[cma-l] Opportunity for festival correspondent position - £1K award based Bristol

[Tamar Millen]

For information - opportunity to report from an arts festival in Bristol.


NWN and Inbetween Time 10 Festival Correspondent Bursary
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 5pm on Wednesday 17 November 2010

http://www.newworknetwork.org.uk/modules/opportunities/viewopp.php?oppid=1828

Can You Drop Everything, Pack Your Kit, Tune in and Report Back from the 
Frontline of Live Art?

New Work Network in association with Inbetween Time Productions is 
offering a Bursary for a Correspondent to report from the Inbetween Time 
10 Festival, Bristol, UK from 1-5 Dec 2010

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 5pm on Wednesday 17 November 2010

In association with Inbetween Time Productions, New Work Network (NWN) 
is offering a bursary of £1000 to support a creative response to the 
role of being a correspondent from the Inbetween Time 10 Festival to be 
held in Bristol from 1-5 December 2010.

Inbetween Time 10 is an international arts festival that will take over 
the streets, sites and arts spaces of Bristol and will include live, 
dance, digital, music, architectural and sculptural works by 130 artists 
from as far afield as Mexico, Australia, Austria, Germany, Serbia, 
Belgium, US and from all over the UK. New Work Network is a national, 
membership organisation that supports the development of new 
performance, live and interdisciplinary practice through activities that 
focus on networking, exchange and collaboration.

A correspondent is often in a situation where they have to work fast, 
respond immediately to unfolding dramas, be opportunistic and yet 
navigate complex moral challenges, different cultural perspectives and 
social mores. Keeping the public informed through reporting what they 
consider newsworthy, correspondents find themselves having a direct 
experience of the context but also the responsibility to describe and 
distribute their understanding and perceptions of that context to others.

A series of formats and sources of correspondence have been used 
individually or collectively such as: interviewing, image capturing, 
live commentary and written news stories. Recently the traditional 
formats of press and television correspondence have been challenged 
through the opportunities that new technologies and Web 2.0 provide for 
new forms of correspondence and commentary. This has resulted in new 
perceptions of who can be an eyewitness, how events are documented, how 
correspondence is distributed and how communities of interest (physical 
and virtual) as readers, recipients, hosts and co-participants relate 
with correspondence.

NWN offers this bursary to investigate what role a correspondent may 
play, what formats of correspondence may be developed, and how 
correspondence may be distributed from the complexity and intensity of a 
festival environment that focuses on presenting challenging art.

http://www.newworknetwork.org.uk 
http://www.inbetweentime.co.uk


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Tamar Millen
Arts Coordinator
Community Media Association
15 Paternoster Row
Sheffield
S1 2BX
0114 2795219

www.commedia.org.uk