Samantha
Shulver
Hi De Hi!
I'm Samantha, a highly skilled Administrative Support Professional with over 25 years’ experience.
What makes me stand out from other freelancing admin assistants?
My experience and drive are truly second-to-none. Combine that together with my passion for creative arts & entertainment, alongside the skills I’ve crafted over the years, all make me an invaluable contributor to any self-employed professional or business.
How Admin To The Arts
came out of its shell
I've spent my career delivering premium, high-level administration support in high-pressured County Council environments, where administration processes play a starring role from the ground up.
My abilities have seen me effectively manage teams of admin staff and efficiently run busy offices, setting up processes and implementing effective and time saving systems, to ensure they are user friendly with both the teams & management, alongside producing accurate data & reports, using advanced skills I've crafted and honed over many years. I’m very confident in my ability to deal with whatever work you send my way!
Starting Admin To The Arts wasn't something that I had planned on doing. Following a redundancy, I didn't want to just get another job, I felt the time had come to return to what I originally trained for at college and an industry I am very passionate about. This life changing opportunity, together with my work at local theatres and on a local indie film, gave me the idea, drive, and determination to start my own business to help and support busy creatives just like you.
I'm at my happiest when I'm helping others in doing something they love. I get a great personal satisfaction from seeing people enjoy what they do, and I believe by combining my admin skills with my passion to support others, together with my understanding around the performing arts, I offer a unique and valuable service that caters to the diverse needs of the creative and entertainment industries.
The 'Open Learn' courses helped me to develop a plan from my initial 'head in the cloud' ideas to a 'let's do this' idea! That is the kind of energy I can bring to you, and I truly believe that my skills and experience can help busy creatives to not only thrive, but flourish. The journey to freelance life has been exciting so far and I love how it is evolving with every day.
This course is endorsed by Creative UK
I have earnt a digital badge in 'Freelancing in the Creative Arts Industry'.
Statement of Participation certificates also gained for the 'B190 Introduction to Bookkeeping and Accounting' and 'Freelancing in the Creative Arts Industry' courses, completed via the Open University (Open Learn).
Digital Badge for the
creative arts industry!
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My love affair with
the creative arts
I've had a passion for performing arts and theatre since childhood, and I don't know how I could have gotten through life without my love and appreciation of music. Listening to my vinyl, seeing bands live, getting lost in a stage performance or escaping into a good film or the pages of a book, is something that brings me so much joy, and I marvel at how creatives can turn their vision into something tangible like an object, photo, or a painting.
I believe the arts is an expression of an individual or group, which has the potential to reach others and bring people together through common appreciation. It can also be about great teamwork, with groups of people collaborating and using their individual skill sets to tell a story through words, music, performance, and art. The arts can create discussion, unite nations, and change your mood.
Every person in the world has some form of art in their lives, and it's quite amazing that one person's creativity or a group of people, can inspire reactions from so many others. After years of working in a corporate environment, I knew that I needed to return to, and be a part of, the creative process that has touched my life in so many ways, for so long.
Check out my Fun Gallery and see some pics of how I have been spending my working days, helping creatives to continue to inspire and entertain!
All The World's a Stage
Ever since I can remember I have visited the theatre to watch pantomimes, musicals, ballets and shows and ever since I can remember, as soon as I walk into a theatre and sit down in those red velvet seats, I get a lump in my throat, and I just smile. Theatre is just a part of me that sings, dances, and feels deeply. It is an escape into someone else's world where you can forget the world around you and just be in the moment.... well at least till the curtains go down and the houselights come up.
Music
&
Me
Having parents who loved music, I was surrounded by it growing up. My love for music has grown with me or ripened with age some might say! However, my roots have not changed since I was at college. I love my heavy metal / rock and cannot put into words the buzz I still get from listening to vinyl in my music room or going to a gig and getting lost in the moment, knees bent, head down, and off you go...
I also love my blues, jazz, punk, and strong female vocalists / guitarists.
A Magical world of pictures & books
One of my earliest memories was being taken to the cinema and falling down the old collapsible cinema seats, but as soon as the picture came on, I was in a magical world.
I was captivated by weekly TV shows, films & musicals and I would get lost in the fantastical worlds created by my favourite authors. My imagination ran wild as a child, and it still amazes me how people create such works of art on a screen or in-between the covers of a book.
Roll on to 2022 and I finally got to experience what it was like to work on a film set.
When Admin To The Arts
Came Out of Its Shell...
Glide over to my Portfolio and see the Incredible Individuals I've collaborated with in my debut year. Discover the diverse range of tasks that define my creative Journey so far.
