Artist Services Intern BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival
About The Position
BRIC is a leading arts and media institution anchored in Downtown Brooklyn whose work spans contemporary visual and performing arts, media, and civic action. For over forty years, BRIC has shaped Brooklyn’s cultural and media landscape by presenting and incubating artists, creators, students, and media makers. As a creative catalyst for their community, BRIC ignites learning in people of all ages and centralizes diverse voices that take risks and drive culture forward. BRIC is building Brooklyn’s creative future. About the Artist Services Intern BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Role: BRIC seeks an Artist Services Intern who will support the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! team by ensuring each artist has a superb experience working with BRIC and assisting with various aspects of concert production and artist relations. The Artist Services Intern will be an organized self-starter who is excited and passionate about music and the arts, as they will gain first-hand live event experience at one of New York’s premiere summer music festivals. This intern will see the administrative process before, during, and after the festival, and be closely involved in every show. Through this experience the intern will gain valuable skills related to talent management, contract administration, and event production.
Requirements
- Mission & Values Alignment : A passion for BRIC’s support of the arts in Brooklyn and a deep commitment to building community, igniting learning and making change through the arts and creativity.
- Experience & Qualifications:
- Bachelors, Masters, or currently pursuing degree in related field
- Self-directed and proactive, self-starter and a problem solver
- Highly organized with sharp attention to detail
- Upholds a strict level of confidentiality
- Outgoing and friendly with strong interpersonal and verbal skills
- Enthusiasm for engaging with the public onsite, with utmost professionalism
- Knowledge and keen interest in music and the performing arts
- Computer literate, especially with Google Workspace apps
- Physical Demands:
- Ability to lift up to 30 pounds
- Willingness to work outdoors, early mornings, late nights, long days, and weekend shifts, and to work in inclement weather.
- Ability to stand and move around venue space for several hours at a time
Responsibilities
- Collect and organize Artist materials in internal filing systems
- Assist in the creation of pre-show playlists
- Send out finalized ROS to BRIC internal teams before every show
- Coordinate (pre-show) and manage (on-site) Artist and VIP Guest Lists and check-in
- Assist with artist arrivals (load-in) and departures (load-out)
- Assist in the distribution of photos and video to Artists
- Support the administrative work of the BCB producing team
Benefits
- Participate in multiple aspects of performing arts administration
- Learn how to process, organize, and track artist contracts & payments
- Participate in weekly Performing Arts team meetings
- Learn how to interface with other departments to complete longer-term projects/tasks
- Gain first-hand event experience, both front of house and backstage as an artist liaison
- Assist in the development of relationships with artists and provide additional support for rehearsals, performances, and performing arts operations to ensure high-quality artist/audience experience and production values
- Play a key role in VIP guest entry and general guest experience at festival
- Learn about objectives and goals in a multidisciplinary Brooklyn-based arts organization, and one of the most well-established summer festivals in New York.
- Meals provided on show days.
- College students pursuing credit for this internship can also be supported.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Intern
