NAARCA seeks to appoint a freelance Podcast Producer.

The Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action (NAARCA) aims to build a long-term bridge between the Nordic countries and Scotland around the most pressing global issue of our time. The collaboration is founded upon the geological, climatological, historical, and linguistic similarities that unite both regions, and is the starting point for a permanent, expansive and holistic network of radical cooperation. The NAARCA residencies collaborate on research, institutional change and public education around climate action. NAARCA members are Cove Park (Scotland), Saari Residence (Finland), Arctic Culture Lab (Greenland), Artica Svalbard (Norway), Art Hub Copenhagen (Denmark), Baltic Art Center (Sweden), and Skaftfell – Center for Visual Art (Iceland). Read more about NAARCA and the team involved here. 

NAARCA are pleased to announce a new opportunity for a freelance Podcast Producer. We are looking for an enthusiastic and driven producer to create a new podcast series of eight episodes, published over two years. 

Format

The podcast format will be a combination of interviews and conversations (in English). Each podcast episode will have a host and two guest speakers. The speakers come from Nordic Countries and Scotland and represent different scientific, artistic, activist and indigenous knowledge. The guest speakers and topics will be planned in collaboration with NAARCA members and the advisory committee.

Discussion Topics

• Climate crisis and its effects on the Nordic region
• Matrix of sustainability (ecological, social, mental and financial)

Target audience

• International artists’ residencies and contemporary arts organisations, artists and audiences
• Art universities and colleges
• Stakeholders of each residencies 

Key Responsibilities of the Podcast Producer 

• Plan and produce the podcast series in collaboration with NAARCA members and the advisory committee 
• Contact potential speakers and conduct preliminary interviews to script each episode 
• Create a production schedule and commit to publishing 4 episodes in 2022 and 4 episodes in 2023
• Conduct interviews and facilitate the dialogue between host and guest speakers 
• Provide an introduction contextualising each episode 
• Conduct post-production edits, sound mixing and design 
• Prepare each episode for publishing on various podcast platforms 
• Design and implement distribution plan 

Person Specification

• Experience producing conversational and/or interview-style podcasts  
• Knowledge and understanding of podcast publishing process and distribution on various platforms 
• The ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Strong attention to detail, following up until issues are resolved
• Ability to communicate effectively and graciously with a wide range of people, from grassroots activists and artists to academic and policy leaders 
• The ability to edit raw recordings into engaging and informative episodes that educate, inspire, and entertain the audience.
• Technical experience of basic sound mixing and post-production editing
• An active interest and passion for climate-related issues, such as food, energy, water, transportation and climate justice, and its intersection with the arts and creative industries 
• Knowledge and understanding of how the climate crisis impacts Nordic countries and/or Scotland, a plus 

Production Budget 

Producer Fee: 12000 € // £10,015
Speaker Fees: 8000 € // £10,000

How to Apply 

To apply, please follow this link to our application on JotForm. You will be invited to attach a CV and answer a few questions. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until the post is filled. Our first review of applications will begin on 21 April 2022.  

We encourage applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries, and we are committed to having a Team that consists of diverse skills, experiences and abilities. We actively encourage applications from African Diaspora people; South, East, and South-East Asian Diaspora people; Middle Eastern and North African Diaspora people; ethnically diverse people; people with disabilities; and all those who have been historically underrepresented within the cultural sector. Our intention is to better reflect society as a whole in our Team in terms of race, religion, ability, gender, age and socio-economic status. 

We will accept submissions in audio or video formats if this is preferable to a written application. Please send any audio or video submissions via email to Alex Marrs, Cove Park’s Programme & Communications Producer at alex@covepark.org 

If you consider yourself to have a disability, please let us know if there are any adjustments to the application process that would be of assistance to you.

Cove Park is committed to safeguarding privacy and related data within recruitment processes and abides by all appropriate General Data Protection Regulations. 

Image: NAARCA representatives at Cove Park, November 2021.

A Compendium of Climate Literacies

This is the digital archive of the experimental intensive/symposium ‘Turbulence / Emergence / Enchantment: A Compendium of Climate Literacies’ that took place at Cove Park between 4-7 November 2021. It brought together artists, writers, performers, academics, and activists from a wide range of backgrounds to discuss climate literacy.

In the Western tradition, language has been viewed as our most powerful tool for ordering and mastering the world around us. And yet more and more we are having to acknowledge our struggle in communicating the current environmental crisis and its unequally distributed effects.

How do language and action relate to each other in climate science, narrative and activism? How can we rethink our responses to classical and premodern legacies of environmental thinking to create new understandings for the present? How can we open ourselves to new kinds of environmental literacies that give space to the agency of the other-than-human and more-than-human worlds? How do we ensure that languages have an impact on global discourse, in a context where the privilege of climate speech is still dominated by the elite discourses of the Global North?

