Overview
About the opportunity
The Phoenix Cultural Centre CIC is a non profit, non affiliated, community founded and led organisation for touring and local emerging musicians, spoken word artists, writers, comedians, open mics, creative workshops, exhibitions, meetings, creative start up business space. It houses 250cap Fiery Bird Live Music Venue, 60 cap Public Living Room with spaces around the building for meetings, exhibitions & a community garden.
Get in touch to discuss a visit for your school or college throughout the month of November
A visit could start a project on how to stage an event or they can run a focus group on informing the programming, a piece of community action or placemaking for communities in towns that students can develop. They can use the venue as a case study for a variety of outcomes and disciplines.
Schools/Colleges can engage from a one off general visit to a focus group to contribute ideas. There are more specific things ie find out how to start a community cultural organisation, the skills needed to run a live music venue and arts space and the different careers that can be followed as well as the career opportunities it can bring in the future. Volunteers have gone on to do specialist degrees in sound engineering, lighting design, touring Europe engineering bands in their holidays, found their own community organisations or been involved at Board level on ours (our youngest Board member was 17) become involved in national government funded Research & Development projects bringing new technologies.
There are a number of trades and skills involved as well as the opportunity to promote social purpose initiatives using creativity and creative spaces. We work with adults from SEN specialist providers, refugees who have recently settled, youth groups etc. People use their local creative spaces to gain valuable experience for their future careers whether in self employment ie engineers, photographers, artists or civic action or associated careers - marketing, maintenance etc. A town centre venue also has a place in planning and placemaking so people interested in architecture & design and town planning. Also accessibility to cultural spaces for all.
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