Talent is not Enough!

Are you a practitioner in any of the following sectors in the Nigerian Creative Industries?

Advertising, Architecture, Art and Antique markets, Broadcasting, Crafts, Design (Including Fashion), Film, Video and Photography; Software, computer games and electronic publishing, Music and the Visual and Performing Arts, Publishing

Do you want…

• To sharpen your business skills through training by leading educational providers in Nigeria and the UK?
• To participate in networking events for business people in the creative industry?
• To be mentored by successful entrepreneurs and leading business people in Nigeria and the UK?
• To be part of secondments across Creative Industries in the UK and across Sub Saharan Africa?
• Then Creative Enterprise Programme is for you!

To qualify, you must:

• Already work in any capacity in any of the above named sectors in Nigeria
• Be aged between 18 and 35 (Candidates outside the age range who meet other criteria may be considered and are encouraged to apply)

• Be entrepreneurial
• Have a passion for your sector
• Have evidence of leadership capabilities in your sector
• Have evidence of originality of ideas
• Have English language skills to IELTS 6 - ‘competent user’ or above.
  

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Deadline for applications: 7 September 2009

CURATORIAL OPPORTUNITY: BRITISH COUNCIL

BRITISH COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL CURATORIAL COMPETITION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE WHITECHAPEL GALLERY

Application deadline: Friday 4 September at 14:00 hours (GMT)

The Fifth Curator competition is a unique new opportunity for an aspiring curator to select an exhibition of works from the British Council Collection. We are looking for someone who is based permanently outside the UK, who believes they have the passion and knowledge to be a leading curator. The winning curator will be given unlimited access to the Collection, which includes over 8500 key works of British art and the resulting exhibition will be shown at the prestigious Whitechapel in the vibrant East end of London in April 2010.

The Fifth Curator exhibition will be the fifth and final exhibition in a series of five exhibitions showcasing the British Council Collection in the Whitechapel Gallery. Artist Michael Craig-Martin selected the first exhibition Passports: Great Early Buys from the British Council Collection, focusing on some of the most prescient acquisitions in the Collection’s long history.

For The Fifth Curator exhibition, aspiring curators from outside the United Kingdom are invited to submit an exhibition proposal which features works drawn exclusively from the British Council Collection. We particularly encourage new views and fresh perspectives on the Collection, as these are vital to ongoing debates about British art within an international context.

In November 2009, six short-listed applicants will be invited to London to take part in a week of professional development with the Visual Arts Department of the British Council. During this week, applicants will be encouraged to refine their proposals with the advice, guidance and resources of the Visual Arts team and they will be given the opportunity to visit the Whitechapel Gallery to view the proposed exhibition space and meet with the Whitechapel curatorial team.

The Fifth Curator competition forms part of the British Council’s ongoing commitment to promote the Collection to new audiences, both in the UK and worldwide and to engage aspiring curatorial talent with one of Britain’s finest collections of British Art. It also coincides with the re-launch of the new British Council Collection website (www.britishcouncil.org/collection) which features details on each of the works in the Collection.

Full details of the competition, including details of how to apply, can be found on our website: http://collection.britishcouncil.org/about/news/2210/2212.

For further enquiries please contact Emma.Williams@britishcouncil.org

Good luck!