2017 PORTOBELLO SUMMER FESTIVAL: Call for performers and producers

Applications Close 10 March

The deadline for this opportunity has now passed

This year’s Portobello Summer Festival on July 15th will showcase the work of young artists in an audio-visual feast of music, film, installations, projections, dance, spoken word, workshops and talks.

The festival will be led and programmed by our Young Producers group and will take place under the Westway in Bay56, on the beach in Bay 57 and in Bay Sixty6 SkatePark.

We currently have the following opportunities to get involved:

YOUNG PRODUCERS (aged 16-26): Interested in learning how to organize a festival? Join our Young Producers group to get experience of working in a team to select and programme artists and content for the summer festival, work with a budget, be on an interview panel to recruit festival staff and design marketing materials. Young Producers will meet monthly from March to July 2017. Apply here by 14th March. We will prioritise young people living, working or studying in RBKC, Hammersmith, Brent and Westminster. Meetings will take place between 5-7pm on the following dates: 23 March, 18 April, 16 May, 20 June, 4 July & 11 July
YOUNG ARTISTS/PERFORMERS (aged 12 – 30): Interested in paid opportunities to perform or present your work at the 2017 Portobello Summer Festival? Apply here by 1st March. Decisions on content will be made by the Young Producers group.
ARTS PARTNERS: If your organisation or group are interested in presenting work created with or by young people at the summer festival please email Miriam Nelken (Head of Culture and Partnerships) We do have a programming budget to support this. We will prioritise arts partners in RBKC, Hammersmith, Brent and Westminster.
CREATIVE PRODUCER (Paid role): We have a paid role available for an experienced, ambitious and well networked Creative Producer to support the Young Producers with programming and producing the festival. More info and apply online here – deadline to apply is March 10th.