place, Shake the Dust and Public Address).

He currently holds the post of Creative Producer at Beatfreeks, a role encompassing project management as well as conceptual and production work on a a wide variety of creative projects, from adapting open mics to digital spaces to working cross-discipline on artistic commissions based on sociological research.

Bohdan founded the first poetry slam in Poland before moving to the UK to get a doctorate in
translation studies. He has worked as Director of Education on the Spoken Word in
Education MA course at Goldsmiths University, and was the Midlands Producer for Apples
and Snakes between 2010 and 2017. Since 2012, he has been a regular Visiting Lecturer in
Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham. He is currently Creative Producer for
Beatfreeks and sits on the board of the Poetry Translation Centre.