Experience Opportunity

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Beyond Face CIC and Strike A Light have joined forces to create a 5 month program that will develop and identify people from the Global Majority who want to become theatre practitioners or develop their current skill set to an excellent standard through a range of paid training opportunities in the South West.

Our current theatre practitioners help us create theatrical performances with young people and communities, through a series of workshops, drama based games and devising techniques. A theatre practitioner is someone who can implement creative strategies to develop a creative outcome be it through co-created work, devised or scripted work.

Each successful applicant will work across both organisations on an individually tailored program with the addition of also working with our associate Travelling Light Theatre based in Bristol.

With a commitment to the equivalent of 12 days in person contact time spread across the 5 months, this is an opportunity that will have set masterclass days but aims to work around your life and commitments.

Key details

  • 12 Face-to-Face training days
  • £1,200 Fee + travel expenses
  • Based in Bristol, Gloucester, Plymouth and Exeter – must be willing to travel between locations
  • Deadline for applications: Monday 14 October, noon
Requirements

We are looking for 4 candidates from the Global Majority based in Gloucester, Bristol, Devon (and surrounding areas) to take part in a programme for practitioners designed to upskill in facilitation and workshop design in theatre. We are looking for people who are currently engaged in the creative industries already.

Examples
• Are still in early stages of practitioner work i.e have been assisting for a year?
• You could be a dance artist wanting to become multidisciplinary and look at how your skill set can be transferred into a theatre setting.
• A spoken word artist wanting to learn how to run workshops and see how your form can be used to make a theatre piece with young people.
• You may have been part of a youth company and want to learn how you can be the person running the room instead.
• A student graduating, interested in teaching but not sure you want to go into a traditional education system.
• Unsure you want to go into further education but feel passionate about working with young people?

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