ATC Participation Co-ordinator
PARTICIPATION COORDINATOR
Auckland Theatre Company is seeking a fulltime Participation Coordinator to develop, co-ordinate and deliver the diverse range of activities and events which make up ATC PARTICIPATE.
Active involvement with the theatre company is at the heart of ATC PARTICPATE. The focus of the programme is to support lifelong learning by creating meaningful experiences for, by and with the diverse range of communities Auckland Theatre Company engages with.
ATC PARTICIPATE comprises annual and one-off events, including outreach programmes, workshops, and long-term community development projects. By creating opportunities for engagement and ownership the programme is designed to support the development of new work and build new audiences.
Although in its first year, there is scope for development. Specific strands to the current programme include Backstage Story, Open Days, Open Rehearsals, School Holiday shows, a Community Show, Masterclasses, Community Workshops, Play Readings and the Next Stage Festival.
Auckland Theatre Company is one of New Zealand’s leading theatre companies, staging a mainbill programme of seven to eight productions per year. The Company has a highly regarded education and schools programme, as well as a dedicated literary unit for the development of new work. ATC PARTICPATE sits alongside and incorporates work undertaken by both ATC EDUCATION and ATC LITERARY.
For further information and a copy of the full job description please contact Sue East at sue@atc.co.nz
Closing date for applications is 4 February 2011.
Ability to co-ordinate the roll out of community programmes
Auckland Theatre Company
PO Box 96002
Balmoral
Auckland 1342
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Auckland Theatre CompanyAuckland Theatre Company is the largest professional theatre company in New Zealand. Over the last 16 years Auckland Theatre Company has enjoyed its position as the most popular producer of professional theatre in Auckland. Through its mainbill season of seven or eight plays (over 70 performances annually), the Company has audiences of over 75,000 drawn from throughout the Auckland region.
Auckland Theatre Company is the only theatre company in New Zealand with a dedicated Literary Unit. In 2008 Auckland Theatre Company will commission new plays as well as support the development of more than 10 other plays through monthly playreadings and THE NEXT STAGE workshop series of semi-staged readings.
Auckland Theatre Company serves the Auckland community by providing school matinees, in-school workshops, community workshops, script and professional development activities.
Auckland Theatre Company's Education Unit undertakes a number of community outreach initiatives, which bring the Company into direct contact with the region's young people.
10,000 students from schools throughout the greater Auckland region are able to experience the best of professional theatre in New Zealand. ATC Education Unit demonstrates the Company's forward-looking approach to nurture theatre audiences for the future.
Auckland Theatre Company is a flagship creative company for Auckland and New Zealand. As professional producers of live performance, the Company delivers emotional experiences.
Auckland Theatre Company's work excites, thrills, challenges,provokes, amuses, educates, transports and transforms our audience.
Auckland Theatre Company is committed to creating and providing,gutsy and fervently New Zealand experiences that transport audiences to another world – and make audiences reflect on their own worlds.
Live performance transforms people - it is a unique, intimate and social experience.
