www.newcontinental.org.uk

They Eat Culture Jobs

Interested in developing creative and cultural opportunities in
Lancashire?

Creative Workshop Leaders & Assistants

They Eat Culture, an innovative arts organisation working from a studio
theatre space at The Continental in Preston, Lancashire,  are looking
for a range of individuals who can deliver exciting and stimulating
workshops in the arts. We run several ongoing programmes and look to
bring together a dynamic series of supplementary workshops, including
family friendly and teen workshops alongside creative workshops for
adults.

This is a general call out: if you have a creative skill and experience
in workshop provision or teaching then please do get in touch. We are
also looking for workshop assistants who are likely to be recent
graduates with good creative skills but no teaching experience. If you
fit the bill, we’ll get you to come and show us your work and explain
your workshop ideas. We’ll then add you to our database and bring your
work into our wider programme.

Who we provide workshops for:
Under 11’s; 11-14’s; 14-18; 18-25’s, adults, third age
Those who are wanting to work with under 18’s need to speak to us about
CRB checking. Your work also needs to relate to the national curriculum,
although we have skills to be able to assist you with this.

What we programme at The Continental:
Touring studio theatre; family work; non-mainstream cinema; comedy;
literature; modern music; jazz; curated art exhibitions. We also run
cultural outreach projects around social inclusion, media literacy and
writing. Our programmme can be found at www.newcontinental.net and after
refurb work will be restarted in September for the Autumn season.

What we’re interested in:
Anything! Plus: Graphic Art / Comix; Fashion; Filmmaking; Guerrilla
gardening; Hipster craft; Photography; Theatre; Stand up; Visual Art;
Writing; Zine making.

Pay: Workshop leaders - dependent on creative & teaching experience.
Workshop assistants - £7.50 per hour.

Please send a brief workshop outline & approximate costings (for
workshop leaders) plus your CV including examples of your work (just
this for workshop assistants) either by post or through email with
supporting weblinks to: info@theyeatculture.org.
Please note on the email if you’d like to apply for Workshop Leader or
Workshop Assistant

Closing date for Autumn programme June 18th
Interviews will take place w/c 24th June

Postal Address- TEC Workshops, The Continental, South Meadow Lane,
Preston, PR1 8JP

www.newcontinental.net // www.theyeatculture.org //
www.lancashirewritinghub.co.uk

Associate Artists

The Associate Artists scheme provides access to facilities, space, and development opportunities, and results in creative relationships.

Associate & Resident artists are given opportunities to develop and
present work & projects in association with the Continental Arts Space / They Eat Culture as a creative agency, in order to help achieve the overall aims of They Eat Culture and the aims of the individual artist. They are encouraged to develop useful relationship with other associate artists and outside public, private, and grassroots organisations.

Intellectual Property is negotiated to support both the artists’ and the company’s needs. Associate & Resident Artists have access to creative, marketing, events, and administrative support and facilities at the Continental Arts Space / They Eat Culture. Associate Artists are unpaid, and tend to work on a negotiated project or a loosely linked creative facilitation basis, and are encouraged and assisted to seek project funding. Residencies can grow out of Associate Artists creative relationships. Resident Artists are invited into The Continental Arts Space & They Eat Culture to work on a <12-month project-specific funded residency basis. Current associate artists include Jenn Ashworth
(literature).

Please contact Ruth Heritage for further information
ruth@theyeatculture.org

Volunteering

Volunteers are an integral part of the work we do at They Eat Culture and in the Continental Arts Space, and we appreciate and value the help that volunteers give us. Because volunteers want to help us, we want the volunteering process to help them in their career or personal objectives, and to reflect their interests.

We can offer volunteer roles across our work, but primarily in specific
projects (such as the Writing or Family project strands), events coordination, programming, technical events work, and marketing/press. Within these broad areas we can arrange a whole range of volunteering experience from entry level to project management level. We aim to help develop our volunteers’ experience with their work and personal goals in mind and so we will ensure that the volunteering process is managed from entry to exit. The volunteering you will undertake with us is determined by how much time you can commit to, the type of volunteering you want to do, and the skills we need.   

Volunteers can undertake work on an ongoing basis or on a project or time specific basis. Volunteers may come to us because they are interested in the organisation and would like to work alongside us to develop their skills. TEC may go on recruitment drives to find volunteers who are interested in specific skill sets or areas of work.

Example volunteer placements

Assisting on the Controversity series of events: assisting with programming research, event coordination, technical assistance (ie sound or lighting),
Online marketing assistant: helping with web 2.0 marketing, updating the
website, theatre lighting or sound volunteer: assisting visiting theatre
companies with their lighting or sound needs (some technical experience needed).

For further information contact Robyn Talbot

robyn@newcontinental.net