FESTIVAL & CARNIVAL LAB

GLOBAL CARNIVALZ / CONTINENTAL DRIFTS & RICH MIX PRESENT:

FESTIVAL & CARNIVAL LAB 2024

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG CREATIVES

Are you aged 18-35, from a Black Heritage background*? Are you interested in learning how to produce events? Do you want to help produce some of the best and biggest events in the UK?

Festival & Carnival Lab is back in 2024, after a very successful year in 2023!

Having worked on hundreds of gigs, we observed the representation of people from Black Heritage communities in senior production was alarmingly low; across the board; in major festivals such as Glastonbury & our UK Carnivals; Notting Hill, St Paul’s and Hackney.

This course will offer 10 people the chance to develop their knowledge & skills of various aspects of delivering and producing live events

The course will run for 9 weeks at various venues in London (mainly East-based). Once you have completed the course in full; you will be offered paid work experience at Hackney Carnival,  Glastonbury Festival, Wilderness, Secret Garden Party, Shambala and others (full opportunities details can be found: here). We have selected an exciting team of well experienced professionals, from all areas of the event industry to provide you with the skills needed to prepare you for work onsite; where you will have the opportunity to put into practice your ‘new knowledge’. Tutors will be from organisations including Boiler Room, Bristol City Council, Brixton Academy, Certain Blacks, Continental Drifts, Glastonbury Festival, Global Carnivalz, Notting Hill Carnival & more!

The aim of the course and placements is for you to secure enough event experience on your CV, by the end of summer, to enable you to confidently approach production companies and carnivals for work.

You will have full support from all the partners presenting the course, guiding you through the whole process. They will act as mentors to give you the best chances of getting a good job in the event industry.

The course is completely free.

You will receive expenses at the event(s) you work at. 

If you are excited about events and love solving problems, working hard, working as a team and want to get involved at a senior level in production - this is the course for you!

Applications for the course open on 22nd February 2024 and will close on Friday 15th March 2024. We will review all applications and get back to the successful candidates from Monday 18th March 2024.

BEFORE YOU APPLY, CONSIDER THAT:

• You must attend the full course schedule, running every Tuesday from 26th March to 7th May, starting from 7pm to 9.30pm in person at Rich Mix (East London) and other venues in London (mainly East) + a debrief session with 1-to-1 discussions in mid-October 2024 (exact dates to be confirmed)

• You need to have worked or volunteered at events (or any other type of production work) before, showing that you have a good understanding of how an event or production runs

• A lot of our events are located in the countryside/ in nature - you might be required to camp for some of them (we will provide you with a tent and a bed)

• Be between 18 and 35 years old of Black Heritage*

• You must be available to work at one or more events during the summer (from June to September, and other possible opportunities)

• You must fully engage with the process.

*Black Heritage includes African, Caribbean, Black British-African, Black British-Caribbean, Other Black Backgrounds, Black Mixed

TO APPLY

To apply, please complete this form by 15th March and do get in touch with us at festivallabcourse@gmail.com if you have any questions

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