Antigonight Summer Student Positions

ACA and Antigonight are hiring two summer students through the Canada Summer Jobs program. Only applicants who are 30 and under at the start date are eligible. 

Each position is a total of eight weeks in addition to an honorarium of $250 provided to complete up to 15 hours during the festival weekend.

​

Festival Admin Assistant

Start Date: June 17

End Date: August 23

Salary: $15.20

Hours: 30 hours a week

 

This position will assist the Director in the 15th annual Antigonight Festival, an interactive night-time arts festival (June-September, 2024). The employee will liaise between the Coordinator, Artistic Director and the festival committee to assist in program coordination up to and including the Antigonight Festival. The primary role of this position will be to liaise with artists, community partners, and stakeholders to collaborate, plan, and implement online and on-site festival activities. In addition to supporting the planning of the festival, this position will assist the organization and fellow staff to host regular summer activities such as: offering a variety of on-site arts based promotional and educational programming. These programs will include activities directed to families, older adults, youth, and children, co-led with professional artists. The position will also create digital materials for summer programs and the festival such as posters and social media promotions (Instagram and Facebook).

 

This is an ideal position for a student seeking to develop a broad range of skills related to event planning, community engagement, marketing and promotions, and project administration. Interest or experience in the arts is essential and should be included in your cover letter.

Please include your experience with the following skills in your resume/cover letter:

 

• Ability to communicate in a confident and articulate manner while engaging with public and funders in-person and through various platforms (e.g. Zoom, e-mail, phone)

• Excellent verbal and written communications

• Ability to maintain accurate records and progress reports

• Familiarity with document production using multiple programs (Word, Excel, Adobe Suite)

• Intermediate design skills (e.g. Canva)

• Comfort with cloud computing (e.g. Google drive) and digital collaborations

• Enthusiasm to contribute to a positive and collaborative team with Directors, sub-committee, summer staff, and community partners

• Commitment to values of organization and event: accessibility, inclusion, artistic integrity, community engagement are priorities

​

Programming Coordinator

Start Date: June 17

End Date: August 23

Salary: $15.20

Hours: 30 hours a week

 

This position will facilitate all of the summer activities for Antigonight’s promotion. Supervised and mentored by the Artistic Director and Coordinator, this position will liaise with community partners such as the Antigonish Public Library, Newcomer Support Groups, St FX Art Gallery, Antigonish Women’s Resource and Sexual Assault Support Centre, and ASAP Artist-Run Centre to integrate arts-based activities into remote and location-based programming. These programs are meant to promote Antigonight as a participatory local arts festival that is accessible to families and vulnerable populations such as Mi'kmaq, African Nova Scotian, and 2SLGBTQIA+ people, especially youth. The festival believes strongly in introducing community members to local artists and arts-based programming that engages in and promotes self-expression and represents multiple identities and experiences. 

 

This position will host two weekly programs throughout the summer, such as a family-based outdoor film festival and zine creation workshops. In addition to hosting and facilitating these events, these programs will entail substantial promotion through social media and local activity boards, coordinating guest artist presentations, curating Canadian content for films, and creating age-specific content for different zine workshops (children, families, youth, emerging artists). Both the films and zines will have programming that is representative of Nova Scotia’s historic and contemporary identities such as Mi’kmaq, African Nova Scotians, people of Asian heritage, Acadian, Newcomers, Central American and Caribbean descent, and 2SLGBTQIA+. The stories, films, and zines will have a focus of resilience and celebration of culture. The film festival will also have a fundraising component/incentive in the form of film passports. 

 

This position will have to coordinate the artist contributions and ensure that passports are created and available for each screening, in addition to collecting funds and reporting directly to the festival’s financial officer. The position will also be expected to attend other summer programming supported by community partners to promote cross-organization collaboration and remain a visible community facilitator. This presence will also encourage families and individuals accessing services and programs to engage with multiple activities, knowing they will have consistent and familiar leaders.

​

This is an ideal position for a student seeking to develop a broad range of skills related to event planning, community engagement, marketing and promotions, and project administration. Interest or experience in the arts is essential and should be included in your cover letter.

Please include your experience with the following skills in your resume/cover letter:

 

• Ability to communicate in a confident and articulate manner while engaging with public and funders in-person and through various platforms (e.g. Zoom, e-mail, phone)

• Excellent verbal and written communications

• Ability to maintain accurate records and progress reports

• Familiarity with document production using multiple programs (Word, Excel, Adobe Suite)

• Intermediate design skills (e.g. Canva)

• Comfort with cloud computing (e.g. Google drive) and digital collaborations

• Enthusiasm to contribute to a positive and collaborative team with Directors, sub-committee, summer staff, and community partners

• Commitment to values of organization and event: accessibility, inclusion, artistic integrity, community engagement are priorities

 

Please send a resume and cover letter in a single PDF outlining your experience to antigonishculturealive@gmail.com by May 6. Please indicate in the subject line which summer student position you are applying for.