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>Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:21:28 +0000
>To: "Arts Jobs" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Creative Writer needed in Birmingham for English Heritage Outreach
>Project
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>Creative Writer needed in Birmingham for English Heritage Outreach Project
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>English Heritage is looking for a creative writer to work with a group of
>women from diverse backgrounds in Birmingham.  You will help to inspire and
>engage the group by facilitating workshops and helping the women to produce
>a piece of creative text. This text will be inspired on the themes of the
>Abolition of the Slave Trade Act 1807 and the subsequent humanitarian
>movement in Birmingham.  This text will then be placed in textile bags and
>will then go on tour in community settings around Birmingham.
>
>Historical Background
>In 1807 a parliamentary act was passed which abolished the Trans-Atlantic
>slave trade.  As a result, Birmingham's female anti-slavery campaigners, in
>particular Elizabeth Cadbury embarked on ground breaking grass roots work,
>to rally support for the immediate emancipation of slaves from 1823.  These
>women were empowered to help fight against injustice and avoided the use of
>slave products by making textile work bags sewn out of East India cotton,
>silk or satin.  These bags held anti-slavery pamphlets with anti-slavery
>manifesto to gain female support and delivered these door to door while the
>men sat around and debated!
>
>The Project
>This is an arts based project where historical research and personal
>reflection would be the inspiration for the individual's work of art. Not
>only would the women in the community group use archives and historical
>research and learn about the work of female abolitionists.  They would also
>work with a calligrapher and a textile artist to create a textile bag.  The
>women's text or manifesto, which you would have helped them to create, 
>would
>then be placed within the bag.
>The overall project aims:
>*To raise awareness amongst the group about the abolition of the slave 
>trade
>  act and engage them in a topic of historical significance
>*To generate skills, such as researching and making
>*To communicate the outcomes of this project to the wider community through
>  a touring exhibition
>
>Writer's role
>The writer appointed would be responsible for:
>*Preparing for and running a series of workshops including a day to collate
>  project evaluation. We anticipate there will be about 4 workshops but 
>this
>  is to be confirmed with the community group.
>*Delivering the workshop. The workshops will be held in Birmingham  -
>  location to be confirmed.
>*Liaising with the Outreach Officer on content and theme of the workshop
>*Liaising with the Outreach Officer to confirm workshops times and venues.
>*Recording the workshop process, filling in an evaluation form, gathering
>  evaluation feedback from the group and photographing the workshops.
>*The ability to work with the group and using their historical research as
>  inspiration to create their text..
>*Feeding the work created by the group back to the EH Outreach Officer.
>*Confirming workshop details with community group leader prior to workshops
>*Handing over the work to the artist / calligrapher
>
>Time scale
>The successful applicant will need to be available to run the workshops
>during April 2007 and May 2007. These may need to take place at a weekend 
>or
>in the early evening; this is still to be confirmed. The Outreach Officer 
>is
>currently in discussion with the community group to decide where and when
>the workshops will take place.
>
>Fees and Contract
>The fee for this contract is £200.00 per day which includes travel and
>subsistence expenses.
>
>You will be contracted by the Outreach Department at English Heritage,
>Birmingham.
>
>Experience needed
>*Experience of facilitating writers' workshops in community settings
>*Experience working with community groups, preferably people from Black and
>  Minority Ethnic backgrounds
>*Working with groups with varying interests, needs and abilities
>*An interest in the history of slavery and abolition of the Trans-Atlantic
>  slave trade act
>
>Expressions of interest
>
>Please include-
>
>*A covering letter explaining your interest in the position
>*CV- detailing your previous experience of running writers' workshop
>*Examples of previous work that is comparable
>*Please consider in the application ideas you may have for the workshop and
>  how you would engage the group with the project and creating their work.
>*Please signpost any websites and publications where your work can be
>  viewed.
>*Name and contact details of two referees
>
>Applications and closing date
>Closing date for tenders:   Thursday 21st March 2007
>Interviews in Birmingham:   Tuesday 27th March 2007
>
>Please send expressions of interest to:
>
>Hema Raull
>English Heritage
>112 Colmore Row, Birmingham, B3 3AG
>
>Tel:    0121 625 6870
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