Breakthrough is a 6 ‑month employability programme designed as astepping stone to get you workplace experience and all-important employment skills. This short placement gives you insight into afuture career in the Creative Industry, supporting your confidence and professionalism in the workplace, and helping you to break through into acareer that matters toyou!
The Creative Programme Assistant role will be hands-on and varied. As we are afast paced, small organisation you will get to experience afull range of tasks. You will gain experience working within agallery space/open studio/research space dedicated to arts and mental health. You will work alongside people with lived experience and receive mentoring and support from the Director, Sarah Lloyd. You will be supported to gain transferable skills in gallery and arts administration and gain in-person experience working with the public. You will be shown how we use social media to promote activities and advocate for mental health and wellbeing. You will be involved in the delivery of creative festivals and our annual Design + Art Fair. You will gain experience of exhibition logistics and learn about evaluation, record keeping and sales. We will be able to align the role to help you with your long-term goals, ensuring you gain the experience you need for future employment whether that be curatorial, creative, managerial, administrative, communications etc…
This role could include assisting with:
* Assisting with workshops and events
* Recording visitor numbers and feedback
* Supporting evaluation activity when required
* Keeping the gallery space clean, tidy and organised
Exhibition support:
* Assisting with preparing exhibition and event materials
* Technician work such as Painting walls
* Exhibition planning and installation/de-installation
* Creating displays and general administrative tasks
Social Media/Website/Comms:
* Assisting with updating of FWF ’s website, LinkedIn and other platforms
* Designing and creating marketing materials
* Liaising with local press and submitting listings
* Documenting events and exhibitions
* Contributing/developing ideas for new social media content
About the employer
Fourth Wall Folkestone Community Interest Company is acreative space focused on art and themes of mental health and women’s health. Currently situated on The Old High Street in Folkestone, Kent; Fourth Wall Folkestone is open to all as either an informal gallery, open studio, or research space. We hold accessible events, workshops and exhibitions and we invite the local community to reimagine the role of art in society through creative activities and drop in events. The programme is curated by Sarah Lloyd: an artist, researcher, social activist and the Director of Fourth Wall Folkestone CIC. She believes all of us as humans are inherently creative and believes that an artist’s role is to inspire and facilitate creative thinking. She is passionate about learning through making. The ability of art to connect people together and shape community is what drives alot of her own artistic practice and therefore the programme at Fourth Wall Folkestone.
Deadline for applications
The deadline is 11 : 45 pm, on 17 August
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