Workshops,
Groups & Seminars

The Actors Fund offers a broad spectrum of online and phone programs to support the unique, essential needs of all who work in entertainment and the performing arts. Learn more and register for free workshops and services pertaining to The Career Center, Financial Wellness, Health & Health Insurance, Housing and Social Services.
 
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Brookfield Properties

The Actors Fund is pleased to work with Brookfield Properties to spread the word about four rent-stabilized apartment buildings, for moderate and middle income households,located along the waterfront in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Join our webinar to learn more about how to successfully apply to affordable housing lotteries for these state-of-the-art properties.

 


The Career Center

The Career Center offers a comprehensive suite of online programs and services that help entertainment industry and performing arts professionals to identify and find sideline work and discover new careers outside the industry.

Get started by attending The Career Center Orientation (Monday or Thursday* session) to enroll in the career services offered. Once you've done that, you can enroll in workshops including Introduction to Portfolio Careers: Improving Your Art-Work-Life Balance*, Career Journey* and Social Networking*.

*Time listed in Pacific Time

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Financial Wellness

Financial Wellness online workshops and seminars increase your financial knowledge and help you learn the tools and skills to support lifelong financial health and stability.

Take Budgeting Nuts & Bolts (Tuesday or Wednesday session) to learn the basics of financial wellness.

Additional workshops include Investing Basics for Creative Professionals.

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Health & Health Insurance

The Actors Fund offers personalized health insurance counseling and enrollment support, referrals to health care resources and seminars on how to care for yourself.

You can also join us for Welcome to Medicare and Every Artist Insured: Getting Affordable Coverage in NY/NJ.

The Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts, our primary and specialty care health center, is open for appointments. The Health Center accepts most insurance plans, including commercial insurances, several Marketplace/Exchange plans, Medicare and Workers’ Compensation. Call 212.930.7300 for an appointment.

Health Insurance HQ provides an update on the health care landscape from the expert team at The Actors Fund’s Artists Health Insurance Resource Center (AHIRC). In this month's issue: A new survey on healthcare shows that a majority of New Yorkers believe systemic racism is a problem in health care, and many are delaying or skipping care due to cost and want the government to take action. View previous Health Insurance HQs here.

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Housing

The Actors Fund operates several affordable housing residences across the country, and also offers resources to help you learn more about affordable housing opportunities and other housing-related issues you may encounter.

The Actors Fund and ArtBuilt are partnering to present Thrive in Place—a workshop to help arts workers understand the relationship between housing and financial wellbeing. Join us on May 25 to learn about affordable housing, homeownership and improving your personal finances.

Additional online seminars include Affordable Housing for Seniors and Apartment Hunting 101: Strategies for Finding Housing in New York City.

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Social Services

With respect and understanding, our professional social workers offer our community help to address a wide array of challenges via online and phone counseling and support groups, education and practical help—completely free of charge.

Offerings include Mindfulness Meditation With The Actors Fund and Self-Care to Give Care.

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In NYC emergencies can happen at any time. Notify NYC is a new program from the New York City Office of Emergency Management designed to keep you up to date about emergencies and services that impact all New Yorkers, whether it’s at home, work or in the community. Choose from alerts about events, public health, school closings and delays, and parking rules suspensions, and have them sent to your either your email or mobile phone. Register for free by visiting NYC.gov/notifynyc or by calling 311 today.

                              
Programs of The Career Center, Career Transition For Dancers and The Dancers Resource at The Actors Fund are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. These programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

                                         
Thank you to our Dance programming sponsor.                        
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