Instagram is hands-down the number one place to be to grow your work, and it can be so tricky to understand how to use its “basic” features! There are no user guides or how-to sources on the app, and ultimately we’re left to our own devices (pun intended) to find our way in creating dynamic, compelling content to connect with our communities.
In this virtual workshop, we’ll explore an introduction to Instagram and its features, including:
Using Instagram on the web versus a mobile device
A brief history of the app and how it came to be so important for cultivating community
How to navigate follows and relationship-building on the digital plane
Words and concepts like grid, carousel, reels, and more
How to use stories creatively to share others’ content and your personality
A deep-dive into reels as a place to offer your essence and teach what you know
Creating subtitles for videos
Setting up story profile highlights (those little circles under your bio)
Re-posting others’ content to your profile
DM features and etiquette
And more! We’ll also explore a conversation about the fact that sometimes we experience overwhelm, screen fatigue, and the effects of the times in which we live—collectively, we are continually facing some degree of trauma (the global pandemic, the incessant news cycle, inequities and systemic oppression…). How do we relate to using Instagram in moments where we’re under-resourced and yet still feel like we need to show up to share about the work we do in the world?
This conversation and workshop will be an introduction in which we’ll acknowledge the deeper truth that self-care is radical and necessary, in both entrepreneurship and social justice.
Join Tristan Katz and their guest facilitator, Riss Giammalva! Riss will offer their insight on reel-making with reel expertise.
Saturday, February 5th, 9am-noon Pacific / noon-3pm Eastern.
Recordings will be available for anyone who isn’t able to attend live. Zoom links will be sent by Friday, February 4th at noon Pacific. If registering after this time, you can expect to receive the link shortly before the workshop.
Pricing:
Your ticket purchase is non-refundable and registration is available according to a three-tiered justice pricing structure. You are invited to reflect on what you are able to contribute and if you are in a position to pay at the higher end of the scale to support others who are not positioned to pay the highest tier of the scale. No one will be turned away for lack of funds! If you need additional support, please contact me directly.
Community (supported by your peers): $30
Sustain (covers your enrollment): $50
Support (covers your enrollment and supports your peers): $60
Workshop Facilitators
Tristan Katz
Tristan is a writer, educator, and digital strategist based on the ancestral land of the Cowlitz and Clackamas peoples, now known as Portland, OR. Tristan offers justice-focused marketing individual and group mentorship programs for yoga and wellness professionals, along with editing, web and graphic design services, and workshops and trainings centered around queer identity and transgender awareness with an anti-oppression and intersectional lens.
Riss Giammalva
Riss is a content creator, communication specialist, yoga instructor, and all around joyful movement enthusiast living on Waawiyatanong land [ Detroit(ish), MI ]. In the content creation world, their main goal is to assist folks in communicating their ideas on a grand scale. In the wellness world, they aim to help those who don’t fit the ‘mold’ find joy in moving again; specifically, Riss is interested in working with larger bodied, queer, trans, and disabled populations. You can follow them on Instagram, @SpookiYoga.