Job: Marketing & Digital Coordinator, London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT)
Application deadline: 10am, Monday 31 July
Interviews: w/c 7 August
Salary: £22,000 per annum
Contract: Full time, permanent position (following a 6 week probationary period)
Authors Donate Towards Auction for Grenfell Tower
Authors, together with agents and editors, are coming together for an online auction to help those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.
All 120 flats of the West London block were destroyed in the blaze last Wednesday (14th June), with the death toll currently standing at 58 and expected to rise.
Forest Fringe Announces Transition From Their Edinburgh Venue
A bittersweet announcement was made by experimental arts organisation Forest Fringe, who will no longer run a venue at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and will instead run a monthly arts club at Somerset House to help develop future projects.
A statement published on their website says the new project could be a film, a new venue or possibly even the beginning of a new political party.
The Nursery Theatre Opens For Applications for Nursery Originals
The Nursery Theatre ran a hugely successful crowdfunding campaign to open a new improv theatre space, which opened this month in Broadgate. The team have recently announced that applications for their new Autumn project Nursery Originals are open.
Chris Mead, Co-Artistic Director says:
MARKETING INTERN at The Almeida Theatre
The Almeida Theatre have an exciting opportunity to join our Marketing Department as an intern for a six month period. You will work with the full team and across a range of marketing functions, including working with databases and social media.
This internship will appeal to you if you have an enthusiasm for theatre and an interest in developing your skills in arts marketing and audience development. We are looking for someone who is friendly and approachable and with a keen eye for detail.
Kickstarter: Know Your Place - Essays on the Working Class By the Working Class
Dead Ink Books is crowdfunding for Know Your Place - a collection of essays about the working class, written by the working class.
Edinburgh International Festival Launches Mentorship Scheme
Edinburgh International Festival is launching a mentorship scheme for emerging cultural leaders.
Celebrating the festival’s 70th anniversary, the scheme will allow successful applicants to work with festival director Fergus Linehan and managing director Joanna Baker to gain first-hand experience of running EIF.
Job: Press and Relations Manager at The Almeida Theatre
Almeida Theatre are recruiting for a Press & Media Relations Manager to join their Marketing & Communications team. They are looking for a dynamic individual to manage the theatre’s significant relationships with the media, further establishing the Almeida as a key cultural organisation, shaping their public narrative locally and internationally, and supporting the marketing strategy in delivering sales and audience development objectives.
Further Information: almeida.co.uk
Kickstarter: 'David Hoyle: Parallel Universe' - A Photobook by Holly Revell
PARALLEL UNIVERSE is a limited edition book of photography and artworks emerging from the intimate eight-year collaboration between avant-garde queer performance legend David Hoyle and acclaimed London performance photographer Holly Revell.