Team Assistant - Leicester, United Kingdom - Art Reach

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Team Assistant

Application Pack

5pm, Monda y 8 May 2023

Dear Applicant,


Team Assistant
Thank you for your interest in Art Reach and the above position.

The Application Form and Equality Monitoring form can be downloaded at the following links:
The above should be submitted with your CV.

Equality of opportunity at Art Reach

Art Reach continuously strives to be an equal opportunities organisation and is committed to ensure equality of opportunity in all areas of its work.

Embedded within the company, Art Reach has the commitment to encourage, value and manage diversity and ensure that no person receives less favourable treatment.

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Welcome to Art Reach
Art Reach is an arts & cultural charity with big ambitions.

We are a diverse led organisation, based in Leicester, developing & delivering arts & cultural programmes with partners & through collaboration in Leicester and across the UK.

Our mission is:

Connecting Cultures through Extraordinary Art:

• We commission bold, ambitious art & festivals that bring people together, delivering activities & authentic experiences that unify art, audiences and cultures.
• We empower a range of artistic voices that excite & surprise with fresh energy and new ideas. Together we explore complex pasts, reshape the present, & imagine new futures. We celebrate the power of sanctuary, unleash expression, and tell extraordinary stories.
• Our programmes focus on presenting world class work that is rooted in the human experience, transforms outdoor spaces, and is impactful, inclusive and inspiring to local & international audiences.
• We are a values driven organisation committed to increasing understanding of current social issues (e.g., migration/sanctuary seeking) in a way that encourages compassion in our communities.

Why we do it
We believe that art brings people together. It entertains and moves us, challenges and educates us, together. We believe that shared experience of art starts conversations and helps us to understand one another better.

We know that our work can ignite imaginations and help people and communities to find their place in our cultural and creative landscape.

That great art can enable us to share lives, stories and entertainment


What we do

Art Reach delivers exceptional high quality innovative arts programmes across the UK & Europe: we pioneer new ways of working that stretch artistic boundaries, provide opportunities for sanctuary seeking artists and communities; and encourage new ways for audiences to engage with our work.

Alongside our cultural programmes, we support our work through earned income via our consultancy arm:
raising over £2million since 2018 for clients and Art Reach. From 2023, most of our programmes will be delivered outdoors, bringing the streets of Leicester to life.

Art Reach is an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation.

We value brave voic3e s and amplify them.


Our programmes

Journeys Festival International builds on the festivals 10-year history, growing our work exploring sanctuary seeker experience through great art with an international festival ranging from epic spectacular events to intimate experiences where audiences & artists meet.

At the core of the programme is work commissioned from sanctuary seeker artists or developed with sanctuary seeking communities. JFI will encourage a more humanitarian approach to develop understanding of the plight of those who seek sanctuary.

From 2023, JFI will be extended to prioritise commissioning work from underrepresented voices, with a particular focus on Global Majority, disabled & female artists.

Our aim is to have a festival programme which is gender identity balanced & at least 45% Global Majority artists.

The festival will take place over 3 days in summer annually in Leicester.

Re/action Festival is a new 2-day Art Reach festival, continuing our specialism in addressing contemporary issues, & building on key themes from Liberty festival.

Sanctuary seeking communities across the world tell stories of reusing & making do & our communities of refugees & asylum seekers will be indispensable to our new festival.

The festival will be centred on art/artists unique position as inspirers to action who encourage change.

The festival will commission new artwork which addresses the climate emergency, showcase local, ethical traders & food, share skills, offer workshops in repurposing/reusing, & celebrate

Leicester's diversity.

The festival will focus on how we can make changes which add up to a big difference for the future of our planet.

Building on our Liberty Changemakers programme, young people will be key to the festival:
as drivers activists & producers. The festival will take place in annually in Leicester with new collaborations and partnerships from Leicester, UK and Europe.

Platforma is an arts & refugee network which supports & develops arts & culture by about & with refugees & migrants, led by Counterpoints Arts.

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