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Recruitment Opportunity: Producer
(Freelance, Project based, Part-time)
The Other Way Works is seeking a freelance Producer to work with the Artistic Director to deliver the development and performances of the Company’s new production Black Tonic.
Black Tonic is an interactive performance for two people, incorporating video, audio, and installation, and is performed in the bedrooms and corridors of a Hotel. “An evocative thriller” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian.
The Other Way Works creates daring and remarkable theatre that draws the audience into the very heart of the experience. The company is based in Birmingham.
Download a full job description and application information from www.theotherwayworks.co.uk/producer
The deadline for applications is: Wednesday 6th August 2008 at 6pm
While a lot of you know that Fierce Earth produces amazing festivals and cracking events (including of course the world-famous Fierce! festival – check out www.fiercetv.co.uk, what you may not know is that we also deliver training programmes (such as Metapod for start-up creatives and Momentum for producers and curators) AND we deliver consultancy for arts organizations. We helped the wonderful Birmingham Jazz achieve a well-earned uplift in their funding from the Arts Council after preparing a business plan and advocacy document.
So I’m really please to let you know that we are just about to start a short consultancy with Tindal Street Press, to help with the strategic business planning and marketing of this Birmingham based publishing company, specializing in local authors.
Yesterday one of Tindal Streets author’s, Gaynor Arnold, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008 for the novel ’Girl in a Blue Dress’! This is their second successive Booker longlist and third time in six years. Boyd Tonkin speaks of ‘the Birmingham indie house Tindal Street Press confirms its magic touch’ in today’s Independent.
This is great news for our friends at Tindal Street! Congratulations!
PS – For a really great read this summer, I can genuinely recommend What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn. Another “blockbuster” from Tindal Street, Catherine was, until recently, working at the box office at mac. Her book is clearly set in the Midlands and is in turns funny, touching, tense and gripping: buy a copy today for your holiday packing!
Here’s something from our friends Audiences Central – www.audiencescentral.co.uk – who are looking to create a world record breaking mosaic. Here’s how to be part of it and bring out the Roy Castle in all of us! (For those of you too young to recognise that reference, look it up)
“As part of The Big Picture Picture, thousands of people from all over the West Midlands have sent us their treasured photos – funny, touching, bold and beautiful – having explored their creativity in one of the region’s biggest, most successful and colourful arts projects.
The culmination of this six month project will be a world record attempt, to create the World’s Largest Photo Mosaic using over 110,000 photos submitted to The Big Picture, and we’re in need of volunteers to assist us with this record breaking task!
From Monday 4 August until Thursday 21 August production of the individual panels that make up the mosaic will be taking place in Thinkspace, in Thinktank, Millennium Point, Birmingham.
Every day (including weekends) the Big Picture team will be sticking photos onto the plywood panels that will create the final mosaic, using a simple grid system. There are 288 panels to be completed, so we need lots of olunteers to help us break that record!
If you would like to help with constructing the mosaic panels please email us at workshop@inthebigpicture.co.uk and let us know which day you can attend at Thinktank.
There is no limit to how many days you can come and help! All the panel building workshops will be running from 10am – 4pm, and we require a minimum commitment of 3 hours (either 10am -1pm or 1pm – 4pm). If you would like to volunteer please let us know by Friday 1 August – email your name and the times/dates you can attend- this is just so we can make sure we find you on the day!
Please note you must be registered to volunteer. The workshops are FREE and open to all (although children must be accompanied). It is very straightforward work, but you will be fully trained, and there will be members of the Big Picture team around the whole time in case you need any help.
This is a fantastic opportunity to be involved in a truly unique West Midlands project- and of course all volunteers are invited to attend the unveiling of the mosaic on Saturday 23 August outside Thinktank.
For more information go to www.inthebigpicture.co.uk or call 0121 685 2600
One thing that happened recently is that I became a Clore fellow.
For those of you who don’t know about Clore, it is a programme designed to develop leaders in the cultural sector. It involves formal training as a group, a secondment to a large organisation for 3 months, and a tailor-made programme of research and attendance at bespoke training, as well as mentoring. High profile contributors to the training include Lord Putnam, Andrew Motion, Charles Handy, Tim Smit (founder of Eden Project), Kevin Spacey, Jonathan Porrit, Andy Burnham (Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport), Lord Hollick, Baroness Helena Kennedy, Jasmin Alibai-Brown, Kwame Kwei-Armagh, Sir Stuart Hampson, Sir Nicolas Serota to name but a few!
This from their website (www.cloreleadership.org.uk):
“The Clore Leadership Programme aims to help to train and develop outstanding leaders in the arts. Fellows have been selected annually, from the cultural sector and beyond, to undertake an individually tailored programme of tuition, research, mentoring and secondment designed to develop their leadership skills, knowledge, networks and experience. Since September 2004, 132 cultural leaders will have been awarded Fellowships on the Clore Leadership Programme.
The Clore Leadership Programme, announced the twenty-three Clore Leadership Fellows for 2008/9 at a Conference at the Southbank Centre held on Thursday 5 June 2008. The announcement was made by the Director of the Clore Leadership Programme, the Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury, who said: “This will be the fifth group of Clore Fellows we’ve welcomed onto our Leadership Programme, and they are a truly impressive range of people from all parts of the cultural sector.”"
My fellowship is sponsored by NESTA – the National Endowment of Science, Technology and Arts. You can find out about them (and their Clore support) via this link: http://www.nesta.org.uk/nesta-supported-clore-2008-09-fellows-announced/
Yeah, and?
Well, this now means that I get all sorts of interesting offers.
For example, NESTA have just put out an ad for a new part-time creative industries research fellow position. They say:
“It would suit a researcher who wants to combine the fellowship with work at a university or a thinktank. We’re also open to someone coming in on secondment. On the offchance that you know of folk who might be interested in working with me at NESTA I am sending you the link (below).
http://www.nesta.org.uk/creative-industries-research-fellow/
It looks like a really interested opportunity to get to know NESTA and research the Creative Industries and get paid for it!
Exactly the type of opportunity that’s better here on our blog than in my inbox!
Helga
Hello,
It’s been a while since we set up the Fierce Earth blog, but there is a lot of interest in our work, a lot of news comes our way and we recieve a lot of useful information that I think might be more useful here on this blog than in my inbox. So we’re aiming to provide useful bits of info that are sent our way – opportunities, events, things we’re interested in and (sometimes) projects and plans that Fierce Earth wants your input on. So once you’ve seen what we have to offer, come back once or twice a week and see what’s new. We’ll endeavour to post stuff twice a week at least. If you have any questions or want to know more, just post a comment and we’ll get back to you.
Happy reading.
Helga from Fierce Earth
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