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Teaching ArtistTeaching Artist Seeking artists to facilitate violence intervention prevention storytelling workshops with youth TRIGGER Violence Intervention and Prevention (VIP) is a gun violence intervention program based on the First Person Arts 60-minute documentary film TRIGGER. Using select excerpts of the film as a springboard for conversation and creation, the workshop series seeks to mentor students through telling their own stories and articulating their views about gun violence with impact and authenticity. Telling their own stories helps participants process and take back their narrative and opens a path to healing. We see the impact of exploring and sharing personal stories through our long history of success with our partnership with the City of Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Service (DBHIDS) Engaging Males of Color (EMOC) programs. Each workshop series will end with an opportunity for students to share, as comfortable, their first-person narratives with their peers and community. Each Teaching Artist will be paired with an Assistant Teaching Artist. Job title: Teaching Artist Location: Schools throughout Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Salary: $50/hour; Teaching Artists invoice for planning time in addition to time in the classroom. Employment type: Occasional/part-time contract. Approximately 3 billable hours a week per cohort; number of cohorts based on teaching artist’s availability. Duration: 9 sessions, beginning September 2024. Area of focus: Community and Capacity Building through the Arts Responsibilities:
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About First Person Arts First Person Arts is Philly’s original storytelling arts nonprofit. We believe that everyone has a story to tell and that the art of storytelling has the power to change lives. Since 2001, we have helped ordinary Philadelphians become extraordinary storytelling artists who transform the drama of their real lives into memoir and documentary art. We offer programming that serves the diverse communities that call the greater Philadelphia area home. Our programming includes monthly StorySlam storytelling competitions, Applied Storytelling educational programs, a podcast drawn from our digital archive of more than 10,000 story files, and TRIGGER, a gun violence intervention program with the City of Philadelphia DBHIDS EMOC program. Our annual First Person Arts Festival brings together all these audiences and communities by hosting established and emerging artists across many artistic forms and formats. Commitment to diversity First Person Arts is an equal opportunity employer. This means we are committed to recruiting, training, compensating, and promoting all of our employees regardless of race, color, religion, sex, disability, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender, or any other protected classes set forth under applicable law. We are dedicated to reflecting the diversity, and multiculturalism, of our viewers, creators, partners, and communities. Inclusion is at the heart of what we do and at the core of our values. How to apply Applications are open until the position is filled. To apply, please provide a thoughtful cover letter and resume to RHall@firstpersonarts.org First Person Arts is an equal opportunity employer. |
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