Lewisham Youth Theatre is now recruiting for our annual Facilitator Training Programme, a free, hands-on training and employment opportunity for young adults aged 18–25 based in South London who are interested in youth work, creative facilitation, and making a positive impact in their community.
Trainee Facilitator's will:
- Get 12 days of FREE training across 3 weeks
- Develop practical facilitation skills, knowledge and confidence working with young people
- Gain an accredited facilitation qualification
- Receive mentoring and support with your career progression
- Get paid work experience delivering drama workshops in schools
- Join our freelancer pool and get access to ongoing paid opportunities with LYT
We're looking for people who are:
- Aged 18-25
- Living in or local to Lewisham
- Not currently in education, employment, or training
- From under represented groups in the arts (e.g. working class, global majority, neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+)
- Receiving Universal credit (UC) and Job seekers allowance (JSA)
Our introductory training course covering HDTV, film and theatre makeup and hair, along with hairdressing and barbering techniques.
Learn the essential skills you need to carve out a career as a professional makeup artist with our Foundation Certificate course. You’ll cover all the areas that you need to start your journey as a makeup and hair artist capable of working on film, TV and theatre productions.
Throughout this full time 14 week course you’ll gain an understanding of the key skills required by any makeup artist, from understanding the basics of makeup application, to creating inspired period and character looks and gory special effects. This course also includes experience working with facial hair application, body painting and basic barbering.
Our course tutors are extremely passionate about their industry, and you will learn from their endless knowledge. They have many years’ experience working on some of the best known films and TV productions in recent years. They will introduce you to the latest products and techniques that are relevant to today’s industry, so you can be sure you will be learning from the best.
Holidays of one to four weeks may be scheduled during your course at appropriate times and, therefore, the duration of your time with us could last from 15 to 18 weeks.
