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• August Third Thursday

  • When
    15 Aug 2024
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    7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Please join us for our Third Thursday Zoom Social, an informal gathering of members and guests to check-in, catch-up, and share news. 

  After registration, you should receive an email confirmation with a Zoom link.

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• Tax Talk for Designers w/ Hannah Cole

  • When
    22 Aug 2024
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    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Spaces left
    95

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  Taxes for Artists, Freelancers and Creative Businesses with Hannah Cole, ENROLLED AGENT, of Sunlight Tax
  

  
  

  What can I deduct as a self-employed architect or designer? Do I bring receipts to my accountant? Is my design work a business or a hobby? What is a Schedule C? How do I deduct my home studio?  Why do freelancers have to pay taxes quarterly, and how do I do that?

  Hannah Cole is a tax expert who specializes in working with creative businesses and artists. A long-time working artist with a high-level exhibition history, and a tax and money columnist for the art blog Hyperallergic, the financial challenges of freelancers and small creative businesses are both relevant and personal to Hannah. She will discuss the basic tax equation, self employment tax and the estimated quarterly tax system, audit concerns for the creative person, and other tax issues specifically relevant to architects and designers, followed by a question and answer period. Hannah Cole is the founder of Sunlight Tax, which specializes in friendly, informative tax preparation for artists, and engaging, art-world savvy tax education workshops for artist groups, and in empowering creative people to set up for long-term success and take control of the financial side of their careers through her program, Money Bootcamp. She is also the host of the Sunlight podcast, where she talks about taxes, money, and careers for self-employed people who have a big vision for changing the world with their work.

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• 2024 OWA+DP Annual Retreat

  • Start
    20 Sep 2024
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    4:00 PM
  • End
    22 Sep 2024
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    3:00 PM
  • Location
    Westerbeke Ranch, Sonoma, CA

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  Each year we get together at Westerbeke Ranch in Sonoma for a 3-day retreat in the fall. Accommodations are shared rooms in rustic redwood cabins set among landscaped grounds including pool and hot tub. The towns of Sonoma and Glen Ellen are minutes away.  Join us for a weekend of conversation, fun, exercise, hiking, swimming, hot tub, massage, music, art, and delicious food. Give everybody a chance to know you better, develop closer ties with friends and colleagues, and return home inspired by new ideas from our group.

  Our 2024 retreat weekend includes a keynote on Artificial Intelligence by Pardis Mirmalek of ARTAA, legacy presentations by OWA+DP members, live Afro Cuban music with Patricia Thumas, a salsa dancing lesson with Luz Mena, Qigong with Darlene Meltzer of Your Chi Lifestyle, as well as a felt-flower art project.

  We have room for 50 guests for the weekend, but Saturday-only (no overnight) registrations are available as well.

  Accommodations include access to gardens, swimming pool, adobe dining hall, and shared bedrooms in rustic cabins which is all set in beautiful, Sonoma, wine country.  Financial assistance for scholarships is available for students and those in need.  We encourage participants to join OWA+DP.

   
  

  Contact retreat coordinator T. Rachel Slonicki at Little Elephant Architecture with questions or to request a scholarship. 

  If you need special accommodation in the only accessible cabin on site, the blue cabin, email or call Rachel at 510.704.0808.

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