Skilled Skateboarding Artist
We are seeking a skilled skateboarding artist to deliver a series of drop-in workshops for the local skateboarding community at skateparks in West Cumbria. These sessions will offer participants the chance to learn skateboarding skills in a relaxed, welcoming and inclusive environment.
The artist will work with whoever attends on the day, sharing their skateboarding skills and encouraging participation. These sessions are a chance to build a connection with the local skateboarding community. We’re interested in using this as a starting point for a conversation: to find out if there’s demand for regular sessions and explore what the community would like to see happen in the future.
For full details and how to apply download our job pack here.
Remuneration
Location: Workington Skatepark
Fee: Artist fee (£1000) 3 x delivery days, 1/2 day planning, 1/2 day post-project debrief
Contract Type: Freelance / fixed-term
Reporting to: Everyone Here team (Production Lead / Artistic Director)
Contact email: jenny@everyonehere.org
Please apply by 11:59PM on Friday 3rd October to jenny@everyonehere.org
Everyone Here’s methodology to ensure community empowerment and voice includes the following elements:
Inclusive and empowering governance process – adaptation of Citizens Assembly model to arts and cultural context, giving communities more control through decision-making and participatory budgeting.
Co-creation: Develop arts and cultural events and activities with communities reflecting West Cumbria’s unique circumstances, perspectives and requirements based on the information gathered from the community during Jury for Joy and other satellite events such as Local Leaders, Youth Jury for Joy and Green Spaces.
Building capacity: identifying community leaders and local creative and cultural activity and provide support to amplify their efforts and boost participation.
Asset-based approach: Value the experience of West Cumbrians and build on the assets and infrastructure that are already here. We have through our first cycle mapped and engaged cultural and creative groups delivering activities (see attached business plan) and developed relationships with organisations including Rosehill, Prism Arts, Florence Arts, and Theatre by the Lake, The Centre at Maryport to widen access and build on their ACE-funded activity.This will include programming events and seasons at Theatre by the Lake and Rose Hill Arts Centre respectively.
Involve and include the community: Include a variety of people in the project, not just those who are most vocal or have the most resources, positively target under-represented groups. Collective action strengthens peoples’ voices and a sense of place and belonging.
Action research: we have embedded an innovative model of Community Evaluation using arts based methods to inform our approach to action learning.
Partnering with public bodies and community stakeholders: Work with a range of organisations to maximise and coordinate efforts to empower communities. We are working in deep connection with University of Central Lancaster as learning partners to develop slow thinking with and alongside regional and national networks that will inform the west cumbrian experience directly.
Ambition and Excellence: Ensuring excellence and relevance in how we include and engage people in the project and within the creative and cultural experiences developed. We will do this through the expertise, knowledge and connectivity of our delivery team who have local, national and international experience of world leading arts and creativity.
EH is the first CPP nationally to co-opt the existing methods of citizens assemblies and citizens juries and apply them within an arts and cultural programme context. We have worked with experts Citizens in Power, to develop our innovative ‘Jury for Joy’ model, a long-term sustainable decision-making structure for West Cumbria that is responsible for our programming budget. The pool of potential jury members was determined through a sortition process. Jury for Joy members (currently 28 members) were selected using attitudinal and demographic sampling to ensure that they are broadly representative of the wider population, this was undertaken by Sortition Foundation the country’s leading experts in democratic sortition. The Jury meet twice a year with ongoing go-see visits and remote check-ins.
The Jury uses a deliberative process to draw out people’s views on creativity and culture. A deliberative approach means one that helps the participants to learn about the topic, consider all sides of a question and discuss their views. Deliberation means weighing up an issue as a whole. In order to do this, you have to consider evidence and life experience from all sides of the issue. This requires a listening and learning approach, and everyone to explore each other’s ideas and seek to understand each other’s motivations. Our Jury for Joy provides time, space and support to empower people to lead decisions about the creativity and culture they would like to see and do experience and engage with.