TURBULENCE, EMERGENCE and ENCHANTMENT, with their unsettling mix of positive and negative connotations, acted as guiding metaphors for the week.

The SoundCloud link below features: 

Introduction to Turbulence, Emergence, Enchantment by Maureen Penjueli, Coordinator of Pacific Network on Globalisation.

TURBULENCE

The first chapter includes discussions around the theme of ‘Turbulent are climate, geo-politics, and living beings.’ The Turbulence YouTube playlist features:

Video 1: Climate Clarity/Confusion/Change by Derya Akkaynak (Oceanographer)

Video 2: Disaster, grief, apocalypse and empire in ancient ecological thinking by Jason König (Professor of Greek, Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies, University of St Andrews)

Video 3: After Ice by Kieran Baxter (Heritage Landscape Visualiser, University of Dundee)

Video 4: ‘Restore to us the necessary blizzards’ by Christina Alt (Lecturer in English, University of St. Andrews)

The Turbulence SoundCloud playlist features:

Track 1: Purple Haze by Deborah Dixon (Professor of Geography, University of Glasgow)

Track 2: Turbulence by Andreas Malm (Associate Professor of Human Ecology, Lund University)

Track 3: Turbulence by Oana Aristide (Novelist)

EMERGENCE

The second chapter includes discussions around the theme of ‘Emergent is metamorphosis.’ The Emergence YouTube playlist features:

Video 1: The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes by Radha D’Souza (Professor of International Law, Development and Conflict Studies, Westminster Law School)

Video 2: Worm: art and ecology by Angela YT Chan (Independent Researcher, Curator and Artist)

Video 3: Listening with Another Ear by Annalee Davis (Artist, Cultural Instigator, Writer)

Video 4: Oceans in Transformation by Territorial Agency (Artists)

Video 5: The Swamp – a theory, a school, a design by Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas (Artists)

The Emergence SoundCloud playlist features:

Track 1: At the far end of the cave of gold by Col Gordon  (Farmer & Podcaster) and Iain MacKinnon (Assistant Professor, Centre for Agroecology, Coventry University)

Track 2: World Making by Ashish Ghadiali (Film-maker and Activist)

Track 3: An Inland Promenade by Fernando García-Dory (Artist)

Track 4: Emergence by Karen Guthrie (Artist, Film-maker and Gardener)

ENCHANTMENT

The final chapter includes discussions around the theme of ‘Enchantment is possibility of participating in the creation of just and environmentally thriving futures.’ The Enchantment YouTube playlist features:

Video 1: Small Acts of Hope and Lament by Janice Parker (Choreographer, Dance-maker)

Video 2: Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils by David Farrier (Professor of Literature and the Environment, University of Edinburgh)

Video 3: The Ecological Literacies of St. Hildegard of Bingen by Michael Marder (Ikerbasque Professor of Philosophy, University of the Basque Country)

Video 4: Marginalia by Katharine Earnshaw (Lecturer in Classics, University of Exeter) & Laura Hopes (Artist, Researcher)

Video 5: Language, silence & storytelling: to survive in the marine environment by Zoé Le Voyer & Justine Daquin (curators and co-founders of collective Calypso36°21)

The Enchantment SoundCloud playlist features:

Track 1: Epistemology of Caring by colectivo amasijo (Artists, Researchers, Food-makers)

Symposium participants also included: Tamara Colchester & Hermione Spriggs (Artists), Aka Niviâna (Poet, Activist), and Nada Tayeb (Architect, Food-maker).

This event signals a pivotal stage in the development of Cove Park. In its 21st year the organisation is moving beyond the boundaries of the traditional ‘time, space, freedom’ residency to include an enquiry-based model for facilitating cross-disciplinary work and collective intelligence around pressing global concerns. We are expanding the artforms and disciplines that are welcome to the residency, and enlarging its horizons towards other sectors, such as those of academic and scientific research, including the creative industries as a whole. On the occasion of COP26, Cove Park launched its first – and soon to become permanent – enquiry focussed on the environmental crisis and the radical change that our collective intelligence can affect in terms of climate action.

“Turbulence/ Emergence/ Enchantment: A Compendium of Climate Literacies” was organised in partnership with the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies and Professor Jason König at the University of St Andrews, London-based curator Lucia Pietroiusti, TBA21-Academy and Markus Reymann, and the School of Classics and the College of Arts and Humanities (Environmental Humanities Research Strand) of University College Dublin and Dr. Giacomo Savani. The symposium was made possible by funding from Arts & Business Scotland: Culture & Business Fund. Thanks to the Green Art Lab Alliance for their support and friendship.

Cove Park is delighted to offer opportunities for artists, researchers and makers from across disciplines to take up a subsidised residency in early 2022. Residencies are offered to individuals and groups working in the arts and the creative industries, in the humanities and sciences.

