The Festival of Diversity is looking for a digital expert to facilitate new digital content
The Festival of Diversity – being run out of an office at the Oldham Coliseum Theatre – is looking for a ‘digital expert’ to facilitate the production of new digital content and advise the Festival team on their ‘digital development potential’.
What’s involved
The ‘DigiExpert’ role is to work with participants to create and manage digital content for ‘DigiDebates’, which is one part of the ‘DigiVersity’. The project will also reach wider audiences through people engaging with the online material created.
Two groups of people will meet in March to debate over a chosen topic, provisionally a group of people from the Youth Council and Age Concern. The two groups will decide on the subject of the debate.
The Festival is looking for a creative digital practitioner to design innovative ways of working with participants to create digital content from the debate which will then be put online to widen and continue the discussion.
The expert will work with a small team of the participants before the debate to develop their skills and plan how they will use the equipment to capture the atmosphere and discussion. The DigiExpert will be responsible for putting the material online and advising on how it is best utilised.
The Festival hopes to have four DigiDebates over 2010, with the pilot DigiDebate taking place in March. It is hoped that the DigiExpert will be involved with all four debates.
Timescales
- 2 workshop sessions participant training (date tbc) and debate March 29, 30 or 31 (tbc)
- 1 evaluation session – April 19th (tbc)
- 1 day advising The Festival and creating ideas
- 3 days preparation, editing and uploading (for further discussion)
Budget
£800 – £1,000
Deadline for submissions
Deadline for submissions is 12pm, 8 March 2010.
More information and to apply
Please download the PDF about the DigiExpert work, or contact:
Sian Smith
Project and Administration Officer
Festival Office
Oldham Coliseum Theatre
Fairbottom Street
Oldham OL1 3SW
Email: sian@festivalofdiversity.co.uk
Phone: 0161 785 7016
Website: www.festivalofdiversity.co.uk
