MuBu Advert
FREELANCE DIGITAL WRITER –IN–RESIDENCE
£5000 fee one day per week
Writing East Midlands is looking for a published writer, with strong familiarity of the East Midlands, to work ‘in residence’ across an exciting, digitally based project.
Museum Buddies (MuBu) celebrates and supports the innovative audience engagement projects within East Midlands’ museums, by providing a network for training and skills sharing, generating new audiences through social media, and enabling audiences to interact with collections to re-interpret them for the 21st Century.
Our Digital Writer-in-Residence will act as the project champion by visiting and becoming knowledgeable about MuBu projects in museums around the region, maintaining an entertaining and informative blog about the projects, working with other MuBu artists and writers to generate content for the MuBu website http://www.mubu.org.uk and by adding creative value to the project team.
The successful candidate will have:
• Proven literary ability evidenced by a history of performance and/or public outputs
• Experience of blogging and/or delivering online content
• Sensitivity and understanding of community arts programmes
• An appreciation of cross art forms
• The ability to talk about their work and experiences to groups of varying sizes and backgrounds
• Sensitivity to the special demands of working with diversity and across generations (CRB registration is essential)
• The capacity to act as an advocate for the value and benefits of the project, and to the connection between arts and heritage
• An interest in/experience of working with heritage/archive material and in archive/library/heritage environments.
• Strong familiarity of the East Midlands
It is envisaged that this position will require a time commitment of one day per week between August 2010 and February 2011. A fee of £5000 is available.
Interested writers should send a letter of application, creative CV and short work samples (1200 words max) to antonia@writingeastmidlands.co.uk by 5pm on Monday 19th July. Interviews will be in Nottingham on Thursday 29th July.
Please read the full brief here http://writingeastmidlands.co.uk/services/professional/residencies/mubu/brief_2/
To discuss the position call Henderson on 07903 187868
