Lighting Intern, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival
About The Position
About BRIC: 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. BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! is NYC’s longest-running, free performance festival, and a beloved summer tradition featuring approximately 25 varied large-scale performances and attracting upwards of 200,000 people each summer to the Prospect Park Bandshell. About the Lighting Intern Role: The purpose of this internship is to provide support to the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! production team throughout a summer of performing arts programming at the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park. The team is committed to high-level production values and safety, and the Production Intern is expected to contribute to a positive artist, audience, and co-worker experience. Educational Benefits: The Lighting intern will learn to operate production equipment in a live setting, gain insight into the day-to-day lighting and production operations of a performing arts festival, and expand on the Intern’s academic studies through practical experience in a professional environment.
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.
- Rising college senior or recent graduate from a theater/entertainment technology program preferred.
- Candidates must be reliable, committed, willing to work the entire summer production schedule, self-motivated, and possess strong interpersonal skills.
- Commitment to Equity & Inclusion : Brings experience operationalizing equity within the Performing Arts and or Hospitality function.
Nice To Haves
- Some experience working in production for live events is preferred.
- We are looking for someone full of energy who is willing to learn and do whatever it takes to get the job done!
- The Production Intern will be very hands-on and an organized self-starter which will take part in making the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn come to life.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with the Production Coordinator, Technical Director, Stage Manager, Lighting Director, Audio Engineers and other staff.
- Coordinate and implement lighting technical needs.
- Operate production lighting equipment during shows.
- Assist with hang and focus of lights.
- Assist with artist load-in.
- Help to coordinate artists’ lighting and/or video requirements.
- Assist BRIC electrician leads/team with lighting focus, circuiting and troubleshooting electrical problems with lighting grid.
- Act as follow-spot operator during show.
- Create and log applicable reports (wrap-up, event overviews, etc) for BCB leads.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
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