OPPORTUNITY: Creative Futures Project Co-Ordinator

Newhampton Arts Centre is looking for a project co-ordinator to plan and deliver a weekly Saturday visual arts workshop programme for 12-16’s in Wolverhampton from autumn 2024- summer 2025.

Newhampton Arts Centre has been awarded funding by The Eveson Trust and Trusthouse Foundation to develop a weekly visual arts programme for 12-16 year olds in Wolverhampton. The aims of the programme are:

● To inspire young people’s creative work and develop their skills, confidence and knowledge in visual arts practice in its widest sense.
● To create a safe, social and constructive environment that young people feel at home in.

Newhampton Arts Centre is Wolverhampton’s busy community arts centre, situated a stone’s throw from the Molineux just outside the city centre. It programmes approximately 100 live events in the theatre annually, has a programme of weekly courses and classes, and also a developing participatory and outreach programme including Holiday Activities Fund events; the #LOVETHEREANS Festival; and during 2024 the Wolverhampton Urban Rooms. NAC is a National Portfolio Organisation of Arts Council England.

TO APPLY:

To apply please respond to this tender with a written response that should include:

• Relevant professional or equivalent experience, particularly project management and work with young people.

• A description of a sample Saturday session that you or an artist would deliver for a group of 16 12-16’s, including what the content would be and what the young people would have learnt by the end of the session.

Please send your response to admin@newhamptonarts.co.uk no later than 12:00 noon on Monday 7 October. Interviews will be on Friday 11 October at NAC so please ensure you are available on this date when you respond.

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