Are you an arts lover aged 15 to 21?
We’re looking for a group of ten young arts aficionados to be our Festival Makers for this year’s WHY? You would be working with Southbank Centre and the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra to programme one of the festival’s flagship concerts in Royal Festival Hall.
WHY? What's Happening for the Young takes place for the third time from 19 to 23 October 2016. The festival celebrates the rights of children and young people everywhere, and explores how under-18s can influence the world around them.
Whether your passion is music, theatre, dance, poetry, spoken word or any other art form, this is an opportunity for you to have your creative ideas heard and to work with industry professionals.
What would you do with the Royal Festival Hall (which has over 2,500 seats) and the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra at your disposal? Which artists, groups and speakers inspire you? Which themes and issues affecting young people would you choose to explore through arts and music? This is your chance to lead the creative process behind a show that uses the arts for social change.
You can also gain skills in artistic programming, artist liaison, marketing and budgeting while working alongside Southbank Centre and Â鶹ԼÅÄ arts programmers and producers.
To be one of our ten WHY? Festival Makers, please follow the link to the application form by Monday 28 March. We'll then be in touch with you by Friday 1 April to let you know whether or not you have been chosen as a WHY? Festival Maker.
The first meeting takes place at Southbank Centre on Thursday 7 April from 5pm to 7pm. Subsequent meetings will be scheduled shortly after, based on group availability.
The project as a whole takes place between April and October 2016 at Southbank Centre and the Â鶹ԼÅÄ.
It is free to take part in this project.
If you have any questions, please email festivalmakers@southbankcentre.co.uk
This project is a partnership between Southbank Centre and the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra.
