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Activate is recruiting for a dynamic new outdoor events & celebrations team and embracing cross art form disciplines

Outdoor Events & Celebrations Manager - £30,000, F/T 2 year fixed term contract

Festival Producer for Inside Out 2010 - £25,000 pro rata, P/T 9 month fixed term contract

Festival Producer for B-Side Multi-Media Festival 2010 - £25,000 pro rata, P/T 12 month fixed term contract

Carnival / Processions Co-ordinator - £25,000 pro rata P/T 18 months fixed term contract

We are looking for imaginative, experienced and committed people to work in outdoor events and celebrations across Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole. Two major festivals, commissions, carnival and professional development make up a major new area of work in the county. The Cultural Olympiad and the Jurassic Coast offer an important canvas on which to work. Take a look at the roles and get in touch with us if you have the skills and enthusiasm to take up the challenge.

For full details on a particular post then please download a pack (cover letter and job description in PDF form) from the links below or contact Activate on: 01202 884340 or email: info@activateperformingarts.org.uk

Closing date for applications: 5pm Monday 8 February 2010

Interviews to be held: 22-25 February 2010

Click on this link to download a general cover letter

Click on this link to download the Outdoor Events & Celebrations Manager job description

Click on this link to download the Inside Out Festival Producer job description

Click on this link to download the B-Side Festival Producer job description

Click on this link to download the Carnival / Processions Co-ordinator job description

Activate is an equal opportunities employer. Activate is funded by Arts Council England South West, Dorset County Council, Bournemouth Borough Council and Borough of Poole and is a member of Dance South West and Theatre South West. Outdoor work has also received extra funding from the Dorset Strategic Partnership, Inside Out Festival, National Lottery, B-Side Festival and Jurassic Coast .

Bookings now being taken for Stan Won’t Dance Boys Workshop

Age 15+

18 February 2010

10.30 – 12.30am

Function Room 1, Lighthouse Poole's Centre for the Arts

£4.00

Led by two members of Stan Won't Dance, you will gain an insight into the company’s creative and devising processes. Using both physically and vocal techniques participants will explore the integration of movement with text.

Our workshops are highly physical, we employ a mixture of movement and dance styles from contact partnering to martial arts, from boot camp to yoga and the themes we explore are issue based. We create work because we want to make a comment on issues that effect our lives in contemporary Britain.

If you would like to book a place then please contact the Lighthouse box office on 0844 406 8666

Akram Khan Dance Workshop

Internationally renowned and award winning Akram Khan Dance Company will be visiting the Lighthouse, Poole in March, and post graduates dancers, dance practitioners and dance teachers are invited to participate in one of their bespoke workshops.

Activate, are organising the workshop, which takes place at Bournemouth and Poole College on Thursday 25th March from 12.15pm to 2pm and is open to any professional dancers for free provided they have booked a ticket for the show.

Find out more

Stage Manager Call Out

NEW MUSICAL ‘LOOSE CHANGE’ REQUIRES A STAGE MANAGER

- Experience required

- Good level of commitment needed.

- Rehearsals March to October 2010.

‘Loose Change’ is based in a 1950’s basement club in London. Set to a jazz-blues style soundtrack, the story focus on a club singer whose life gets trapped in the bottle. Will she face ruin or escape from its clutches?

Written by Lisa Gaye Wright

Directed by Eileen Rawlings

To be shown at local venues, including the Lighthouse Studio in Autumn/Winter 2010.

Please note this position is unpaid.

If you have any questions or would like any further information then please call 01202 776390 or 07922 127105

Elevate 2010 - A great success and a fantastic evening.

On Saturday 9th January 2010 Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts, hosted the 2nd Elevate U.Dance Platform for Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole. The event was a celebration of youth dance bringing together 200 young people from across the sub-region to perform in a showcase of youth dance. The young people also had the opportunity to take part in workshops with professional artists in Capoeira and West African dance throughout the day.

The platform welcomed 12 youth dance groups from across the sub-region with participants’ ages ranging from 7 to 21 years old. Each group performed original dance performances displaying an eclectic mix of dance styles; contemporary, hip hop, street, tap and physical theatre. The evening performance was a full house and we have received excellent feedback. Congratulations to all of the group leaders and young people who took part and thank you for making Elevate 2010 such a success!

A professionally filmed DVD of the Elevate performance is available to purchase priced at £6. If you would like to order a copy please contact Activate Performing Arts on 01202884340 or e-mail info@activateperformingarts.org.uk

UK HIP HOP DANCE CHAMPIONSHIPS - SOUTHERN REGION

Sunday 31st January at Carrington House Hotel.

Competition open to to ages 7 - adults.

Competition time is 12 - 4pm.

Go to www.beatcompany.com for more information

A New Cabaret by Double Act Disability Theatre

Bournemouth-based Double Act Disability Theatre* is about to tour an exciting cabaret show to schools and community venues over the winter season. UK’s leading disabled comic and actor, Mat Fraser has joined forces with Double Act
and other Dorset-based theatre makers to create a new piece of theatre.

Whirling Dog Superstars Show is a new departure for the group. Instead of devising a full-length play, this Revue-style format features short interludes of drama, dance, comedy, singing, music and poetry – as well as moments of audience
participation.

Showing:
Wed 3rd Feb at Bridport Arts Centre at 1 pm
Friday 12th Feb at Dorchester Arts Centre at 7.30 pm

For more info contact me on this e-mail or Double Act info@doubleacttheatre.co.uk or phone 0797 2480 967

Return to Dancing Nepal Exhibition

The exhibit details the journey taken by the Queen's Gurkha Signals soldiers, based in Blandford Forum and their families as they travel from Nepal to a very different life in Dorset.

1st May - 22nd May 2010

Red House Museum and Gardens, Christchurch- 01202482860

The film created by Martin Coyne of the fanastic 11th July Return to Dancing Nepal event at The Blandford School is now available to view on YouTube. Please follow the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/user/martincoyne1#play/all/uploads-all/1/HTB9hkoO4fE

The Marketing Map

The Marketing Map shows you the way to simplify marketing.

A fold out toolkit you can pin to the wall of your office or studio.

A simple action plan of what to do when.

Saving you money, time and stress.

Go to our Resources page for more information

FREE THEATRE FOR UNDER 26 YEAR OLDS

From 16th February 2009 Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts will be giving away 40 tickets a week to under 26 years olds on Thursdays as part of 'A Night Less Ordinary',

Go to the Youth focus page to find out more

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