Freelance Curator for Heritage Exhibition or

**ROLE**: Freelance Curator for Heritage Exhibition or Content Developer

**TIMESCALE**:April 2023 - February 2024

**LOCATION**: Kingston Upon Thames

**METHOD OF WORKING**: Remote, but sessions of in person training and meeting attendance required

**DEADLINE TO APPLY**:9am 11TH April 2023
**INTERVIEWS**:w/c 16thApril

**STARTING DATE**:end April 2023

**FEE**:£7500 total fee (plus VAT), supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund

This fee is for writing content for the project outputs and for travel to Kingston to meet with the AMP team and Heritage Collective Youth Board.

There is an additional separate budget for the Design Consultant.

The project will provide a separate budget for build and print of displays, or heritage pop-ups.

There may be additional budget for extra training delivered by the Curator or Content Writer to the young people and volunteers involved in the project to support the research and writing exhibition panels if a proposal of additional training is made which can be led by the consultant.

**ABOUT CREATIVE YOUTH**:
Creative Youth is a charity based in Kingston, London. As the name implies, it was born out of an ambition to encourage and celebrate the creativity of young people - which we define as ages 5 to 26. Creative Youth is currently at an exciting period of transition of growth, as we look towards opening our new creative space - currently known as FUSEBOX - in March 2023. We are currently developing five areas of creative activity within the charity:
1) **FUSE International -** an annual arts festival formerly known as International Youth Arts Festival. FUSE International takes place in venues including Rose Theatre, Market Square, Kingston University, Kingston College and much more.

2) **Creative Talent Programme -** providing year-round support to emerging young artists entering into the creative industries.

3) **Young People Skills Development Programme -** a year-round programme focused on developing young people’s experience within the arts, including work experience, internships and volunteering.

4) **Creative Youth Connects -** local and community projects, including all work with schools and youth groups. This is where the AMP Kingston project sits.

5) **FUSEBOX -**we are opening a new creative and community space on Kingston’s riverside in the March 2023.

**ABOUT AMP KINGSTON**:
With young people, this project is an exploration of Kingston’s music heritage from the 1960s - 1990s. This heritage will be identified, recorded and accessed in a range of interactive, sustainable ways. Through uncovering this heritage, AMP not only explores some of the most iconic musical acts of the late twentieth century, but celebrates pop fashion, costumes, album artwork, band posters and more.

**Three themes have been identified**:

-  **Art - **the rise of artwork in branding and logos for music artists.
-  **Music - **the musicians and artists themselves but also the promoters who

enabled their performances to be seen
-  **Pop Fashion - **the influence of pop fashion in relation to the creation of

musical personas and identities.

These will be presented and recorded through a series of exhibitions, pop-ups, young person-led creative interpretation and programming. The form of these will be decided and shaped by the young people involved but could include gigs, fashion shows, exhibitions etc. We will build an online resource where the heritage can be housed digitally, a submission to local archives and an online toolkit for young people to use to interpret the heritage.

Led by Creative Youth, but delivered in partnership with the AMP youth board for the project; known as the Heritage Collective. Other key partners include: Kingston Musuem, Kingston History Centre, Kingston University, Kingston College, Anstee Bridge, Achieving for Children (Piper Active Youth Club) and The Community Brain.

**FREELANCE BRIEF**:
The successful Curator or Content Consultant should have a basic understanding of the time period of Art, Fashion and Music between the 1960’s and 1990’s to enable them to develop the content. They will be willing to listen and work collaboratively with the Heritage Youth Collective and AMP team. The AMP team includes a Researcher and will also include an Exhibition Designer from April 2023. The role will be to find ways to explore the young people’s ideas and working with the AMP team to deliver and prepare content based on creative responses to the AMP research and 22 oral history interviews. The key responsibility will be to take research from the AMP researcher and develop content from the research such as source images or write text to deliver to the AMP designer. They will support the AMP team in considering ways to present and share the research being collected to encourage new and further engagement with the public. At times they may need to support a specific part of researching themselves to create the content for panels.

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