COVID-19
We reopened following the COVID-19 crisis and have been operating successfully since May 2021, in accordance with the latest Scottish government restrictions. Enhanced hygiene, regular testing and mask-wearing measures are in place to mitigate the risks of bringing COVID-19 to the site. You can read more about these measures here.

Please read the full guidelines – which include details of how to apply – here: SUBSIDISED WINTER 21-22 final.
The deadline is 22 November 2021.

Image by Tracey Bloxham / Inside Story Photography

On 25^th May at 12pm, Cove Park will give a virtual studio tour and interview with Creative Entrepreneurs’ Club Director Medeia Cohan. The tour will take in Cove Park’s site, its buildings and facilities and will be followed by a conversation and Q&A between CEC’s membership and Cove Park’s CEO Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey and Partnerships Manager Catrin Kemp. Learn more and sign up here:

https://creativeentrepreneursclub.co.uk/event/cove-park-artists-residency-centre-visit/

About the Creative Entrepreneurs Club:
CEC is a home for like-spirited creative people looking to access powerful support, network with peers and develop new skills. Our members determine what we offer and we respond to the challenges that they tell us they’re facing by developing relevant content and training to support them.

We welcome creative entrepreneurs at all stages of their businesses, from those just starting out to those looking to exit.

Membership is free for a limited time at creativeentrepreneursclub.co.uk

In January, February & March 2021 Cove Park will run a series of subsidised Independently-Funded residencies. These winter and spring residencies offer artists of all disciplines the chance to step away from their domestic sphere and spend time dedicated to their work and practice on Cove Park’s outstanding 50-acre site overlooking Loch Long on Scotland’s west coast.

The call out is aimed at artists of all disciplines, living and working in the UK. Due to the current circumstances relating to COVID-19, these residencies will begin on certain Mondays throughout January – March 2021.

Please read the Guidelines in full before applying.

The deadline for applications has been extended to 7th Dec 2020.

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We are pleased to announce the launch of a new Alumni page on Cove Park’s website. This information and resource page highlights the ways in which we can continue to support and work with artists following their initial residencies.

Cove Park has hosted over 2,000 artists since its launch in 2000, taking part in Craft & Design, Film & Moving Image, Literature & Translation, Performing Arts and Visual Arts residencies. The success of this programme is due to our relationship with so many wonderful artists and we aim to keep in touch with as many of our former residents as possible. The principle of creating new opportunities for our alumni is very important to us and we will continue to update this page with news and projects of relevance to all our artists.

Image, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Henry Moore Fellowship Residency, 2008 (photography, Ruth Clark)

We are pleased to offer subsidised independently-funded residencies during December 2019, January and February 2020.

We welcome proposals from UK-based and international artists (individually or in groups) working in any creative discipline who would benefit from time, space and creative exchange at Cove Park.

Residences are open to individuals or groups of up to nine people and are 1 week, 10 days or 2 weeks in length.

The available dates are:

• 9^th – 16^th Dec or
• 9^th – 19^th Dec
• 6^th – 13^th Jan and/or
• 13^th – 20^th Jan and/or
• 20^th – 27^th Jan and/or
• 27^th Jan – 3^rd Feb or
• 27^th Jan – 6^th Feb
• 10^th Feb – 17^th Feb

Please read our Applications Guidelines for more information and details of how to apply.

The deadline for applications is midnight on Monday 4th November 2019. Successful applicants will be informed by Tuesday 12th November 2019.

For more information, please contact Rebecca DeWald, Partnerships Manager (maternity cover): rebecca.dewald@covepark.org.

The London-based weekly newspaper and website for theatremakers and the entertainment industry, The Stage, published a feature on Cove Park, calling it “the perfect place for artists and theatre makers to develop work.” The piece features contributions by former residents, partners and supporters.

Tom Morris, artistic director of Bristol Old Vic, has said that “every serious theatremaker will want to work at Cove Park”.

Former resident, theatremaker and writer Naomi Sheldon, came to Cove Park in 2018, with support from new-writing company Paines Plough. Reflecting on her time, she said: “Cove Park was a slice of much-needed peace and calm in what otherwise felt like an unmanageable and stressful time – a time in which I was supposed to be creative but couldn’t block out the noise. This opportunity played a pivotal role in my career as a new playwright.”

You can read the full piece here.

The Partnerships Manager is one of Cove Park’s small, dedicated staff and is involved in all aspects of Cove Park’s work with specific responsibility for the development and management of residency-based partnerships, events and activities which complement the residency programme and provide crucial earned income to support that programme.  Cove Park’s current Partnerships Manager will take maternity leave from May 2019 for 10 months and ahead of that we are seeking someone for this part-time position.

The role is 3 days per week and dependant on experience will pay £18,000 (£30,000 FTE).

Please refer to the full Job Description for more details and how to apply. The deadline is 21st January 2019. Interviews will be held on 31st January or 1st February 2019.

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