Workshop - The basics of Excel

From blank sheet to clear overview: learn how to use Excel effectively in cultural practice.

Excel, we've all worked (or struggled) with it at one time or another. Its endless formulas and possibilities make it a powerful program, but also a source of frustration. For anyone who has ever sighed over a budget, or stared blankly at an Excel sheet, there is good news: this workshop finally makes Excel clear and workable. Learn how to take charge, and how to make Excel work for you.

For whom

This workshop is for anyone in the cultural sector who wants to master the basics of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft's spreadsheet program. Whether you're an artist working on a grant application, a producer creating playbooks, order lists and schedules, or a novice business leader who suspects budgets could really be more efficient.

After this workshop

• Know what the working principles in Excel are and what you can use it for.
• Have mastered some basic formulas that you can use independently in the future.
• Know better how to make Excel work for you.

Program

Step by step, we will walk you through the basics of Excel and teach you how to work with it effectively and efficiently. The focus is on applications relevant to cultural professionals, such as drawing up a project budget, keeping records and preparing a script. No general examples, but recognizable situations from cultural practice. Do you have specific learning requirements? Let us know via the registration form.

At the start of the workshop you will receive an Excel workbook that you open on your own laptop (so: don't forget to bring it!). This way you can immediately apply everything you learn, and you will go home with a useful example document that you can use again later. During the workshop theory and practice alternate. You will learn to work with key figures, enter data, make calculations and format worksheets, tables and cells clearly. Does that still sound like abracadabra? No worries, after this workshop the average Excel sheet has no more secrets for you. The workshop can be taken with the use of Microsoft Excel as well as Google spreadsheets.

About the trainer

Paul Vennekens is a trainer and coach at heart. Among other things, he does this on the badminton court as a youth team coach at Papendal. Besides badminton, Excel is his great passion. He also works as an accountant for several companies in Nijmegen. Besides the usual financial matters, he works a lot with Excel and uses it to develop tools and provide insights. He likes to transfer his knowledge of, and enthusiasm about Excel to others.

Practical information

Date: November 20, 2025
Time: 19:30-21:30
Cost: €15.00 including VAT
Location: De Vasim, Nijmegen

Sign up and more information

The programs of Cultuur Academy not only offer depth in specific areas of knowledge. In our activities you also always meet other culture professionals from the Arnhem-Nijmegen region. The mutual exchange of experience and knowledge and the expansion of your network within the sector are a valuable by-product of your participation in our programs.

Do you have questions or would like additional information? If so, please contact Moniek Klabbers. Do you have practical questions about registration or location, for example? Then contact info@cultuuracademy.nl.

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