David is a mentor to the WORTH Partnership Projects. The WORTH Partnership Projects website features David and refers to his “firsthand knowledge in leading and managing creative and cultural businesses”. It continues: “Through mentoring, training, and consultancy projects, he applies his expertise and experience to help creative and cultural enterprises in becoming even more successful.” …
Category: Creativity
How to Find Your Niche as an Artist
As an emerging artist, or a creative startup, it can be stressful in the early days, until you find your niche and you can make a living by doing what you love. Diellza Ilgner is a Malta-based transdisciplinary performance artist working across theatre, multimedia, and audience-engaged art. Her work addresses social themes like migration, disability, …
Creative Leadership in Malta
David delivered a workshop on Creative Leadership in Malta in February 2025. His Creative Leadership workshop is designed especially for creative, cultural and arts enterprises. Working in partnership with In Place of War, in collaboration with Arts Council Malta, David helps artists and creatives to become even more successful through CASE Malta, the Creative and …
How to get the Important Things done
How to get the Important Things done, when there just isn’t enough time? It’s too easy to be busy doing all those smaller and more urgent tasks and never find time to do the big important things. Our excuse is that there just isn’t enough time. “We always have time enough, if we will but …
Artificial Intelligence and Creativity
David gave a presentation on Artificial Intelligence and Creativity to a conference in Kazakhstan in November 2024. Entitled “Creativity in the Era of A.I.”, he spoke about the creative industries and Artificial Intelligence. The conference was organised by the Ulttyq Ustaz Online Academy and the event was the Fourth Annual School of Rectors. The programme …
Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Ukraine
David spoke about ‘Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Age of Digitalization’ at an event in Ukraine in October 2024. He delivered an online Open Mentoring Session for students and staff at Chernihiv Polytechnic National University in Ukraine. David shared his experience of helping startups and established business in more than 60 countries around the …
Creative Cities Presentation in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
David gave a Creative Cities presentation and spoke on a panel to discuss Economic Development and Digital Transformation in Urban Environments at a conference in Transylvania in November 2023. David was a conference speaker at the Urban Development Conference “The Future of Transylvanian Cities” held in Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár, Romania, organised by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC). David …
Astana International Forum Speaker
David was an Astana International Forum Speaker in Kazakhstan. He shared his international experience of the creative economy with delegates from countries in the region and worldwide. The Astana International Forum plays an essential role in bringing together leaders and experts to identify practical solutions to some of the world’s most pressing topics. In the …
Theatre Entrepreneurship Workshop for ICTheatre
David delivered an online workshop about Theatre Entrepreneurship for final year students at the Institute for Contemporary Theatre (ICTheatre). His workshop focused on creative entrepreneurship, specifically how practitioners can use theatre entrepreneurship to develop their careers, enterprises and organisations. David shared his professional expertise and international experience with students in the interactive workshop. Topics included: …
Creative Entrepreneurship in Malta
David delivers online workshops for artists and creative practitioners about Creative Entrepreneurship in Malta. Working in partnership with In Place of War, in collaboration with Arts Council Malta, David helped artists and creatives to become even more successful through CASE Malta, the Creative and Social Entrepreneur Programme. He has delivered workshops for participants in the …