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Portland Inn Project is rooted in Hanley, Stoke on Trent but its artist partnership takes its reach across the world.
Action research artists Anna Francis and Rebecca Davies combine the spirit of Cedric Price with a healing community practice that Cedric Robinson would have understood. Anna, Rebecca and the team in and around the Portland Inn project and their local community have grown an amazing sense of community and future: planning for the next hundred years!
Anna is a ceramicist (also Associate Professor, Digital Tech Innovation and Business at Staffordshire University) and Rebecca is (illustrator, artist, grad of Royal College in Moving Image and Sound, she’s also very, very funny….well have a look at PIP TV. So you can understand that in looking for a Video Artist and Videographer, they’re keen to find YOU: you with a feeling in your heart that you know, love, have a gift for video and you can bring your gift to Portland Inn. To tell a fuller, richer story that Anna, Rebecca, the team and the community don’t realise is there.
You can find out more in Rebecca’s presentation of the Portland Inn 100 Year Plan on Citizen Network
Below is the job description, read it talented person and make your application!
Portland Inn are looking for a Video Artist/Videographer
to help us develop a Community TV show!
About
In 2020, when we were finding new ways to connect with our community – across the neighbourhood and further afield, we launched PIPTV. A ‘community tv channel’ that served as a platform to share video contributions of
our team and residents.
This included skill shares, activity sessions, performances and news.
Over the years we have explored performance and video on the street and realised the power and potential of role play, story- telling and news sharing.
It’s a brilliant way of challenging the negative stigma and stereotype that in the past has been the agenda with media outlets when the story of our neighbourhood is being told.
Project Outline
We are looking to work with a videographer/ video artist/collective to help us develop a Community TV Show, and tell the story of The Portland Inn Project and our context.
You will collaborate with PIP directors, team and residents to realise a host of TV show segments – including News, Comedy Sketches, Environment reports and more.
These segments will form a new Community TV Show/Artwork that will be shared via the PIP website and social media platforms throughout the residency and finally in its entirety, as part of a screening at the end of the project.
The project will begin with 2 days of activity on the street in May half term (28-31 May), to begin to generate ideas and video sketches with directors, team and residents.
The successful applicant will then negotiate future dates on the street as part of a 2 month residency to gather and share video material which will contribute to the TV Show.
There will be an expectation that you are present on the street for at least 20 days during the two month residency period (to be agreed with PIP Directors in planning meeting.)
We would also like to work with you to negotiate the best way of doing this as we recognise a range of approaches can be fruitful – combining drop in/workshops/staged activity/improvised activity and potentially setting up a street level TV studio!
Key Dates
Deadline for applying: – 13 May, 7pm Applicants notified:
– 17 May
Interviews with shortlisted artists:
– 24 May
Project begins:
– June 2024 (dates tbc with team and artist) Agreement with PIP on final video edit: – September 2024
Screening:
– October 2024
Budget
– £5000 fee : £4000 residency fee and £1000 editing/production
– £250 fee for the final screening
– £750 materials/equipment/production
– £1500 accommodation/per diems/travel/other – PLUS access budget if required
£7500 total
To Apply:
Please email:
rebecca@theportlandinnproject.com
with the following: – Artist CV
– 500 words on why you’d like to do the residency
– 500 words on your initial approach to the residency (we respect this might evolve)
– 2 examples of past works/projects that demonstrate well your relevant skills
– Fill in the monitoring form linked here
All submissions will be reviewed by PIP directors and a shortlist selection of applicants will be invited for interview. You will receive questions for this in preparation for the interview, and it can take place online or in person.
The panel will be 2 PIP directors, 1 youth member and 1 adult resident.
Applicants have the opportunity to arrange support with their application via a live group Q and A online on Wednesday 8 May followed by one to one 20 minute online sessions (if required) with PIP director Rebecca Davies or PIP project manager Katrina Wilde on Thursday 9 May.
Please email us if you want to join the group session: rebecca@theportlandinnproject.com
You will lead on a project by:
Designing and delivering activities for young people and families in the Portland Street Area, in collaboration with PIP team and residents that develop skills and experimental approaches to:
Film making Neighbourhood reporting Story telling
Role Play and Comedy Self Representation
Hosting hands on video making sessions, where families can role play and/or develop scripts in front of the camera as well as support behind the scenes
Collect a host of collectively created video content that reports and tells the story of our neighbourhood and context
Edit a selection of short video sketches as part of this and one longer ‘Community TV Show’ that comprises lots of the content and will be screened after the project has finished
Experience
– Highly experienced/confident in using video making equipment and recording
– Experienced /confident in video editing
– Highly experienced in collaborative/ participatory practices and open minded and experimental in approaches to collective working – Highly experienced in working in a community context/with community groups to realise an artwork
Ideally the applicant will have their own equipment and relevant editing software to use as part of this residency, however, please get in contact if you have any queries in relation to this as we might be able to help.
Helpful references:
1. PIP TV
2. NFPs at PIP
3. NFPs at PIP
4. NFPs at PIP
5. NFPs at PIP
6. Archifringe TV
The Portland Inn Project: Who we are and what we do
We believe in the power of art: as a tool in communicating our story, representing our needs and creating space for communities to learn. We advocate for people-led change, and champion the importance of art in leading that change in cooperation with public services.
Since 2016, PIP has commissioned projects and artworks responsive to a local social and political context achieving national recognition as an exemplar of embedded community development approaches, which enable a once fragmented community to lead on the restoration of local pride, a sense of belonging and shared decision- making.
The organisation became Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation in 2023. You can read more about us here:
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