HERE ARTS CENTER: Since 1993, HERE Arts Center has been one of New York’s premier arts organizations and a leader in the field of producing and presenting new, hybrid performance work which we view as a seamless integration of artistic disciplines—theatre, dance, music, puppetry, visual, multi-media art. Past productions includes Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, Basil Twist’s Symphonie Fantastique, Hazelle Goodman’s On Edge, Trey Lyford & Geoff Sobelle’s all wear bowlers, Young Jean Lee’s Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, Corey Dargel’s Removable Parts, and Theatre of a Two-headed Calf’s Drum of the Waves of Horikawa.
OUR WORK: HERE’s work is challenging and alternative and offers our audiences the opportunity to feel that they are part of something new and fresh. Our core program is the HERE Resident Artist Program (HARP), which invites artists to develop complex hybrid work at HERE over 3 years. Each season, HERE produces 4 to 6 Resident Artist productions. By providing varied levels of artist participation—Resident Artists, Visiting Artists, and Supported Artists – HERE keeps the artist’s vision paramount.
OUR INTERNSHIP PROGRAM: Interns at HERE are at the center of the very busy operation of running a not-for-profit theater organization and all producing activities. Although Interns must specify an area of interest, they are
asked to assist in other areas throughout the internship. Interns are often given the opportunity to work with HERE’s resident artists on their productions. They are also able see any HERE productions free of charge and have access to other perks that are made available to the HERE staff.
Marketing Interns are fully integrated into the marketing department, and the promotion of the artists and productions at HERE. Interns participate in the conception and launch of all marketing strategies including creating print and web advertisements, maintaining the website, distributing postcards, organizing mailing list exchanges, and helping to designing program and lobby displays. They must have strong organizational and interpersonal skills, and preferably possess some experience with either graphic design software or basic HTML.
General Management/Administration Interns will assist the General Manager. Responsibilities will include contract drafting, budgeting, finance, tour management, and general administrative duties in all departments. This is a great opportunity for a student wishing to develop experience in non-profit art management at a small, hands-on organization.
Fundraising Interns will assist the Development Manager. Responsibilities will include funder management and relations, generating donation receipts and funder communications, implementing individual donor campaigns, and planning special events. This is a great opportunity for a student wishing to develop experience with non-profit arts funding and understand the relationship between financial development and season programming.
Programming Interns will assist HERE’s Artistic Director in reviewing and responding to our Supported Artist Program applicants. The programming intern will also assist the Artistic Director in scheduling events and with organizing and reviewing the applications for our HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP).
Production Interns will receive hands-on training in all areas of technical theatre (sound, lighting, carpentry, video & costumes), in the form of load-ins, strikes and providing assistance to the shows running in our two theatres. Interns also assist with basic office duties, such as running errands, organization and cleaning of office spaces, creating documents, etc. We also accept interns to work solely on a specific production, acting as an assistant to a member of the production staff. Duties for this internship include being in rehearsals and working backstage for tech and performances. Experience in technical theatre is a plus, but is not necessary.
Performance Technical Interns Interns will be assigned to a specific show coming into our theatres and work with them from load-in to strike. The HERE production staff will teach performance interns how to work all of the equipment in the theatre and then they will serve as a board operator for that show. This is a great way to learn the inner workings f a show and allow you to feel more involved with a performance. It also allows the performance intern to increase their resume! Hours vary for this internship, depending on the tech and performance schedule of each show.
Some technical theatre experience required.
Special January Culturemart Festival Interns work solely on Culturemart, our festival of works-in-progress by our resident artists. This intensive internship runs the month of January. During this time, interns will be assigned to a few of the shows being presented. They will then see the show through it’s load-in and tech, work backstage for the 2 or 3 performances, and help strike the show. Due to the festival atmosphere, some days are long, but vastly rewarding.
Application Process:
Please send a résumé and letter of interest to internships@here.org or to the attention of the Intern Coordinator, HERE Arts Center 145 Sixth Ave, NYC, NY 10013. You must specify an area of interest.
HERE interns must be willing to work 15-20 hours per week. In addition to these hours, we ask that each of our interns usher 1 night a week. In general internships are unpaid; however, we do offer a limited number of paid opportunities for interns who work 30+ hours and make a commitment of
at least 4 months.
Internship application deadlines:
September 1, 2009 for a Fall internship
November 15, 2009 for a Winter/Spring internship
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