R|7.0 Creative Business Incubator is an intensive 10-week program designed to turn creative ideas into sustainable businesses. Suitable for a wide range of ideas and art forms, R|7.0 is a tailored program to help you grow your business idea or creative practice, gain visibility, understand your value and context, identify new markets, build an entrepreneurial mindset and position yourself as a creative leader. Running from June to September, the 2025 program will be delivered in a new format (3 weeks on, 2 weeks off) to give you time to process and apply the learnings and insights directly to your business/creative practice as you go. 

Each week, facilitator Hayley Linthwaite and a team of expert guest presenters, will focus on a specific aspect of creative business building towards a public showcase at The Events Centre, Caloundra where you will pitch your business idea or creative practice to industry, government and business networks. The program develops self-understanding, entrepreneurial skills and a full business plan through targeted workshops, mentorship and community engagement and enables participants to be adaptive, resilient and ready to engage with a dynamic market. 

R|7.0 is committed to the development of First Nations enterprise as well as respectful and equitable collaboration between First Nations and non-Indigenous creatives. First Nations participants are supported by First Nations mentors and under the leadership of Kabi Kabi (Gubbi Gubbi) Elder-in-Residence and Creative, Aunty Helena Gulash, First Nations participants engage in discussions culturally relevant to First Nations business.