Are you a Brent local with a passion for theatre and its power to connect with diverse communities? Kickstart your career with this six-month internship, gaining hands-on experience and insight into how powerful shows and workshops are produced.
Unique Community is a performing arts organisation that uses theatre to connect with individuals often overlooked by society. By working collaboratively with the local community, it creates powerful, new theatre that tackles real-world issues. Through performances and workshops, Unique Community engages diverse audiences, aiming to spark a ripple of positive change in society.
This role is for someone who is curious about how a small performing arts charity functions during the devising, rehearsal and production period. The candidate will be interested in a combination of direct delivery with children, young people, and migrants, as well as the background work it takes to make theatre shows happen.
Funded as part of the ViBrent initiative, this placement will benefit from rotational opportunities among the ViBrent partner organisations. This could include mentorship and/or shadowing, and offers the opportunity to apply new skills in different environments while building a professional network that spans multiple organisations. These occasions can be tailored around the successful applicant to make sure they suit their individual interests and professional goals.
This opportunity is open to individuals who are from or live in the borough of Brent and are also from groups that are under-represented in the creative industries. This includes, but is not limited to, individuals who identify as Black, Asian, or from other ethnically diverse backgrounds, or people of any ethnicity who belong to the following under-represented groups: disabled people, people with the characteristic of gender reassignment, individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, carers and asylum seekers.
The successful candidate for this opportunity will also participate in a Creative Access support programme that sits alongside workplace training. This includes a programme of induction training, monthly masterclasses, wellbeing support, buddying / mentoring and more
For more information on the opportunity and the application process, please click on the link below:
https://opportunities.creativeaccess.org.uk/job/intern-producer-and-facilitator-38913
