Job Title: Curator (Selby)
Grade: H (£29,269 to £32,076 pro rata per annum)
Vacancy Hours: 18.5 hours per week
Contract Type: Fixed term
Fixed Term Contract End Date: 30 April 2026
Weekend Working: No
Closing date: 22nd March 2024
Do you want to
help uncover and celebrate local stories and experiences about the place and
people of Selby?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Curator for Selby’s new Place Partnership programme Now Then!, based at Selby Abbey.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and proactive individual with experience of commissioning and co-producing and developing engaging and accessible programming, Supported by the Programme Manager (NYC’s Major Projects Lead) and Creative Programme Lead and working in a small, collaborative Partnership you will shape, produce, and deliver a diverse range of innovative events, installations and exhibitions in and around the Abbey.
Now Then! is an ambitious cultural place-based programme of arts, events and activities which will take place in the town centres of Selby, Sherburn and Tadcaster from April 2024 to the Spring of 2026. Funded by Arts Council England’s Place Partnership Fund, UK Shared Prosperity Fund and North Yorkshire Council’s Cultural Development Fund, this transformative programme will be steered and developed by a partnership of community and cultural organisations and will create joyful, memorable and authentic cultural experiences, targeted to local and creative communities’ needs and aspirations.
It will include an impactful co-curated programme of commissions: highly visible artworks, happenings and experiences supporting cultural place-making and regeneration ambitions; telling the stories of places and people, focusing on people’s pride in where they live and the deep roots of the district.
This is a great time to join us as you will also be part of a new Culture and Archives team at North Yorkshire Council which has seen the coming together of officers from across the county, offering the opportunity to share skills and collaborate.
The Curator will work alongside the Selby Abbey team to devise a programme of high-quality contemporary art in the Abbey and its environs, up-skilling volunteers, commissioning multiple new artworks and creating opportunities for local creatives, encouraging connections with the Abbey and Selby’s culture and heritage.
The successful candidate will be highly organised with a passion for storytelling through creativity and arts. As a champion of co-production with communities and an advocate of arts and cultural activities for health and wellbeing, you will build strong, reciprocal relationships with Now Then! Partners and people in our communities to deliver exciting, diverse and inclusive creative experiences.
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