Life as the hub’s Fertilizer Festival Intern has been fantastic so far, nearly 3 weeks in and I feel like I’ve been here 3 months! That is due to not only to being made to feel very welcome and at home by the lovely directors and hub ‘family’ but also from the fact that there’s been plenty of work to get stuck into right from day one! It is just what you would want from an internship, plenty of hands on experience and responsibility, lots of expertise and friendly advice to call upon and a fantastic network of contacts and organisations within the arts and creative world to tap into.

I’m really enjoying working on the Fertilizer Festival, it’s a brilliant project and is allowing me to combine all my interests; promotion, live music, marketing and online and digital promotional techniques. I’m really looking forward to the Festival landing in May, and experiencing some underground and slightly left field music from Poland!

I’ll leave you with a few of my favourite links from my first few weeks at the hub…

• Firstly my favourite band at the moment Strawhouses who I’m sure I am now beginning to annoy my fellow hubites with by talking about them so much.

• The Fertilizer Festival on Twitter… please follow us!

• hub operations manager Andi’s RT @Shunt project which I very much enjoyed at The Shunt Lounge.

Tom Johnson, hub Fertilizer Intern 2009.

the hub is on the hunt for a hungry marketer looking to get a break in music. If you think you’ve got marketing in your genes, are looking for somewhere to prove it, and are passionate about all sorts of new music, then we’d love to hear from you. We’re looking for a marketing intern to join the team working on this year’s Fertilizer festival & tour, scheduled for May. You can check out previous Fertilizer Festivals at our website: fertilizerfestival.com

the hub co-produces Fertilizer with sound uk. The team behind Fertilizer is dynamic, entrepreneurial and passionate about good music. As part of that team you’ll get to work on putting together the marketing strategy for the festival, creating on- and off-line publicity materials, building our distribution networks and online presence and getting involved in our PR. We hope that during your three months with us you’ll pick up skills, experience and contacts that will prove useful to you in your future career, and that you’ll have lots of fun into the bargain.

Alongside all this marketing activity, you’ll also get hands on experience of working in a small, busy and friendly team, and will help us to keep things running smoothly.

We’re looking for someone to join our team from the end of February 2009 and be part of it for until the end of May 2009, working 3-4 days a week. So if you’re keen to hone your marketing skills, are passionate about music, like words and have a way with them and are a good team player, we’d love to hear from you. You’ll also need good computer skills, and to be able to commit to being part of our team for three months. In return, we’ll pay your expenses and make sure your internship is something of real value to you. We’re based in east London, by the way.
Here is what Gemma Scott, one of our recent Interns, said about this internship:
“Finding direction in an arts based career can be difficult in many ways. The hub’s Internship has gifted me with the experience of working closely as part of a team with devoted and respected professionals, and has inspired me to pursue a career in arts development and education. I worked on a range of varied and exciting projects and this helped me understand the many ways in which different people contribute to the arts industry through their various job roles to achieve some spectacular results. The guys at the hub are friendly and supportive and will readily adapt the experience towards individual interests and requirements. I would highly recommend this Internship to anyone wanting to progress with a career in the arts.”

HOW TO APPLY
If you’d like to apply to join our team, please send Andi Studer your CV and a covering letter, telling us about your skills, interests, career ambitions, why you are interested in working with the hub and what you can contribute to the team. Andi’s email address is: andi@thehubuk.com

The deadline for getting your application to us is: Weds 18 February 2009
Interviews will be held on Tues 24 February 2009

March to May 2008 In keeping with its philosophy of not just thinking and talking but actually doing, the hub is developing a range of cross-artform creative programmes and seeks an intern to work on research and development of these ideas.

You’ll be working on a diverse range of content-focused initiatives from doing an audit of arts programming for children and young people to taking the hub’s Phrased and Confused spoken word and music project to the next level. You’ll also work alongside the hub’s digital team in creating and developing new digital content for our own projects and for clients. We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate intern to play a part in delivering this programme of work and become part of the hub team for a three month placement from March to May 2008. the hub is a dynamic arts development practice.

• we develop new thinking and practice in the arts
• we create and work on projects that excite us
• we enable others to better meet their potential
• we share our knowledge to improve our cultural landscape

Our entrepreneurial, ‘think and do tank’ approach to development marks us out from other consultancies and public sector agencies. We combine our own practice with consultancy. We think and do in order to learn, and we share with our partners, clients and peers what we learn. We work in this way because we value our independence, because we’re excited by ideas, and because we’re motivated by a desire to develop our cultural landscape.

If you are interested in applying for this position please send your CV and a covering letter explaining;

• your interest in the area of creative production
• how you would use this opportunity to develop your career
• your wider ambitions for your professional future
• which days you are available

to Andi Studer andi@thehubuk.com by Monday 4 February 2008 at 5pm. This internship is unpaid although we offer a desk space, use of our facilities, arts industry training opportunities and travel expenses.

the hub is leading a programme of consultation and research, funded by Arts Council England, into developing an online box office service and marketing training programme especially for voluntary sector festivals, to be launched in 2008. To do this we are working in partnership with the Association of Festival Organisers (AFO) and the British Arts Festivals Association (BAFA). Our aim is to provide for those who seek new or additional ticket outlets, a service which will increase sales and improve festivals’ ability to identify and reach bigger target audiences, either as a new ticket outlet or in addition to existing outlets. We are looking for an intern to play a part in delivering this programme and become part of the hub team for a three month placement.

the hub is a dynamic arts development practice.

• we develop new thinking and practice in the arts
• we create and work on projects that excite us
• we enable others to better meet their potential
• we share our knowledge to improve our cultural landscape

Our entrepreneurial, ‘think and do tank’ approach to development marks us out from other consultancies and public sector agencies. We combine our own practice with consultancy. We think and do in order to learn, and we share with our partners, clients and peers what we learn. We work in this way because we value our independence, because we’re excited by ideas, and because we’re motivated by a desire to develop our cultural landscape.

If you are interested in applying for this position please send your CV and a covering letter explaining your interests in this area, how you would use this opportunity and which days you are available to: Wendy Smithers wendy@thehubuk.com by Monday 5 November 2007.

This internship is unpaid although we offer a desk space, use of our facilities, arts industry training opportunities and travel expenses. To find out more about the hub please go to: www.thehubuk.com