Things You Never Get Taught #16: Social Media and Understanding Your Audience

Organised by: Focal Point Gallery

Date From: 11 March, 2026

Date To: 11 March, 2026

From: 5:30 pm

To: 8:30 pm

Price: £9.90

Location: Sababa 21 Clifftown Rd Southend-on-Sea SS1 1AB

Please Note: You’ll need to bring your laptop or your phone to fully engage and make the most of this workshop!

This practical 3-hour workshop is designed for creative practitioners who want to feel more confident and intentional about how they show up on social media. Together, we’ll explore who you’re trying to reach, what you want social media to do for your creative practice, and how to build a simple strategy that fits your time and energy.

You’ll learn how to develop content ideas, plan posts, and use scheduling tools — including those from Meta — to stay consistent without burning out. By the end of the session, you’ll leave with a clear, one-page social media plan tailored to your work, giving you the structure and direction to promote yourself more effectively and sustainably.

What you’ll gain:
• A clearer understanding of your audience and how to reach them
• Defined goals for what social media can support in your creative practice
• Practical tools for planning and scheduling content
• A realistic approach to maintaining consistency without overwhelm
• A personalised one-page social media plan you can immediately put into action

This session is ideal for artists, designers, makers, and creative practitioners at any stage who want a clearer, more sustainable approach to using social media.

About Things You Never Get Taught

Things You Never Get Taught focuses on essential skills often overlooked by formal arts education. The programme shares practical knowledge, demystifies working as an artist and offers support and advice at any career stage whilst allowing building networks, asking questions, and exchanging ideas as a collective room of artists. The programme is needs-led, collaborative and continually evolving through participant feedback.

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